16 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
some orchidaceous plant was sent from Mexico by Mr. Schiede, It flowers from August to October, in any good hot- 
house, or even greenhouse, provided it is planted in good rich, light earth, and has plenty of air.— Zink & Otto, Icones, 45. 
486. CassrNIA LEPTOPHYLLA. R. Brown. (aliàs Calea leptophylla Forster.) A hardy evergreen 
shrub, with clusters of white flowers. Native of New Zealand. Flowers white. Belongs to Com- 
posites. Introduced in 1824. (Fig. 242.) 
We received this from an anonymous correspondent of the Gardeners Chronicle. Tt is a dwarf, compact, heath-like 
bush, with dark green linear leaves, hoary, and rather yellow beneath, At the end of every branchlet isa short eorymb 
mia antennifera, now beginning to be made known as a very pretty, novel, evergreen hard 
ion, that the plant flowered so long ago as 1824, in the Garden of the Horticultural 
see, from specimens in our 
We also possess wild specimens from the same country 
Society, in which it had been raised from New Zealand seeds. 
from Mr. Bidwill 
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