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it a few days ago I found it liad rotted. Two perfect tubers have, 

 liowever, been tlius formed from one plant ; and I do not despair 

 of obtaining three, or even four, another year by removing the 

 old tuber at an earlier period ; but the new ones will not then, in 

 all probability, have obtained sufficient size or strength to perfect 

 their tlowers till the second or third year. 



In the course of the same month, finding that the tuber had 

 rotted off a Platanthera Susannse, I pulled up the stem, cut off 

 the lower end, and reset it. In about a month, the cutting 

 beginning to fade, I took it up and found that a small and per- 

 fect tuber had been protrudetl through the sheath of the stem 

 from the lower joint of the cutting. 



I have since made cuttings of two or three stems, leaving two 

 joints on each ; but as it is very late in the season, and the 

 plants have only their seeds to perfect, I nmch doubt if sufficient 

 vitality remains to enable them to put forth fresh tubers, but I 

 intend to try next year before the plants have flowered. 



NEW PLANTS, ETC., FROM THE SOCIETY'S 

 GARDEN. 



1. Anemone Sxvo\ic\, Sieholdand Zuccarini, Fl. Japo- 

 nica, vol. i., p. 15, t. 5 ; Botanical Register, t. 66, 

 1845. 



Received from Mr. Fortune, from Shanghai, June 20, 

 1844. 



A perennial herbaceous plant, with dark green stems slightly 

 clothed with short hairs. The leaves all grow from the root, on 

 stalks about 4 inches long ; they are ternate, with long-stalked, 

 ovate, somewhat heart-shaped leaflets, slightly 3-lobed, and 

 coarsely serrated. The stem is from 1^ to 2 feet high, dividing 

 near the middle into slender branches, one of which is terminated 

 by a single flower, and the three others by a small cluster. At 

 the separation of these branches are three smaller leaves, with 

 very broad short sheathing petioles. The flowers are nearly three 

 inclies in diameter, and consist of a considerable number of 



