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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



Dodecatheon integrieolium. Michaux. A hardy herbaceous plant, belonging to the 

 Order of Prim worts. Flowers purple and yellow. Native of California. Introduced by 

 the Horticultural Society. 



A dwarf stemless plant, with a few long narrow, almost spathulate, undivided leaves, and a slender scape, bearing 

 a single nodding flower, very like that of the common species, and of the same purple colour, with a yellow eye and 

 dark purple anthers. Such was the plant in the Horticultural Garden. Upon looking, however, to the wild specimens, 

 we find that it becomes much more vigorous when older, bearing as many as three flowers on a scape, or, according to 

 Sir William Hooker, eleven or twelve ; in which case it becomes as interesting as the old and well-known species, so 

 frequent in gardens. A damp, rich, shaded American border suits it best; and there it may be expected to grow 

 without difficulty. —Joum. Hort. Soc, vol. v. With a figure. 



Cyperus laxus variegatus. A variegated sport from the ordinary green C. laxus. 

 Exhibited by the New Horticultural Company, at the Royal Horticultural Society's meeting 

 October, 1880, where it was awarded a first-class certificate. 



It is in all respects like the green type in form, but is deeply and persistently variegated with white, occupying 

 three-fourths of the entire surface of the leaves, not unlike the well-known hardy grass, Gardener's garters (Arundo 

 donax versicolor). It will require a warm house to grow in. 



Aralia Chabrierii. This is a handsome and distinct looking plant, we understand, 

 from the South Sea Islands. Like many others of the Aralias, it is extremely elegant in 

 appearance, especially whilst in a small state. 



The leaves on a small plant, which thickly clothe the slender, erect-growing stem, are simple, narrow, about 

 a quarter of an inch broad, and nine or ten inches in length ; drooping, strong, and hard, deep green and shining 

 above, paler beneath ; mid-rib prominent, deep red above, and beneath as well. The plant is disposed to form 

 side-branches much freer than most of the family. 



Sarracenia atrosangtjinea. A native of North America, introduced by Mr. Bull. 



This is a tall, slender-habited kind. The pitchers, which attain near a yard in height, grow rapidly wider 

 near the top, the edges of which recurve outwards. The lid is somewhat small proportionate to the size of the 

 orifice, over which it forms a hood. The green ground-colour of the upper part of the pitcher is relieved with a 

 clearly-defined reddish-brown netted veining on the inside, which extends part way up the lid, where it assumes 

 the character of a deep, solid blotch of dark chocolate-red that has a lustrous surface, giving the plant quite a 

 distinct appearance from any other species we have seen. Flowers pale yellow. 



Bomarea oligantha. Is a native of Peru, introduced by Herr Leichtein of Baden- 

 Baden, and there bloomed by him. We have not seen the flower, but it is said to be nearly 

 allied to B. Halliana, differing from it in some respects, most noticeable of which are its 

 broad, short leaves and less number of flowers. It is a climbing species, requiring green- 

 house treatment. 



Stems wide-climbing, slender, glabrous. Leaves with a short, winged, twisted petiole, oblong, acute, about two 

 inches long, membranous in texture, with close ribs and obscure cross-bars, bright green on the upper surface, 

 ciliated on the ribs beneath. Flowers one or two to an umbel, on simple, fiexuous, glabrous pedicels, about an 

 inch long. Bracts small, lanceolate. Perianth regularly funnel-shaped, about an inch long above the small globose 

 ovary ; outer segments slightly shorter than the inner, oblanceolate, under quarter of an inch broad, obtuse, with a 

 minute pilose apictilus, unspotted, reddish on the outside, yellow within; inner segments obovate-cuneate, with a 

 claw as long as the blade, broadly rounded at the tip, with a distinct cusp, three-eighths of an inch broad, bright 

 yellow, with abundant small, claret-brown spots. Three longest filaments nearly as long as the perianth limb ; 

 anthers oblong, one-twelfth of an inch long; filaments subulate.— Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. viii., p. 648. 



