original account. In recent years the plant has been found in Japan 

 and called Lysurus Beauvaisi, and we have a drawing of the plant 

 made in Japan by Mr. M. Gono. Recently, also, it has appeared 

 adventitiously in some warm houses in California. In addition there 

 is one similar collection from Australia which was illustrated as Mu- 

 tinus pentagonus, under the belief that the arms are united and 

 consolidated into one piece. It is probable that when this Australian 

 plant is again found, it will develop that it is the same species as 

 Lysurus Mokusin. 



Fig. 1075 



Fig. 1076 



In the original account and figure of Lysurus Mokusin by Father 

 Cibot, the arms are shown and described as connivant, but as not 

 united at the top. When we first received this plant from Mr. Gee, 

 we thought it was the same species that had previously been illustrated 

 from China, and although we noted that the arms are united into a 

 tip, we thought that there was probably a discrepancy in Father 

 Cibot's account. But on again going over his work carefully, we 

 concluded that there is no possibility of Father Cibot's having over- 

 looked this feature, and we concluded that the plant from Mr. Gee, 

 with the consolidated tip, can not be the same species as the plant 

 from Father Cibot without the tip. It may develop in time that we 

 are mistaken in one or both of these assumptions, but until further is 

 learned of the subject, we shall have to hold Mr. Gee's plant as distinct. 



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