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a whi h pee 5, , amusement by the issue of the s epres in a smoky cloud | when, on cutting across, the interior is of an unilorm 
stem Jes, with = pent ssi Piece oie ines, when squeezed, or as a popular r cara bigs ör cum; aon pure white. If ye ellow stains appear the ey are too old. 
jungles y the same order, and one with spotted stems | nose bleeding. The largest of the y co } 
Pelong the latter very large for the genus, which | giganteum, which attains occasionally e ‘di % | pepper, salt, &e., as for an ordinary omele tte f eggs, 
am lately found at Neuera lia, and in flower on our sions, and occurs in grea at qua antities, though i in many o ip the slices into yolk of egg and sprinkle the herbs 
he the summit of One Tree Hill, we hope nal visitant. y in fresh sweet butter, 
to bea species not, before well known. The| Not only is the fructifying surfaco in the Puffballs ei let them be eaten immediately. They are much 
3 of Ipomeea tridentata and I. filicaulis | and their allies inclosed i or more coats called | lighter on ip more digestible than egg omelettes and 
m only one species), with their light | peridia, but the double darenbiranc, like the gills of | resemble brain fritters,” 
ured flowers, with dark purple centres, are | Agarics over which the hymenium is aS ead, is sinu ate d The who le of the Puffballs however young are 
very pretty and very common cinnamon garden plants, | and waved in every direction so as o form a inextri ee ta ad We have 
sd the Ipomoea obscura, w with its white flowers and | ble labyrinth, Mpegs oh when the tA sog the d Lycoperdon cælatum, however young and care- 
x eart-shaped leaves, is also common everywhere | crumb of bread on the = glance, Boer iak like that, fully prepared, though it had when dressed a very 
here. ‘The Ipomoea chryseides with its tassels of | consisting a srs th of bubbles compacted into a | delicate appearance, to be quite uneatable, and Bovists 
tiny yellow flowers about 3 inch in size is common in | so id mass without a pre communication with each | plumbea belongs, in our estimation oe sa to the same 
sina places, while one of our showiest jungle plants, | other. If these sinuous cavities are examined with a | category. Some species of Puffba sold for food in 
dedicated to Mrs, . Horsfall by being called 1. Hors- | good lens, while they are yet entire, a few Zito the Dae at Bic erabad, bat. a ped know ot, 
fallie, abounds ‘is in our pur jang ea and is decidedly indi- | threads will be seen to traverse some of them, as at present we have not been able to procure 
col flowers deeply | higher magnifying power be used the dene vil be japseon of it. 
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js known to the Singhalese as the Çiri-bada-ala. | spores properties, cat they have ne consequence 
joe of Pharbitis which Mr. Lear raised at Pera- spicules sisted at the “top of the calls "t hich ie been “sucefaly enpo yed for taking honey without 
d > to have sprung up amongst some | hymenium is com: mposed. — Ea Pelor w Of late a further use has bema 
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i vere t narseryman, Mr. Knight, sent him 207. for it, z change howeve — comes over the purity of t ations a 
we suppose it i is the T. Learii ii of the e boo! ks. rnmblike mass. slight yellow sine semap anied | its influence it Trak suc 
The Cl 2 Se an ne a Sabet or st appears; the walls of t tinder, aad there i is little doubt that 
elit; or one of t ti t f trelli k, | cavities bec flaccid and moist, and soon their ič well gi are to divest it of its spores it might be 
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LYCOPERDON GIGANIEUM. Natural size of a very small specimen. 
and the cordate-leaved one, both with scarlet flowers, | structure is altogether lost, a alt si a tine the pics oie. eee tuted for hei = The spores inixed with milk 
pa er and so are the Morning Glories now so | forms a soft mass like an olivaceous ga popular remedy in Italy against scouring in oxen. 
in Ceylon, and whose colours remind us of the | Gradually the moisture is 2 Sr gen outer bark it wd. "5: 
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gives way if it did jiet asii earlier period, | 
“What skilful limner e'er would choose showing beneath it a i tough alien —— with | iSIR W. J. HURRA REPORT ON KEW 
To paint the rainbow’s various hues, the olivaceous mass within ; and this in turn | GARDENS, &c. 
i A tn gages oe a the whole cavity is filled with a dusty mass of of ands Royal Gardens, Kew, 27th January, 1860. 
The blue- A cil a aiekin tia saia ware lat ay and spores, the latter of which are dispersed in myriads | Sir,—In obedience to your instructions I render 
pa Ce i m, b $ 208 w one of ser favo oe with every ane? motion of ong wind. | this my annual Report on the Royal Gardens as brief 
ial SE, Sa ve hae mages? iganteum has sometim referred | as may be, for the past year. 1859. The number of 
pereunias creeper se Se to the genus "Bost, which is distinguished “from the ,000, indeed, short of. the 
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A Rak maenor a, Tia arron. ay, onan Paia M tag Eraras sinc Mermans oo ma hat weal 
ridia, mo y the spores retainip g 
Soa iasa "of f the indig recog PE the spicules at the tips of which they were first 4 an incre! f 23,000 ova 1e eee. 
onl Ste ph ted ae aig ho oe is developed. ‘The affinities however of the Giant Puffball bei ina wale measure ted for by the wet 
Fa i eg eas A Rape ee oe are evidently with Lycoperdon, and therefore Fries has | and autumn of the pty year pema the very sultry he 
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ulis, ong of this order, and though now one ewe Tyoeperdon giganteum is one of. os best of our |: 
most commonly cultivated plants in Ceylon, is a native | early stage 
of South America. For Sur oun part we are very fond | of Pongi. mae Boin Dr, Badham 
pl prt gol Bole alae Po a Hussey much nsed. 
finitely prefer them to common Pota- i 
toes, qualities now become fi Italy, where 2 are ont ae 
but Roques not of its use in France from 
COLOGY.—No, XII. experience, and tl little about it in | 
ging cheney, Frain Al the Fungi | Paulet. This Fungus will not keep many bouts after it 
hich we have, “hitherto. described, the fructify |is gathered, and Vittadini* therefore advises cutting 
surface though t away from the ligh | slices from the Fungus as it grows, and in this way a 
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Fungi t, Hussey’s directions for cooking the Giant Puffball required, our 
in which the hymenium is never exposed till all | are as follows: —They are in a proper state for cooking 
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Spores or fruit are ready for dispersion. Amongst ja taken from Dr. Badham’s book. We cannot find this time undergoing a change that has proved 
are the Pufballs, with which almost every omen predic this secount im Vittedint, but aa Ty wes correct in highly adva: ntageons, both for the better of the 
familiar, either as playthings from their affording fed Taian ne = correct in Tic Palms and for the general effect of the interior — 
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