By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



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the Passiflora cseruleo-racemosa ;* but I am not quite cer- 

 tain whether, when the remainder of the;produce of the same 

 intermixture shall have flowered, we shall not be obliged to 

 resort to some further mode of distinguishing them from each 

 other ; for of the six remaining plants which have not yet 

 blossomed, though one seems to correspond with that now 

 under notice, yet each of the other five have such differences 

 as indicate a probability of their being distinct. Another 

 season will probably clear up this circumstance ; for I think 

 that most of the plants are sufficiently strong to produce 

 flowers next summer ; by which time also the station in the 

 garden which they will be able to sustain, will also have been 

 ascertained. Mr. Milne expects that some of them will 

 have partaken sufficiently of the hardy properties of their 

 male parent to be able to withstand the severity of our 

 winters, to prove which they have been planted in the open 

 ground, against walls with different aspects, by way of expe- 

 riment, during the ensuing winter. 



The drawing of a branch of the new hybrid, which has 

 been executed by Mr. Lindley, is a faithful representation 

 of it, as it appeared this season ; but the minute and peculiar 

 beauties of the blossom of a Passion Flower can never be ad- 

 equately represented on paper. This new plant has remark- 

 able excellencies of this description ; its blossoms seem to 

 have taken from each parent those properties of their respec- 

 tive flowers which conduce most to their beauty, and to have 



* The plan, of giving the specific name of the female parent with that of the 

 male annexed in the ablative case, has been also used by Signer Caelo Bell audi 

 of the University of Pavia, in his Sagglo Botanko-Georgico, published at Mdan 

 in 1809. 



