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‘Herr Fleischer found = bits of this species intermixed with 
E, micronesiense, and growing on the same piece of bark. To separate 
them aoe the latter one Sti is necessary to employ the microscope. 
EPATICE, 
1, Pi ychanthus striatus Nees ab Es. eens Eur. iii. p, 212 (1838). 
Plateau, No. 218. 
Geogr. Pra Malay Archipelago, India. Japan, Tropical Africa. 
Licue 
1. Usnea articulata pian Deiat Flor. ii. p. 185 (1795). 
Phosphate Hill, no 
eogr. Distr. ‘Shee 
2. Ramalina calicaris Fries, Lich. Eur. p. 30 )( 1831). 
Phosphate Hill, no. 220; Flying Fish Cove, no. 223. 
Geogr. Distr. Widely distributed j in Asia, Europe, America. 
_ 8. Parmelia abs B ge Meth. p. 217 (1803). — 
- Phosphate Hill, no. 22 
Feige istr. ae tan. 
The fragmentary specimen appears to be a state of P. verforata, 
and with it is associated an incomplete lichen which perhaps should 
be referred to Squamaria. 
CLASSIFICATION OF PLANTS. 
By A. B. Rennie, M.A., D.Se. 
T may be of interest to call attention to two exhibitions of 
historical "ine which gi ts recently been placed on view at the 
History up to the time of Linneeus, has been n arranged, with assist- 
- 5. B. Woodward. Of botanical interest are works of 
Theophrastus, Pliny, and Dioscorides illustrating the classic period, 
classification of plants, and the gradual evolution of a more or less 
Natural System. It is a poe on the historic value of the 
bdebemsc library that such an ibition was possible after its 
urces had ba Seavily taxed for the supply of the more general 
exhiition to which we have just referred. 
1€ classical writers on Natural History—Theophrastus, Pliny, 
and Dioscorides—were — with a large number of plants, si 
