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had prepared a manuscript flora of the county of Cheshire, but did 
not publish it. At the time of his death, in 1895, a new manuscript, 
except for a few late gamopetalous orders, had been fairly completed, 
and because of the wish of his sister, Lady Leighton, this was 
edited and revised by Spencer Moore and published a little over 
a year since.! 
Few local floras are prefaced by poetry, original or copied, and 
one is given to looking askance at a scientific work in any part 
of which rhyme is encountered; and yet Zhe Flora of Cheshire 
of De Tabley is really excellent, applying Watson's principles of 
distribution in a careful census of the plant growth of an interesting 
district, the real value of which is emphasized by the simple state- 
ment of his editor that in compiling the orders omitted from his later 
manuscript, though the earlier manuscript and certain memoranda 
found among the author's papers were used, this portion of the work 
is perforce left imperfect. 
If with the present writer any others who handle the book desire 
a little deeper glimpse into the life of its author, they will find a 
further sketch of his life in the Journal of Botany for February, 1896. 
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Notes. — The Proceedings of the Society for the Promotion of Agri- 
cultural Science for 1900 contains the following botanical papers : 
Beal, Syllabus for a short course on grasses and other forage plants; 
Munson, The development of a tomato hybrid; Tracy, Individual 
prepotency in plants of the same breeding; Chester, The chemical 
functions of certain soil bacteria; Galloway, Twenty years’ progress 
in plant pathology ; Trelease, The botanic garden as an aid to agri- 
culture ; Halsted, Seven years of experiments with bush beans; 
Rowlee, The value of willows in retaining the banks of streams; 
Bolley, The course of the hyphal filaments of Tilletia in the body 
of the wheat plant; Pammel, The course in cryptogamic botany; 
Pammel, The weedy plants of Iowa. 
In the Botanical Magazine of Tokyé, for January 20, Mr. Hemsley 
publishes a new genus of Bixinez, under the name Itoa, given it 
in honor of Dr. Keisuké Ito, the Nestor of Japanese botanists, who 
recently died at the advanced age of ninety-nine, and his grandson, 
Dr. Tokutaro Ito, also a well-known botanist; and a figure of the type 
1 Tabley, Warren de. 74e Flora of Cheshire. Edited by Spencer SR 
with a biographical notice of the author by Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff. London, 
Longmans, Green & Co., 1899. cxiv + 399 pp., portrait and map. 
