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and Jeremiah B. Favell, Esq., of Featherstone Hall, Ponte- 

 fract. 



Awards. Knightian Medal: To Mr. Robertson, gardener to 

 Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., for Veronica speciosa, Barkeria 

 Lindleyana, and Saccolabium denticulatum. 

 Banksian Medals : To Messrs. Veitch and Son, of Exeter, for 

 Lysionotus longiflorus, a Java plant, with large red flowers, 

 and apparently new. " It was not well bloomed, only two 

 flowers being open, but these were sufficient to show the 

 brilliancy of the colours ; when the sun is on it, the tint 

 is particularly rich. We have no doubt it will prove 

 a free bloomer, as we have several plants much smaller 

 forming buds. Mr. Lobb states that he found it in damp 

 forests, at an elevation of from 3000 to 4000 feet. We 

 have treated it as a stove-plant, but one by no means re- 

 quiring a high temperature^ To C. B. Warner, Esq., for 

 a finely-coloured and well-bloomed Epidendrum Skinneri. 

 Certificates of merit : To Mr. Munnock, gardener to the 

 Rev. C. Pritchard, for a pretty Centropogon fastuosum. 

 To Mr. Tillyard, gardener to the Duke of Buckingham, 

 for specimens of Oxalis Deppei, whose large fleshy fangs 

 form an inferior, but, under some circumstances, a useful 

 accessory to a table. Of the productiveness of the root, it 

 was stated that 18 square yards had produced 980 roots, 

 weighing 217 lbs. This weight had been obtained from 

 ground which at one time had been a walk — the gravel and 

 sand, with the addition of some leaf-mould, being trenched 

 up together. The sets or little roots were planted on the 

 2nd of May. To Mr. Tucker, gardener to J. Moorman, 

 Esq., of Clapham Road, for fine specimens of Marie Louise 

 Pears, in excellent condition even at this late season. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. Mr. Fortune's 

 Jasminum nudiflorum, and the little Chusan Daisy ; a 

 richly -coloured variety of Lycaste Skinneri, and the Vicar 

 of Winkfield Pear, a rather uncertain variety as regards 

 quality. 



Books Presented. 



The Botanical Register for December. From the Publishers. 



Notice sur la Construction d'une nouvelle Serre de Palmiers au Jardin Imperial de 



Botanique a Ste. Petersbourg. From Dr. Fischer, F.M.H.S. 

 The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, No. 8. From the Society. 

 The Address delivered at the Souttiampton Meeting of the British Association for 



the Advancement of Science, Sept. 10, 1846. By Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 



President. From the A uthor. 



