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146 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
Native of California. Belongs to Galeworts. Berries bluish grey. Introduced by the Horticultural 
Society. 
Said to be wild in woods near Monterey, growing twelve feet high. This was لوصوم‎ gathered by hugs on the 
north-west coast of America. Douglas found it at Puget Sound. It forms an evergreen bush, with dense, narrowly 
lanceolate, slightly serrated leaves, covered, especially on the under side, with transparent, glossy, i ps sunken 
scales, of microscopical dimensions, consisting of a layer of wedge-shaped cells, placed obliquely round a common centre, 
The flowers are green and inconspicuous, in short axillary spikes, which depend bear from one to three small globular 
its, whose surface is closely studded with fleshy, oblong, obtuse grains o dull red colour, and astringent flavour. It 
garden ves eee T seeds or by layers, in 
for rock-work or for the front of a shrubbery. 
— Journ. of Hort, Soc., vol. vii, 
622. EPIDENDRUM  LEUCOCHILUM. 
Klotzsch. (alias E. flavidum Lindl.) 
handsome epiphyte from New Grenada. 
Flowers large, yellowish, with an ivory 
white lip. Exists in the German Gardens. 
(Fig. 303.) 
This is a fine caulescent fleshy-leaved species, 
with the habit of E. umbellatum, and such flowers 
as those of E. nocturnum. The stem is about 
two feet high. Leaves coriaceous, distichous, 
recurved, emarginate. Raceme many-flowered, 
drooping, issuing from a long green compressed 
spathe. Flowers three inches in diameter, een 
stalks rather shorter than themselves. Pe 
cee Lindeniane were published, I only knew the 
excellent figure in the Zcones Beroli ‘shows 
it Under this misapprehension, when 1 
found it among Mr, Linden’s Orchids (No. 2213), 
I supposed it to be new, and called it Z. flavidum, 
an error which is now correcte 
| 623. ASTRAGALUS PONTICUS. Pallas. 
| A hardy herbaceous plant of the Legu- 
| minous Order. Flowers yellow. Native 
| of the West of Asia. Introduced by 
| H. C. Calvert, Esq., of Erzeroom. 
: A deeumbent perennial of a bright lively 
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n colour. Stems about two feet long, slightly 
downy. Leaves almost smooth, of the texture of the Garden Pea, about a foot long, composed of seventeen or eighteen 
Pairs of ovate-oblong, obtuse, or emarginate leaflets. The flowers are bright yellow, in nearly sessile ovate heads, 
| with short calyx tube, much "lens hairy than in the allied species. "The cultivators of hardy herbaceous plants will 
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