884 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
tells us that se s amara “is wild near Hitehin, ai has long beet 
cultivated as a garden plant, with a much-improved form of 
flower, witle 4 white or crimson petals” (p. 24), from which it would 
seem that he thinks I. wmbellata is a cultivated form of I. amara. 
) 
Ireland” (p. 60)—why is the north of England excluded ?; ae 
wild Raspberry takes the place of the Blackberry in the 
about Perth, and even at Buxton in Derbyshire, occurring in 
and hone gi ; the berries (!) are as pleasant to eat. but smaller than 
f the culti tivated variety” (ib.). -This last sentence is an 
e astonishing ceases and carelessness which 
characterize the book throughout—e. ‘Perhaps the fact that 
ence their use by the supposed law of signatures” (p. 74) ; “like 
the last it has been used for the same purpose” (p. 124). On 2. 92 
we read, ‘‘ Danewort Sette Plin., Eoulus Virgil). The origin 
of the English name is obse : and, only eight lines later, ‘‘ the 
eons of ‘ Danewort’ is obscu care 
cannot think that this little book will add to the reputation 
of wathor or publishers, though it is due to the latter to say that it 
is well printed and well got-up. 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, de. 
Tue Rey. James Kerra died at his residence at Forres, Aberdeen- 
shire, on August 11. He was born in Keith on Dec. 23, 1825, and 
was educated at the parish school, whence he went to the University 
as Aberdeen, where he graduated M.A. in 1845. 
years as a schoolmaster, Keith became minister of Forres, a a post he 
retained until 1899. The following account of his botanical work 
m the Annals of Scottish Natural Histor y for bre oad to which 
es sis also indebted for the foregoing particulars: ‘Not robust in 
youth, his eet life told on his health, wom for a time was not 
Fortunately his medical adviser, Dr. Innes, of Forres 
i 
tory, —e mie gore! of rats that grew ever stronger and that 
enabled h to make val uable contributions to the study of the 
