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fasciate monstrosity of this was gathered at Lawers, Mid-Perth, by 

 Mr. Miller. Apparently not before detected in Britain. 



E. MONTANUM X PARviFLORUM = E. Hmosuin Scliur. Railway- 

 bank near Witley, Surrey, in considerable quantity. A small state 

 was sent to me by Mr. Bennett, collected by Prof. Oliver at Dufton, 

 Westmoreland. 



E. PALUSTRE X PARVIFLORUM =: E. vivulare Wsbhlenhevg. Sandy 

 ride in a fir-plantation, near Tilford, Surrey. I noticed E. parvi- 

 floruvi here, but not E. palustre, which may, however, have been 

 overlooked. It abounds at no great distance, so that insect-fertilisa- 

 tion would easily account for the occurrence of this hybrid. In 

 future editions of the * London Catalogue,' it would be well to 

 expunge the varieties at present given, substituting a list of 

 hybrids, as has been done in the case of Primula and llumex. 



E. PARVIFLORUM X RosEUM = £". 2J^''«<'cm?<»i Eeiclib. Wet ditch, 

 Middleton, Pickering, Yorks (Mr. Reeves). Not named in Hooker, 

 Stud. FL, as British ; but Prof. Haussknecht mentions a specimen 

 from Derbyshire in herb. Hooker, at Kew. 



I am cultivating a good many forms this season, and shall be 

 glad to transmit any doubtful plants that may be sent to me for 

 identification. 



SEXTUS OTTO LINDBERG. 



Many botanists in this country — but especially bryologists — will 

 regret to hear of the death of Sextus Otto Lindberg, Professor of 

 Botany at Helsingfors, on Feb. 20th (March 4tli), a few weeks before 

 completing his fifty-fifth year ; but to those who enjoyed the pleasure 

 of his fi'iendship, his loss will indeed be felt, for he possessed fully 

 the kindness of heart and warm afi'ection so characteristic of the 

 Swedish people. His whole soul was concentrated on the study of 

 Mosses and Hepatic^, and he undertook several laborious journeys 

 through Lapland and Norway in quest of the objects of his devotion, 

 putting up with scanty fare, and poor lodging, and wading through 

 rivers sometimes as often as thirty times in a day, but always 

 returning with a load of treasures, for his keen eye permitted few 

 things to escape him. In 1865 he married an English wife, the 

 widow of Lieut. 0. Samson, R.N. who was killed in the war with 

 China. 



Lindberg paid two visits to England, the first in 1872, when he 

 examined the herbaria at the British Museum, Kew, and Oxford, 

 publishing in this Journal for 1874 (pp. 38-47) the result of his 

 identification of the specimens in Buddie's and Dillenius's col- 

 lections ; the second in 1873, when he spent some weeks with 

 Moore in Ireland, collecting Hepaticae. 



Of the numerous papers written by Lindberg, many — to our 

 disadvantage — are in Swedish, some in Latin, and a few in English, 

 French, or German, and were chiefly communications to the 

 ' Oefversigt Vetenskaps Akad. Foerhandl.,' the 'Botaniska Notiser,' 

 and the 'Acta Soc. Scient. Fcnnicie,' of which Society he was 



