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Adiantniu chilense :— from Messrs. Veitch & Son, Exeter 



and Chelsea. A. very fine hardy greenhouse fern, \Yith rather 

 bold-looking yet gracefully arching fronds of a triangular outline, 

 and glaucous green colour. The fronds were tripinnate, with 

 rather large roundish trapeziform pinnules. It seemed to be of 

 free habit. This received a First-Class Certificate. It 

 had been imported from Chili, along with the two following 

 species : 



Adiantum sulphureum :— from Messrs. Veitch & Son. A 



Golden Maidenhair, of dwarfish habit, and remarkably neat and 

 elegant in its style of growth ; the fronds were triangular and 

 tripinnate, with rather small pinnules of a roundish form, con- 

 spicuously scolloped out at the edge where fructified, and clothed 

 on the under surface with yellow farinose powder. It gained a 

 First-Class Certificate. 



Adiantum scabrum :— from Messrs. Veitch & Son. A Silver 

 Maidenhair, the plants of which were less developed than the 

 preceding. In this state it was dwarfer, bipinnate, with large 

 roundish pinnules, which were dusted overmen both surfaces with 

 white farinose powder. This also was awarded a First-Class 

 Certificate. 



Petunia Mrs. Ferguson ;— from Mr, Ferguson, Stowe, 

 Buckinghamshire. This exhibition consisted of cut specimens 

 of a remarkably attractive single Petunia, in which the flovrers 

 were white, marked with almost perfect uniformity by a stripe of 

 magenta-rose on each of the five divisions of the corolla. The 

 flowers had a remarkably delicate and beautiful appearance. It 

 received a First-Class Certificate. 



Swainsona violacea (Lindley) :— from Messrs. E. G. Hender- 

 son & Son, St. John's Wood. A handsome half-climbing herbaceous 



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plant, with something the aspect of other Swainsonas, but larger. 

 The stems were slightly angular, smooth, furnished with irapari- 

 piunate leaves, consisting of about 8 pairs of ovate-lanceolat6 

 rather obtuse leaflets, and having broadly ovate cuspidate ciliated 

 veiny stipules. From the leaf axils, came the long spikes of large 

 violet mauve flowers, which were an inch across, and composed of 

 a spreading deep two-lobed standard, small connivent wings, and 

 a long spirally convulute ascending pointed keel. It had been 

 received from the interior of Australia, as a " new scarlet 

 Clianthus." In the border of a cool greenhouse, it was found to 

 be of free vigorous growth, 2 to 5 feet in height, the flowers 

 fragrant. This received a First-Class Certificate. 



