NOTICES OF BOOKS. 281 
A coop polyglot dictionary of plant-names has long been a deside- 
universalis,”’ which is pretty satisfactory as far as it goes, though of 
comparatively little practical use on account of its ante-Linnean 
nomenclature o far as now, Nemnich’s ‘‘ Allgemeines Poly- 
hichte ”’ is still the most comprehensive 
ished as lo: 
ago as 1798; and this notwithstanding the appearance of numerous 
nation 
his Dictionnaire” is frequently quoted in De Candolle’s 
‘“Geographie Botanique.” Lastly, the late Dr. Seemann had, as is 
workers in the same field. ‘ 
It is no disparagement to Dr. Ulrich’s work to say that he does 
not attempt anything so extensive as the collections of Moritz or 
* See Pritzel, ‘“ Thesaurus Botanicum,” p. 202, No. 7204. : 
¢ Alph. De Candolle, “Biographie de M. Moritzi,” Arch. des Sciences 
Physiques and Naturelles de Genéve, xv., p. 6. 
t See Journ. Bot. vii., 333—336. 
