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Johnson’s edition of Gerard’s Herbal in 1633; the “ie at hea 
spoke of it as the ‘‘ Besome plantain with spoky tufts.” also 
attention to later figures in Masters’s Teratology and ee Ganibhers 
Chronicle, ser. 2, xiii. (1880), p. 864, figs. 65, 66. The point of 
interest seemed to be that this proliferous tendency was transmitted 
by seed, for a seedling of the original plant was passed round. 
Mr. C. B. Crarke publishes in the ae nal of the Linnean Societi 'y 
issued last month a paper entitled 7 of the Carices of Malaya.” 
The prefatory note states that ‘the eachal used is that in the 
e rbarium,’’ and as the only other material fen ied con- 
sists of ‘‘ several types of Zollinger’’ sent from Vienna, we think 
the limited nature of the * List” should have been specified in the 
title. Mr. Clarke’s explanation of his inability ‘“‘ to make any use 
of the fine collection in the British Museum”’ is curious rath 
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time than I can give to cx 2 the specific names of the critical 
species for my own technical descriptions. Further, I do not think 
it would have strengthened this paper to have added such determi- 
nations; I should not have felt sure enough of the exact agreement 
of the plants. It would of course have been different if I could have 
laid the plants side by side, when the identification would have been 
‘e certain as well as more speedy.’’ It seems us that the 
difficulties which Mr. Clarke finds so insuperable are found and 
overcome by every monographer, and that his ttl should have been 
completed by the words “in the Kew Her 
Tue part of the Ilora Capensis seal in (OBitbee confirms the 
suspicion expressed on p. 280 mae ‘‘vol. iv.”’ will really be two 
volumes, entitled sporerely Sect. 1 and Sect. 2: this is doubtless 
now unavoida e, but it is to be coelioad that it was not an re 
<3 it must inevitably een’ in inconvenience. Mr. Hiern completes 
e Scrophulariacee ; Dr. Stapf undertakes the Lentibulaiva and 
Pai r. C. B. Clarke the Gesneracew, and . A. Sprague 
the Bignoniacee; ‘the last-named oe a new amb: Podranea, 
for Tecomaria Ricasoliana. We note that Dr. seg ire (as 
synonyms) two MS. names of Solender which w not think 
should have Soon printed. Mr. Clarke (p. 442) olde “Rand 1313” 
under two species of Streptocarpus; it belongs only to S. Vandeleuri: 
the list of garden hybrids at the end of this genus introduces a new 
and w — undesirable feature into the Flora. 
rmal presentation to the Manchester Museum of Mr. J. 
Cosmo Melvill’ herbarium took place on the 31st of October. The 
Museum has published an account of the herbarium, in which Mr. 
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half a million specimens, representing 36,000 species of phanero- 
gams and 6000 cryptogams —the number 2 Bane it ee 
is 
that of ‘the Prince of Mantua and Montferrat.” We know some- 
thing of the colleetieil _ the extraordinary impostor who called 
himself by the above name, and we cannot think that they add to 
the value of Mr. Melvill’s hie collection. 
