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newly described variety now extinct in its original station. Review 

 of Characeae in Eng. Bot., Journ. Bot. 1885, 350, 369. Carex atrata in 

 Easterness, Journ. Bot. 1887, 27. Epilobium alpinum, Journ. Bot. 1889, 

 109. Lycopodium complanatum, Journ. Bot. 1891, 178. Utricularia 

 intermedia, Journ. Bot. 1893, 374. Ranunculus tripartitus, Journ. 

 Bot. 1896, 277. Euphrasia Salisbury ensis, Journ. Bot. 1897, 58. 

 Callitriche truncata, Journ. Bot. 1897, 147. Ranunculus intermedins, 

 Journ. Bot. 1900, 134. A New Hybrid Ranunculus (R. Hiltoni), 

 Journ. Bot. 1901, 121. Centaurea nigra & Jacea, Journ. Bot. 1902, 

 159. Radicula, Journ. Bot. 1902, 200. Use of Linnean Names, Linn. 

 Soc. Meeting, Jan. 16, 1902. C. C. Babington Memoir, Journ. Bot. 1904, 

 352. Alsine and Minuartia, Journ. Bot. 1904, 309. The Name of the 

 Primrose, Journ. Bot. 1906, 179. Ononis reclinata in Glam. Journ. 

 Bot. 1907, 280. Ranunculus divaricatus, Journ. Bot. 1907, 379. R. 

 lutarius, Journ. Bot. 1907, 452. Characeae from the Cape, Journ. 

 Linn. Soc, vol. xxxvii., 1906, 285-7. Characeae from the Philippine 

 Islands, Philippine Journ. of Science, vii., No. 2, 69, 1912. 



Peter Ewing, born at Kinross in 1849, died at Glasgow on 

 August 3rd, 1913. When the totally unexpected news reached me in 

 Kerry of Ewing's death, I felt, as many of his intimate friends must 

 have done, such a shock that I could think of nothing else for a while. 

 He had but recently retired, and I was looking forward to spending 

 more frequent holidays with him, and here was I, under the reeking 

 Brandon Mountain, at one of the very places I had planned we should 

 explore together. I had already collected some things to send him. 

 L'homme propose et Dieu dispose. Ewing was a man to be loved by 

 those who knew him. He was born at Kinross in 1849, and was the 

 second of six sons. He had two sisters. Ewing left school at 9 years 

 of age. His parents were weavers, but his father went to Edinburgh 

 and entered a bookseller's business ; thence he returned to Kinross 

 and began a stationery business. He also took up photography in 

 the days of wet-plate work, and Ewing used to walk to Rumbling 

 Bridge and back — 32 miles — to sell some of these photographs. A 

 branch establishment was opened at Callander. This was not easily 

 reached, as he and his father had to walk 26 miles to Stirling, then 

 take train to Dunblane, and walk thence another 16 miles to 

 Callander. These tramps were good training for the many longer and 

 rougher botanical ones which followed in the Grampians. Here 



