PART III. ARBORETUM AND FUUTICETUM. 2605 



cooling it was transparent, and nearly as tough and hard as shell lac. 

 After many experiments, Mr. Prideaux considers that the kouri resin 

 will be an important addition to our materials for alcoholic varnishes. 

 It is harder and more free from colom- than mastic, quite as soluble, 

 and perhaps less than one tenth of the price. He also thinks it mav 

 by used as a gas-light. It was tried as sealing-wax, but found not to 

 adhere to the paper. {Ibid., p. 254.)" 



Cupressus sempervlrens. Page 2466. line 32,, add : " There is also a very 

 beautiful old cypress at Stockton House, in Wiltshire, the only relic of 

 the old garden. It is not very tall, as the leading shoot was broken 

 by wind and snow manj' years ago ; and it terminates in several spires. 

 We have no means of ascertaining its age ; but it is evidently very old, 

 and is a remarkably fine specimen. — S." 

 1. 44., add, after " Mount Sion :" " A tall cypress, an American traveller 

 informs us, is now the only tree on Mount Sinai. It stands in the 

 centre of a valley, high up the mountain, surrounded by other moun- 

 tains, one of which bears the sacred name of Horeb. The cypress was 

 planted by the monks, more than 100 years ago : it is surrounded by a 

 stone fence, and near it is the fountain of Elias, which the prophet is 

 said to have dug with his own hands. {Incidents of Travel in Egypt, 

 &c., as quoted in the At/iencsum, Aug. 26.)" 



2471. 1. 3., dele "fur having been wounded by Francis T., who is said to 

 have struck his sword into it, in his despair at losing the battle of 

 Pavia," &c. The tree struck by Francis was a poplar ; see p. 2589. 

 1. 7., add, after full stop : " In the year 1810, this remarkable cypress was 

 struck by lightning, and left in its present shattered condition ; but 

 previously to that time it had a handsome well-proportioned head. 

 At the height of 19 ft. from the ground it divides into six large limbs. 

 Its roots extend to a great distance, and to such an extraordinary depth, 

 that when a well was dug near the tree some years ago, they were 

 found 150 ft. below the surface of the ground." 

 1. 27., add to the end of the paragraph : " These trees, in 1838, were in a 

 state of rapid decav." 



2475., add, before " Statistics : " — 



" The Fungi on the cypress are : Peziza cupressina Batsch, Cypella 



Cupressi Fr., Stachylidium sceptrum Cot-da. — M. .1. B." 



1. 32., add to " Statistics," before " In France : " " In Scotland, at Biel, 

 in East Lothian, it is 120 years old, 41 ft. 2 in. high, and with a trunk 

 6 ft. 10 in. in circumference at 2 ft. from the ground." 



Juniperus. 2488., add to the list of fungi : " Ag/rium caesium Fr., SphaeVia 

 Juniperi Fr. ; Hysterium tortile Schivein., on J. virginiana ; Podisoma 

 Juniperi virginianae Fr., f/redo Juniperi LJc. ; Gymnosporangium «abi- 

 num Fr., on savine. — M. J. B." 



2505., add, at the bottom of the page : — 



" J. hemisphcB'rica Presl grows above the boundary line of trees on Mount 



Etna, as high as 7100 ft.; as does Berberis etnensis Presl. {Comp. to Bot. 



AIag.,i. 92.)" 



Agave americdna. 2529., add to the paragraph as follows : — "In the year 

 1837, a plant of this species of Agave flowered at Clowance, in Corn- 

 wall, the seat of Sir John St. Aubyn, Bart., of which the following 

 account has been sent to us by the gardener, Mr. T. Symons : — ' This 

 plant, of which fig. 2546. is a portrait to a scale of 1 ft. to 4 in., by 

 Mr. Rutger, jun., is 23 ft. high. Mr. Rutger, sen., my predecessor, 

 informs me that, when he came to Clowance, in the year 1800, he 

 found the plant in a small tub ; and that about the year 180G he 

 ^ turned it out, and planted it in the flower-garden, on the site where 



its remains still stand. For many years, it was nearly stationary, 

 making but little progress in point of size ; which may be accounted 

 for by no particular attention having been paid to the preparation 



