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said that those, outside the circle of his own family, who most 

 ieel his loss are the countless poor who have benefitted by his 

 wise generosity. His funeral, which took place on March 11th, 

 bore striking testimony to the esteem in which he was held by 

 his Italian neighbours of all classes. As the cortege passed along 

 the coast from La Mortola to San Remo, where the body was 

 cremated, the shops in every place were closed and the whole 

 population joined the sad procession ; about 7,000 people were 

 present to pay their last respects to one who had been in the truest 

 sense their friend. 



A substitute for Coca-Mr. E. M. Holmes lately sent to Kew 



r (lPT^rrm nation anrviA ^w^^^^a.,-. ~£ . . i , « . , «*- 



from 



Herbarium of the Pharmaceutical Society, collected in Peru, by 



Warscewicz in 1853. There is an accompanying note that 'the 

 plant called Tampusa was used like Coca when ascending the 



Cordillera. 

 dactylophyll 



Wet 



Werner 

 Bolivia and 



nfZ^ altl f udes of I 6 ' 000 to 18.000 feet, nernsna is a genus 

 AnJEr m Compositae almost or perhaps quite peculiar to the 



dentt Si °l th K e T nC, ? ing the one in *****<>*> are dwarf, 

 densely tufted shrubs, though commonly described as herbs. 



W. B. H. 



ecies ha« hLn dellcat ^ m > Broth.-A specimen of this new 

 M A F 1 % 1 £l eSent -! d t0 ^ e Herba rium by Mr. H. N. Dixon, 

 1907 1 7 81 i'JhwtT lt A was T describe d in the Journal of Botany, 



±w/, p «i tab. 484, fig. A. It was discovered bv Mr a Wowi. 



of York in ftr»f«Ko. ioaT • tuouuvereu Dy Mr. ix. Webster, 



tainLf orchids a t l^' n^TW 11 brick ^ork in a stove con-' 



SrSSn? ha d H f- Baldei \ sb y Park > Yorkshire. Later in the year 



beini orobahl v d ^ peare 1 d ,' bn * rea PPeared the following autumn 



condm^f fn L "^T^ When V a8 also found ™ d ^ similar 

 Deen foundTn f Z J^iise at Harrogate. Since then it has 



Th?d e arkTreen crowd* m 8 mnL high and 8im P le > or nearly so. 

 and r?und? d aU^I^ 1 leaves ar f, ova *e or oblong-subspathulate, 



hexagonatltbold ^^l™ ^ ^ ^^ l0Dg 

 row is much 8 i ™t P ", . Upper part ' waere the marginal 



The mimUe tE f«'hT qUadrate ' and forms a distin <* border, 

 covered bv a conie L^T ° n a 8eta about 3 ^ long, and is 

 ring o : h^ ^^J™ ^^ . A 8 P ecial featur * is the 

 perfstome'S^whfchS capsnle and the true 



form of « P re-peristome P " 3 A singllcell ofThT/^ C ° nst * ute f 8 a 

 opposite to, and is donM* «.i -j£ * tnis rm S 1S situated 

 appearing (when viewed fn the ™ dtb -of each Peristome tooth, 

 to the ba g ionhe2i m wltb out)like a wide hyaline border^ 



median line The SriJ!™ TT ^ whicn is destitate of a 

 tbeca that they^e V^f^^W* ^in the 



