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given in the ‘ Cybele Hibernica’ to “ ae except the extreme 
north,” instead of ‘‘ south,” as it stands t 
*Petroselinum sativum L.—At Moville, Deeagal: Mr. C. Moore. 
Greencastle, W. E. H. 
(To be continued.) 
PODOPHYLLUM A FORMOSAN GENUS. 
By H. F. Hance, Pu.D., F.L.S8., &e. 
AurHoueH during the past yond -two years the writer has been 
able to add no inconsiderable number of species to the Chinese 
- flora, it is doubtful if it has often | been his good fortune to record a 
more interesting discovery than that which forms the subject of 
the present brief note. Specimens were first sent by the writer’s 
iend, Mr. T. Watters, H. M. Consul at Tam- — in oe spring of 
1881; but these were so imperfectly died and packed that they 
arrived with the floral — all detached, so that it was impos- 
sible to ascertain whether the flower was iso- or diplostemonous. 
A living specimen was iordy after forwarded, but although 
very carefully tended, and growing nicely, it has only just now 
(March, 1883) sfdtied a solitary blossom, the others having 
aborted, no doubt from exposure to cold. At the same time a 
liberal supply of meget both expanded and in bud, preserved in 
alcoho 1, has bee ceived, through Mr. Watters’ . thonghtfal 
dness, and eres « aimple materials have been in hand for a 
complete examin 
The genus remem has hitherto consisted of but two species ; 
the North American P. peltatum Linn. ! the May apple or Mandrake 
of the United States (where the fruit is eaten, and from the rhizome 
. which the purgative resin named vodophy line so much employed 
epatic derangements, is prepared), which has twice as man 
jtichetin as petals, and the Himalayan P. Emodi Wall.! recently 
detected in the Tangut country, province of Kan-su, by Przewalsky,* 
in which petals and stamens are equal in number, and both of these 
have solitary white flowers. In the very distinct plant under 
notice the much larger isostemonous flowers are of a dull red, 
arranged in a pendulous group of five or six, in the fork of the si 
stem-leaves; they are bractless, and ethals a strong odour 
putrefying flesh. The sepals are not caducous, and the oonindstive 
is conspicuously prolonged beyond the anther- eels but the essen- 
tial characters are in every respect those of the 
Yi pH of Diphylleia and Cauloph iient i in Japan andl 
Sachalin, and of Jeffersonia in Manchuria, would of course hile 
prepared us for the present discovery. Although agreeing in its 
* For this interesting piece of oo the writer is indebted to 
M. Bataline’s sapere ‘Apergu des travaux russes sur la géographie des 
plantes, de 1875-80’ (St. Petersb., 1881), a copy of which he owes to the 
courtesy of the thc 
