PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



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A low bush, with close strict, robust, deeply grooved branches clothed with red-brown bark ; spines half an 

 inch long. Leaves in crowded tufts all along the branches, half an inch to nearly one inch long, obovate or 

 spathulate, tip rounded, apiculate or not, nerves very indistinct. Flowers very numerous, small, one-fourth to one- 

 third of an inch in diameter, drooping, solitary or in pairs on very slender curved pedicels. Sepals three or four, 

 equal, ovate, acute, red, half as long as the petals. Petals pale straw coloured, suffused with red. Ovary oblong ; 

 stigma broad, sessile, orbicular. Fruit a quarter of an inch long, globose, or broadly ellipsoid, with a sessile 

 stigma,.— Botanical Magazine, 6646. 



Saxk-OotiooA. conspicua. Li tidlot/. Aii evergreen hardy Coniferous tree of great 

 beauty, from the Andes of Patagonia. Introduced by Messrs. A^eitch. (Fig. 178.) 



Generic Character. Genus Coniferarum monoicum. — Fl. masc. Anthem spicatse, 2-loculares, apice acuminata 

 refiexa?. — Fl. foern. Strobilus imbricatus, e squamis acuminatis liberis infra medium monospermis. Qoulum inversum, 

 in fovefi squamse semi-immersum ; tunicd prima laxa, ventre fissa, secundd foramine pervio, nucleo apice spongioso 

 protruso. Galbulus carnosus, e squamis inucronatis, apice liberis, squarrosis, omnino connatis, plurimis abortientibus 

 Semen nucamentaceum, leviter triangulare, 

 basi, tunicse primse membranacese fissae reli- 

 quiis vestitum. Arbor sempervirens, Taxi 

 facie; foliis linearibus, plants, apiculatis, 

 subtiis lined duplici pallida notatis. 



This remarkable plant, to which His 

 Royal Highness Prince Albert graciously 

 permitted one of his titles to be given, 



