144 Notices of new and beautiful Plants. 



Its nearest affinity is P. bipinnatifida Michx., a native of the Alleg- 

 hany mountains. Root annual. Stem branched in cultivated 

 specimens. Leaves pinnated ; the ultimate ones bipinnatified ; all 

 slightly downy. Peduncles lateral and terminal, bearing from 

 three to five dense corymbose racemes of purplish-blue flowers. 

 Corolla broadly campanulate. Anthers yellow. It will probably 

 soon become common, as it seeds freely. {Bot. Mag., Dec.) 



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VELTHEI'M/j? 

 glauca var. floribus rubescenti-purpureis Hook. Red purple-flowered Veltheimia. A bulbous- 

 rooted green-house plant ; growing a foot high; flowers ornamental; color reddish; a native 

 of the Cape of Good Hope ; propagated by offsets in rich mould. Bot. Mag., 3456. 



A " handsome Cape bulb," sent to the Glasgow botanic garden 

 by the Baron Von Ludwig, whom we have, in another place in 

 this number, spoken of. It is quite a different color from the par- 

 ent species. {Bot. Mag., Dec.) 



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EPIDE'NDRUM. 

 conopseum Brown E. Magnoliffi Muhl. Florida Epidendrum. A parasitical epiphyte ; growing 

 four or five inches high; with small, pretty flowers, of a yellowish green color ; a native of 

 North America ; propagated by division of the root in peat and rotten wood. Bot. Mag., 3457. 



" Interesting " (to English botanists) as the only parasitical 

 plant yet discovered in the United States. It was first seen by 

 Bartram, in Florida ; plants were sent over in Mr. Drummond's 

 last despatches, to England. Mr. Gordon also communicated 

 specimens to the Messrs. Sheperds, of Liverpool, some time since, 

 from which the figure was taken ; the plants were attached to 

 branches of the Magnolia grandiflora, on which it is generally 

 found growing, though sometimes "on the trunk of oaks." It does 

 not possess much beauty. {Bot. Mag., Dec.) 



We have now in beautiful bloom, in the green-house, Cypripe- 

 dlum acaule Ait. C. humile of Sw. Salisbury and Willd., and C. 

 parviflorum Willd. C. Calceolus Michx. The former is well known 

 as growing indigenous, in this vicinity ; the latter is not found here, 

 but grows plentifully in Vermont and New Hampshire. We re- 

 ceived these plants from a friend in Vermont, who writes us, that 

 he has growing in his garden a very pale-colored variety, and also 

 a white one ; this, he thinks, may be caused by the localities in 

 which they grow ; if, however, they remain permanent, we have 

 been kindly promised plants. All the cypripediums are beautiful 

 plants, and flower finely in the green-house ; the parviflorum is of 

 an extremely fine yellow color ; it has been in flower several days. 

 We should be glad to see this tribe of plants in every garden ; they 

 are not difficult of cultivation. If a peat bed is made in a rather 

 shady place, and the plants carefully taken up from their native 

 habitats, and removed thereto, they will continue to flourish and 

 increase. The orchises may be placed in the same situations. 

 Several splendid species have lately been introduced from Nepaul ; 

 they are yet, however, rare in English collections, and will not, 

 probably, become common for some time. 



