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coteineth the names of the moste parte of herbes, that all auncient 

 authours write of both in Greeke, Lattin, Englishe, Duche and 

 Frenche, I haue set to also the names which be comonly vsed of 

 the poticaries and c5mon herbaries. I haue tolde also the degrees 

 of so many herbes as Galene the chiefe Doctour of al phisicians 

 hath written of, and because men should not thynkc that I write of 

 it that I never sawe, and that Poticaries shoulde be excuselesse when 

 as the ryghte herbes are required of the, I haue shewed in what 

 places of Englande, Germany, & Italy the herbes growe, and maye 



be had for laboure and money, whereof I declare and teache the 

 names in thys present treates." 



This extract from the author's preface sufficiently indicates the 

 scope of a work which, now very rare and costly, is at length made 

 accessible to all botanists through this reprint by the English Dia- 

 lect Society, and rendered, by the labors of an accomplished editor, 

 of more /r^2^//V^/ value than the original edition. 



Mr. Britten has divided the work into three parts. The first is 

 an exact reprint of the original, the only alterations being in the 

 pagination, and of the insertion, at the foot of each page, of the 

 fautes escaped in the printyng" (which are again found collected 



on page 90) and of certain errata that Turner had overlooked. The 

 second part consists of an alphabetically-arranged list of the En- 

 glish names given by the author (whether invented by him or in 

 popular use in his time), each name being followed (i) by its mod- 

 ern scientific equivalent, (2) by the Latin heading under which 

 Turner places it, and (3) by the page of the reprint on which it will 

 be found. The third part is an index in which the modern Latin 

 names of the plants are given in alphabetical order, followed by the 

 various English ones by which they are mentioned in the body of 

 the work. 



Altogether, the work forms a fitting companion to the "Diction- 

 ary of English Plant-Names," of which Mr. Britten is one of the 

 authors. It will certainly find a warm welcome among those who 



love the study of botany m its widest sense, and the gratitude of all 

 such is due to Mr. Britten for placing it within their reach. 



A Manual for the Preservation of the larger Fungi (Hymenomycetes) 



in their natural Condition, by a new and improved Method ; 

 also a new Process for the Preservation of Wild Flowers. By 

 James Lake English. A. B. Davis, Epping, 1S82. 

 . In an article on the " Preservation of Pileate Fungi for the Her- 

 barium," printed in one of the numbers of the Bulletin last year, 

 it was stated that the only person who had successfully solved the 

 problem of preserving the fleshy fungi with the exact form and color 

 that they presented in the living state was Mr. J. English- This 

 gentleman having concluded to make known to the world his method 

 of procedure, has published a small book of directions with the 

 above title. To even hint at the method would be unfair to the 

 author, who is entitled to all the profit that he can derive from the 

 sale of his work ; and we can, therefore, only recommend the latter 

 to the favorable consideration of those interested. 



