THE LADIES' FLORAL CABINET. 
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Leitclilinii and Thuiibergianum Venustuin, having the 
foliage and habit of the former with the color of the 
latter; it also has the beautiful spotting and tall-grow¬ 
ing habit of Leitclilinii, and is very floriferous. It 
makes small bulbs, which are much divided, each throw¬ 
ing up from four to six flower stems. 
Intoxicating Grass. 
It appears that the genuine good name of the Grass 
family for innocence and sobriety does not extend to 
all its members. There is a “Drunk-Grass,” so-called 
by the Dutch Colonists, a species of Melica, which in 
some parts of South Africa “intoxicates” cattle to an 
alarming extent, and the evil is spreading with the 
increase of sheep-farming; the sheep, we believe, sorting 
out the other grasses, while they totally abstain from 
this. 
The account is given by Dr. John Shaw, in the 
Journal of the Linnsean Society, Vol. 14. In Trimen's 
Journal of Botany, Dr. I-Iance—a well-known botanist 
resident in China—describes another grass, a new 
species of Stipa from Mongolia, which intoxicates 
horses. A French Roman Catholic Missionary and his 
party, making an excursion into the Aladian Mountains, 
north of the Great Wall, one morning found their 
horses dreadfully debauched—indeed quite hors de com¬ 
bat —through partaking freely of this grass. On appeal¬ 
ing to.a family of Mongols encamped in the neighbor¬ 
hood, the Missionary was told the proper antidote was 
vinegar, followed by a broth made of a goat’s head. 
No vinegar being at hand, the Missionary administered 
sour milk as a substitute, while the goat’s head was 
cooking ; the broth completed the cure, and the party 
returned safe and sober) to Pekin, bringing some of the 
grass, which Dr. I-Iauce christened Stipa inebrious. The 
intoxication and poisoning of cattle, horses, and sheep, 
in California and Nevada, is said to he caused by some 
species of the Pulse family, which is generally thought 
to be as harmless as grass .—Villa Gardener. 
A New North American Rose.— Dr. Geo. Engelmanre 
describes, in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club , 
a now species of Rose that appears to present peculiar 
botanical and horticultural features. It was discovered 
by a party of botanists, consisting of Dr. Parry and 
Messrs. M. E. Jones and C. G. Pringle, wliile they were 
riding along a road skirting the shores of All Saints 
Bay, in Lower California. Forming as it did a most 
conspicuous and agreeable feature in the arid lands¬ 
cape, with its finely divided foliage and snowy pink or 
white flowers, it at once attracted the attention of the 
whole party. It has been named Bosa minutifolia by 
Dr. Engelmann, who describes it as “a most striking 
and lovely species, distinguished from all other roses by 
its minute, deeply-incised leaflets.” The species is quite 
peculiar among its American congeners, and even among 
the roses of the Old World, so that it is difficult' to 
determine its true position. As seeds have recently 
been collected, we may hope to soon see the plant in 
cultivation. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
The name of the vine sent is Mauraudya Weslizeni. 
The leaf of what you know as Spanish Apple, is proba¬ 
bly that of a Solanum, which species we cannot deter¬ 
mine from the small specimen sent. 
Note. —We would ask all our readers in sending 
plants for name, to send them as near entire as possible; 
at best, from then- dried and broken ferns it is quite 
difficult to determine what they are. 
Columbus, O., Nov. 16, 1882. 
Dear Cabinet :—I inclose you some blossoms of a tree 
in Florida, called by the natives, Opopanax. I do not 
think that is its proper name. The flowers are deli¬ 
ciously sweet, a bright yellow, and very double. They 
grow on a small, low-spreading tree, thorny, like the 
locust. The leaves are small, something like the sensi¬ 
tive plant. 
I was glad to find my Cabinet awaiting me on my 
arrival. Yours, respectfully, 
Mrs. P. W. P. 
Answer .—The name of the shrub bearing the enclosed 
flowers is Pithecoloibium Unguis-Cati. 
Tuberoses. —Mrs. C. C. Taylor, Waterford, Pa. 
Tuberoses cannot be successfully grown in pots, in the 
house; their place is in the garden or greenhouse. ' By 
planting a good*strong bulb, in a say seven-inch pot, 
and plunging it in a good sunny situation in the garden, 
and keeping it well watered, it will probably throw up a 
flower-spike during the early Autumn, when it should 
bo brought into the house to perfect its bloom, after 
which, throw away. 
Stove Plants.—A subscriber desires the meaning of, 
or what are, Stove Plants. The term is applied to tropi¬ 
cal plants such as require a very high temperature in 
which to grow and bloom them. 
Florida Beans.—A visitor from Florida has brought 
several of these beans, and asks if they are the product 
of an aquatic plant. No, they are the fruit of the 
Entada Scandcns, a rank-growing, climbing shrub, com¬ 
mon on the shores of the West Indies. The pods are 
frequently from six to eight feet in length, flat and 
woody, divided into numerous joints, each containing 
one of those large and highly-polished nuts. When, 
ripe, these pods burst with great force, throwing the 
nuts an almost incredible distance. When throw into 
the sea, they are carried by the strong oceanic currents, 
not only to the Florida coast, but occasionally to the 
coast of Finland. 
— 
Mrs. J. W. B., Carrollton, III .—The Banana (Musa) 
must have a warm situation, and kept growing during 
the Winter, if you wish to fruit it. It would possibly 
survive, if kept in a dry, warm cellar, and moderately 
watered. 
