660 THE cauar an 
sideration with the Judges, unless attended by great |t 
9 may be withheld if the objects exhibited | 
for eg e do not, in the opinion of the . 
d 
“3, 2 those padre of exhibition one are 
ost 
ially indicated are what the Council are 
de a sann —— — other objecti are 75 
admissible, and add 1 izes may even be given 
them; PROV ESS VERY CONSPICUOU 
or IDED 
merit. The Silver Knightian ‘Medal will be the roe 
additional = Bar ages. 
rs s sanction of the Cou 
50 $ #4, Tn a futuro other kinds “of Lacie will be 
or special pote 5a 
t 
* 5. * e es not admissible, except when it is 
expressly so 
tated. 
«6, Dishes or baskets for fruit and den e r > 
furnished by the exhibitors, if they are present 
Societ 
near London. The Society will only find dishes for th 
what comes from a considerable distan: 
tance. 
Fruit MUST BE PERFECTLY RIPE AND PERFECTLY 
COLOURED, t z be disqualified. 
eg y must be papery in the state in which 
they are ‘Gece tor sale in 8 best class of shops, rie 
properly prepared for 
“9, Foreign fruit and vegetables are a init | 
not in competition with produce of hom: 
410. Everything gees be in the roo pak 17 hours 
before the meeting, and ready for inspection by the 
J 758 hours before the meeting. If anything 
received later is allowed to — exhibited, it will be liable 
to —.— from compe 
& 11. Exhibitors, and exhibitor only, can receive 
passes to enable them to return to the meeting-room 
after the prizes shall have, been a adjudicated 7 8 wo 
hours before the sant = av e ‘the room, i 
order hs the Judges may be un 
se 
vilania of the F aves a ‘the Society 
ee as they — but it should be observed that 
no strangers ave admission without the 
personal or dritten order of a Fel y 
also add, in order to prevent misunderstanding, that 
in addition to the subjects of special ee on 
this e (namely hardy annual flowers, table S 
Pears now in seaso d P 
n, an disei eas, all correctly 
named), others are aens as will be seen in W. 
the 3d of the above regulation 
Tue tropical and temperate parts of the world 
11 et have already stated > you strong 
p hader evidence against > Nuytsia we 
rasi 
which as grow, 8 me immediately anapi them, 
— I send you ery — . 
warne, showing their — — and cot 
t I oe — seen e -sown e 
se 
_ | Flowering at leas 
vable ; there is no ike of varini under glass the 
arborescent vegetation whi ich; because of its magni- | 
are bears 5 7 ag without . material 
injury. us iselto, a parasite of similar 
nature, e little inconvenience a the rs ug 
hich i 
Lime, and other trees on w a W N for 
they contain ea nt enough for pn — with 
much to spare for the ecm which infests them. 
But if ee grew hothouses we then 
p | 
should arer bee the he Miselto, inasmuch as trees so 
under glass would have n 
small as 
nutriment e ja Dorani what is required for their 
h 
own need, — if attacked by parasites would peris 
from exhau 
Hen 
ee the magnificent Loranthus bicolor of Bengal, 
any of 3 „ tribe which to the habits of 
A a e flowers and colours of our finest 
Ho N Debarred by natural causes from 
the cultivation of rr parasites we seek conso- 
lation among epip 
3 3 ned no more 
But although a 3 are — our attain- 
s nths in hot- 
hou ming-birds i atte . it is 
desirable. th tat ‘the 1 gi rld oc uld 
e 
aware a glorious plant of their ord „b 
culia 
e 
which, with the other rities of tho 
joins 1 of growing in Ex Gis a se parasites, 
In wan River moet there lives s tree 
beau 
2 FLORIBUNDA tiful nt, 
call UY 
figured in the Appendix to the int gN 
the “ Botanical Register,” p. xxx lanes i 
large thyrses of bright orange oloured flowers. 
Arran CuxxrxoHAu states that it flowers i 
Morat it as a very bushy | shrub, 3 feet high, 
ually tober) 
but very pred in beauty to the Ben River plant. 
This r remarkable tree appears to be a true Loran- 
= J 
ound in the assumption that it was a parasite upon 
S; and hence no attempts have been made to 
it. It has however, been now ascertained | 
This 
= travelling in that way iar broad wings are — up 
apt 
Such being the fact pa this ben + 5 
should refuse to wel, iving . cai “be 
er for any of 
ming our n we find this 
a 
1 also 'inhabits die: forest. country 
on. 
nce ‘hae is no hope of = ever beholding in | W 
agnifice 
Grevillea than anything ie having the same kind 
Tat must be a very fine Frorist’s FLOWER t 
would induce us to 8 a eet ee of it into this 
eepest rose 
„with a deep “potas corolla, stamen ns E 
projecting an inch beyond the flower, the 
pale pink stalk of which is from 2 to 3i inc had 
abun 
that the colonists at King George’s Sound compare 
it to a tree on fire; hence it has gained the name of 
ci 
EPS 
Lucomse and Pince, of Exeter, the raisers of it. 
