new and rare plants. 17 



Voltaire. 

 This is a third row feathered Bizarre, raised in the south, the cup 

 good, hottora pure, and the feathering a dark brown. A good stage 

 variety. 



Walworth. 



This is a fourth row feathered Rose, long cup, creamy bottom, and 

 ground colour, and requires some days to bleach white. This variety 

 was introduced in the year 1790 by Mr. Haddocks, a celebrated 

 grower at Walworth. It is a late variety. 



Waterloo. 



This is a first row feathered Bizarre, grown at Sheffield, cup 

 rather long, bottom pure, a steady marker, and worthy a place in a 

 collection. 



Zulf.ika. 



This is a second row flamed Byblomcn, good cup, creamy bottom, 

 and like Roi de Siam in colours, but a distinct variety. 



PART II. 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



Bosslsa virgata. — Twiggy Bossirea. (Bot. Mag. 3986.) Leguminosae. 

 Diadelphia Decandria. Mr. Drummond sent seeds of this neat and pretty 

 flowering plant from the Swan River colony to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, 

 where it bloomed the last summer in the greenhouse. It appears to be nearly 

 allied to B. Scolopemlrium, but it bears leaves and blooms profusely. The 

 wings are a bright yellow and the keel a bright red, each blossom being about 

 half an inch across. It is an upright, twiggy, neat growing plant, and well 

 deserves a place in the greenhouse. 



Coburgia versicolor. — The Changeable. (Bot. Reg. 66.) Amaryllidacese. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. J. Maclean, Esq., discovered this beautiful plant in 

 crossing the Peruvian Andes from Lima. The flower stem rises about two feet 

 and a half high, having a spathe of eight to ten flowers, drooping, the tube of 

 each blossom being about three inches long; limb six-parted, reflexed; the 

 corolla outside of an orange-red. except the under side of each segment of the 

 limb, which has a large spot of green; the inside of the segments is white, with 

 a green plait, terminated with a buff' margin. It is a pretty addition to this 

 interesting tribe of flowers. The Coburgias grow best in a strong soil mixed 

 with perfectly rotten pulverized dung or leaves, the ueck of the bulb being kept 

 above the soil if grown in a pot. 



Fuchsia spi.kndens. — Splendid Fuchsia. (Bot. Reg. 67.) Onagracese. 

 Octandria Monogynia. Mr. Hartweg discovered it on a mountain called 

 Totontepeque, ten thousand feet above the level of the sea, only about five 

 thousand five hundred feet lower than the frozen summit of Mont Blanc, and 

 most probably very hardy in this country. Its habit is much in the way of 

 F. fulgens. The footstalk of each flower is two inches long, and the flower a 

 trifle more than an inch. Calyx of a rich bright red, and the corolla green, 



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