62 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
contains, as might be expected, many additions to Britten and 
Holland’s ‘ Dictionary of English Plant-Names,’ vibe by the same 
Society, and is very carefully done. Mr. Friend quotes from a mem 
book a sentence—‘‘ The eects” pissin as a medicine in 
fevers,’’——and says, ‘‘ it nal be interesting to know exactly wit 
flower is meant.” There is little doubt but that the Tormentil 
( Potentilla 1 Tormentilla) is intended, and Mr. Friend’s idea that the 
name has some allusion to Thor must, we fear, be abandoned. 
The last part (Vol. II., part 3) of the ‘ Transactions of the 
m 
portrait, of Samuel Pickworth Woodward, by his son, Mr, Horace 
B. ard, Although chiefly known by his’ ‘ History of 
Mollusea,’ Mr. 8. P. Woodward, devetiallg | in early life, paid some 
Melba to botany. When about fifteen, he was employed by 
Dawson Turner in the arrangement of his herbarium, and he 
Bahari ‘formed a large and valuable herbarium himself, 
Woodwardii ; this was found by Mr. Woodward, near Swindon, in 
1848. He was born at Norwich, on Sept. 17th, 1821, and died at 
Herne Bay, July 11th, 1865. Other papers of botanical interest 
are, ‘ fay Lombardy Poplar and its destruction in Norfolk in the 
winter of 1880’: by Herbert D. Geldart; and ‘ Lists of Norfolk 
eicdaace and Characes,’ by Arthur Bennett, F.L.8. The local 
character of these Transactions is a very satisfactory feature. 
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 
Annales des Sciences Nat. (6 Sér. xiv. nos. 5 & 6.—Dec.). — 
L. Mangin, ‘ Origine et insertion des racines adventives’ (tt. 9-16, 
concluded). — E. Fournier, ‘ Sur les Asclépiadées americaines ’ 
ds 
barjoniefolia, e: reer A. ramosa, Z Virletit, A. grandiflora, 
} ridgesit 
an. 
dives de mouvement ‘de pg dans les ace ay ving, 
‘Sur le transport de l’eau dans le bois. —J. H oe guar 
du departement de Vancluse’ (Requienella, gen. nov.). 
Botanische Zeitung. — T. W. Engelmann, cigs — Assimi- 
lation. —H. G. Reichenbach, ‘ Spir a euphlebia,”’ 
Seawitiohe Centralblatt. — E. Russow, ‘ Zur aes des 
Holzes, insonderheit des Coniidetenhiolaen’ (6 ~ 8). 
ull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique (xxi., pt. 2, Dec. 28). — A. 
Cogniaux, ‘Note sur le genre Warea C. 3 Clarke * (the name 
