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On the Cultivation of Rare Plants. 



stove. It grows wild in the woods of Jamaica, from whence 

 I received the roots in 1786, and it is now in most of the col- 

 lections about London. 



Gyas Humilis. MSS. Cymbidium hyacinthinum. Smith 

 Ex. Bot. p. 60. cum Ic. 



Introduced by Thomas Evans, Esq. in 1802, from the 

 Island of Trinidad, where it grows wild. This is also a tender 

 species, and only producing four or five flowers in a spike, 

 very like those of the last; though somewhat larger, it is not so 

 much esteemed, and I fear will soon be lost. 



Cathea Pulchella. MSS. Cymbidium pulchellum. 

 Willd. Sp. PL v. 4. p. 105. Limodorum tuberosum. Linn. 

 Sp. PL ed. 2. p. 134,5.— Curt, in Bot. Mag. n. 116. cum )c. 

 optima. 



This genus approaches nearer to Arethusa than to the last, 

 both in flower and fruit : and though it grows wild from 

 South Carolina up to Canada, I have not been able to make 

 it succeed here in the open air. It was introduced acciden- 

 tally, as Mr. Curtis informs us, by the laudable exertions of 

 his gardener, who, in the spring of 1783, examining atten- 

 tively the bog-earth which had been brought over with some 

 Dionceas, found several tooth-like knobby roots, which, upon 

 being planted in heat, afforded this plant. On the shelf of 

 a stove, or in a bark-pit, it thrives exceedingly ; and I be- 

 lieve merely requires a longer and hotter summer, than our 

 climate affords. 



Arethusa Bulbosa. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2. p. 1346. 



Introduced by Dr. Fothergill in 1778, as appears from 

 a drawing made by Miss Lee, daughter of the celebrated 

 nurseryman. It grows wild, in bogs, as far north as Halifax, 



