ANEMONE JAPONICA— Japan Anemone. 



THIS new species of tlie beautiful tribe of Anemone is a valuable 

 one, and we are indebted to the Horticultural Society for its in- 

 troduction, along with many otlier handsome flowers, to this country, 

 their collector in China having forwarded it from Shangliee, the 

 Japanese part of China. Dr. Siebold states it inhabits damp woods on 

 the edges of rivulets, on a mountain called Kifune, near tlie city of 

 Mako, in Japan. It is a perennial plant, grows freely, and blooms 

 profusely when properly cultivated. It flourishes in the open border 

 during the summer ; the flower stems rise from half a yard to two feet 

 higli, and when grown in masses is handsome in such situations. We 

 find it to be more valuable grown in pots in the greenhouse, especially 

 so as an autumn and winter-blooming plant ; it then forms an object of 

 much beauty, and is very showy. It may be procured at a cheap price, 

 and, being very easy of culture, deserves to be in every collection. 



NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



Aquilegia leptoceras — Slender-horned Columbine. 

 RamtnculacecE. Poli/aiidria Trigynia. 



" A dwarf herbaceous plant, not growing more tlian nine inches high, 

 with slender purplish green stems, tliinly coated with scattered hairs. 

 The leaflets of the triternate leaves are wedge-shaped, rounded, with 

 about three lobes at the end. Each stem bears one or two flowers, on 

 slender pedicels rather more than two inches long. The flowers are a 

 pale bright violet, with the tips of tiie sepals greenish, and of tlie siiort 

 petals a clear bright straw colour. It is a native of Siberia, beyond the 

 lake Baical, according to Messrs. Fischer and Meyer. It is found to 

 be a hardy pereimial, growing best in a mixture of light sandy loam 



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