220 NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEMOIRS. 
employed is now ssa abandoned, namely, that cinchén, meaning 
a broa e, me in use ee es a policeman’s belt 
rather than a obi. ee If that ment were worth anything, 
we should be compelled to nek the majority of generic names 
forthwith ; for instance, Adoaa, besides the original meaning of the 
hon author’s pemeent error seems to arise from the 
fact that his attention in Botany has been solely devoted to one 
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scientific world; therefore, not even ie ae or is at liberty to 
alter the name bestow ed by himself, or, in ed words, to mutilate 
that which belongs to the commonwealth. arkham, we fear, 
is wilfully blind to the utter confusion bievHinhle were his plea for 
tinkering names seriously yang ed. Commemorative designa- 
tions can rarely be more than approximations to the names of 
persons they are Oabssdad to honour. us, Goodenia, Sm., 
named after Samuel Goodenough, and Gundelia, ae fs 
Andreas Gundelsheimer; and, more striking still, Desfontainea, 
& Payv., Desfontainesia, Hofimansegg Bill 
and Louichea, L’Hér., are all derived from Réné Louiche Desfon- 
taines. These examples are eaonek to demonstrate how utterly 
foolish any attempt would be to alter these names for Mr. Mark- 
ham’s reasons. 
A reviewer in a contemporary, apparently deriving his know- 
ledge of the age Sey from the volume ssgpiir e us, for ie uses 
its very words, oracula ye declares that t enus ought to be 
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Rabenhorst’s Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, i goa une der 
Schweiz. Erster Band: .Pilze. Von Dr. G. Winter: 1&2 
ar 1881, (Kummer, Leipzig). 
Since the first edition of this book was published, in 1844, the 
peo of | Cryptogamic mehr has advanced so far that to bring out 
a new edition of it now is in effect to write a new book. The first 
two fash of the first vuliis (devoted to Fungi) have been issued 
by Dr. G. Winter. It is especially in this branch of the study that 
**The Atheneum,’ January 30th, 1875, pp. 162, 163, 
