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dation. Let us add that in all such separate issues, the original 
pagination of the volume should be scrupulously preserved ; and 
it were better that there should be no other. Less complete, but 
durable publication is that of ouvrages de luxe, so limited in num- 
ber of Se sat and so high in Bese that only a few libraries can 
ties, of which few individuals can possess the series or find room 
for them; also articles in reviews, encyclopedias, and the like, 
, as 
this embraces all sciences and fills a gooey series of volumes, it 
can seldom be in the library of botani 
In speaking of the obstacles to sient Ppiatad which are 
interposed ry. too limited editions, high s caused by undue 
uxury in plates, and inopportune or inappropriate media of pub- 
lication, DeCan dolle refers to customs in the book t rade and in 
gove ernment patronage which need reform; and mentions inci- 
should be 
by the side of ever y. grea érbarium and every mat cat ea 
botanic garden, a specia ria eg library, without which i 
impossible to determine exactly the plants of the one or the cues 
or to write any good monograph or flora. Such a library costs 
The section on the comparative superiority of certain kinds of 
works, sets forth the greater value of books or systematic works 
as compared with memoirs or articles 
e language to be employed in botanical publications is the 
topic of a special article. For descri iptions, Latin, and the Latin 
of Linnus. “Le Latin des botanistes n’est pas reba language 
obscure et a réticences de Tacite, obscure et A periodes pompeuses 
, 
de Ciceron, obscure et A grices tortillées d’Horace, qu’on nous fait 
plus clair dun naturaliste tel que Pline. | C’est le Latin arrangé 
ge 
ceux qui naiment ni les i ea grammaticales, ni les 
phrases disposées sens dessus dessous, ni les parenthéses enchas- 
sées dans les phrases 
This for descriptions, except in local floras, where popular use 
