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ine years 1879 and 1886. She also made the drawings for-the 
ood-euts which illustrate Professor Oliver’s Lessons in 
montar. y Botany, a well-known and popular introduction to 
systematic botany, in part based upon materials left in manuscript 
by Professor Henslow himself. 
Botanical Magazine for December.—The present number com- 
eee the 124th volume, which is dedicated to Mr W. B. Hemsley, | 
S., at the date of publication Principal Assistant in the Herb- - 
arium of the Royal Gardens. All the five plants figured are in 
cultivation at Kew. Musa Bakeri is anew species, supposed to bea | 
native of Cochin bins. It was obtained from the Jardin des 
an Paris. The Kew plant, which has a stem 10 feet high, 
flowered for the first time in October, 1895. Cardamine latifolia, — 
from the Pyrenees and Southern Italy, is a robust plant with rather 
lu rosy-lilac flowers. eiie de mastersianum, native of 
Java, was sent to Kew by Messrs. Sander & Co., of St. Albans. It 
isan ‘unusually handsome species both in a and flowers. Cala- | 
denia carnea, var. alba, a terrestrial orchid from Eastern 2 
and Tasmania, was received from Mr. J. O'Brien, of Harrow-on 
—— The disk of the recurved lip is furnished with two or : 
ore rows of stalked, capitate glands, Fritillaria pluriflora, u 
otidir ornamental species from Norther. ee whence . 
bulbs were sent to Kew cx Mr. Carl cma of Ukiah, has rose- | 
coloured flowers an inch long, and about two inches wide; arranged | 
in a loose raceme. 
1 Magazine for January.—Acalypha hispida (A. 
anc t is the handsome subject of the first plate of the new - 
ough so recently introduced into European gardens, — 
its peus as : highly ornamental pant for stove cultivation has 
become well established. The specimen figured was receive 
from Messrs. Sander, of St. Alban re having been sent ' 
them by their collector from = Bismarck Archipelago, in 1896. 
Lewisia Tweedyi is a native f the Wenatchee mountains, 
Washington State t lan 
with flowers three inches in diameter ; the petals are straw-colour 
becoming bright pink at the tips and edges. The Kew plant W? 
acquired by purchase. The very pretty Lilium salailun was 
escribed early last year from material received from M 
Bunting, of Chelmsford. It is a native of Japan, and FU io 
japonicum, but the flowers are smaller and pink. lthe 
trichoph ylla is a diminutive species from the Himalaya an 
estern China. The Kew plants were received from the 
Hon. Charles Ellis, of Frensham Hall, Haslemere. Ve: 
heterophylla, from California, i is the only American species : of the 
. genus. The plant figured was raised from seed received from | 
. Californian nurseryman. nre 
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