CHRYSOUACTKON ROSSII. 
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CHRYSOBACTRON ROSSII. 
(Dr. J. D. Hooker.) 
CAPTAIN BOSS'S OOLD STAFF. 
Towards the summits of the hills, both in 
Lord Auckland's Group and in Campbell's 
[gland) this plant is found, in company with 
others, of great brilliancy and beauty ; its 
druse spikes of golden flowers are often so 
abundant as to attract the eye from a consider- 
able distance ; in some cases it is conspicuous, 
from its profusion, at the distance of a mile 
from the shore. 
This Chrysobaetron Rossii is, by Dr. Hooker, 
made the type of a new genus allied to An- 
thericum. Ilombron and Jacquenor, in the 
Voyage an Pole Slid, call it Vcratrum Du- 
that made with a moveable lid, so that only 
the top of the covering material need be moved 
when cutting the produce, in which operation 
care should be taken to tread as little on the 
linings as possible, using a board to set the 
feet on where the plants cannot be reached 
without. In cutting, as little of the crown of 
the root should be detached as possible, merely 
cutting low enough to prevent the leaves from 
falling asunder. If, however, the plants are 
to be destroyed after the crop is taken, then 
an inch or more of the root may be cut, 
such part being highly esteemed by some. 
When the cutting is over air should be given 
to the plants in order to prevent the new shoots 
from drawing, but the linings should not be 
removed until all danger from frost is passed, 
when they should be cleared away, and the 
ground dug and left light and fine about the 
plants, treating them through the rest of the 
season as before recommended. 
If a regular succession of crops be kept up, 
then a certain portion of the oldest plantations 
may be taken up every year, and forced in 
any vinery, mushroom-house, or pit, which 
may be in use at the time, care of course 
being taken that the shoots are carefully ex- 
cluded from light. As these roots will not 
be of any further use, every leaf or shoot 
they throw up may be cut for use, and the 
former may then be thrown away. Of course, 
in cutting from plants forced in the open 
ground, moderation must he used, so that the 
plants are not too much exhausted, either 
from that cause, or by being forced too long. 
By taking up roots and forcing them in pots 
or boxes as above, all the litter and trouble at- 
tendingonthe out-door method maybe avoided, 
and only the last crops taken from the natural 
ground, by which much labour and dirt may 
be avoided. It may be mentioned, that the young 
heads of flowers of the Sea Kale make a very 
tender vegetable when boiled, and it would in j 
general benefit the plants by breaking then 
out, excepting only those wanted for seed. 
bouzeti. It is a large, tall-growing, herbaceous 
perennial, with fasciculated elongated tuberous 
roots. From the roots spring a circle of twelve 
or more erect spreading leaves, of a broadly 
sword-shaped figure, sometimes two feet long, 
and from two to four inches wide ; they are 
sheathing at the base. From among these leaves 
rises the erect scape, often, but not always, 
Chryaobaclron Itosail. 
solitary ; this grows a foot high and upwards, 
and is terminated by the raceme, from lour to 
seven inches long, of numerous crowded, 
golden, yellow flowers. 
"Perhaps no group of islands on the sur- 
face of the globe, of the same limited extent, 
and so perfectly isolated, can boast of three 
such beautiful plants peculiar to their Flora, 
as the Flcurophyllum speciosum, Celmisia 
vermicosa, and the subject of these re- 
marks. The last, from its greater abund- 
ance and conspicuous colour, is certainly 
the most striking of the three, not only 
giving a feature to the landscape wherever 
