218 NOMENCLATURE. 



Guide to IVorcestcr, by Ambrose Florence (Edwin Lees, 1828), it is 

 included, under tbe name of 6^rt/i?<Hi 7;h.s/Z/»h(, in "A Catalogue of 

 Plants growing wild in the vicinity of Worcester," with the station, 

 "East side of Eed Hill." In Topographica! Batany, 37 (Worcester) 

 is bracketed with other counties as "insufficiently vouched," and 

 Mr. Lees appears also to have doubted the authenticity of the 

 record, as he omits any mention of the species in his Butany of 

 Worcestershire, published in 1867. — Richard F. Towndrow, 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Nomenclature, 

 KuNTZE, Otto. Nomendatur-Stiulicn. Kxtrait dii Bulletin de 

 VHerhier Boissier. Tome II., No, 7, Juillet, 1894. 8vo, 

 pp. 45G-498. 



This consists of ten sections as follows: — 1. Thouars's orchid 

 names are not to be rejected. 2. "Priority in place in at all 

 events." 3. Obligatury index for plant-names. 4. Some false 

 expositions by Dr. Pfitzer. 5. Eejection of orchid names from 

 linguistic and orthographic considerations. 6. " Once a synonym 

 always a synonym" contrary to Art. 60 and 28. 7. Publications 

 since 1735 with partially unsuitable nomenclature are not to be 

 excluded. 8. Sundries about orchids. 9. Corrections of orchid 

 names. 10. Concluding remarks ; the future Congress. 



Practically this pamphlet resolves itself into a reply to Dr. 

 Pfitzer's attack in Engler's Jahrhilchcr, 1894, pp. 1-28, with ad- 

 ditional onslaughts on the American novelties, which are distin- 

 guished by the citation of their favourite formulae. Dr. Kuntze 

 brings his heaviest artillery to bear on what most people will 

 consider too absurd to merit further notice; thus he shows in 

 section 2, that were such practice to obtain. Astragalus must siuk 

 in Fhaca, Senecio in Cacalia, Botentilla in Sibbaldia, I'runus in 

 Amygdalus, Chenopodium in Blitum, and so on. Section 6 shows a 

 still longer list of authorities for keeping to the usual practice. 



Erkldruvg der GescJid/tsleitung der vom internationalen botanischen 



Congress zu Genua (1892) eingesetzten Nomendatur-Commission. 



Abgegeben ivahrend derGQ. Versammlung deutscher Naturforscher 



und Aerzte in Wien in der Sitzung der Abthe Hung fur systema- 



tisclie Botanik am 25. September, 1894. (Separat-Abdiuck 



aus der Oesterr. botan. Zeitschrift, Jahrg. 1895. No. 1.) Wien, 



1895. 8vo, pp. 10. 



In this modest pamphlet we have an account by Drs. Ascherson 



and Eugler of the various steps which, since the publication of 



Dr. Kuntze's Bevisio in the autumn of 1891, have been taken by 



botanists to secure a consensus of opinion as to the proper course 



to be followed in the question of nomenclature. The excitement 



caused by the issue of his volumes was at its height when the 



Genoa Congress was held in September, 1892, and resulted in the 



appointment of a commission of thirty members of various nation- 



