450 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
of plants, collected by English collectors in Kashmir, have been 
referred here which should have been placed under a very different 
species—M. one Bunge. The area of distribution of M. odora- 
tissima R. Br. is Crimea, Caucasus, and the valley of Harirond, in 
Afghanistan, sghers it was collected by Dr. Aitchison ; the type has 
runcinate pinnatisect leaves with Yobed irregularly sinuate or dentate, 
while in M. revoluta they are oval, oblong-spathulate or rarely ob- 
lanceolate, grossly dentate or crenulate-incise 
or gives no list of excluded species, a and we are unable 
to find that he anywhere in the work deals with the three be 
Sprengel describes in his nega ii. p. 897 (1825)—i. e. M. n 
M. macropetala, and M. lacera. M. macropetala he would doubtless 
refer to M. oayceras DC., as it is stated to be synonymous with 
M. longipetala DC. The following species seem to age ee — 
M. nudicaulis Trautv. in Act. Hort. Petrop. i. (1871 ni 
M. runcinata Regel in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. xliii. Ti870), i. 
254. 
p. 
M. Telum Pomel, Nouv. Mat. Fl. Atl. p. 872. 
M. dimolehensis Bak. fil. in Journ. Bot. 1898, p. 2, a plan 
allied to M. secmeot Brown, but differing in length of we ae 
pubescence of calyx, etc. 
M. Smithii Bak. fli n Journ. Bot. 1896, p. 50, a species inter- 
mediate rehes the genera Mathiola and Morettia. 
lleana Webb ex Christ in Engler, Jahrb. ix. . 88, from 
the Siena of Biebtannikurs: E. G. B. 
The shied! Names of Plants, Scottish, Lrish, and Mana, collected and 
anged in scientific order, with notes on their et mology, uses, 
ike superstitions, etc., among the Celts, with panes Gaelic 
English, and scientific indices. By Jonn Cameron. New and 
revised edition. Glasgow: John Mates 1900. " Byo, loth: 
pp. xv, 160, portr. Price 7s. 6d. 
E reviewed the first edition of this little book on its appear- 
ance in 1883 (p. 187), and we are glad to note that the suggestion 
we then made as to the inclusion of the Gaelic names published in 
Threlkeld’s Synopsis Stirpium has been adopted, sen we find 
no srr that Keogh’s Botanologia, which would add many 
names to Mr. Cameron’s list, has been consu 
The revision of this edition seems to have been very thorough, 
on it would, we think, have been well to call special attention to 
e of the numerous and important corrections (which migh 
us that 
even the accuracy of pee names themse or example, openi 
at random, we find on p. 10, under Dro osera, ‘lus an Earnaich ; 
‘ Farnach’ was the name given n toa distemper among cattle, — 
by eating a poisonous herb—some say the St ndew.”’ This, in view 
of English names and traditions concerning the plant, seems a “likely 
explanation; but in the first edition (p. 8) it is called 
fearnaich, the plant with shields (its leaves kaw us resemblance 
