This is the first instance which has come under my notice, of habit in 
the expansion of flowers having been broken in upon by an external 
agent,—attention to the circumstance I doubt not will produce many, 
in this act of vegetable life, as well as in the coer expansion and 
folding of the leaves. GRAH. 
INTRODUCTION ; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. Seeds of Thysanotus 
proliferus were imported by Robert Mangles,Esq. from Swan River, 
and plants were raised in his garden at Ene, Hill, The specimen 
figured, flowered in the garden of the Cal H Itural Society, 
in May, 1839, a plant having been obtained from Mr. Veitch, nursery- 
man, Exeter, in the Autumn preceding. It was planted in a mixture 
of peat and Jeaf mould, and kept in stove heat, from an impression 
which Mr. M‘Nab had received, that it had been found elsewhere too 
tender for the greenhouse. A remarkably fine specimen of this plant, 
which had been similarly treated, was transmitted to us from 
Camerton House Gardens, by the request of its liberal proprietor, J. 
Jarratt, ae .. to whose oe eine attention we owe many obligations. 
DERIVATION OF 
ieesasiinda;erns bundiaste: fringed, in iaiddion “4 the form of the corolla. 
SYNONYME, 
THYSANOTUs PROLIFERUS. Lindley. 
