"o8 THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRON IOLE 
[JULY 25, 1874. 
between the last-named Hast and O. nebulos I 
have to thank Mr. B. S. Williams and his Piha 
_ adlatus, Mr, Gower, of the Victoria and Paradise Nur- 
series, both for a flower, and for those very apposite 
pac H. G. Rchb. f. 
MASDEVALLIA (SACCILABIATA) HouTTEANA,* 
Not a a grand thing booa to the scarlet aris- 
panos fe re Sa gorgeous mera (not in Eu- 
ections, it dope, but by far better than 
ings which arı bar brought up because 
he ers appear peser very 
e 
broad long tails are purplish, 
It may be one of Mr. .Lalinde’s discoveries, Y 
to acknow! I obtained lately Tete a ariel 
it 
i 
healthy plants at the sale Lalinde-Patin tht summer, 
The plant has been named in honour of Monsieu 
Van Hontte, of Ghent, who piae a very oval 
friendship for his young countryman. 
MASDEVALLIA VELIFERA, t* 
I may state ae by an hay te ccident, the 
description of Monsieur Pat é Masdevallia velifera, 
hb. f., was waited: in Braden Chronicle. It 
will be found below. 
Much in the way of Masdevallia Mastodon, or of a 
coriacea, with nearly hard sara sepals. It may 
be yellowish: brown. yee brin a flower 
Mr. Willi e. poegi Nur- 
lin. renga the young 
Belgian trav veller, M. G. R hb. f 
EPIDENDRUM FAVORIS, %. 5f.f 
“Very near Epidendrum bidentatum, Lindl. (n 
named 
later Lissa.) Mir very duathiet by the 
ea a one-leaved The 
bul 
wars 
of the lip = by the 
somes with a bluish kwa and 
ers, however, 
as in E. areia tatum, yetlow's wah. mottled with brown. 
I have been akain kas pii the Sm) Daliya of this Arasi 
Mr. 
House, York, LER & Reid. f 
GALEANDRA MINAX, i. supra. 
__ Messrs. kien have informed me that the plant was 
flowered b illem t pirrar 
correction Í think it my duty to make, to avoid all 
_ misunderstanding. M. G. Rché. f. 
Grants LAxus, Lam, Aa 
: "alate aCyp re of i rel gay 
i ; egant 19), 
; Aed s 
opinion 
2 the the same as the C. elegans of 
; Linnea, but we follow Grisebach in referring it to 
of Lamarck. With reference to its use as a 
iii plant Mr. Thomson writes :— 
“It is difficult to imagine any form of plant better 
suited spre tal coe agaaa ion than this 
el caudis latiusculis, 
uli fopa bår utrinque angulatis, 
aping apas 'tetrapteris : Tabello basi utrinque 
, carina angulata ; lacinia antica dilatata paroa aiat 
limbo inyoluto, hine sbeaceatd, carina una per medium, 
d. Masiotanti Rchb. f. ; So jearen Aa 
ar e superiori triangu lo longe 
retusis. 
i o eating hr 300 Rhizoma 
> leaves eeg near flat clu clust umbel ; in- 
2. Plant Torea , leaves 
broad, glumes 3% inch long. e shih 
Islands, p . 563- 
short, a ee glabrous; 
One plant eg has been standing pegs a window- 
sill in Londo a short time has had the tips of its 
is nothing but its flower-stems to interfere with the view 
across a dinner-table ; and t stems are so slight and 
so little crowded that there is nothing in them to object 
= ave tried to grow it in a pan of water, but it does 
not sensors of this Cantik: Its ally, Cyperus alterni- 
foliu and of less elegant 
hal it? at y, if ever. hed with foliage at the 
as this plant | is. When it © are to be more gene- 
| rally known it is ce t demand for all 
kinds of decorative work,” 
BOTANICAL CONGRESS AT 
_WE supplement the craton we have already 
culars, ig secs from an 
lanc evie 
and pre refer to Ba held after the apartu 
of our 
The paia tay Aes Vegetation.—This subject was 
dealt with by M. Alphonse de Candolle. The idea 
wi sows memoir was that ‘the localities that are rich in 
the Alpine chain, are those in “which the glacial epoch 
ceased earliest. 
