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and at elevations above the sea such as are suited to the barley 
crop. 
The following analysis was made, by the late Dr. A. Voelcker, 
of the bitter variety of quinoa seed, which variety appears to differ 
from the ordinary sort only in the presence of a small quantity of a 
bitter and acrid substance :— 
In 100 parts. In 1 Ib. 
Water... asi 16 2 ozs, 245 ors 
Albuminoids ... 19°2 7) Ry 
Starch, &e. as 47°8 ‘gare sare 
Oil je ie 4:8 ‘ene 
Kibte 3 8-0 Lei ghieg 
Ash Pag 4-2 0 5 4994e%, 
Quinoa seeds should be soaked for a short time in water and 
boiled quickly therein; this water should then be thoroughly 
drained away on a sieve or colander, and the cooking finall 
completed in another portion of fresh water. Under this treatment 
the bitter principle present in one of the chief varieties of this seed 
is removed. 
Quinoa seeds are extremely small; 15,000 do not weigh more 
than an ounce. IME. 
Longevity of Fern-spores.—An illustration of this has occurred 
in the case of Cheilanthes mysurensis, Wall., specimens of which 
were collected in South China on the 28th of October, 1899, and 
preserved as herbarium specimens. Spores taken from these and 
sown at Kew in March, 1908, have produced healthy plants, 
buted from Japan, Formosa and 
Southern India and Ceylon. _ 
much pressure, their margins incurve grea 
tional protection to the spores. CHW. 
es is ti nt of 
The Useful Plants of Nigeria ——Under this title an accou ig 
Botanie Station, Olokemeji, of the Botanic 
of this part, and gives a short accoun v OF the 
Nigeria followed ty some general remarks on i? Soneagh hae 
region, with notes as to the collection eBre various botanic 
oe! leo “ ci io "Ga forestry are also 
stations, The progress Of agricy 
iewed 
reviewed, 
