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connection with this plant. It was known to Theophrastus, and entered 

 into the religion of the Druids in Gaul and Britain. — G. II. 



Montriehardia aculeata. By Sir J. D. Hooker (Bot. Mag. tab. 

 7817). — Nat. ord. Avoided, tribe Philodendrece. Native of West Indies 

 and Amazon River. This is a noble aroid forming thickets in moist 

 places near the sea. It is 8 feet high at Kew, and flowered in 1900 and 

 1901. The leaves are a foot long, hastate, with pale yellow midribs and 

 nerves ; the spathe and spadix are pale yellow. — G. H. 



Moschosma riparium. Anon. (Gard. Chron. No. 791, p. 122, 

 fig. 35 ; 22 '2/1902). — This labiate shrub is a native of South Tropical 

 Africa. It has very numerous small cream-coloured flowers in erect 

 panicles, and would be useful in stoves or warm greenhouses during the 

 winter. — G. S. S. 



Moss. Ephemeropsis Tjibodensis, Goeb., Diagnosis of. By 



Max Fleischer (Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. vol. xvii. p. 68 ; 2 plates ; 1900). 



P. G. 



Moss Flora of Hartz Mountains (Beih. Bot. Cent. bd. xi. ht. G, 



pp. 359-367). — Herr L. Loeske publishes a list of localities of the rarer 

 Mosses and Liverworts discovered by him in a fortnight's excursion from 

 Goslar to Thale. — G. F. S.-E. 



Mosses of the Baden Black Forest (Beih. Bot. Cent. bd. xi. ht. 8, 



pp. 546-551). — Herr Th. Herzog (Freiburg i/B.) gives a general account 

 of Mosses and their distribution in the valleys of St. Wilhelm and 

 Oberrieder. — G. F. S.-E. 



Mountain Districts in Landscape Gardening. By W. Lange 

 (Die Gart. p. 301; 29 3/1902 ; with illustrations of rock formation 

 useful for the building of rockeries). — Sketches from the Granitic 

 Brocken, the sandstone rock of the Regenstein, both of the Central 

 German Harz Mountains are given. — G. B. 



Musa Oleracea. By Sir J. D. Hooker (Bot. Mag. tab. 7802). 

 Nat. ord. Scitaminece, tribe Musece. — Native of New Caledonia. It is 

 unique in having a large underground tuber, replete with starch, which is 

 eaten by the natives. It has " eyes " like a Potato, so can be propagated 

 by division. The inflorescence has long bracts, glaucous purple externally, 

 and red within. It flowered at Kew, 1900— G. H. 



Nemesia, African. By Ph. L. de Vilmorin (Rev. Hort. pp. 14, 15 ; 

 January 1, 1902). — Woodcut and coloured plates showing very pretty 

 forms, with cultural directions. — C. T. D. 



Nephrolepis exaltata Piersoni (Amer. Gard. xxiii. pp. 151, 153 ; 

 figs. 34, 35 ; 8/3/1902). — A new and handsome Fern, which originated in 

 1899 with Mr. F. K. Pierson at Tarrytown, N.Y., as a sport from the well- 

 known Boston Fern, N. exaltata bostoniensis. The pinnas of the main 

 rachis are subdivided into perfect miniature fronds. 



