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plant exhibited, \Yere about 9 inches long, narrow lance-shaped, 

 the apex dividing in a corymbose manner into a broad tuft of 

 spiny confluent divisions, a good deal resembling the lobes of the 

 leaves in some species of Eryngiiim. The pinnas were short, with 

 the lowest pinnule only distinct, and of the usual obliquely oblong 

 form, the rest being decurrent, and having the points as it were 

 cut off obliquely, while the upper ones, for half the length below 

 the small crispy tassel, were confluent, and merely notched with 

 spiny teeth. It is a very distinct form, and was awarded a 

 First-Class Certificate. 



Tachiadenus carinatus :— from Messrs. Veitch & Son. This 

 handsome dwarf-growing suffruticose stove-plant was introduced, 

 from Madagascar by the Rev. W. Ellis. It is dwarf, neat, and 

 branching in habit, producing four-cornered herbaceous branches, 

 furnished with smooth ribbed ovate leaves in opposite pairs, and 

 bearing the flowers freely in terminal fork-branched cymes ; the 

 flowers are salver-shaped, with a long slender white tube, and a 

 broad unequally star-shaped limb of the richest purple. It was 

 Commended as a useful late-flowering stove-plant, of neat habit, 

 likely to recommend itself to the notice of cultivators. 



Linaria bipartita, var. splendida: — from Messrs. Carter 

 & Co., Holborn. A very fine and richly-coloured annual, 

 flowering profusely, and continuing for a considerable time in 

 bloom. The habit was erect, like that of the older forms, and 

 the flowers were large, of a very rich deep purple colour. It 



a false garden synonym of the present species, which has 

 been also called speciosa. Messrs. Carter & Co. stated that 

 they had full confidence in its being fixed in character, as 

 it had been carefully selected for the last seven years. This 

 received a Commendation. 



Clarkia pulcheUa, var. nana : — from Messrs. Carter & Co. 

 This was a dwarf bushy-habited variety, exhibited under the 

 name of To7n Thumb. Single plants taken up from the open 

 ground formed a compactly branched mass, of about 8 inches in 

 height and as much in diameter, profusely flowered, the flowers 

 being of the rich purplish-rose colour of the best forms of this 

 species. It was Commended on account of its dwarf habit, which 

 it was thought would render it useful for summer beds. 



Various other interesting subjects of this class were produced, 



Clarkia pulchella. var. striata :— from Messrs. Carter & Co. 



