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[PI. Fremont. 4, t. 1). The plants are rosulate in habit, and are 

 furnished with spathulate fleshy leaves, from among which issue 

 lax flower-stems six to twelve inches high, terminating in crowded 

 umbels of short, slightly scorpoid spikes, which are crowded with 

 the small four-petaled rosy-lake flowers ; the calyx consists of a 

 pair of large white scarious persistent sepals, which appear to 

 be very enduring. The autumn grown plants were reported to 

 have stood through the winter, in the open ground, at Exeter, 

 without protection, and to be flowering in great beauty. The 

 plant was Commended, as a very elegant dwarf flowering species, 

 of novel character, well adapted for rockwork, and the margins of 

 flower borders. 



Begonia Marshallii:— from Mr. Cole, of Withington, near 

 Manchester, This was one of the varieties, now so numerous, bred 

 from B. Bex, and was considered a very ornamental kind, but 

 too nearly resembling others in cultivation ; the silvery band 

 occupying the space between the central rib and the margin was 

 broad, showing the dark veins of the centre very distinctly, and 

 the dark border was rather more broken up by silvery dots and 

 blotches than in other kinds of similar character. 



Gazania splendens :— from Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Son, 

 Wellington Road, St. John's Wood. This was a showy plant, 

 the leaves spathulate or slightly lobed, and white beneath; in 

 this respect, and in general character, the plant resembled 

 G. uniflora, only that it was dwarfer and much more compact in 

 habit. The flowers were large rich orange-yellow, the base of the 

 florets having a dark-brown blotch with a white spot in its centre, 

 these blotches collectively forming a dark ring around the disc. 

 The plant comes near G. rigens, but is apparently distinct, and 

 possibly may be a mule between G. rigens and G. unifiora. 

 It was Commended as a novel and showy bedding plant, useful 

 on account of its rich orange-yellow flowers. 



Lianthus sinensis, var. Heddewigii : — from Messrs. E. 0. 

 Henderson & Son. This new race of Japanese Indian pinks, 

 of which a collection was exhibited, is remarkable for the large 

 size of the flowers, which are upwards of 9 inches in diameter, 

 and richly coloured in various shades of crimson, rose-colour, and 

 white, some of the plants producing self-coloured flowers, and 

 others being elegantly marked. The blossoms are single, but 

 rich, varied, and extremely ornamental. There is no material 

 or permanent diff"erence between the varieties named Heddewigii 

 and giganteus, the seed of each, Messrs. Henderson state. 



