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the moment to make any suitable response, because it was so 
unexpected. The encouragement and help w he gave to many 
. : : 
gratitude and affection. On this point I can myself insist with 
emphasis, for when I left school and became immersed in business 
engagements, and was surrounded by friends and relations who 
ew and cared nothing about Botany, I should probably have 
critical plants and fill up gaps in their herbaria, in referring 
back to his notes and catalogues (as he was as o do so 
often in his latter years), to explain the details on the faith of 
which he had stated some record in general terms, his patience 
and assiduity were elt and no one but pag mie lived 
with him knew what a large proportion of his tim often 
occupied in this way. In helping by money to the fall « orton of 
his pecuniary means, and by judicious counsel, such of his iends 
and acquaintance as fell into illness and misfortune, his liberality 
was very great. Such traits as these can, from the nature of the 
case, live only in the pans of one here and another there who 
knew him by personal contact 
His funeral took place at the rustic church of the village with 
which he has been so long identified, on the afternoon of Wednes- 
day, August 8rd. The closed shutters of the village shops testified 
to the respect in which he was held by his neighbours, and, in 
addition to his relatives, the following botanists resident in London 
ps the neighbourhood were ads :—Sir J. D. Hooker, the Hon. 
. Warren, the Rev. 7 
ak Blow, Boulger, Britten, Dyer, H. Groves, and B. D. Ja ekeon: 
A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS PITCAIRNIA. 
By J. G. Baxer, F.R.S. 
(Continued from p, 233.) 
19. P. runruracea, Jacq. Bete 117, t. 79; Sims in Bot. Mag. 
t. 2657.—P. ramosa, Jacq. Eelog. 154. —Tyeaves linear, about 2 ft. 
long, about an inch broad, acuminate, not distinctly sata 
naked on the rane, white- rags on the bac 
foot long; axis stout and floccose ; pedicels ascending, }-} in. 
long ; bracts poe as long as the pedicels. Sepals ying His 
i-{ in. long. Pet guna in. long, bright, red, Seale at the 
- Nige and style “i protr . uded.— " mes ne eae 
specific 
met Jlg@e ecg a. Co fp Blumenb. 24, t. 8.— 
P. affinis, K. Koch, Mon. 5.—Leaves linear, 14-2 ft. long, an inch 
broad at the middle, acuminate, not distinctly petioled, green and 
