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alive till late in the following spring, appearing to be perennial ; others 

 flower in May, shed their seed during the summer, and succumb on the 

 approacli of winter, which makes me (contrary to my first impression) con- 

 sider it to be only an annual after all. An eminent botanist of the pre- 

 sent day informs me this plant was introduced into Britain in 1794. 



3. Epiloblum hirsidimi. — The mode generally adopted by Phsenogamic 

 plants to perpetuate their kind is by seed, but the method chosen by Epi- 

 loblum hlrmtum for the multiplication of the species appears to me 

 strange, anomalous, and apparently unique. It is as follows :— Numerous 

 horizontal scions are thrown out i'rom the foot of the stem ; these take 

 root, and become detached from the parent plant by that part of the shoot 

 nearest the stem, which rots. Each scion now becomes a new plant, 

 firmly maintaining an independent existence. This very handsome plant 

 is susceptible of being cultivated, which I have done for years. It how- 

 ever attains greater luxuriance and beauty when left to nature's care ; in 

 its wild state, under favourable circumstances, frequently attaining a height 

 of six or seven feet. This plant, though plentiful in England and Ire- 

 land, is far from being common in Scotland, and appears to disappear 

 altogether beyond the fifty-seventh parallel. It occurs in the neighbour- 

 hood of Perth in two or three localities, and is found in abundance near 

 to Pittenweem, in Fife. Epilobiuni angristifolinm seems to be more com- 

 mon in Scotland than this species, occurring in several places in Perth- 

 shire, as on the banks of the Almond Tay, near the foot of Ben Lawers, 

 and is also found clambering to the top of the Ochils. John Sim. 



Obituary Notices. — Mr. W. G. Perry, 



Died, on the 25th of March, 1863, at his residence in Warwick, Mr. 

 William Groves Pei'ry, aged sixty-seven. He was a Fellow of the Bota- 

 nical Society of Edinburgh, and a contemporary of Loudon, Purton, and 

 Bree, and a contributor to the earUer volumes of the magazine published 

 by the former of these authors, as well as being himself the author of a 

 work on the plants of Warwickshire, called ' Plantse Varricenses Selectee,' 

 ■which, although of great merit, was not as well known as it should have 

 been. This was probably owing to its having been published by the 

 author at Warwick. It has been for some time out of print, but at the 

 time of Mr. Perry's death he had nearly completed the additions and cor- 

 rections of a new edition, which we hope will shortly appear. Mr. Perry 

 was for many years Honorary Secretary of the Warwickshire Natural 

 History and Archaeological Society, taking great interest in Archaeology, 

 as well as Natural History. The urbanity of his disposition, and the free- 

 dom with which he imparted information on all subjects which had been 

 his study, has rendered his death, much regretted by all who knew him. 



Died, at Campbeltown Nursery, on the 23rd May, 1863, at a quarter 

 to twelve o'clock, Thomas Lothian, 



Names of Plants. 



Raspberry. — From its roughness. Compare Swedish and Dutch rasp ; 

 German raspel ; Fr. rape, — whence rappee, a rasjped kind of snuff. 



Holihoc. — A. -Sax. Holihoc. 



London Tride. — Possibly so-called because one of the few plants which 

 grow well in or near London. None-so-pretty (of which Nancy Pretty 



