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of Wight County Press for December 9, which contains a warm 

 tribute* to Stratton's many virtues, may fittingly conclude this 

 n(>tice : — " Enjoying the warmest regard and esteem, not to say 

 affection, of a wide circle of friends, who admired the high standard 

 of character which he set in eveiy department of life and were 

 charmed l)y liis many excellent personal qualities, he has passed to 

 his long rest full of years and honour, and the Island is the poorer 

 for his loss." 



James Beitten. 



SHORT JSrOTES. 



Helleborus yiridis (Journ. Bot. 1916, 338). — For many years 

 I grew this plant and many coloured hj'^brid Hellebores. They all 

 acted in the way Mr. Thompson describes. I found I could prevent 

 the drooping and fading by cutting the stalks under water, splitting 

 them up, and innnediately placing them in water. I attribute the 

 drooping and fading to the transpiration being much more rapid 

 than the absorption, owing to the current of water in the xylem 

 of the vascular bundle being diminished by exposure of the bottom 

 of the cut stem to the air. The balance of absorption and tran- 

 s])ii'ation is further upset by the plant when cut being brought 

 into the dr}' air of a room from the more or less satm'ated air 

 out of doors. During my long experience of cut flowers in con- 

 nection with my drawings, I have found that if a plant immediately 

 after being cut is put into a tin box well filled with leaves, their tran- 

 s])imtion soon saturates the air and thus stops much transpiration 

 in the plant sent. The result is that plants so packed will remain 

 fri'sh in the tin for many days. If, on the other hand, a plant is 

 ])acked in a cardboard box or wrapped in paper the box or paper 

 acts as an absorbent and transpiration is thus promoted rather than 

 checked and the plant arrives drooping and faded. It is for this 

 reason that I urge my correspondents to use tin boxes and to fill 

 them, if the plants do not alread}' do so, with suitable leaves. — 



K. W. HUXNYIU'N. 



LiLiUM Ma7{Tagox. — Several years ago, in early spring, Dr. Walter 

 CJardiner and I discovered a fine patch of LiUnm Martacjon near 

 Tintern, on the Gloucestershire side of the Wye ; but, hearing that 

 the habitat was already known, we thought little more of the matter. 

 Jjjist summer, however, when s])ending the day at Tidenham with the 

 Bev. Walter Hutt, Mr. H. H. Knight and I went to the woods to see 

 the i)lant in flower. We were much pleased to find that Mr. Butt's 

 station was some quarter of a mile or more from that mentioned 

 alH)vt', and also to meet with scattered ])lants of the Lily as we 

 ])usli('d tln-ough the woods in the direction of Tintern. Dr. Gardiner 

 and 1 liad also come across a fair number of specimens on the hill- 

 slojM's bt'low our main patch ; while Mr. Butt told us that he had 

 seen one or more near the Wynd Cliff, on the other side of the Wye. 

 Thus L. Marffif/on grows here and there in the river-side w^oods — say 

 in six s])ots — besides in two patches of some fifty yards in diameter 

 on the upper part of the slopes. These facts, whicli^ do not seem to 



