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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
January 12. 
variable in its appearance—sometimes of a yellow-green, at 
others brown or purple. The fronds are from one to twelve 
inches high; substance cartilaginous. “ It has a hot, biting 
taste, and in Scotland is called Pepper dulse." 
L. casspitosa (.Tufted)-—Frond roundish-winged, pyra¬ 
midal ; ramuli numerous, often crowded, tapering to the 
base. Growing on stones. Annual. Summer. Common. 
; Colour dark purple—sometimes, when exposed to the sun, 
! greenish-yellow. 
3. L. obtusa (Blunt).—Parasitic on large algse. Annual. 
Not uncommon in England and Ireland, but more so in 
Scotland. The substance is tender, and the plant soon 
breaks into pieces if left long in fresh water. The fronds 
are tufted, rather crowded, from three to six inches long. I 
have specimens from the Cumberland coast, and one lrom 
Jaffa ! 
4. L. dasyphylla (Hair-leaved).—“Frond filiform, irre¬ 
gularly branched; ramuli short, club-shaped, obtuse, very 
much attenuate at base ; colour pale pink.”— Harvey. 
' 5. L. tenuissima (Thinnest.).—On rocks and alga;. "Very 
rare. Colour pale purple, or red. 
3. CHRYSYMENIA.— J. Ay. 
1. Chrysymenia clavellosa (Club-spotted).—The frond 
of this delicate and lovely weed is gelatinous, and from 
three to twelve inches high, very much branched, and of a 
beautiful crimson-pink. IVhen placed in fresh water for a 
time it assumes a yellow or orange tint, whence its generic 
name, from two words, signifying golden and a membrane. 
It is not very common, but I have frequently had it from 
the Isle of Man, through the kindness of my friend, Miss 
Heslop. 
2. C. Orcadensis (Orkney). — “At Skail, Orkney, Miss 
! Watt. The specimens yet seen of this supposed species are 
I insufficient to establish its character fully.”— Harvey. 
4. CHYLOCLADIA.— Grev. 
“Frond tubular, constricted at regular intervals, and 
divided into chambers. Name from two words, signifying 
| juice and a branch.” 
1. Ciiylocladia ovalis (Oval).—On rocks, sometimes on 
other alga;. An annual, and not uncommon on the English 
I and Irish shores. From two to ten inches high ; cartilagi- 
nqus; the branches set with oval ramuli of a purplish 
colour. 
2. C. kaijformis (Kali-shaped).—The substance is gela¬ 
tinous, and the form that of a tube constricted at intervals, 
with the branches in whorls. Fronds from four to eighteen 
inches long; colour purplish-red, often a pale greenish- 
yellow. Frequent on rocks and algae. 
3. C. reflexa (Bent-back).—Frond of a purple colour, 
and membranaceous. The lower branches are arched, and 
attach themselves by short processes. This plant is very 
rare. A specimen I have from Mrs. Ralfs is the only one 
I have seen. It has been found near Ilfracombe. 
4. C. PARVUI.A (Little).—A parasite on the smaller alga;. 
Gelatinous and slender ; colour a tine red. 
5. C. articulata (Jointed).—Like the preceding, this 
plant springs from a tuft of fibres. It is very much 
branched and bushy; colour a pink red, and the frond filled 
with thin gelatine. S. B. 
(To be continued.) 
POULTRY NOTES. 
DISEASED PIGEONS. 
A correspondent wished to know how to treat the disease 
fermod “ going light,” when Pigeons are ill, moping about 
Inanimate, and gradually wasting away. I have always 
found fat of some sort to be an excellent restorative; for 
instance, a few pills of fresh butter, suet, or pork-fat, about 
the size of a pea, put down their throats on alternate days, 
a few times ; and, if practicable, allow them to run in the 
garden. Though Pigeons are not carniverous, I have known 
some exceedingly fond of ham-fat, which they devoured 
greedily, and apparently much to their well-being. 
Your correspondent seems to doubt the fact that Pigeons 
are fond of green food. I am well aware that those that 
have never had an opportunity of pecking about in a garden, 
and are, consequently, ignorant of such food, will necessarily 
express no fondness for salad; but Pigeons are, never¬ 
theless, naturally very fond of some plants, such as young 
peas, lettuces, savoys, cabbage, and the young tops of Swede 
turnips. Bough-leaved plants, such as mustard and white 
turnips, they reject. 
SPANGLED HAMBURGH FOWLS. 
In giving the Lancashire Rules for judging the Pheasant 
Fowls, or, as you call them, Spangled Hamburglis, I beg to 
say it is a mistake to call those therein named Creels, Silver 
Pencilled, for by carefully reading that rule you will find 
them to be what I suspect you would condemn as bad Silver 
Spangled; they are, in other words, White-necked Silver 
Pheasants; their difference from the Moon Pheasants con¬ 
sists in their having white necks and breasts ; and the black 
markings being simply designated spots, not moons, the 
Moon Pheasants having dark markings in their hackles, 
and moons (round spots) on their breasts ; thus you will 
perceive there are four classes of Pheasant Fowls, or 
Spangled Hamburglis, Golden Pheasants, Copper, or Bed 
Moon Pheasants, Creels, or Silver Pheasants, and Silver 
Moon Pheasants. Now, as no Poultry Book, that I have 
seen, has collected all the rules for judging these varieties, 
consequently, a judge that prefers, or, perhaps, only knows 
one, may be excused for having a predilection when both 
are shown in one class. 
COMBS OF DORKINGS. 
I fear my remarks on the combs of Dorkings, published 
some time back, were misunderstood. When I said they 
ought to be Bose-combed, 1 meant the old Dorkings of 
white plumage, the fowls originally bred at Dorking, in 
Surrey. The single-combed birds that occasionally appear 
among them, I believe to arise from the practice formerly 
so frequent of crossing with a game cock to improve a worn- 
out stock. The Grey, I am aware, may be either single, 
cupped, or rose-combed, according to the pleasure of the 
breeder, but as these are descended from the old Sussex 
fowl, I do not consider them as true Dorkings, even though 
they have generally assumed the name. 
CHICKENS FROM PULLETS & COCKERELS. 
You wished to know the sex of chickens bred from birds 
of the preceding year. My Shanghaes, from a cockerel of 
Anster Bonns, hatched in March, 1852, and pullets of 
April and May, of the same year, have produced as follows:— 
First broods, thirty-three chicken, sixteen cockerels, and 
seventeen pullets ; second broods, twenty-five chicken, seven 
cockerels, and eighteen pullets. 
ROUP. 
The various discussions on this malady of the poultry- 
yard, concerning its contagion, or non-contagion, appear 
rather to have passed the bounds of amity. I believe there 
is some truth on both sides, thus—influenza, or any cold, 
is at once set down as Roup; and it is here, I think, the 
error originates. 
Putrid Roup I consider similar to glanders in horses, and 
very contagious ; still I am inclined to believe, that even 
were a roupy fowl placed in a healthy run, and clean, airy 
fowl-house, where there was no predisposing cause, the 
contagion might not spread, so powerful are circumstances ; 
but I should, by no means, like to try the experiment with 
valuable fowls.—B. P. Brent, Bessels Green , Sevenoaks. 
POULTRY EXHIBITIONS. 
Cornwall Poultry Exhibition. —This was held in the 
Corn Market, Penzance, on the 27th and 28tli of December. 
The following is the 
prize list, 
in reading which it should be borne in mind, that where two 
classes exist for the same breed of fowl, the first-mentioned 
