NOTICES OF BOOKS. 219 
view in preference to his later one. For example, Mr. Bentham in 
1846, published the Scrophulariace@ in De Candolle’s ‘‘ Prodromus,” 
and named and described there several species, which in his “ Flora 
iibelthsele.” vol. iv., printed in 1869, he does not keep up, but 
reduces under other species. Other botanists, whose ideas o 
. Ben t 
period, if they adopt the species he then made, are not relieved of the 
obligation of employing his names, because the views of this 
militar 28, Var. a 84). To use O. pur, ured, Huds., then is clearly, 
r. Syme’s own fe an example of ‘‘r king -up an obsolete 
name, 'w hich he thinks ‘‘always highly objectionable.” will 
however, doubtless be considered by most “ publishing botanists ” 
th e far more objectionable to be hampered by 
y such regulations as those which Dr. Syme seeks to im 
The ¢ names Bromus ramosus, Huds., an , 
. asper 
uT., is "another of the same kind; here the author of the | 
“Manual” maintains the established nomenclature, though here, as 
i 
en changes in nomenclature, e.g., Equisetu 
Willd., mes #. pratense, Ehrh., and Lycopodium selaginoides, L., 
Selaginelie spinal, A.Br.; the Chare have also undergone a 
thorough revis 
Our limits w will not permit of further remarks. It monst be sufficient 
to y; #! escoegrn that the last edition of the ‘‘ Man is the 
perhaps it shows the author to have been more a lait 
of tone ietsatets ure than a worker in the field since the date of 
the former one. With so many descriptive Floras, each with special 
excellences of its own, English students of our native plants ought 
find few difficulties inde ed. BBs 
LL, B.A., WC; 
Oo. ; Blandford : W. Shipp. 1874. (Pp. 323, with a map showing the 
districts adopted: ) 
We have here a welcome addition to the series of local Floras in 
* Volume devoted to the plants of one of the least known of the 
Southern counties, gee by a botanist living in a central position in 
the district, and with the time and the means at his command for 
EST elie 
* Syme. Eng. Bot., vol. ix., p. 93. 
