GAELIC PLANT-NAMES. 187 
In closing his memoir the author reviews the tribes founded by 
Dumortier, and from examples given justifies his opinion that, with 
such eccentric combination of genera, their adoption becomes im- 
possible. The systems of Nees and of Lindberg are also subjected 
to pee followed by remarks on the development of certain 
rms, concluding with a masterly attempt to indicate the 
ainaibas, or more ee speaking the homologies, of the pouch- 
fruiting Jungermania 
We understand that ‘only 200 copies me this memoir have been 
printed, so thas very soon we may expect it to become, by reason 
of its excellence, a rare and much sought- fee publication. 
Gaelic Names of Plants, Scottish and Irish, with notes on their - 
etymology . By Jonn Cameron. Hidekwoud & Sons, Edin- 
burgh & London, 1883, 8vo, pp. ix. 130. 
Tuts very interesting little volume presenys 3 in a collected form 
a series of papers which have appeared in the ‘ Scottish Naturalist’ 
l we regret to learn has ceased to exis r. Cameron 
tells us that ‘‘nearly ten years have been occupied in searchin 
ough vocabularies, reading Iris d Scottish Gaelic, and 
n 
names have been reduced, partly by the carelessness of the com- 
pilers of Dictionaries, ded frequently by their ef tanical ignorance. 
To accomplish this, numerous journeys had to be undertaken among 
ait Gaelic- speaking populations, in order, if. Biseible, to settle 
uted names, to fix the plant to which the name was applied, 
a to collect ee foe unrecorded.” Only those who have 
been e sg be in s i ork know how much is implied in these 
remarks, athize with our author when he says 
that ‘if the difficulties of its accomplishment had been foreseen, he 
would have hesitated to make the attempt.” No collection of 
Gaelic names with English translations has, so pee as we en 
been hitherto published ; and Mr. Cameron has 
securing the co-operation of the Uris Rey. Canon Bowike, of Clare- 
morris, a well-known Gaelic scho 
t is to b 
list the _collections of Gaelic n ames pind in : 
h n 
We should ae been glad had Mr. Cameron indicated clearly 
which of the es are in actual use and which from printed 
sources ; some of pa seem to us to be derived from vocabularies, 
—for example, we should hardly expect to find a genuine Gaelic 
name for such plants as Amar oahiy caudatus, or Cichorium Endivia; 
Lus aphione looks like a book-name for Peonia,—and indee several 
of the Gaelic names seem to be rather translations than independent 
