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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
N° 49. 
Aa in a like to an = sa , han g do’ 
from the dark cloud. I watched it steadily for ‘tpwari 
ported from Halifax. = ee lin plant, though 
recent a Ay fro: River. become EY com- 
ivation, dada having been sent home both by Mr. 
Me r. Drummond. pearance of its blossoms 
earis: this 
of a quarter of an hour, it being perhaps at the distance ted the expectations which its reputed 
four or six . For con rst five minutes it re- oe oa Began ingroduced Into. the Bot ape 
; 7 ress att alley” andsome vari 
tained ie shepe, wit bre variation, TANS RS from Dalhousie woods, where it was found wild, by Miss Georgina 
perpendicular position. Afterwards it elongated and | ay, and. has pro. opagated § Doge ma freely by seed ever since, 
diminished in dth towards the i base ; then it | withou' ae instepe e acqu iring a com red piesa 2) 8 
i pst which, with many si i ces, 
would become tunte 2 etmes being - cd, # the prop: ion of a ‘particular condition by seed does not entitle 
other times approaching a horizontal position; varying | that condition to rank as a ific character lant in its 
ic pi gel in this way, the dingy whiteness appearing to | form, in all other respects, is characteristic of M. sylvatica, but 
and move up and down its ete like the aacins certainly flowers during its se Year e growth; and the many 
specimens in the garden m to doubt its being 
cM e ay x pase more than mual.—. Anigoeamahas: Bes: cinea: the blossoms of 
mene gt rt de 1 this plant were less intense in their colour than had been a 
thn diet € 31 two; whee wus quickly, t few days before, but still were very hands Besides these 
thirds of it b te hori the remainin: ced plants some other varieties were exhibited, but which had not 
) Ta d 2 ‘! 4 been examined with sufficient care to te ini er they 
forming a roun ed angle, and looking xno iy (it being e to be considered new. Among these was an exceedingly 
now in ape of a hug e snake); when a second | handsome plant received from Woburn Abbey, under “the errone- 
g w, as olde r self, rn ous name Stachys coccinea, ran which it is much more beauti- 
shower pouring down where this cloud had become hori was no 3 Foci th e Siphocampylus and a Hemanthus, 
zontal; and in a very short ti ter the cloud d Remarks on the British Ferns. By Mr.J. Riley, Papplew: 
peared, t was nO appeara' f heavy rain When | near Nottingham. He differed from Mr. Newman in idee 
is i was at | that Aspidi eatum, ang , lobatum, and Lonchitis, 
pee ee es Be et From the age bv a hs ‘ th were distinct species, and "never run into each other. spidium 
the distance of a aia rom Ing sou pep rum, he was satisfied, was only a variety of A. dilatatum, 
wi d; and appre that 1 shail eo be wrong and Asplenium irriguum, a variety of A. filixfemina. Cistopteris 
in #o species of water-spout.— | alpina, angustata, dentata, and fragilis, he was satisfied ene 
D / ee ut species, having gathered them and grown them for many 
ymbiflora.—Having heard it said by several 
Horas Mean the Fuchsia corymbiflora had never 
mn flower in the doi n air in this country, a 
ressed whe ther it ever eh 
those who may 
sil feel. — aa on the subject, to be informed that, 
haying been bold enough to tae ppt the ex ‘periment, 
by planting one out the latter ond isd cial sorine about 
o find | that all 
te se 
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‘7 3. Notice of the Discovery of Epipactis ensifolin, in Dalmahoy 
Woods, near Edinburgh. oe ee J, H. Bee <. 
6. Notice of a Botanical Excursion at N Ed- 
ward Forbes. On the 28th of April, after Ly Yahenial: | Bathe of 
six days, _ en ooo beautiful and the sea calm, the Beacon 
he! 
entered the bay of Nav. o, whither we resorted for water, that 
shi o 
qomMs: would y 
Bak oe oh 
was not likely to be any greater "dificult in flowering this 
y ornamental Babes in the open air, than any other. 
