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lanceolate erect leave- and hears at the apex an enormous corymb of 

 daisy-like flowers, each over an inch in diameter and white with a yellow 

 disc. In the garden of Mons. Lacrcix in Tonraine, a specimen of this 

 Senecio in the open air last summer grew to a large size, and on being 

 removed to a greenhouse for the winter, it developed a flower stem over 

 »ix feet high and a corymb of 140 flowers. The Kew specimen flowered 

 in March, and a figure of it has been prepared for publication in 

 the Botanical Mayazine. 



Plants from the Shire Highlands. — A small coll vtion of living vni> 

 and bulbous plants was recently received at Kew from Mr. John Moir, 

 of Mandala, near Blantyre, in East Tropical Africa. They were 

 packed in a small liox and were enlni-t.ed to Mis- Florence E. Turner, 

 who took care of them during the voyage. Although they had been in 

 the box from November to February, and had been at sea about a 

 month, yet almost every one of the plants was alive on arrival. The 

 fact that almost all kind- of living plants may be sent long distances in 

 wooden boxes with ordinary care, and that seeds may be despatched in 

 an ordinary canvas bag by post, without appreciable suffering, should 

 lead to the introduction of many new and interesting plants from remote 

 parts of Africa, from New Guinea, and other [dace- in course of being 

 opened by European enterprise. 



Australian Alpine Plants. — In a communication to The Garden la-t 

 year (Vol. xlii. p. 153), Mr. A. E. Wallace drew attention to the 



alpine and sub-alpine plants of Australia, and suggested that many 

 ot them would prove hardy in this country. It is remarkable that 

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