em, ed i 
lpi sub-alpine, which was adde 
odern p! pt are other cases in which t 
SSS of vegetation in a lar Os is a cause 
Fossil Pindi in Granite pt thane ad aa 
per, of Strasburg, w ee 
ist,” in the biie 
succeeded in determining wie plier, a fosi di 
“aes by M. Sismunda, = preserved as a valuable 
specimen in the museum of Turin University. Then h 
ensen = a single ‘ute, or vertici of the 
of w as been transformed into anthra 
, this fossil is no other than the A laris 
sphenophylioides, a plant, perhaps aquatic, widely 
spread i in the coal strata of the system of Mont Blanc. 
pe nature of the rock enclosing it. It n a piece of 
otogine, which had come in the form of an erratic 
block from tie sides of Moni. Blanc into the plains of 
ow protogine, from its quality of granit- 
oid erillis rock, has long aa as Plu 
as produced a state of iedit 
On pies an h zap of 
faes licable ; bypass 
Ne origin, by Sipat in in be he sa 
of the tock, modifed afterwards in structure by the 
metam orphic action of emg ous igneous strata, the 
facts are at once explain 
„Nature of Lichens.—There is a controversy at pre- 
sent agitating the world of botanists with reference to- 
fa 
long e gonidia were 
and enential parts: of lichens, and ale Intely the 
rior algze 
which they inclose in their interline, becoming 
2 age to the surface, and contracting adherence with 
ir membranes, and they seem to exert a debili 
halisi ò on the cells, ue ar their volume and 
impairing their ¢ evolut 
This fact and pe ace ‘Ted M.de a in Ger- 
chwendener, i in Basle, 
ct 
E 
ponents ; 
Ndadi, has found an ardent defender in Dr. B 
whose admirable works on subjects of micrography 
render him a high authori 
= Weddell, correspon ndent of the Academy of 
ences, brought the pana question before the 
that sem m itself presen 
m the gae „ee of the ` 
complete parasite | not able to pre its own sub- 
of the green-leaved species which attach themselves 
suckers to the roots of other plants; but which draw, im 
ms in eve 
r} is the autonomy of 
the gonii that is, their existence as algæ, described 
and ned, c capable of living apart from the lichen, 
iving in its interior. This fact gee is 
ost curious surprises that hav 
in Nature for the sagacity of botanis 
MESSRS. ROLLISSON’S 
NURSERY. 
TuIs celebrated and well-appointed nursery is of 
easy access, b rail from London ridge and Victoria 
+ l OE a] 
Charing Cross, at short intervals throughout the day. 
It has been near upon a century, and is 
especially noted for the fine Dieci of Heaths, 
Orchids, and new plants, which are here cultivated in 
quantities. eaths more especially, both hard and 
soft-wooded varieties, the magnificent condition and 
quantities grown must be seen to be understo 
Associated with these are new il sae plants, as well 
lection of everything wori growing. 
abuts on the main road, the entrance 
from which is through a lofty, spacious conservatory, 
125 feet by 28 feet, filled with an assem ee of lar 
Tree itn with fine trunks, carryi ificent 
rising Cyathea medullaris, te its ebony- 
black iors Alsophila australis, with a trunk ` 
12 feet clear, the head of the plant 16 feet across ; 
|» and large numbers of Dicksonia antarctica, in all sizes, 
from those fit for the centr 
h 
in the largest-sized horticultural erection. Entwining 
bep Aran a Lege and gracefully festooning the roof 
ea F 
h ure by their pree inal growth and 
the beauty and diversity of their flow: N 
ame common than to see varieties varieties of th these and pe et 
limbers planted in situations for which they are 
totally unsuited by th the saan 
causes 
disappointment and ion of | 
u p 
POA 
Pee oe, a ae 
a. ae one late get A OE A C 
