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as a rule, alternate in positi ion. Hairs were not found terminating 
the filaments, though they may have been present earlier in the 
e Besides occurring on the coast of Iceland, as described by 
Jonsson, the same species has been recorded for the Ferées by 
Borgesen (Botany of F’arées, 356 (1902) ).—J. Avams. 
Banxs’s Newrounptanp Journat (p. 84). — The original of this 
his gest is in the possession of Mr. §. W. Silver, of 8, York Gate, 
N.W., who has been good enough to allow me to see it. It consists 
of two sinall quarto volumes, the first of which alone was transcribed 
by his sister, as noted on p. 84. It ends with a note on a severe storm 
encountered on the voyage to Lisbon: “Among other things that 
suffered, my bd Box of Seeds was one, whi ch was entirely de- 
molished ; 2 as was my Box. of Earth with Plants in Be 9g stood 
eM plants, as fe! ish on p. 85. The second Ghchns has only 
neteen pages of MS., beginning “Nov. 17, 1766. Arrived from 
Wewioou dland in the river Tagus”: it contains nothing of interest. 
JAMES Bri 
GLYCERIA FEsTUCEFORMIS (p. 810).—Among some critical oe 
recently re-examined, which were collected by Mr. 8. A. Stewart 
_188 90 du ane ous eine of the. ee 
near er eeonian is bebe ceed, 0 int its flora fa raily free from 
chances of contamination. ‘The existence of this station extends 
the range of G. festuceformis over thirty miles south-eastward along 
the coast. Besides providing a further proof that the plant is native 
in Ireland, it fares another spel as to a possible much wider 
extension of ra. LO 
without a protest. Professor Babington’s character and the value 
of his work are well known to all the older British botanists; but 
ude from Mr. Williams’s 
remarks that he represented the dogmatic and insular attitude in 
relation to British botany wheres the exact opposite was the case. 
No one in his day did more to bring this country up to the level of 
the Continent as regunds critical botany ; ; no one had a more sai 
mind in respect to his own work, and no one was more ready to 
welcome suggestions and assistance from others. A reference to 
Mr. Britten’s appreciative obituary notice in this Journal for Sep- 
tember, 1895 (p. 257), would have saved Mr. Williams from forming 
such an entirely false conception of Babington’s wor remark 
that, had Professor Babington visited - the Contin inent, ‘he could 
have scen for himself how little real difference there is between the 
