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the neighbourhood of Gibraltar, and again lately near Tangier. A 
hybrid between N. viridiflorus a . serotinus was found by him 
near Gibraltar, and a series of hybrids between N. viridiflorus an 
N. elegans were got in North Morocco. Mr. Maw observed that N. 
serotinus was limited to the South of Spain and N. elegans to the 
Morocco coast; the latter plant bearing true leaves. The N. nudi- 
florus and N. serotinus he asserted were leafless, the scape appearing 
without leaves, and what seemed leaf-organs he assumed were 
flowerless scapes. Mr. Maw also referred to the abundance of a small 
Amaryllid, Tapeinanthus humilis Herbert (= Pancratium humile Cav.), 
about eight miles south of Tangier, and which he collected both in 
fruit and flower. Of miscellaneous plants collected by him during 
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existing, under the title of «Museum Zeylanicum’ (1717). This 
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years’ work at it Linneus produced, in 1747, his ‘Flora Zey- 
lanica,’ in which all the plants that he could determine are 
arr. er his genera. At that date Linneus had not 
initiated his binominal system of nomenclature, but in his subse- 
quent systematic works he quoted the numbers of the ‘Flora 
Mr. Wituiam Fawcett, late of the Botanical Department, British 
Museum, has been appointed Director of the Botanical Gardens, 
Jamaica. Mr. Faweett left England on Dec. 29th. 
