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actual knot. 2. That if really a knot, it is the result of an irre- 
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life. In any case the specimen is an interesting one, and worthy 
the notice of the Botanical Society 
Dr. Borrtace has issued the first fascicle (Ranunculacee— 
Polyestaeony of what will evidently be a useful new oo ue of 
the trees and shrubs ae gaa in the Buitenzorg Garde 
contains short diagnoses of several new species and eae and 
of a new genus of Anonace (Platymitra). An index makes the 
the order under consideration does not appear at the top of each 
page. We doubt whether, from a bibliographical standpoint, it is 
correct to cite ‘Dryand. et Ait.” as the authority for the new species 
published in ed. 2 of the Hortus Kewensis. 
Mr. C. A. Barser has been appointed Government Botanist in 
the Madras Presidency. His principal duties will be the prose- 
cution of the systematic botanical survey of the Presidency. 
“ Appenprx III. 1898”’ of the Kew Bulletin, bearing the Stationery 
Office date “3/99,” was issued during April; it contains a ‘list of 
the staffs” of Kew and the establishments in corres spondence with 
Tue most recent part (vol. vii., band 1) of the npn der 
Kg!. bot. Gesellschaft in Regensburg ‘contains the first instalment of 
an enumeration of Regensburg Mosses by Dr. I. Familler, paper rs 
on Willows Soe the results of an examination of Koch’s types) 
by Dr. Anton Mayer, an important paper by Dr. H. Poverlein on 
Bavarian Potentillas and other systematic of: biological papers, 
relating for the most part to the flora of Regensburg. 
Tue Gardeners’ Chronicle for April 15 gives a portrait and 
oes of Mr. Henry Thomas Soppitt, of Halifax, formerly of 
ford, in which latter town he was born on June 21, 1858. 
The biography, by Mr. CG. B. Plowright, cara an account of Mr. 
a considerable work among the fungi, which had been pre- 
usly ¢ ee in the genus Sopettallea, He died at Halifax 
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