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garden at Intra on the ae Meredith which was rented for some years 
by the late Sir G. Macle 
[NOTE oren, 1894 oo Franzosini flowered again in the autumn of 1892, 
and it was oie described and figured in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1892, vol. ii., 
p. 177, fg. 3 
A. atrovirens Karw. Next to americanaand rigida, this is the most 
abund ave of the Riviera gardens, attaining a much greater 
RTE: than it ever reaches at home. It may be ‘recognised through 
all its wide range of variation ts its large oblong-spat thulate dull green 
leaves, large decurrent end-spine, large distant deltoid-cuspidate mar- 
ginal teeth, stout saor with crowded ascending imbricating lanceo- 
late bract-leaves, the lower a foot or a foot pee a half one, and very stout 
comparatively short pa ae branches. I saw it in flower at Hyères, La 
- Mortola, and San Remo. The leaves odah ¢ a Lanse of six or eight feet, 
and a breadth of 15-16 inches. On the Riviera it is usually called A. 
salmiana, but I believe that quite a ee plants named or maintained 
as species by Jacobi must range here as forms. 
Group AMERICANA. 
A. NRUN, Jacobi. This I saw at Hyères just coming into 
ffer 
flower, not differing very materially from the plant of English con- 
servatories 
A. feroz; K. Koch. This seas ers a ad kis air at La 
ortola, is developed much bet een at home. 
It Taa slightly glaucous honest ae 3 fat ie 9-10 inches 
broad at the middle, a large pungent non-decurrent end-spine, and ve 
large irregular daltpld-casnidate rated teeth, with the edge hollowed 
out Eon them. I did not see it in dan er 
A. Scolymus, Karw. ne grown co only i in the Riviera ear 
but I saw it at Hyères, La Mortola aad | Monte Carlo, in flower at the 
last locality. A. Ver schaffeltii, Lemaire, and several other plants which 
have been described as species, must an be placed her 
torum, Zucc. What was called by this name i La Mortola, 
and it may be named correctly, was clearly conspecific with A. atrovirens 
ee). 
A. c 4, Roezl. Grown at 4 ol not differing materially from 
the slant of English conservatori 
A. mexicana, Lam. The plait pow under this name at Hyeres is 
no doubt = correctly, but 1 do not think in any broad sense it is 
more than a variety of americana. 
A, sore ley l- erywhere abundant along the Riviera, not in 
ens 
var 
lætevirens and Milleri, with very sintiodte leaves, approximating towards 
mexicana, and another called 07 Nata and picta, with green leaves with 
great stripes of yellow. I saw one plant of the latter with leaves 8-9 
feet long and nearly a foot broad at the middle. 
Group RIGID A. 
forms with which I was not previously acquainted. The 
