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less tliau au inch in width, and consisted only of small fan-shaped 

 pinnae set along each side of the rachis. Except in being a 

 little stouter in the rachis, and consequently stiffer in habit, the 

 plant was not very different in appearance ivovn. the New Holland 

 Asplenium Jlahelli folium, but it was truly a form of the Lady 

 Fern, 'and was found a few years since in Ii'eland by Miss 

 Friiczel, after whom it is named. It was distributed from the 

 Dublin College Botanic Garden. This received a First-Class 

 Certificatk, to which it was entitled both on account of its 



Convolvulus mauritauicas : — from Messrs. E. G. Hender- 

 son & Son, St. John's Wood. A very pretty dwarf trailing plant, 

 with slender hairy stems, small oblong-oval hairy leaves, and pale 

 violet blue flowers an inch in diameter, freely produced from the 

 nxils of the leaves. It is well adapted for suspended baskets, and 

 is also a neat-habited profuse flowering plant for the garden; for 

 which qualities it was Commended. 



There wei'C also exhibited :— 



Calceolaria suavis: — from Messrs. Vkixch & Sun. Acuriuus 

 and pretty dwarf herbaceous perennial, "probably hardy," intro- 

 duced from theAndes of Chili. It had oblong elliptic leaves covered 

 with close white woolly hairs, and the flower stems grew about 

 a foot high, bearing numerous moderate-sized light purple floweis 

 prettily spotted, the yellow throat being also spotted ; they were 

 very sweet-scented. It may be a pale variety of C. arachnoidea. 



Amarantlius melancholicas ruber:— from Messrs. Vkitch & 

 Sox. This was exhibited at the previous meeting and was then 

 Commended. Messrs. Veitch now suggested that it would form 

 a useful plant for the edging of beds in flower gardens, being of a 

 dwarf compact habit, and having clear bright-coloured reddish- 

 purple foliage, superior in colour to the Perilla. They also stated 

 that planted in the open ground, it was brighter in colour, and 

 finer than when growti in pots ; and a sufficient number was 

 now sent to show its effect wlieu placed in a line. The Com- 

 mittee thought it likely to be a useful plant for the purpose thus 

 indicated, being distinct in colour from the Perilla. 



Bidens humilis :— from Messrs. Veitch & Son. A dwarf and 

 much branched subshrubby plant, from Peru; a perennial, 

 and "probably hardy." It had small bipinnatisected, or tri- 

 pinnatisected leaves of triangular outline, with small pointed 

 ultimate segments, and bears successional flower heads of a bright 



