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FLORA AND SYLVA, 



sparsely fringed. The flowers are smaller than 

 those of microphylla. The berries are small, 

 red, and round. Himalaya from Kashmir to 

 Sikkim. Not hardy in cold districts. 



The following are imperfectly known to 

 me : — 



C. compta (Lemaire). — Cultivated in gar- 

 dens ; a distinct and free-flowering species with 

 black fruit. A second evergreen species from 

 Mexico. A third kind, with smooth glossy 

 leaves, wand-like, dark purple twigs with 

 whitish, warty excrescences, shaggy tips and 

 short, shaggy, fluted leaf-stalk ; leaf almost 

 elliptic and spined at the tip, nearly 2 inches 

 long,shagged underneath on the midrib and at 

 the edges. The flower heads are compact, well 

 furnished and leaved at the base. The calix, 

 which is shaped like a top, is fine-toothed and 

 shaggy ; petals rounded and hairy at the base. 

 This group belongs to no systemised order. 



67. pannsosa (Franchet). — Described in the 

 Hand-List as cultivated at the Royal Gardens, 

 Kew, and a native of Yunnan ; cultivated also 

 at the Darmstadt Botanic Garden. 



To complete Herr Zabel's study of the 

 Cotoneaster we append brief notes of four new 

 species recently introduced, and still so rare as 

 not to have come under the author's notice. 

 They are to be found in the collection of M. 

 Maurice de Vilmorin, and are as follows: — 



C. Francheti (Bois). — Raised from seed re- 

 ceived from Thibet ; an erect-growing shrub, 

 4 to 5 feet in height, stems at first covered with 

 white hairs, then brown. Leaves long, per- 

 sistent, with reddish stipules, nearly 1^ inches 

 in length and f inch at the greatest breadth ; 

 nearly glabrous above, velvety beneath, with 

 salient veinings. It flowers in June, blossoms 

 white, marked with red on the outside of the 

 petals ; the berries, light orange in colour, ap- 

 pear in September, and last during a great part 

 of the winter. A fine shrub, handsome in leaf 

 and berry, and likely to be very useful. 



C. adpressa (Bois). — A new species, a full 

 description of which is not yet published. It 

 forms a low densely spreading shrub, well 

 suited to a place in rock-gardens. 



67. bullata (Bois). — A shrub reaching 3 to 

 4 feet in height, with a somewhat drooping 

 ing habit, bearing berries of a dark blood-red 

 colour. 



C. angustifolia (Franchet). — A very valu- 

 able species received from Yunnan. Has so 

 far reached 2 to 3 feet in height, with spread- 

 ing spiny stems, loaded with brilliant red ber- 

 ries, persistent throughout the winter. Pro- 

 vided this plant proves hardy in our winters, 

 it will be of great value in gardens. Plants of 

 some of these new species are in cultivation at 

 Kew. 



THE NEWER CLEMATIS, AND OF THE LOSS OF CLEMATIS 



IN GARDENS. 



The issue of a coloured illustration of I France, it is unusual to see a garden in 

 one of the more beautiful of the newer I which any good effect results, even if 

 Clematis, with a list of the newer varie- the plants have not died. The loss to 

 ties, is a good opportunity of saying ' gardens is great, and to the house also, 

 something as to the slight use made in | for among the most beautiful wreaths 



gardens of these beautiful plants, owing 

 mainly to death or disease among them. 

 After the Rose no flower is so precious 

 for gardens and houses as the Clematis, 

 with its elegant forms, fine colours, and 

 its habit — more graceful, perhaps, than 

 that of any other climbing plant. But 

 while hundreds of fine varieties have 

 been sent out, both in England and 



for the adornment of houses there is 

 nothing so good as the long shoots of 

 C. viticella, or any other free-growing 

 kind. When we grow the wild kinds of 

 Clematis raised from seed in the great 

 nurseries, we do not find this trouble 

 arise, the plants being among the most 

 vigorous and easy to grow. I have sown 

 C. viticella in a hedgerow, and have it 



