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MISS LLEWELYN ON A STATE OF CABBAMINE HIBSUTA. 53 



of XanthochymiiSy grown here for the purpose last year, but I hope 

 to be able to do so before the end of the present season. 



Explanation or Plate I. A. 



Germinating plant of Carey a arhorea, Boxb. 



Another plant of the same, with the seed cut loneitudinall 



: j M^. 3. G-erminating seed of Barringtonia rtxcemosa^ Blume, after Dr. Rox- 



burgh's drawing. 



young plants of Cardamine hirmtay growing from 



/ buds formed on the upper surface of old leaves o] 



" 3rd and 17th, 1857. By Miss 



hibited March 3rd 



Penllergare, near Swansea. Extracted 



Bentham. Esq., F.L.S. 



[Read March 17th, 1857.] 



In January 1857 I observed a number of small leaves strewn 

 about on a flower-bed, some green and some purple ; on examining 

 them I found that they were all growing by means of small, white 

 fibrous roots — protruded in several places from the upper surface 

 of the leaf, which is usually turned down on the earth. In many 

 instances young leaf-stalks and small leaves were formed, all at- 

 tached to the parent leaf, which appears to be that of CarcUxmine 



A large plant of this weed wa& destroyed in the same bed, in 

 September 1856, when leaves were broken off and accidentally 

 scattered around. 



Since January I have observed many instances of the same leaf- 

 plants in other parts of the garden ; and in one other instance I 

 I can trace the young weeds to the same cause. 



Penllergare, March 3rd, 1857. 



Memorandvm ty George Bentham, Esq. 

 These very curious specimens appeared mostly to be the larger, 

 and especially the terminal, segments of the leaves of Cardamine 

 hirauta^ and the young plants were generally growing from the 

 ^pper surface close to the junction with the petiole, vnth here and 

 there a few tufts of roots from other parts of the surface ; but in 

 some specimens there were two or three young plants growing 

 from scattered points on the surface of the segmen 



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