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had been referred to him. Many of these plants are described or 

 mentioned in his works. 



Prof. Agardh was always ready to answer an appeal for help in 

 the identity of a plant, and whenever it was necessary he would 

 send his own type specimen for comparison. At the end of last 

 year he was kind enough to entrust a unique specimen to a worker 

 at the British Museum, notwithstanding his advanced age and the 

 fact that he was most anxious to have no phmt absent from his 

 herbarium at the time of his death. The plant was returned in a 

 few days' time, and it was not till after his death a few weeks later 

 that a letter from his widow fully revealed the effort it had been to 

 the aged botanist to part for even a short time with his type- 

 specimen. Prof. Agardh's herbarium was given during his life-time 

 to Lund University, but so long as he lived he retained the right of 

 lending specimens. After his death, however, it was his wish that 

 no plant should be taken out of the collection, and his herbarium 

 will therefore be guarded as rigidly henceforward as is that of the 

 British Museum itself. 



A full share of honours from his own nation and from others 

 fell to Agardh's lot, in recognition of his work. He was elected a 

 foreign member of the Linnean Society in 1867, and thirty years 

 afterwards received the gold medal of the same Society, on which 

 occasion the then President, Dr. Albert Giinther, thus summarized 

 his work : — " There is no group of marine littoral algse which has 

 not been presented to us in a more orderly arrangement by the 

 genius of Agardh. His industry and extraordinary^ abilities have 

 been devoted throughout his long life to the construction of a 

 natural system of classification of marine plants, and his labours 

 have been crowned with the success of universal acceptance." 



E. S. B. 



SHORT NOTES. 



Hayling Island Plants. — On September 13th, 1900, I spent 

 some hours here, mainly devoted to examining the various forms 

 of SaUcornia ; a few other things were incidentally met with, which 

 may be worth mentioning. I am indebted for assistance in deter- 

 mining them to Mr. Arthur Bennett and Rev. E. F. Linton. — 

 Lepigonum ? A remarkable form occurred, having the general habit 

 of L. neglectum Kindb., but with a strong, woody, doubtless perennial 

 root, numerous interlaced stems, and smooth (not papillose) seeds, 

 mostly winged. But for this membranous margin, Mr. Bennett 

 "would have called it L. famculare Lonnrotb, Obs. PI. Suec. p. 13 

 (1854), who says, 'media fere est inter Lejyigonum viariunm Wahl. 

 et L. saHniim Fr.' " — Chenopodiiiui hotryodes Sm. Very local, a short 

 mile east of Hayling Bridge ; usually smaller than the Pegwell Bay 

 (East Kent) plant, but evidently the same species, and quite different 

 from C. ruhium var. pseudchotryoides. New for Hampshire, and I 

 believe also for the English south coast. — SaUcornia stricta Dum. 

 By far the most abundant saltwort ; conspicuous by its erect habit 



