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this we ex})ress no opinion ; it appears that tlie departure was made 

 " with Mrs. 13abington's consent." The alterations necessitated hy 

 Babington's "nietliod of giving binoniinals to his /■>, y, etc." were, 

 however, " not permitted," and the method was retained, though 

 contrary to the code. There is something comic in the exercise of tliis 

 ]>ower of binding and loosing by a lady wliose only chiim to botanical 

 recognition was the relation in which she stood to the author of the 

 Manual, the copyright of wliich she held. 



Mr. Wilmott's *' main endeavour has been to make the names 

 correct," and those who know how much attention he has given to 

 (piestions of nomenclature will share his " hope that [this] is now 

 fairly accurate." Even since the printing of "'the greater part of 

 this reprint," however, further changes became necessary ; these, so 

 far as they ''appear to be cei-tainly well founded, are included in the 

 corrigenda." It may be useful to ])oint out that they appear on the 

 back of the half-title, facing p. 1 ; there is no table of contents, and 

 the corrigenda may easily be overlooked. 



A comparison of the names here adopted with those in ed. 1) 

 wouhl probably lead to interesting results: we note that Mliuiartia^ 

 adopted in ed. 9, in accordance with Mr. Hiern's conclusions published 

 in this Journal for 1899, is here re])laced in the text by Jlsinc; 

 in the corrigenda, however, Ahine is in its turn suj^erseded and 

 Minitartia restored. This and similar occurrences suggest that ed. 9 

 has been insufficiently consulted — thus Mr. Wilmott in his preface 

 says that "the use of Mifosotis acorpioides L. emend, llendle audi 

 l^ritten [1907] is correct," but the name as restricted appears in 

 ed. 9 (1901); moreover in the text of the present edition the name 

 stands more accurately as " M. scorpioides L. emend. Hill." Of the 

 " continual change," which Mr. Wilmott rightly regaixls as '• unfor- 

 tunate," his edition affords an example of striking rapidity : the 

 ])lant known to most of us as Yicia r/racilis Loisel stands in the text 

 (p. 99) as V. fenaiasima Schinz & Thell. ; hut this is in its turn 

 replaced in the coirigenda by V. varia Wilmott — a name which we 

 believe has not hitherto been published. Myosoton Moench i-e})laces 

 Malachium Fries — Cerasfium '^ vicosum'" on the same page (64) is 

 })resumably a misprint. We note that Mr. Wilmott retains the name 

 Koeleria apleiideiis, which was discussed in this Journal for 1906 

 (p. 104). 



A notable alteration throughout is "the attempt [that] has been 

 made to cite the author who Hrst gave the name the (approximate) 

 connotation expressed in this book [e. g. " Cnielidonium L. em. 

 Crantz "]. It was difficult in some cases to determine exactly Avhat 

 limits the professor [Babington] intended, but it was assumed that 

 the diagnosis included everything known which it did not exclude." 

 The princi])le thus indicated is in accordance with Art. 44 of the 

 Vienna Code; but Mr. Wilmott does not seem to have applied it 

 consistentlj' : e.g. if it be advisable to write '"''ClieJidonium L. era. 

 Crantz " — presumably because Crantz referred to Glaucium certain 

 species placed l)y Linn;eus in Chrlidouium, — it would appear that 

 '"' Adonia L." should l>e equally restricted ("emend.") by reference 



