PART HI. ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



2.583 



Prosfanthcra lasidntJios. Page 1284-., 

 add : "and our^g. 2519." 



TERBENA^CEiE. 



"^itex incisa. 1 286., add : " This plant 

 is in the Horticultural So- 

 ciety's Garden." 



Clerodendrum spcciosissiminn. 128(3., 

 add to the paragraph : " This 

 has since been discovered to 

 be the same as C. squamiitum 

 Vahl, Bot. Reg., t. 649. A 

 native of China; and intro- 

 duced in 1790." 



Aloj/sia citrioddra, in the garden of 

 Sir Walter Raleigh's house, 

 at Youghal, is 25 ft. high, 

 with a stem 3 in. in dia- 

 meter. 



Plumbagina'cEjE. 



Plumbago capensis. 1287., introduce after 

 " Bot. Beg., t. 417.: " " and our 

 fg. 2520." 



Chenopodia^ce^. 



A' triplex 'H.dlimus. 1289. This species 

 is abundant in a wild state about 

 King George's Sound, on the ex- 

 treme south-west of Australia, and is eaten by the settlers as an 

 agreeable food. 

 Kockia prostrdfa. 1291., add : " This species is quite hardy in the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden." 



FOLYGONA^CE^. 



Tragopyrum, 1294., before the paragraph headed " T. pungens" introduce : — 

 " T, maritima Doug. There are plants, raised from seeds sent home by 

 Douglas, in the Horticultural Society's Garden." 



Zaura^ce^. 



'Laurus nobilis. 1298. 1. 1., add, after "Tauria:" "It is not really wild 

 in any part of Sicily, though it grows in hedges near the towns. 

 (Comp. Bot. Mag., i. 51.) 

 End of the paragraph, after " Knights of the Round Table," add : " The 

 flowers of the sweet bay afford the best kind of honey, and are nume- 

 rously frequented by bees. The blackbirds, in winter, are very fond of 

 the berries, (Host Fl. Aus., ii. p. 66.)" 

 L. Sassafras. 1303., before " Statistics," insert : — 



" Insects and Fungi. The Papilio Ilioneus Sm. et Abb. Ins. of Georgia, t.2., 

 and our Jig. 2521., the black swallow-tail butterfly, in its larva state, feeds on 

 the leaves of this tree. The fungi are : Calocera Lauri Brot., Hysterium i^auri 

 Fr., Sphseria Sassafras Schwein., S, pentagona Pcrs., Actinocladium penicillus 

 Fr.y and SphaeVia conferta Schweiti.; which last is also found on L. Benzoin." 



