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success in working out this new line of research has produced 

 significant results which were a revelation and a surprise to 

 Continental observers. 



The last subject which occupied West's attention was the 

 ecology of cryptogams, on which a paper — the first of a projected 

 series — was read in abstract at the Linnean Society at the meet- 

 ing on June 18, a month after his death : of this an abstract will 

 be found on p. 191. 



The personality of William West endeared him to all with 

 whom he came into contact. He was a man of warm enthusiasms, 

 with a singular charm of manner and a quiet vein of genial 

 humour, and those who, with the present writer, have been on 

 most intimate terms with him for nearly forty years, can best 

 appreciate what manner of man he was, and feel the greatness of 

 the loss which they have sustained by his succumbing to heart 

 failure supervening upon an attack of his old enemy asthma. He 

 was followed to his resting place in Schotemoor Cemetery, 

 Bradford, by a great number of his old students and his old 

 friends. 



The accompanying portrait is reproduced from a photograph 

 taken by Messrs. Lafayette, of Manchester. 



NOTES ON SOME PLANTS OF MID-PERTH. 



By Rev. E. S. Marshall, M.A., F.L.S. 



The greater part of last July was spent at Fortingal, v.-c. 88, 

 where there is an excellent hotel ; Messrs. W. A. Shoolbred and 

 C. E. Salmon joined our party for most of the time, and we had 

 the pleasure of again meeting Mr. D. A. Haggart, who accom- 

 panied us on several occasions. At the beginning of September 

 Dr. C. E. Moss and I had three days' collecting in the same 

 district, which is quite rich, as Messrs. Lintons' papers of over 

 twenty years ago indicated. This vice-county has, I suppose, 

 been better worked than any other in the Highlands, so that 

 novelties must be few and far between ; such supposed additions 

 are starred. The Lyon Valley hereabouts is rich in Thalictrum. 

 I doubt whether restricted T. minus L. {T. collinum Wallr.) 

 occurs there ; but a plant closely allied to T. majus auct. angl. is 

 frequent, as well as the one referred by the Lintons to T, Kochii 

 Fr., of which it has the ovoid fruit. 



■■' Caltha raclicans Forster. One luxuriant specimen occurred by 

 a streamlet on the south side of Ben Lawers, at about 2000 ft. ; 

 usually it is a low-ground plant. 



Erophila inflata Hook. fil. ascends to fully 2600 ft. on Ben 

 Lawers ; the pods are shorter and often less inflated than in my 

 gatherings from Glen Shee, E. Perth, and between Altnaharra 

 and Tongue, W. Sutherland, perhaps owing to the greater altitude. 



Cochlearia micacea E. S. Marshall, Abundant on the north 



