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ranunculi if they are properly treated, while if carelessly collected 

 and dried none can present a more sorry and draggled appearance. 

 The habitat should be fully stated on the labels." 



With regard to the collection of Eoses, Mr. Barclay and 

 Major Wolley-Dod make suggestions which supplement each 

 other. The former says : " What should be sent is a branch with 

 branchlets. If that does not show mature prickles, a bit of old 

 stem should be added with fully developed prickles. A shoot of 

 the year is neither necessary, nor as a rule advisable. Several 

 bits from the end of a flowering or fruiting branch are not nearly 

 so valuable as a branch with its branchlets, the larger the better, 

 for even then it is but a scrap of a w^hole plant." Major Wolley- 

 Dod adds: "I would again impress upon members the importance 

 of gathering well-advanced fruit, and specimens with a portion of 

 the previous year's stem attached. This is especially important 

 with the VilloscB." 



There is room for a glossary of specific names, especially for 

 gardeners and others who have not had the advantage of a 

 classical education, and to provide this is the main purpose of 

 Mr. G. F. Zimmer's Pojmlar Dictionary of Botanical Na^nes and 

 Terms ivith their English Equivalents (Eoutledge ; 2s. M. net). 

 Although the Introduction states that terms used in Morphology 

 and Physiology are included, we note, on a casual examination, 

 the absence, inter alia, of ChoripetalcB, circummitation, diplo- 

 stemonous, gynophore, gynceceum, lyroterandrous, &c. On the other 

 hand, such mere blunders as " anularis " and " gramopetalus " are 

 included. The geographical names are, in general, w^ell done, 

 though " West India" is an unusual mode of localizing Barbados, 

 and " Mascarenensis " certainly does not always refer to Maskara 

 in Algeria. Some of the trivial names are somewhat startling : 

 •' caninus" does not probably mean "as plentiful as dogs" ; Memn 

 is surely Bald-money and not Bad-money ; and is Gonium ever 

 known as Herb Bennet, Bmnex nemorosus as Wood- sorrel, or 

 Fic2ts religiosa as Deodara ? Misprints are numerous: "brac- 

 teosus " appears as a synonym for " Brahuicus " ; " Micradenius " 

 as "having small plants"; and " Mentosus " as "tin-shaped." 

 The author "lays no claim to any deep knowledge on the subject 

 of Botany," for which reason he should have secured some com- 

 petent reviser for his book. " Eolled together like a paper bag " 

 gives us no notion of the meaning of " convolutus " ; " Hepaticae, 

 plants of the Liver-moss, Muscihepatici, tribe" looks queer; "the 

 rush tribe " is hardly a good rendering of Butomaceae, or " the 

 alder tribe" for Cunoniaceae ; Aristolochiaceae has nothing to do 

 with arista, an awn ; " Isosporus " does not usually mean " with 

 equal number of spores " ; and it is unfortunate to define " Archi- 

 spermus " as "bearing naked seeds, fruit," or " Ladaniferus " as 

 " yielding ladanum or laudanum." But what can be said for 

 " Thymelaeacea), plants of the Thuja, Arbor-vita?, tribe"? Of 

 course, initial capitals are constantly misplaced or omitted ; whilst 

 not to have indicated the pronunciation by accents has been to 

 lose an opportunity. 



