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visited the Chelsea Physic Garden which he described as “a pretty 
collection but not such as many boast it to be. 
n Smith, Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, from 
1841 to 1864, evidently contemplated a much more comprehensive 
history of the establishment than that afforded by his Records, for 
the library has received from Dr. J. H. Wilson, of the University 
of St. Andrews, a thick volume, foolscap-folio size, containing 
manuscript and printed matter relating to the gardens, an 
lettered ss os back: “ History of the Royal Gardens Kew by 
John Sm 
enn = other presentations to the library may be mentioned 
Hortus Mortolensis, by erger, received from Lady Hanbury ; 
Icones of the Bamboos of Japan, and Jllustrations of Japanese 
Fungi, from the Bureau of Forestry, Tokyo; Plantae Wileenianas, 
edited by Prof. C. S. Sargent, Pate II, from the editor ; North 
American Flora, published by the w York Botanical Garden, 
vol, vil. part 3, and vol, xvii. oe "2, from Dr, N. L. Britton ; 
Icones Plantarum Koisikavenses, yol. i. nos. 1-3, from the editor, 
Prof. J. Matsumura, who has also sent the final part (vol, il. part 2) 
of his Index Plantarum Japonicarum ; nos. 54-61 of the Journal 
of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, from the 
Secretary ; Les plus belles Roses au début du axe siecle, received 
from the Section des Roses de la Société Nationale d’ Horticulture 
de France through the. President, Mr. M. L. de Vilmorin ; a copy 
of Lindley’s Genera and Species of Orchidaceous hig once ie 
property of C. L. Blume, from Sir Everand im Thurn, K.C.M. 
and a set of his numerous papers from Mr. H. N, Ridley. 
should be specially ‘mentioned Mr, J. EK. Anderson, Dr. L, 
Capitaine, Mr. J. Cardoso, Junr., Mr. R. W. T. Giinther, Dr. B. 
Hayata, Mr. U. P. Hedrick, Dr. I’. Nakai, Mr. W. A. Talbot and 
Dr. F. Tobler, will be included in the next supplement to the 
ergs catalogue which will form Appendix 2 to the Kew Bulletin, 
Botanical Magazine for January. —The plants figured are Senecio 
stenocephalus, Maxim. (t. 847 = seee oes Rolfe (t. 8473) ; 
osa sertata is a pretty new species ‘which Mos: Veitch have 
introduced from China and presented to the Kew collection. It is 
qr allied to R. Webbiana, Wall., differing in a laxer habit, 
more slender prickles, longer leaves and narrower fruits, and proves — 
to be identical with two plants received as this species from 
