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* My plants were firft placed in the clayey foil. Amongft 
* them was the Hemerocallis fulva, I never was poffeffed of the 
** flava, till it was produced by accident as follows, from the cul- 
“ture of the only plant of the fulva that grew in my garden. 
The fucceeding year I divided my Hemeracallis, and planted part 
“ of it in a fhallow bed.of the compoft formed from the ruins, 
** &c. taking care to move it with a large ball of earth at the 
* roots, which fhot very freely, fo that I was able to take off 
‘ another part of the plant,- and the fame fummer I placed that 
“in the fame bed. When the laft plant flowered, I was agreeably 
* furprifed with the fight of an Hemerocallis flava. Laft year I 
.* had thefe plants varying in fize and colour, large and of a deep 
“tawny hue; {mall and abfolutely yellow; and alfo of a base 
“ tawny, and of a fize between the fulva and flava.” à 
This communication. was accompanied. by fpecimens of, the 
above-mentioned varieties. | 
wer NEN Mp acm dr 
Dec. 6.—The following mifcellaneous remarks from Mr. James 
-Hoy (now F. L. 5.) were read. 
** Juncus articulatus 8 Linn. Flo. Suec. 113, mentioned alfo in 
« Lightf. Flo. Scot. 185, fuppofed by the former to be a viviparous: 
* variety, and by the latter to be a difeafe occafioned by an infect 
“ of the Coccus tribe, appears to be occafioned by the Chermes gra- 
* minis. For many years palt I have noticed this appearance, 
* but without any fatisfaétion till September laft, when among 
: « feveral plants of that kind which came in my way in the courfe 
* of a week, I picked up one upon which I found fome infeéts 
s that appeared to be the /arve of a Chermes, as they were covered 
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