BOTANICAL GAZETTE. loi 



less than one half. The Italian extract of 51 words and 256 letters is 

 expressed in Latin of Linnsean form by 21 words and 127 letters. 



To give the readers of the Gazette an illustration of the 

 space saved and the clearness gained by the change to Linna^an Lat- 

 in we give an extract from Schacht's Lehrbuch der Anatomie und Phys- 

 iologie as quoted and changed by DeCandolle. 



Same Facts in Li nnaean Style. 



Stomiita in euideimis junioris f'liitlielio 



naBdintur. Intra ceUiilani uiiani du» noviE 



partitiones upparent, (jiia' sorores nu-inlirana 



niatris soluta (luctuaiit et lissuram intiT se 



angiistani latunive monstrant; qnippe veg- 

 itiihiliiun Kuperioruin stoniata e ihial)U.scel- 

 liilif gerniauico HchVtffszeUen (1) vocatis 

 constant. 



TEXT. 



' Die Spaltoeffuungeu 'stomata) geliocrem 

 der EpidtT'i'is, sie enstelien sclion si-hr fruli 

 wenn dioselbe no h Epitlielial- Uescliaflon- 

 hcit btsitzt. Innerliall) ciuer Zolle der Ober- 

 liaut bilden sicli nanilich duicti Tlieilmig 

 zwei neue ZcUen. die Menibran der Mutter 

 zelle wir.i darauf lesorba-t und die beideii 

 Tochterzellen weiclicn in der Mitte eine 

 Spalte zwischen sicli last-end. aus einander; 

 ua>li do)' Turgeseenz der S|)alt(etl"nungzellen 

 erscheiut nun die Spaltc balii enger. bald 

 weiter. Al e Siialta'tTuiingen der lliehen- 

 geivaech.se l)ildeu sicli aul diese Wei.se. sie 

 bestidieii dcssliall) sivmtlicli aiis zwei ZellLMi. 

 den so geuauuteu .-clilielszellen."' 



Style in botanical works is discussed in Chapter XVIII. which 

 all young botanists should study, especially the portion which treats 

 of the admirable style of Linnneus. In speaking of botanical style in 

 the modern languages, the author notices the great advantage which 

 the languages of Latin stock have inherited, and which the English- 

 writing botanists have acquired, of ready and free use of Latin and 

 Latinized technical words by direct transference. Botanical French, 

 English, and Italian, are contrasted with the German in this respect. 

 Noting that the German of conversation inclines to be clear and senten- 

 tious, while in botanical writings the words lengthen more and more 

 and the sentences become badly involved, our author remarks that 

 recently having read a couple cf pages of Vegetable Anatomy, and 

 feeling his brain somewhat fatigued with the frequency of such words 

 as Sclcrenchymfasergruppen, Gefasshiinderitwickduiig and Entwkkelung- 

 seigenihiunliclikeit, he asked himself if that was good German style. 

 He then recollected that Goethe, one of the very greatest of German 

 literary writers, was also a profound naturalist. He opened his Meta- 

 morphose der Pflanzen, re id a page or so, and experienced a relief 

 which he liken- to that telt by a sea tossed ocean voyager when the 

 vessel suddenly glides into a quiet harbor. 



Synoptical Table for the Determination of Fii^ers of Veg- 

 etable Origin. — The following table is fmm Vetellart's work "sur 

 les fibres emp oyes dans I'industrie," and may be made considerable 

 use of by botanists in the laboratory. W. H. Seaman, of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, in sending an abstract of Vetellart's work to Dr. 

 Gray writes that "Vetellart does not tell much that is new. but has 

 systematized our previous knowledge more than has ever before been 

 done. 



The reaction is given with dilute sulphuric acid and iodine ; the 

 most highly organized structure giving blue reaction, the less so yel- 

 low. Exactly as ihe more highly organized structures polarize light 

 more strongly, e. g. spiral vessels polarize, parenchyma does not." 



