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Chronicle. Mr. Pearson, who was in his 52nd year, has been in failing health 
for some time, his complaint being anaemia, and his early death will be 
mourned by a wide circle of horticultural friends. Twenty-five years ago, 
after a varied horticultural experience, Mr. Pearson joined the staff of the 
Chronicle, as Sub-Editor, under the late Dr. M. T. Masters, and during that 
Period, in addition to his professional duties, he has taken an active part 
in many horticultural movements, an account of which is given in a 
sympathetic Obituary notice in the Chronicle for June 15th, accompanied by 
an excellent portrait. He leaves a widow and one daughter to mourn his 
loss. The funeral took place at Putney Vale Cemetery on June 15th, a large 
circle of friends and representative horticulturists being present. 
_ Mr.C. Tinley, who has long been associated with the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
has been appointed Managing Editor in place of the late Mr. R. Hooper 
Pearson. 
In some notes on the habitats of Orchids, Col. M. J. Godfery, F.L.S., 
remarks (Journ. Bot., 1918, p. 49) that several essentially marsh Orchids 
are also found growing on chalk downs, for example, Orchis latifolia and O. 
pretermissa on the downs near Winchester, where they are smaller and 
less robust than the types. On the other hand, Gymnadenia conopsea, 
usually a plant of chalk downs and grassy hills, is sometimes found growing 
in marshes, the most extraordinarily robust which he has ever seen 
Sccurring in marshy meadows near Winchester, in company with Orchis 
pretermissa, O. incarnata, and O. latifolia, being nearly two feet high, the 
leaves broad and firm, and the flowers quite double the size of those of the 
ordinary plant, but without any signs of hybridity. 
In an earlier issue (p. 1) new forms of Helleborine viridiflora are described 
by Messrs. T. and T. A. Stephenson, as forma vectenis and forma dunensis, 
the former found in shady spots on chalk, at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, and the 
latter on sand dunes near Southport, Lancashire. The significance of 
the variations is not clear, and H. viridiflora is usually considered to be 
4 sub-species of the common H. latifolia, though the authors now propose 
'o consider it as distinct. A figure of the forma vectensis is given. 
A note on the Orchids of Jamaica, by J. C. Willis, appears in the 
Annals of Botany (1917, pp. 336-337). It is an analysis of their distribution, 
and out of a total of 194 species it is shown that 75 are endemic, 15 
common to Jamaica and Cuba, while 104 reach the continent of America. 
The object of the analysis seems to be to prove a hypothesis advanced in 
Other Papers, that ‘‘ Natural Selection has but little to do with the 
S®0graphical distribution of species or the areas they occupy, and that the 
