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me calyx glabrous or rarely with a very few appressed hairs 
r base. Ca he pedicelled or not. 
Dist ribution.—Hast Corsica: Ajaccio! South Corsica: Boni- 
(ows Porras Cap de Fénne! North Corsica: Biguglia 
ouy) 
Borns authors, such as Ny man (Conspec. Fl. Eur. iii. re 
1881) and Coste (Fl. a - 163, 1904), use the name S. rupic 
Badar. to include both e Sardinian and Corsican forms, whilst 
others unite them Snaee "the name S. minuta L. var. acutifolia 
(e.g. Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xii. 655, 1848; Mori in Parlatore, Fl. 
ital. viii. 585, 1888). 
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION AT MANCHESTER, 
By J. Ramssorrom, M.A., F.L.S. 
THE eighty-fifth annual meeting of the British Association 
was held at Manchester, September 7th to 11th. As was befitting 
at the present period of storm and stress, most of the usual social 
functions of the meeting were omitted, an omission which, i 
it became cabin would make the meetings more formally 
scientific, but would have a deleterious effect upon the finances of 
the Association 
e Botany Section (K) was under the presidency of Professor 
a = ae who took as the subject for his address some aspects 
of the study of pent morphology, which branch of botany he 
regards as ‘the study and pages explanation of the form 
structure, and development of pt ” This abandons the more 
customary — views that m sew ere is restricted to genealo- 
gical problems. It is inte cresting to — a are to widen 
the field of the various branches of b ich 
ney whic 
end, it is to be hoped, in the pooeionith OF "hotenk sts. Professor 
Lang himself sounded a warning—‘ We are brought up against a 
fact which is readily overlooked in gee days of specialization, 
that Botany is ae scientific study of plants.” The address is 
ae for a somewhat broader philosophical outlook than is 
in — -day botany. It was stated that in the 
e of sticks than a tree.” There i s to be noted a sign of 
5 bad e of attitude towards shirt iogical problems and an 
increased saitie pes dae to look upon development and construction 
from a causal standpoint. Developmental physiology, together 
with genetics, would be the president’s idea of General or Causal 
aia es ogy. General morphology agrees with sh nileay | in its 
m being a causal explanation of the plant and not historical. 
ican OF ; Bossies, —Vou. 53. [Novemper, 1915.) 2B 
