238 Scientific Intelligence. 
species that has been sufficiently 7 in this regard; and the 
study may be expected to render a second edition more scien- 
tifically and ssidopendésitly priate without posh sacrifice of popu- 
larity. The figures might be better, and they would have been 
made more telling by neat magnified views of han arts. 
3. The Student's Flora of the British Islands ; vy Sir JosEra 
Hooker. Third Edition. London: Macmillan & Co., 1884. 
—This third edition gives evidence that the great popularity of 
this well-planned and well-executed Flora continues undiminished. 
It is not increased in size; the changes, though not inconsiderable 
in the treatment of certain groups and species, are not striking 5 
but the revision has been evidently pean critical. Subspecies are 
part,—a fair compromise between the schools of narrow and wide 
limitation of species, “eee perhaps a necessity in the long-wo orked 
floras of Europe. “Characters concerned in the process of fertili- 
by change in position = in cases like Scrophularia, Epilobium 
ri aa tl &c.) might well be indicated, The different modi- 
- ficat of a peculiar pte in Cam la (of which only 
a ai aya is mentioned in the generie character) might we 
am into the description of the s as _The eo 
which best conforms to the rules of preside ure, There is no 
question that the 2 el is orthographically correct and that the 
latter is a falsified f The older botanists on the Continent, 
not _pibcnieh aa vey hi in th, seem to have thrust it into various 
words according to their fancy, probably thinking that a silent 
ities could do no harm. If we turn to Linnzus, to the classical 
t done so in the present instance ut we ld 
wrong. Although ines (who did not adopt the genus) cites 
“ Orobanche que me Bi geno = ah eet from Bauhi : 
show 
trated by Dillenius, in 1719, s Hypop ys (not Hypopithys, % as. 
Endlicher cites it) ; "and, in redansiig it oa > ualonsirepe, Linneus in 
