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fresh currency from a note by Mr. Williams (Prodr. Fl. Brit. 393 
(1910) ) that he had seen a specimen of Leonurus Cardiaca from 
Monmouthshire “in Lightfoot’s herbarium (now at Kew 8 
has already been stated (Journ. Bot. 1910, 238) there is no such 
specimen at Kew, nor are the authorities there aware that they 
and 1858, and that the plants contained therein were distributed ; 
our one nowledge o it as an entity is the reference cited from 
Sir William Hooker. 
Whether Queen Charlotte os te) collection other than that 
aca ian is uncertain: a specimen of Hydrangea radiata Walt. 
n the National Herbarium from Bean’ s collections, labelled b 
ane ve Caratiia: Fraser, ‘trom Queen’s Herb.” suggests that such 
may have been the The Queen was a patron of a scheme 
for Rye Seersen em Kets and bonnets from palm _— which 
mith in Rees 
personages of so elevated a rank have ever loved the study of 
In his notice of Lightfoot 
Smith speaks of “ his frequent invitation as a visitor to Frogmore, 
and to a regular course of conversations, rather than lectures, on 
botany and zoology, which her majesty and the princesses Augusta 
and Elizabeth honoured with their diligent eee 3 the queen 
regularly taking notes of every lecture, which she read over at its 
nclusion, to prevent mistake.’’ Abbot dedicated to her b 
permission his Flora Baiiforlienss (1798): his ‘“epistle dedica- 
tory’”’ concludes: ‘To the st Patroness of the Hortus 
Kewensis, whose sc ciontific sosontehge have justly obtained for 
her the character of the first female Botanist in the me ae 
of the British Dominions,..... this Volume, chiefly 
for the amusement and instruction of that sex which boas ee you 
majesty as its most distinguished Ornament, is humbly deduced.” 3 
A NEW VACCINIUM FROM COSTA RICA. 
By S. F. Buaxe, A.M. 
Vaccinium (§ Disrericma) dissimile. Fruticulus repens 
sabeitpliolte sosatacaae ramis adscendentibus ca. 6-10 cm. altis. 
Caulis ramique brunnei subteretes breviter hirtelli. Folia ovalia 
su la 
bt 
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