PLANT-GEOGRAPHY UPON A PHYSICAL BASIS 187 
calcarea, from Barton, Beds (Saunders), and four very typical plants 
from seeeote Head (Bo per). Mr. Hunnybun, who has made a capital 
drawing of Sacer caer the statis on the Devil’s Dyke, Cam- 
ree eer —KE. 8. Grecory. 
TION. claps any thanks for the kind review of our 
us only to correct a prion Clarkeifedia OK. 1903 is established 
for Monandropatrinia being a nomen sesquipedale (see § 9¢ of the 
Codex brevis maturus) eit 7 syllables and not for Miamonee inia, 
as you wrote it, being a allowed name with 6 syllables if it had the 
priority. There is indeed ze ao Neh in ri Lexicon, only aim 
at correctness and execution of r The vowel “i” and the 
consonant ‘‘j’’ is always well spent’ in our Serio according 
to § 19‘ of the Codex, and wrong former writings are always cor- 
rected in this line, but as Italians be oe i” and ‘‘j”’ in quite 
another manner (see Commentarie 9 & § 12%, 12/9) and 
equal words with only that aifieraibe “howld be stay side by side 
for the first purpose of a Lexicon: clear arrangement to find at 
once equal names, we put ‘i’ and ‘‘j”’ always together. You 
will find for instance 28 names twice with I and J in the same 
alphabetical order in our Lexicon, whereagainst in Mr. Jackson 
works they are put under 2 heads but not “corrected as to vowels 
and consonants; he is quite right to call that intermingling a 
‘relic of barbarism,” but he did not leave it.—Orro Kunrzz ; 
Tom von Post 
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THis beantifally printed and admirably illustrated voliauis marks 
an important advance in the study of plant-geography, and we fully 
accept the view of the editors that it will prove hardly less sees 
making among English students of plant-life than was the 
lation “of Sachs’s yeti of Botany, published as ted thirty years 
ago. At present the name cecology—which made its first appear- 
ance in English, icsanttie to Dr. Murray’s great Dictionary, in the 
translation of Haeckel’s History of Creation, published in 1878—has 
hardly come into common use among British botanists ; Mr. Lloyd 
Praeger and others have, however, done much to make it under- 
stood, and it is clear that in the correlation of organisms existing 
together i in the same locality, their eye and modifications, 
a new and wide field of interest is pep o the observer, even though 
he be restricted to a limited distri 
In the extremely interesting epee ” with which Dr. 
