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Brazil, whence it received its name from "Vuba," used in Brazil for sugar cane as early as 

 1650; but the local story reaffirms its Indian origin. About 30 years ago sugar cane varieties 

 from Egypt, Louisiana, Mauritius, West Indies, and India w^ere planted on the Reunion 

 estate of Mr. de Pass, near Durban, Natal. The last box to arrive was left underneath the 

 bins in the mill until the tops were almost dead, but, when planted, 2 of them grew and 

 flourished, and eventually a variety was clearly established. On the label attached to the 

 cane tops only 3 letters could be found, which were deciphered as "Uba," but there was no 

 doubt that these tops came from Poona, and it is assumed that the last letters of this word were 

 misread as "Uba." This is the local account as given by George Wade, overseer of the mill, 

 5 years after the finding of the cane tops. — E. K. Tisdale. 



1161. Anonymous. Sir Frederick W. Moore, V. M. H. Gard. Chron. 69: 158. Portrait. 

 1921. — A biographical sketch is given of the keeper of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Glasnevin, 

 Dublin, in which position he was preceded by his father, David Moore, who took charge 

 in 1835 and held the position for 41 years. The son has now been there 41^ years. — P. L. 

 Richer. 



1162. Anonymous. The drug business in Colonial times. Pharm. Era 53: 199-200. 

 1920. — Gleanings from newspaper advertisements of the ISth century, with reproduction of 

 one by G. Duykinck of New York, August 3, 1769. — I^eil E. Stevens. 



1163. Arbek, Agnes. Plants and flowers in Chinese poetry. Gard. Chron. 69: 163. 

 1921. — References are given to recent translations of Chinese poetry by H. A. Giles (1898) 

 and A. D, Waley (1918 and 1919).— P. L. Richer. 



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1164. Beille, Lucien. Un botaniste bordelais. Leonce Motelay 1830-1917. [Leonce 



Motelay, 1830-1917, a Bordelais botanist.] Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux 70: 493-509. Portrait. 

 1917-18 [1920?]. — Motelay was a member of the Linnean Society of Bordeaux for more than 

 60 years and contributed many papers to its publications, the monograph of Isoetes by Motelay 

 and Vendries, presented in 1879, being of special note. His herbarium, consisting of a general 

 collection and flora of the Gironde, was presented to the city of Bordeaux in 1906. — M. F. 

 Warner. 



1165. Biers, Paul. L'herbier tricolore de Bory de Saint-Vincent. [The tricolored her- 

 barium of Bory de Saint-Vincent.] Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 26: 429-431. 1920.— The 

 tradition that Bory, like Bosc and other liberal botanists, used red, white, and blue papers 

 in his herbarium as a protest against the restoration of the white flag of the monarchy in 

 France, receives confirmation in the discovery of a portfolio of sheets in the 3 colors, some of 

 them showing the impression of algae, among the remainders of the herbarium of Bornet, 

 who possessed Bory's entire collection of algae; also of blue wrappers containing single red 

 sheets evidently identical with a red mount found with one of Bory's fungi. — M. F. Warner. 



1166. [Britten, James.] Magnus Spence. Jour. Botany 57: 293. 1919. — Spence died 

 at St. Ola, Orkney, Aug. 20, 1919, aged 66. He was a teacher, long headmaster at Deerness, 

 who published the Flora Orcadensis (1914), and had special knowledge of the marine algae of 

 the Orkneys. — ISieil E. Stevens. 



1167. [Britten, James.] William Black [i.e., Brack] Boyd. Jour. Botany 56: 221-222. 

 1918. — Boyd died Mar. 6, 1918, in his 88th year. He was one of the best-known Scottish ama- 

 teur gardeners, greatly interested in alpines, and had one of the finest collections in the 

 United Kingdom. He collected a number of very rare Scottish plants. — Neil E. Stevens. 



1168. [Britten, James.] William Frederick Miller. Jour. Botany 56: 221. 1918.— 

 Miller was born Sept. 18, 1834, the onljf son of William Miller the well known engraver, and 

 was himself in the business of engraving and color printing. He communicated to the Journal 

 of Botany many notes on rare Scottish plants from his vacation rambles, and later, when he 

 retired from business and removed to Somersetshire, notes on plants of that county. He 

 died Apr, 28, 1918.— A' ci7 E. Stevens. 



