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with diarrhoea and was put on shore at Rhodes, where he died on 
ei 1854. From that time till the beginning of the present 
, his own set of dried plants had lain by untouched. Then 
E collection came into the possession of Mrs. Pain and Mrs. 
Gnosspelius, cousins of the deceased, who offered to me it to 
Kew, an offer which was gladly accepted, because it not only 
supplements the Kew set. but also contains Winterbottom's aean 
notes. Fortun: — the specimens are no worse for their fifty 
years’ seclusion 
aeg ee —It is pretty well known that Petiver's 
Herbarium proprium is in the Sloane Collection at the British 
Woden. 7 but Mr. J. G. Er neni. the Curator of the National 
Herbarium at Melbourne, recently discovered in the Sonder Col- 
ne ns there a small number of specimens which he correctly 
rmised to be of the same origin. He sent them to Kew, and 
they have been compared with, and found to in with those 
in the British Museum. Some of them have been returned to 
: fe et and the others retained at Ex They are highly 
interesting as samples of one of the Pee English herbaria, 
and also as examples of neatness of labelling. These particular 
specimens are described in the Philosophical Ty ansactions of the 
Royal Society of London, between 1700 and 1703. 
Flora Capensis.—The final part of Volume VII. has been issued, 
with the following preface to the whole volume by the Director :— 
It was considered advisable to commence the continuation of 
the Flora Capensis with Volume VI., which was almost exclusively 
devoted to the orders which furnish what are familiarly known 
as “Cape Bulbs." These are perhaps now more largely cultivated 
in Europe than any other South African plants, and a systematic 
description of s species it was felt would meet a long- 
m wan 
Several pun meres suggested the ya of next attack- 
ing the seventh and concluding volume of the work in advance 
of the fourth and fifth, which are sull unpublished. What per- 
aps more weighed with me is the fact that the orders contained 
in it admittedly present more difficulties than are likely to be 
encountered in any other part of the work. It has, however, been 
my good fortune to be able to enlist the aid of contributors who, 
in each case, have had the advantage of a special previous study 
of the groups they have undertaken 
Amongst these I must enumerate :—Arthur Bennett, Feda z 
F.L.S, who has peris devoted his attention to 
N aiadaece ; Dr. Masters, F.R.S., who is an acknowledged Sd e 
rity on the an C. B. Cl: arke, Esq., F.R.S., who has long 
been occupied with a comprehensive memoir on the Cyperacee ; 
and finally Dr. Stapf, A.L.S., who had previously collaborated with 
volume, and this portion of it at Pags will, I 
ur rg usefulness in a country which is largely pastoral, 
