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‘Th the true spirit of real science the tli Sometime deed, as we 
: mong t the ere - aire ‘litdory; is coped a indeed, as wo freely m admit, 
was to render ~~ knowledge he himse i pos: sesses | our prea at establishing it have n the reverse 
mi t who are merely lovers of natural | of happy, and we now see in a particular pia of English 
T o artes ely is error, an s| history and eirs other pursuits prevent mastering | names inconveniences which we for merly under Saia ed. 
ith untrustworthy ape aie until od Preliminary ‘details demanded im strict technical | We allude to translations of Greek and Latin generic 
aera? enters the field, with new | sci names into equivalent English ; sueh as Comarosta! 
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art vision, and brushes away the rye por Bre pplied to to recommend a | p phy lis into Gri ritberry, and the like e. But w 
zh time had menining as well as the serine ans nh should a vet rsons having no previous | pointed out the-advisability of 
t: èd. 3 -| knos wle dge of botar ny to name the wild flowers s they | formal Latin terminations, as has 
this t t i i ountry rambles. by substituting Ter rentius. Vi 
hing has $ classification of wee is | been much r e Kw to answer this inqui ry. Virgilius, and Hor: a Aii a, ed arer hf ee 
smote with a eee’ and ere hand the | The book he ha id himself used under similar circum- | been so generally taken by others that no one now 
of dust accumulated by h nae Sors; country, the ‘Flore Française’ of | thinks of speaking of Endogenæ or Monocoty Pern 
el confusio as found to be, De Candolle, is inapplicable. a tm ware and has long | Endogens and Monocotyledons having come into uni 
said, Mr. Be Atham 
rder, : p i untry for which it was | versal use. we have > entham has full 
Ta ths country Smith, | written. Our own ctor Paii: whatever their | acquiesced in this very reasonable proposition, and thus 
a small way, performed the same goo ood office with | botanical merit, require too much previous scientific | he substitutes Corrigiole for Corrigiola, @nanth for 
who went before him, eunsintitinny however more | knowledge for a beginner or mere amateur to under- (nanthe, Trigonel for Trigonella, and soon. In other 
than he corrected, and introducing new cor ifa- stand without assistance a fom by ero the | cases he takes po kno’ 
n i a e distingui lusi 
ach othe: n form, as when Furze is used fo 
ooker and others succeeded in | vour to compile a more pitia on gi wide to the botanical Ulex, Spurge for "Baplioriis, and so on, This is un- 
much of the Smithian evil; while another | riches of our islands, the author has Serpent his mind avoidable and u pert ionable. But we cannot o a 
ng new ground, as quite independent td eon SS by which he was ena able d, r 40 y of co in we r" 
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$, signalised their independence by es a e, without any previous aintance s opera tion. Thus ‘str rapwort t is really th A English 
of phantoms, which, under the name of n w je ects, ‘todetermine the wi ild plants he pA in the for ‘oan and is more familiar than Corrigiole 
i i he astonished ni ‘He, |'n ighbourho od of og epee and ‘of Montauban, the | a the same time „Pinguicula is not made Pingnicule, 
man, laid to his own defective powers of dieaties a had to surmo utterw: On the h 
designated B ort, e other 
n his inability to see the differences which | takes he was led into. Keoter these points in view, hand we aad our ym bad example followed in pro- 
so learnedly, and meekly assented | and faktine i in some measure, De Candolle’s ‘Flore’ iding Gastridium with the na of Ni itgrass instead 
s informed that | his model, he has here attempted a descriptive enume- | of Ga strid, i a howeve 
‘jpthe justice of the rebuke when he wa r, 
» critical species required much higher | ration of all the plants wild in the British Isles, distin- | beam, and in no w ay affect the scientific character of 
observation — than he possessed. Hi igher guished by such characters as may be r eadily akies | the first work on English bity fi in which true sciénce 
eae th by the unlearned and expressed, has been skilfully combined with all that can render 
the moon: | power, in ordinary language, usi h t 
 Rwas therefore n not a day too soon when Mr. Ben- | only ¢ as ‘appeared indispensable for accuracy, and: whoa The p marp, Se) aA a 
undertook the task of nse i” ons that any observation we may “hive to 
l ve a sem ~ cone corning A very careful examination of Mr. Bentham’ 5 pa be 
im the hope of once ring fully carried | tunity. In the mean while Asa Gray’s “ How Plants 
toan Se 6 “in ee | out. In effecting the object constant use has ire Grow, te,” and Bentham’s “ Handbook? ” will not fail 
process,” 
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alue of which i is well known to every naturalist. Tt | the sation 
on well known, a on has been to tl that tl f these | 
pe My described v with so much detail, yf are remarks is indebted for such small arii ni as he Black's Yorkshire _ (Edinb. Black, Nat pp. 276) is 
so familiar to the author himself, that it ap- y Ii that 4 
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ary _ It is well 
is the ieactors that suited his purpose. | all exact ‘ous must An iert rest, ow ana are preemje well printed, Per ‘indexed, wall iustrate, 
