256 Floricultural and Botanical Notices. 



Botanic Gardens. Its flowers are of an uniform golden yel- 

 low. The plant from which the figure was taken, Tab. 

 4160, has a dark blood-colored eye-like spot in the centre of 

 the labellum, like such a spot on the lip of a Mimulus. 

 Stems a foot or more long, jointed and furrowed. Leaves 

 several 4 or 5 inches long, alternate, striata, sheathing at 

 base. Racemes drooping, bearing five to seven large and 

 exceedingly handsome flowers of a rich golden yellow. Al- 

 together we should think a gorgeous plant. — J. L. R. 



NeiD American Moss. — The London Journal of Botany 

 for April, 1845, '(No. 46), contains a description and figure of 

 a new species of Fissidens, discovered "on the edges of a 

 dripping rock near Cincinnati, Ohio, by Thos. G. Lea, 1843." 

 It has been named Fissidens obtusifoUus, and described by 

 W. Wilson, Esq., in the work referred to above. — /. L. R. 



Gladioli. — The following beautiful new varieties of Glad- 

 iolus have been recently added to our collection from Ger- 

 many : — G. Hendricus, monstrosus, Christiana, Lafayette, 

 Princess Sophie. Regina, Unique rouge, Vitellina, John Rus- 

 sell, Lehmanii, Prince de Galitzin, &c. 



New Hybrid Japan Lilies. — Our correspondent, Mr. Wil- 

 der, has now just coming into bloom, several seedhng Japan 

 Lilies, raised in 1842, from various cross impregnations with 

 tigrinum, and other hardy sorts. Three bulbs have already 

 bloomed, but the flowers resemble very much L. roseum, and 

 were probably produced from L. rubrum, impregnated with 

 album or punctatum ; they are white with deep rose-colored 

 spots. The short period at which these bulbs have bloomed 

 from the seed, shows with what facility seedlings may be 

 raised, and we do not doubt that in a few years, our gardens 

 will be furnished with a race of hardy kinds, surpassing in 

 beauty any of the common native or foreign species or vari- 

 eties already known. Those who have the Japan lilies now 

 in bloom, and wish to raise new kinds, should attend to 

 the fertilization of the flowers. A magnificent specimen of 

 L. rubrum, with fifteen flowers, will be in bloom during this 

 month in our collection ; and upwards of thirty plants of the 

 other varieties. — Ed. 



