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1-5-3 em. longae, 3-6 mm. latae, planae, patentes, rigidulae, 
subglaucae, glabrae, laeves vel sublaeves, nervis permultis 
tenuissimis, primariis subtus utrinque circiter 3 subdistinctis. 
Paniculae longe e summa vagina exsertae, ambitu  ovatae, 
1-5-4 em. longae, graciles, glabrae; rami primarii obliqui, infimi 
ad 2-1 cm. longi, ad medium indivisi, abhinc in racemum 
basi saepe compositum contractum abeuntes; pedicelli inferiores 
3-4 mm. longi, summi et racemulorum laterales multo breviores. 
Spiculae hiantes 1:75 mm. longae, pallide vel glauco-virides; 
rhachillae internodia brevissima, sed _ distincta. Glumae 
aequales, oblongae, 1-5 mm. longae, subacutae vel obtusiuscu- 
lae, scaberulae. Anthoectum inferum $ oblongum, subobtusum: 
valva tenuiter 5-nervis, pallida, tenuiter chartacea; valvula 
structura valvae; lodiculae tenuissimae capillaribus, plerumque. 
Antherae filamentis inter stigmatis pilos retentae, 0°25mm. longae. 
Anthoecium superum 9, intero applicatum et id paulo excendens, 
ei simillimum; lodiculae ut videtur 0; stamina ad staminodia 
minuta vix 0°2 mm. longa clavata redacta. 
Bovurnon. Without precise locality, Balfour. 
V.—THE REV. H. F. TOZER AND PLANTS 
COLLECTED BY HIM IN THE NEARER EAST. 
W. B. TurrRitu. 
Amongst a collection of dried plants recently presented to Kew 
by Miss E. M. Wakefield were found a number of specimens 
collected in the Balkans and Orient by the Rev. H. F. Tozer. 
Some of these come from localities which have been very little 
visited by botanists, such as the Scardus (Shar Dagh or Shar 
Planina) and Pindus Ranges and Mt. Olympus in Lesbos 
(Mitylene). 
The Rev. H. F. Tozer, M.A., F.R.G.S., was born at Plymouth 
in 1829 and died at Oxford on 2nd June, 1916. He became a 
are: “‘ The Highlands of Turkey,” 2 vols., 1869; ‘“ Lectures on 
the Geography of Greece,” 1873; “‘ Primer of Classical Geo- 
graphy,” 1877; Turkish Armenia and Eastern Asia Minor, 
1881; ‘‘ The Church and the Eastern Empire,’ 1888; ‘‘ The 
Islands of the Aegean,’’ 1890; and ‘‘ History, of Ancient 
Geography,” 1897. He edited Finlay’s ‘‘ History of Greece, 
1877, and Wordworth’s “ Greece,’’ 1882, and was also the author 
of the following articles in the Encyclopedia Britannica, ed. 11: 
Attica; Euboea; Santorin; Thessaly; Thrace and Trebizond. An 
