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[March 13, 1889. 



clusters of small red Howers, and is most nearly allied to the 

 Indian L. glabrata. L. sUnilis is a slender twining shrub with 

 elegantly formed lanceolate leaves of a palecolor beneath, and 

 slender flowers in pairs on axillary peduncles, sliorter than the 

 leaves. The name was given in allusion to the strong resem- 

 blance it exhibits in its foliage to an Indian variety of L. ma- 

 crantha. L. tragophylliim is a handsome species allied to the 

 European L. Caprifoliuvi and the Noi'th American L. semper- 

 virens, havmg even larger flowers, described as yellow. This 

 also is from the Patung district. 



Viburnum. — A genus of the same order as the Honeysuckles 

 and almost as numerously represented in China. Seven are 

 described as new, and two or three of them are very marked 

 in character. V. rhytidophyllwn has large, coarsely wrinkled 

 leaves, densely felted beneath, and V. Henryi is a trailing 

 shrub with foliage very much like that of some of the Lauro- 

 cerasus section of Prunus. V. propiiiquum is nearly related 

 to the common V. Tiniis, though probably less attractive, as 

 the flowers are smaller. Wild specimens of the old V. macro- 

 cephaluin were sent by several different collectors from distant 

 localities. In these only a few of the outer flowers are neuter. 



Actinotinus Sinensis. — This is an arboreous Viburnum, with 

 large palmately compound leaves, like a Horse-chestnut or 

 Buckeye. It is figured in the " Icones Plantaricm" t. 1740, and 

 is without doubt one of the most striking novelties from the 



The Railroad-Station at Auburndale, Massachusetts. 



THE station at Auburndale, near Boston, on the line 

 of the Boston and Albany Railroad, has a peculiar 

 interest as being the first of the series erected by the late 

 H. H. Richardson. 



It is almost needless to explain that until Richardson 

 began to build rural railroad-stations none had been erected 

 in America which deserved much consideration as intelli- 

 gent and pleasing works of art. Among our great city 

 termini a few existed which were reasonably appropriate 

 to their purpose in external appearance as well as admira- 

 rably planned for the convenience of trainmen and pas- 

 sengers. But the best of our small country stations were 

 plain, cheap structures, looking no more like stations than 

 like buildings of some very different kind, while the ave- 

 rage varied between grotesque and fragile attempts at pic- 

 turesqueness of aspect and shabby make-shifts disgracing 

 the very name of architecture. We had vulgar little sta- 

 tions that looked like exaggerated kiosks, and brick or 

 wooden boxes which merely displayed the railroad com- 

 pany's desire to expend as little money as possible ; but 



Plan of Auburndale Station Grounds, Boston & Albany Railroad. 



Patung district of Hupeh, though the flowers are not very 

 showy. In floral structure this does not differ from the genus 

 Viburnum, which is numerous in species spread all round the 

 northern fiemisphere and extending to the Andes in America 

 and to Madagascar. In all these species the leaves are simple 

 and undivided, therefore the Chinese plant was separated gen- 

 erically. Dr. Henry states that it inhabits the high mountains 

 and is evergreen. Leaflets seven, petiolate, six to nine 

 inches long, borne on a terete petiole six to ten inclies long. 



Ilex. — China is rich in Hollies, several new species having 

 been sent since the part of the " Index " dealing with the genus 

 was issued; but there is nothing among them to equal the 

 beautiful varieties of /. Aquifoliuni. The new /. Pernyi 

 {^'Icones Plantarmn," t. 1539) is similar to Fortune's fine intro- 

 duction, /. cor7iuta, with comparatively small leaves, and Dr. 

 Henry has sent a highly remarkable variety of./, cornuta with 

 almost exactly square leaves, each angle terminating in a 

 spine. /. macrocarpa {^'Icones Plantarum" t. 1787) has an un- 

 usually large blackish fruit, Ijut is not of a specially ornamental 

 character. 



Kew, February, 1889. W. B. Henisley. 



" One should first seek out the natural character of the place 

 to be changed into a park, in order to maintain this character 

 and to draw out all its good points. This rule is but seldom 

 observed." — Hirschfeld, lYJJ. 



no rural stations that gave pleasure to the passing travel- 

 er's eye, accommodated him comfortably while he was 

 waiting for a train, or showed that an architect worthy of 

 the name had had a hand in their erection. 



No problems, however, appealed more strongly to Rich- 

 ardson than those which were utilitarian in character ; 

 none delighted him more than those which had hitherto 

 been neglected by art ; and he was as eager to put his 

 best thought into small problems as into large ones. 

 Therefore, when the Boston and Albany Railroad Company 

 asked him to design their station at Auburndale he showed 

 for the first time what such a building ought to be. The 

 plan, of course, in so small a station is very simple, there 

 being but two waiting-rooms of almost equal size for men 

 and women respectively. . But the rooms are well propor- 

 tioned and the ticket-office is well placed, projecting as a 

 prettily designed bay upon the platform. The interior 

 walls are wainscotted with brick, as being cheap, durable, 

 pleasant to the eye, and easily kept clean. The woodwork 

 is simple throughout, but, although no carving exists, it is 

 carefully distributed and profiled and gives a look of re- 

 finement very different from the parsimonious nudity or 

 the cheap elaborateness which the average country station 



