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NEW PLANTS OF THE PAST MONTH. 



"What the month of July furnished in the way of new plants would 

 be found at Manchester on the occasion of the great exhibition of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society. The great majority of these were not 

 shown for the first time, but some were seen that had not appeared in. 

 public before. ^ew British Ferns were largely represented, and 

 many first-class certificates were given. The chief of these were 

 taken by two of the foremost private cultivators of the day — viz., 

 J. E. Mapplebeck, Esq., Moseley, Birmingham, and E. J. Lowe, Esq., 

 Highfield House, Birmingham. 



The following new varieties of British Eerns received certificates : 

 Erom Messrs Stansfield & Son, Todmorden : Polypodium vulgare 

 elegantissimum, apparently the same as Cornubiense and Whitei, a 

 remarkable Davallia-like specimen. Lastrea montana crispa, Blech- 

 num Spicant projectum furcans, and lancifolium anomalum, Athyrium 

 Filix-faemina Shawi, and Athyrium E.-f. Stansfieldii, first-class ; and 

 Athyrium E.-f. Staleyi, second-class. Erom J. E. Mapplebeck, Esq. : 

 Asplenium marinum ramosum Claphami; A. trichomanes incisum Clap- 

 hami; Athyrium amoenum, Craigii, eulophos, Mapplebeckii, furcillans ; 

 Blechnum Spicant Mapplebeckii, a charming cristate form ; Poly- 

 podium vulgare semilacerum robustum; Scolopendrium vulgare 

 hemionitoides, crispum latum multifidum, and semipinnatum, first- 

 class ; Scolopendrium vulgare Gloveri, spirale nanum, and perafero 

 cornutum, Polypodium vulgare kraspedomenon, and Lastrea Eelix-mas 

 foliosa, second-class. Erom E. J. Lowe, Esq. : Scolopendrium Vic- 

 toriae, cuticulare, rugosum Bellairsise, tridentiferium optandum, poluk- 

 lonon, thusanasson, gloriosum, marginato-undulatum and decorum ; 

 Asplenium marinum capitatum and imbricatum, Polystichum angulare 

 lineare laxum, coronare, oxyphyllum Ehvorthii, and laudatum, Athy- 

 rium E.-f. Eraseri, amoenum, Hookeri, and Edwardsii, all first-class. 



W. B. S. Williams, HoUoway, London, received first-class certifi- 

 cates for Cibotium Schiedei furcans, having most of the divisions of 

 the frond forked ; and for Todea intermedia, a name indicative of its 

 appearance, which is exactly intermediate between that of T. hynieno- 

 phylloides (pellucida), and T. superba, — sufficiently so, says the 

 Gardeners^ Chronicle, " to suggest the idea that botanically these 

 plants may form but one species. The plant had been imported 

 amongst others from New Zealand. It has the stalked fronds of T, 

 hymenophylloides, while the lamina, instead of being plane, is frilled 

 after the manner of T. superba, though in a less degree." In a group 

 of fine-foliaged plants Mr Williams also exhibited a remarkable form 

 of Cordyline indivisa, having unusually broad leaves and a particularly 



