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11. " Parthenocarpy in Cucumbers," by A. F. Blakeslee and P. 



A. Warren. 



12. "The Vegetation of the Hempsted Plains, Long Island," by 



R. M. Harper. 



13. " Trimorphism and insect visitors of Pontederia" by Tracey 



E. Hazen. 

 At both the New York and Brooklyn Gardens tea was served, 

 and many availed themselves of the opportunity^ to inspect the 

 buildings and collections. The committee who had charge of the 

 anniversary consisted of N. L. Britton, Chairman, C. S. Gager, 

 R. A. Harper, M. A. Howe, who acted as secretary for all the 

 meetings, and H. M. Richards. They request that all papers 

 read at the meetings be in the hands of Dr. Britton before the 

 close of the year, in order to ensure their inclusion in the anni- 

 versary volume of the Memoirs which goes to press January i, 

 1918. 



THE EARLIEST GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS; 



FUCHS 1542 



By Helen A. Choate 



Among the more important German herbals of the sixteenth 

 century the De Historia Stirpium of Leonardus Fuchsius, or 

 Fuchs, is doubtless the best known, owing to its many plant de- 

 scriptions and exceptionally fine wood cuts. A further point of 

 interest, less well known but of much value, is its glossary of 

 botanical terms which is considered by Sachs* and by Greenef 

 to be the first of its kind. This glossary appeared only in the 

 now rare first, or Latin, edition of 1542, and seems never to have 

 been translated or published in English. 



It is especially interesting to ascertain how many of the terms 

 appearing in this first attempt to organize botanical terminology 

 are still in use to-day. As a present standard I have taken Jack- 



* Sachs, J., History of Botany, translated by Garnsej' and Balfour, Oxford, pp. 

 20 and 21, 1906. 



t Greene, E. L., Landmarks of Botanical History, Smithsonian Miss. Coll., 

 1909, p. 197. 



