NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEMOIRS. 89 



Notices of ISooits an& iWemotrs. 



Libellus de re Herbaria Nov us. By William Turner. Originally 

 published in 1538 ; reiDrinted in facsimile with notes, modem 

 names, and a Life of the Author, by Benjamin Daydon Jackson, 

 F.L.S. Privately printed. London. 1877. 



Mr. B. D. Jackson has followed up his admh^able rej)rint of 

 Gerard's Catalogue, which has been duly noticed in these pages, 

 with " a facsimile reprint of a still earher work — the first publication 

 in this country of a true botanical cast;" and he has this time 

 availed himself of the heliotype process, the result being an abso- 

 lutely perfect reproduction, in every detail, of the British Museum 

 co^Dy of Turner's ' Libellus. ' By this means, a very rare, if not unique, 

 book is rendered available to an enlarged ch-cle of readers, although, 

 as the reprint is limited to a hundred copies, it cannot be said to 

 have become common. It is impossible to speak too highly of the 

 mechanical portion of the work ; and Mr. Jackson has enhanced 

 its value by the sketch of Turner's life which he has prefixed to it. 

 We do not, indeed, find many strikmg facts regarding this 

 interesting man which had not previously been brought forward 

 in the Appendix to the * Flora of Middlesex ; ' but a copy of 

 Turner's Will is added, and the list of his works is by far the mx)st 

 complete ever published. 



Following the reprint is a list of the modern scientific names 

 of the plants enumerated, some of which are, we think, open to 

 question. This criticism is based on the fact that the English 

 names, of which a large number are given by Turner, sometimes 

 point to identifications other than those given by Mr. Jackson ; 

 Turner's English names are almost certainly in every case genuine, 

 while his Latin equivalents for them, upon which Mr. Jackson has 

 too exclusively relied, were necessarily often merely tentative. An 

 index of these Enghsh names would be a valuable addition to the 

 work ; and we are glad to learn that it is Mr. Jackson's intention 

 to draw up such a list for distribution to subscribers. Some of the 

 identifications will XDrobably at the same time come under revision ; 

 so that it is unnecessary to offer any suggestions or criticisms upon 

 those at present given. J. B. 



Verqriinmu/S(/eschichte cler FAchen von Trifolium repeiis. Von Dr. 

 Lad. Celakovsky. (' Bot. Zeit.,' March, 1877.) 



The author maintains his position with regard to the foliar 

 nature of the ovule. He looks upon the nucleus as an emergence 

 from the ovulary • leaf,' and combats the recently-published con- 

 clusion of Peyritsch on the ' shoot ' nature of ovules. We venture 

 to think that it would be far better were an evolutional teratologist 



