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bears the date 1817, which is several years earlier than Mr. Miller 

 Christy mentions in his notice. The school in question was situated 

 not at Stockwell Park, but at Streatham Common, at t he north 

 corner of Greyhound Lane. That the venture was unsuccessful is 

 disproved by the fact of the premises having been used for the same 

 purpose until quite recently; a notice board at the entrance claimed 

 the foundation to have occurred as far back as 1787. As further 

 proof, it may be mentioned that the son, also vEneas, was a well- 

 known Q.C. in the sixties and seventies of last century. The old 

 building, which must have been known to Dr. Johnson, whose time it 

 certainly antedates, is now in process of demolition. We know 

 nothing of Macint) r re nor of his personal history beyond what is here 

 stated. The inscription on the medal begins : " Palmam qui meruit 

 ferat in ludo literario Mneze Mackintyre," which one would assume to 

 be the correct spelling of his name, were it not that in the Linnean 

 Society's register and on the title of his book Etymotonia he gives it 

 as Macintyre. — Spencer Moore. 



Genders of generic names (p. 157). I think that the specific 

 and generic names should always agree in gender. By a ridiculous 

 application of a pedantic principle, trees are regarded as feminine. 

 The idea was that they were haunted by dryads or hamadryads ; but 

 there is no need for perpetuating the legendary associations by 

 branding the masculine and neuter names of trees as feminine, and 

 thus emphasizing "grammatical blunders and false concords which 

 disfigure botanical nomenclature " ( Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. xlv. 220). 

 I prefer e.g. — Populus niger, Pinus Silvester, Acer campestre 

 (Linnaeus and others never applied the feminine gender to species of 

 this genus), Liriodendron chinense (as Sargent wrote it). In fact 

 there is no consistency in such applications. Nees called the American 

 Sassafras tree Sassafras officinale (grammatically correct, and it has 

 never been written otherwise). Therefore why write the barbarism 

 Taxus baccata instead of the correct concord T. baccatus ? It is 

 worse than Ranunculus acris (which is not a tree) instead of the 

 academic masculine R. acer. Among examples given (p. 157), if 

 Euonymus " should be masculine," surely other trees ending in -us 

 have similarly concordant claims. — F. N. Wtlltams. 



Silaus silaus (p. 155, 1. 11) should be Silaum silaus. The 

 genus was published in Miller, Card. Diet. Abridged (1754); and 

 the combination Silaum silaus bv Schinz & Thellung in Viertel- 

 jahrsschr. Nat. Ges. Zurich, lx. 859 (1915).— T. A. Spragtje. 



Epipactis vikidiflora (p. 146). In conformity to the change 

 which Col. Godfery's research has made necessary, our Helleborine 

 viridijlora f. vectensis and f. dunensis (Journ. Bot. 1918, 2) ought 

 now to be transferred to E. leptochila Godfery as varieties of that 

 species. We should now like to name them as varieties rather than 

 forms. There is no doubt about the subordinate rank of var. vectensis. 

 As to var. dunensis, though the habit and the habitat are very 

 distinct, we think it ought not to rank as a species but only as a 

 variety. — T. & T. A. Stephenson. 



Silene conica L. in Carmarthenshire. In 1920 Mr. D. 

 Harmer sent me Carmarthenshire specimens of the above species, 

 gathered on the coast sand-hills in the neighbourhood of Liparis 



