NOTICES OP BOOKS. 347 



the 4th October it had sprung up plentifully. Some of the bulhs 

 flower again in spring. It has existed in the locality above- 

 mentioned for a century in plenty. It is recorded in Purton'a " Mid- 

 land Flora," as growing at Strut End; of this locality I know 

 nothing, but before railway days it existed in another neighbouring 

 locality now destroyed. I have also heard on good authority of one 

 ^ther spot in North Staffordshire where this plant grows or did grow. 

 -Elizabeth Edwakds. 



l^oticrjJ of ^oofe^. 



Dictionnatre de Botanique. Par H. Baillon", &c. Premier fascicule, 

 Paris: Hachette et Cie. 1876. [London: Dulau and Co.] 4to. 

 (Pp. 80.) 



A SINGLE fascicle only of this new dictionary of botany has as 

 yet come to hand. It consists of eighty large quarto pages beautifully 

 printed in double columns on thick paper, with the text liberally 

 illustrated with excellent woodcuts and a full quarto coloured plate. 

 The price of the part is 5 francs. As the vocabulary extends only to 

 the word " Aile " in this first fascicle, it may be estimated that between 

 thirty and forty similar ones will be requisite to get through the 

 alphabet, and that the whole book will be necessarily in three or four 

 volumes. 



This is an extensive undertaking, and in it Prof. Baillon is assisted 

 by several botanists in their special departments ; among others by 

 MM. de Seynes, l^ylander, Fournier, Bureau, Weddell, &c. With such 

 names on the title-page it is scarcely necessary to say that the work is 

 thoroughly well done. The dictionary is planned on a most comprehen- 

 sive scale, and is incomparably fuller than any other book of the sort 

 now existing. One naturally comparesitwithour own excellent ''Trea- 

 sury of Botany," and the much greater extent of the vocabulary 

 of the French list is shown by comparing the number of words 

 commencing with AB, which are 129 in it, whilst the former book 

 has but 39. This results from the scheme including, besides the 

 scientific names, numerous synonyms, a large collection of native 

 names, of botanical terms, the names of botanists, and indeed of words 

 relating to all departments of the science. 



So far as yet examined, the treatment of each word is well planned. 

 One great advantage (the want of which is much felt in the English 

 book above mentioned) is that a copious bibliography and full refer- 

 ences to original sources of information are supplied. We also find 

 the derivation of the names given. In some cases the treatment of 

 a word is very extended ; thus under " absorption " we have an article 

 of eleven columns, and that on " accroisement " extends to ten 

 columns. The illustrative woodcuts are in M. Faguet's usual excellent 

 style ; a good number of them have been used in the published parts 

 of Baillou's " Histoire des Plantes," but there are very many new ones. 



