expense. In their native haunts they have to contend not only 
with the fact that they are part of a gradually diminishing race of 
plants once dominant in the world, but Macrozamia Moorei is on 
the point of extermination because its young leaves are poison- 
ous to cattle. Our plants of this, only duplicated at one or two 
other places in the country, are therefore the most valuable in 
our collections. Related to Macrozamia are Cycas media , also 
imported from Australiain 1916, and Cycas revoluta, or the so-called 
Sago Palm, much used for funeral decorations, and common in all 
greenhouses. All these Cycads are interesting as bearing their 
seeds quite nakedly and not enclosed in various coverings such 
as the fruits so common in the rest of the plant world. In many 
of them the sexes are on different plants indicated by "carpellate” 
(female) and “staminate” (male) plants which are so labelled. Of 
the rare Australian species we have at least one of each sex. 
On the floor near the (locked) door at the north end, is a plant 
of the Blue Gum, Eucalyptus globulus, also from Australia. Mature 
plants of this may well be the tallest trees in the world. They 
certainly equal in height, but not in girth, our own Big Trees, 
and the genus Eucalyptus , of which hundreds of species are 
known, is one of the most important in the world from a timber 
standpoint. 
Norman Taylor. 
NOTICES 
The Garden is open free to the public daily, from 8 a. m. un- 
til sunset; on Sundays and holidays at 10 a. m. The Laboratory 
Building, containing the library, herbarium, and offices, is open 
daily (except Sundays), from 9 a. m. until 5 p. m. (Saturdays, 9- 
12). The Conservatories are open April 1-October 1, 10 a. m. -4:30 
p. m. (Sundays, 2-4:30); October 1-April 1, 10 a. m.-4 p. m. 
(Sundays, 2-4). 
The Garden maybe reached by Flatbush Ave. trolley to Malbone 
St.; Franklin Ave., Lorimer St., and Tompkins Ave. trolleys to 
Washington Ave.; St. John’s Place and Rogers Ave. trolleys to 
Sterling Place; Vanderbilt Ave., Sixteenth Ave., Union St., Green- 
point, and Smith St. trolleys to Prospect Park Plaza and Union St., 
and Brighton Beach elevated to Consumers’ Park Station. 
A docent will meet parties by appointment and conduct them 
through the Garden. This service is free to members of the 
Botanic Garden and to teachers with classes; to others there is a 
nominal charge of 25 cents an hour for parties of less than three, 
and 10 cents a person per hour for parties of three or more. 
Subscription for Leaflets fifty cents a series (comprising about 
twelve to fourteen numbers); free to members of the Botanic 
Garden and to teachers. 
The Leaflets are published weekly or biweekly from April to June, and 
October to November, inclusive, by The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 
at Washington Avenue and Montgomery Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Telephone: 6173 Prospect. 
Mail address: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
