880 



Div. Forestry, Bull. No. 11, 1895, pp. 29-32.— —The Bambuseae of 

 British India, Gamble, in Annals Roy. Bot. Gdn. Calcutta, vii. 

 pp. 1-133;- pis. 1-119 (Printed at the Bengal Secretariat Press, 

 Calcutta, 1896 : Bernard Quaritch, A.' Constable & Co., E. A. 



1 _ 



Arnold & Co. &c. London). — ~** Bamboo Manna," Hooper, in 

 Pharm. Journ. x. 1900, p. 640.—^ — ''On the Growth of Giant 

 Balliboos," Lock, in Annals, Roy. Bot. Gdns. Peradeniya, ii. 

 part 2, August 1904, pp. 211-266; pis. xxi.-xxiii.- — -''The 

 Flowering of Cultivated Bamboos," Bean, iii Kew Bull. 1907, 



pp. 228-233. ^'Chinese Bamboo Ropes/' Kew Bull. 1909, 



pp. 316-317. "The Bamboo Wattle Silo,'' Coventry, in 



Agric. Journ. India, vi.*1911, pp. 20-26, illustr.^ ''Bamboo 



Leaves as Fodder & Litter," Agric. News, Barbados, xi. March 



30th, 1912, p. 103. '^The Bamboo Forests of the Pegu 



Forest Division and the Method of Extraction," Butterwick, 



in Indian Forester, xxxix. April 1913, pp. 176-183.^ ^Les 



Bambusees : Monogr. Biol. Cult. Principaux Usages, Camus, 



pp. 1-215 (Paris, 1913). '' Bamboos in Burma," Bulh Imp. 



Inst. xi. 1913, pp. 534-536.- PhiMppine Bamboos, Brown & 



Fischer, Bureau of Forestry, Manila, Bull. No. 15, 1918, 



pp. 1-32; pis. i,-xxxiii. ''Bamboos and Boring Beetles," 



Boodle & Dallimore, in Kew Bull. 1920, pp. 282-285. 



FILICES. 





Pteridium, Gleditsch. 



M 



Pteridium aquilinmn, Kuhn, v. Deck. Eeisen, iii. 3, Bot. 



(1879), p. 11; Christerisen, Index FiHcum, ii. (1906), p. 591. 

 [Pteris Aquilina, Linn. Sp. PI. ii. (1753), p. 1073]. Caudex 

 reeping below the surface of the soil, black, fleshy. Stipes 

 ^rect, 1-6 ft., sometimes 10 ft. high. JFronds 2-3 ft. or more 

 downy when young, bipinnate or sometimes tripinnate. Sori 

 continuous along the incurved margins of the pinnae. Tn 

 general a very variable plant. 



Til. — Hooker, Brit. Ferns, t. 38. 



Bracken or Brake. 



Found in many temperate or warm countries. Collected 

 at Old Calabar and noted on Cross River Expedition (1900). 



The rootstocks or rhizomes and young fronds ground into 

 meal have been suggested for feeding pigs and poultry (Journ. 

 Bd. Agric. March 1917, p. -1252). A farinaceous food has been 

 -obtained from the rootstocks for use a^ food in times of scarcity 

 in Britain; the meal is used as food in Japan and at one time 

 was used roasted as food by the Natives of New Zealand (Mus. 

 Kew and Bull. 1919, p. 82) ; the rhizomes are dug up, dried and 

 manufactured into a white starchy substance, which is baked 

 into cakes for food in Ssuchuan, China, where also the young 

 fronds are cooked as a vegetable (Hosie, Rep. »Ssuchuan, 

 W. China. No. 5. 1904. n. 13L - 



