. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. Fig. 67.—rxELEA trifoliata. (see p. 36S.) Teignmouth by the Rev. R. Mr. Holmesbelieves that the hypnospores described by Braun donot belong to Codiolum, but to another Alga usuallyfound growing with it. The growth of the plant andits fructification, contrary to supposition,lasts through the winter and spring. Mr. Holmesalso exhibited specimens of the fructification ofChstopteris plumosa, found in Britain for the firsttime by Mr. J. \V. Traill, of Edinburgh. Theunilocular sporangia,
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. Fig. 67.—rxELEA trifoliata. (see p. 36S.) Teignmouth by the Rev. R. Mr. Holmesbelieves that the hypnospores described by Braun donot belong to Codiolum, but to another Alga usuallyfound growing with it. The growth of the plant andits fructification, contrary to supposition,lasts through the winter and spring. Mr. Holmesalso exhibited specimens of the fructification ofChstopteris plumosa, found in Britain for the firsttime by Mr. J. \V. Traill, of Edinburgh. Theunilocular sporangia, in this instance, were in a moreadvanced stage than those figured by Aresciioug,and the muUilocular sporangia differed in characterfrom the illustration given by the last-mentionedSwedish authority. The Prickly Pear Ostrich Farming. —A correspondent of Land and WaUr, dating fromCape Colony in January last, draws attention to theuse of the Prickly Pear in ostrich farming. Owing, hesays, to extreme drought from which the springs anddams were all drying up, the ostriches had to be fe
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