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humilis from Punta Arenas collected by Cunningham are quite 
different and as stated, nearly allied to C. trapezioides. 
When moistened for examination, the soft flaccid stems of 
this plant are remarkable. 
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Description of Text figures. Fig. 1. Portion of stem (x 12). 2. Cross 
section of stem (x 25). 3-6. Leaves (x12). 7. Margin of leaf at base 
(x 25). 8. Portion of leaf (x 130). 9. Underleaf(x 12). 10,11. Under 
leaves (x 25). 
XXXVIII.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
W. H. Hudson.—The recent death of that keen lover of 
nature and charming writer, William Henry Hudson, cannot 
pass unnoticed in the Bulletin. 
f only as a contributor to the Bulletin, Mr. Hudson’s name 
deserves to be remembered with gratitude. He it was who 
contributed the list of the wild birds in the Gardens in the 
“Wild Fauna and Flora,” published in 1906, and his list is 
prefaced by some characteristic and most interesting notes on 
the habits of the birds found wild in Kew. 
His claim to remembrance however rests on a more important 
and possibly little known service to the Gardens. 
The Queen’s Cottage grounds owe their present wild natural 
condition of untouched rural beauty very largely to Hudson’s 
efforts. As at the time he wrote and championed the cause of 
the Queen’s Cottage grounds being left as a Bird Sanctuary, so 
now, demands are made that the public shall be given access to 
the grounds and be allowed to wander where they will. 
