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sent Cape plants to Petiver, and made a short list of species adventive 

 from Europe, which included two Mallows, ]<liipliorhia helioscopia, 

 Mercurialis annua, Fennel, and a Dock ; Henry Bernhard Oldenland 

 (t c. 1()98) ; Franz Kiggelaar (f 1722) ; Franz Pehr Oldenburg 

 (tl774); Francis Masson (1741-1805), one of the earliest col- 

 lectors for Kew Gardens, whose plants, living and dried, made a very 

 large addition to otir knowledge of the Cape region, and whose 

 drawings, also in the Department of Botany, contain many species not 

 otherwise known ; Carl Pehr Thunberg (1743-1828), who, on account 

 of his botanical knowledge and published works, as well as for his 

 collections, may be regarded as the most important figure in early 

 Cape botany ; Banks and Solander who visited the Cape in 1771 ; 

 and Robert Brown (1773-1858) who touched at the Cape in the 

 Flinders Expedition in 1801. In the discussion wliich followed the 

 paper. Dr. Stapf, Dr. Daydon Jackson, and 8ir David Prain took 

 part, emphasizing the interest which attaches to the early records, to 

 the investigation of which Mr. Britten had devoted much atten- 

 tion. 



At the same meeting Mr. C. E. Salmon described and exhibited 

 specimens of a hybrid Siach/s which originated in his garden, where 

 previously only Stachijs germanica and *S^. alpina were cultivated ; 

 he compared the chai'acters of all three plants, and pointed out that 

 the h3^brid was identical with 8. intermedia Ait. 



Tlie South-eastern Naturalist, " being the Transactions of the 

 South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies for 1917 " contains a list 

 of the fungi collected about Haslemere before and during the "fungus 

 foray " of 1916 and a general report on the botanical work of the 

 Union. Among the papers printed is one by Dr. Daydon Jackson on 

 " Notable Trees and Old Gardens of London," and Mr. Boulger gives 

 an extremely interesting account of " The Association of the Chelsea 

 Physic Garden with the History of Botany," tracing this from its 

 foundation in 1673 to the present day. 



The recently issued part (vol. xxvii. pt. 2) of the Transactions 

 of tlie Botanical Society of l^dinlurgh contains an enumeration of 

 the Mosses of West Lothian, by L. C. Adam; Moss records for 

 Selkirk, Peebles, and the Lothians by William Evans, who also con- 

 tributes a note on insect visitors to Corallorhiza innata and other 

 Orchids in the Forth District ; and short notes on Ceratopln/lliim 

 demersnm in the Orkneys and TJlex iianus in Caithness by Arthur 

 Bennett. Other papers are on Sedum Praegerianum (Avith two 

 plates) and a tentative classification of the section BJiodioIa by 

 11. Lloyd Praeger ; on Ciivea, a new genus of CompositcB from East 

 Himalaya (with plate) by W. W. Smith and James Small; on 

 Ilhododendrons of the Jrroratnm series, containing descrij^tions of 

 several new species, by Prof. Balfour, A\ho also has a note on Ehodo- 

 dendron seedlings ; and a description of Bulhophyllum Imogenice, a 

 new Orchid from Nigeria, bv Kenneth Hamilton. 



