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rosy-tinted sepals and petals were spotted nie: with crimson; the broad column 
buried between the erect side lobes of the lip was of a deep rose, these lateral lobes 
sort of claw, and so much recurved at the e edge as to give it a cuneately flabellate 
appearance, the colour bg. creamy- hr же at the hinder part, and rosy, marked with 
deeper rose veins, in fron 
SILVER BANKSIAN MEDAL pin SECOND-CLASS CERTIFICATE. 
DISA GRANDIFLORA SUPERBA.—Mr. Wat ырго © C. Leach, Esq., Clapham 
ark. This was the fine variety mentioned i in Vol. I 617. There were shown in 
company =: it, some well-manag ts of the eios itself, of а eii 
Aon ina sopa e distinctions of colouring, but on the whole orsa : io the variety 
uperba. 
Class 32, devoted to NEW on RARE HARDY ORNAMENTAL Prants, furnished the fol- 
lowing su ubjec ts ;— 
T KNIGHTIAN MEDAL AND FIRST-CLASS CERTIFICATE. 
Dicry ММА JAPONICA.—Messrs. VEITCH & SON. А ate ao Fern from 
Th 
to three feet high, bipinnate and of a bright p colour; the pinnze ofa а үй ng lanceo- 
e form, and of considerable size. This fern has something of the character of G. 
javanica, but differs in its netted veins. 
ASPLENIUM ELEGANTULUM.—Mr. STANDI ISH, Ascot. A very elegant dwarf fern, with 
the кар, of an enlarged and elongated А. fontanum. The fronds were lanceolate in 
form, and bipinna ate, with roundish toothed pinnules. It will be a pretty little hardy 
хара fern, and just the thing for glass cases kept in cool situations. 
SILVER BANKSIAN MEDAL AND ne CLASS CERTIFICATE, 
. SELAGINELLA INVOLVENS.—Mr, STANDISH, Asc A very elegant dwarf-habited 
а of the circinate group, and forming oui excellent Subject for à Ward's 
е ODSIA POLYSTICHOIDES VErTCHIL— Mr. STANDISH. А dwarf tufted Japanese 
Fern, sg grayish aspect, the fronds — densely clothed шук whitish hair-scales. 
very 
h ong narrow pinnate, with simple faleate эел uriculate pinne. This is 
distinct ed all the other Woodsias kno mud in cultivar 
SP.—Mr, STANDISH, A oir te VW ies with thick glaucous 
ovate EXT, having long footstalks, the flowers drooping, French white, 
several produced on an erect spike, 
| ыу SP—Mr. STANDISH. A fine looking Oak, with broad obovate sinuately 
obed lea’ 
BRONZE MEDAL AND ОО 
LIGUSTRUM SP., FOL. VARIEGATIS.— Messrs & бох. А dwarf ан que 
small ovate leaves irregularly blotched with yellow. When more fully grown 
probably become a useful ornamental shru 
ASPLENIUM CONSIMILE.—Messrs. VEITCH Ё Бох. А sturdy-looking Бр, Fern, 
with short унь fronds, having thick coriaceous serrated auriculate pinnae. 
QUE sP.—Mr. sb NDISH. Ап odd-looking plant, having the pinnatifid leaves 
sev heyy as if de rated. If » эе сабе а free-growing hardy tree, this singular 
foliage will give it асац се inte 
FURTHER EXHIBITIONS. 
Mes mee пен a & Son.—Cheiranthus Marshallii variegatus, a prettily 
varlogated x rock plan: 
Mr, tanc da a japonica longifolia; Retinospora pisifera nana and ж». 
Messrs. BAckHOUSE & Son.—Richardia — ч Gleichenia Я 
of which had stood out-doors at York, unprotected and unharmed for two years. 5 
Messrs. IVERY & Sox.— Three seedling sports of Athyrium Filia-femina ге 
апа Fieldic, 
Class 37 was devoted to SzEDLING FLORISTS FLOWERS and GanpEN HYBRIDS. 
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