Marcu 8, 1919.] 
(February Pia v irom His Majesty King 
ALBERT, ws wishe it r^ see the immense damage 
caused by сЕ п army to Belgian industries 
enidy rd nsi Dietro by Fir — The 
stately and be antifal mansion of Te һау" gren 
wall, was А A to the un during the early 
26th ult. "Lehidy is sta ated to have 
ў J st family for 800 
г, from an interior stand- 
t Баш mansion in Cornwall. 
a а б were engag e to carry out a 
scheme of beauti tyi ing the the ceiling gs and 
; were ornamented SER p onn desigbe and 
walls 
beautiful pictures. Apart from the sentir vues 
aspect, the p ch ле pees is a calamity fo 
Cornwall. the summer of 1 
house, with some husa: reds of acres of park 
lands and woods, was acquired by the Cornw 
s r 
County Council as a war азаар. to be adapted 
asa а ен. for the trea nt of tubercular 
diseases, at a cost of about £2 isa 
was raised by 
9 liv. es were los E but * le else was save 
nidy was handsomely 
state well w rhe ‘and within s a Ten minutes 
ga 
were amongst the finest in the 
wo L Jute eresting Lycopods.—Only a few mem 
rs of the Lycopod family, notably in the 
ometimes utilised in the 
t to th of 
ries of m world. 
ritish Association met 1914 
the war 
1 
covery of both these i ки 
genera аге ing si : 
pecies are Iso 
glossum Drumm mondii, 
ano 
и псе. Professor Osborn, Hs EE К 
hase. the curi us root development of both 
hts, sa di h 
n alluvial sa: 
= Tho su pply "s fertilisers Gai 
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a 
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| Can probably bo obtain bacis ery of these materials 
THE GARDENERS’ 
Professor Кар -The late 
exa death oc- 
15, 16 3 
s vot 
o work. In consequence of the war no i edi quate 
memoir of him has been pes in CM coun- 
iry, and t he follow accor f hi rk will 
be re ы ` JX 
was generally К known, 
at Robechie ‚ їп Bains: 116, 
years of his aches or 
with th ucurbitaceae cn con 
uing with the Melastumaceae, but the latter 
rt of his life was devoted мшу to J 
Or hidaceae, more pants ially he Orchid 
of Brazil and neighbouring countries. Ні 
first contribution of importan to systema 
botany is am account o ne 
azil, appeared in ManriN's Flora 
Braziliensis (1878), and ia was followed by a 
monograph of the whole family in DE CANDOLLE's 
CHRONICLE. 
у 
113 
Mi we. m iiv specie of which 55 are 
ndemic гез ынаа из, "36 species, = which 
26 are e ndemic; Cattley , 55 species, which 
28 are endemic; Pogonia, 29 EM ot which 
27 are endemic. About 140 genera of Orchids 
re represente the Brazilian flora, re 
the M е andi ypes : Acc allis, Centre 
glos: чад nan he, Chytroglossa, C кө. 
Dipten anthus, Gomeza, Grobya, Izabelia, Lep 
totes, Paradisa nthus, Б киы: Platyrhiza 
Pogoniopsis, Quekettia. Sanderella, Saundersia 
Sephronitis, W vest mri CoaNrAUX also 
tributed a very elaborate Eg iem of West 
Indian Orchid > Ursan’s Symbolae Antil 
$ nae. This comprised ME »f 500 species 
be AEN to genera. But the work by which 
CocNIAU3 agg mnown to horticulturists is 
wi 
the Di cti ionnair Jconographique de 
wW hic 'h he published in epee ы: the Bel- 
G 
botanical artis {OOSSE 
in 64 part s (1897- 1907). 
voted to cuitivate sd Orchids, « com- 
8 Orchidées, 
A ese 
c 
prises 832 одл, plates іп 
Аз а plement to 5 WOT 
publication, entitled Chronique 
appeared in 
same period, He also described a 1 
a des 
escript iv 
Ore ces nig 
1, 
cor sol ен numbers during the 
arge number 
Fic. 43.—THE FIRST VILLAGE CENTRE FOR DISABIED MEN: 
page 
(See 
Monographs. To ame great work (77. Bras.) 
pares: ою the Melastomaceae, which 
the eir grea eatest concentration in Brazil, the 
1 which 800 а: 
pen belongin g to 58 genera (of gs 
endemic) This was оке d by a monogra 
wi which FAETH Pu 
‚102 
T s bed а, as D". cl ay 
ficient int to give more tailed particulars 
of his contributions to the literature of Orchids. 
the first place came the Orchids of Brazil, 
d 
g ore t 
thirteen follows : Pleuro- 
3 speci of whith 198 s species are 
peta Bpidendrun. 128 pee ecies, p whic 
en demic ; rege te 07 „of 
ndem: Habe Ў 
E 
^ d 
из 
“PLZ h 
ku 
of which 
ecies, of 
50 species 
30 + 
which 34 endemic ; 
of which at ok endemic ; 
Stelis, 44 species, 
en 
h 89 are 
which 86 
ENHAM FARM SEEN FROM 
112.) 
of new species 
in J. Lin Jou 
THE PARK. 
es 
in fhe 
Orchidées. This sued his ee 
when he again took the Cucurbitaceae and 
Melastomaceae, as we ig Fite from a у sym- 
pathetic memoir of the deceas nist by Dr. 
R. SCHLECHTER, which appeared in Orchis, 1916, 
with an exc t portrait COGNIAUX -was en- 
gage the final proofs of the first volume of 
a new monograph of Cucurbitaceae when he was 
suddenl кет with [жесе т and died his 
chair. hus mercifully V ed the career of a 
most lovable m and dis uished taxonomist 
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