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hedge-rows and banks of rivers, from Canada to Virginia. With us it forms 

 a beautiful bush or small tree, flowering rather later than others of the 

 genus, the blossoms beginning to open about the end of May, or early in 

 June. It is much valued for the fine dark-green, glossy appearance of its 

 leaves, and the vivid colour of its scarlet fruit, which will sometimes hang 

 on the tree during the winter. 



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Part CXXXII.for April, contains 

 1311 to 1320. — Mesembryanthemum inc6mptum (incomptus, un- 



trimmed ; confusion of branches). A low shrubby plant, introduced from 



the Cape of Good Hope, by Mr. Burchell, in 5l 



1815. It grows vigorously, and flowers freely 



during the hottest weather of summer, and 



requires merely protection from frost in an airy 



green-house, with little water during winter. — 



Stapeh'a stellaris. (fig. 51.) A native of the arid 



deserts north of the Cape of Good Hope, but 



not yet common in England, though it has been 



in the country since 1804. — Bauera ^-ubiaefolia. 



A handsome shrub, oi'iginally found in New 



South Wales, by Sir Joseph Banks; of the easiest 



culture in a green-house. — Lophiola aurea ; 



Hgemodoracese. Yellow flowers and grass-like 



leaves. From boggy soil on pine barrens in 



New Jersey and Carolina, flowering in autumn, 



and of the easiest culture in a frame. — Eu- 

 phorbia caput MediistF. (Jig. 52. a) " From the main stem many branches 



come out all around, having a fanciful resemblance to serpents (b) ; whence 

 I, ^^ it has derived its name. If 



wounded, the branches give 

 out abundance of milky fluid, 

 of which, it is said, birdlime 

 can be made. " Green-house, 

 and the easiest culture." — 

 jErica versicolor. — Malpig- 

 hia coccifera. A neat bushy 

 stove shrub, from the West 

 Indies in 1 773, with pink and 

 white flowers in autumn, and 

 of the easiest culture. Though 

 a hot-house plant, it is, like 

 many others, much improved 

 by being set out of doors in 

 a sheltered situation, during 



July and August. — Maxillaria racemosa. A curious stove epiphyte (epi, 



upon, phyton, a plant; growing upon trees, and not into them like parasites), 



from Rio Janeiro. — .i^cacia impr^ssa. — Andr6med« Catesb^E'i. A hardy 



ornamental evergreen shrub, from Virginia, to Messrs. Loddiges, " by the 



excellent Michaux," in 1794. 



Part C XXXI II. for May, contains 

 1321 to 1330. — Cypripedium insigne. (fig. 53.) A beautiful, terrestrial, 

 orchideous plant, sent from Nepal, by Dr. Wallich, to Mr. Shepherd of 

 the Liverpool botanic garden. " It flourishes in vegetable earth with a 

 portion of sand, and may be increased slowly, by separating the roots." 

 The flowers are large, green and yellow, with reddish brown spots. — 



