. Science-gossip . y are due to clerical blun-ders, and sometimes to a misunderstanding ofobsolete or foreign words. Mr. Mott says thatone of the most complicated name-pedigrees he hasmet with is that which Prior gives as the originof the two names yew and ivy. The twoplants are not in any way similar. One is a gyrano-sperm and the other an angiosperm. Yet it is evidentttiat their names are derived trom the same are both a corruption of the Latin abiga,which was formerly written with a u or a abiga was a plant called by the Greekschamoepitys, and this in Italy abiga, or the b
. Science-gossip . y are due to clerical blun-ders, and sometimes to a misunderstanding ofobsolete or foreign words. Mr. Mott says thatone of the most complicated name-pedigrees he hasmet with is that which Prior gives as the originof the two names yew and ivy. The twoplants are not in any way similar. One is a gyrano-sperm and the other an angiosperm. Yet it is evidentttiat their names are derived trom the same are both a corruption of the Latin abiga,which was formerly written with a u or a abiga was a plant called by the Greekschamoepitys, and this in Italy abiga, or the black cypress. This black cypress was supposedto be the yew, hence the yew got the name abiga altered in manuscripts to ajuga, aiuga,iua, and then into yew. The Greek name chamoepitj^s was, however, by the earlyEnglish writers understood to refer not to the blackcypress but to a plant with a similar odour, theground-pine, which also got the name iua fromabiga, anglicised in this case into ivaand 2 20 NOTICES BY JOHN T. CARRINGTON. The Cambridge Natural History. Edited by S. , and A. E. Shipley, Vol. , Rotifers and Polyzoa, by several pp. large Svo, illustrated by 257 figures. Sheldon; Thread-worms and Sagitta, by A. EShipley, ; Rotifers, by Marcus Hartog,; Polychaet Worms, by W. BlaxlandBenham, ; Earthworms and Leeches,by F. E, Beddard, ; Gephyrea andPhoronis, by A. E. Shipley, ; Polyzoa,by S. F. Harmer, The monographs bringthe knowledge of their respective subjects tosynchronize with the latest researches. They arenot intended to deal with the known species ineach order, but treat generally with the cycle ofexistence of the groups and their various anatomi-cal features. Though perhaps less attractive thansome other volumes of the series, vol. ii. is by nomeans the least important, for it places at the
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