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but desire that every work destined to accomplish so much as 
this is, should be accurate in all things, and in every way 
scholarly; and we fear that in this important volume Prof. 
MacMillan has paved the way to many laxities. In his 
citations of books I find “Mac. Fl. Can.,” which indicates 
naturally some one’s “Flora of Canada.” We know it must 
mean Macoun’s Catalogue of Canadian Plants. Similarly 
the Botany of the California State Geological Survey, of 
which the shorter title proposed by the authors and printed 
on the first title page is Botany of Califernia, Prof. Mac- 
Millan cites as “FI. Calif.” Still worse than these is “Coult. 
Fl. Colo.” Professor Porter, aided by Coulter, once published 
a Flora of Colorado. Afterwards Coulter alone compiled a 
Botany of the Rocky Mountain Regvon. There is no book 
extant whose title can be cut down to the form given by our 
author; but strange to say the abbreviation I have repeated 
is proven to refer to Coulter’s Manual of Rocky Mountain 
Botany, which covers the ground from New Mexico to British 
America, and on the title of which Colorado is not mentioned. 
There are many other errors of this sort. Moreover, it had 
been better that there had been no Latin phrases in the book 
than that such should have been constructed in cold indiffer- 
ence to case-endings. No one could have criticized where 
one had written “ander Aster” or “under Trollius;” but 
“sub Aster” instead of sub Astere, and “sub Trollius” in 
place of sub Trollio are examples of an extremely modern 
type of Latinity; and with this sort many pages of this 
fair volume are defaced. 
Mr. Hollick, who, in the April number of the Bulletin of 
the Torrey Club, reviews Prof. MacMillan, attributes to a 
“rigid conscientiousness” his bringing forward of “Scoria” 
as generic name instead of Hicoria; the former being, as 
every one knows, that which an inadvertent printer gave, and 
not one which the author of the genus Hicoria ever pro- 
pounded or so much as dreamed of. Conscientiousness would 
have led to the employment of the name which Rafinesque 
wrote and endeavored to get printed, and which he afterwards 
