110 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
scattered widely, including- Dr. A. J. Grout, well known to 
moss students; but more especially to commemorate the 
hero of a famous anecdote. He was a precocious boy but 
five years old. who wandered away a few miles on the crust 
in the sugaring season and came into a little sawmill village 
called Ireland. Being told that he was in Ireland he asked 
them to help him find his xvav to "Stratton, North America."' 
Westminster,. Ft. 
MANNA. 
•V4r AXXA is oV.lected from the -Tarfar or tamarisk, the 
^ manna asli. the camel thorn, tlie iarch. the cedar, the 
Australian Eucalyptus •riincualis and even .s.nne edible lich- 
ens, such as Lccaiwra csculcuta. and its allie'l .^i>ecies are 
known by this name. According to Burckhardt the manna 
from the tamarisk (Tamarix gallica) drops from the thorns, 
on the sticks and leaves with which the ground around these 
trees is usually covered, atid mu.st l>e gathered early in the 
day ur^ it will j>c melted by the sun. ' "The Arabs cleanse 
and it, strain it through a cloth, and put it into leathern 
bottles, and in this way keep it uninjureri for several vears. 
The manna rushes iFraxinus ornus.^F. Eiirop.mi ^nd F. 
miAtrip- an insect resembling the locust, known as Coccus 
ii!a,:;>if,rnts. The substance is fluid ar niglit an<l resembles 
dev.-. but begins to harden in the morning. Fra.vijins onuis 
was introduced into England in 17:^0 by Dr. Uvedale. 
The camel thorn, which gr-.-s in 'Xorthern India and 
-yria. produces the description kn. •^^n as Al baj. or Persian 
•■■ma. Tlie hircli and t'le fam-Ais cedars of Lebanon also 
■••-.ish a manna of their own. but alth. .ugh prized and eaten 
