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pulmonary affections, and to have tonic properties. I enclose a small 
specimen of those imported here. Hankow is the chief place of export 
in China, a large quantities also come im apan 
men forwarded by Mr. Warren was evidently the flower of 
Pickers, ae Mr. Baker saw no reason why it should not be 
H. graminea, Andr. (H. minor, Mill) the}Day Lily distinguished from 
the true lilies - its shortly eiim mter iom nA nth. There were no 
& furnish a sufficiently large bulb are utilised as a source of farinaceou 
food. Early in autumn the women may be seen returning to 
* their villages loaded with bulbs. These are thoroughly crushed in 
* a large wooden mortar, after which the starch is separated from the 
cellular mass by repeated washing. The former is then hung up in 
bags for winter use, while the latter is dried in round perforated 
cakes, somewhat resembling miniature mill-stones, and hung up to 
d 
Elforts were made to procure specimens of lily cakes from J ders for the 
Museums of Economie Botany at Kew, an shown in the following 
official correspondence not Duty lily cakes, ibo other épótimátis were 
obtained, which are now in the Kew Museu 
The Hon. Power Lx Porn TRENCH to FOREIGN OFFICE. 
My up Tokio, March 6th, 1884. 
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or in Yokohama. 
r. Woolley, MI who was passing through Yokohama in 
December last, on his way back to A dae pe prd toi Ai a whether 
they were fisci 1 in some town or village in the northern part of 
Japan, and the month before last tie röt that m «€ not find any 
in Hakodate, and that the Japanese there said they had never seen such 
things. He was inclined to think that Professor Penhallow had mis- 
taken them for Fw cakes, which are made of wheat and hung up in shops 
an sale, and that those he ead to ied only to be found in the Aino 
ount: He ow vitte Mr. Brooks, a botanist 
simil to the Adresini ‘College at Sapo; and had asked him.to 
try and obtain some of the specimens requir 
On the Ist instant I received a further letter from Mr. Woolley, 
saying that he had at last succeeded in obtaining the cakes asked for, 
kind, the larger ones being, he said, of an awkward size. for transport, 
and more smi to get broken. 
I have now the honour to forward to your Lordship a box containing 
the mé Pak; eus of the cakes, dor cn with a eed as the same. 
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The Earl Granville, K.G., (Signed) “P. s POER TRENCH. 
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