October 20, 1897.] 



Garden and Forest. 



413 



Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons. The plant was in the form of a are so much longer than the culms that they trail on the 

 tuft of thin, rigid, erect culms about two feet high, clothed ground unless the plant is elevated on a pedestal, in which 

 with narrow graceful foliage. It bore panicles of flowers position it is seen to advantage. This character may be 



Fig- 53- — Spiraea arbuscula. — See page 412. 



from two to three feet long which drooped in the most abnormal, for, according to the description and figure of 

 elegant fashion, forming an airy plumose or tail-like clus- Apera arundinacea in Hooker's Flora of New Zealand, the 

 ter, colored pale brown tinged with pink. The panicles panicle is erect and about a foot long : " A tall, erect, 



