336 Floricultural and Botanical J^otices 



form, thick, petiolate, serrated towards the upper end. The 

 flowers are brick red, about an inch long, and are produced in 

 "long, close, cylindrical, terminal, whorled racemes, three or 

 four growing together from the axils of short floral leaves." 

 Its cultivation is the same as that of the gloxinias. Tt is in- 

 creased by cuttings of the young shoots, which should be 

 taken off and put into pots filled with sand, watered, and 

 covered with a bell glass. The pots should then be placed 

 on a warm flue, if in winter, or in summer on a warm shelf, 

 and shaded from the sun by a piece of paper over the glass. 

 As soon as rooted, they should be potted off" into small pots, 

 in a mixture of sandy peat and leaf mould. [Bot. Reg., 

 July.) 



Iriddcece. 



HYDROTiEWIA. (from water and band, in allusion to a bar of shining water-like tis- 

 sue on the petals.) Lindl. 

 me\6\zrh Liiidl. Spotted Water hand. A green -house bulb; crowing a foot highj with 

 purplish flowers; appearing in summer. Bot. Reg., 1842, t. 39. 



A curious plant, with flowers which have somewhat the 

 appearance of a frittillaria, though closely allied to the genus 

 Sisyrinchium. The flowers are not very showy, but when 

 examined, exhibit beauties of no common kind. "The curi- 

 ous watery band, which glitters as if covered with dew, or as 

 if constructed of broken crystal, is one of the most curious 

 objects. The stigmata, too, are extremely remarkable; each 

 divi'des into two arms, which are rolled up as if forming a 

 gutter, with a dense mass of bright papilla? at the end, and a 

 single tooth in the inner edge." The habit of the plant is 

 slender, throwing up stems a foot high, terminated with pen- 

 dulous flowers. Its cultivation is simple, requiring to be 

 kept dry, and out of danger of frost in winter; to be repotted 

 in the spring, in loam, leaf mould, and sand, in equal parts, 

 and freely watered when growing. Increased by offsets. 

 {Bot. Reg., July.) 



Garden Memoranda. Salem, August 16, 1842. — During 

 a short visit to this city, we visited several gardens, and noted 

 down the following memoranda. 



Flower Garden oj Mr. F. Putnam. — The chief objects 

 of interest in this garden, have been the cacti, of which Mr. 

 Putnam possesses a good collection of fine plants, among 

 which are six or eight plants of the splendid Cereus grandi- 

 florus, in pots, which have expanded many flowers, no less 



