SIV, 



JOURNAL OF HOBTICULTUKE AND COTTAGE GARDENEK. 



5 Slay 7, 1874. 



pagated as Mint, with foliage of a different character from that 

 of the Pyrethrum, but riclier and more intensely golden, a 

 pleasing variety and play of colour under certain lights being 

 further produced by a slight silvery streak or patch in the 

 centre of each leaf. 



Altogether we regard the Golden Laminm as a very promising 

 subject for the flower gardener to take in band, and we shall 

 be disappointed if those who venture to do so will not have 

 reason to feel indebted to us for directing their attention to 



and consists of nine pairs of leaflets, which are small, ovate, 

 deeply cut into two or three lobes on each side, the larger lobes 

 being sometimes also toothed. The leaves, from their size 

 and form, are strongly suggestive of fronds of some small- 

 growing pinnate Asplenium, A. viride for example. The 

 growth and general character of the plant is so elegant that 

 whether cultivated as a small pot plant, trained on globular or 

 other trellises, or planted as a climber, it has a most charming 

 and engaging appearance. The flowers are as yet uninown. 



CAMPSIDIUM riLICrFOLIUM. 



this lowly, but. withal, richly endowed httle plant.— (Z)i"s7/ It has received first-clasa certiecates both from the EoyaJ 

 Farmers' 'Ua-.i-tt,\) Horticultural and Koyal Botanic Societies.' 



CAMPSIDIUM FILICIFOLIUM. 



Hitherto the only species Jcnown is Campsidium ehileuse, 

 and if it belongs to the same genus it is of the natural order 

 Bignonianea'. \\e are indebted to Mr. AV. liull, Nurseryman, 

 King'.s Eoad, Chelsea, for the portrait of this plant, and the 

 following is extracted from his catalogue, just published : — 



" A free-growing, slender, woody climber, from the Feejee 

 Islands, and referred doubtfully to Campsidium, from the 

 analogy of its foliage. It has opposite impari-pinnate leaves, 

 which are about 'i inches long, iucludiug a petiole of 1 inch, 



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