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alphabet ; but we regret that the index was not brought more 

 nearly up to date. A practised index-maker would, we think, have 

 compressed all the information given into half the space occupied. 



A NEW EDITION of the Flora of Liverpool, under the superintendence 

 of Dr. C. Theodore Green, F.L.S., President of the Liverpool Natu- 

 ralists' Field Club, will be issued early in 1902. It will be ilkistrated 

 from photographs of the scenery of the district by Dr. J. W. Ellis, 

 and many drawings of the flowers by Miss E. M. Wood. The book 

 will be issued to subscribers at 5s. net. Dr. Green, 31, Shrewsbury 

 Road, Birkenhead, will be glad to receive names of subscribers. 

 Owing to the numerous illustrations, both of the plants themselves 

 and of the scenery of the district, this book will be of more than 

 merely technical interest, and will be of value to all who wish to 

 know something of its Flora. 



John Storrie, who died at Cardiff on May 2, was born at Muir- 

 yett, Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, on June 2, 1843. In his early 

 years he was apprenticed to a printer, and went from Scotland to 

 various parts of England and Wales. From a lad he had shown a 

 taste for knowledge of all kinds, and especially for botany ; when quite 

 young he obtained a prize for a collection of Scottish alpine plants 

 He became employed on the Cardiff WeHcm Mail, and was appointed 

 Curator of the Museum in that town. After a time he came to 

 London, where he acted as curator of the collection of C. 0. Groom 

 Napier, calling himself " Priuce of Mantua and Montferrat '" ; 

 Storrie's account of the proceedings of this extraordinary person 

 was extremely amusing. Later he returned to Cardiff", and again 

 became Curator of the Museum. In 1886 he published a Flora of 

 Cardiff, a notice of which appeared in this Journal for 1887. 

 Storrie was elected an Associate of the Linnean Society in 1899 ; 

 a fuller account of him will be found in the Society's Proceedings 

 for 1900-1. 



Francis Dickinson, the latest surviving contributor to Leighton's 

 Flora of Shropshire (published in 1841), in which his name is of 

 frequent occurrence, died at his residence, Wheatlands, Crookham 

 Hill, Edenbridge, Kent, on August 24th. He was born January 4th, 

 1816, at Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, and, although his name is only 

 familiar in connection with Leighton's work, was throughout his 

 life interested in botanical pursuits. 



At the meeting of the Linnean Society on Nov. 7th, the following 

 specimens were exhibited for Mr. W. B. Hemsley: — (1) A West 

 Australian Umbelliferous shrub, Siebera defiexa, which produces 

 tubers, called" Yuke " by the aborigines, who eat them both raw and 

 cooked. Many shrubs in dry countries form large tuberous stocks, from 

 which annual stems spring ; but the tubers of Siebera dejiexa grow 

 in strings showing no trace of eyes or buds, but scars where stems 

 may have been detached. Whether independent plants spring from 

 the separate tubers is a question which remains to be determined. 

 (2) Germinating seeds of Araiicaria Bidivillii, received from Grahams- 

 town. The peculiarity in the germination is that there are two dis- 

 tinct stages ; in the first stage the radicle emerges from the shell of 



