186 THE BOTANICAL CONGRESS AT FLORENCE. 
brilliant azaleas, and on eithersideare large bedsof Palms, Cycads, Tree 
Ferns, Rhododendrons, &c., with herbaceous plants. In each of the 
lateral divisions of the building are houses containing Orchids, Glox- 
inias, Marantas, Caladiums, Begonias, Fittonias, Anthuriums, &, 
Bavaria. Objects connected with Horticulture and Agriculture 
occupy detached rooms on either side of the market, Holland, 
Belgium, England, France, . i 
are strongly represented in these sections. The greater portion of the 
including a hybrid Sarracenia (S. fava x S. Drummondit) and 
Ouvirandra fenestralis, a novelty in Italian exhibitions. 
It is, however, with the Botanical Congress that we have _ 
This is held in the different rooms belonging to the 
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designed by Prof. Caruel, of Pisa, Karl Zeiss of Jena, Steinheil, and 
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of papers, is that in which are kept the valuable collections which wer 
presented to the Museum by the late Mr. Webb, the unveiling 
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