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out on both sides of the plant. They are often six feet Ion 

 two feet wide and usually split into ribbons that undulat. 

 the ground in a way strikingly suggestive of the tentacles 

 octopus. With its great ugly body and its tentacle-like 1 

 it is no wonder that it should have been the most rema 

 plant novelty of the last century. The flowers are bo: 

 scarlet cones on a cymose inflorescence coming from the 



Tumboa Bainesii 



prevail almost completely, except for the 

 nbo " is thus a desert plant par excellence and 

 : approximation of these very arid conditions 

 to cultivate it. It is exceedingly rare in cultiv 



NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 



Dr. C. B. Robinson, assistant curator, spent two or three weeks 

 of his summer vacation in making collections at the Bay of Seven 

 Islands, Saguenay, Quebec. 



Mr. Allen H. Curtiss, well known as a collector and student 

 of the plants of the southern United States and of the West 

 Indies, died in Jacksonville, Florida, on September I, in the 

 sixty-third year of his age. 



Mr. W. D. Hoyt, of Baltimore, Maryland, spent some time at 

 the Garden during September and October examining the collec- 



Dr. Heinrich Hasselbring, assistant in botany in the University 

 of Chicago, has been appointed assistant botanist at the Cuban 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, at Santiago de las Vegas. 



