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434 Scientific Intelligence. 
all these latter they adopted Latin regs a proof that at the time when 
they first came into contact with the Roman provincials on the Lower 
querors from a country view alibi trees were unknown.’ 
The temsformations and transpositions which ma ties names 
have undergone are curious. The word Primrose sonal from 
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Primeverole, of the Italian Primaverola, a diminutive of the Latin prima 
vera, the first spring flower. This in England was familiarized into 
prime rolles, and then into primrose, which was at length explained as 
meaning the first rose of spring, without considering that the flower in 
question could never have been taken for a rose. T'ube Rose, from Tu- 
berose, i. e., tuberosa was an analogous blunder. a curiously enough, 
the cibnpsstde of the olden time was not a Primula at all, as Dr. Prior 
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name in all the old books. Matthioli, in 1586, however, appends the 
name of Primula veris, &c. both to Bellis and Primula. 
“ Primrose peerless,” etymologically eae ~— out to mean Primula 
paralyseos,—a palsy, ‘not a nonpariel prim 
Another link of the chain of ibafadient: our Primrose in the middle 
w bear the 
name. The original Gilliflower being a Pink we may turn to ‘the origin of 
the Jatter name. Dr. Prior informs us that it is derived from the = Ger- 
da faek 
2. Cosson et Germain de Saint-Pierre, Flore des Environs de "Par aris 
giéme ed. Paris: Masson et Fils, 1861. pp. 963, 8vo.— Synopsis Ane 
lytique de la Flore des Environs de Paris, 2itme ed. pp. 5§ pe 
With these two volumes,—the one in this edition enlarged into 4 
octavo, the other a veritable ‘ket companion for herborizations, — 
onthe the whole botany of the district within the space of 6X*: 
Parisian botanical students are furnished in an enviable af the 
The larger volume is a full and most conscientiously os flora” 
region within 24 leagues of Paris, which takes in pasa et 
Evreux, and Compiegne and is supplied with a map ¢ owded with ” 
