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num, Cerastium, Sanicula europaea, Sambucus, Veronica, and 
Populus euphratica. To these might be added Hrica arborea. 
Guppy, who was the first to record Arceuthobium Oxycedri 
from the Azores (‘‘ Plants, Seeds and Currents in the West Indies 
and Azores,’ pp. 426-427) comes to the following conclusion: 
“Tt is thus likely that birds actively disseminate the species, 
carrying the seeds firmly adhering to their plumage. In this 
respect Arceutholbium resembles Luzula . . . and it is note- 
worthy that the two genera have a similar distribution.” 
The genus Arceuthobium has not been definitely recorded in the 
fossil state, but Loranthacites succineus, Conw., Patzea Johniana, 
Conw., and P. Mengeana, Conw., described and figured by Goep- 
pert, Menge und Conwentz, Flora des Bernsteins, pp. 135-138, 
tab. xili. ff. 6-20, could well represent the ancestors or relatives 
of our genus, though, since the structure of the fruit is unknown, 
nothing can be said definitely on this subject. 
The following species of Juniperus have now been recorded as 
host-plants of Arceuthobium Oxrycedri: J. Oxycedrus, communis, 
rufescens, drupacea, Sabina, brevifolium (Azores) and procera 
(Trop. Afr.). 
XLIII.—_THE ARBORETUM AND PINETUM 
AT BICTON. 
W. J. Bean. 
Sixty to eighty years ago no garden in the south of England 
was more famous than that at Bicton. It owed its fame then 
chiefly to the excellent cultivation carried on there of orchids, 
stove and greenhouse plants, pine-apples and other indoor fruits, 
as well as to its flower gardening in the open air. At the present 
time the pilgrim to Bicton is attracted thither chiefly by its 
collection of conifers. 
ut the garden proper is full of charm. Largely formal in 
character, it has that serene dignity which comes with age to 
all such gardens designed at the outset on broad, adequate lines. 
There are no irritating trivialities here, unless one takes excep- 
tion to a row of bay trees severely trimmed to low standards, each 
a naked stem surmounted by a bun-shaped top of branches. The 
garden is situated on a slope, and the lower section is an arrange- 
ment of water at different levels, canalised and in rectangular 
‘sear with smooth perfect lawns between, the whole diversified 
eae Bicton of early Victorian days was the home of Lord 
a 
inetum about 1841. 
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