24 PLANTS CULTIVATED BY coLLiNSON. [January, 



park, in the parish of Harefield, Middlesex ; but there is one 

 Miles, a parson, of Cowley, near Uxbridge, who is Orchis-mad, 

 and takes all up, leaves none to seed, so extirpates all wherever 

 he comes, which is cruel, and deserves chastisement" (p. 36). 



Orchis hircina. — Orchis barbata fcetida, Goat Satyrion. 

 "Mem. July 1763. Miller's Satyrion, No. 2, now in flower in 

 my garden ; three feet high, above fifty flowers." 



Orchis PYRAMiDALis.--In the 'Daily Advertiser' for July 4, 

 1768, this Orchis appears in a list of plants stolen from Mr. 

 CoUinson, and there are memoranda of many imperfectly defined 

 species sufficient to show that he possessed a large collection of 

 hardy orchidaceous plants. 



PuLMONARiA viRGiNiCA. — Mountain Cowslip, an elegant plant 

 and very ornamental in spring (Hort. Col. p. 43). To the above 

 there is the following interesting " mem." : — " Miller's sixth spe- 

 cies (of Puhnonaria) was entirely lost in our gardens, but I 

 again restored it from Virginia by Col. Custis ; flowered April 

 13, 1747, and hath continued ever since a great spring ornament 

 in my garden at Mill Hill." In another memorandum, written 

 by the same hand, and dated May, 1767, it is recorded that 

 " twenty-seven stems grow from one root." Miller says that 

 this ornamental early-flowering plant was originally sent from 

 Virginia by Banister, to the gardens of Bishop Compton, at 

 Fulham. 



Loudon, in his * Encyclopsedia of Plants,' says it was intro- 

 duced in 1699, and further that P. maritima, P. sibirica, and P. 

 virginica, are all elegant plants, and bear so great a resemblance 

 to each other that they are by some regarded as varieties of one 

 common species. They are choice spring flowers, but require 

 some care in keeping; except where they are grown in a soil 

 almost composed of sand. Is this fine species now obtainable in 

 trade collections ? 



On Ramonda pyrenaica, a plant recently introduced to the 

 notice of our readers in the ' Phytologist ' for December, 1861, 

 where the history of this fine species is briefly told, " it is the 

 Cortusa, No. 2, of Miller's sixth edition;" and Mr. Collinson 

 has there left the following memorandum, — " I have had it many 

 years by the name of Beards-ear Auricula, from its hairiness on 

 both sides of the leaf." 



RuBUS ARCTicus. — "Mem. April, 1747. Raised from seedi?. 



