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‘English names” whether for orders, genera, or species, even when 
these are manufactured for the occasion, as we take to be the case 
ch 
occurs on Mount Desert island”: the next species is “Chapman’s 
Hill Thorn—Crategus collina Chapman.” 
are discussed, and the products of trees useful in the arts, 
sciences, and industries are mentioned or described.” 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. 
At the meeting of the Linnean Society on 21st January, Dr, 
Otto Stapf exhibited male and female specimens of Plagianthus 
Helmsii ¥'. Muell. & Tate, and demonstrated with the aid of lantern- 
slides their peculiar leaf and floral structure, pointing out at the 
same time that it appears more natural to treat this species, to- 
sect, pinnatifid, bipinnatifid, or variously dissected and lo ; 
The shape of the stipules and the nature of the stellate hairs are 
