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other countries.* As a good deal of this cnet tag especially that 
intended for masts, is likely to have been Spruc , there is nothing 
improbable in supposing that this wood was ene and that 
the choice of it for the making of a pole might even be expected. 
XXXVII.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
The Fruits of Cydonia japonica and C. Mauleii— he crop 
of these fruits, usually good, is this year exceptionally so, and 
owing no doubt to the prevailing desire to utilize everything 
possible for food, a good many samples have been sent to Kew 
with a request for information as to their edibility, etc. Like 
all quinces, they are too harsh and acid to be edten raw. Nor 
can they be used by. themselves for cooking in tarts, but a few 
slices may be put in apple tarts for flavouring. The only form 
in which they can be considered palatable is in that of a jelly. 
Last apes fruits of vy aver Maulei and of five varieties of 
. Japonica were sen n the Kew collection to the Rev. J. 
Jacob, of Whitewell pea Whitchurch, Salop, for him to 
experiment with for jelly-making. He reports that they were 
all treated alike and that after trvi ing each one “‘ without knowing 
\ which was which, he and two “friends agreed that the Mater 
jelly was the best. Then came C. japonica coccinea; then C. j. 
Horibunda ; ; then C. 7. umbilicata. The other varinGes of Cydonia 
japonica were har diy different from wild crab apple jelly.’’ It 
is interesting to find differences in the quality of these garden 
varieties which were, of course, raised originally with a view to 
flower beauty only. 
Whilst the present dearth of sugar continues there will be 
small opportunity of utilizing the fruits of these J apanese quinces. 
But when happier times arrive it is iia from Mr. Jacob’s 
report that a conserve, excellent and new to many, may be seaike 
from fruits that have mostly been ahead to rot on the —_ 
B. 
Chatubinskia, Rehmann.—During his travels in South Africa 
in 1875 to 1877 Dr. Rehmann collected a large number of mosses 
and Hepaticae, which he distributed in sets accompanied by 
siiaiad labels bearing details as to the habitat and in most cases 
also the determination. Amongst the mosses were many pro- 
posed new species of which dosoriptions were oes published at 
the time, but this was done in some cases by Carl Mueller 
in Hedwigia, xxxviii. pp. 52-155 (1899), while others were 
merely enumerated in the Revue Bryologique, 1878, pp. 
69-71, and in General Paris’ Index Muscorum, but up to 
the present time no general list of this valuable collection has 
pepe No. 595, collected in the Transvaal, was regarded 
Rehmann as a new genus, for which 7? proposed the name 
+ Seapets africana, which up to the time of the recent issue 
of T. R. Sim’s Handbook of the Bryophyta of South Africa 
See Ledger of Andrew Halyburton, 1492-1503, Edinburgh, 1867, Pretace, 
mes XEXVil, 
