1884.] 
SOIKPUS TABEENiEMONTANI ZEBRINUS. 
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ing woodcut, which is copic.1 from that figure, like the Araucaria exceJsa and other more 
has been obligingly lent to us by M. Lucien familiar species, grows into a large tree with 
Linden, and gives a good idea of the graceful spreading branches, and forms an object of 
plumy character of the plant, which ultimately, striking beanty. — T. Moore. 
ARAUCARIA MULLER I. 
SCIRPUS TABERN.EMONTANI ZEBRINUS. 
W HAT has been grown in gardens dur¬ 
ing the last few years as the Banded 
Rush, and supposed to be a species 
^ of Juncus, has flowered at Kew, and 
as pointed out by Mr. Nicholson in the Gar¬ 
deners’ Chronicle, is found to be a variety of 
the Scirpus Taherncemontani, a species found 
on the margin of lakes and rivers in this 
country. It is a Japanese plant, and Mr. 
Bull in his Catalogue for 1881 very justly 
speaks of it as having a most peculiar appear¬ 
ance when growing, the idea suggested by a 
group of it being that of a little forest of 
■porcupine quills. The plant throws up erect 
terete leaves, which are transversely banded 
with white and green, the colours being in 
most cases pretty evenly distributed, but some¬ 
times the white preponderates, the surface 
beiug either wholly white, or the green bands 
being narrower and less conspicuous. In the 
best marked leaves, however, the green and 
white portions occupy alternately nearly equal 
bands of about half an inch deep. It is a 
most interesting plant. 
Now that a specimen has flowered at Kew 
and is found to bo a species of Scirpus, a 
more successful mode of cultivation may be 
adopted. It belongs to an aquatic race, and 
hence planted out in the bog garden in the 
new rockery at Kew it seems quite at home, 
or even more so where the pot in which it is 
growing is quite submerged. When kept in 
warm houses, and without sufficient supply of 
water, there is no wonder that the plant has 
acquired the character of being difficult to grow. 
The typical green form has a wide extra- 
British geographical distribution, being found 
east as far as Japan.—M, 
