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collection may belong here, but are not so fully developed. — 

 Edward S. Marshall. 



Scirpus setaceus L. var. major Lej. — In the year 1896 the 

 late Mr. A. Somerville sent me specimens of the above species 

 with a distinctly creeping rootstock. All the Floras I consulted 

 insisted on this being " caespitose " or "tufted," and I could find 

 no mention of such a form. A short time ago, looking up some 

 plants in Lejeune's Bevue cle la Flore des Environs cle Spa (1824), 

 I found (p. 12) a " var. major, radice subrepente. Obs. Cette 

 variete, beaucoup plus robuste et plus elevee que l'espece, n'est 

 pas comme elle disposee en gazon dense, au contraire ses chaumes 

 sont souvent isoles et la racine est bien rampante." Mr. Somer- 

 ville's plant only differs in being of the usual size of the species. 

 — A. Bennett. 



Culinary Mints. — In this country Mentha spicatalj. (viridis L.) 

 is now, no doubt, the usual " mint " of kitchen gardens. Mr. W. 

 Watson, of Chislehurst, however, tells me that "in S. W. Norfolk 

 they cultivate M. rotundifolia L. exclusively in their gardens for 

 sauce " ; and that an allotment-holder at West Chislehurst grows 

 M. gentilis L. for the same purpose. I once found M. alopecu- 

 roides Hull (aquatica x rotundifolia ?) spreading out of a cottage 

 garden near Grayswood, between Witley and Haslemere, Surrey. 

 Probably this does not exhaust the number of forms which have 

 been grown ; and the importance of former cultivation as the 

 origin of many well-established colonies should not be overlooked. 

 — Edward S. Marshall. 



BE VIEWS. 



LlNNiEUS. 



(1) Bailey, Sir William Henry. Linnceus and the Beign of 



Law. Eep. and Proc. Manchester Field Naturalists' 

 Society, 1910 (1911), pp. 69-75. 



(2) Griffiths, A. B. Biographies of Scientific Men. London 



(Sutton) 1912, pp. xvi, 203, illustrated. [Linnaeus, pp. 

 62-74, portrait.] 



(3) Greene, Edward Lee. Carolus Linnmis. With an Intro- 



duction by Barton Warren Evermann. [And " Linnaeus 

 as a Zoologist," by Dr. William H. Dall.] Phila- 

 delphia (Sower Co.) [1912] pp. 91, 2 portraits. 



These three works have been grouped as their intention is to 

 give a popular account of the great Swedish naturalist. With so 

 praiseworthy an object, it is to be regretted that the respective 

 authors of the first and second works should have been content to 

 repeat, or even to amplify, statements which are not supported by 

 evidence. This may be partly attributed to the want of a good 

 life of the illustrious Swede in English, corrected to the present 



