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includes Arauja albens among the " New South Wales plants better 

 known in English gardens." As to its occurrence in gardens, the 

 editor of the Chronicle is in a position to speak with authority, 

 though we note that Armij<i is not included in Mr. Nicholson's 

 Dictionary of Gardenimi; but we are surprised to learn that the 

 plant grows in New South Wales. It may be that the hitherto 

 untrodden parts of Australia will revolutionize our notions of plant- 

 distribution ; for other South American species — e. g. Mitraria 

 coccinea — were among the selection of her drawings which Mrs. 

 Kowan brought to the British Museum to be named, although they 

 are not included among those exhibited. 



We learn from Herr V. F. Brotherus, of Helsingfors, in a letter 

 that has just come to hand, that he has started on a journey into 

 Central Asia. " I am going," he says, "via Samarkand and Tash- 

 kend to Thian Shan for the purpose of bryological researches in the 

 highlands of Issikkoul." The district is a new and promising one, 

 and in the hands of Herr Brotherus is likely to yield rich results. 

 The traveller acquired an excellent training for his present enter- 

 prise during his botanical expedition to the Caucasus some years 

 ago. We wish him every success. 



Mr. Thorild Wulff, junior, an enthusiastic young Swedish 

 botanist who visited England in 1894, publishes in the Botanisk 

 yotiser an account of his visit to the Isle of Wight. He describes 

 and gives names to some of the dwarf forms familiar to those who 

 know the Freshwater downs — Scahiosa C'oluniharia f. ncma, Curlina 

 vuhjaris f. humiUima (a " most distinguished variety"), and Campa- 

 nula rotundifolia f. pi/gmaa : and identifies another with a previously 

 described plant — PiinpineUa Saxifraga f. arenaria N. Bryhn. 



Harry Corbyn Levinge, who died at his residence, Knockdrin 

 Castle, Mullingar, on March 11th, in his sixty-eighth year, was for 

 a long period Secretary to the Government of Bengal (Public 

 Works), during which time he devoted all his leisure to natural 

 history. His collection of Indian ferns, more particularly from 

 Sikkim, Kashmir, and the Nilgherries, was very extensive, and he 

 had intended to work it up on his return home, when it was 

 unfortunately destroyed by fire : Mr. Levinge then devoted himself 

 to the Irish flora. Notes from him have appeared in this Journal 

 from time to time — the first in 1885 : his most important contri- 

 bution being that on Neotinea Intacta (Journ. Bot. 1892, 19-1). In 

 the Irish Naturalist he published three papers on Westmeath plants, 

 which added greatly to our knowledge of the botany of that county. 

 He added Chnra denmlata to the flora of the British Isles. Mr. 

 Levinge formed an excellent herbarium of British plants, which he 

 has bequeathed to the Dublin Museum of Science and Art. We are 

 indebted to Nature of April 23rd and the Irish Naturalist for April 

 for most of the above information. 



