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prove the most advantageous method of promoting its growth ; but 

 its adaptation to any locality, not too unfavourable, points it out as 

 a generally useful plant. 



Campanula patula, or field Bell-flower, is in some places scarce, 

 though found in many counties, Middlesex included. The corolla of 

 this plant displays a colour much admired by all. It is an excellent 

 herbaceous plant, and has often been cultivated, and found to answer 

 the end in view. 



Qhrysanthemum segetum is extremely plentiful in this neighbour- 

 hood, and presents in some of our corn-fields a perfect Californian 

 spectacle. It is a great enemy to the farmer, being found generally 

 in the best-cultivated fields, where the soil is loamy, while about 

 Edinburgh this plant is said to be almost a stranger. 



Cichorium Intyhus, or Chicory, is a handsome flower, generally 

 blue, but sometimes white, and occasionally red, changed, it is said, 

 by the acid of ants. The white variety may be seen by the side of 

 the road between Egham and Staines, as also in other places in this 

 neighbourhood, though in far less abundance than those plants pro- 

 ducing blue flowers. I have observed that in some districts this 

 plant is rarely found. 



Serratula tinctoria is not a common plant in this locality, yet it 

 may be found on Egham Common and near Bagshot. The flowers 

 are purple, and it is a plant well worth culture. 



Lobelia Dortmanna is a handsome flower, which is drooping, and 

 of a pale blue. It is a stranger to this neighbourhood. 



Lobelia urens is a pretty inviting flower of a deep purple. It is a 

 rare English plant. 



Englejield Green. William Whale. 



NEW PLANTS FIGURED IN CONTEMPORARY PERIODICALS. 



PaxtorCs Flower-Garden for October contains coloured plates of the Woolly 

 Clematis (C. lanuginosa), a very fine large blue-flowered hardy climber from 

 China. One of the best of the genus. 



The Beauteous Veronica (V. formosa), a handsome evergreen half-hardy 

 shrub from Van Dieman's Land, with pretty blue flowers and small green 

 box-like leaves. 



The Purple-stained L^lia (L. purpurata), a magnificent stove Orchid from 

 St. Catherine's in Brazil. The sepals and petals are white; the lip purple and 

 yellow ; flowers large and showy. It was shewn at one of the Chiswick exhibi- 

 tions last year by Messrs. Backhouse of York. As usual, the number contains 

 some pretty woodcuts. 



In the Botanical Magazine we find the Gigantic Lily (L. giganteum), a fine 

 thing introduced by Dr. Wallich from Nepal. It grows very high ; the flowers 

 are white, with purple sheaths, greenish below, inclined downwards, twelve on 

 the raceme, fragrant, tube two inches in circumference at the base, gradually 

 dilating upwards. The leaves measure ten to twelve inches long, and eight 

 inches broad ; and altogether this must be a verj' striking Lily. 



The Blood-coloured Tacsonia (T. sanguinea), a pretty rosy-flowered con- 

 servatory climber from Trinidad. 



The above are the only plates given this month ; the rest are to appear in 

 the next. 



