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was probably too much in advance of its period in America to be a 
financial success, but whose ten volumes are a mine of reliable infor- 
mation, especially in regard to trees and shrubs. In 1894 was 
ublished the Forest Flora of Japan, the outcome of Professor 
argent’s travels in Japan a year or two previously. 
His greatest work, however, and the one on which his literary 
fame will most endure, is the Silva of North America, a magnificent 
EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 
I—A flowery meadow, with Kalmia latifolia in blossom, and 
a spur of Hemlock Hill covered with T'suga canadensis in 
the background, 
I1.—The Rock Elm (Ulmus racemosa), showing the system of 
planting a number of specimens of one species in a group 
with a single isolated one 100 feet or more away. 
XXXVIII—NEW IMPATIENS FROM CHINA. 
J. D. Hooker. 
In April of the present year Prof. C. S. Sargent, Director of the 
Arnold Arboretum, Boston, U.S.A., placed in my hands for exam- 
ination and subsequent transference to the Herbarium of the Royal 
Botanic Gardens, Kew, ten species of Impatiens found by the cele- 
brated traveller and collector Mr. E. H. Wilson in China, during 
is second botanical mission to that country in 1908. Of these the 
following six are new to me, raising the number of Chinese species 
