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water, and would, as he believes, have grown as many more had they 

 not perished from an accident." In vegetation in the free atmosphere, 

 the fluid?, which may be absorbed either from the soil by the roots 

 or from the atmosphere by the leaves, are, in great part, exhaled and 

 dissipated ; but, in the plant cases, they are condensed on the inner 

 surface of the glass roof, and fall back to the soil from which they 

 were raised. In this way, both the soil and atmosphere possess always 

 sufficient humidity to carry on vegetation. 



[To be continued.'] 



PART II. 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



Barbacenia squamata. Scaly. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Bromeliacea. Hexan- 

 dria Monogynia. Seeds of this new plant were sent from Brazil to Messrs. 

 Veitch's, of Exeter, with whom it has bloomed. It is an herbaceous perennial. 

 The flowers in form somewhat resemble those of a moderate sized Fuchsia. The 

 three exterior limbs and tube of the blossom of an orange colour, and the three 

 inner ones of a crimson red. The foliage is of a grassy character, and the flower 

 stems rise about eight inches high. It is a very pretty and interesting species. 



Behberis tf.nnj folia. Thin Ash-leaved Berberry. (Bot. Reg. 26.) Ber- 

 beracea Hexandria Monogynia. A very rare species discovered by Mr. Hartweg, 

 in Mexico. It is too tender to do well in this country in the open air, but thrives 

 in a greenhouse, or coal pit, protected in severe winters. It blooms from 

 October to December, the flowers being fragrant, of a light yellow, in racemes 

 about one foot long. 



Cereus pitajaya. Variable Cereus. (Bot. Mag. 40S4.) Cactsea. Ico- 

 gandria Monogynia. A native of Carthagena, Peru, and Brazil. It is an erect 

 growing plant. The flowers, including the tube, are about nine inches long. 

 The petals are white, and the mouth of a flower about five inches across. 



Cymbidium pendulum, var. brevilabre. Short-lipped. (Bot. Reg. 24.) 

 Orchidacea?. Gynandria Monandria. This variety was discovered by Mr. 

 Cuming, at Sincapore, and forwarded to Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it has 

 bloomed. Sepals and petals yellowish-green, streaked with a dull red. Label- 

 linn rose, wilh a yellow blotch at the centre, and a white margin. 



Dkymonia punctata. Spotted-flowered. (Bot. Mag. 4089.) Gesneriacea?. 

 Didvnamia Angiospermia. Introduced into this country from Guatemala, by 

 the London Horticultural Society. It is a subherbaceous plant with creeping 

 hairy stems. The flower is tubulous an inch long. The spreading limbs of the 

 blossom is an inch across, with fringed edges. Of a pale yellow primrose colour 

 Humorously spotted with purple. It grows freely in a wire basket, in the moist 

 »tove, in the Royal Gardens, at Kew. 



Erica mukhayana. Mr. Murray's Heath. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Ericaceae. 

 Octandria Monogynia. A beautiful hybrid, raised from seed by Mr. A. Turn- 

 bull, of Bothwtll Castle Gardens, near Hamilton, in Scotland, and who has 

 named it after his friend Mr. Murray, of the Glasgow Botanic Garden. It was 

 produced from seed, between E. aristata minor, which is a dwarf compact 

 grower, and E. vestita coccinea, the former being impregnated with the pollen 

 of the latter. The variety raised has realized the intended object, being com- 

 pact, and the flowers of a rich crimson red, produced in terminal heads. 



BoLiioiMivi.i iM uai.amaria. Ouill-stemmkd. ( Bot. Mag. 4088.) Orchi- 

 dacea;. Gynandria Monandria. An Orchideous Epiphyte, which has been 

 received from Sierra Leone, by John Gray, Esq., of Greenock. The flowers aro 



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