2 NOTES FROM THE JOURNAL OF A BOTANIST IN EUROPE. 
which, and in the: entries, juniper twigs were spread, a universal 
custom in Sweden. I found the professor at home and expecting 
me. In personal appearance he is tall, and, as they say, aristo- 
cratic looking (in fact he is called “Lord Agardh” by the stu- 
dents) ; he has bright twinkling eyes and a white mustache. He 
speaks and writes English remarkably well. He is a member of 
the Reichstag, and so goes to Stockholm in the winter. His herba- 
rium, with the exception of the largest species, is in his private 
house. The larger specimens are kept at the building in the new 
botanical garden. An examination of the specimens I had 
brought was preluded by an invitation to take a glass of Cognac 
and soda-water, a favorite beverage in this region. My valise 
being unpacked, we set to work. Amongst the lot were several 
plants new to him from America, and some entirely new, particu- 
larly amongst my Oregon and California species ; but this is hardly 
a proper time to notice néw species. He seemed to be particu- 
larly interested in a specimen of Pikea Oalifornica, which plant he 
had never seen, although he had himself added other members to 
the genus. A Chordaria from Oregon, supposed by Agardh to be 
new, I have since discovered, from an examination of the Ruprecht 
collection in St. Petersburg, to be C. abietina of Ruprecht, still 
unpublished. 
The botanical department of the university is under the direc- — 
tion of Professor Agardh, assistant Professor Areschoug, nephew 
of the professor of the same name at Upsala, and Dr. Berghen, d 
privat-docent, who has more especially studied mosses and was 
associated with Professor Theo. Fries of Upsala in his Spitz- 
bergen journey. Dr. Areschoug speaks very little English, but 
delightfully slow German. Dr. Berghen speaks both English and 
German. He is going to New Zealand next year, and is to return n 
by way of California. 
The old botanical garden opposite the cathedral is now changed 
into a pleasure ground. The new garden is yet in its infancy, 
but the hot-houses are on a scale not to be seen in any American 
university. It seems strange to me that in these cold northern 
countries, among a comparatively poor people, the universities 
_are provided with gardens and hot-houses which, if they belonged 
` to most American universities, would be considered something 
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wonderful. In fact, except in Berlin and Munich, I have seen i 
no garden in Germany, so far as the hot-houses are concerned, 
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