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that mode of growth, and in many large ones (especially as: seen in the 
fossil Fern stems and the Tree Fern of the present day) no such 
n 
tea? ‘“‘bark,” assuming that some terms were necessary to 
designate these objects, and that it was exceedingly undesirable to 
invent new ones where there was so much reason for believing that 
the old ones would do, 
referred, lived through the middle and at the end of the seventeenth 
century. He went to sea at an early period of his life, first as one of the 
buccaneers, and afterwards in the capacity of captain of one of the 
had now done so. The collection possessed no particular points of 
instances mixed and their localities confounded.——“On a Tree 
oe from §.E. Africa.” Extract. from a letter from Mr. T. 
Baines, dated July 15th, 1873.—The tree grew on the slope of 
a rugged hill overlooking the sources of the Inada or Inanda rivulet, 
tributary of the Tugela pinea and perhaps nineteen or twenty miles 
t : ‘ 
in the Noodsberg, “On the Subalpine Vegetation of Kilima *njaro.” 
3 j -———‘‘ On a Course of Prae- 
tical Instruction in Botany.” . By Prof. Lawson.—It having been found 
that those who taught science in the large towns were, as a rule, 
destitute of all practical acquaintance with the subjects they professed 
to teach, and only retailed information with which they had crammed 
