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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
THE SPORTOPHYTE. 
There can be no question that the Editor of The Sportophyte 
is, to use a not uncommon expression, ‘a sport.’ She tells 
us she ‘ delights in hazards of many kinds,’ and also, still to 
use her own words, ‘ incidentally she has just been married.’ 
To commemorate this incident, presumably, she has ‘ halved’ 
the price of the ‘Sportophyte,’ though it has one page more 
than the previous ‘ volume,’ which, oddly enough, was a 
“double number,’ whereas ‘ volume’ II. is not. Yet when 
Volume I. was issued, the editor was a single number, whilst 
now she is but the ‘ better half’ of another. And we are told 
that the second part should have appeared on April: rst! 
BOTANISTS AT PLAY. 
There are one or two amusing skits in ‘ volume ’* II, and 
some severe criticisms. There is also some more ‘rabbit-meat ’. 
We learn (page 2)— 
“Why these things are called Botany 
Is more than I can tell ; 
Some German must have named them— 
Perhaps to him they’re hell.” 
The Editor goes on to explain that ‘hell’ is German: one 
wonders why the ‘l’s’ on the very next page are upside down! 
BOTANICAL GLEANINGS. 
Amongst the items of botanical information gleaned from 
The Sportophyte we learn that a farmer expressed the wish 
that an experiment station would ‘breed flat. peas which 
won't fall off the knife as I eat ’em.’ If there were no bacteria, 
a man might be nearly cut in two, and the wound would heal 
in an hour or two.’ ‘ Food travels from cell to cell, to the 
Bachelor bundles.’ [The Editor, having only been married 
a week or two when her ‘volume II’ appeared, doubtless resisted 
the temptation of referring to marriage being.‘a cell’]. “A 
runner is a useful method. of profligration.’ We learn as a 
‘ tail-piece,’ that ‘ envelopes containing contributions should be 
stamped and addressed to the Editor, M. C. Stopes, Botanical 
Department, University College, England,’ and we presume 
the same remark will apply to envelopes containing subscrip- 
tions (1/-). 
AN INTERNATIONAL PHYTOGEOGRAPHICAL EXCURSION. 
What is probably one of the most extensive as well as the 
most important botanical excursions ever arranged in the 
British Isles will take place during the present month. In 
* This is a botanical joke. The booklet has 24 pages—and the pric¢ 
is $d. a page. 
{gtr Aug. I. 
