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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



common reed, but of a silvery whiteness, owing to their being covered with very long colourless hair, and themselves con- 

 sisting of colourless membranous glumes and pales. According to Prof. Kunth this species is an Arundo. But to us it 

 appears quite as different from that genus as from Gynerium. And although it is by no means one of the same genus as 

 G. saccharoides, yet it may as well preserve its common name, faulty though it be, as be transferred to Arxtndo, from 

 wbich it must be expelled. The infiexed hook of its pales is extremely remarkable, and, together with its dioecious 

 character, leads to the inference that it may be a genus distinct from either. 



