LA ROTANIQUE EN PROVENCE 48 



it is satisfactory to note that each of them is signed. Prof. Bailey 

 has indeed heen fortunate in obtaining so many collaborators ; the 

 list of these in his first volume includes 170 names, and others 

 appear in the second. 



On turning over the pages, we observe two or three references 

 which show that the biographical notes would be the better for a 

 little revision. It is odd, for instance, to find the date of John 

 Bellenden Ker's death, which took place in 1842, given as 1871 

 (vol. i. p. xx) ; Banks was something more than a " famous 

 English scientist " (whatever that may mean) ; and Cattley was 

 hardly what we should understand by "an early English natu- 

 ralist." It would also be well if the dates of birth and death were 

 uniformly added, instead of only exceptionally, as at present. 

 There is a certain grim humour in the account of a great American 

 grape-grower: "Ephraim W. Bull was loved of his neighbours and 

 honored by every countryman who grows or eats a grape. He made 

 very little money from his variety, and died in extreme poverty." 



The Dictioyiary of Gardeninfj has become a standard book of 

 reference ; it has been adapted into French, and a French Horti- 

 cultural Society has awarded the French editor a prize of £100. Mr. 

 Nicholson probably thinks this is one of the things they do better 

 in France. " Nearly twenty years have passed," the publisher 

 tells us, in a curiously- worded preface, since it "first saw the 

 light" ; but by this he means the first number, for the preface to 

 the last volume is dated December, 1888. Anyway it was quite 

 time that a supplement should be issued, and here we have the first 

 volume of it — or rather the first instalment, for there is to be but 

 one " supplemental volume " — which is of course indispensable to 

 possessors of the original. It possesses all the defects as well 

 as the advantages of the earlier volumes— e. r/. the bewildering 

 abbreviations of works cited, and the uniform and useless page- 

 headings. The figures are less miscellaneous and more pleasing : 

 a number of names appear on the ugly title-page as joint authors. 

 The bulk of the book would have been lessened, and its usefulness 

 not diminished, if a large number of the "English names" had 

 been omitted: some of these, such as "Bastard Clover" for 

 I'rifolium hybridum, are mere translations; others, like "Bastard 

 Cress" for Thlaspi, are never used; " Branching Annual Stock," 

 again, is assuredly not " a common name for Malculmia maritima,'* 

 which is always known as Virginia Stock. But, as we have said, 

 the Supplement is indispensable to all possessors of the Dictionary, 

 to which it forms a worthy companion. 



Legr6 (Ludovic). La Botanique en Provence an XV I^ siecle. 

 Leonard Rauwollf; Jacques Raynaudet. Marseilles : Aubertin 

 et Rolle. 1900. Pp. x, 149. 



M. Legre continues to increase the indebtedness of the botanic 

 world to him by his rapid issue of researches on the early workers 

 in botany in the south of France. We have already in this Journal 

 (1899, pp. 38-92, 283) referred in terms of high praise to his 



