GARDENERS' CHRONI 
'members. Mr. James Hussey presented a specimen of 
the Phalaris, from a field near Swanage, Dorsetshire, 
found by him in July last, reported as P. utriculata 
(Linn.), in "Loudon Journal of Botany," Sept. 1847, 
but which Mr. Hewitt Watson considers to be perhaps 
rather Phalai*is paradoxa (Linn.), of which he possesses 
no authentic specimen for comparison with the Dorset 
example. Mr. Borrer presented specimens of Malva 
verticillata (Linn.) Read *' Description of Hieracium 
heterophyllmn " (Bladon's MSS.), by Mr. James Bladon. 
M r. Forhme's Wanderings in China (Murray) has 
reached a second edition, as it deserved. The present 
issue contains some important additions relating to 
Tea, the chapter upon that subject having been re- 
written and much extended. Mr. Fortune is of opinion 
that in China the home cousumptioa of Tea may be es- 
timated at eighteen hundred million pounds, and he 
states that in addition about ninety-five million pounds 
are exported. Supposing this computation to be exact, 
it will be obvious that no such increase of European 
consumption as can be anticipated from changes in the 
duties levied upon the article, would affect such a 
market — a very interesting point just now when a 
struggle is making for a reduction of duty in our ports. 
Among other useful matter we ai*e glad to find Mr. 
Warrington's valuable and interesting paper on the 
Chemical Analysis of Tea, reprinted from the " Me- 
moirs of the Chemical Society," where it only meets the 
eye of chemists. This gentleman has not only removed 
the whole of the colouring matter, or glazing, from 
green Tea, but he has been able to analyse the matter 
removed, and to prove it, by chemical evidence, to con- 
sist of Prussian blue and gypsum principally. So that 
in fact the drinkers of green Tea, as it comes to ihe 
English market, indulge in a beverage of Chinese 
paint, and might imitate the mixture by dissolving 
Prussian blue and plaister of Paris in hot water. The 
Cliinese do not themselves drink this paiuted Tea ; they 
only sell it. 
