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snes 2—21 inches long, 8—# inch broad. Flowers 1—2, the 
visions 4 inches long, not imbricating when fully ex anded, inner 
1618 lines, outer 12—13 lines broad at the middle, deep scarlet 
half ; anthers under 2 inch. Ovary 13—14 lines ; style 2 inches. 
This. does not sakeg eed differ from L. sanguineum, Bot. Reg. 
lines broad at the middle, very dark crimson, rather paler towards the 
tip, lower half with copious scattered small immersed biome seria 
black spots and numerous, but not senapencns, paar amelle, 
hairy groove less than 1 inch. Filaments 2} inches, ra crimson ; 
L. hamatochroum, Lem. Ill. Hort., t. 503, appears to be a still darker- 
flowered state of this. 
Igens, Hort.—Stem above a foot, purple near the base. Leaves 
up ote 40, linear, 24—3 inches long, 4—3 lines: broad, siesneey 3- 
ed. Bracts lanceol 13—2 inches $ nch_ broad, 
Flowers 4—6, the divisions 3 inches deep, not Ete usta pees 
de er 12—14 s, outer 9—10 li at the middle, 
deep crimson spots, papilla and lamelle very nearly obsolete, hairy 
e }—+ inch long. Filaments under 2 inches long, deep crimson ; 
anthers 4 lines. Ovary $—% inch; style crimson, 1} inch. By its 
taller stem, linear leaves, and numerous flowers, this recedes bhi 
from L. Thunbergianum in the direction of L. davurieum. L. venus 
Fl. d. Serres, t. 657, agrees with this in habit, but the flower is 
orange-scarlet, not so deep in incolour. JZ. Fake var. staminosum, Lem, 
rt;; t. 422, is this in a ‘‘ double 
tr. Bull’s recently gnivadnctd narmoat and punctatum we have 
not seen. The first is probably a variety of dzcolor, and the latter 
possibly of desi beipdhiiil _ Bide m Gardener's Chronicle, 
Oct. 12, 1872, p. 1856, with corrections. | 
Notices of ooks. 
Primitie Monographie Rosarum (Matériaux pour servir 4 |’ histoire des 
Roses). Par F. Crépin. Deuxiéme fascicule. Gand. Annoot-Braeckman. 
1872. Gas pp. 133 3) 
the investigation of the specimens in the Willdenow, 
which he reviews and pronounces upon one by one, The principal 
