116 MISCELLANY OP NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



Azalea indica, alba magniflora. Ericaceae. Greenhouse shrub (hybrid); 

 white faintly streaked. 



Azalea indica, violacea elegans. Ericaceae. Greenhouse shrub (hybrid) ; 

 bright purple. 



Cochlearia acaulis. Cruciferae. Hardy annual ; white, changing to lilac. 

 — Jo/urn. Hort. Soc. 



Daphne Fortuni. Thymelaceae. Greenhouse (or half hardy) shrub; pale 

 bluish lilac. — Journ. Hort. Soc. 



Edgwortiiia chrysantiia. Thymelaceae. Greenhouse (or half hardy) 

 shrub ; golden yellow. — Journ. Hort. Soc. 



Fortunjea chinensis. Juglandaceae. Small tree (or shrub) ; amentaceous. 

 — Journ. Hort. Soc. 



Jasminum nudiflorum. Jasminaceae. Greenhouse climber ; yellow. — Journ. 

 Hort. Soc. 



Amaryllis leonensis. Sierra Leone. The flowerscape bears two very large 

 and very handsome flowers, of a beautiful delicate flesh colour, having a large 

 dark centre to each. — Van. Houtte's Mag. 



Anthadenia sesamoides. Bignoniaceae. A biennial plant, very similar in 

 habit, and the flowers in form and colour, to the common Fox Glove, very 

 fragrant, from Africa. — Van Houtte's Mag. 



Rigideli.a okthantha. Iridaceae. Mexico. The flowers are a rich scarlet, 

 very handsome. — Van Houtte's Mag- 

 la's. London Horticultural Society. — At the meetings which have taken 

 place this year at the Society's rooms in Regent-street, several new and rare 

 plants have been exhibited, which we will briefly notice. 



At the meeting held on February 17, Messrs. Henderson, of Edgeware-road, 

 had a fine plant of Phaius Wallichii, and an Oncidium, allied to Bauerii, with 

 seven strong spikes of floweri and three smaller ones ; a Coelogyne, with small 

 white flowers ; Acacia oxycedrus; A. Hovea, with lanceolate leaves and blue 

 flowers ; and a pretty little plant of the scarlet-flowered Hoitzia Mexicana, not 

 often seen ; a certificate was given to the Phaius. Mr. Parks, of Dartford 

 Nursery, had a dull-red seedling Corraea, and a small rose-coloured seedling 

 Cineraria. Mr. Halley, of Blackheath, had a pretty seedling Camellia, named 

 Beaute Parfait, of small size, deep rose-pink, and cupped. Mr. Ivery, of Peck- 

 ham, had four seedling Cinerarias, of good properties, named Brilliant, a li^ht 

 rose colour : Fairy Queen, white, with purple centre ; Perfection, bluish purple ; 

 and Colossus, purple. Mr. Redding, gardener to Mr. Marryatt, of Wimbledon, 

 had a neat plant of Dendrobium nobile ; a species of Aspidistra, a curious 

 Aroideous plant, with flowers close to the ground ; Odontoglossum caudatum ; 

 and a seedling Rhododendron, with light scarlet-red flowers, not much spotted ; 

 a certificate was given to the Dentlrobium. Amongst the plants from the 

 garden of the Society were Epidendrum Stamfordianutn, a species rarely seen ; 

 Primula denticulata, a Nepal species, quite hardy, and producing bunches of 

 lilac flowers ; and Selago distans, a useful white-flowered plant for cutting, 

 blooms abundantly. 



There was also exhibited a new Hygrometer from Mr. Simmonds, of Coleman- 

 street, London, of which trials of the most satisfactory nature were stated to have 

 been made at Chiswick. It was found to be much superior to the instrument 

 known as Daniell's Hygrometer. It consists of a tube about a foot long, at the 

 upper part of which is a dial-plate, which indicates by a hand the hygrometrical 

 state of the atmosphere — the hand pointing towards the right to indicate dry- 

 ness, and to the left to indicate wetness. Advantage has been taken of the 

 known property of wood to contract by dryness, and expand by moisture. A 

 strip of mahogany, cut across the grain, contracts or expands according to the 

 moisture of the atmosphere to which it is exposed, and, in so doing, moves a 

 pulley attached to a spring by meaus of a silken thread, which moves the hand 

 on the dial-plate ; a certificate was awarded to it. Mr. Fry, of Blackheath, 



