154 Scientific Intelligence. 
demands the vernacular; and we interpose the remark that Eng- 
lish botanical language, freely incorporating as it does all Latin 
and Gr terms, comes next to Latin in convenience, compact- 
ness, aha facility to all foreign botanists, who, being familiar 
mages: one or two of which, Yeside his native tongue, every 
naturalist is now-a-days supposed to be able fairly to read; 
atughe , German, French, and Italian. In eed, DeCandolle 
generalia, on the ground of oi and he a tly suggests that 
the less capable botanists are of handling other than Linnean 
Latin, the m os sententious, and strictly to the point their 
exposition will 
Hints are wivan as to the best mode of collecting literary material, 
making and preserving notes (each upon separate ‘slips of pap per), 
upon the importance of adding clear explanations of drawings at 
to have its maximum va the moment of ¢ com he eth Our 
author nbbscaets that penotia ni third iat are seldom equal 
t. That depends. He objects also to posthumous 
a ulation, citing Roxburgh’s Flora ts hi published by Wallich, 
plates published | by Burmann, and the wretche 
Ve Moe het and he might have a red to the ced ares eae 
_ Griffith’s rough notes and comments. But a 
yn character of the manuscript ak the length 3 ole ‘which as 
col sg 
~~ Chapters IV-XI traverse the be subject of descriptions, 
under various aspects and a rather minute division of topics. 
ai 
to the relation of varieties to species, there are two modes 
of presentation, both of which have ‘seo iellowed by Linneus, 
nd by most systematists, upon different occasions. | Varieties are 
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