196 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
number of misprints in proper names is commendably small, 
though it might still be worth while, for future issues, e submit 
the bulk of the volume by binding with it the in-itself-excellent 
book-catalogue of 268 pages just issued by W. Junk of Berlin. 
WE are glad to learn that the results of Mr. F. Hamilton 
Davey’s ten years’ work upon the botany of his native county is 
a His Flora o i 
form a volume of nearly six hundred pages, and will include the 
flowering plants, higher eryptogams and Characee, as well as a 
specially pre anical map and six portraits of deceased 
workers at the flora; the history of botanical research in Cornwall 
will be fully treated. The price of the book to subscribers will be 
16s.; names should be sent to Mr. Davey, Beechwood, Perran- 
well Station, 8.0., Cornwall. , 
WIN contributes to the March number of 
‘A Botanical Physiologist of the Eighteenth Century.” This 
‘‘potentil”’ and refers to its runners, thus appearing to indicate 
cinquefoil. But when we are told to “note with a sigh of satis- 
, and, in spi Mr. D d, ‘write it down as one of 
the puzzles of botany.” Here @ passage :—“ It is the po- 
tentil, not with a juicy flower-stalk but with a , dry one of 
their five petals. Grapple this yellow; crucifer-like potentil into 
the rose tribe. See how its fruiting resembles that of the straw- 
berry rather than the lesser celandine, and note how it sends out 
runners like the strawberry rather than the creeping buttercup. 
Note with a sigh of satisfaction its strawberry-like, rose-like 
leaves, and you will not find it necessary merely to take its 
affinity on authority and write it down as one of the puzzles of 
botany.” 
