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patch of a crimson purple colour, and gives the flowers a pretty ap- 

 pearance. The plant grows about half a yard high, and is a most 

 profuse bloomer ; it certainly merits a place in the flower-garden. 



10. Kennedya Stirlinghi, Sir James Stirling's Kennedya. — 

 Seeds of this very neat and pretty flowering plant, were sent by Sir 

 James Stirling from the Swan River to Robert Mangles, Esq. of 

 Wbitinore Lodge. It is a trailing greenhouse plant, blooming in 

 April. The flowers are produced in pairs, they are of the pea tribe, 

 each about half an inch across, of a fine scarlet colour; 



11. Linum Berendierii, Berendier's yellow-flowered flax. — A 

 native of the Texas, introduced into this country last year. It is a 

 very beautiful flowering species, a hardy annual, and a great acqui- 

 sition to the flower-gardens. A single plant produces a number of 

 stems, which are much branched, and become clothed with flowers, 

 of a fine deep yellow colour, with an orange scarlet eye. Each flower 

 is about an inch and a half across. The plant deserves a place in 

 every flower-garden. Pentandria Pentagynia. Lineae. Linum from 

 Llin, the celtic term for thread. 



12. Maxillaria rufescens, Brownish flowered. Mr. Lowe of 

 Clapton, introduced this species into this country from Trinidad. 

 The flower is small, the petals are of a brownish red colour, labellum 

 of a fine yellow, spotted with rich crimson. Maxillaria from the la- 

 bellum, resembling the maxilla? of some insects. 



13. Oxura chrysanthemoides, Ox-eye, like Oxura. A new 

 hardy annual, introduced from California by the late Mr. Douglas. 

 It has bloomed in the garden of the London Horticultural Society, 

 during August and September. The flower much resembles the 

 common Chrysanthemum coronarium, of a deep yellow colour to- 

 wards the centre, but lighter at the ends of the petals. Syngenesia 

 Superflua. Coinpositae Oxura from oxus, sharp ; and oura a tail. 



14. Peristeria pendula, Pendulous Dove-flower. A fine and 

 singular flowering orchideous plant, from Demarara. It has recently 

 bloomed in the collection of John Allcard Esq., Stratford Green, 

 near London. The flowers are produced upon a pendant scape, 

 which is about eight inches long, and bears five or six flowers upon 

 each. Each flower is near two inches across, fragrant, of a grenish- 

 white colour on the outside, the inside of a slight blush colour, spot- 

 ted with purple. The lip is of a dingy white, also much spotted 

 with purple. Gynandria Monandria Orchideoe. Peristeria from 

 Peristera, a Dove ; its column resembling a dove in form. 



16. Potentilla mollissima. Soft-leaved. The plant is a 

 native of Si uth of Europe, and introduced into this country in 1832 



