ON THE CULTIVATED SELAGINELLAS. ]41 
Gardens at Sydney, the flower becoming abortive, by several of the 
flowering buds, instead of developing themselves into blossoms, having 
thrown out a shoot from their axis, leaving tne coloured bracts per- 
sistent until the branches were fully developed. 
The Waratah is hardy and bears transplanting very well ; the Pro- 
teaceous trees and plants do not grow well by cuttings from the stem, 
hut are more readily propagated from layers, seeds, and suckers. The 
Waratah may readily be propagated by the roots being dug up in the 
month of December, cut into pieces, each retaining a small portion of 
the old stock, and then packed with earth in closed boxes. In this 
*ay they may be safely transmitted to any part of the world ; many 
sent to England, packed in this manner, arrived in excellent condition, 
and produced some fine plants. 
There is a white species of Coccus which is very destructive this 
season to the leaves and flowers of the Waratah, and has seriously in- 
jured many of the trees. This destructive insect has not been observed 
so numerous for some years. 
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ON THE SELAGINELLAS CULTIVATED IN THE ROYAL 
BOTANIC GARDEN, EDINBURGH. 
By W. R. M'Nab, M.D. Edinburgh. 
(From the Transactions of the Botanical Society of E<linlurgh.) 
Th 
oi great confusion. The names given by Spring* in his mouo- 
ptyh have not been adhered to, and, in many cases, the plants, when 
1 roduce( l> have been named without any attempt being made to dis- 
ver whether the species had been already described or not. Such 
ei,, g the case, considerable confusion must be expected. In 1860 
rofessor Alex. Braunf published a paper entitled " Revisio Selagi- 
n ell;imm Hortensiiim," in which he gives the synonymy of the Sela- 
Pnellas then cultivated on the Continent arid in Britain. This paper 
» lowever, been entirely overlooked in this country, and the names 
e ^elaginellas in our nurseries and gardens have remained as they 
* ^ing, Mem. de l'Aead. Roy. de Bclgique, 1850. 
t Annales da Sciences Nat. (Bot.) vol. xiii. 1860, p. 54. 
V0L - V. [may l, 1887.] M 
