NOTICES OF BOOKS. . 283 
grass, woolly,” for Androwogin Ischemum ; and so on. Much of the 
unsatisfactoriness of this and the preceding work is to be attributed to 
t F ‘ 
Popular Names of 
British Plants,’ for example, which is our chief authority for 
English names, is not cited by either ; the English works referred to 
in the ‘ Catalogo” including such as Johnson’s ‘‘ Chemistry of 
Duckace Life” (!), sarin ‘Economic Botany,” &c. It would have 
been more to the p e had Nemnich’s Lexicon been cited; and 
Lindley and Moore’s ‘ Moana ury of Botany,” which is singularly good 
in English and French vernacular names, should not have been over- 
looked. 
Prof. Grassmann’s ‘‘ Pflanzennamen ”’ = Bee somo the useless- 
ness of manufactured names. The German of some one species 
is applied to the genus, and all the other sponlea are made to conform 
toit. Thus Cytisws Laburnum is known in German as Gold-regen 
which is certainly more convenient for ready re eferenc 
indices are morecopious. Eachof the three will, however, doubtless 
of service to the future author of a comprehensive apridaiieg etonary 
of plant-names James Brirren 
The Art of Botanical Drawing. By ¥F. W. Bursivee. With Twenty 
ngravings designed by the Author. London: Winsor and Newton. 
1873 (8vo, 63 pages). 
Tue young botanical artist will find this little book of consider- 
able service to him, particularly as it is the only treatise of the kind i im 
int, i e : in the ‘ ener’s coal 
by Mr. Fitch, and a few remarks by Schleiden in ‘‘ The P 
The ordinary artist is too apt to overlook the fact that the beauty 
that the flower must be so placed as best to show its botanical 
peculiarities, not its most graceful contour; also that awe A must 
often give way to distinctness, or what ree be called _ é 
his bo - contain rt first, an elem ef chapter 
irregular flowers, followed by one on the drawing of fruits and seeds, 
all copiously illustrated. ‘Two pages are devoted to microscopic 
