THE FLORAS OF THE ‘ VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORIES ”’ 135 
divides the county into four districts, two, Ouse and Ouzel, belonging 
o the Ouse; and two, Thame and Thames, to the Thames system. 
The names are so obviously appropriate that the danger of con- 
fusion between two so closely resembling each other must be 
condoned. 
A senperizon of Mr. Druce’s contribution with that made by 
the Rey. F. H. Arnold to the History of Sussex tae that the 
eters editor of the series would lieve done well to have secured 
greater uniformity in arrangement, as well as ie certain other 
details—for instance, the bibliographical matter which comes at the 
end of Mr. Druce’s contribution stands first in Mr. Arnold’s sketch. 
one system no ature ghout, for the be of those 
who may wish to use the volumes for comparative purposes, as well 
as for general consistency and convenience proofs, considering 
er apney costliness of the work, should have been re 
are—for example, the sentence on p. 50 beginning ‘ At 
the Seen: Salt Hill”’ does not end; and the paragraphing is not 
well done. The employment of « English names” is doubtless a 
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tinguish them from im text—e. g., eon Mr. Druce’s saaiee 
of ‘the beautiful s ide eee Sait a) and the great horsetail 
(Equisetum acne e the former iaeates is merely qualifying, 
the latter is part of the name. e observe Mr. Druce prefers 
“orchid” to ‘‘ orchis’’ ; he speaks of the ‘‘ bee orchid,” but surely 
the siciand « English ” form is “orchis” ? At times the 
anglicized names are ‘misleading to the unlearned, for whose sup- 
posed benefit they are given—e. g., “the nettle Lamium hybridum” ; 
the English equivalent of the genus Cation is not nettle, but 
dead-netitle. 
Tt would be impossible in the space at our disposal to enter into 
a detailed criticism of the work, or to quote the numerous passages 
which contain information hitherto unpublished. It is, as we have 
already sid, of special interest as being the only account ith any 
pretensions to completeness of the botany of an interesting county, 
et must cause botanists to look forward with ta: anticipa- 
m to the full flora, the Sublisakion of which will not, we hope, be 
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searches have been duly chronicled in this Journal for 1901 and 
1 d no allusion to their papers in Mr. ra et sketch, 
nor any reference to them or their work, and, it cant 
supposed that they are intentionally ignored, we mu he conclude that 
