262 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



On a list of Michaelmas Asters, and Solidagos. — Few plants are more 

 ornamental lor adorning the Flower Garden and Shrubbery in Autumn, than 

 the Micha-elmas Aster, and Solidagos. The present period of the year being 

 the blooming season, affords an opportunity to ascertain which are the most 

 showy and ornamental sorts. If some reader of the Cabinet, having the op- 

 portunity, would furnish such a list, it would very much oblige 



Sep. 86th, 1 83S. A Correspondent. 



REMARKS. 

 NEW OK RARE PLANTS. 



Arthrostemma Versicolor. Changeable flowered. (Synonym, Rhexia 

 versicolor). — A native of Brazil, discovered hy Mr. McRae. It has flowered 

 in the stove at the Glasgow Botanic Garden. The plant grows near a foot 

 high, and terminates in large spreading panicles of flowers, which are of a 

 pale-rose colour, and being produced numerously, have a pretty appearance. 

 Each flower is about three quarters of an inch across. 



Pentstemon argutum. — Another fine species of this admired genus. We 

 recently saw it in bloom at Mr. Henderson's Nursery, Edgware Road, Lon- 

 don. The flower stem rises about five feet high, having numerous lateral 

 shoots, its whole length, producing a prolusion of flowers, of a rosy purple 

 colour. Each blossom is about an inch and a half long. It deserves a place 

 in every flower garden. 



At Lowe, and Co.'s. Nursery, Clapton, we saw the following. 



Gloxinia maxima. The flowers are of an extraordinary size, white with 

 a deep purple along the lower part of the corolla inside, producing a fine 

 effect. It is an hybrid production recently raised, we understood, in the 

 neighbourhood of London by a gentleman's gardener. 



Fuchsia cylindrica. The appearance of this new species is much like 

 F. Wormaldi, but its flowers are very different. They are produced on long 

 foot stalks, and are of a light red colour, having the end tipped with green. 

 Each flower is about three quarters of an inch long. It does not produce 

 much show, but is in other respects interesting. 



Salvia. — (New species.) Mr. Lowe, received a quantity of Mexican 

 seeds sent from Mr. Tweedie, amongst which is a beautiful species of Salvia, 

 which is now in flower. The plant grows four feet high, and the shoots ter- 

 minate, each with a spike of flowers, of a fine blue, marked inside with white. 

 They resemble the S. angustifolia, but are larger and of a deeper blue. The 

 plant appears to be a very free grower, sending up numerous shoots from 

 the roots. It appears to be very suitable for the open border in summer, and 

 would produce a fine effect. 



Salvia patens. — Also received from Mr. Tweedie, and is a most splendid 

 species. The plant was growing in the open border, about two feet high, a 

 few blossoms were only left when we saw it, but it appeared to have had 

 flowers on the spike, for a foot or upwards. Each flower is about two inches 

 long, of a most intense blue, producing a fine effect. A bed ol it in contrast 

 (or even a single plant) with the fine scarlet and crimson kinds, would pro- 

 duce a fine effect. This new and fine species has not, like the blue flowered 

 S. Africanus large foliage and few flowers in proportion, but appears to be 

 the reverse of it. Plants will be ready for sale next spring, and ought to be 

 in every conservatory, greenhouse, and flower garden. 



Combretum t'urpurecm. A correspondent in the Gardeners Gazette, 

 states, that there is a plant of Combretum purpureum growing in a stove in 

 the Maslyn Hall Gardens, which covers three-hundred and eight superficial 

 feet trained against a wall, and which had, in July last, near three-hundred 

 racemes of its fine graceful and showy flowers. The plant is growing in the 

 corner of the pine pit, which had been partitioned oft', and filled with fresh 



