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appearance of the plant is described as being intermediate 
between C. macrantha and maculata. 
76. POLEMONIUM caruleum; var. grandiflorum. 
_ A beautiful variety of this common flower has been raised 
in the garden of the Horticultural Society, from seed received 
from India through the East India Company. It is rather 
taller than usual, and the flowers, which are blue, are nearly 
three times as large as those of the common kind. Itisa 
fine addition to the stock of biennial flowers. 
77. THALICTRUM cultratum. Wallich. 
This is an hardy herbaceous plant, of no beauty, raised in 
the garden of the Horticultural Society, from seed obtained 
from the Himalayas through the East India Company. It 
has a slender glaucous stem, from two to three feet high ; 
ovate, glaucous, reticulated leaflets; and greenish-yellow 
flowers scattered over somewhat horizontal racemes. 
78. TANACETUM longifolium. Wallich. 
Another weedy plant from the Himalayas, introduced by 
the Hon. East India Company. It has finely cut light green 
leaves, a stem one and a half to two feet high, and rather 
large capitula of rayless yellow flowers. _It is not at all worth 
cultivation, except in a Botanic Garden. 
GUATEMALA ORCHIDACEA. 
Mr. Skinner, a gentleman resident in Guatemala, and 
well known as a very liberal and enthusiastic naturalist, has 
lately sent several valuable collections of Orchidaceous plants 
to his correspondents in this country, which have generally 
arrived in the most healthy state. Amongst others Mr. 
Harris of Kingsbury has received a portion, which Mr. Beaton 
informs me were in such excellent condition as to be little the 
worse for their journey; a circumstance probably owing to 
the plants having been nailed to the sides of the boxes, with 
the interstices packed with Tillandsia. Mr. Beaton has found 
dry sawdust answer the same purpose. This at least 1s cer- 
tain that moss, from its hygrometrical quality, is the worst of 
all materials. Mr. Harris having placed in my hands the - 
dried specimens transmitted with the plants, together with 
Mr. Skinner’s valuable observations upon the climate which 
