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inflated, membranous pericarp;” the very well-known utriculus 
of Carex is not mentioned and is not to be compared with such a 
kind of utricle. 
About ‘‘drupe” is only said that ‘‘it occurs in peach, 
almond, and cherry, being characterized by having a bony 
endocarp;’’ nothing is said about the fleshy exocarp. 
‘‘Nectary’’ is, according to this dictionary, only ‘‘the part 
of a flower which secretes nectar.'’ The common extra floral 
nectaries are silently passed by, and this is the more curious 
when we see under ‘‘ gland,” ‘‘also applied to certain wart-like 
swellings which are not secretory, [sic] as the abortive teeth at 
the base of the leaf of peach and cherry”! These glands are 
certainly secretory, however. ‘‘ Secretory” is not defined. 
‘‘ Scape” is defined as ‘‘ a peduncle rising from the ground, as in 
Sanguinaria, ¢. ¢., a stalk from the root.” The author has prob- 
ably never seen the large rootstock of this common plant. 
‘‘Palet” of the grasses is defined as ‘‘the inner bract or 
chaff.” This organ is, nevertheless, wanting in several genera; 
then the flowering glume would be the same as the palet, a 
terminology which is untenable. The singular position of this 
organ, the palet, with its back towards the mother-axis, seems 
entirely unknown to the author. 
If we turn to the anatomical and physiological terms, we 
find these still more defective, and it is often utterly impossible 
to draw any correct conclusion from the definitions of the various 
tissues, when compared with each other. “ Cuticle’’ is said to 
be “(the outer cell-wall of the epidermis;” “ Leptome,”’ which 
is credited to Potonié, is attributed to ‘“ vascular Cryptegames 
only,’’ and ‘‘ Hadrome,”’ also credited to Potonié, and defined as 
“the phloém-like portion of fibro-vascular bundles in vascular 
Cryptogames.” These two terms, leptome and hadrome, would 
then be identical, while in reality hadrome is used instead of the 
term xylem. Under ‘‘ Phloém ’ we are told that ‘‘ the inner bark 
is derived from the phloém and the wood from the xylem.” 
Haberlandt was the first to introduce these terms, not Potonié. 
The author ought to have studied Haberlandt’s Physiologische 
Pflanzen-anatomie—he would then have been spared much 
trouble, besides would have been able to define these terms 
correctly. 
