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in cultivation. H. Pictorum var. dasythriz is a form (or species) 
which comes between Pictorum and “eta hace dig includes 
lfstr and, as am modification of the oe the heads 
and Merio i pics var. apne ma is in the heads very 
close to the pee in Lindeberg’s Set, but in foliage and habit related 
to crocatum and corymbosum; it is widely distributed in Britain, 
reaching from the extreme North of Scotland to North Derbyshire, 
and met re in Wales. H. crocatwx: the specimens distri- 
buted are not fully identical with the type, but agree, as Aman 
Dahlstedt remarked on this Braemar plant, | with ‘ = more hairy 
So 
form of the prinine parts of Norway.’ uch material 
aoe and s British forms are not, so fa represented. in 
the set, that the , didedivaaae purpose issuing one more and ¢ 
cluding comin Prag will comprise all that can he bot sieethed 
in reasonable 
THE vical notices of deceased Fellows in the Proceedings 
of the Linnean vases are so valuable as records of scientific 
workers that we regret to notice in the recent part (from Noy. 1898 
to June, 1899) the ipeetores details suited rather to a local 
newspaper than to the proceedings of a learned body. A whole 
page, for example, is devoted to a biography of one Fellow whose 
chief qualification for fame seems to have been the possession of 
a high order—which he sang ‘‘on the evening before his death” ! 
It is of course true that the Linnean Society imposes no scientific 
test upon candidates for admission to its ranks, but it can hardly 
be necessary to make the fact conspicuous by the pablention of 
notices like the one in mere 
die Habitus der Coniferen, and is udy in cana ire 
should be of special interest to sadants of forestry. We in 
e Conifers representatives of a ae rmic type, W. wher, as in 
pes excelsa, one strong main axis bears lateral branches of 
bilateral structure, which are so shuehtaty lateral that they pondbn 
replace the main axis if the latter be remove On the other 
hand, there is the polycormic type, eal shown in the fastigiate 
Irish Yew , where there — . =e of erect radial axes. Between 
the extreme forms are nu us gradations, and the study of 4 
relation between main axis ae brane and between n primary bran 
and secondary bran ch, and so on, as determining the habit of, a 
given species, is the burden of Dr. ‘Burtt's dissertation. It com- 
ae 
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