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reaches to the ground. Besides this useful fibre, the pulp of the ripe fruit 
of this palm is said to yield the most delicious of all palm-drinks, having 
great resemblance to cream both in color and taste. ‘The remaining arti- 
cle is one by Mr. Mitten, upon various new Musci of New Zealand, Tas- 
mania, and various parts of the Southern hemisphere. 
No. 15, contains Observations on the Growth and time of Appearances 
of Southeastern Africa by T. Caruel of Florence,—the tree which Berto- 
loni supposed to be the shea-tree mentioned by Mungo Park, and which 
described as the type not only of a new genus but of a new order 
Mr. Caruel shows that the present tree is a Combretum 
esis of the Quitenian Andes, The Oascarilla roja was said to have a 
milky juice, a remarkable circumstance for a Rubiaceous plant. It ap- 
pears that the juice as it flows from a wound is colorless, but that it turos 
white the instant it is exposed to the air, and in a few minutes ch 
now forming-for the Linnzan Society; and Mr. Hogg, a note on the 
rubella of Winch., giving evidence that it is a mere varie 
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asc. 18, part 3, is a supplement to the Myrtacee of Brazil, by 
of Berlin. This young botanist is thought to have elaborated the 
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