HOOKERS 
JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
AND 
KEW GARDEN MISCELLANY. 
AMAN VA Amm 
Report on the * BRowN SCALE," or Coccus, so injurious to the 
CorrrE-PLANTS in Ceylon; in a letter from the late GEORGE 
GARDNER, Esq., Director of the Botanic Garden at Peradenia, 
addressed to the Colonial Secretary, Colombo. (Communicated by 
the Right Hon. Earl Grey, Chief Secretary for the Colonies. 
With a Plate, Vol. IT. Tas. XII.) 
(Continued from vol. ii. p. 860.) 
On nearly all those estates where I have been able to trace the rise - 
and progress of this epidemic, the Coccus has been first observed in - 
moist hollow places, sheltered from the wind, and from thence has 
spread itself SL MO mter Ucet and most exposed 
as those of Pen-y-lan and Dehanjitis it first appeared in dry ¢ s po 
places. That it prefers moist sheltered situations is certain, as | 3 
Lapallagalla and Muruta estates, which about a year i ag i Wa fe 
nearly free from the pest, it still clung in a very obvious manner to those 
trees that were situated by the side of little streams of water in spent 
and ravines. 
