FROM THE SOCIETY'S GAKDEX. 



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53. P1.ATYCODON GRANDiFLOKUS, ivith semi-double white 

 powers. 



Sent in April, 1845, from China, by Mr. Fortune, who 

 found it cultivated in nursery -gardens near Shanghae. 



This is a striking variety of the beautiful Platycodon grandi- 

 florus, remarkable for having pure white blossoms, consisting of 

 one 5-lobed corolla placed within another so exactly that the 

 two constitute a large white star of ten points. There is no ten- 

 dency to further irregularity of structure, unless it be that the 



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