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on the plants of Lewis and Clark’s expedition across the American 
continent in 1804-6 shows that he knew something of herbarium 
work; and he contributed the letterpress to four volumes of illus- 
trations of The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States, 
published at Boston in 1878-80. In 1890,. having previously, 
almost ever since he settled in America, acted as horticultural 
editor and adviser to various journals, he established Meehan’s 
Monthly, a magazine of horticulture, botany, and kindred subjects. 
In May last he was awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society one 
of the ‘*‘ Victoria Medals of Honour in Horticulture.” aie 
We are indebted to the Proprietors of the Gardeners’ Chronicle 
for the use of the accompanying block, which is from a portrait 
taken in Meehan’s seventy-fourth year and presented to the American 
Academy of Natural Sciences. 7 
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A Sain Hysriw.—In the creek of Chichester Harbour which 
identical with one another, and seemed to present rather the 
variations one would expect from a hybrid than the stability that 
should constitute a variety or species. On closer examination this 
view seemed to be confirmed; and Mr. Marshall fully agreed with 
me that the series of intermediate plants represented a somewhat 
variable hybrid, S. Limonium x rariflora,—EDWARD F. Linton. 
conspicuously in the broader bulging spikelets not closely appressed 
0 the rachis. Assuming that the plant was a hybrid rather than a 
hew species, I saw that Loliwn perenne L, was the obvious .con- 
teristic remark :—‘‘ This determination ” (i. ¢. the hybrid naming) 
‘appeared to me erroneous; and Dr. Hackel reports that the speci- 