—Edmund Johust 
‘endency of Plants to seek Light.—A correspondent 
9 does not think th 
_ BOTANICA, S00 OF SOCIETIES. 
SOCIETY i EDINBURGH. 
Thursday evening, the 10th June, Dr. 
The folk Members. were 
Giessen. 
The following communications were read 
I. Description of Jungermannia ulicina, lor, a new species 
near eae) County Kerry. the Taylor, Dunkerron. 
om 
are shorter than the others, but all 
t r ive of Mexico.—Marianthus 
czeraleo-punctatus: this is the plant exhibited at the last meeting 
and grt eee by Dr. Graham Marian- 
seen the excellent figure 
his 
tanic Garden at Retin, he bao to cancel 
iven, and to substitute Layo Dr. Graham 
had overlooked in 
article hater ¢ 2 ce pes present in Malta, that shi ‘e not 
allowed to waterthere. The bay of Navarino is a semicircle 
about three miles across at the mouth, the greater part of which 
is closed in by rocky island of Sphacteria, in which Lord 
Byron has laid the scene of Corsair. Near the southern ex- 
tremity are the town and fort of Navarino—the former a smail 
collection of dirty Greek houses; the northern termination is a 
high rock on wl ruins of the ancient Pylus. The 
southern anded by high cliffs of limestone 
s| 
A bare and rocky hill rises 
behind th samen On 
eye of pac visiter i is the 
Basket-fiower of our gar 
soms in great proton brett of rubbish. Ascending 
from ge wn to ins heights, te blue flowers of Psoralea bitu- 
minos tt greeted us, and it was pleasant to look upon the 
Seams Thickly covering the lime- 
Ss ies red 
m the groun them, were their relati 
lianthema in grea! . Some pretty species of Echium, 
Linum hirsutum, Ane: e coronaria, and some pretty Bell- 
flowers ong the gayest of the lesser plants; and reey 
po penne ta a ny geneasieaed ast the bright red flo 
of oP ee Saeed siliquosus, the me byl blue anes 
is Monelli, a vari ¥ of our com 
Tae that nag two no plants | ae re mentioned should so ph 
bitually change col athwards ; for the former 
‘a: the noxta Gy alison aun i nse and the ek neta fre- 
quently re: In the crevices oft ‘the rocks were little tufts 
ed. 
lantia muralis, and a pretty sp: 
flow! ered Allium was very a 
merous inayat some peso fe cen 
which were new to me, t — possibly co! pecies 
it to anlar ats Sonhine r remarkable, nor did 
y mm 
plants peculiar itself; but the 
Spemaetigh ib eis.ttin 
xcursion to the rocky island of Sphacteria did not yiel 
additional species. We it covered with hes of Cistus, 
S| um, Pistacia, Phlomis, and Poterium atthiola in 
gre of the sea with some Statices not in flower, 
a yellow flowered plant which s do not as yet know the name 
f. Among th ses Lagurus vatus oS rote bstataki bag 
bs o lagopus and Poylli not un 
d Phlomis. With the ex- 
ception of the te’ banks, which were limited in extent, they 
led everywhere. Mr. did not forget to look for 
Algz, but found them almos' wi on in 
¥ 
Hitherto I have made one short into the island. 
The v ion is very t from that of the Mo- 
rea. The shore is clothed with Mesembryanthemum and some 
bea’ ies of Statice. Inland the country is well culti- 
vated, chiefly for Moped there are scarcely any trees, a few Crabs 
ves being the only trees I have 
me 
7. Dr. Percy p! throu: e 
fruit of the Phytelephas, or 
known by the of Vegetablelvory. The fruit resembles that 
of Palms. it, however, is placed by Brown in the order 
Pandaneze. 
probal able that in Jpper Provinces their growt d be 
rapid thai gS Cape, eee , however, 4S siven: ae 
25 or 30 feet in a years: the tay bets! there 
§ 
first. mentioned canid 
em 
uP lies 
‘h furnished many 
the Cotton culture, and from which 
m Up ndia, 
the pend of he periodical 
Several appeared ere making experiments in 
cultivating Cotton. 
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