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are oblong and simple, the two posterior are concave, or almost 

 kidney shaped with the concavity backwards. The wings of the 

 column are oblong- truncated fleshy bodies attached by the nar- 

 rowest end. It is a fine variety, in some respects like the purple 

 lipped Oncid (O. hcematochilurn)^ and requiring the same treat- 

 ment as O. hiridum itself. 



4. Adenostoma fasciculata. Hooker and 

 Arnott, Botamj of Beechey^s Voyage, 

 p. 139, t. 30. 



Raised from seeds collected in Cali- 

 fornia by Hartweg. 



A small heath-like bush, with erect weak 

 branches. Leaves linear, sharp pointed, 

 concavo-convex, arising in fascicles from the 

 axil of primordial leaves of the same form, 

 but dying early and leaving behind a pair 

 of spine-pointed stipules ; in this arrange- 

 ment they may be compared to Berberries 

 and similar plants. Flowers white, small, 

 in terminal panicles, with much the appear- 

 ance of the Alpine Spiraea. The leaves of 

 the cultivated plant continually evince a 

 tendency to become 2 or 3 lobed near the 

 point. It is said to grow 2 feet high, in 

 open exposed places near Monterey. 



In point of beauty it is inferior to the 

 worst of the Spiraeas, and is a mere Bota- 

 nical curiosity. Whether it is hardy or not 

 has not been at present ascertained. 



5. CoNSOLiDA AcOMTi. Delphinium Aconiti, Linn. Man- 

 tissa, 77. Vahl, Symholcc Botanical, i., p. 40, t. 13. Dc 

 Candolle, Sy sterna, i. 345. 



Raised from seeds presented by H. Calvert, Esq., CM. U.S., 

 of Erzeroum. 



A weak erect Annual, about \-h foot high, witli a very slight 

 covering of silky hairs ujion all the green parts. The leaves are 

 divided into from 3 to 5 pedate linear taper-pointed lobes. The 



