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represented by V. spicata, while the shrubby kinds are prin- 

 cipally from New Zealand V. salicifolia, V. Hulkeana, 

 and others, being frequently met with "in good gardens, where 

 they flower throughout the winter in mild seasons. V. parvi- 

 flora^ var. angustifolia, is a most graceful variety (see ' Bot. 

 Mag.,' t. 5965), described by Dr Hooker as passing into V. 

 salicifolia on one hand, and V. macrocarpa and V. ligustri- 

 folia on the other. In describing this plant, the learned doctor 

 remarks " I have little doubt but these and other New Zea- 

 land species hybridise extensively in their own country." In 

 cultivation, numerous hybrids and seedlings have been raised 

 by Mr Anderson-Henry and other intelligent amateurs. In 

 the 'Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society,' 1873, p. 105, 

 are the following notes on hybrid Veronicas from the pen of 

 Mr Anderson-Henry : " Among the batch of seedlings from 

 which I obtained V. Andersonii ( V. salicifolia (syn. V. Lind- 

 leyana) x V. speciosd) came one which, to all appearance, was 

 a reproduction of the male parent pure and simple ; and deem- 

 ing it nothing else, I presented it to a friend, V. speriosa being 

 then comparatively a new plant ; and he, when he flowered it, 

 came to tell me that in flower it was very different to the true 

 V. spetiosa, having much longer flower-spikes, the flowers being 

 light crimson instead of dark purple. A plant of this hybrid 

 has since afforded a further illustration of a somewhat similar 

 result. Having obtained a suffruticose species of Veronica, 

 under the name of V. Daubeneyiana, with light-bluish flowers, 

 striate with pink lines in the way of V. fruticulosa, I crossed it 

 on the last-mentioned hybrid ( V. salicifolio-speciosa), which be- 

 came the seed-bearer. From this cross I raised two plants, 

 both of which seemed alike in foliage and habit, and both so 

 like the seed-bearer that I felt doubtful whether the cross had 

 taken. One of these flowered during 1873 for the first time, 

 and the singularity of its flowers drew my attention to it more 

 particularly than before. It had, like the seed-parent, thick, 

 fleshy, pyriform leaves, but rather smaller and more closely set 

 on the stem ; and instead of being like it, cruciform, they were 

 obliquely decussate, therein slightly approaching the male 

 parent, a creeping Alpine species, whose prostrate stems show 

 still more the deflected arrangement of the leaves. It was only 

 on a close examination of the plant that the resemblance to the 

 male V. Daubeneyiana could be observed. In fact, I looked 

 upon it as another of the many failures I had had in my 

 attempts to effect the inverse cross on it. When it at last 

 bloomed, my hopes of having effected a partial cross, if I may 

 use such , a term, were strengthened. Like V. Daubeneyiana, 



