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do you suppose it all came out? It came out that President Lincoln 

 heard of it and gave Mr. Pringle a furlough with orders to report 

 whenever he was called and of course he was never called upon. 

 Mr. Pringle overcame the United States government and I doubt if 

 there is another botanist that could do it. That persistence and 

 courage led him perhaps all through his life. He went back and mar- 

 ried the young lady and I wish I might say they lived happily ever 

 afterward, but it ended in a divorce. 



Well, I might go on and tell you about many other botanists, but 

 I think I have told about enough and I thank you very much. It is 

 a very great pleasure to both Mrs. Parish and myself to be with you 

 this evening. 



A NEW SPECIES OF CYPRESS 



Willis Linn Jepson 



Cupressus Forbesii Jepson n. sp. Slender tree 15 to 20 ft. high; 

 bark very smooth, shining, red-brown or even dark cherry red; 

 branchlets squarish; foliage bright green; dorsal pits of leaves 

 minute or commonly wanting; cones globose, % to 1 1-5 in. long; 

 seed red-brown. 



This cypress was discovered Dec. 30, 1907, in Cedar Canon 

 between El Nido and Dulzura, San Diego County, by my former 

 student, Mr. C. N. Forbes, later Assistant in Botany, Bishop 

 Museum, Honolulu. I take pleasure in naming it in his memory. 

 The same thing, apparently, has also been found on Mt. Tecate 

 and near Pala by Mr. S. B. Parish but I have not seen his specimens. 



NOTES AND NEWS 



Professor J. H. Patton, of the University of Melbourne, visited the 

 University of California in September. He voiced surprise at the 

 size and growth of the Blue Gums (Eucalyptus globulus) in the 

 Hilgard Grove on the University campus and remarked : ''We have 

 none as tall in our own state of Victoria. There must be something 

 very mild about your winters and something equable about your 

 whole year that gives such growth. We grow your Monterey Cypress 

 as a lawn tree for its pyramidal shape and also as a hedge for clip- 

 ping. Lawson Cypress we also grow as well as Monterey Pine. 

 Monterey Pine does well and we use its wood for making cheap 

 packing cases." 



From Professor Patton it was learned that Baron Ferdinand von 

 Mueller's collection is utterly neglected. It is housed in its original 

 herbarium building about ten miles from the University of Mel- 

 bourne, the fine library still with it. This establishment, for such 

 it once was, does not belong to the University and does not belong 

 to the Botanic Garden, just outside of which it stands. — w. L. j. 



