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2. Cyclobotkra pulchella, Deep yellow flowered. Syn. Calochorrus pul- 

 chella. Hexaudria, Trigynia. Liliaceffi. We doubt whether this plant likes 

 the climate of England so well as the last, for although it grew with appa- 

 rently perfect health, flowered freely, and ripened its seeds under the same 

 circumstances as C. alba; yet the specimens which were produced could not 

 be compared for beauty with the wild ones sent home by Mr. Douglas. The 

 latter consisted of many-flowered and rather dense corymbs of flowers; but 

 the cultivated plant hardly exceeded C. alba in the number of its blossoms. 

 The flowers of this genus much resemble Fritillarias in form and habit. 



3. (i/clubuthra lutea, Pale yellow flowered. Hexandria, Trigynia. Lili- 

 MHBb Syn. C. barbata. When this plant was iirst introduced, it was sup. 

 posed to be the same as the Fritillaria barbata. This pretty species of Cy. 

 clobothra was obtained some years since from Mexico, by Mr. Tate, and has 

 now become dispersed through many collections. It appears to grow frtely 

 in a light mixture of peat and loam, and to require no other protection than 

 a good pit. 



I. hchites stellaris. Star- flowered. Pentandria, Monogynia. Apocynese?. 

 A tender stove climber, introduced from Rio Janeiro to the Horticultural 

 Society, by the Hon. Robert Gordon. In the month of August, its flowers 

 I erl'uine the part of the hothouse in which it is placed, with a delightful smell 

 of Primroses. It grows readily in peat and loam, but is scarcely to be pro- 

 pagated except by cuttings of the root. Dr. Lindley has named it with 

 reference to the coloured eye of the corolla, which, being deep rosy red in the 

 centre, with five starry lobes, bordered with a sort of orange yellow, gives a 

 striking appearance to the flowers. Echites is the Latin name ol the Birth- 

 wort, one of the twining species of Aristolochia. Its meaning being " serpen- 

 tine," from iX i: > a snake, Linnaeus applied it to the present twining genus. 

 ."). fmunt Amancnix, var. sitlphurea, Sulphur-coloured Ismene. Hexandria, 

 Muiogynia. Amaryllideae. This very ornamental bulb was raised four years 

 ago from a seed of I. Amancaes, which had been fertilized by the pollen of 

 I. Calathina. The colour of the flower is intermediate, and the scent, though 

 very powerful, is not delightfully fragrant, as in Calathina, nor so disagreeable 

 as that of Amancaes. I. Calathina thrives vigorously out of doors in a border 

 of sand and peat mixed, and flowers in July and August, if the bulbs are 

 planted out in April, and taken up when the leaves decay in November or 

 October. The soil being loose and light, it is easy to avoid breaking their 

 strong fleshy fibres, whioh should not be injnred. The bulbs so taken up 

 should be put all together in a large pot, or a small tub, according to their 

 number and size; and, some light soil being poured over thpm, they should 

 be placed at the back of a greenhouse, or in any shed where they will be pre- 

 served from frost, and must have no water. I. Amancaes requires a much 

 more sandy soil, and less nioisure: if planted out of doors, alarge potful of 

 toil should be taken out of the border where it is set, and the hole filled with 

 pure while sand, and, unless the summer is very wet, it will succeed well. If 

 kept in the greenhouse, it should be potted in very sandy compost, and be 

 watered sparingly; and should be left quite dry from the time the leaves 

 .iv till May. Peat and too much water have caused many cultivators to 

 lot* this plant, which is not difficult to preserve. Ismene is a classical name 

 applied to this genus by Mr. Herbert. Ismi.m: was a daughter of CEDirus. 

 i. I iipriprihum tpeetabile, Large white Lady's Slipper. Gynandria, Dian- 

 dric < '\ptipedie.T. A native ol the low meadows and bogs in North Ame- 

 rica, particularly in the mountainous tracts from Canada to Carolina, flower- 

 ing in May and June-. This remarkable plant is the finest of the North Ame- 

 ' jinpi-diiiins, and is nut by any meant 'ineoiinnon in the gardens of 

 tin* country, its roots being periodically imported. It has, however, resisted 

 all an- u.pi- at propagating u, and nldom lives above a year or two after its 

 arrival. • it the bert treat it at a greenhouse plant, keeping 



it very near the light until its ICAVei have withered, when il is removed to a 



dry iheif till its growing season return-. Cypripediom, from Kypris, Venus; 



"lint I :|.p< I, —in allusion to the foiin of the flower. 



' i ut.K.tum liirtilum, Lurid < atasetiiin. Cynandria, Monandria. Orchi 

 de«. Sjn. AtlfOk* luridu. This plant is a na'tivc of the woods, not only of 



