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The varieties shown by J. C. Hovey were Agave Americana 

 longifoUa variegata, A. medio-picta, A. applanata, A. JiUfera, A. 

 Schidigera, A. Verschaffeltii. 



From Hovey & Co. came Agave Americana medio-picta, A. 

 applanata, A. Besseriana amoena, A. dealbata, A. heteracantha 

 coerulea, A. hystrix. 



Cacti. — Two excellent collections were shown by J. C. Hovey, 

 the best containing fifteen new and rare species and varieties not 

 exhibited in 1876, viz : — 



Cereus Peruvianus, Mammillaria Hopferiana, 



Echinocactus cylindricics, *' impoxicoma, 



" gibbosus ferox, " nivea cristata^ 



" P/ersdorffii, Opuntia crassa gigantea, 



Echinocereus cinerascens, " integrifolia, 



Echinopsis Huotti, " megacayitha, 



" ScJielhasiij " Bajinesquiana. 

 Mammillaria gracilis. 



Succulents (other than Agaves and Cacti) . — The only exhibitor 

 was John C. Hovey ; we note the following new and rare species 

 not exhibited in 1876 : 



Aloe colubrina, Oasteria obtusifoUa, 



" serra, Pachyphytum linguoefolia^ 



Echeveria Scaphylla, HawortMa expansa, 

 EupJiorbia mammillaris, " margaritifera, 



Oasteria acinacifolia, " Beinwarti, 



" elongata, JRochea perfoliata, 



" Icetepunctata, Stapelia erucoides. 

 " subnigricans, 



Mr. Hovey also exhibited twelve new and rare Agaves, and 

 seventy-seven other succulent plants. A very interesting feature of 

 his exhibits was that they were very neatly and plainly labelled, a 

 duty too often neglected by exhibitors. 



New Pot Plant. — H. H. Hunnewell exhibited a magnificent 

 specimen of Phyllotcenium Lindeni, of which Mr. Williams in his 

 work on " Stove and Greenhouse Plants," second edition, Vol. II., 

 p. 88, says, " It is a magnificent, and at the same time, the only 

 species at present known. The leaves are large, measuring from 

 nine inches in length, and six inches in breadth ; they are broadly 



