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Millett, — . (fl. 1834). Collected in Macao and China. M.D. Of 

 Canton. Plants in Herb. Kew. Millettia Wight & Am. 



Milligan, Joseph (1807-1883?): b. Dumfriesshire, 1807; d. 

 Tasmania?, 1883? M.K.C.S., Edinb., 1829. F.L.S., 1850. 

 Of Hobart Town. Went to Tasmania, 1830. Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 1883-86, 36 ; Fl. Tasmania, cxxvii. ; R. S. C. iv. 393. Milli- 

 qania Hook. f. (1840) = Gunnera. Millir/ania Hook. f. (1853). 



Miilington, Sir Thomas (1628-1704) : 'b. Newbury, Berks., 

 1628; d. 5th Jan. 1704; bur. Gosfield Church, Essex. B.A., 

 Camb., 1649. M.A., 1657. M.D., Oxon., 1659. F.R.C.P., 

 1672; Pres., 1696. F.R.S. Sedleian Professor, Oxford, 1675. 

 Eoyal Physician. Knighted, 1679. 'Machaon' of Garth's 

 * Dispensary.' Stillingfleet, Tracts, pref. xi. ; Pult. i. 336 ; 

 Munk, i. 363. Portr. at R.C.P. Miliingtonia Boxb. = Meliosma. 

 Millingtonia Linn. f. 



Milne, Rev. Colin (1743 ?-1815) : b. Aberdeen, 1743 ? ; d. Dept- 

 ford, 2nd Oct. 1815. LL.D., Aberdeen. Rector (non-resident) 

 of North Chapel, Sussex. Preached Fairchild sermon. * Bo- 

 tanical Dictionary,' 1770. 'Listitutes of Bot.,' 1771. 'Indi- 

 genous Bot.,' 1793. Pritz. 218; Jacks. 581; Cott. Gard. viii. 

 185 ; Johnson, 232. Milnea Roxb. = Aglaia. 



Milne, Joshua (d. 1851): d. Upper Clapton, London, 4th Jan. 

 1851. Actuary. F.L.S. Studied Mosses and Hepatics. Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. ii. 136. 



Milne, Thomas (fl. 1795-1837 or 1838). Curator Oxford Bot. 

 Garden before 1796. A.L.S., 1795. Contrib. to With. Arr. 

 ed. 3 (i. xii.). 



Milne, William Grant (d. 1866) : d. Creek Town, Old Calabar, 

 3rd May, 1866. Of Edinb. Bot. Garden. Botanist to Expe- 

 dition of H.M.S. ' Herald' to Fiji, 1856. Collected on W. coast 

 of Africa from 1862. Plants in Herb. Mus. Brit. Trans. Bot. 

 Soc. Edinb. viii. 485; Journ. Bot. 1857, 106; 1866, 272; 

 R. S. C. iv. 396; viii. 408; Gard. Chron. 1866, 731. 

 (To be continued.) 



SHORT NOTES. 



Ulota calvescens Wils. MSS., Carr. (Ulota vittata Mitt.). — 

 In the last part of Dr. Braithwaite's most admirable work on the 

 British Mosses, there is an unaccountable mistake as to a date, 

 which affects the priority of the above-mentioned. In 1861, Dr. 

 Carrington spent several months in the south of Ireland, and 

 paid special attention to the Orthotricha. Amongst the numerous 

 species collected was one which he determined as new, and as such 

 sent to Mr. Wilson, who suggested the appropriate name calvescens ; 

 but it was first enumerated and defined fully in Dr. Carrington's 

 ♦♦ Gleanings amongst the Irish Cryptogams," pubhshed in the 

 • Proceedings of the Botanical Society, Edinburgh,' vol. vii. p. 370, 

 1863. Previous to this (in 1862), he had contributed a set of 



