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The form of the liihim is linear in all but one species, in which 

 it is lanceolate, i. e., in F. (jranatensis. In the other species it is 

 usually three-fourths the length of the caryopsis, except in F. 

 sylvatica, where it is half its length. This character sharply 

 separates Festuca from Poa, in which the hilum is very short ; and 

 F. rhatica, Sut. (F. liilosa, Hall, fil., Poa violacea, Bell.), is 

 therefore rightly classed as a Poa of the latter botanist. 

 (To be continued.) 



THE ''MARIANNE NORTH" GALLERY. 



A GREAT additional attraction has recently been added to 

 the Royal Gardens at Kew, in the shape of a gallery of oil 

 paintings, which presents many novel and indeed unique features. 

 The building itself and its contents are presented to the public 

 by the munificence of Miss Marianne North, who is herself the 

 artist of the pictures — G27 in number — which form this attractive 

 exhibition. 



Miss North has travelled all over the world in search of material 

 on which to employ her facile pencil, and, far from being satisfied 

 with the really great amount of work already accomplished, she is 

 at the present time on her way .to the Cape, with the view of 

 increasing her collection of paintings. The special interest of the 

 exhibition, as Sir Joseph Hooker remarks in his preface to the 

 handy little ' Descriptive Catalogue ' of the collection which Mr. 

 Hemsley has prepared, lies in the fact that many of the names 

 and objects depicted, "though now accessible to travellers and 

 familiar to readers of travels, are already disappearing or are 

 doomed shortly to disappear before the axe and the forest fires, the 

 plough and the flock, of the ever advancing settler or colonist. 

 Such scenes can never be renewed by Nature, nor when once 

 effaced can they be pictured to the mind's eye, except by means of 

 such records" as these; the beautiful Eucahiptus macrocarpa of 

 West Austraha, for example, " has been nearly extirpated by sheep 

 in the one district [of Western Australia] where it is known to 

 grow." No greater testimony to the accuracy which characterises 

 Miss North's work can be found than that which is given by the 

 fact that two new species of plants have been described from these 

 paintings. One of these is a Xepenthes, appropriately named 

 Northiana (No. 383), from the" limestone mountains of Sarawak, 

 having " the largest pitcher of any known species, except N. Puijah ; 

 in consequence of seeing this painting, Messrs. Veitch sent a 

 collector to Borneo on purpose to get the species, and he succeeded 

 in bringing home living plants of it." Another Bornean Nepenthes, 

 probably undescribed, is figured in No. 377 ; "the green inside of 

 the pitchers, with two darker green spots or eyes just under the 

 lid, is a noteworthy character of this species." The other described 

 novelty, Crinum Xorthianuni, is also from Borneo, where the 

 catalogue tells us it is " common enough." The neatly-printed 



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