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flat, the glabrous black body one-nerved on the sides, 44:5 mm. 
long, 1-5 mm. wide, the whitish chartaceous wings ciliolate, very 
narrow or as much as 1 mm. broad, running from base to apex o 
the achene, one or both adnate to the short (0°7-2 mm.) unequal 
or obsolescent awns for about 1 mm. of their length, in the manner 
of Otopappus.—VeErRA Cruz: 1731, Houstown (types in Brit. Mus.) ; 
rocky slopes, Zacuapan, September, 1908, Furpus “ = 2179 * 
(Brit. Mus.). 
MORDECAI CUBITT COOKE. 
(1825-1914.) 
Morpecar Cusirr Cooke was born at Horning, Norfolk, on 
July 12th, 1825. His father, Mordecai Cooke, had been a middle- 
man in the bombazine trade, but when the manufacture of this 
in the village, dealt in everything ne y a rural people 
His wife, Mary Cubitt, was the daughter of the village school- 
master of Neatishead. ecai is a family name dating back to 
who was an excellent penwoman, and it was to her tuition that 
Cooke owed the bold flowing hand so familiar to mycologists. It 
was from his mother that Cooke had his introduction to botany, for 
as a child he collected flowers with her in the Norfolk lanes. In 
1834 he left the dame’s school and was sent to Ilford to be educated 
by his uncle, the Rev. James Cubitt, a nonconformist minister 
most mechanical. 
_ In 1838 Cooke returned to Norfolk and was sent along with 
his brother, who still lives, to a school at Neatishead kept by one 
William Moore. His education here was peculiar. In addition 
to pedagogy, Moore did land surveying; Cooke accompanied him, 
and worked out the results during school hours. At the age of 
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