70 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Children's Wild Flowers : their Pea and Stories. By Mrs. J. 
Miter Maxwet1; illustrated by Miss-J. Maup eet 
Demy Bro, cloth, pp. 171.. Price 7s. 6d. net. Edinburgh: D. 
Douglas 
BERR SEES Raa of Mrs. Miller Maxwell’s book led us to hope 
that we should find it one for which there is ample room—a book 
which should be popular and at the same time accu urate, not on nly 
bo —. to the —, portion, but also as to its “ folk-lore’”’ 
nce more disappointed ; the volume, although 
ae criks pein fae pleasantly written, is no better and no 
worse than its predecessors. 
A otany : ‘‘ floret,” which has an accepted significance, | 
is used for small flowers—e. g. of Cranesbills (P. 67); rosebuds are 
ealled ‘‘budlets”’ (p. 105); we are told of Anemone Pulsatilla that 
tanists scarcely admit its claim to be a real native, though it is 
foutit in abundance on all (!) the chalky downs of our south- 
eastern counties’ (p. 9); the daffodil — is certainly not 
typical Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus ' have the imaginary dedi- 
cations from ‘the ol me” oe which T. Forster is 
plete; misprints of botanical names—‘ Gallium” (p. 80); ‘ Car- 
luna” (p. 188)—these occur also in the index—and «* Lonicera 
tite i 
butes which has an irresistible attraction for the modern popular 
writer—e. g., ‘‘Should help [in climbin ng] be churlishly refused, 
nothing daunted, and without a thought of res ee (!), the Rose 
fall 
s back on itself” (p. 105); this reminds of the remark 
ppended, in the guide a 4 ‘exliibition, to a picture of 
** Elephants oa "—« How lephants at the Zoo 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ee. 
Ar the meeting of the Linnean Society on he December, Dr, 
T. W. Woodhead read a paper entitled ‘‘ The cology of Woodland 
Plants in re pel he pied * Huddersfield,” of which the follow- 
