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The man had already sunk beneath the surface, when one 
of the young gardeners, W. C. Fishlock, jumped in, swam out and 
succeeded in bringing the man to land. C. ird ham, hee 
had received instruetion in a St. John's Ambulance class, w: 
able to induce artificial respiration, and the man was eventas 
sent to his home. 
The circumstances having been reported to the Royal Humane 
Society by Her Majesty's First Commissioner of Works and 
Public Buildings, the certificates of the Society were awarded to 
the young men, and presented to them by the Director on 
March 16th. 
Botanical Magazine for April.—The variety of the familiar 
Impatiens Roi ylei which is the subject of plate 7647 appeared 
in the shrubberies of Sir J. D. Hooker's garden at Sunningdale, 
three or four years ago. Sir Joseph is unable to explain how 
was introduced into his garden, and whence it came. It i 
coloured flowers, is a native of the Himalayas. The spe ecimen 
four inches in diameter. ilene Se from ina and 
Formosa, ne superficially the Ly ychnis Flos-cuculi of our 
meadows. The seed from which the specimen figured was raised 
was collected in Shensi by Father Piccoli, of the Jesuit Mission in 
Hankow, and were received at Kew through G. Murray, Esq., 
F.R.S., Keeper z the Bonia Department of the British 
Museum. A plant of Yucca elata, a native of the South-Western - 
United States, was see in 189 )3,and flowered in 1896. This 
speeimen has now a trunk about a yard long. The flowers are 
two inches long, and white. pude villea variabilis, from Western 
China, has elegant foliage and loose racemes of bright rose-purple 
flowers. Seeds of this plant were sent to Kew by Mr. W. 
Thompson, of Ipswich. 
Botanical Magazine for May.— Nicotiana sylvestris is a robust 
species from Argentina, quite recently introduced into cultivation. 
The large leaves resemble those of N. tomentosa, and the flowers 
those of the well-known N. alata, (N. affinis). The Kew plants 
were raised from seed communicated by Messrs. Dammann & Co., 
of Naples. Cyrtanthus parviflorus is allied to C. ang ustifoliib 
having, however, smaller, more brightly coloured flowers. Bulbs 
of this plant, which is a native of the Cape, were presented to Kew 
y . Woodall, Esq., of Scarborough. Alnus nitida occurs at 
elevations of 4 ‚000 to 9,000 feet in the Western Himala aya. This, 
and A. is, a species as yet not introduced into English 
are the only representatives of the genus in the Indian A 
gargens, 
flora. - Seeds of the former were sent to Kew by the late R. Ellis, 
Esq. in 1882, Dahlia maximiliana is a little-known species, 
