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Armaria rubella, Br. 



Disk. 1 2 - - 5 G 7 - - - - 12 13. Dat. 69° 15' to 82 3 27'. 

 E., W., and G. 



A variable plant, and depending much upon shelter for its 

 habit of growth ; always found in small patches or in single plants. 

 Densely caespitose at first, straggling and far-trailing at the close 

 of the season. Frequent in Discovery Bay. 



Sea-level to 350 or 400 feet in Discovery Bay. 



A. aretica, Stev. (Ahine bijiora, Wahl.) 



Dist. 1 2. Lat. 69? 15' to 72° 20'. G. 



Disco and Proven ; especially common along the sea-side to the 

 west of Englishman's Bay. 



A. granlandica, Bpr, 



Dist - 12. Lat. 81° 42'. W. 



This plant was very rare in Discovery Bay, and had neither 

 buds nor flowers. It has hitherto been believed to be confined 

 to a few localities in the mountains of North-East America, 

 Juliane haab and Godthaab in South Greenland, and Upernavik 

 in Aortli Greenland. 



(To be continued.) 



WILHELM PHILIP SCHIMPER. 



Wilhelm Philip Schimper was born at Bornheim, in Alsace, on 



January 8th 1808. In early life he devoted his attention to 



mosses and to fossil plants; and to these apparently widely 



emoved subjects of study he devoted his life. Few scientific men 



present themselves to their fellow -workers at once as the author of 



Jl!™ f U /i mouo ° 1 ' a P h of a great family ; but Schimper, having 

 seemed the co-operation of Bruch and Giimbel, made his first 

 puhhc appearance in 183G as the editor and chief author of the 

 -bijologia Luropaea.' A short paper on five new Chilian mosses 

 appeared in the same year in the French - Annales,' but Schimper's 

 time was so fully occupied with the labours connected with the 



P fl ?,Wni WOV \ 8 T oi . L hs lif *-the < Bryologia ' and his < Traite de 

 Paleontologie Vege tale '-that he published comparatively few 

 short memoirs. The great labour of the ' Bryologia ' fell chiefly 



SiSr Pet ! . mdeed Bmch died in ^e Progress of the work, and 

 of S It* aSslstance 1 w f ™ l J temporary. The wonderful drawings 

 mJe L T C16S Wh i Ch illust ™te the various monographs that 

 me^nn a? X V0lu T 80f the 'Bryologia' are lasting nionu- 

 whh l,/nl 1S lgenCe ' abilit ^' aud critical knowledge. Beginning 

 a m „, In* f TT °i S C T C 7 W '> he S ives for each species such 



tint thf ° f detw l ™ th "*■** t0 the various parts Lid organs 

 elicit nothing seftniK in m w<- a„. *„±^_ _ *. i _ ?-n. 



nen o J. "f T J°, be left for future systematic workers with 

 but fnrS lhe V<".'/»« were not included in this great work, 



1860 h?n?J) ^a 1 ' I "4 S ° t0 s P° ak - supplementary volume. Li 

 into a J2 f a ^ h r k to the European MoLes, reducing 



Tl Hbp S r° } U T hlS labourH of neai -!y a quarter of a century. 

 Itoa he published as a « Synopsis Muscorum Europreorum.' A 



