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as living fences, they keep out fowls and small animals ; sheds are 

 thatched with them ; they serve as stakes for Kidney-beans, Peas, etc., 

 and the stouter ones as cross-spars for the purpose of upholding the 

 thatch or roof of the smaller classes of farm-buildings, cottages, etc, 

 and, if kept dry, are gaid to last upwards of half a century. Our 

 friend Mr. Samuel Curtis, a resident in the island, informs us that he 



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has seen a stalk that measured sixteen feet in length, and that one that 

 had grown up under the protection of a cider Apple-tree had its spring 

 shoots at the top occupied by a magpie's nest ! The stems are now 

 much used for making walking-sticks (" Jersey Canes "). Stalks eleven 

 feet high, and very good-looking and firm walking-caaes, are deposited 

 m the Kew Museum of Economic Botany. 



Algerian Plants, 



X 



The indefatigable Botanist, M. Bourgeau, writes to us from Paris 

 (Rue St. Claude-au-Marais, n, 14), in a letter dated September 9, as 

 follows : 



" J'ai I'honneur de vous annoncer le retour de mon voyage d'Algerie. 



Depuis un mois, je suis occupe a faii'e determiner ma recolte, et j'ai 

 deja commence Timpression des etiquettes. Je crois pouvoir en faire 

 la distribution vers la fin du mois de Novembre prochain. La collec- 

 tion de cette annee n'est pas tres-nombreuse. Elle sera de 350 especes 

 euvirou. Monsieur Kralik, qui a accompagn^ M. Cosson, a recolte 

 environ cent especes des plus rares et des plus nouvelles, et elles feront 



partie de ma collection. 



*• J'ai, comme d'habitude, un assez grand nombre de plantes interes- 

 santes. Le prochain numdro du Bulletin de la Societe Botanique de 

 France vous donnera des renseignemens sur le voyage que je viens de 



faire. 



" J'ai quelques echantillons de bois pour votre Musfe et des graines 



de quelques plantes rares." 



Schimper's Finnic AhysmikcB, e territorio Jgow. 

 We have had the satisfactiou to receive otir set of Mr. Kcliinipcr's 



