The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . d that the milk of thewoman is the only remedy known to recover the sight. The other dangerous plant is a poison properlyso-called, its trunk is about the thickness of aBriar, it grows to 3 or 4 feet above the ground, itcannot support its branches, and attaches them, ifit can, to trees and neighbouring shrubs, otherwiseit leaves them to fall and creep on the ground ;the leaves have some resemblance to those of theOrange, except that they are more rounded stripping the leaves, the bark, and ev
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . d that the milk of thewoman is the only remedy known to recover the sight. The other dangerous plant is a poison properlyso-called, its trunk is about the thickness of aBriar, it grows to 3 or 4 feet above the ground, itcannot support its branches, and attaches them, ifit can, to trees and neighbouring shrubs, otherwiseit leaves them to fall and creep on the ground ;the leaves have some resemblance to those of theOrange, except that they are more rounded stripping the leaves, the bark, and even the woodand roots of this tree, they extract a juice which isan extremely prompt poison. I have not seen atRodriguez any flower like that of which FrancoisL°guat speaks. (Vol. i. p. 109.*) This is all that the Abbe Pingrej tells us of theflora of Rodriguez during his stay there, and it isinteresting as a small contribution towards thechronological history of the plants in the MascareneIslands. Perhaps some contributor to the GardenersChronicle may help to identify some of those plants. FlG. 20.—HEN AND CHICKENS* FORGET-ME-NOT, MTOSOTISVICTORIA, ENLARGED VERTICAL SECTION OF A FLOWER. Section through the centre of the terminal flower ; oi:e of Iheside branches beariDg the chickens is shown springingfrom the axil of a leaf, below the terminal flower. which the astronomer observed, especially the twolast-named, which have poisonous qualities attri-buted to them. S. P. Oliver. (To be continued.) According to M. Ernst Benary, of Erfurt, who sentit out in 1886, and who has obligingly supplied uswith information concerning it, it was raised inGermany, and is presumed to have sprung fromM. alpestris robusta grandiflora (Eliza Fonrobert), a MYOSOTIS VICTORIA. The Hen and Chickens Forget-me-Not, ofwhich we give illustrations, is of special interest justnow when the question of the inheritance, or other-wise, of mallormations is attracting so much atten-tion among scientists. Its his
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