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It is scarcely necessary to remark that as regards districts 
imperfectly explored, such as the range of the Great Atlas, the 
ifficult 
may regard some subspecies proposed by me as mere v ’ 
uller acquaintance with the vegetable population of the region 
which we traversed in haste will be needed to determine how 
the rank here conjecturally given to each form is entitled to perma- 
nent recognition 
(To be continued.) 
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wicz, that Dr. Planchon had not only previously recognised the 
Chinese tree as the type of a genus, but that he had, by a remarkable 
quently suggested. 
The latter circumstance is so singular that I think it well, for my own 
neglected shrubberies and on waste groun I 
‘hruxton, but that it is almost extinct there now, owing to altera- 
tions. He suggests that it may have originally escaped from cultiva- 
* See p. 171 of this volume. —(Zd. Journ. Bot.) 
