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** Ixia fueata, pale pink. 



* — scintillans (dwarf), small, star-shaped blossoms. 



* — leucantha. 



• — maculata, small crimson eye, seedling. 



• — maculosa, large crimson eye, do. 



— purpurea, fine purple dark eye. 



— lilacea, beautiful seedling. 

 — patens. 



— ochroleuca, buff with purple edge, very handsome. 

 >*- polystachia, orange and black eye, very fine. 



— sulphurata. 



— sulphurata capitata, lemon, with dark eye. 



— multiflora, or capitata tricolor, pink and white with a blaek ey«, 

 very beautiful. 



— crispa. 



— erecta 5 



— lutea >• lately received, and not yet bloomed. 



— pentandria ) J. 



REFERENCE TO THE EMBELLISHMENTS. 



1. Calochortus venustus. — This very handsome flowering, bulbous rooted 

 plant, was introduced by the London Horticultural Society, about two years 

 since. It was sent from California by the late Mr. Douglas. The flower 

 stems grow to about two feet high, each producing several blossoms, which 

 remain expanded for some days. The plant is of easy culture, growing well 

 in any good garden soil moderately enriched. The plant requires treating 

 similar to th6 Tigridia pavonia, by potting early in spring, about February, 

 and turning them out entire, in April, into the open border. When the 

 blooming is over, the foliage is allowed to wither, as done by the Tulip, &c. 

 The plant is a valuable acquisition to the flower garden ; and when planted 

 in a mass, produces a most beautiful effect. Plants may be obtained at 

 several of the public Nursery Establishments. We perceive Mr. Young, of 

 Taunton, states that he possesses it. (See Cabinet, Jan. 1836, page 20.) 

 Hexandria Monogynia. Siliacea?. 



2. Phacclia congesta, Cluster-blossomed. — This very neat and pretty flow- 

 ering annual plant was sent from G alveston Bay, by the late Mr. Drum- 

 mond. It is a valuable acquisition to the flower garden. It requires to be 

 treated as a tender annual. The abundant corymbs of its neat flowers make 

 a showy appearance. As seeds are produced freely, it will speedily be in 

 general cultivation. The plant belongs to Pentandria Monogynia. Hy- 

 drophvllea?. 



3. Euloca viscida. — This very pretty flowering annual plant, we found in 

 cultivation in the garden of the London Horticultural Society in the last 

 summer; and though there was not a profusion of flowers, the fine deep 

 colours of the racemes of them, make a showy appearance. The flower stems, 

 we think, grow about half a yard high, but we neglected to make a minute 

 of that particular at the time. The liberality of the Society will soon cause 

 the seeds of this plant to be spread through the country, and become an 

 ornament to our flower gardens in general. We also got a drawing of the 

 beautiful new Mimulus cardinalis, which we shall shortly give. Pentandria 

 Monogynia. Hydrophyllaceoe. 



4. Oxalis Pioita;.— Through the kindness of a friend, we were favoured 

 with a drawing of this pretty, neat, flowering plant, which we observed 

 flowering in the neighbourhood of London during the last summer. It was 

 grown in pots; but we think from its appearance, that it would flourish 

 even better if planted in the open border during spring and summer, and 

 then be taken up, and protected in a greenhouse or cool frame during winter. 

 The plant is a most profuse bloomer for several months successively, and a 

 valuable acquisition to our flower gardens and greenhouses. We saw two 

 other new and handsome species, which we have got drawings of for th« 

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