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1 sphere, slightly shaded, with a temperature of from 65 to 80°, in pots of 

 moss, broken pots, and eharcoal. 



Stachttarpheta Mutabilis.— This is a family closely allied botanically 

 with Verbena, but having more the habit and appearance of a Lantana. 

 The leaves of this species are often four inches long and three wide, and the 

 flowers appear successively in spikes nearly a foot in length. These are 

 of a rosy, or vermilion pink, each flower something resembling a "beauty 

 supreme" Verbena. It is of easy culture, thriving best in a light situation 

 in a moist stove, or in the open borders in summer time. It was originally 

 introduced 50 years ago into England, from South America, and is describ- 

 ed in page 976 of the Botanical Magazine \ but I believe does not now ex- 

 ist in their collections. Seeds were presented to Mr. Cope by Mr. Ezra 

 Bowen, from the East India Company's garden at Calcutta. It is highly 

 ornamental. * 



Campanula Vidalii. — A singular species, with succulent shrubby stems, 

 and narrow, short, shining leaves. Flowering stems are thrown up from th# 

 ends of the strongest shoots, each bearing numerous white flowers. These 

 are about two inches long, and are contracted in the middle. It grows well 

 with me in sandy loam, in a cool greenhouse. Our plant was presented by 

 Mr. Knorr, who imported the original plant from Belgium. 



Pharbitis limbata. — Also from the same gentleman, and figured in a 

 late "Florist," grows "like a weed," and produces us half a dozen of its 

 beautiful white edged flowers every morning, in a light part of a moist 

 house. It is growing in a pot of rich turfy loam. 



Indigofera decora. — One of Mr. Fortune's discoveries in China, and 

 one of the best of the recent introductions that I have seen. The flowers 

 come out in the axils of the leaves of the young growth, in racemes from 4 

 to 6 inches long, of a rosy pink and white color. It will become very pop.* 

 ular. It is easily grown in well drained pots of turfy loam, and grown in a 

 light and cool greenhouse. It is very liable to attacks of red spider. Our 

 plant was obtained from Mr. Hovey. 



Gomphrex^i Hoveyi. — Under this name the French catalogues advertise 

 Hovey's new Globe amaranthus, while the London seedsmen offer it as a 

 "new orange Globe amaranthus, from Texas." Whatever it # is, it is one of 

 the few plants which occasionally appear, [rapidly to become of standard 

 value. It is specifically distinct from the common Gr. globosa — the head of 

 flowers being ovoid or elliptical, and the peculiarly green leaves margined 

 with long ciliated hairs. Several who had seed tell me they failed to grow. 

 I soaked one-half my packet 40 hours in water, and the other just as it 

 was. The former came up in a few days ; the others failed. 



