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considerable. The demands made by a weekly paper on the time 

 of an editor who devotes himself to it as conscientiously as Masters 

 did to the Chronicle are of course very great; and it is remarkable 

 that he succeeded in doing so much scientific work of a high order 

 apart from his official duties — the more so because he took much 

 practical interest in horticultural matters of a public nature, such 

 as the great International Horticultural Exhibition of 1866, of 

 which he was Congress Secretary ; the Quinquennial Conferences 

 at Ghent and similar meetings elsewhere ; and especially the Royal 

 Horticultural Society, of whose Scientific Committee he was Chair- 

 man for many years before his death. 



Perhaps the most striking feature of Masters's character was 

 his extreme kindness to those with whom he came in contact. I 

 remember being struck with this when I was first introduced to 

 him at the Kew Herbarium nearly forty years ago. He was always 

 especially considerate to the young men at Kew, whether in the 

 herbarium or in the gardens, encouraging them to write and helping 

 them in many ways : many now well known in the botanical and 

 horticultural world made their first literary appearance in the pages 

 of the Gardeners' Chronicle. His gentle manner conveyed the im- 

 pression of timidity; and he had a strong objection to anything 

 which in his judgement savoured of controversy. This testimony 

 to his kindliness, of little value when stated as the mere impression 

 of one whose relations with him were only casual and official, is 

 confirmed by those with whom he was in daily association. 



I am indebted to the proprietors of the Gardeners* Chronicle for 



permission to reproduce the accompanying portrait, from a photo- 

 graph taken in 1897, which appeared in the issue of that paper for 

 June 1, accompanied by another portrait taken in 1873. 



James Britten. 



NOTES ON BEITISH HEPATIC^. 



By Symers M. Mac vicar. 



Lophozia Baueriana Schiffn. — Jung. Floerkii Web. et M. var. 

 Baueriana Schiffn. Krit. Bemerk. liber Jung, collaris N. ab E. 

 (Oester. Bot. Zeit. 1900, No. 8). Since publishing this plant as 

 a variety, Prof. Schiffner has examined further material, which has 

 induced him to consider it entitled to rank as a species with the 

 other members of the barbata group. He goes fully into the ques- 

 tion in the critical notes in Lotus 1903-1905 which accompany his 



Hep 



Herr Arneli, in a valuable paper on 



this group in Bot. Notts., p. 145, 1906, follows Prof. Schiffner in 

 treating it as a distinct species. It has only hitherto been pub- 

 lished in Britain as a variety of L. Floerkii, but it appears to me, 

 on further examination, that the view taken by Schiffner and 

 Arneli is the more satisfactory one. Its relationship to L. Floerkii 

 and to L. lycopodioides is given by these authors in the works 

 referred to. It is stated by Schiffner that in Central Europe no 



