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tions. Some of thern, however, are very brilliant : but the 

 species now under notice surpasses them all, having a 

 handsome habit, well branched, eminently picturesque, with 

 ample foliage, and very large cymes, formed of a multitude 

 of flowers with a long red tube, the limb of which is bordered 

 with orange yellow. It is without doubt the most remarkable 

 species which has yet been introduced. It was received by 

 Messrs. Low, of Clapton, from Singapore, who exhibited it 

 last July before the London Horticultural Society, where it 

 was awarded the first prize as one of the most beautiful plants 

 recently imported. (^Flure des Serves, October.) 



48. Cama'ssia escule'nta. Lindl. Eatable Camassia. (Lz7i- 



dceas.) North America. 

 Syn. Phalangium Quamash Putsh. P. escul6ntum Null. Anth^ricum 

 esculentum Spreng. Scilla esculenta Hook. 



A hardy bulb ; growing from two to three feet hi^h ; with blue flowers ; appearing in May ; cul- 

 tivated in strong loam ; increased by ofisets Flore de Sierres, pi. 275. 1847. 



Our correspondent. Professor Russell, has given a full ac- 

 count of this plant in the first volume of our Magazine, (p. 356,) 

 and recommended it to the attention of amateur cultivators, as 

 an exceedingly beautiful plant, throwing up its spike of deep 

 blue flowers in the month of May. It was introduced into 

 Europe as long ago as 1827, but it is yet extremely rare, and 

 it is now figured in the Flora of Van Houtte. It grows abun- 

 dantly in various parts of the country, and is found in Ken- 

 tucky, Louisiana, in Ohio, on the borders of Lake Huron and 

 Lake Erie, and in the Valley of the Rocky Mountains. It 

 throws up a spike of bluish purple flowers, and its hardy char- 

 acter should claim for it a place in every collection. It is 

 readily increased by offsets. {Flore des Serres, October.) 



49. Vibu'rnum plica'tum Thiinb. Crimped Guelder Rose. 



{Caprifolidceoe.) China. 



A hardy shrub ; growing eight or ten feet high ; with white flowers: appearing in May; culti- 

 vated in any good soil ; increased by cuttings and layers. Flore des Serres, pi. 278. 1S47. 



This is another of the conquests of Mr. Fortune, in his China 

 Expedition, and one of the richest acquisitions to our hardy 

 shrubs. It somewhat resembles our own Fiburnum dentatum ; 

 But the flowers are white, in round heads, of the size and ap- 

 pearance of the Guelder Rose. " Mr. Fortune states that this 

 plant is a native of the northern parts of the Chinese empire, 



