HAND-LIST OF HERBACEOUS PLANTS 881 
Materials fee the Study of Variation is justified in his re- -discovery 
of the t of Briinn, and in setting forth his claims to a place in 
the ena roll as a patient investigator and a oe exponent 
of the cardinal principles of Variation and Heredity. 
icin N. Wituis. 
Hand-list of Herbaceous Plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Kew. Second edition. 8vo, pp. lx, 1235. Price 1s. 9d. 
Sold at the Gardens 
E title ‘ Hand- list” aise singularly inappropriate to a 
eg which, weighing two pounds two ounces, occupies 2470 
pages and is of about the thickness of an average brick. It is 
iach ‘““met with a ready sale,” so that pot must -_ a soca 
somewhere for a work of the kind. The former, howev 
least easily portable, whereas the present is ‘ill pe nga ae re 
weight or shape for the human pocket. 
Certain details have been added to this edition. ae these 
the whole genus Ranunculus is called “ Buttercup; Crowfoot ;” but 
the former name, which is perio! associated in En nelish with 
three species—R. bulbosus, R. Ri ray OR ae not assigned to 
any one of these; the fire ig ‘alias ‘¢ §t. Anthony’s Turnip ” ert 
name found indeed i in Dr. Prior’s volume, but aca unknown, 
either now or in the past, as in actual use; the other two have 
respectively the book-names “Upright arises and “Creeping 
wfoot.”’ Trifolium medium, which does not grow in meadows, 
is ‘‘ Meadow Clover,” 7’. pratense (which y ee being ‘ Common 
Clover ’’; the whole genus Trillium is ‘* Three-leaved Nightshade” 
Veronica officinalis bears the Welsh name ‘ Fluellen’’; the genus 
Erysimum is * Perennial Wallflower ie the genus ’Melittis is 
“Bastard Balm,” while the only species it contains is ‘‘ Honey 
my; Parochetus communis is ** Blue-flowered Shamrock ’”’ (1); 
Lepidium Draba is Whitlow Cress” ; Serophularia nodosa is 
" taal Pilewort,” a@ name found indeed in Parkinson’s Theatrum 
and thence in the Dictionar y of English Plant-names, but otherwise 
unknown either in books or in common use; and so we might 
