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Edinburgh Botanic Garden. The flowers are produced upon an elongated raceme, 

 each raceme having upwards of twenty flowers upon it ; the blossom is nearly three 

 inches across, of a beautiful reddish lilac colour ; the base and edges of the labellum 

 are white. It is a very desirable species, aud merits a situation in every collection 

 of stove plants. 



7. Cir.rh.sa tristis, Sad-coloured. (Bot. Reg. 1889.) Orchidacea? ; Gy- 

 nandria. Another very pretty Orchideous plant, a native of Mexico ; it has 

 bloomed in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges. The flowers are produced upon a 

 pendulous raceme of several inches long ; the flowers are of a dark purple, suffused 

 with blood colour and greenish yellow ; the labellum is of a dark purple ; they 

 are very fragrant ; each flower is rather more than an inch across ; the petals are 

 very narrow. 



8. Cotoneaster laxiflora, Loose clustered flowered. (Bot. Mag. 3519.) 

 Rosaceae ; Icosandria Digynia. This species forms an upright shrub from five to 

 six feet high. It has been recently introduced into this country by the London 

 Horticultural Society. The plant makes a pretty addition to our hardy shrubs; it 

 has much the appearance, in foliage, of a Vaccinium rather than a Cotoneaster. 

 The flowers are small, of a rosy colour, produced in pendulous cymes. 



9. Calleopsis tinctoria, var. atropurpurea, Dyeing Calleopsis, Dark 

 flowered variety. Tliis variety of the well known and much admired Coreopsis 

 tinctoria, now called Calliopsis tinctoria, is very superior to that species ; it was 

 raised from seed saved by Mr. James Tait, of Merry Flats, near Glasgow. The 

 flowers are about the size of C. tinctoria; the centre is yellow, surrounded by a 

 circle of dark purple, beyond which, to the extremity of the petals, is of a fine red 

 scarlet colour ; some of the flowers are destitute of the yellow centre. It is a splen- 

 did flowering annual, and deserves a place in every flower garden ; we have grown 

 it this season in masses, and it produces a fine show. Seeds of the kind will be 

 plentiful in the hands of the London seedsmen next spring. 



10. Cratcegus spathulata, Spathula leaved Hawthorn. (Bot. Reg., 1890.) 

 Rosacea ; Icosandria Pentagynia. This species forms a pretty bush, growing about 

 five feet high. The C. virginica of the nurseries is the true C. spathulata ; it very 

 much resembles the C. parcifolia, but it differs from that species by the leaves be- 

 ing edged with strong dark glands, and having large leafy stipules. The flowers 

 are white, produced in clusters of two or three in each, succeeded by green fruit of 

 moderate size. It is a native of the dry woods in Virginia and Carolina. Cratae- 

 gus, from Kratos, strength ; referring to the durability of the wood. 



11. Cvrtopodium punctatum, Spotted flowered. Orchidiacea; ; Gynandria 

 Monandria. A very splendid flowering species, introduced from Brazil by Wil- 

 liam Swainson, Esq., some years since. It bloomed for the first time in the Glas- 

 gow Botanic Garden in 1835. The petals are yellow; sepals mostly spotted with 

 purple and red; the lip has a purplish red edge; the remaining parts of the flower 

 are yellow, altogether producing a splendid and striking contrast. 



12. Crocus suaveolens, Fragrant (flowered) Crocus. (Brit. Flow. Gard. 

 352.) A very pretty pale blue flowered species, a native of Italy ; it is also found 

 growing plentifully about Rome. It is cultivated in the garden of the Honourable 

 W. T. H. F. Strangways, Abbotsbury Castle, Dorsetshire. The pretty and fra- 

 grant flowers recommend it to every garden. 



13. Gilia tenuiflora, Slender flowered. (Bot. Reg. 1888.) Polemoniaceffi ; 

 l'entandria Monogynia. The late Mr. Douglas sent seeds of this new hardy an- 

 nual from California, to the London Horticultural Society; Mr. Douglas had ap- 

 pended the name Gilia splendens to the packet, but it certainly does not merit such 

 an appellation, being very much inferior to G. tricolor. The flowers of the pre- 

 sent species are produced upon slender, branching stems, which rise to about two 

 feet high ; each flower is about a quarter of an inch across, of a pale rose colour, 

 ■lightly streaked with red outside, and of a fine violet in the inside. The flowers 

 do not produce much show where a single plant is only grown; but if grown in 

 misses, It makes a pretty addition to the flower garden. 



I I. LuPINUS i.atifolius, Broad-leaved Lupine. (Bot. Reg. 1891.) This 

 ■pedes was found in California by the late Mr. Douglas; it is a hardy perennial. 

 The (lowers arc like I,, littoralis, of a purplish violet colour. Lupinus, from Lupus, 

 awolf; referring to the exhausting properties of the roots of the plant with the 



