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inch and a-half across. A very superb variety and free bloomer; it 

 ought to be in every collection. 



F. Voltigeur. — Tube and sepals crimson, well reflexed ; corolla 

 dark purple. Very superior flower. 



F. Clapton Hero. — Tube and sepals crimson ; corolla very dark. 

 A large and very superb flower. 



F. Mazeppa. — Tube rosy-orange ; sepals bronzy-orange ; corolla 

 vermilion-scarlet. Strikingly handsome, and a free bloomer. 



F. Resplendant. — Tube and sepals a shining crimson ; tube short, 

 and sepals well reflexed ; corolla rosy-purple. Very distinct and 

 pretty. 



F. Sedonia. — Tube and sepals blush-white, with deep green tips ;- 

 corolla rosy-purple. A very handsome variety. 



F. Madame Sontag. — Tube, short, waxy white ; sepals waxy 

 white, much reflexed, fully exposing the corolla, which is a rosy- 

 crimson, with a white bottom. A pretty and stout flower. 



Gaillardia picta tricolor. — This is a very beautiful variety. 

 The flowers are about two incites and a-half across. The centre of 

 anthers yellow, surrounded with rosy crimson, which is also surrounded 

 with a circle of white, and the ends of the petals are of a bright sulphur. 

 Very handsome. In Mr. Van Houtte's collection. 



Grevillea lavendulacea. — A neat greenhouse shrub, introduced 

 by Messrs. Henderson, of the Pine-apple Nursery, Edgeware-road, 

 from the Swan River colony. The flowers are borne in terminal tufts, 

 each half an inch long, with long filaments, of a pretty rose colour. 

 (Figured in Mag. of Sot.) 



Helcia sanguinolenta. — An orchid epiphyte, discovered by Hart- 

 weg in Peru, and is in the orchid stove at the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden at Chiswick. It is of small stature, but each blossom is nearly 

 two inches across, of a greenish colour, banded across with brown, and 

 the lip white, with crimson veins. Neat and pretty. 



Lysimaciiia Candida. — We have several pretty yellow-cowered 

 species in our flower-gardens ; but this is a ivhite-Coyvered one, obtained 

 from China. It is a profuse bloomer, the flower-stems rising a foot 

 hiffh, and the flowers are borne in close terminal racemes. It merits a 

 place in every flower-garden, and may probably prove an useful bed- 

 ding plant, 



Nymphtea elegans. — This very pretty "Water Lily was discovered 

 by Dr. Wright in New Mexico, who sent seeds to the Royal Gardens 

 of Kew, where it has bloomed the present summer in what is known as 

 the Victoria AVater-Lily House. Each flower is about four inches 

 across, having twelve to fourteen petals, of a yellowish-white, tinged 

 towards the points with purplish-blue, and a centre of rich yellow 

 stamens. (Figured in Sot. Mag., 4G04.) 



Pedicularis mollis. — An herbaceous hardy perennial, which grows 

 about a foot high, the stems terminating in spikes of flowers, of adeep 

 purple colour. Each flower is about half an inch long, and the open 



