Laws of Botanical Nomenclature. 77 
fairly apply, and succeeding writers should not be required to 
take the godfather for the father. If we rightly understand 
pulously attributes them to “Nutt. in litt.’ To us all such 
names, which the elder DeCandolle has, at his own discretion, 
published for Nuttall, are of “Nutt. in DC. Prodr.” &c. 
The Li 
campanuloides (Italian and Greek), ranunculoides (good Latin 
and Greek), scirpoides and the like, so freely used by all bot- 
anists, from Linneeus to the present day; even A. DeCandolle 
mself, who hopes he has pone of the sort to reproach himself 
with, gave toa section of Wahlenbergia the name of Lobeli- 
cides, As to specific names formed of -ovdes added to personal 
generic names of modern and unclassical origin, they could not 
now be dispensed with; so we must needs insist, with such 
reason as we may, that the main word is not really Latinized 
but Grecified; while in case of real Latin words the Latin 
form of adjunct is not only the proper one but often the more 
euphonious,—e. ¢. ranunculina, scirpina, wc. 
This digest, as a whole, is to be highly commended, and it 
cannot fail to be useful. Its greatest value is this, that it does 
not make, but only declare, the common law of botanists. Our 
Phenogamous botanists in this country did not need it in the 
way of correction, Some of the Oryptogamists do, and many 
z00logists. 
The English translation is by Dr. Weddell, who states that 
he has adhered as literally as possible to the original text. 
some parts of it the neat French might possibly have been 
rendered in more terse and idiomatic English with no sacrifice 
of clearness or accuracy. A. G. 
