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partly corresponds to that in the Historia, a Dilucidatio vocum quibus rei Herbariae Scrip- 

 tores uti Solent, and 2 smaller works. — M. F. Warner. 



1667. Britten, James. The name Mundia. Jour. Botany 56: 5G. 1918. — The name 

 seems to have been given in honor of a collector of South African plants named Mundt or 

 Mund, not in honor of Henry Mundy. — Neil E. Stevens. 



1668. [Britten, James.] Newspaper botany. Jour. Botany 58: 136, 208. 1920.— Errors 

 and absurdities noted in the Daily News and Nash's Magazine. — M. F. Warner. 



1669. [Britten, James.] The shamrock. Jour. Botany 58: 117-118. 1920. — Some news- 

 paper blunders in regard to this plant. — M. F. Warner. 



1670. Britten, James. Sir George Birdwood and "Primrose Day." Jour. Botany 56: 

 87-90. 1918.— Sir George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood (1832-1917) was particularly 

 interested in commercial vegetable products of Biblical and classical interest and was the 

 first to identify the frankincense plant. The celebration of the anniversary of Lord Beacons- 

 field's death by the wearing of primroses was initiated by him. — Neil E. Stevens. 



1671. Britten, James. Worthington George Smith (1835-1917). Jour. Botany 56: 243- 

 247. 1918. — W. G. Smith was educated as an architect and illustrator, but the study of 

 ancient ornament led him to the study of plant form and later to botan}\ He is known for 

 his researches on fungi, and especially for his colored illustrations of fungi and other plants. 

 [See also Bot. Absts. 6, Entry 62; 8, Entry IG8S.]— Neil E. Stevens. 



1672. Brotherston, R. P. About tomatoes. Garden 83: 86. 1919. — As early as 1578 

 both white and yellow sorts were recorded by Lyte as cultivated in England. They were 

 often called "Love apples" or "Apples of love" in the early literature, but the true "Love 

 apple" was Solanum ovigerum. — M. F. Warner. 



1673. Brotherston, R. P. Bacon's plants. Garden 84: 129. 1920.— It is concluded 

 that the double white violet mentioned in Bacon's essays and Sylva sylvarum was a stocky 

 and the "White Satyrian" of the Sylva was Neottia spiralis. — M. F. Warner. 



1674. Brotherston, R. P. Blake's plant names. Garden 84: 52. 1920. [See also 

 Bot. Absts. 8, Entries 1656, 1717.] 



1675. Browne, E. T. Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel. Proc. Linn. Soc. London 

 132: 39-43. 1921.— Sketch of the life and work of the eminent zoologist and evolutionist 

 Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), who in earlier years was also an enthusiastic botanist. — M. F. 

 Warner. 



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1676. Buntard, E. A. The moon and horticulture. Garden 84: 186. 1920. 



1677. BuNYARD, E. A. The "New orchard and garden" of William Lawson. Jour. Po- 

 mology 1: 125-134. Fig. 16. 1920.— Although Johnson's History of English Gardening 

 gives the date as 1597, Lawson's book seems to have been actually published in 1617, and to 

 have gone through 9 editions. Bunyard quotes from, and comments briefly upon, the different 

 chapters. — L. H. MacDaniels. 



1678. C., R. S. Curtis's "Botanical magazine." Garden 84: 3. 1920.— Varying dates 

 in early volumes, and variations in date of same plate in different sets are noted. Dates on 

 title-pages of an original set are 1787, 1788, 1790, etc., but a short set has 1790 as date of Vol. 1; 

 and in a set of 45 Vols., evidently reprints, Vol. 1 is dated 1793. Dates of many individual 

 plates are noted, but no water marks were discovered before 1810. — M. F. Warner. 



