12 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Parker, Sz ch‘uan plants = Chinese Names of Plants 
collected by FE. H. Parker in Sz ch‘uan 1880 and 1881, and 
determined by Dr. Hance. [See China Review, XI, 1883, 
_ ~p. 839.) - 
Parker, Canton plants Chinese Names of Canton Plants, 
by E. H. Parker. [See China Review, 1886, p- 104-119.] 
(FARDNER, Ichang plants = Vegetable Products of the 
Consular District of Ichang, in the Province of the Ilupeh, by 
C. T. Garpner. [See Journ. Ch. Br. Asiat. Soe., XIX, 
(1884), p. 6-26.] 
Henry, Chin, plants = Chinese Names of Plants, by 
AUGUSTINE Henry, M.A-L.R.C.P. [See Journ. Ch. Br. 
Asiat. Soe., XXII, 1887, p 283 seqq.] These names refer 
to plants of the province of Hupeh, 
Ind. Fl. sin. = Index Flore sinensis, by I’. B. Founes, 
F.LS., and W. B. Hemstey, A.L.8,, 1888. Now in course 
of publication. 
the drugs are noticed. These two books would have been very useful 
compilations had the compilers confined themselves to giving only such 
particulars as could be derived from the official documents of the Customs, 
adding occasionally a short popular description of the drug from their 
own observation, But unhappily they attempted to identify the drags from 
the Chinese names only, without examining them, They satisfy themselves 
with relying almost entirely npon the ide 
Ntifications of Chinese drugs * 
put forth in Dr, F, Porrer SMITH'S Contributions towards the Materia 
Medica of China, ete., a work full of 
: 1 Alphab. Index, But unhappily 
his name does not a : k, and the reader is unable to decide 
publication of « List of Chinese 
., Wa8 sent to me for revision : but Tam 
y X as it stands, as additions and “ corrections ” 
Were made after it left my hands. My peyis} isted i itting 
j i reyj ry r mitting 
rs t grave wrong identifications, 4 oe cee SS 
The ek Co Chinese names which often exist for a single drug. — 
free from an eal aborious piece of work. Part I of this work is entirely 
be dix ¥ editing and is full of “rors. The scientific names are not to 
depended ‘on. The classificati: no! 
are entered under 
