Ixxiv PnOCHEDINGS. 



Bridge. To Mr. Turner, of Slough, for two boxes of 

 most beautiful Carnations and Picotees. 



Miscellaneous Subjects of Exhibition. From Mr. 

 Moore, Apothecaries' Garden, Chelsea, Plumbago Lar- 

 pentae, a blue-flowered Leadwort, which has excited much 

 interest during the past year in consequence of its not hav- 

 ing fulfilled the expectations which had been formed of it. 

 It was suggested that as it was discovered growing on the 

 walls of Shanghae, whose winters are more severe than 

 ours, it might be found to succeed better planted out of 

 doors on the shelves of rockwork, or in some well-drained 

 warm border, where it would receive some shelter. Messrs. 

 Henderson, of the Wellington Road Nursery, sent a plant 

 of the New Californian Pentstemon cordifolius, and a col- 

 lection of Verbena flowers. An exhibition of Verbenas 

 was also contributed by Mr. Harrison, of Richmond. Mr. 

 Turner sent a pan of Heartsease. A dish of Brunswick 

 Figs was communicated by Mr. Turnbull, and Mr. Jones 

 had three Queen Pine Apples, weighing respectively 4 lbs., 

 4 lbs. 8 oz., and 4 lbs. 13 oz. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. Aerides quinque- 

 vulnera, well flowered ; tiie small-leaved variety of Hoya 

 imperialis ; the pretty apricot-coloured Caffisrland Tritonia 

 aurea; Abronia umbellata ; a wliite and a yellow Portu- 

 laca ; Vilmorin's pale variety of Thunbergia alata ; Pent- 

 stemon cordifolius, a brownish orange-flowered slirub, which 

 promises to prove an acquisition ; two plants of the beau- 

 tiful red-flowered Zauschneriacalifornica, which is expected 

 to be Iiardy; and a small plant of Mimulus tricolor, not a 

 true Mimulus, but so called : its flowers are pretty, but it is 

 too delicate and difficult to cultivate to become a general 

 favourite. It may however prove useful in the hands of 

 the hybridist. 



Books Presented. 



The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. XIX., Part !. From the 



Society. 

 Tlie Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. II., Part 1, and Vol. XII., Part 1. 



From the Society. 

 Tlie Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, No. 18. From the Society. 

 Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. III., Part 6. Proceedings 



of the Society, Nos. 182 to 169 inclusive, and Report of the Council and Auditors, 



April 29, 1848. From the Society. 

 Proceedings of the American Pliiiosophical Society, Vol. V., No. 41. From the 



Society. 

 The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, Vol. X., Part 1. From the Society. 

 Comptes Rendus des Seances de I'Academie des Sciences a Paris, Tome XXVIII. and 



Tome XXIX., No. I, and Tables des Comptes Rendus, Tome XXVII. From the 



Academy. 



