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Under each name is given an indication of the districts or counties 

 where it is known to be in use, and the plant to which it refers. It 

 is in the latter point especially that the hook is much in advance of 

 any previous partial catalogues of a similar kind. Great care has 

 evidently been bestowed on the correct determination of the species, 

 and the scientific names of these are always given. Many errors 

 of previous writers — who have usually been philologists or anti- 

 quarians rather than botanists (always excepting Dr. Prior, who is 

 all combined) — are corrected, and it is the accuracy of the book in 

 this particular which is one of its strongest features. A (temporary) 

 index of the scientific names of the species is given, under each of 

 which are to be found all the names contained in this First Part. 

 Some of the very common, remarkable, or useful x^lants have a 

 large number of these local names. This list, when completed for 

 the whole book, will be of great utility. Besides our native flora 

 a good many garden favourites and kitchen herbs are included. 



Explanation of the names has not been systematically 

 attempted. Dr. Prior's useful and well-known volume is always 

 referred to when he includes the name, and the authors comment 

 judiciously on some of his derivations. They have also given 

 explanations whenever local information enabled them to do so 

 satisfactorily, and in many cases give a great deal of curious 

 information from out-of-the-way sources. The continuation of the 

 Dictionary may be expected during the current year. H. T. 



Jemforande undersoknmgar ofver Bladets anatomi. Af F. W. C. 

 Akeschoug. (Kongl. Fysiografiska Sallskapets i Lund 

 minneskrift 1878). 



This fine memou' of two hundred and forty-two quarto pages 

 embodies the researches on leaf-anatomy in vascular plants which 

 Prof. Areschoug has been carrying on for many j^ears. After an 

 introduction on the general structure of the cellular and vascular 

 tissues, a comparative examination of the leaves of numerous 

 selected types is very fully given, and the results are summed up 

 in a final resume. The paper is, unfortunately, wholly in Swedish, 

 but it is illustrated with eleven excellent plates exhibiting the 

 structure by various sections of the following leaves : — Narcissus 

 poeticus, Anthericum Liliago, Agcqjanthus umbellatus, Erythronium 

 Denscmiis, Phormum tenax, Luzula multifiora, Arundo Donax, 

 Uncinia rubra, Triglochin maritimum, Potamogeto7i natans, Zostera 

 marina, Philudendron jjertusum, Ilex Aquifolumi, Buxus semjyervirens, 

 Piosmarinus officinalis, Littorella lacustris, Dracophyllum Traversi, 

 Franciscea sp., Piochea falcata, Limnanthemiim nymphaoides , Salsola 

 Kali, Klatine Hydropijjer, Eryngium, pjaniculatum, Adiantum macro- 

 jyhyllum, Platycerium alcicorne. H. T. 



On the genus Haluphila. By Bayley Balfour, D.Sc. (* Transactions 

 of the Botanical Society of Edmburgh,' 1877-8). 1879. 



This memoir is illustrated with five quarto plates from 

 the author's di-awings. The investigations recorded were 



