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this old drawing seems to have been completely lost sight of . 

 Enquiry at the Natural History Museum, South Eensington, the 

 Lindley Herbarium at Cambridge, and the Delessert Herbarium 

 at Geneva (which acquired some of Lambert^s specimens), has 

 failed to trace it. Lambert's collections were sold by auction, and 

 it would be interesting to trace the whereabouts of this original 

 drawing. Fortune's Double Yellow also bears the name of 

 Beauty of Gla^enwood and Rosa amabilis, Germain_e de St. 

 Pierre. Crepin (Journ. Hoy. Hort. Soc. xi. p. 220) remarks that 

 it seems very probable that it is only a garden variety of R. 

 giganteay but the idea is not borne out by comparison. It is most 

 like a form of the variable R. indica^ or a variety of it, but the 

 natural limits of this species are so much obscured by hybridisa- 

 tion that it is difficult to form an opinion. At all events there is 



now dried materials at Kew which will be available for future 

 comparison. R, A. r. 



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Mahonia Fortunei and M. confusa. — ^An enumeration of the 



Asiatic species of Mahonia is gi^^en by C- K. Schneider in Sargent, 

 Plantae Wilsonianae, part 3, pp. 378-385, issued May 15th, 1913. 

 To the species there mentioned should be added M. confusa, 

 Sprague in Ke2v. Bull, 1912, p. 339 (published September, 1912). 

 This is a species which was confused by Fedde with M. Fortunei, 

 from which it may be distinguished by the terminal leaflet being 

 separated from the uppermost pair by an internode of the rhachis, 

 by the larger number of leaflets, which are of a different shape, 

 and by other characters. 



Schneider's Mahonia Fortunei evidently includes M, confusa, 

 as he quotes Henry 3117, one of the types of that species. The 

 only other specimen quoted by Schneider as seen by him is 

 Wilson 2882 (Arnold Arboretum Expedition). It is doubtful to 

 which species this belongs, as the number is not yet represented in 

 the Kew herbarium. t. a. s. 



