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THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
habits, additional range, and Philippine and extra-Philippine distri¬ 
bution of each species ; to cite illustrative specimens where expedient 
or necessary; and to record all available local names for each species.” 
Pull introductory and explanatory matter will be published in a 
general introduction to be prefixed to vol. i. when the work, which 
will comprise one volume for the gymnosperms and two for the 
gymnosperms and monocotyledons, is completed ; this, it is hoped, 
will be by the end of the present year or early in 1924. 
In the Essex Naturalist (Oct. 1922-March 1923) Miss Lister 
figures and describes a new species of Didymium (I), tracliysporum), 
first found in 1897 by Mr. James Saunders in heaps of old straw near 
Barton, Beds, and subsequently in Essex, Surrey, and Aberdeenshire. 
The account of the Easter excursion of the Essex Field Club includes 
a reference to Anemone Pulsatilla , which appears to be disappearing 
from its well-known Bartlow “hills” locality. “When the Club 
visited the site in 1912, a single plant was observed: a careful search 
failed to reveal any trace of this plant on the present occasion, but the 
caretaker assured us that it had been observed during the past two 
years, and it is possible that the lateness of the season may account 
for its absence. Joseph [Joshua] Clarke (1805-90), writing in 1888, 
says that the statement in Edward Forster’s Flora of Essex that the 
plant is abundant on Bartlow-hills must be taken with some reserva¬ 
tion, as many years before, he went with Forster and only found one 
plant. Forster died in 1849, so that the above excursion must have 
been long before that date, which would indicate that the Pasque¬ 
flower has not, for nearly a century, been abundant ” in the locality. 
Although not strictly botanical, the following account of the 
disappearance of an industry, which we take from the Evening 
Standard of March 22, seems of sufficient interest for preservation : 
“ Mr. William Cornish, horticultural expert and last of the Mitcham 
lavender growers, died last night at Mitcham, at the age of eighty- 
eight. Fifty years ago Mr. Cornish was one of the leading figures in 
the industry, and for nearly twenty years he was manager of the 
largest lavender farm and distillery in Mitcham, extending to about 
five hundred acres of lavender, liquorice, roses, and camomile in the 
neighbourhood of Figg’s Marsh. Part of Mitcham’s housing scheme 
and the London Sports Ground now occupy the site. Not a sprig of 
lavender is grown in Mitcham to-day, apart from private gardens. 
Mr. Cornish was also the last of the Mitcham physic garden pro¬ 
prietors. In the early part of last century the physic gardens were 
the industry of Mitcham, and Mr. Cornish later became as famous 
for his poison plants—belladonna, henbane, spirting cucumbers, and 
white poppies, which were used for opium—as he had been for 
lavender. He was an acknowledged authority on all medicinal plants, 
and only a few days ago expressed his delight at the trade revival in 
these herbs. Mr. Cornish died at the picturesque one-story cottage 
in the midst of his London-road nursery where he had lived for 
thirty-two years. For the past ten years his chief interest was the 
crowing; of chrvsanthemums and roses for the London market.” 
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