206 
South-Eastern Russia to Siberia and Acacallis cyanea, Lindl. 
(t. 8678), a native of the Upper Amazon region. 
Stipa Neesiana in England.—Mr. A. T. Rake, of Lawn 
Crescent, Kew Gardens, recently submitted for identifica- 
pellier. 
Port Juvénal is the name of an enclosure with a wharf on the 
Lez canal, close to the gates of Montpellier. It was here that 
for over a century and a half or may be two centuries* the 
wool imported into Montpellier from the Mediterranean countries 
and later on from other parts of the world was unloaded, washed 
ii : 
then spred out on gravel beds, divided into yards by stakes and 
sheets of coarse linen. The ground was naturally kept damp, 
which in connection with the high temperature of a southern 
climate, favoured the germination of the numerous seeds brought 
files “all 10 et descriptio plantarum e seminibus exoticis inter 
Mone ‘1 shdeneh arum in campestribus Portus Juvenalis prope 
1 . he” published in 1853, and in a second edition im 
pins © second edition contained 386 species, of which 57 
ere then new to science and mostly (51) of unknown origin. 
a appendix to this Juvenalis by M. E. Co (in 
ull. Soe. Bot. France, vol. vi. (1859) p. 607) brought the 
number up to 458, and a second appendix (in Bull. Soc. Bot. 
* According to G Planch i fo : 
; I on (Des Modifications de la Flore de Montpellier, 
Sig steno bey guild of wool merchants was authorised to use the place 
pores eir goods; but certain terms in the deed suggest that 
eighbourhood of the wharf served f : 
the canal in 1686 
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