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sometimes 



form from 6-18 ft. high. The branches are 

 in diameter, and the close-grained yellowish wood bears a striking 

 resemblance to boxwood. The wood is not in regular use, 

 although it has been employed for gunpowder charcoal^ either 

 pure or mixed with wood of RJiammis Frangnla. It is also used 

 for cogwheels, walking sticks, butchers' skewers, and toothpicks. 

 From the two latter uses the common name of prickwood origin- 

 ated. The common names of hounds'-iree and dogwood are said 

 to have occurred by reason of a decoction of the bark being used 

 for washing mangy dogs. Hr appears probable that both this 

 species and C Mas might be profitably employed under coppice 

 conditions for walking sticks and gunpowder charcoal. 



XX.— MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



We learn that Mr. S. C. Hahlaxd, B.Sc, has been appointed 

 Assistant Agricultural Superintendent, St. Vincent, in succession 

 to Mr. F. Birkinshaw, transferred to Mauritius {K. B,, 1914, 



p. 227). 



BEHGliX 



n^ 



Th 



recent announcement of the appointment of Dr. Klas Robert 

 Elias Fries as Director and Professor at the Bergielund Garden 



demands notice* H 



(1802 



1913), who was Professor of Botany in the Royal University of 



from 



(lT94-lvST8), tlie brilliant expositor of the Fungi, termed by Sir 



Mycol 

 America 



has 



ma 



Since 1905 he has been Docens 



(Lecturer) in Botany in^his IJniversity. 



Bergielund, a name bestowed by its founder, otherwise known 

 '-" Hortus Bercn'nTinR and in Swedish as Bereriansk Botaniska 



Tradgarden, is sitiiated at Albano, a shoit distance to the north- 

 west of Stockholm. It was bequeathed to the R<)yal Academy of 

 Science by Peter Jonas Bergius (pron. Bare-yus), Avho died m 

 1790, a"-ed 60. He had been a ^jupil of Linnaeus, and was 

 author o*l " Descriptiones plantarum ex Capite Bonae Spei,*' 1767. 

 The bequest took effect in 1791, and the Academy became 

 possessed of a garden devoted in perpetuity to horticulture and 

 botany, of about 17 acres in extent, together with a library of 

 5,000 volumes, an herbarium of 9,000 species in 15,632 sheets, 

 and the largest part of the testator's estate. 



The Academy appointed Olof Swartz (17G0-1S18) as the first 

 Professor and Director; on his death he was succeeded by J. E. 

 "Wikstrom (1789-1856), in turn followed by Nils Johan Apdersson 

 (1821-1880). The last-named retired from ill-health in 1879, 

 and was succeeded by Yeit Brecher Wittrock, whose labours and 

 success in establishing the '' Acta horti Bergiani " are widely 

 known and appreciated. His recent death is much deplored. 



