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The leaves appear later than the flowers, and are between lanceolate and strap-shaped. The scape is two feet high, 

 taper, glaucous, and two-flowered. The segments of the flower are spreading, but combined into a curved funnel- 

 shaped tube, whose throat is destitute of appendages. The outer divisions of the flower are broadest. The stigma is 

 very small and three-cornered. The flower-stalks are a full inch long ; the flowe rs themselves about three inches.— 

 Allg. gartenzeit. 1850. No. 9. 



Cypripedium vexillaritjm. A handsome hybrid Orchid of Messrs. Verton's, raised 

 between C. barbatum and C. Fairrieanum, partaking most in appearance of the former 

 parent,, bnt not so large. 



Leaves smaller, and in their ground-colour paler than C. barbatum, irregularly veined with darker green. 

 Flower not so large as C. barbatum. Upper sepal large and somewhat pointed, ground-colour white, suffused with 

 reddish-purple, veined with deep purple from the base to the top ; lower sepal small. Petals olive-green, with several 

 purple longitudinal lines through them, heavily barbed on the edges, and wavy. Lip yellowish-olive, with purple 

 net-like reticulation over its whole outer surface. 



Gatjltheria Lindeniana. Tlanclwn. An evergreen greenhouse shrub, belonging to 



the order of Heathworts. Mowers small, pure 

 white. Native of the mountains of Caraccas. 

 Introduced by Mr. Linden. (Fig. 76.) 



Found on the Silla de Caraccas, at an elevation of 

 between 6,000 and 7,000 feet. Leaves said to resemble 

 those of the Camellia in form, and of the Arbutus in 

 texture. Flowers, although small, very conspicuous 

 because of the pure whiteness of their calyx and corolla. 

 — Flore des Serves, 501 d. 



Adiantum belltjm. The favour that 

 has been bestowed by cultivators upon the 

 arborescent and larger growing kinds of 

 Ferns has resulted in many of the most 

 beautiful and elegant being left to compara- 

 tive neglect. Of such is this little Adiantum, 

 which is a native of the island of Bermuda, 

 and has been introduced by Mr. Bull. 



Fronds tufted, three to six inches high, bipinnate, 

 ovato-lanceolate ; pinnae of three to six pinnules, half 

 to one and a half inches long ; stalked ; pinnules 

 cuneate or irregularly transverse-oblong, the somewhat 

 larger terminal ones cuneate, and divided into two 

 or three shallow lobes, the margin erose, all shortly 

 pedicellate, the pedicels hair-like, not articulated with 

 the pinnule, but showing at their apex a short y-shaped 

 ebeneous furcation, which passes into the flabellate 

 venation; sori various, two or three on the smaller 

 pinnules, short and roundish, longer and sublimate, 

 situate at the apex of the shallow lobes; indusium 

 entire ; caudex thin, shortly creeping, with crinif orm 

 scales; stipes and rachides ebeneous, smooth. — Gar- 

 dener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. xi., p. 172. 



Selaginella Victoria. The quaint beauty of the club-mosses has always been 

 recognised by those who take an interest in plants, especially such as are remarkable 

 for their elegance of formation. In appearance, S. Victoria is the nearest to S. Wal- 

 lichii of any with which we are acquainted, but it is even handsomer than that fine 



