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CCLXXXVIII.— MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Mr. Jons Masters HinriEn, lately an attendant in the Museums of 
Economic Botany, has been appointed, on the results of an examination 
before the Civil Service Commissioners, an Assistant in the Royal 
Gardens to date from September 6th last. 
Mr. WirLiaw Watson, lately senior Aum and acting assistant 
eurator of the Royal Garden ns, has been granted a certificate by the 
Civil Service Commissioners as g [magie CURATOR under clause vii. of 
the Order in Council of the 4th June 1870. 
A Fitmy Fern, No. 532, gathered by Messrs. H. H. and G. 
Smith in ‘tis island of St. Vincent, West Indies, iid distributed under 
of I de 
the na richomanes lucens, was inclu er that name in 
's paper in the Annals of Botany. Vol. v., p. 4 
Upon further comparison Mr. Baker is of opinion that this fern belongs 
to T. crinitum, Sw., which is identical with j inert, Fée, an 
well figured under the latter name in "és Histoire des Fougéres et 
Lycopodiacées des Antilles, tab. 28, fig. 1. The fern is also found in 
Jamaica, Guadeloupe and Grenada as well as in St. Vincent 
Unde the title of HARDY SPECIES of oe mention was lately 
made the Kew Bulletin (1889, p. 61) of seeds of Eucalyptus 
Globulus received from Mr. Abbott of the Botanic ¢ Gain s, Tasmania, 
and collected from trees growing at high altitudes and accustomed to 
be expo evere frosts. It was ho oped that plants raised from these 
seeds would be likely to bear with impunity the rigours of an English 
e seeds germinated very freely at Kew and when the plants 

protection: they afterwards received from a screen, they all 
ccumbed before the winter was over. At Kew these seedlings from 
blue g s accustomed t ists in Tasmania were, if 
anything, not so hardy as those of the ordinary forms = Eucalyptus 
Globulus. A similar result has to S. from 
seeds of Eucalyptus coccifera received at the same time fron Tasmania 
“from trees which were coated with icicles a foot long." 
Brermupa Larres.—1t is pleasurable t 1 that tl i dered 
by Kew to the Colonies is recognised by private persons as well as 
through official channels. It will be remembered c in 1887 an 
exhaustive inquiry was made under the auspices of to the onion 
sense at Bermuda (Kew Bulletin, October 1887). The c defe of 
onions is one of the principal industries of the colony, and the threatened 
ruction of the onion crop was regarded by the pe ople as a matter of 
gra e inquiry made by Mr. Arthur Shipley, F.L.S., 
established the fact that the disease was caused by a parasitic fungus 
