120 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WEYTRRN BOTANY 
many miles from Victorville, The *Joshua”,, Yucca, is the only 
plant growing in *huge masses” in Celifornia near t ere. Prof. 
hornber knows better than to blunder like this and it is a good 
wager that he never saw the quotation in print before publication 
fur it has the earmarks of feminine gush : 
f am glad to note that they do not approve of the stupid 
Carnegies of Britton and Rose, a name intended to flatter that 
old business pirate who paid the cost of pubiication and who did 
not think much of the proposed name. : 
have often wondered how the sensible Rose came to do it. 
The temptation to become a partner with a woman in _ven- 
ture like this is great but a man gets the worst of it if he yields, 
for it is bad enough to have to face one’s own blunders than those 
vf others. 
Their pronunciation is hopeless for it conforms neither to the 
English nor to the Continental method, both of which are found on 
pages 4-6 of Harkness’s Latin grammar ‘ 
They give senilis as sen’-e-lis instead of se-ni’-lis, or sa-ne-lis 
by the Continetal; Johnsoni is given as John-son-e instead of 
Jotn-son-i;they give aggregata as ah-gra-gah-tah instead of ag-gre 
x#-tu; Arizonica should not be Are-zo-ni-ca u r-i-Zon-i-ca; 
They call Blakeana Blake ah na instead of Blake a na, their Cac- 
taeex should not be Kak ta ce e as it is in English but Kak tah- 
aa, their Cereus is as it isin English but to be consistent they 
should call it ka ra oos. They mispronounce coccine i 
the English way for it is kok sin e us, but in the Continental is 
kok kin a oos; Covillei should be Ko vill i and not Ko vill e de- 
serti should be de serti and not dez er te; Emoryi should not be 
Einor e but Em ory i; falgida is given right in the English but 
the Continental which they ape would be fool ge dah; hystricina 
should not be his tre se nah but his tri si nah. They say in the 
. 
li ze ni. ese errors are al] from pp. 189-190. They do not 
give the habitat of all eacti mentioned, such as Cereus John- 
soni, from the Beaverdam mts, and Searchlight Nevada: The 
usefulness of the book is much impaired by the atrocions pronun- 
ciation, 
