52. 
The February Gale at Kew.—During the sirong gale of 
February 16th, which reached its climax between noon and 3 p-m., 
considerable damage was done at Kew. Two Lombardy poplars 
growing in the long row of these trees that skirts the wall of the 
Kew Palace Grounds near the river, were blown across the wall. 
For many years a pair of Lombardy poplars standing at the river 
end of the Sion Vista, close to the ha-ha, have withstood the south- 
westerly gales to which the position is fully exposed. But this 
gale proved too much for one of them, which came down about 
3p.m. A large elm near Kew Palace, apparently in perfect health 
and quite sound, was uprooted, as was also another on the bank of 
the ha-ha near Brentford Gate. Fora long time past only a shell 
of the trunk of the historical elm on Queen Elizabeth’s lawn has 
remained, sufficient however to show its extraordinary size 
when the tree was in its prime hi 
associations with Queen Elizabeth. Part of the shell with its 
branches attached was blown out on February 16th and but little 
now Is left, é J 
ihemum foeniculaceum, Brouss. ex Willd. (t. 8644), a native of 
Tenerife, and Funkia lancifolia, Spreng. var, tardiflora, Fort. 
(t. 8645), probably from Japan. 
Botanical Magazine for February. —The plants figured are 
Fucharis Lowii, Baker (t. 8646); from West Tropical America; 
ane macrocarpa, Smith (t, 8647), from Chile; Lobelia — 
fet? Engl. (t. 8648), from Tropical Bast Africa; and Rhodo- 
dendron hypoglaucum, Hemsl, (t. 8649), from Western China. 
nine 
ceetidlieme mn 
A mR rete for March.—-The plants figured are 
‘Aly = Bly aur enmeede, N.E.Br. (t. 8650), from the Argentine; 
is Sie! Wegeme » Purrill (t. 8651), from Formosa: Chamaedoret 
wider “Dr. (t » trom Costa Rica; and Androsace 
i NEBr. (t. 8652), ¢ 
coccinea, Franch. (t. 8653), from S.W. China. 
treme Sea 
Fe iene of New Zealand Plants.—‘This is tho title of a 
mr gate Sine work of two quarto volumes, issued by the 
eweational Department of the Government of New Zealand, a8 
eS es = Mr. T. F. Cheeseman’s “ Manual of the New Zea- 
. bi _ Which appeared in 1906. quipped with these 
‘Wo publications, the student, possessing a knowledge of the 
rudiments of classification, will be able to identify thoat of tan 