E PIPACTIS PHYLLANTHES, 
ee eee 
Harcourt's plant and mine td 
. | flowering season, and ene 
ayes Parsonage, d 
EPIP 
on the back. 1 rounded. a 
E. phyllan — 
Plant, scatt hied in groups, or 
solitary, — to 18 inches high. 
purple at the base, angular 
and Sowich. — 2 above. 
Young shoots Kk. Stem 
Wc glandular, 
down: ren 
Leaves, 3 elliptic 900 
with oth sheaths, n 
e 
with minute — * ular — 
obtusely poin 
ceme, of —— cernuous 
— on longish green 
talks. 
Germen obovate taper, rough- 
Flower bud, oo point 
long deflexed, 
Sepals ovate, taper pointed, 
often cohering at the points, 
pale green; keels, darker 
ne 
Petals ovate, concave, keeled, 
yellowish green. 
Lip, 8 agre in — and tex. 
all the te, 
petals, ova 
— presenting a smooth 
pon Birari ty at the 
back, a eled, 
ovate celle. Stigma rounded 
earlier than E latifolia, — 
in seed when oe latifolia 
was in full bloo 
8 —— Sept. 1838, 
July 183 n 
a vesca, 
placed by a petaloi id 
bifolia with a sepal 
are points 
a there are in 
| flowering season of E. phytlan 
„its 3 from E. 3 ame 
The lip a 
mentioned i in Camden as G. re 
Pollen masses, in two close, Pi 
eet uniform in all the i id 
I have specimens of Oph ; 
in which the lip is replaced by a se a? and this Jeu! 
se red at Killin, in 5 a plant o of Habenaria 
liform 
I have give 
—— e sheet with the * nng © given on the 
Ha mae Ashton 
Gerard Smith, 
TIS bunte b hi E.S, 
(GREEN-FLOW vane : HELLEBORI D, 
Spec. char.: Root leaves sheathin we £ 
ovate-lanceolate, all frm, ke des rond: eliptio ovaie, 
cernuous, Lip ovate, undivided, polnted,. conves, and 
ngular. 
Susser) 
Flowers ttt 
ATIVE biene, or 
E. la 
The same, on ee stations, 
The same, but dull 
or purple, and downy ee 
parr pr thin, plaited, Prig, 
5 „veins many ; “te 
Flower stalks shorter, 
purplish in many cases, 92 
The same, but short, 
Bud with a short straight point, 
Sepals broader, green or purple, 
Petals rra or pink, 
convex back; 2, the lower, 
uniform, with an n obtuse Te 
squarish, 
nth E. latifolia had “tae 
panded its 
r the shade of dwarf 
Cs 
Sallows ante Birches S, first in kry 8 Sept. 1838, and the 
second time in — — uly, 1839, an ho Tp h on 
; ml 
oe structure, texture, 
anthes, G. E. S., "aE 
scription approximates Goodyera ad vaen 12 5 
it, it occurred to me tha 
Excepting the erenulated 1 2 the following * 
closely resembles our 
e cal. biram Aa 
as in sylvis montosis. 
vol. iv, 418, 1, p. 4 
Thi 
the Gardeners ronic 
p- 549, for Aug. 
* 
t a| BRITISH ASSOCIATION 125 
h MENT OF SCIE ak arti 
plant :— 
at — ns a fol. caulini 
inferiori ia wow simis, flor. cern’ p 
Ehrhart Britrase i . lo, 
mation to E. phyllanthes, in the form of — lips ss 
s plant i is evidently the same with 
” Chronicle, 
No. 34, p. 536, for Aube ha. 
ived from the 
that number, as well as referr 
28. 
ernius, labello ovato set? 
Persoon. 
990, 2 
Sir James E. 2 under 5 mi mange 
rves, 
obse 
lip is post at — — was 
i ears 
FOR THE ADVAN 
tes on the Distribution of Animal Life 
ETER ere 
explorers in parti have en personal 
statements of the results of their own le to e we 
y Mr. ERMAN Egi on th 
animals in the Arctic regions, and 1 isa! 
missing expedition under Sir John tale ai 
which has of late excited a di Aut 
ri t qhe 
