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neat compact plant comes under var. montanum (Johnst.) as a 
colour form, and, with Mr. Haggart’s specimens before me, this 
seems a most reasonable view. As noted before in this Journal 
(1914, p. 140), I consider, however, that Johnston’s montanum is 
really as a part of Oliver’s ertcetorum, ae | is connected to it by 
numberless intermediate states.—C. E. Saumon. 
OHN WILKINS.—Among some notes which have accumulated 
for the new edition of the Biographical Index of British and Irish 
Botanists (now, I am glad to say, approaching completion), I find 
one from the late Otto Kuntze which reached me in 1898. did 
on the chance that some one may be able to supply such ean 
tion. Kuntze’ s latter, which I print verbatim et literatim, was a 
companied by an advertisement of the collection and an anaes 
tion of its So the heading of which is as bee — 
30, sis si ities aus Werken), vereinigt in 137 aga 
Band 
The sae runs :— 
‘‘ Villa Girola San Remo, Italia 
“ Dear Mr. Britten! 5/10/98 
“T see from your last number of J. of bot. that you 
continue your Bibliographical Index of British botanists. Ma 
you enclose the following note as far as you like and complete it: 
“ WILKINS, JOHN (18 . . - + 1875) b........ , d.in Dres- 
den, Saxony and made there the greatest Digerati! collection 
of Icones plantarum with very good indices (4 vol. folio + 2400 
pages in 4 columns, that proved him to have been a very learned 
botanist, but he did not publish anything. Otto Kuntze possesses 
now therefrom the Phanerogame (137 volumes in gr.-folio), 
Cryptogame vasculares (1 vol.) and Alge (5 vol.), the Mia and 
n n 
San 
Museum and contains 35400 icones with 4 950 hand-made aw- 
ut it may be the most valuable existing, therein vane enclosed 
the tables cut out of many very rare older works, that are no more 
to be bought even from second hand. 
‘That collection was bold after the dead of John Wilkins to 
the bookseller Loeser Wolff in Dresden then to Friedlaender & 
Sons in Berlin and to myself. fin is all I can say from that 
with ti botanist ; epcrnere hs an find more dates ee him 
JAMES Buibekn, 
es Reopens nee ce ORI Aiea 2! 
