144 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
for the invention “Slic,” are also due to the ingenuity of the 
authors, as well as the connecting of Cassidonie with Cassia, “ 
wiser suggestion there is shephately no ground :* and what 
vender sweet-heads’’? Almost every page Pik Poet of 
this kind for ioeiane 
We find in the book a number of Sonar names, for the 
most part unlocalized, which we have not met with elsewhere ; 
but the entirely uncritical attitude of the caaineen deprives these 
records of any value. We do not find, bape in the acknow- 
ledgement of works quoted any reference to the raged indigo A of 
English Plant-names, which is the more sakpeising in that it ha 
evidently been laid under contribution. It is regrettable that ‘~ 
pretty a book should be so inaccurate and misleading. 
ae due NEWS, éc. 
L. GLOWACKI, of Marburg, has ane 8 cary shed ‘Die - 
Wien, Band v, Heft 2, 48 pp. Jala: G. “Hiaoher 1910. Price 
M. 1:80), in which he has gathered together all known moss- 
records for the district, with exact localities and altitudes. The 
totals are one hundred and ten pte of Hepatice, and four 
hundred and ed inte Mosses, and numerous varieties. Two 
new moss-species are described. The author ot ena frequently 
made large ioltadkions in the Julian Alps. re important of 
the earlier collectors were Sendtner, Breidler, ait Safer, and, more 
recently, areas The list should be of great use to local 
irre 
B general eet. up of Mr. Harold A. Haig’s manual on The 
Piet Cell, which forms one of Messrs. Griffin’s Scientific Text- 
book series, is not attractive; it suggests the examination method 
made familiar by certain series associated with science by corres- 
See ripa. The book, however, is more interesting than it looks, 
if used as an adjunct to the practical study of plant structure 
should prove a helpful guide to an elementary student. The 
author sets out as ig see for study, first the nature and re- 
actions of ira. a ae the living assimilating cell, and then 
the more noe cll-tssues id fo higher = vascular Lee 
diagrammatic, occupy a considerable roportion of the space ; 
there are also ‘ood p oa ale Pithe 
some goo 
price of the volume is 6s. nm 
Erratum.—P. 107, line 8, for Trichophila read Trichopilia. 
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* It may be noted that Prior’s derivation, which he takes from Skinner, 
sodipescisie tc eppaty tase oo ea piles eo Sidon, where the plant is 
