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foliate character that is so striking, the stems 

 appearing to grow through the leaf. The plant 

 may now be found in various parts of the country, 

 our own specimens being derived from Richmond 

 Park. 



The other Claytonia, figured on Plate XXIX., 

 is the C. sibirica, and this, too, is getting gradually 

 naturalised in Britain, though only just finding 

 recognition in our text-books. This, therefore, is 

 distinctly an interesting thing to possess, and we 

 have given ourselves the felicity of sending seed- 

 lings of it to brother plant-lovers in Surrey, Sussex, 

 Essex, Wiltshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, 

 Somersetshire, Staffordshire, and elsewhere. It 

 seeds very freely, the position of a last year's 

 plant being this year indicated by a dense mass 

 of young successors, so that one has abundant 

 means of doing a little pleasant distribution amongst 

 one's friends. As an American plant it has, of 

 course, long been known. It is included by 

 Linneus in his " Species Plantarum," issued in 

 1753. It is referred to in the " Hortus Kewensis" 

 of i8n,and maybe found figured in the " Botanical 

 Magazine " I of Curtis in the year 1821. The plant 



1 " Or Flower Garden displayed, in which the most orna- 

 mental Foreign Plants cultivated in the Open Ground, the 

 Green House and the Stove, are accurately represented in 

 their natural Colours. A work intended for the use of such 

 Ladies, Gentlemen, and Gardeners as wish to become scien- 

 tifically acquainted with the Plants they cultivate," 



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