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complete account of all the plants of a Island, but also enable — 
pitt wre and others who possess the necessary knowledge of the 
structure of flowers and of botanical teenuneues to ascertain the 
name of any plant met with.” 
Tue following announcement of ooktstn changes to be inttodioel 
in connection with Notarisia is sufficiently interesting for repro- 
the Algas part will still be given out in separated numbers a 
the title: ‘La Notarisia’ commentario ficologico generale par 
speciale della Rivista Neptunia. The ee oral of the pages is tb 
be continued progressively as before. ‘The Notarisia’ will come out 
every other month; the shape remains just sti same, our faithful 
work-fellows remain and are even encreased by precious adhesions, 
Nothing has been changed but for the form, and this also very 
life. Last April as we undertook alone the direction of ‘the 
Notarisia, we wrote: We sis *t make a program, to shee improving 
is our devise. Only a few months are over, and something has been 
done, we submit aivsolved 1 hopeful to the ‘ adgeniant of the readers 
who know us since many year and kann judge if we have 
improoved.”’ 
Tue last part (April) of the Icones Plantarum is largely occupied 
with Dr. Henry’s Chinese novelties. Dr. Focke describes some 
new Chinese Rubi, two of which are figured; and Prof. Oliver (by 
whom most of the part is written) contributes a new Manglietia from 
Hong Kong, of which only one tree is known to exist, by which the 
genus is added to the Chinese Flora, and a new genus of Heemodo- 
racer (Cyanastrum) from West Tropical sien Many of the 
Chinese plants figured are of economic impo 
We clip the Hawa from the Daily News Pa April 28rd :— 
‘**Down at Lianfairfechan, in Carnarvonshire, there is a lady 
farmer, who, — of hoeing down the common groundsel in 
her fields as a noxious weed, is accustomed to encourage its growth, 
. 
she is convinced that our agriculturists lose much by not utilising 
this prolific ee Tt was the fact that the delicate canary is kept 
in health by eating groundsel which suggested to her many years 
ago to have Semen Ste full of it gathered without the roots, and 
even to her father’s horses and cows. They ate it greedily, and 
none the worse for it. The lady has even eaten it herself, 
ee i found it wholesome and something like lettuce. ‘We had (she 
continued) a field which at one end lay rather low and damp. 
There, naturally, was a crop of groundsel. I cut it, and re-cut it, 
with a knife or sickle, at least three times in one summer, and it 
more and more bus ushy and succulent, and the horses and cows 
feasted on it.’ — (it is asked) should not this plant be cultivated 
se or horses, the same as vetches?” 
