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Selkirk, at St. Mary's Isle, Kircudbright, in Scotland. Mr. Dick, the gardener, 

 states that about one hundred seedling Ribes had been raised there in 1838, and 

 in 1839 he had them planted out in the open ground, and among them was one, 

 a double-flowering variety, and though no other had the least tendency to being 

 double, there were several distinct colours of single-flowering varieties. The 

 double variety has since then bloomed beautifully, and about three weeks later 

 than the common varieties of Ribes. Its growth is as free, and its blooming as 

 profuse, as the single blood-flowered, and it is as easily propagated. 



The racemes of flowers vary from three to six inches in length. It is a valu- 

 able addition to this lovely tribe and species ; and deserves to be an ornament 

 in every garden. It is a fine plant, too, for forcing. 



Rhus diversiloba. Various-leaved Poison Oak. (Bof. Reg. 38.) Ana- 

 cariiiaceaB. Polygamia Monrjecia. A native of California, where it is a common 

 bush. It proves to be a hardy deciduous shrub in this country, and has stood 

 last winter against the wall in the London Horticultural Society's Garden at 

 Chiswick. The flowers are very small, white, produced in short racemes. 



SlDA f AbLTIT.On) POSONI^FLORA. PcEONY-FLOWEUED. (Bot. Mag. 4170.) 



A native of the Organ Mountains of Brazil, and was sent by Mr. Lobb to Messrs. 

 Yeitch's, of Exeter, in whose plant-stove it recently bloomed. It appears to be a 

 tall shrub or small tre?. The flowers are produced towards the extremities of 

 the shoots, two or three together, at the axils of the leaves. Each flower has the 

 petals turning inwards, forming nearly a globe, of a beautiful red-rose colour 

 with pale veins ; the centre yellow. It is a pretty addition, and would make a 

 fine conservatory plant. 



Strelitzia augusta. Great White-flowered. A native of South Africa. 

 The trunk grows to the height of eight or ten yards ; a fine plant has recently 

 bloomed at the Royal Gardens, Kew. The flower stalks are of a fins purple 

 colour, and the flowers white. 



Noticed in the Botanical Register, not Figured. 



Epidendrum Lindenii. Discovered on rocks, near Merida, by Mr. Linden. 

 From the particulars attached to three varieties of it Mr. Linden sent, are, 

 1, flowers a bright carmine; 2, rose coloured; and, 3, a yellowish-orange. 

 Messrs. Loddiges' possess a fourth, which has flowers whose centre is rose- 

 coloured, and the upper half of the sepals and petals is a pleasing salmon colour. 

 The habit of the plant is very like that of E. elongatum. 



Seen in Nurseries, &c. 



Hindsia longifi.oua alba. The flowers are pure white, and of the size of 

 the original blue species, produced in large heads, and of a sweet fragrance. 

 Five plants are in bloom at Messrs. Henderson's. 



Buhtonia brunioidks. A small New Holland shrub, producing terminal 

 heads of yellow flowers. Messrs. Lucombe and Pince possess the plant. 



Hyokoi.ea simnosa. From South America, and requires a stove or warm 

 greenhouse. It is a shrubby plant, the trunk rising three feet high, numerously 

 brancbiug, producing a profusion of brilliant blue convolvulus-shaped flowers. 

 It blooms beautifully in the collection at Kew Gardens, and well deserves to be 

 in every hothouse collection. 



Ciio'.nostoma i'oi.vantiiuji. A very neat dwarf, and handsome flowering 

 greenhouse plant, producing numerous loose racemes of small salvia-shaped 

 flowers, of a pretty light blue colour with an orange throat. It blooms ne;irly 

 all the spring, summer, and autumn. 



