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to supply the place of those, which are so manifestly disappearing, and 
which so assuredly will not reproduce themselves. 
The experiments of individual settlers have already abundantly 
shown the facility and rapidity with which various exotic trees—espe- 
cially those of Australia and Tasmania, e.g. the Blue Gum, Silver 
Wattle, and Stringy Bark—may be grown in Otago; and the result 
generally of these experiments, on the small scale, are most encour- 
aging as regards the establishment of others on a more extensive scale, 
having in view the introduction of substitutional or supplementary 
timber-trees of hardier and easier growth, and of equal permanent 
value. Where experiment on the small scale has failed, it has done so 
most probably, in the majority of instances, from inattention to that 
fundamental canon of all acclimatization-experiments, viz. that the na- 
tural circumstances or conditions of growth should be strictly imitated. 
DE NOVA SAGINJE SPECIE NOTULA ; 
Exscripsir Henr. F. Hance, Ph.D., REL. 
* 
95 Sagina (Spergella) Sinensis, n. Sp.; pentamera, cauliculo centrali 
sterili (nune deficiente) lateralibus numerosis elongatis filiformibus 
adscendentibus floriferis 3—7-pollicaribus ramosis inferne glabris su- 
perne cum pedicellis calycibusque glanduloso-puberulis, foliis lineari- 
bus setaceo-mucronatis inferioribus glaberrimis superioribus glandulo- 
so-ciliatis, pedicellis filiformibus rigidis foliis 2—3-plo calycibus 4—6-plo 
longioribus peracta anthesi apice subcernuis demum stricte erectis, 
sepalis ovalibus late albo-marginatis obtusis capsule appressis, petalis 
iis eequilongis ovalibus obtusis, staminibus 5, capsula ovoidea calyce 
triente longiore ad medium usque 5-fida valvis apiee truncato-obtusis, 
seminibus einnamomeis undique sequaliter tuberculatis, 
In agris arenosis prope mare, ins. Kü-lang-sá, ex adverso urbis 
Amoy, coll. indefessus Sampson, mense Maio 1866. (Exsiec. n. 
13060.) 
Haud omnino absque hesitatione novam ausus fui condere speciem 
in genere, quod jam recentiores botanistze quam certissime in plures 
falsas discerpserunt species, sed cum nulla inter Europzas plane con- 
gruit. Valde profecto adpropinquat S. subulate, Wimm., que tamen 
statim dignoscitur statura multo humiliore, pedicellis quoad folia multo 
