404 Scientific Intelligence. 
of the work (in vol. xv, p. 72 of this Journal) with a remark or 
two upon the completed volume. hile congratulating the 
enterprizing publishers and the ardent editor upon their success, 
which ensures a full continuance of the publication, we shall, o 
this very account, freely offer any criticisms that may conduce to 
its improvement. “ Flowers and Ferns in their horticultural and 
popular aspects” do not here concern us. We dismiss their con- 
sideration to the horticultural and the literary press. There is 
point of view, and the same may be said of some of the botanico- 
etymological researches. While most may pass without grave 
of philology in one number (the sixth) which it would be wrong 
to pass over, being very characteristic for a tendency to be “ wise 
above what is written.” 
the root of the name, Linneus and the rest to the contrary not- 
i I To be sure “the name is a very old one and was 
merely adopted by Linnzus, “ who may be all wrong in philology. 
Still we botanists are not likely to know much better. Tourne- 
fort had indeed given his readers the choice of these two deriva- 
tions ; but he did not decide the question. Prof. Meehan decides 
ly 
here who have first adopted the notion that dacunosum (ft 
lacune or pits, as in the lower face of the leaf) is an adjective of 
lacus. _ 
