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eaten raw, but when ripe it makes delicious tarts, and would probably form 

 an excellent means of improving the common gooseberry by hybridizing. 



3. Diplopappus iiicanus, Hoary Diplopappus. Syngenesis, Polygauiia 

 Superdua. C'ompositae. A handsome half-shrubby species, discovered in 

 California, by Air. DOUGLAS, by whom seeds were sent to the Garden of the 

 Horticultural .Society, in 18:12. Its flowers are of a rich lilac, with a bright 

 yellow disk. It is rather tender, and should be protected during winter in a 

 frame. In summer it grows freely in any hot, exposed situation, for which 

 its Californiaii constitution particularly qualifies it, Diplopappus, so called 

 in allusion to the double row of papus of the genus. 



4. Pultcntea flexiles, Shining-leaved Pultenaea. Decandria, .Monogynia. 

 Leguminosa'. A native of the country around Port Jackson, where it 

 flowers in the spring (Sept.) ; and according to Hortus Kewensis, has heen 

 an occasional inhabitant of the English gardens for upwards of thirty years. 



it. Dendrobium aggregaliim, Clustured Dendrobiuni. Gynandria, Monan- 

 dria. Orchide*. Received, according to Dr. Roxburgh, into the Botanic 

 Garden, Calcutta, from Mr. Pierard, who found it growing on the trunk of 

 Ijigerstramiu lleginte, on the northern border of Arracan, and observed it in 

 the woods exclusively on that tree; it was, however, found to thrive on the 

 Mango tree, in the Botanic Garden. It is also a native of the banks of the 

 L'happadony river, in the Gulph of Martabau, whence it was brought, some 

 ince, by Dr. Wallich. It appears to require as much heat and 

 moisture as any of the Indian species, a circumstance which is explained 

 its inhabiting, when wild, the damp and sultry woods of Martabran. 

 We believe it was originally distributed by the Horticultural Society; but it 

 has hitherto flowered only in the cultivation of Mr. Harrison and Mr. 

 I'.vtkman, from both of whom we have received specimens, and blossoms in 

 March and April. 



(J. Phacelia tunucelifolia, Tansy-leaved Phacelia. Pentandria, Digynia. 

 Hydrophyllea?. This is a more elegant and less weedy plant than the P. c'tr- 

 i inula, now common in gardens. It is a hardy annual, thriving in any soil 

 or situation, it grows two feet high. The flowers are of a light bluish violet 

 colour, nearly sessile along one sided spirally incurved racems, forming to- 

 gether a dense dichotomous panicle placed at some distance from the upper 

 l<ave>. A native of California, where its seeds were gathered by Mr. 

 Dote las. Phacelia, from phahelos, a bundle; in allusion to the flowers 

 being collected in close parcels, 



7. Stachys injlala, Bladdery Stachys. Didynamia, Gymnospermia. La- 

 biate. This plant was raised in the garden of the Horticultural Society; 

 it is apparently hardy, and grows freely in any common garden soil, and is 

 easily propagated by cuttings. Although not a very handsome plant, yet its 

 thin half transparent light violet flowers, and neat hoary leaves give it a 

 pleasing appearance. 



8. Erica codonode.i, Bell-bearing Heath. Octandria, Monogynia. Eri- 



Tbis species of Heath lias llie general appearance of E. arborea, but 

 it • iialh distinct in its larger (lowers, more slender leaves, less 



hoary bcancbee, and trifly bell- shaped corolla, which has by no means the 

 ('lobular form of that of E. arborea. It is quite hardy, and forms a bush 

 i 10 to 12 feel high. It begins to blossom in February, and continues 

 lill the end of May, disregarding both frost and snow, being often covered 

 with flowers from top to bottom, and forming a most beautiful object. It 

 thrive, in light san.lv peat, and is increased, but with difficulty, either by 

 • uttings struck in sand under a bell glass, or by layers bent down in July. 



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1. Morcta , var. ocellaia; Trident-leafing Moruea. Triandria, 



Monogynia. Iridejr. This very elegant variety, which is. not surpassed In 



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