TOURIST’S FLORA OF THE WEST OF IRELAND 981 
As a draughtsman Mr. Jameson evidently has'a special aptitadd 
for hitting off the characteristics of a plant, and if he could i 
is way to bring out a more complete Flora on spies sik 
same lines, but ar ranged on a natural system, we feel sure that it 
would be much appreciated. 
HL & J. G. 
A en s Fiora of the West of Ireland. By Roperr mot! 
PRAEGER. Cr. 8vo, cl. pp. xii, 243, Price 3s. 6d. Dublin 
Hogs, Figgis & Co. 
names concludes this section. Th the systematic portion, 
or fl proper, in which the locales are grouped under each 
species. But this again is by no means a mere list ; interesting 
notes, descriptive or historical, or dealing with points concernin 
distribution, occur throughout. The book is rendered additionally 
attractive by the introduction of a number of illustrations of the 
more noteworthy plants from photographs taken in their natural 
habitats ; while its usefulness is increased by the insertion of five 
coloure maps. 
“In the matter of nomenclature,” Mr. mreegee | tells us in his 
preface, “the book is old-fashioned.” As the names use . 
“almost without exception” those of the Cybele or it and 
Irish Topographical Botany, his Irish readers ‘at any rate’ will not 
blame him for that, nor will the Saxon tourist complain. The 
Irish plant-names and vieoasiuintle tha latter with interesting 
explanations by Mr. J. H. Lloyd—are’ printed in Irish characters 
—a tribute to the influence of the “ language movement.” @! 
regret that the author has been obsessed by the fetish which 
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demands an “ English name” for e AS such names “ are 
added for the ‘sake of tho o find it easier to remember 
‘Bristle-leaved Spike-rush’ than Scirpus hy such 
persons exist they will thank Mr. Praeger a bie consideration 
is well and clearly printed ; cover is eccentric 
rather than artistic—it is always difficult he ears folk that the 
plainest lettering is the best, 
