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near Maidstone, as practically contemporaneous. The Sloane 

 Herbarium specimen has the small markedly hastate leaves of 

 the Basingstoke plant, so that the foliage, the dialysed corolla, 

 and the absence of pink coloration combine to suggest that the 

 form is a depauperate one. — G. S. Boulgee. 



Geeek Plants. — At Itea, on the Gulf of Corinth, I gathered 

 in May, 1914, Bupleurum semicom^ositum L., which Mr. C. C. 

 Lacaita kindly identified. It is not given for Greece either in 

 Nymans's Conspectus or by Halacsy. At Patras, and on the main- 

 land near Phaleron I saw Polygonum heterophyllum Lindman, 

 and at Canone Corfu Crepis setosa Hall f., which is new to that 

 island. The true Veronica Anagallis L. I noticed near the 

 monastery on Pentelicon. — G. Claridge Deuce. 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, dc. 



On and after New Year's Day the following fees will be 

 charged, " in the interests of national economy," for admission to 

 the Koyal Botanic Gardens : On Mondays, Wednesdays, Thurs- 

 days, Saturdays, Sundays, and Good Friday, Id. On Tuesdays 

 and Fridays, except Good Friday (Students' Days), 6d. A charge 

 of 3d. is made for the admission of photographic apparatus. 

 Bath-chairs will be permitted to enter the Gardens during public 

 hours when the condition of the paths is suitable on payment 

 of I5. on Students' Days (Tuesdays and Fridays, except Good 

 Friday), and on payment of 6d. on other days. Students' permits, 

 available till the close of the calendar year and obtainable on 

 written application to the Director by bona fide students and 

 artists, will be issued on payment of a fee of 5s. These permits 

 will cover free entrance on Students' Days and before public hours 

 on week days except Good Friday and Bank Holidays. Season 

 tickets, available till the close of the calendar year, can be 

 obtained on written application to the Director on payment of a 

 fee of £1. These tickets will cover admission on any day during 

 public hours. 



Kew, which is thus prominently before the general public — w4io 

 will hardly like being deprived of a privilege which they have 

 possessed, w^e think, since 1841 — has lately come under the notice 

 of the literary world in the Memories of Lord Eedesdale, who 

 devotes a chapter to his reminiscences of Sir Joseph Hooker. 

 He is somewhat aggrieved at Sir WiUiam Thiselton-Dyer's refer- 

 ence to the Office of Works (of which, as Mr. Freeman- Mitford, 

 Lord Eedesdale was Secretary) as having regarded Kew Gardens 

 as " only a pleasure-ground," and as " never having felt much 

 sympathy for its scientific character and functions." The re- 

 flection is the more strongly resented in that it was during Mr. 

 Mitford's secretariat, and to some extent through his influence, 



