NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEMOIRS. 251 



11. Calycece Hypogyna. 



Orders of monocotyledonous plants, with stamens inserted on 

 the bottom of the calyx, and near the base of the ovary; fruit 



lateral v ire* frnm tl->n n „1„, — ..-x: J ' 



j „ * ,, — J ' "^ui* mc uaoc ui me ovary iruit 



laterally free from the calyx, exceptions rare. 



1. Liliaceae. 2. Philydreae. 3. Xyride*. 4. Commeline*. 



o* v T ^?aceae. 6 ' Lemnace «- 7. Alismaceffi. 8. Naiades. 

 9. Xerotideffi. 10. Palm®. 11. Aroidea*. 12. Junce*. 13. Bes- 

 tiaceae. 14. EriocauleaB. 15. Centrolepides. 



ni. Acalycea Hypogna. 



Orders of monocotyledonous plants without a calyx, with sta- 

 mens (in bisexual flowers) inserted at the base of the ovary, and with 

 fruit adnate to or free from its glumaceous bract, exceptions rare. 



I, Cyperaceae. 2. Graminaceae. 



III. ACOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



(Species only partially known). 



h Cb - araceffi - 2 - Marsileaceae. 3. Lycopodiacese. 4. Filices. 

 &. Musci. 6. Lichenes. 7. Fungi. 8. Algsa. 



J. B. 



English Plant- Names from the Tenth to the Fifteenth Century. By 



John Earle, M.A. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press. 1880. 

 12mo, pp. cxii., 122. 



A Dictionary of English Plant-Xames. By James Bbitten, F.L.S., 



and Bobert Holland. Part ii. London, English Dialect 

 bociety (Triibner). 1880. 8vo, pp. 197-364 (G— 0). 



The first book on our list is a welcome addition to our literature, 



°v no means too ample, of the Saxon names applied to various 



plants, native and foreign, of the period mentioned. As might be 



supposed, from the author being Professor of Anglo-Saxon at 



Uxlord, the philological rather than the botanical element is 



Preponderant ; but a real appreciation of the charm of plant-lore 



or its own sake is throughout very plainly to be seen. After a 



°ng introduction of more than a hundred pages we find the 



louowing vocabularies :— I. Liber Medicinalis, a Translation of 



Apuiems Medaurensis de Virtutibus Herbarum. II. From 



June's Vocabulary. III. An anonymous list, of the Tenth or 



^leventh Century. IV. From the Eoval Library, Brussels. 



v. .brom iElfric's Grammar. VI. Trilingual Vocabulary of the 



^nrteenth Century. VII. Fifteenth Century. VHI. From a 



F2r male ab ° Ut the Same date - IX ' From a Pictorial Vocabulary, 

 f r e " tu Century. An Appendix follows, containing extracts 



wh^l , c ^ a y ue ' s Leechdoms, certain Notes, and three Indexes, 

 A In author, preserving the form now usually confined to 



-liitliematics, calls Indices : these consist of Latin, Saxon and 

 English, and French Plant-names. 



use f e f mS stran £ e tnat tlie author should not have made more 

 °f the material ready to hand. From a single reference to 



