PHYLLOSTACHYS QUILIOI 
In the Comedy of Errors that our Bamboos have been made 
to play PHYLLOSTACHYS QUILIOI may almost claim to have 
acted the chief part. Antipholus of Syracuse was not more 
like his brother of Ephesus than, according to some writers, 
this Phyllostachys is to Miris; others would have it that 
the resemblance is to AUREA, while a third authority was 
for some time convinced that P. QUILIOI, VIRIDI-GLAUCESCENS, 
and FLEXUOSA were one and the same plant. However, I 
think that it is now pretty well decided that not only are 
they all quite distinct, but that P. QuUILIOI! may more 
especially be pointed to as having characteristics which are 
altogether its own. The mistake arose from the ignorance 
of those who a few years ago were sending out the plants. 
In one garden I know that QUILIOI was grown as and 
labelled Miris ; while the owner, having sent to a distin- 
guished foreign nurseryman for QUILIOI, VIRIDI-GLAUCESCENS, 
and FLEXUOSA, received a consignment of plants, purporting 
to be the three species asked for, but every one of which 
turned out to be VIRIDI-GLAUCESCENS. Was it to be wondered 
at that the Socinian heresy should be deeply rooted in that 
garden? In vain the owner strained his eyes, searching with 
inquisitive lens for differences which did not exist. _PHYLLO- 
