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On the Cultivation o/"Rare Plants. 



Kennedy. Their foreman, Mr. Gushing, tells me, that he 

 mixes a little peat with the sand he plants them in : and I 

 observed this species particularly luxuriant in such soil, 

 having several flowers expanded at the same time. 



Homeria OcHROLEircA. MSS. Moraea collina. y Ker in 

 Bot. Mag. n. 1283. cum Ic. 



This species flowered and ripened seeds at Chapel-Aller- 

 ton in 1797, being among some bulbs given to me by Sir 

 Joseph Banks : and it was there cultivated in pure 

 white sand, such as I observed sticking among the coats 

 of the root. 



MaricaPantherina. MSS. MaricaNortbiana. Kerin 

 Bot. Mag. w.654. cum ic. bond. Moraeavaginata. Decand.in 

 PL Lil. v. 1. n. 56. cum Ic. Moraea Northiana. Kenn. in Bot. 

 Hep. n. 255. cum Ic. 



A most elegant plant, discovered wild by Sir Joseph 

 Banks, in the small island of Kaza, near Rio Janeiro. 

 It was not introduced, however, till 1789, when the late 

 Hon. Mrs. North received a plant of it, which had been 

 sent to Lisbon. It delights in heat and moisture, ripening 

 seeds in our stoves abundantly, if a little attention is paid to 

 fecundate the stigma. 



Trimeza Lurida. MSS. Iris Martinicensis. Decand. in 

 PL LiL n. 172. cum Ic.—Curt. in Bot. Mag. n. 416. cum Ic. 

 —Linn. Sp. PL ed.% p. 52. 



This grows wild in moist ground, and was in the collection 

 of John Blackburne, Esq. at (Word, so long ago as 1776\ 

 from him I received seeds : they came up, and were culti- 

 vated very successfully without fire-heat, in a bark-pit which 

 I used for Melons, before I had any stove. 