no satisfactory progress could formed is thus explained :— and furnished with an excellent map. To tourists 
mado without a areal en A verificat “The general principle of this th Yo ~ 9 myo it is indispen: 
t e plan selves; til, ects for som viking char racter Shih will at Ophthalmoscope 6o vm eee pp. 107) is a 
ing five years that ‘he prese: i poak ik hi ones in | once separate all the plants pram to = be rw = | description by Mr. Jabe of an instrument in- 
e ai mee have been drawn two groups, then, taking each group ex i Meni: the roms ran eye when attacked by 
from Bri arenes (escent oe Me it again "into two per cia in ic’ di 
é e wn and so on till the species become isolated. In th ‘ty versight we omitted to mention the appear- 
2 compared with the nee in * Hocker pro somes and rapidity are the two pecan ce oh a very good Trade Pat a of Geraniums, 
l Arnott’s * British Plora” and Babington’s ‘ Manual,’ abject s; and the most impo pna ee re — are, Pac “e3 — &e., on sale r. Epps’s Nursery 
in some of our local | first, ae eni at each opera , of € TS $0 t Maid: one. It is one of the best | of the e season, wth 
have, in almost all _ been verified | absolu as to afford the least. room for T ipti 
specimens from vari ous parts o of tl plant in question belong We have just ponies the Frade nen eh of 
nge- of eacl ti bdivisi nearly | Messrs. Low & Co, of Clapton. Tt is 
ve been checked rt examination of med in pot ge ian of species 
g specimens: The wi ef. ae the French, | the two objects, certainty has been rekon “ ia a other stove plants. The Greenhouse apt Raton 
ered | 
n, Swedish, Italian, or other botanists have also | as the most important, and brevity must often be sacri- | very extensive, as is the collection of Herbaceous, 
consul erever the occasion required it. The ficed to it, Make, for example, a genus of a a dozen goo and ha pn bulbous plants. 
made use-of have been chiefiy those of species a pam 
ne i phlet without either title page or poh- 
zich collections at Kew, including the unrivalled . — an which in some are very much divided in lisher’s name, Mr. Hitechman, of Leamington, 
eal - Sir William coca but — sothor has uite entire, and sida that about half the | earnestly advocates the preservation of London sewage 
Y himself of erous and d o e groups so separated, but | for agricultural purposes. He proj to carry it all 
of Euro ring 40 years’ her daptioasin various one s species is found in which the nf oe are slightly over the kingdom by lines of iron tubes of sufficient 
Jt wi ivided, or some entire and som diameter laid in the of all existing canals; and 
“step to the result of this careful operation we | order safel: to guide the student, ater must aP ome first | he is of opinion that this would be infinitely better as 
A Ther ootata the last ‘edition of ee cons Ar- | separate this ambiguous species by some character | well as very much cheaper than any course yet pro- 
on’s ‘Manure 1571 z s (e a of Ba- | which the others have 4 or repeat it _ d. FZ hw thi he son Sundan 
rton as many as 1708 (exclusive of j| the subdivisions formed, thus lengthening by one a w great agricul tural gain; possibility is a 
= ss not — the present wae ae redu an o | the process by which the several species are isolated.” | question that none but hydraulic engineers first 
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ot owing to any lassification adopted by Mr. Bentham is the | order are entitled to express an opinion “upon. The 
am ae Tuhness and diversity of o Aige. Natural Method of De Candolle somewhat modified; | project 
, but is occasi ceesioned by a dient: appre- and we think Po the best for local Floras, where the 
of the value of the species thi Jassification is t ble a student 
ng been persuaded that the views Orig: | 40 Sat Gall ad inate. OF wpa: Bpo GPe Garden Memoranda. 
sae by Linnzus of what really consti- Natural Method he jena that :— HIGHCLERE wre pre an the seat of 
Speties, were far more correct than the more| «“ “Indicated by Linneus d by Adanson; | the Earl of Carnarvon, has a wor ld-wide re; pone 
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to which many modern botanists seem | fi ssieu, iiaeaa a kA e e by its American plant y 
; and that in most cases | Brown, De Candolle, and other great. botanists of our |6 miles from the Newbury 
r had good means of observa- | own days, and nos ct t by oe ne noord bota- | Western Rail 
bly in the practical applica- | nical it cannot well eof any of | could be wish 
any rate, if those minute | its promoters, even of tet roti without arrest- 
Fit oni Men 
ch the e varieties of |in ma had a attained | distant scen 
been A ae hows, ee Its test i - Peai 
are really more | time one Tae its test charms to the l 
‘portant than the sirp Ase ing mind, is xe want Sf absolutism i in its 7. om 
oa cannot be shall in every — ance carry conviction 
sometimes there aeguaintaneo "y wih oe “Natur niti don a great a 
he relative = cn e” of versa wilk be asf | Rh 
table. can |Frentiy pe Eiri by men of different capacities or 
erent turn of mind; and the 
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‘air with their delicious breath. On them 
‘of heads of blossoms, in Beare ie so closely 
approximating as to pere — asses 
In contradistinction, ever, 
paene plants, as ete in Lando 
have always! allembracedfrom any one poin t of v 
dinary „pitch by joule 
school.” 
There is not 
