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six parts have now been issued, containing excellent representations 
of Atriplex (20 species), Rhagodia (5), Chenopodium (8), Dysphania 
(3), Babbagia (4), and Kochia (20). The Baron has published two 
new genera in the Victorian Naturalist for March—Haplostichanthus 
(Anonacew) and Schistocarpaea (Rhamnaces), allied to Colubrina, 
In the last (April) number of the Annals of Botany, Mr. Dyer 
calls in question the statement of Messrs. Batters and Holmes that 
‘Mrs. Gray’s own type-specimens are at Cambridge University.” 
‘I can hardly doubt,” he adds, “that Mrs. J. E. Gray enriched the 
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fore death. He sent them in the cabinet in which he had 
them, and in which they remain. His death was soon 
7 that of his wife, Mrs. Emma Gray, . . . who madea 
large and beautifully preserved collection of species, mostly different 
from those in Dr. Gray’s cabinet. These she desired her executors 
to give to the University, and they are in this Museum.’ There are 
eleven packets of them, as they were kept by her.” Mrs. Gray did 
not publish any new species, so that it is not quite clear what is 
meant by her ‘own type-specimens.” 
Tue last part (March) of the Journal of the Royal Agricultural 
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has lately been issued. Mr. Sutton’s book is a useful one, and has 
its good points, but is certainly not entitled to praise of so lavish 
and undiscriminating a nature. 
new species, including four Cryptocaryas, and an account of Ery- 
throxylon ellipticum Br., only previously known from specimens 
collected by Robert Brown in 1803. 
OBITUARY. 
Henry Groves was born at Weymouth in 1885. He was 
educated in London, and apprenticed to his father, whose occupa- 
tion—that of a pharmacist—he followed throughout his life. In 
1856 he obtained the Pharmaceutical Society’s certificate in the 
