248 New Material for Hot-beds. 



D. elongdlum Cunn. " On trees in shaded dark woods, on the banks of the 

 Brisbane River." (B. M. R., No. 33., April.) 



I). ? crassulcefolium Cunn. " Growing on trees in the ravines of the Blue 

 Mountains." (B. M. R., No. 34., April.) 



D. complandtum Cunn. Growing in tufts on dead trees, and, though healthy, 

 of a yellowish green. (B. M. R., No. 35., April.) 



D. pugionifornie Cunn. " A beautiful epiphyte, hanging loosely from the 

 stems of trees, so as to swing freely in the wind." Found in Illawarra, and 

 flowering in August. Nearly allied to D. rigidum R. Br. (B. M. R., No. 34., 

 April.) 



lrideee. 



144. MA'RICA 



1353a gracilis W. Herb, slender tf iAJ or 2 au P.v.w Brazil ?1830. O l.p Bot. mag. 3713 



An elegant plant, a native of Brazil, from which country it was imported 

 by the Duke of Bedford. It bears the greatest resemblance to M. Northianar, 

 but is much more slender, and with smaller flowers. It requires the protec- 

 tion of a green-house. {Bot. Mag., March.) 



145. SISYRI'NCHIUM 



junceum Know, et West, reed-like £ iAJ or f jn.jl Li Chile 1832. O s.p Flor. cab. no. 95 



One of the prettiest and most delicate-looking of the genus, raised in the 

 Birmingham Botanic Garden, from seeds presented to that establishment in 

 the year 1832, by Mr. Cuming. (Flor. Cab., April.) 



Melanthacece. 

 1120. MERENDE'RA 9163 caucSsica Bot. Mag. 3690. 



Conifercp. 



Zuniperus squamosa. This fine species of Indian juniper has been raised in 

 the garden of the Horticultural Society. It appears to be quite hardy. 

 (B. M. R., No. 18., March.) 



Pinus oocdrpa Schiede. It is the same as the Ocote pine given out by the 

 Horticultural Society. (B. M. R., No. 23., March.) See Arbor. Not., 

 p. 129. and p. 237. 



Art. XI. Account of a new Substitute Jbr Tan and Stable Manure, 

 in forming Hot-beds. Communicated by John Grigor. 



I have received from Mr. John Stephen, gardener to Lady 

 Saltoun, Ness Castle, near Inverness, an account of a substitute 

 for tan bark or stable manure in the composition of hot-beds, 

 which I consider worthy of being communicated to the public 

 through the medium of the Gardener' s Magazine, as, in many 

 places, gardeners feel the scarcity of bark, and not unfrequently 

 of stable manure also. The material recommended by Mr. 

 Stephen is well known in Scotland by the name of sids, the 

 husks of the oat, which are produced in the manufacture of oat- 

 meal, and may be had in abundance at all the parish mills in 

 Scotland. 



Some time since Mr. Stephen observed that a quantity of this 

 article, which had been discharged from a mill in his neighbour- 

 hood, continued to dissolve every succeeding shower of snow 

 which fell on it during a protracted snow-storm ; and, on ex- 

 amining it, he found it in a high state of fermentation. He had 

 to make some hot-beds at the time, and he composed one of them 

 entirely of sids, for the growth of melons, in the following 



