Floricultural and Botanical Notices. 27 



of seedlings than that of England ; and it only needs a little 

 care and pains to raise thousands of plants. The following 

 are some of the newly received English varieties : — 



Fairy Q,ueen, (Henderson's,) Electra, (Ivory's,) Ringleader, 

 Lady Vernon, (Rogers',) Marginata, (Henderson's,) Delight, &c. 



Some of the finest of the older sorts are Jetty Trefftz, 

 Bessy, Attala, 'Celestial, Cserulaja, Perfecta, Rosy Morn, Anne 

 Marie, Beauty of Utica. 



Cappania GRANDiFLORA. — This boautiful plant, somewhat 

 resembling a gloxinia, described in our volume for 1S51, 

 (XVH, p. 267,) we notice has been introduced into Philadel- 

 phia. It is a very showy plant, and will be a great addition 

 to our summer flowering greenhouse plants. 



188. Malco^lmia littorea Brown. Seashore Malcolmia. 

 {Crucifera.) South Europe, 



A hardy annual ; growing one foot high ; with pinkish purple flowers ; appearing all summer ; 

 trown in any good soil ; increased by seeds. Bot. Mag., 1S52, pi. 4672. 



Syns. Hesperis littorea, Lam. Clieiranthus littoreus L. 

 An old plant, introduced as long ago as 1683. but which 

 has hitherto never been figured. It grows throughout South 

 Europe, its northern limit being Nantes. It is an annual, with 

 erect, flexuose, branching stems, about a foot high, with linear- 

 lanceolate leaves, and terminal racemes of delicate bright 

 pink, or pinkish purple flowers. Seeds were sent to Kew 

 from Portugal, and the plants bore their " lovely flowers 

 during the summer and autumn." [Bot. Mag., Sept.) 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



JVbv. 6. — An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day, — the 

 President in the chair. 



Mr. D. T. Curtis tendered his resignation as one of the Vegetable Com- 

 mittee, which was accepted. 



Catalogues were received from A. Leroy, of Angers. 



Wm. Young and Geo. B. Durfee, Fall River ; Dennis Murray, Roxbury ; 

 Geo. W. Wilson, Maiden; Wm. T. Andrews, Dorchester; Dr. E. A. 

 Kittredge, Boston ; and Peter Lawson, Lowell, were elected members. 



Adjourned four weeks, to December 4. 



