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tufted plant evidently and as I can recollect of dry open downs 
at high elevations, the other a more elongated plant of lower 
elevations, but belonging, I think, to the same species. What 
the true A. oblonga, DC. is, I am not quite sure, but the descrip- 
tion seems to me to agree well with the latter form. In m 
opinion, A. elliptica, DC. Prodr. vi. 274, which is Gnaphalium 
ellipticum, DC. in Wt. Contrib. 21, is a distinct species instead 
of being a variety, as Hooker made it, of A. oblonga, and the 
other variety Lawii is also, I think, distinct, and I have 
considered it as such in the “‘ Flora of the Madras Presidency.” 
XL. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Tue Earu oF Ducts, P.C., G.C.V.O., F.B.S., F.G.S., F.L.S.— 
The death of this veteran arboriculturist in his 95th year will be 
much regretted by all who knew him. He was the father of the 
House of Lords, for a very long period the Lord Lieutenant of 
Gloucestershire and a Vice-President of the Royal Horticultural 
Society, and in my judgment the best tree-planter in Great 
Britain. His love of trees began when he was a comparatively 
young man, succeeding his father 68 years ago to the ownership o 
Tortworth Court, the most beautiful and one of the best managed 
estates in the Vale of Gloucester. He at once began to plant 
not only conifers, which were then the fashion, but all the hard- 
wood trees which he could procure. Many others have done this, 
but none have, as far as I know, realised to the same degree 
that it is not enough to plant a tree unless it is cared for afterwards, 
and up to the last year or two of his long life he had no greater 
pleasure than the tending and careful pruning of the trees he 
had planted. The result is that the trees at Tortworth are now 
models of good cultivation which can be matched only in the 
Kew Arboretum. 
When I began to study the Trees of Great Britain, no one 
gave me more help and encouragement than Lord Ducie, and 
no other place in England has contributed so much to my 
knowledge. He enjoyed nothing better than a walk round his 
trees with anyone who was interested, and, being an active man 
even when past 80, he was always pressing on to more discoveries 
in his numerous plantations, to which there seemed to be no end. 
When Professor Sargent and the late Professor Asa Gray 
visited Tortworth together many years ago, he was able to show 
them three trees of the Pacific States which neither of them 
had seen in their native country, and which will not live in New 
England, and the Chilean ‘“‘ Beech ’’ (Nothofagus obliqua), raised 
from a seed which I brought home in 1902, now nearly 40 feet 
in height, was a source of unfailing pleasure to him to show 
visitors. His generosity in distributing from his stock to those 
interested in arboriculture was only exceeded by his love for 
his trees. Fata 
