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young ones in the ponch, whence it iippears that Quoy and 

 Gaimard's suspicions, that theii" specimens were the young of a 

 species, were as Mr. Waterhouse opined incorrect. — C. W. De Yis. 



" Fasciatiox " IN SiCYOS ANGULATA, LiNN. — The present 

 example of this species of Vegetable Teratology, for which 

 I am indebted to Mr. T. Steel, of Condong Mill, Tweed 

 River, belongs to a Cucurbitaceous plant, Sicyos angidata, Linn., 

 so far as can be determined in the absence of flower or fruit. 

 The specimen is about two feet in length, with a breadth of from 

 three to over four inches, and leafy throughout, but without 

 flowers. Fasciated stems similar to the one shown are by no means 

 uncommon occurrences in Australian vegetation, but one seldom 

 meets with so broad a growth on so slender a plant as the present, 

 in which, though often climbing over trees on the borders of our 

 scrubs to the height of 30 or more feet, the normal size of stem 

 seldom exceeds I to ^ in. in diameter. The plant to which 

 this monstrosity is supposed to belong has a wide range in 

 Australia, Tropical, and North America, and is also met with in 

 New Zealand, and the Islands of the Pacific. It may be here 

 observed that while in the present instance, the beauty of the 

 plant is by no means entranced by the distortion, the same 

 "fasciation" in the case of the Cockscomb (Celosia cristata) forms 

 its principal attmction. — F. M. Bailey, F.L.S. 



