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velvety red to red slate, centre 

 clouded. 



59. Souvenir de William Wood (E. 

 Verdier).— Shrubby, vigorous, large, 

 full, very deep blackish purple, fiery 

 clouding. 



60. Souvenir d'une Mere (Touvais). 

 — Shrubby, very vigorous, very large, 

 full, expanded, delicate rose, bright 

 cherry centre. 



61. Triomphe de la Terre des Hoses 

 (Guillot, pere)— Flower very large, 

 full, fine violet rose, good perpetual. 



62. Triomphe des Francais (Per- 

 net). — Shrubby, vigorous, large, 

 nearly full, flowering in panicles from 

 eight to ten flowers ; fine reddish 

 lively crimson. 



63. Vase oV Election (Ducher). — 

 Moderately vigorous, flower very full, 

 cupped, clear rose, peduncles strong, 

 good carriage. 



64. Xavier Olibo (Lacharme). ! — 

 Shrubby, vigorous, flower large, full, 

 well made, velvety black, shaded ama- 

 ranth, and very fiery. 



65. Win. Bell (E. Verdier).— 



I Shrubby, very vigorous, flower very 

 large, very full, globular, well made, 

 lively cherry red. 



PERPETUAL NOISETTES AND B0UKB0NS. 



QG. Baronne de Maynard (La- 

 charme). — Shrubby, vigorous, me- 

 dium, well shaped, pure white. 



67. Madame Gustav, Bonnet (La- 

 I charme). — Shrubby, vigorous, me- 

 ! dium, full, virgin white, shaded rosy 

 1 carmine, very floriferous. 



PERPETUAL MOSS. 



68. James Veiich (E. Yerdier). — 

 Shrubby, vigorous, flower medium or 

 full, in corymbs of three to eight 

 blooms, deep violet slate, shaded rosy 

 carmine, very perpetual. 



Fearing to monopolize too much 

 space, I must defer criticism on these 

 as well as upon Mr. Wm, Paul's new 

 seedlings, to be sent out in May, 1865, 

 and of which it is quite refreshing to 

 read the descriptions after the mono- 

 tony of the above list. 

 Homerton, 186 J. W. D. Peiob. 



BRITISH POLYPODIES. 



{Continued from p>arje 225.) 



Polypodium Holertianum. — This is 

 well known by Smith's name as P. 

 calcarevm ; it is the limestone poly- 

 pody. Rhizome creeping, branched, 

 nearly as thick as a lead pencil, dark 

 brown, scaly, and covered with dark 

 coloured fibres. Stipes longer than 

 the frond, stoutish, stiff, brittle, pale 

 green, with a few scales at the base. 

 Fronds dull greyish green, firm, and 

 covered with glands, which give them 

 a mealy aspect, bipinnate. Finnce op- 

 posite, the lowest pair largest, short 

 stalked, the next pair short or sessile, 

 the upper all sessile, becoming less 

 and less divided towards the point. 

 Finnides of lower pinnse longer on the 

 under-side, of the rest nearly equal. 

 Sori scattered over the fronds, small, 

 circular, submarginal. Spore-cases. 

 pale brown. 



This fern is by no means one of 

 the most beautiful of this interesting 

 genus, but it is nevertheless indis- 



pensable in even a limited collection, 

 for it has a distinct and interesting 

 character, and may be known by its 

 grey meally appearance, and its ge- 

 neral resemblance in outline to P. 

 dryopteris, from which it differs 

 chiefly in its more robust and leafy 

 appearance, as well as by its colour. 

 It is usually met with in limestone 

 districts, where it mostly haunts 

 damp fissures and hollows in which 

 there is a collection of ancient debris, 

 and it is frequently associated with 

 some interesting mosses. It is tole- 

 rably plentiful, especially in the 

 northern parts of England and in 

 Wales. In Europe it has many 

 localities, and it is a native also of 

 the Himalaya, of various parts of 

 North America and Canada. 



It is very amenable to cultivation, 

 and bears exposure well ; in fact, it 

 rivals P. vulgare in this respect, and 

 both these may be planted on the 



