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rem lined \Yith the Serbs, Christ and the glorious stoiy of the 

 supreme sacrifice on the field of the white Peonies. White ? No. 

 No human eyes ever since saw them white. From the following 

 day of the battle they bacame rer/, and all the following generations 

 of Peonies grew red ; not one made exception. Some say they 

 grew red from the blood of the heroic Crusaders ; some say they 

 grew red because they blushed at seeing the Turkish devastation 

 of the field and their oppression of the Christian people ; some say 

 they grew red as a symbol of suffering, with hope of resurrection 

 for the oppressed ones. Bat the first interpretation prevails among 

 the Serbian people." The legend adds that when the freedom of 

 Serbia has been secured, the Peonies will again become white. 



The Journal of Genetics for Jul}" contains a paper on " Types of 

 Segregation " by Caroline Bellew, which is mainly concerned with 

 " certain abnormalities in the development of anthers, of flower- 

 colour and of variation in Campanula carpatica and related forms " : 

 the paper is illustrated by one of the excellent coloured plates for which 

 the Journal is distinguished. Mr. S. Ikeno adds a note to his former 

 paper on variegated races of Capsicum annuum. 



The Irisli Naturalist for August contains a paper by Mr. Grroves 

 and Canon Bullock- Webster on Tolypella nidifica Leonh. in Ireland, 

 the occurrence 'of which has hitherto been regarded as somewhat 

 doubtful. "The most satisfactory specimens examined are from a 

 lagoon north of Wexford Harbour, collected by the Rev. E. S. 

 Marshall in June 1898." " , 



Mr. Muxro Brigos Scott, a native of Fifeshire, was born on 

 29 April, 1889. He studied m the University of Edinburgh, where 

 he graduated M.A. and B.Sc, showing a marked predilection for 

 Botany, in which he was a pupil of Professor Bayley Balfour, F.ll.S. 

 After graduation Mr. S3ott became a schoolmaster but, preferring 

 botanical work, he com])eted for and secured an assistantship m the 

 Herbarium attached to the Boval Botanic Grardens, Kew, on 1 August, 

 1914. Having attested for military service, Mr. Scott joined the 

 East Surre}" Regiment in February 1916, but was shortlv thereafter 

 transferred to the Suffolk Regiment, promoted lance corporal, and 

 recommended for a commission. This he gained in November 1916, 

 distinguishing himself in the examination, and was gazetted to the 

 Royal Scots Regiment. After obtaining his commission Mr. Scott 

 married Miss F. M. Forbes, M.A., of Pitlochry, Perthshire, and on 

 9 January, 1917, he joined the British Expeditionary Force in France. 

 During an attack on 12 April last he was wounded and, while his 

 wound was being dressed, Avas instantaneousl}^ killed by a high- 

 explosive shell. A man of great capacity, as modest as he was pains- 

 taking, his colleagues at Kew had anticipated for Mr. Scott a 

 successful future. The public service by his death has been deprived 

 of the assistance of a useful and promising member. — D. P. 



The Gardeners'' Chronicle oi Aug. 18 and the Garden of Aup-, 25 

 contain notices (in each case accompanied by a portrait) of the late 

 Charles Tho:\ias Druery, F.L.S., who died at Acton on Aug. 8. 

 His name has been for manv vears associated with the studv and 



