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PROCEEDINGS OF TIIK 



From ]Mr. EdinoiuN. (iarcU'iior to His (Jraco ihv Duke of l)e- 

 vonslurt", l*rt>iiK'Ut, plants of I'.ixiciis ^rtinditford, ( iftisiis cdiuiri- 

 ensis ami Corraa sptuiosu. 



From Messrs. Luconibe, Fiiur and Co. of Kxcter, the fi)llo\ving 

 plants, viz. two speeies of SlijH(liiitn from Swan River j Acropliyl- 

 Itiin vtnosum, a beautiful Cireenhouse slirub ; two seedling va- 

 rieties of I)illin/ni(t clavata, a seedling Camellia called rliodope- 

 tata, in allusion to its beautiful rose-like petals, and WkhUhUh- 

 (iron I'lctonii, a fine hybrid said to be (juile hardy, (Silvkr 

 KNM.nriAX iNIr.nAL awarded for the AcropliijUum and Illiododen- 

 dron.) 



From Mrs. A\'ray, of Cheltenham, F.Il.S , PiincUa spectabilis 

 and seven otlier seedlint:; plants, from Swan River. 



From Sir Philip Grey E^erton, Hart., F\H.S., flowers of a fine 

 new seedlint:; Cactus, ((^kktifu atk awarded.) 



F>om Mr. Henderson, Gardener to Viscount Milton, two very 

 sini::ular instances of unusual formation in ])lants. The first was 

 an Kpidctidrum llarrisouii, whose stem had been cut across and 

 produced a yoimii; plant from the surface of the wound, a 

 curious instance of the dcvelopement of adventitious buds. 



Tlie other was a cluster of bulbs formed at the end of the 



