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Mclvor, William Graham (d. 1876) : b. Dollar ; d. Ootacamund, 

 India, 8th June, 1876. Kew gardener. Superintendent, Bot. 

 Gard., Ootacamund, 1848. 'Hepatic^e Britannic^' (specimens), 

 1847. Introduced Cinchona into India. ' Notes on the . . . . 

 cultivation of . . . Cinchonas,' 1863. Pritz.200; Jacks. 576; 

 R. S. C. iv. 161 ; Eng. Bot. 2948 ; Gard. Chron. 1876, ii. 150; 

 Journ. Bot. 1876, 224 ; Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. xiii. 11. 

 (To be continued.') 



SHORT NOTES. 



Foliage of the Raspberry and Blackberry. — There is a 

 peculiarity in the formation of the compound leaves of Riibiis, 

 which, as far as I know, has escaped the notice of systematists. 

 In the Raspberry the leaves vary from one to five leaflets, and in 

 tracing the formation it will be found that the first pair are 

 separated off from the single (terminal) leaflet by severance of 

 portions from the base ; then the next pair are formed in the same 

 way, that is, again from the terminal leaflet, so that the two pairs 

 arise successively in a basifugal manner. The resulting leaf is 

 pinnate. This process is of course revealed by the presence of 

 intermediate stages, which are very common. Thus the leaflets 

 are at first more or less deeply lobed, or one leaflet only may be 

 isolated, the opposite one remaining as part of the terminal, &c. 

 In the Blackberry, the primary pair are first of all separated from 

 the terminal, as in the Raspberry ; but the second pair are derived 

 from this primary pair, the two pairs being consequently basipetal. 

 Moreover, they remain close together, so that it renders the leaf 

 palmate, the terminal leaflet only being somewhat distant. In 

 R. fruticosus subsp. corylifolius Sm. there are sometimes seven 

 leaflets, and when this is the case, after forming the first two pairs 

 as described, the third pair is formed by reverting again to the 

 terminal. It is therefore at first basipetal and then basifugal. — 

 George Henslow. 



Lentinus scleroticola Murray. — In ' Grevillea ' for September, 

 p. 19, under the impressive heading "Memorabilia," there appears 

 the following paragraph, for which it may be presumed the Editor 

 is responsible: — "Lentinus cyathus B. & Br. — The species called 

 Lentinus scleroticola Murray, Trans. Linn. Soc. ii., Part ii., is 

 identical with Lentinus cyathus B. & Br., as determined by authentic 

 specimens of both." From this the reader will be justified in 

 believing that Mr. Cooke has examined an "authentic specimen" 

 of L. scleroticola. There is only one "authentic specimen" of this 

 species, which is in the British Museum, and Mr. Cooke has never 

 examined it. The reader will naturally suppose also that I have 

 not examined L. cyathus. If he will turn to p. 281 of my memoir 

 (loc.cit.), he will find that I distinguish between the species after a 

 comparison of Mr. Broome's type-specimen of L. cyathus Berk. & 

 Broome with L. scleroticola. The late Mr. Broome agreed with me 

 as to the validity of L. scleroticola, and I know of no other 



