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an unwarranted statement that, “ according to the annual rings, 
the age of this tree was 3,100 years” ; and this in the very face of 
Dr. Bigelow’s statement before him, of two actual countings of the 
layers, reducing this age more than half. If further evidence be 
required, we would refer to the account of a third and very precise 
measurement and counting, by Mr. De la Rue, which is referred to 
in this Journal for July, 1866. Notorious as is the incorrectness of 
the long-current popular statement, it seems impossible to arrest it. 
Prof. Brewer’s account of the Mariposa Grove, printed by Sir Wil- 
liam Hooker, the name was accidentally given as “ Maipula”; 
and so it reads in Mr. Hoopes’ extract. Since Mr. Meehan is 
thanked for constant aid rendered, we could wish that he had in- 
SSE pay it may not be su uous to claim oe Say be 
8vo, pp. 786.—Referring to our former notice of the first 
volume for some account of this excellent undertaking, we may 
here barely state that the systematic memoirs, here given, begin 
with that on Protacew, followed by the memoir on Asclepiadew 
and the Apocinec, published in 1811 by the Wernerian Society 0 
burgh, copies of which are very rare, and end with the paper 
on Limnanthece, 1833. - 
n the part entitled contributions to scientific works, we have all 
at Mr. Brown wrote for the later volumes of the Hortus Kewensis, 
or Richardson’s Botanical Appendix, Wallich’s Plante Asiatice 
es, Bennett’s Pl, Javanice Rariores, with extracts from Bot. 
Mag., Bot. Reg., etc., etc. The whole concludes with a capital 
ers. A. G. 
Pp The Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany, numbers 42 and 
ye received, interest us chiefly in the paper entitled Notes on 
mYrtacee, by GEORGE BrEntuam, the President of the Society.—We 
ave here an elucidation of the principles according to which this 
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