272 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
he consulted continental py on oe ssn “i his library, the 
difference there is between the constituent perme: of the alpine 
flora of Switzerland and Austria asi that of Scot. 
The Editors have loyally observed the liferiey bitdasione of the 
Manual, though it must have been with occasional misgivings as 
to the wisdom of keeping so strictly to the beaten track. It may 
be a matter for regret on the part of British botanists that Messrs. 
should not have soles a flora off their o o to speak, 
instead of polishing up and seid nat g a Mancal paca marks a 
losed chapter in British botany heir seri d painstaking 
modern lines, and based on recent researches. May they yet find 
time to give us such a handbook! The best points in their new 
edition are where they have independently run counter to the spirit 
of the former issues. 
_ Of Rubus Babington remarked, ‘‘ When the continental pa 
are —s known, it is feared that "considerable changes of nomen 
clature will be necessary.” As a constituted authority on the 
and if th 
in plentiful 5 aegis in the Herbaria of the British Museum ani 
accumulated there for years, awaiting exami 
tion and Ecipirie on on the part of enthusiastic investigato 
in 
edition; it affords, however, a little light reading. To be told 
that awned means having awns, that clawed means having claws, 
that boat-shaped means that it resembles a boat, that the meaning 
of oval is ene that wedye-shaped is like a wedge, may be 
ghin i is setinisilly incorrect. The meaning of oth is eiisbis, 
and would not satisfy the student of Aracea. Clavate is defined as 
club. shaped ; but this does not seem is SERS as the latter word 
To take a few points here and there. On p. 218, an earlier 
Gren. & Godr.; on p. 220, the specific name of Onopordum cee 
should have a small initial, as Linneus so wrote it, making 
adjectival ; on p. 307, the foxglove should be considered a nos 
rather than a perennial. The names of the wild form and the 
