- 284 
Branches short, paniculate (not corymbose), 
flowerin e 
high; leaves yellowish- green (not 
grey-green), the lower sparingly 
toothed to quite entire, ciliate with 
almost cae pappus usually 
tawny - - - - 2, E. canadensis. 
E. linifolius has at various times been placed in the genus 
Conyza, with which it and its allies of the Section Coenotus, 
Nutt. (Genus Lepiilon, Raf.) mee a connecting link, by their 
very short and inconspicuous 4 was removed from 
Conyza by Bentham & Hooker (Gen. PL ii. p. 283 
XXXV.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Capt. F. Burnett, M.C., B.A., has been appointed by the 
Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the recommendation of 
Kew, a Divisional Agricultural Officer in the Department of 
Agriculture, Ceylon. 
Mr. D. Pratn, Agriculturist, Nyasaland (K.B., 1919, 446) has 
been appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Senior 
District Agricultural Officer in the Tanganyika Territory. 
Mr. A. E. Haarer has been appointed by the Secretary of 
State for the Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, a District 
Agricultural Officer in the Tanganyika Territory. 
Mr. H. A. DavE has been appointed by the Secretary of State 
for the Colonies, — Mycologist in the Department of 
Agriculture, Gold Coa 
Mr. J. A. imines has been appointed by the Secretary of 
age for the Colonies, Assistant Agricultural Superintendent, 
t. Kitts-Nevis 
Botanical Exp on in French West Africa.*—Under the 
subjoined title Dr. A. Chevalier has published a complete list OL. 
botanical specimens gathered during his journeys in the Western 
Sudan from 1898 to 1912. The chief object of these expeditions 
was the investigation of the agricultural and forest resources of 
French West Africa, and for this purpose Dr. Chevalier travelled 
upwards of 50,000 kilometres, and collected about 10,700 
botanical specimens. 
* Aug. Chevalier. Exploration botanique de |’Afrique occidentale 
francaise, Tome i., Enumération des Plantes Récoltées, pp. 795, and 
a vegetation map. (Paris, 1920, 60 fr.) 
