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new Irish hepatic, Lejeunea Holtii, he proceeds to contrast the 

 comparative wealth of Lejeunea (13 species, to which one— L. 

 Rossettiana Massal.— was added in 1889 ; Journ. Bot. 1889, pp. 337, 

 353) found at Killarney with the three known to occur in the rest 

 of Europe, and to point out their affinity with those of Tropical 

 America ; and then offers a solution of the difficult problem as to 

 how they came to be at Killarney, and so passes on to a general 

 consideration of the phenomena of distribution and the part played 

 by animals as carriers of seeds and spores, quoting an anecdote 

 told him by an Indian of the Eio Negro of the revels held by the 

 beasts of the forest upon a clearing immediately after it had been 

 deserted by its owners. 



How much we have lost owing to his enforced cessation from 

 active work — what mature speculations about natural phenomena, 

 what interesting experiences and incidents of travel — must now be 

 painfully evident to his personal friends and correspondents. His 

 claims for honour among botanists are twofold — the soundness of 

 his work, and the thorough carefulness with which he made his 

 collections. As an instance of the latter it is said that he would 

 spend the best part of the day in examining with a lens a few 

 square feet of vegetation so as to ensure gathering perfect specimens 

 of minute plants. In 1864 he received the degree of Doctor of 

 Philosophy from the Imperial German Leop.-Car. Academy in 

 recognition of the distinguished services which he had rendered to 

 science. Two genera have been named after him — Sprucen Wilson 

 (Flora Antarctica, I. i. 1847, p. 128), a moss ; and Sprucella Stephani 

 (Engl. Bot. Jahrb. viii. 1887, p. 92), a West African hepatic. 



The last twenty-seven years of his life were passed in retire 

 at Coneysthorpe, near his old home ; and he died on December 28th, 

 aged seventy-six. He was buried in Terrington Churchyard on 

 1 :31st. 



SHORT NOTES. 



Elevation attained in Scotland by Utricularia minor and 

 Urtica dioica.— With reference to the remarks on pp. 7 and 8, 

 I beg to state that the small bladderwort grows freely on Eannoch 

 Muir, near Kinghouse, Argyle (both on the eastern and western 

 watersheds), up to 1000 ft., though usually a low-ground plant. 

 I have seen Urtica dioica up to about 1700 ft., but by no means 

 especially where man has disturbed the ground ; indeed, it is often 

 abundant, miles away from habitations, in the heart of a deer- 

 forest. — Edward S. Marshall. 



New County Eecords. — Sedum rupestre Huds. Hillsborough 

 ( = Helesborough) rocks, Ilfracombe, Devon, N., May 29th, 1893. 

 This can be reached at low tide only, H. Fisher.— Laetuca viwmt L. 

 Caythorpe, Lincoln, S., Miss S. C. Stow. Specimens of both these 

 are in the Museum at Nottingham. — H. Fisher. 



