38 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL, [1 JaAw., 1898. 
shaded place. ‘Last year’s seed, twelve months old, treated herein this manner 
about three weeks ago, were up in eight days, and are now ready to “ prick off.” 
This should be done in earth with a good admixture of leaf-mould, as this helps - 
them to make fibrous roots. ‘This is best done when the plants are 2 inches 
high; and when they are about 6 inches high, they will be ready to plant in their 
permanent positions. Many persons keep transplanted trees too long in the 
nursery. bed. They then receive such a shock on being planted out that they 
do not readily recover. This is especially true of plants in a tropical climate. 
. <2. For scrub sowing. As you go through the scrub you will doubtless 
have little time to. spare to be very particular about seed-sowing, but if you 
take a little of the seed in your pocket, and in partial clearings, especially near 
creeks, throw down here and there a seed or two, and lightly draw a little of 
the natural surface earth over them with your foot, but still not deeply, you 
will probably have the satisfaction of .seeing Logwood trees of fair size in that 
‘scrub. before many years. Of course if you are going in fon a regular planta- 
tion you will clear tracks through your scrub in parallel lines at about thirty 
feet apart, and have other lines crossing these at right angles, and plant your 
seedlings at the intersections. This is the plan pursued in the Government 
forests in India, in planting jungles with valuable trees, such as rubber. It is 
not'the intention here, however, to recommend the ‘expenditure of -capital on 
Logwood. Is te . 
_ Fresh seeds. will be ready here in considerable quantity in about a month. 
‘t-may be as well to. bearin mind that seeds, &¢., are only procurable from the 
Gardens in exchange for desirable iplants or seeds previously presented, except 
through the Department of Agriculture. Persons;who are not willing to ask to 
be placed on our exchange list, or who cannot offer exchanges, will please apply 
to the Under Secretary, Department of Agriculture. 
BOTANY CONTRIBUTIONS, 
By . MANSON BAILEY, F.1L.S., 
Colonial Botanist. 
Order FUNGI. 
‘(*Recorded without description in former publications on the Flora.) 
UROMYCKS, Link. 
*U. amygdali, Cooke, Handb. of Austr. Fungi, 331. Uredospores in 
small hypophyllous cinnamon sori, sometimes confluent, sub-globose, punctulate; 
teleutospores mixed, or succeeding them, clavate, apiculate, or almost lanceolate ; 
epispore much thickened at the apex, pale, tawny, glandular within, 35 to 40 
Sia | | Say ter 7 
‘\Hab.: On leaves_of peach and almond tree, Toowoomba, H. Tryon, ’ Brisbane, F.M.B.- 
Attacking the trees only when the weather has caused a stoppage in the growth, most abundant 
about the fall. : 
*U. phyllodize, Oke. and Mass., Handb.. of Austr. Fungi, 331. Sori 
minute, orbicular, compact, brown, crowded on ‘elliptic, bullate brown: spots, 
3 to 5 mm. long, at length naked, not pulverulent. Uredospores not seen; teleu- 
tospores elliptic, obtuse, rarely apiculate, brown; epispore minutely warted, 
rather thick, hyaline, thickened at the apex, 40 to 45 x 16 to 18 ps 
Hab. : On'phyllodes of Acacia, at Brookfield, Brisbane River. 
