ANATOMY OF THE BRITISH CARICES 339 
what can be the gain of giving in italics the Latin names of seven 
Androsaces, followed by their English equivalents, and a cross- 
reference to each—which is indexed in Roman type—thus 
“ Androsace 2 vateante Heer, see Charpentier’s Androsace. 
“ Androsace, Charpentie 
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the generally-accepted ‘se of proper names with a capital 
letter is ignored throughou 
Such books as this are a a pleasant indication that the study of 
plants as a whole is superseding that minute investigation of 
fragments of them which at one time seemed in danger of taking 
slihongh his spelling of the word was not that generally accepted— 
on a thoroughly sound principle. ‘‘ When a boy has learned that 
bottiney means a knowledge of plants, he goes and knows em,’ 
and the fact that he acquired Ais knowledge by weeding the 
garden was a foreshadowing of what we now call ecology. 
Anatomy of the British Carices. By Francis C. CRAWF 
Large royal 8vo, gilt tops, pp. xiii, 124, with twenty Plates 
Edinburgh: Oliver ane oo 1910. (Printed for private 
circulation.) 7s. 6d. n 
THERE is : certain a in my being asked by the Editor to 
undertake a review of this treatise, as I collected a large number 
of the spectrin upon which it is based; on the other hand I 
have no experience in microscopic S anabyate or photography, and 
am therefore not eb qualified to deal with the more technical 
side of the subjec 
A shor coir oan sketch by Mr. A. J. Pressland, an intro- 
ductory preface by Professor I. Bayley Balfour, and the author's 
rs introduction (dated March, 1907) precede the body of 
e 
Mr. Crawford was born at North Berwick on August, 1 
and died suddenly at Edinburgh in February, 1908; the esol 
sheets were received on the day of his funeral. After studying 
at the Edinburgh Academy he was in business for some years in 
that city, and afterwards (with his brother) on the London Stock 
Exchange, retiring with a comfortable competence at the age of 
forty-five. From that time he devoted himself to natu ral science, 
tied under notice, on a e preparation for es alike in the field 
and the laboratory, he pr no pains. 
Although we a regularly for several years, my only 
meeting with him was at Dingwall, in the late summer o of 1900. 
