NOMENCLATURE BOTANICH CODEX 411 
Pa such works on the chance of a new species being published 
therei 
The worst feature in the book is to be ‘sot in its abbreviations, 
and in the difficulty of ascertaining their meaning. On the first 
page of the preface we read of ‘ the : eatie liek employed i in Oud); 
we search the list of ‘abbreviations? in vain for an explanation, 
and it is only after hunting through thirteen pages of the biblio- 
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graphy that we learn that ‘CO. D.” r. Painter’s Contribution to 
the Flora. The inconvenience of deed is accentuated i me se body of 
the work by the fact that no dates are given, and, as abbrevia- 
tions are often the reverse of obvious, their ae rnme may in-” 
volve a chase through sixteen pages of referen “B. and 
J. B.,” hardly conveys to the uninitiated the paper in this Journal 
for 1883 by Messrs. Baker & Newbould; ‘‘ Rowl ’ means 
method of abbreviation ; ‘‘The Naturalist,” without any date, may 
refer, as we learn from the bibliography, to any volume between 
1880 and 1895. All these we take from the account of J'anacetum 
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Mr. Linton’s references will not thank m for the many and 
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citation ; in the great majority of cases the lines would easily take 
more words, and some of the citations—e. g. ‘‘The Naturalist’’— 
origi i i 
ton regrets the omission of the fungi, lichens, and alge 
from the work ; but he may claim credit for the very full treatment 
of the mosses and hepatics, which together occupy more than a 
hundred pages. It is a pity that he has given them a separa 
index ; one index is = that is necessary for a book like this, and, 
indeed, for most boo 
We are Sorry not “i find the British Museum Herbarium among 
those mae Fal it could hardly fail to supply matter of interest, 
bu inton may fairly plead his residence in the county in 
excuse ‘of this omission. Anyway, he has given us a very compre- 
hensive list of Derbyshire plants, and has thus filled up another of 
the rapidly disappearing gaps in the tale of our county floras. 
N omenclature Botanica Codex brevis maturus sensu Codicis emendati 
de la Nomenclature Botanique de cia de 1867 
jaarck internationalibus: Anglica, Gallica, Germ 
Nomina Latina auctore Orro Kunrzr. 4to, pp- Isiv. 
gart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. 1903. 
Tus small work would require a longer notice than our space 
will allow us to give, were it to be dealt with Her apa ere It evinces 
a thorough knowledge of the subject, and is full of information and 
suggestion, extending in many cases to points of detail which how- 
ever minute are never unimportant. So far as the Codex itself is 
concerned, we find ourselyes mainly in accord with Dr. Kuntze’s 
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