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ef the blossom is also put down in the proper column. There is also the 

 V. Glaucopis, (formerly called Iris Pavonia) with references to the figure and 

 colour. 1 last year applied, by means of a friend, at ten different florists' 

 shops in London, for some of each of these bulbs : I received some bulbs, 

 which were called Iris Pavonia, they bloomed very well, and proved to be the 

 Vieusseuxia Glaucopis, a very pretty and curious flower. 1 this year again 

 applied (as my friend tells me) to all the London Florists, who were shewed 

 an extract from Loudon and also from "Sweets' Hortus Britannicus," which 

 agrees with Loudon, and the answer was, that " they were the same." Now, 

 Sir, this is impossible, for neither Loudon or Sweet would give an account of 

 the two different species if there were only one, nor would they give the 

 names, V. Pavonica, olim Morcea Pavonica, and V. Glaucopis, olim Iris Pa- 

 vonia, nor the colours of the two flowers, nor references to two figures, if 

 they were only one and the same. The V. Pavonica is like the V. Glaucopis, 

 excepting as to the colours, the former being, as I am told, very beautiful, as 

 coloured in the plate referred to. 



As I presume you, as well as many readers of the Cabinet, must be well 

 acquainted with Loudon's and Sweet's books, and also with these two several 

 species of Vieusseuxia, I will feel obliged if some person will have the good- 

 ness to inform me, in thj earliest Floricultural Magazine, where 1 can 

 procure some V. Pavonica. I have plenty of the V. Glaucopis. In this 

 year's Catalogue of Bulbs, published by Lochhart & Co., Cheapside, there is 

 no mention of any Vieusseuxia whatever ; but there is Iris Pavonica, and the 

 bulbs are very fine and cheap. I had some from them last year and they 

 bloomed well. I believe the London Florists, as they call themselves, are 

 far from being well informed in Floriculture, or there would be no omission 

 of the Genus Vieusseuxia in their catalogues ; nor would they say that the 

 V. Pavonica, and V. Glaucopis were one and the same, with the ''Hortus'' 

 before their eyes, if they possess the books, which I very much doubt. 



In " Aiton's Epitome of the Hortus Reivensis," page \fi, there is noticed 

 " Morcea Pavonia, Peacock Morcea, coloured in the Botanical Magazine, 

 (Curtis's) table, 1247, brought from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1790. 

 2 believe this is what I want. 



BUBRIBNSIS. 



ANSWERS. 



A List of Flower and Garden Herbaceous Plants,— Seing a query in 

 the December Number of the Cabinet, requesting an early list of Herba- 

 ceous plants that will stand tha chaogeable temperature of our climate, 

 I have taken the first opportunity of obliging your correspondent, 

 Those marke (o) are rock plants. 



Acanthus 



mollis 

 Sfiinosus 

 phinossissmus 

 illiciflins 



Aconituio. 



hycoctonum 



album 



variegatura 



Japonicura 



unicinatum 



specinsum 



virgatura 



formosum 



Aconitum 



pyramidales 

 versicolor, 

 decorum 

 rubellum 



Achillea 



grandiflora 



ptarmica 



ageratum. 



speciosa 



alpina 



eerrata 



o calavennae 



rosea 



Tenustum I nobilis 



