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special attention to the Graminee in various regions, for in his 
preface he speaks of ‘‘ possessing an extensive collection of Grasses 
made by myself, not only throughout this island, it also i in the 
West Indies and the southern parts of North Ameri In this 
work he bape oge: a genus, Bucetum, to include Resbacs pratensis, 
F, elatior, and Bromus giganteus, and resets as new certain 
forms of Poa—P. polynoda, P. montana, and P. Balfo uri,—the 
last of which is retained by Ba bington a as distinct, but is placed 
by Nyman as a subspecies of P. cesia. The ‘Grasses of * Seot- 
land’ was published in 1842; a second part was published in 
1845, and the two were then issued in one volume with the title 
‘ The Grasses of Britain.’ Professor Babington} who named in his 
hon nour Poa Parnellii (Eng. Bot. t. 2916), speaks of this work as 
‘an ineitiabis addition to our knowledge of grasses.”” In order 
iinet no doubt might exist as to the plants considered by him 
as types of his descriptions, Dr. Pa sone deposited with the 
: eae 
any active interest in science, and the news of his recent death 
Edinburgh surprised most botanists, who had fancied that he 
had long since passed away. 
Grorce Guiiiver, F.R.S., who died at Canterbury on the 17th 
of last November, was born at Banbury on the 4th of June, 1804. 
In his ae days he paid some attention to local British Botany: 
although it was not until 1841 that he published his ‘ Catalogue 
of Plants collected in the neighbourhood of ata at the tere 
chiefly between the years 1818 and 1824. The most notew ue 
feature in the ‘ Catalogue’ is the large Ay of ie Be 
enumerated. Mr. Gulliver, in his preface, speaks of having for 
s taken ‘‘a final leave of botany ;”’ but about 1860 his 
inal nerves of the leaves of Mosses;’ and to the same 
acid for 1861 he Ptr sete the first of those Spa on the 
crystals called Raphides, in connection with which his name will 
chiefly be remembered, and to the existence of which bodies he was 
among the first to call attention. Several ested from wn i appear 
in the earlier volumes of this Journal, among the most interesting 
rg that in which he pointed out thes ‘diflerenion i in size between 
llen grains of Lotus agrrecs and those of L. major (Journ 
Bot, 1866, 281-4). About 1868 Mr. Gulliver took up his residence 
at Canterbury, and became garoarte ry to the East Kent Natur 
History Society ; and it was here that he published = se his 
last botanical work, ‘Notes of Researches . in Bot 
uN SapteR was born on the 3rd of Pai 1607, at 
Gibbleston, Fifeshire. In his early days he was assoc iated wi 
her in gardening ; but in 1854 he was appointed assistant to 
- Dr, Balfour, aa professor of botany at Edinburgh, a position of 
