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The remaining exhibitions were as follows : — 

 Tricyrtis elegans : — from Mr. Standtsh. This was a curious 

 dwarf herbaceous plant, introduced from China by Mr. Fortone. 

 The stems were erect, a foot and a half high, bearing sessile 

 cordate-ovate shortly acuminate leaves, which were longitudinally 

 nerved, and had a slightly crimped or undulated edge. The 

 hexandrous flowers grew in a terminal dichotomously branched 

 panicle. The perianth was rather more than an inch in expansion 

 reflexed, white slightly spotted with purple, the three outer 

 divisions broader and saccate at the base. The style was of the 

 same colours as the perianth, petaloid, bearded with glands, pro- 

 minent, and branching at the end into three recurved arms, each 

 of which was deeply forked. Though not a showy plant, it was 

 of very curious and interesting structure. 



Arundinaria sp. :— from Mr. Standish. This was a dwarf, 

 slender, tufted Bamboo-like plant, with the foliage striped with 

 ■white, somewhat in the same way as the common Ribbon-grass. 

 It will, no doubt, form a neat and elegant addition to this class ©f 

 plants : but was hardly sufficiently developed. 



Fuchsias :— from Messrs. Veitch & Son, Exeter : Princess 

 Alice, a vigorous habited and free-blooming sort, with moderate- 

 sized flowers, of which the narrow sepals were light coral red, and 

 the petals rather elongated, white streaked with red. It was con- 

 sidered to be not equal to the varieties called Princess of Prussia 

 and Fascination. Garibaldi, a vigorous-growing, large-flowered, 

 serai-double, red and purple variety, but inferior to that called 

 Sir Colin Campbell. 



Polystichum angnlare, var. lineare : — from Jlrs. Thompson, 

 Exeter. One of the curious and rare, as well as elegant, varieties 

 of this fine' and variable species, but already distributed among fern 

 growers. Its pinnules, especially the basal ones, often assume a 

 linear outline, as also do the confluent apices of the pinnae, espe- 

 cially in the upper part of the frond. Others of the pinnules are 

 generally much depauperated. 



Russell's pyramid Chinese Primrose :— from Mr. G. Clarke, 

 Brixton Hill. These were well-coloured forms of the ordinary 

 fringed variety of Chinese Primrose. 



Campanula arrecta :— from Mr. J. Youno, Taunton. This 

 was an interesting and rather showy plant, of which the following 

 account was furnished : — " The history of the plant is this. 

 Some years since I impregnated the flowers of some hybrid Cam- 

 panula primuleBfolia which I bad previously raised, with some 



