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recently received at the K 
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feet under the equator, and probably plants do not reach Kilmanjaro 
higher than that." 
The following is what can be made of this collection :— 
Helichrysum abyssinicum, Schultz-Bip., and five other species of the 
same genus; 
Artemisia apparently afra, Jacq. ; 
-Ericinella ? not in flower. ; 
Bleria spicata, Hochst. ? ; 
Labiate not in flower, perh: ps Tinnea ; 
ehst. ; 
Barísia, near longiflora, Hoch 
Cyp ; 
and two quite doubtful. On the lower slopes were gathered an Asclepiad, 
sam 
which is probably a new genus of Periplocez, the e Adenocarpus 
Which Mann got on the Cameroons (4. Mannii, Hook., fil.) a new 
Tephrosia and many other species of interest.—J. G. BAKER. 
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richly due to Mr. Fletcher, of Liverpool. A few years ago this gentle- 
by the Rev. G. Gordon. 
under cultivation, and upon being informed by the Liverpool botanists 
that he was in danger of eradicating by his agricultural improvements 
one of our rarest SM plants, promised to do all that he could to avoid 
such a disaster. 1S promise he has lately carried into effect by en- 
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ing-tile and ploughshare ; and it is to be hoped that in the humid climate 
of West Ross-shire the plant by this means may be preserved for many 
years to come, 
meadow which is flooded at high tide and in the winter. The plant has 
not been observed there in previous years, though the spot is annually 
Visited. NAYLOR, 
VEGETABLE Broom Matertats. (Journ. Bot. IX., 51, 111.)—Having 
ew Museum some specimens of the materials 
used for making carpet-brooms, and clothes and velvet brushes, I sen 
What information I can gather about them. "There seems no doubt that, a5 
P Dyer states (p. 51), the materials used for carpet-brooms and : 
