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they correspond with the plants placed under them ; and occasion- 

 ally the text has got misplaced, as when Vicia septum is described 

 as ''a brilliant little red flower" — a remark clearly belonging to 

 Lathyrus Xissulta, which stands next in the list. 



The Flora of Staffordshire, on which Mr. J. E. Bagnall has been 

 engaged for some years, will be issued as a supplement to this 

 Jouinal. It will be paged coutinuoiisly for the convenience of 

 those who may wish to bind it separately. The first instalment 

 appears with our present issue. 



The first two numbers (Nov. and Dec. 1900) have reached us of 

 The 0. S. U. Xatnralist, published by the Biological Club of the 

 Ohio State University. The editor for botany is Mr. F. J. Tyler, 

 B.Sc. ; the botanical articles in the numbers Ijefore as are mostly 

 by Mr. W. A. Kellerman. 



Mr. Frederick Townsend is anxious to obtain, either by ex- 

 change or payment, specimens of Euphrafiia from Austria, Italy, 

 and Spain. His address is : Aldworth, Haslemere. 



Messrs. Linton have just issued the Sixth Fascicle of their 

 Set of British Hieracia. " in completion of (their) original design 

 and undertaking." It is hinted that a supplementary fascicle of 

 forms not yet represented in this set may be brought out in course 

 of time. A selection from the notes accompanying the fascicle, 

 wliich largely consists of forms believed to be endemic, will appear 

 in our next issue. 



Mr. a. B. Jackson contributes to the Transactions of the Leicester 

 Literary and Philosophical Society (vol. v., October, 1900) some 

 -' Notes on the Botany of the Beaumont Leys Sewage Farm " near 

 Thurcaston, in that county. 



We regret to announce the death of Dr. J. G. Agardh, of Lund, 

 of whom we hope to publish a notice in our next issue. 



No. 4 of Notes from the Botanical School of Trinity Colleyei 

 Dublin, issued in January, contains notes *' On the first mitosis of 

 the spore-mother cells of Lilium"' (with two plates), and others on 

 MardiantiacecE, Arum italicum, Cuscuta rejiexa, and Drosera rotundi- 

 folia, by Dr. H. H. Dixon ; notes on Algae and on * bletting,' by 

 Prof. Perceval Wright ; and a memoir of G. J. Allman. 



To Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer. — With reference to the editorial 



notes contained in the Journal of Botauy for January, 1901, pages 



47 and 48, reflecting on you and your work in connection with the 



preparation of tije Flora of Tropical Africa, I desire to offer to you 



an expression of my sincere regret for the same. The preparation 



of the Flora of Tropical Africa was not committed to you until the 



year 1891, and my statement that it has been in your hands since 



1872 is incorrect. I sincerely apologize to you for having imputed 



to you unnecessary delay in its preparation, and I desire to withdraw 



ail reflections and imputations affecting you of every kind whatever 



contained in the editorial notes referred to. 



James Britten. 



