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286 REPORTS OF THE FLORAL COMMITTEE. 
Class 27, for New or Rang Harpy CHRON PrANTS, presented a few plants of 
interest, The exhibitors and awards w 
SILVER KNIGHTIAN MEDAL AND SECOND-CLASS CERTIFICATE. 
DEUTZIA ORENATA FLORE-PLENO.—Mr. STANDISH, Ascot. Ау тиф andsom ud 
Neri S arah, introduced by Mr. Fortune, "n had uet. shortly e оуај 
uminate finely serrated leaves, and terminal racemes of аач арч бори, which were 
ка ae punctately tinged on the outer surface with d 
TAXUS HIBERNICA, var. FASTIGIATA.—Messrs, FIs SHER, Horse IES, & Co., трат 
This was exhibited as а sep etly handy, eer variety, obtained from the seed ч 
the Irish yew. It proved to beav i E utiful shrub, of close fastigiate habit, the 
young leaves golden, with а green rib, is golden tinge - rpm regularly develop 
over the several plants sent, and was a ua VB d fea 
SILVER BANKSIAN MEDAL AND SECOND-CLASS CERTIFICATE. 
LASTREA ERYTHROSORA,—Messrs, УЕттсн & Son, A handsome hardy Japanese 
Fern, bara fronds about three feet high, on dark stipes, bipinnate, Б Вы. te outline, 
inin the grok оонай faleate, acute and more or less lobed, 
veras of. deep red se туе, which are Magy 
tion. It is deren rming addition to ou Ferns, associating well with Lastrta 
opaca, pet fine hardy evergreen spa lately introduced from Ja apan and China. · 
WooDWARDIA JAPONICA.—Messrs, VEPTCH & Son. А fine Japanese Fern of the 
bold-habited class, quite dissimilar from W. orienta Из, recently introduced from the 
same country. The fronds were ovate pinnate, a couplo of feet high, the pinnæ broadish, 
notched with good-sized lobes, roundish, shallow 
LYCHNIS SENNO.—Mr. StanpisH. А fine — herbaceous plant, with erect TM 
Збан кшен two feet and a half high; and opposite leaves which are stained on the 
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calices are hairy and purplish, Another form , called striata, was shown with 5 
foregoing. This had the leaves ме ба апа ‘snd unequally variegated at the edge, and the 
flowers rather larger than in the other n streaked with white. 
BRONZE m AND COMMENDATION, 
ATHYRIUM FILIX-FGMINA, var. GLOMERATUM (Мооте). — Messrs, IVERY & ae 
Daking, A very handsome dwarf tasselled у ariety of 1 Lady Fern малай: as a 8р 
from corymbiferum, from which, ho owever, it is wholly diss imilar, It із, in fact, inter- 
in character between multiceps and coron onatum, having, like them, 
part of the frond narrowish, and not peel developed, the tasselled end of the pur 
being also furnished with small broadish fiat cresta, but the a g developed in 
mpactly Se ag as spreading head. It is a very desirable new form 
Т. 
NAD — тағ. Mein —Mesers, Frsugm, Ногмев, & Co. А North 
A dal habit, remarkable for the dumpy, pompte har 
pitt ended [sels which Ше | its small twiggy branches, and which = 
brevity an ee give it some iarity of aspect. штау, "отете, 
reports that he does not find in it any distinctive character; the number of rows 0, 
wies Ми ir dispositio с — tie lent Son iilo darker and dnd ym 
should say it was а variet y of ea 
ANDROMEDA sP.—Messrs. n & Sor. А showy dwarf evergreen bush, 2 о 
and a half clothed ovate or elliptic-oblo ions Dawes and in the axils of the 
uppermost of these, several linear дыы of decury flo суны: the corollas of which are 
pitcher- baee. d pure white, It m California. 
HOMOIANTHUS YIsCOSUS.— Messrs. VET & Бом. A free- hard 
from Valdivia. It forms a tuft of qutm re ‘ cm ме looming = ee es, 
nnial 
from 
amongst which rise numerous flowering 
