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ich entitle them | cess of organisation a Rose, such ad eae niated, alternat 
ropa gg re erau cess to Soest or apia heat an 2, |i inferi A su rappel the 
Of Prars growing into short branches, half} converts a beauty into A monster ? and it thie | ìs | humus for the n soarisimen of their 
Pear half branch, oa Bea have been sent by Mr. | so of Roses, why ~ of all em flowers Fa This portion in the oo 
C. Morris, of Edgbaston, near Birmingham, and e third case is that o p kerien 0 HITE = Brg m 
Mr. Ley yond eaten of Ra = these present | FRONTIGNAN rrahin 8, pl e Vinery of|p country karens 
the usual Firs s a fleshy ¢ up Dr. WHITEHEAD of York, which pon ced half tt ais is appropriately spoken ofl 
witha few ay MES EN on the pg redna the | th lapar of a black colour, so that the black and |] as the crown of the silks 
original Pear, but little altered, _ Then fi follows a | white Frontignan were completely mixed in the ri eg two legate of state ian 
a.3 For this we are indebted to our very | two Jertile Fronds, side by side, M 
it, representing the axis or growin g point (under York. W po Mr. pee oth uenn, P e i int of origin as that care 
natural ¢ unobservable ræte rnatu- e believe another speci ery differentin sha; 
mstances ) P e British Association at Leeds. Here we have |downwards into a mate Or a cial 
however piin fleshy, coalesced, and “deals an instance of a white ‘Grape returning to its | each side or angle of the cuneate 
matured in a state nearly the same as that which Paes colour, black, after having at hosted into Shorter or longer di 
had they ac ri a 
they woul be ping segments, i 
longed to a Pear in its usual state. But all the | white = Such examples are instructive bears the broad blotch or al 
additional rings of parts that go to the on cultural because they show that if a tree roy nd is fide ts the opt more 
tion of a Pear flower are dislocated and m form in shape; and it is the peculiar hy 
hat twig, if used for propagation, will perpetuate o | this receptacular tie. togethe with mae i 
an solitary and extremely instructive Rose has | the ¢ change. Chrysanthemums have thus sported | tive length of the segments which, as it rh 
ain been eee et valued corres- jand been fixed, so have Plums, so have “host to us, will afford satisfac actory specific ace 
sonia. Dr. BELL SALTER, and is represented in | so have Grapes, ‘and ‘80 doubtless have numerous | It is ‘indeed „probable a the fronds, viede 
the accompanying wood tg inp, Fig. I. The | other sterile ile, would present farther marts y | 
usual cup of the Rose rely gone, on ly a | Moss Roses have been E etu ated fromasport ofthe | primei: could we see them all in a living C 
few complete and inoata Bre occupying its | poet Provins; ani nes me improbable that Dr. | perfect state; but of course on account of the a 
place, jas of them being half a petal a a leaf ; | BELL SALTER’S mon Rose, aboye described, | size of the pl ants, they are but fragments, tm. 
this shows conclusively three things: 1, that the might also mage “ails the progenitor of a {paratively speaking, which we possess in È 
j | race of m s ha rium 
the experimen o be sure nobody wants „Platycerium grande, “Arn, Coxx. (under Aen, 
deformity, and Tikka the race of such Roses is | stichum), has the e segments of the ters fet 
| best extinguished ; but it is clear that if a eaa very much elongated, and the sinus conose z 
for propagata early transverse rr a 
a eas g ape, the sin 
AmonG the most striking and remarkable of Frome —_ . Of this specie don a odleti AM b 
à. | FERN tribe, now so extensively cultivated in ou ntly been eso at Plate Ixxxvi., of ty 
ose must be reckoned the species of Platy- “Filla Exotice tty wooden 
rium, or Stag’s-horn Ferns. Four of them are it (on an exi tremely“ tó brhi scale), of which 
clearly defined i in books, „1. The wee ees tee copy is annexed, is also given in the frst mh 
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Coming, as it pE aes the vicinity of the known species which has led to this no Je in = 
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it should h have been aalis to be that species, | convex outline or half e 
which in several re — ects it pete A and it has | large pale brown epot of frina 
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; judging | the upper of it e 
calyx of the Rose consists of f fve lagna a eakas specimens lately received ited 80 more eats aaa in P. ree 
ney developed aes 2, that the cup of the val correspondént at Moulmein, the Rev.|mens in our herbarium prove this bi 
iio pert ¢ of the calyx, "but t mately = fleshy | C . B. P. PARISH, this is a rarer and a much | chum alcicorne, Sw., in WALL, Cat., n, 19, 
halle on which that organ stands; 3, that the| more interesting plant, inasmuch as it is an| Dr, WALLICH “ Acrostichum bars 
tals themselves are merely altered calyx leaves, | entirely new e shall proceed to sho p. Ripe Irawaddy, 1826, fluminum 
mmediately fi g the calyx were 16 dark | Yo ng fertile fronds = Prien in the Exeter w 1827, cH. On trees 
purple petals in their usual state, ex The that one Donors and in th cae house of Lad Ba oe (in Herb. nost mi 
of them was also half a calyx leaf. “Lis of | Dor N Dai ein, Rev. C. 8, P. Pa 
both these is shown at at Fig. TĪ, a, whi st affinity is paia with P. grande, kyt cerium biforme, Bis Io, 
ped of all its beaten It seems aT Tab. 18 (not yet known in our 
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some sudden yal ay to the m the | a ery 
wth of the oune eor a f the Sower, a oe on a nae mea a 
orcing it to "thi was ae beaten of remain. by Brome; the 
ing hollow. This w. throwi forin of the 2 lobe a the divari 
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re~ | Arr, pega ae (as already oar P. biforme, [sere er phate are contri at the 
Br. All three attain a ve: size, are | individuals to please the Traio that 
ate from the trunks or eas of trees, | the choicest and mang delight 
and possess two very distinct kinds of fronds | is ni among 
pee 4 icult p 
i aeai root, the primo: or sterile gardening and ee ° able 
on uite ach other on | considered to be as m 
ie heed of per imbriating e Saly laci- | fat ballocks and the a 
