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of numerous flowers, each flower being above two inches across. The sepals and 

 petals are of a yellowish green, spotted with dull red ; the lateral petals are brighter 

 in colour, but not so much marked as the sepals ; lateral lobes of the lip of a pale 

 red • the intermediate lobe yellow, having the edge spotted with red. A very 

 handsome flowering species, deserving a place in every collection. Cyrtopodium, 

 from Kiirlos, convex ; and pons, a foot ; in reference to the convex claw of the 

 labellum. . 



7. Craspedia glauca. (Bot. Reg., 1908.) Composite; Syngenesia; Poly, 

 gamia oequalis. Mr. James Backhouse, of the firm of Messrs. Backhouses, Nur- 

 serymen, York, went to Van Diemen's Land a few years since, and from thence 

 he has sent the present plant to the York Nursery. It is a perennial herbaceous 

 plant, growing upwards of a foot high. The flowers are globular shaped heads 

 more than an inch in diameter, of a yellow colour. Each of these heads is com- 

 posed of smaller heads, producing a pretty effect. Craspedia from Kraspedon, a 

 fringe ; referring to the feathery pappus. 



8. Cratcegus Mexicana, Mexican Hawthorn. (Bot. Reg., 1910.) Another 

 pretty species of Hawthorn, which is a native of the Tierra fria of Mexico. It is 

 a small growing tree, with dark green shining leaves. In warm countries it is an 

 evergreen. The flowers are white, each corymb having a considerable number. 

 They are succeeded by large yellow fruit, each fruit is the size of a May Duke 

 Cherry. Both the blossoms and fruit make a pratty appearance among the bright 

 green' foliage. Crataegus from Kratos, strength ; referring to the wood. 



9. Epidendrum macrochilum, Large-lipped. (Bot. Mag., 3534.) Or- 

 chidea? ; Gynandria ; Monandria. A very handsome flowering orchideous plant, 

 a native of Mexico, from whence it was introduced by Charles Horsfall, Esq., 

 Everton, near Liverpool. In the rich collection of Mr. Horsfall's Orchideoe, it 

 bloomed during the last summer. The scape rises about a foot high, terminated 

 with a raceme of four large handsome flowers, without scent. The flowers are, 

 sepals and side petals, of a greenish -brown colour ; lip, white, when old cream 

 coloured, having a large red-purple spot at the base. Each flower is near tlrree 

 inches across. The flowers are singularly pretty. Epidendrum from Epi, upon 

 dendron, a tree ; native habitation of the plant. 



10. Epimedium macranthum, Large flowered. Berberacece ; Tetrandria; 

 Monogynia. (Bot. Reg., 1906.) A native of Japan, which has flowered in the 

 "arden of the University of Ghent. The flowers are very singular in form, more 

 than an inch across, of a pale violet colour, which are very fragrant. The plant 

 is quite hardy ; it is grown in the nursery of Mr. Osborne, Fulharn. Epimedium 

 from Media, where the plant to which it belonged, was said to grow. There are 

 two more species in the garden at Ghent, viz., E. Violaceum, and E. Musschianum. 



11. Iberis coronaria, Rocket Candy Tuft. (Brit. Flow. Gard.) Crucifera; 

 Tetradymia ; Siliculosa. This hardy annual is of considerable beauty, being very 

 showy and of a pure white. The clusters of racemes are numerous, and very 

 large, being three or four inches long ; at a distance the fine flowers very much 

 resemble the Double White Rocket. It blooms for several months during summer. 

 It well deserves a place in every flower garden. Seeds of it are to be obtained of 

 most of the London Seedsmen, as Charlwood, Kerman, Warner, Carter, Flanagan, 

 Chubb, &c. 



12. Ionopsis tenera, Delicate flowered. (Bot. Reg., 1904.) Orchidaoece; 

 Gynandria ; Monandria. A native of Havannah, from whence it was brought by 

 Captain Sutton, in 1835, and by that gentleman presented to Sir Charles Lemon, 

 Bart., in whose collection it has bloomed. The scape rises about eight or ten in- 

 ches high, bearing a loosish panicle of delicately marked flowers, which are of a 

 pale pinkish-white, beautifully marked with bright violet coloured veins. But 

 little is known in this country of the plant of this genns ; it is rare to find them in 

 collections of orchideae, by reason of the difficulty of preserving them on their jour- 

 ney in the ship, and even when they are safely imported, they are difficult to cul- 

 tivate, and are soon lost. They are natives of the woods, and there grow" upon 

 the smaller branches of the trees, or upon dead branches, which their delicate white 

 roots soon overspread. There appears to be four species known of this genus, viz., 

 I. tenera I. utricularioides, I. palhdiflora, I. paniculata; the flowers of the latter 

 species are of a snowy whiteness. It was discovered in the ancient forests of 

 Brazil. Tonopsis, from ittft, a violet; and ophis, look ; meaning violet faced. 



