12!) specimens 



,nd Iceland.— To Herr H. Kiarskou Kew is indebted for 

 of dried plants from Greenland and Iceland, gathered by 



Leitneria floridana, Chapm.— Dr. W. Trelease, Director of the 



Missouri Botanic Gardens, St. Louis I'.S A.. Ins forwarded to Kew a 

 specimen of this species, found by him in Missouri. This interesting 

 plant, previously recorded from the salt marshes of Florida only, was 

 placed by its author in the order Myricacea 1 , but raised to tee rank of 

 a monotypic order by Bentham and Hooker in the (ion ra Pla.ttarnm 

 Vol. III., p. .396, A good figure of it is given in Hooker's Icone* 

 Plantantm, t. 1041. It forms a shrub from L' to feet high, somewhat 

 resembling a willow, from which it differs in having a solitary ovule 

 alii \ed laterally. From Mi/rira it the absence 



"s in the leaves, while the elongated (not globose) 



Wood of Araucaria. — The trunk of the historic Aram-aria imhrirata, 

 referred to in the K< ir lluUttut tor -January last, p. 24. as having died 

 during the previous autumn, has been cut up and a specimen deposited ii 

 nn. The trunk measures abo 1 1 1 ,i h :h ai 1 1 i'i it i inch - 

 in diameter at the base. A sample of the wood of a tree of ihia species 

 grown at Tortworth Court, Gloucestershire, and a walking stick madeo! 

 the same wood, both presented by Karl ol' Ducie, K.iLS.. in I-,o;>. ar, 

 shown in Museum 1S T 0. 1. The wood is light, soft, and open-grained, and 

 apparently of but little value economically, though in its native country 



'huti'ih, Ait.'. i /. liiJv-illi, Hook.!.' The fir.-i'is 



a native o!' "^ '•'• 1 -- and <J;ieoi:dand. and the second 



grows only in (Queensland. Loth are tree- of some 100 to L10 feet h>L r h, 

 very large size and light-coloured even-grained 

 wood- suitabh for fn i tut o. flooring, and oth r< rpentry work : som. 

 samples of the Moreton Bay Pine are prettily r ' 



Photographs of Tropical Scenery. — The collection of p 

 the island of Grenada taken by K. V. Sherring, K, q ., F.l 

 in Museum No. .'5 in Juste lNf)2, and noticed in the Kri 

 July and August 1S92, p. 1ST, as a loan collection, has re( 

 quired for the Museum, and will now form part of the perm 



excellence of the photographs themselves and for the w 

 scenes they represent. A very good idea of the general 6 

 the island can be obtained from them as well as of the it 

 Two of the most striking of t 



perhaps, those of Lake Antoine looking across tin 

 Grand Etang with virgin forest. Amongst those 



