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Mr. J. B. CarruTHuers.—It is with deep regret that we learn 
of the death, at the age of 41, of Mr. John Bennett Carruthers, 
F.R.S.E., F.L. S., whose appointment as Assistant Director, 
Department of Agriculture, Trinidad, was noticed in K.B. for 1909, 
p- 150. The son of Mr. W. Carruthers, F.R.S., formerly Keeper 
of the Botanical Department, British Museum, Natural History, 
r. J. B. Carruthers was educated at the Roy al School of Mines, 
London, and at the University of Griefswald. He became 
Demonstrator of Botany at the Royal Veterinary College in 1892, 
Professor of Botany at the Downton College of Agriculture in 
1895, and in 1898 was deputed to Ceylon to investigate Cacao Tree 
Disease, In 1900 he was appointed Assistant Director of the 
Royal awe hea Peradeniya, and Mycologist to the Govern- 
ment of Cey In 1905 he was transferred to the Federated 
Malay Sate as ai li of Agriculture and Government Botanist. 
In 1909 he was appointed Assistant Director of Agriculture and, 
shortly thereafter, also Government Botanist, Trinidad. During an 
official visit to Toba go he contracted a chill, followed by pleurisy 
and eventually empyema and septic pneumonia, to which he 
succumbed on 17th July, 1910, after an illness of 45 days’ duration. 
Ammannia dentelloides, Kurz.—In 1870 Kurz described a curious 
mud-plant under the name of Ammannia (Rotala) dentelloides 
(Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xxxix. ii. 76) as “frequent in Northern 
Bengal, as in Purneah, Kissengunge, Titalaya, up to the Sikkim 
Terai, in dried up ponds and Hoelields, shortly after the rains ; 
also in Behar, and Arracan in Kolodyne valley, Akyab, &c.” It 
was described as having the habit of Dentella repens, Fort., and 
Ammannia maea, ayeal but differing from the latter in the 
with b etervier pa muscosa, R. Br., a monotypic Seto afeciuctond 
genus found in numerous localities in India, also in Ceylon, Tonkin, 
Ho ngkong, Java, and tropical Australia, 
R. As R- 
Carex runssoroensis, K. Schum.—Up to the present the inflo- 
—— is the only part of this aa species that has been 
escribed, although there is a ae of a complete specimen in 
ja di Bot. Roma, vii. (19 tab. xxxi 
Good specimens, 
oy collected by Sai in the Mabuka RD Ruwenzori, 
no. 3140, have recently been received, and it is now possible to 
it i 
ieecact the description given in the Flora of Tropical Africa, vili., 
516, “ge Pepsi Cyperaceae-Caricoideae, p. 74. 
t grows in compact tufts. All the stems are densely 
slotined the base with shining, chestnut-brown coloured, mem- 
braneous sheaths. The apex of these sheaths bears a more or less 
rudimentary, hardened, acuminate blade. These blades are slightly 
