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is Primula. In the case of my friend Babington, again, we have 

 the same as an Order which the other has as a Family, with Tribe 

 number two as Primulacea. The former is Family forty-six, and 

 the latter is Order sixty- one. In the former case, again, we have 

 the whole genus but one classed as one species, which are again 

 divided into three races, as he calls them, of which Primrose Primula 

 veris is used, while his other common species are the Mealy Prim- 

 rose P. farinosa (Linnaeus), the Common Primrose, the Cowslip, 

 and the Oxlip; but added to the last we have it stated that it is now 

 generally believed that there is really a distinct species P. elatior 

 of Jacquin, an Austrian botanist, and occurring in some of the 

 eastern counties of England, but its normal features are declared to 

 be Continental. Then as another species we have the Mealy Prim- 

 rose, P. farinosa (Linn.), permeating all the great mountain ranges 

 of Europe and Asia far into the Arctic regions, also in the Ant- 

 arctic region of South America. In my opinion simply the forma- 

 tion of the plant under the conditions which it grows, and that is 

 neither saying whether this form has developed from the normal 

 type or that it in itself is the normal or original form from which 

 our present day Primrose has emerged. The whole evidence seems 

 to me to point out the one genus with so many races — that is, if 

 following Bentham's style of classification. " 



By the death of Sir Thomas Hanbury, which took place at La 

 Mortola, Ventimiglia, on March 9, horticulture has been deprived of 

 one of its most enthusiastic and most generous votaries. The 

 fame of his wonderful garden is worldwide, and his generosity in 

 matters horticultural was shown in 1903 by his purchase and pre- 

 sentation to the Boyal Horticultural Society of the late G. F. 

 Wilson's garden at Wisley, in Surrey. He was born at Clapham, 

 June 21, 1832. Though not himself a botanist, Hanbury did 

 much to encourage botanical pursuits ; the Istituto Botanico Han- 

 bury in the Botanical Gardens at Genoa, founded by him, com- 

 memorates his practical interest in science. A Florida Mortolensis, 

 an enumeration of the plauts growing wild at La Mortola, published 

 in 1905, was drawn up by his order by Mr. Aiwin Berger, the 

 curator of his garden. 



The authorized English translation of Dr. Ludwig Jost's Lectures 

 on Plant Physiology, by Prof. B. J. Harvey Gibson, of Liverpool, with 

 172 illustrations, will be issued very shortly by the Clarendon Press. 

 The Press also announces the second volume of Dr. Paul Knuth's 

 Handbook of Flower Pollination, translated by Prof. J. R. Ainsworth 

 Davies, of Aberystwith, containing an account of all known observa- 

 tions upon the pollination of the flowers of plants of arctic and 

 temperate zones. 



The following is from The Daily News of April 3 : — " Novelties 

 in Orchid (sic). — Some interesting novelties were to be seen at the 

 usual fortnightly floral meeting of the Boyal Horticultural Society. 

 The Hon. Walter Rothschild was awarded a silver Banksian medal 

 for an especially fine specimen of the Doryanthis (sic) Excelsa. 

 This particular plant is rarely seen in England, and is very difficult 

 to flower. The exhibit, however, which was over 10 feet high, had 

 a splendid flower." 



