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Plants can be moved from August to April. Seed ripens early in July, 

 and if sown at once most of it will germinate the same summer, the 

 remainder the following year. — E. T. C. 



Arabis Billardieri. By W. Irving (Gard, p. 422; 20/6/03).— 

 Among new plants that have recently flowered at Kew in the Alpine 

 House is this Syrian Arabis. It is found growing on stony and shady 

 hills near Damascus. It is quite hardy, although it much appreciates the 

 shelter of a cold house in spring. As a pot plant it grows remarkably 

 well, but if given a half-shaded position outside and planted in a stony 

 soil it will probably thrive well. The flowers are large and vary in colour 

 from purplish-rose to white.— E. T. C. 



Aralia cordata Thunb. as Salad. By D. G. Fairchild (U.S.A. 

 Dep. Agr. Bur. PI. Ind. Bull 42, p. 17, June 1903 ; 2 plates).— Two 

 varieties of this plant are grown in Japan, and the blanched shoots used 

 for salad in winter ; the methods of cultivation and dressing for use are 

 described, and rocommended for trial in America. — E. A. B. 



Araujia serieifera (Physianthus aliens) as Moth and Butterfly 



Trap (Bev. Hort. November 1, 1903, p. 491). — This plant, according to 

 M. Louis Pondaven, attracts and entraps a large number of moths, 

 especially nocturnal ones, in July and August, when it flowers, the plant 

 being sometimes covered with them, owing to a presumed contraction of 

 their stamens when the tongues of the insects are inserted to obtain the 

 honey.— C. T. D. 



Areca (?) Micholitzii. By W. B. Hemsley (Bot. Mag. tab. 7917).— 

 Nat. ord. Palmce, tribe Arecece. Native of New Guinea. This is a small 

 Palm, 5-6 ft. high. The leaves are pinnatisect. Flowers sessile, sub- 

 distichous. Flowered at Kew, but has not yet fruited. — G. H. 



Arisaema japonicum (male). By W. B. Hemsley (Bot. Mag. 

 tab. 7910). — Nat. ord. Aroidecz, tribe Arinece. Native of China and 

 Japan. This species is dioecious with a globose tuber. The spathe 

 equals in height the pedate leaves, green with longitudinal white stripes 

 on the cylindrical tube. — G. H. 



Asclepiadacese, Johannesburg". By Spencer Moore (Journ. Bot. 

 489, pp. 309-313; 9/1903). — Descriptions of Xysmalobium Broicnianum, 

 Schizoglossum Bandii, S. loreum, S. propinquum, Asclepias Calceolus, and 

 Dichcelia micropliylla, collected by Dr. Rand at Johannesburg and new to 

 science. — G. S. B. 



Asclepias Kaessneri. By N. E. Brown (Journ. Bot. 491, p. 362 ; 

 11/1903). — Description of a new species collected by Mr. Kaessner at Kiu, 

 in British East Africa.— G. S. B. 



Asparagus Rust. By B. D. Halstead (U.S.A. Exp. Stn. Neiv 

 Jersey, Bep. 1902 ; pp. 403-408).— From reports received this disease 

 (due to Puccinia asparagi) appears to be kncwn in most of the States, 



