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THE PLAXT WORLD. 



prinns Avould be worsted. In the relation of the parasitic Stro- 

 pharia and Coprinus, even if the Coprinns did ]>rimaril_v succeed 

 Avhen the competition was limited to a common substratnm 

 (though there may have been other reasons for inducing the 

 Stropharia to desert its dead organic food substratmn) the Stro- 

 pharia has won in the finals. Tf this should appear to give some, 

 support to ^Massee's view, it is otlierwise in the case of Yolvand 

 loveiana, a pink spored agaric, wliich is parasitic on C'ltfoci/hc 

 nehuJaris (1. c), a white spored one, though it must be said tliat 

 the white spored Clitocyhe iiehuhiris does not suffer the atro])liy 

 and destrnction from its pink spored parasite. Yolvurui love m mi. 

 which tlio ('o]»rinus suffers from the ])arasitic Stro])liaria. 



Figure 25. The herhai luiu ot tlu' JJotaiiic- Garden, Singapore. 



VISITS TO SOME BOTANIC GARDENS ABROAD. 



By Dr. Pemr Olsson-Seffer. 



{Continuation.) 



VII. Botanic Gardens, Singapore. 



Jogging along in a gharry (as the local carriages are called) 

 on Orchard Road in Singapore, I thought I would never reach 

 the botanic garden, so long seemed the distance. I began to en- 

 tertain serious doubts as to whether I had pronounced the ]\ralay 



