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Greece or Bulgaria, although it is widely spread both east and 
west of the Balkan Peninsula. 
Carduus Frater Ta var. cinereus was only known from the 
Caucasus and Transcaucasu 
Centaurea pullata was pended only from Portugal, Spain, S. 
France and Egypt. 
onvolvulus tricolor has not previously been recorded east of ' 
Dalmatia except for a doubtful record from Bithynia. It is com- 
mon 8-10 km, north of Salonika. 
Anagallis platyphylla i is a sirintly of Algeria and Morocco, and 
was possibly introduced with army fodder 
Orchis purpurea has only ih recorded previously feiss Thrace 
in the Balkans. 
arex flacca var. pubicarpa was described from Montenegro, 
but has probably a wider distribution in South-East Europe. 
XXXIII.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
J. H. Lacs, C.1.E., F.lu.S.—A frequent visitor to the Kew 
Herbarium, and one held in very high regard by the members 
of the staft there, passed away in June last at his home at 
Exmouth, Devonshire. John Henry Lace was trained for the 
Indian Forest Department at the National Forest School at 
‘Nancy, France, and passed out in 1881. On arrival in India he 
he made an extensive polleision of plants which resulted in 
the publication of “A Sketch of the Vegetation of British 
Baluchistan ’’ by himself and Mr. Hemsley in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
xxvili. (1891) p. 288. At one time he was Assistant Inspector- 
General of Rateets at another he was for a short while Principal 
of the Forest College at Dehra Dun, and again he once officiated 
as Inspector-General of Forests. His last appointment was that 
of Chief Conservator of Forests in Burma, which he held for about 
five years, doing excellent work not only in forest managemen 
but in the study of the flora of some of the less-known regions, 
such as the Shan States and the hills around Maymyo. His use- 
a and accurate ‘List of the Trees, Shrubs, and Climbers of 
described in the Kew “‘ Decades ” aes time to time, chiefly by 
eae. His death at the age of over sixty bye was rather 
& 8s. G. 
