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the Horticultural Society by Professor Lehmann, in 1S27, and supposed to 

 be a native of South America. " If grown in a pot in a cool green-house, 

 it nourishes exceedingly, soon acquiring the height of a foot or 18 in., and 

 producing, in great profusion, loose bunches of rose-coloured flowers, 

 which are placed upon the end of peduncles diverging from the main stem 

 at nearly right angles, and giving the whole plant the air of a vegetable 

 chandelier of many branches." 



iVb. CLVI. for February, contains 

 1124 to 1150. — iupinus leucophyllus, White-leaved Lupine. A fine 

 branching perennial ; " a native of woodless sandy deserts, from the great 

 falls of the river Colombia in North America, to the sources of the Mis- 

 souri, among the Rocky Mountains, where it was discovered by Mr. Douglas. 

 It is a branching plant, covered all over with long white hairs, which, in 

 this wild plant, are so abundant as to conceal the epidermis. The flowers 

 grow in long slender racemes, and are either white, or tinged with light 

 pink. 



iliimulus floribiindus. A neat hardy annual, found by Mr. Douglas on 

 moist rocks in the interior of the districts of the river Colombia. It 

 begins to blossom in August, and remains in beauty till the middle of 

 October : the flowers expand in the morning, and close by about mid-day. 

 Raised with facility from seeds sown in April upon a warm damp peat-bor- 

 der. The young plants should be thinned out well, or they are apt to 

 choke each other. In consequence of the smallness of the seeds, it is best 

 to mix them with pit-sand or wood-ashes before they are committed to the 

 earth." 



Gonolobus viridifldrus ; Jsclepiade*??. A curious stove twining shrub, 

 from South America ; propagated very readily by cuttings of the ripened 

 wood. — Gloxinia caule"scens. " By far the finest of this handsome genus 

 that has yet appeared, and exceedingly worthy of cultivation. It requires, 

 like the other gloxinias, the heat of the stove ; and, we presume, is to be 

 propagated in the same way as they are." 



Crataegus oxyacanthoides. A handsome small tree, from Paris; and, 

 probably, found in other parts of Europe. " Variable as is the European 

 Hawthorn, it is distinguishable into about three principal forms, which 

 represent as many botanical species. Of these, the first with deeply pin- 

 natifid leaves, round smooth ovaria, and compact cymes, is the true C. 

 Oxyacantha; to which are to be referred, as varieties, C. laciniata of 

 Besser, the Pink and Yellow-berried Hawthorns of the gardens and the 

 C. monogyna of various authors, with their synonyms. A second form is 

 the C. fissa of some of the English gardens, but not of Bosc, which has 

 broad deeply cut pinnatifid leaves, downy beneath, especially at the axillae, 

 and black fruit : this may be called C. platyphylla. The third form is the 

 subject of this article, to which, undoubtedly, belongs the Double Hawthorn 

 of the gardens; and also, as a remarkable variety, the C. triloba of Per- 

 soon : it has peculiarly loose cymes of flowers, and cuneate obtuse leaves." 

 Sophronia {sophrone, modesty ; appearance) cernua. A very remarkable 

 little epiphyte, about 5 in. high, growing readily in decayed vegetable soil 

 among moss, in a hot humid shady part of the stove. In generic affinity it is 

 most nearly akin to Octomeria, which differs in having sessile pollen masses, 

 a column without wings, the two lower sepals united at the base, and a three- 

 lobed labellum. EVia, which is^also nearly allied, belongs to Malaxideae. 



Billbergm fasciata ; Bromeliaee^. A remarkably handsome stove plant. 

 From Rio Janeiro, to the Ballspond nursery. It requires the assistance of 

 a bark-bed, and is propagated by offsets of the spike and root. It has nearly 

 the same relation to the true Billbergia that theTillandsia nitida of Professor 

 Hooker bears to the genuine species of Tillandsia. The white bands of the 



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