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North-east Yorks. It is only too clear, as we oe more than 
once pointed out, that more care is needed in recording county 
or vice-county records as “new,” as well as with. regard to the 
limits of their boundaries. 
REVIEW. 
The Book of Flowers. By Karuarine Tynan & Frances Marr- 
vo, pp. xii. 316. Price 6s. net. Smith, Elder & Co. 
THE compilers’ of this prettily got-up volume tell us in their 
introduction that makes ho pretence at all to completeness 
: mpleteness in such a 
that it will, so far as it goes, be accurate. The ladies had a 
moire, subject, and one on which there was—and alas! still is 
or a volume in which it should be adequately treated. 
Folk- -names, folk: lore, legend and poetry, would all lend themselves 
‘to its compilation, and of this the authors are fully conscious. 
They have brought these together from numerous sources, and if 
their volume had been submitted to a competent botanist it 
might at ay rate partly have filled the vacant place. As it is 
their book will, we fear, tend to i increase the number of inaccurate 
ar 
derivations proposed for the popular names that the book is most 
misleading : a wide experience of what can be done in this direc- 
ils : 
guess-work as can be found in this volume. One exam ple, taken 
literally at random, exhibits both this and the too frequent in- 
ae the citat iio ons: “French Lavender was known as 
Stzectiades, ‘ growing,’ Lyte tells us, ‘in the Isle alta Stactiades 
(or did the plant give the name to the Island, we wonder ?) stand- 
— baste a 8 over st Marseilles.’ In England it was known 
Cassia. . 2c Slic-a-Dove (Sleek?) i is perce old name for the plant; 
and ae from that wage comes - red > aed for the 
Lav — eet-heads” (p. 1 
