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Lincolnshire, V. JL/rfilli/s, was discovered by me in Broughton 

 parish on the 14th of July. Both have been verified and the sur- 

 rounding flora noted 1.3^ the Kev. E. Adrian Woodruffe- Peacock, who 

 says that the aridity ot the county had made it practically hopeless 

 to' hunt for the Bilberrv. — A. N. Clate. 



KEVIEWS. 



A Dictionary of Plant JV^ames. By H. L. Gerth tax AVijk : pub- 

 lished by the Dutch Society of Sciences at Haarlem. Vol. ii 

 (Index). Large 4to, pp. 1696, xxxiii. The Hague : Martinus 

 Nijhoff, 1916. 



This handsome volume is the completion of the work the earlier 

 portion of which was noticed in this Journal for 1911, p. 236, to 

 which it forms an index. The first portion contains the accepted 

 Latin names arranged alphabetically, under each of which are grouped 

 the vernacular equivalents in English, French, German, and Dutch ; 

 in the Index the converse system is followed, so that we have in one 

 alphabet a complete list of vernacular names so far as they were 

 known to the compiler, Avhose industr}^ demands all praise. 



The book is admirably printed ; great care must have been exer- 

 cised in the reading of proofs, for the number of misprints — we are 

 referring only to the English names— is astonishingly small. It 

 would, we think, have been well if the Latin equivalent for each name 

 had been printed in italics : the use of the same font for both sets of 

 names does not tend to clearness. Convenience would have been 

 increased and time saved if, in the Latin equivalents, the specific 

 names had been given as well as the generic ; as it is, the former are 

 indicated by the number which the plant occu])ies under its genus in 

 the earlier portion, — e. g. " hawdod v. Centaurea 10 " — to which it is 

 thus necessary to refer on every occasion. It is true that this would 

 liave added to the size of the volume, already a large one ; but the 

 i>pace required could to a large extent have been saved by restrictions 

 which would not have interfered with the usefulness of the book. 

 In our former notice we pointed out that mere translations were 

 far too numerous, but it was not until we saw their prominence in the 

 Index that we realized how largely they encumbered the work. It 

 may of course be urged that as they occur in the book they should 

 appear in the index ; but man}'' now appear for the first time which 

 can in no sense be regarded as genuine names, being indeed obviously 

 mere book-creations which never have been and never will be in 

 actual spoken use : of these " Thlaspi bourse a pasteur " may be taken 

 as an example. Among useless entries those wliich apjjear under 

 *' common " may be taken as typical : no one would think of speaking 

 of the ''common chickweed " nor of ''common lavender," and the 

 prefix is extended to names which themselves woidd never be used — 

 e. (f. no one would refer to lledj/sarnm coronarium as " common 

 liedysarum " — a name whose presence in the book is due to the inclu- 

 sion of the numerous similar " English " names given by Nemnich in 

 ]\\s Allegemcines Poliff/lottcii-lcd'icon — a work quite useless for the 



