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be able to tell us more. The little I know of him is found in the 

 interesting but unindexed Reliquia; luddiviniame. Writing from 

 Wilmington on Aug. 20, 1817, Baldwin speaks of receiving "a 

 packi . of specimens collected for me by Mr. James (sic) Jackson 

 in W est Georgia." A year later he says, "A few days ago I had 

 an interesting visit from John Jackson. I am pretty certain he 

 has in his collection some new plants. Inform me when you can 

 spare the time, and I will take you to see this worthy old lover of 

 Mature. Let us go soon, as he speaks of one fine plant which 

 will soon be out of flower." A month later (Sept. 18) Baldwin 

 speaks of a plant* which Darlington, in a footnote, says they "had 

 proposed to dedicate to our estimable friend John Jackson." It 

 would seem from the above that Jackson was a horticulturist, and 

 as he was then "old," he was no doubt kuown to Rafinesque iri 

 1809, when the latter published the name Jacksonia.— Jas. Bbitten. 



"Flora Coecieese " (Joum. Bot. 1893, 355). — Vous avez 

 publie une notice sur l'ouvrage auonyme Flora Corcirese a p. 355 

 du Joum. Bot. 1893. Occupe moi-meme sur l'histoire de la 

 botauique en Italie, j'ai fait des recherches pour connaitre l'auteur 



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part de M. Spiridion Zerv6s, ingenieur a Corfou, d'apres laquelle on 

 apprend que dans les archives de Corfou se trouve le document que 

 la Flora Corcirese a ete Domenico Mazziari, directeur 

 alors 1834 environ) d'un jardin botanique qui existait a Corfou. 

 II etait correspondant de Rabenhorst, auquel il envoyait des alguea 

 de la mer Ionienne (cf. Rabenh. FL Eur. Ahj. iii. 330).— P. A. 



Beitish Bladderworts. — The season of 1894 has been as un- 

 favourable to the flowering of bladderworts as the season of 1893 

 was favourable. For instance, where Utricularia neglecta abounded 

 and was remarkably fine in the previous year, only a single poor 

 flowering specimen could be detected last summer, and that after 

 repeated search. In a less marked degree there was a similar con- 

 trast between the two years in the case of U. vulgaris and U. inter- 

 media. The difference is no doubt mainly due to the abundance of 



Something besides withdrawal of light has to do with this ; the 

 frequent interference of cloud and descent of cold showers must 

 greatly alter the mean temperature of the shallow pools and ditches 

 in a rainy summer ; and I suspect that, owing to the same cause, 

 tiiei ■ ia a decreased supply of the minute organisms on which the 

 bladderworts feed, and to which they owe their vigour.— Edwabd F. 

 Linton. 



A vena elatior var. bulbosa (p. 248).— Dr. Masters refers to 

 finding both the flowers in Aveaa eudior var. hud^^i hermaphrodite. 

 The grass has been introduced here (Hobart, Tasmania), and I have 

 always found both flowers hermaphrodite. — L. Rodway. 



* This was said to have been obtained from the mountains of Tennessee, 

 but proved to be Saxifraga craseifolia. 



