SHORT NOTES 
177 
(N.B. it is not sylvaticus .) I know nothing of this hybrid, nor 
whether it has occurred in England previously.—H. J. Riddelsdell. 
Heliocarpus americanus L. In my notes on this plant (Journ. 
Bot. 1898, 131) I had identitied H. tomentosus Turcz. with this 
species on the faith of the specimens labelled americana in Cliffort’s 
herbarium which I had taken as the type of the plant figured and 
described in Hort. Cliff, (p. 211, t. 16) wherein the species is founded. 
These consist of a single leaf and some fruits which were sent to 
Linnaeus by Philip Miller. The leaf, as I have pointed out ( l. c.), is 
softly tomentose. Mr. E. E. Watson in his recent paper on the 
genus in the Bulletin of the Torrey Club for March (p. Ill) calls 
attention to the fact that Linnaeus could hardly have described a plant 
bearing such leaves as “fere glabra,” and also notes that the plate 
accompanying the description figures them as lobed. H. tomentosus 
therefore cannot be regarded as synonymous with H. americanus. 
In view of the definite reference on the title-page of Hort. Cliff, to 
“ Hartecamp in Hollandia,” it is not easy to understand Mr. Watson’s 
allusion to “ the Clifford Garden at Chelsea.”—E. G. Baker. 
REVIEWS. 
Plant Names. 
1. Popular Names of Flowers, Fruits, etc., as used in the County of 
Somerset and the adjacent Parts of Devon, Dorset , and Wilts . 
Compiled by A. S. Macmillan. Preprinted from the Somerset 
County Herald. Yeovil: Western Gazette Co., Ltd., 1922. 
Cr. 8vo, cloth, pp. 297. Price 4s. 
2. Plant Names. By T. S. Lindsay, B.D., Archdeacon of Dublin. 
Cr. 8vo, pp. vii, 93, cloth. S. P. C. K.; 2s. 6d. net. 
3. British Plant Names and their Derivations. By R. J. Harvey- 
Gibson, M.A., D.Sc., etc., Emeritus Professor of Botany in the 
University of Liverpool. 8vo, pp. 50, limp cloth. A. & C. 
Black. 
1. This exceedingly interesting and cheap little book is the out¬ 
come of a correspondence originated by the newspaper from which it is 
reprinted, in the course of which “ prizes were offered for the best 
lists of the most interesting local names of flowers used in the district 
in which the competitors resided.” Mr. Macmillan, the Secretary of 
the Western Gazette Company, from whose preface we are quoting, 
then enlisted the sympathy of certain schoolmasters and school¬ 
mistresses, who obtained lists from many of their pupils. “Unfor¬ 
tunately my helpers, both old and young alike, were not always abso¬ 
lutely reliable in the information they gave,” and Mr. Macmillan was 
not always “ quite sure of [his] ground in attaching the scientific 
names of the plants which [he believed] were intended by the senders,” 
nor does it appear that the names were accompanied by specimens—an 
Journal of Botany.—Yol. 61. [June, 1923.] n 
