Wilson Saunders, Esq., Reigate. This North African species 

 was of prostrate habit, with cordate obtuse leaves, more or less 

 deeply lobed and toothed. It bore axillary peduncles sup- 

 porting umbels of four or five flowers, an inch in diameter, 

 purple, with a black spot at the base of each petal. It will 

 form a pretty summer rock plant, for which character it was 



Prenanthes arborea :— from Mr. Weeks. This was Coir- 

 MiiNDEB as a plant bearing elegant foliage. The leaves were 

 pinnate, with narrow distant leaflets, and the young plants 

 had an elegant appearance, and will be useful for grouping in 

 plant-houses. It is a native of the Canary Islands, and was 

 raised from seed sent thence by Dr. Carl Bolle. 



To this class of subjects also belong the following : — 



Prenanthes pinuata :— from Mr. Weeks. Introduced from 

 the Canary Islands, along with P. arborea. It has more finely 

 cut leaves, which are pinnate, with long crowded filiform leaflets, 

 and has altogether a light drooping aspect, somewhat resembling 

 that of Equisetum Telmetiea. In the young state, freely grown, 

 the plant would be pretty. 



Asparagus sp. :— from Mr. Weeks. This had been introduced 

 in 1859, from South Africa. In the form in which it was ex- 

 hibited with the main stem supported in an upright position, the 

 long slender branches hung down on all sides, the stems being 

 two or three limes branched, and the branches and branchlets 

 all remarkable for their divaricate or ever refracted direction. 

 The small ultimate branchlets were clothed with small setaceous 

 leaves ; and the vhole plant was of a curious and elegant 

 chaiacter. 



Myrsiphyllnm sp. — from Mr. Weeks. This la also a trailing 

 plant with small elongate lance-shaped sharp-pointed shining 

 leaves, and small inconspicuous greenish flowers. 



New Zealand Grass:— from Mr. Weeks. This had been 

 raised by Messrs. Matjle & Co., from seeds received from the 

 Port Littleton district. It was apparently an Iridaceous plant, 

 with narrow leaves, but indeterminable in the state in which it was 

 exhibited. It was nevertheless of an elegant grassy character. 



Taxusbaccatapendula densa:— from Messrs. Ivery & Son, 

 Dorking. A tall umbrella-like plant, with a straight erect stock, 

 and a flat spreading head, tlie branches having a denser character 

 than those of T. Dovastoni, which it was thought otherwise to 



