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will be found the herbaceous grounds. Just over the elevation to 
the west of this plantation is the Southern Boulevar 
ean passes through the pinetum site, and on a plateau 
the west is the large range of horticultural houses. From 
- point it is but a few minutes walk to t! n 
V. Nasu. 
THE BUTTON-BUSH A TREE. 
In clearing one of the marshes, east of the museum building of 
the Garden, preparatory to flooding it for a lake, a gigantic 
bu tton-bush (Cephatanthus oc- 
The 
bark is — in iene ieeel 
thin plate 
his 
dense kt oo ora 2 (Al 
rugos. dr 
n og 
Fic. 11.—Tree of Cephalanthus February 28, 1900, and shows 
occidentalis. 7 é 
the tree sale in two feet 
of water on which a heavy coat of ice had form 
Cephalanthus is the only “woody” plant ‘of the Madder - 
a wat 
and tropical regions however, many of the family are trees, 
notably the cinchonas of the Andean region in South America 
as well as some of their numerous relatives. N. L. Britron. 
