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Botanical and FloricuUural Intelligence. Seeds and Plants 

 from the Exploring Expedition. — We learn from our corres- 

 pondent Mr. Douglas, of Washington, in whose green-house 

 the plants brought home by the Exploring Expedition are 

 placed, that it is the intention of the Government either to build 

 a house for the plants, or procure that of Mr. Douglas, for the 

 especial purpose of propagating the plants for distribution. 

 There is a sufficient amount of money appropriated to the pre- 

 servation of dried specimens, &c., and we think no better mode 

 could be devised to enable the Government to give an equal dis- 

 tribution of the plants. Among the species brought home are 

 many rare and beautiful productions from the two Continents. 



Lilium speciosum, and the other Japan species, hardy. — J. 

 W. Boot, Esq. informs us that he has tested the hardiness of 

 these splendid productions the past winter. A few bulbs 

 of the several sorts were left out, and they have already thrown 

 up strong and healthy stems, which promise to afford a magnif- 

 icent bloom. This fact is well worth knowing, as it will give 

 a double value to the already highly estimated worth of these 

 the most brilliant of all the liliaceous tribe. 



Dorydnthes excelsa. — This noble plant has lately flowered in 

 the collection of John Sherwood, Philadelphia. Erom the last 

 report of the Philadelphia Horticultural Society, we learn that 

 it flowered in the large green-house of George Pepper, Esq., 

 where Mr. Sherwood removed his plant, that it might be made 

 accessible to the public when in bloom. The following ac- 

 count was given by the committee of the Pennsylvania Horti- 

 cultural Society, who insj)ected the plant when in bloom, by 

 the invitation of Mr. Sherwood : — 



"This plant was imported by its proprietor in 1828, and is 

 an offset of the celebrated specimen which bloomed at Edin- 

 burgh in 1825. 



"It is of the genera Amaryllidese; leaves radical, numerous, 

 long, narrow and sword shaped; scape arising from the centre 

 of the leaves, beset with acute sheathing leaves, in height ten 

 feet; inflorescence a terminal head in fascicles; flowers bright 

 scarlet. 



