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freely if potted in light loam and leaf -mould, and placed under the full influence of the sun in summer. It should be 

 frequently syringed in the mornings or evenings during hot dry weather, but care must be taken that all superabundant 

 water passes off freely, and that the soil does not remain long in a saturated state. In winter water must be given 

 very sparingly, and the temperature of the house during the night need not at any time exceed 55°. It readily 

 increases either by cuttings or by seeds, as also by gemmae produced on each areole of the fruit, which ultimately form 

 separate and distinct plants.— BotaMcal Magazine, t. 4542. 



Stylidium mucronefolium. Spnder. A greenhouse herbaceous plant, o£ much beauty, 

 from the Swan River. Flowers yellow. Belongs to the order of Styleworts. Introduced 

 by Messrs. Lucombe and Pince. (Fig. 99.) 



Imantoppiyllum miniatum ; var. Martha Reimers. A continental raised variety,, in 

 the possession of Mr. B. S. Williams of the Hollo way Nursery. 



It is a very handsome kind, superior to even the best form of Imantophyllum miniatum, the foliage is strong 

 and broad, very deep in colour ; it produces stronger flower-stems, with correspondingly larger umbels of flowers, 

 which in themselves are very deep-coloured, the extremities being darker afford a better contrast to the yellow 

 base. It is a very handsome plant, and will thrive under greenhouse management. Good turfy loam mixed with 

 enough sand to keep it porous answers for all the family. 



Davallia elegans polydactyla. Moore. In this we have another addition to the 

 many abnormal forms of Ferns that result from cultivation, of which the different crested 

 forms of Pteris serrulata, and the similarly crested varieties of Athyrium may be taken as 

 examples. It is a very handsome plant, and will, no doubt, become a favourite with 

 cultivators. It was raised from spores of D. elegans at Messrs. Veitch's Chelsea establish- 

 ment by Mr. Schneider, under whose care the Ferns there are. 



Stoutish rhizomes, which sometimes creep over the surface of the soil, and sometimes elevate themselves 

 with a shrubby kind of habit, but are always clothed with a vestiture of pointed, spreading, reddish-brown 

 scales. The fronds are quadripinnate in cutting, triangular in outline, from one to one and a half feet long, 

 and as much across the base, arching in habit, and elevated on smooth round stipites one foot or more in length, 

 which are also of a brownish colour.— Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. xv., p. 562. 



Scabiosa pterocephala. Sir J. D. Hooker. A hardy perennial in the Kew collec- 

 tion. It comes from Greece; found growing at considerable elevations on the mountain 

 ranges, and blooms in July and August, forming a dense close tuft of considerable beauty. 

 It will succeed with the usual treatment required by hardy perennials, of an open situation, 

 and porous, well -drained soil. 



Stem and branches woody, procumbent, forming patches two to three feet in diameter. Leaves one and a 

 half inches long, petiole stout. Peduncle terminal, stout, solitary, erect, naked, tomentose, heads depressed- 

 hemispherical, one and a half inches in diameter ; flowers very many, one-third of an inch long, those of the 

 ray horizontal, limb oblique two-lipped, those of the disk erect, regular, with a slender tube and campanulate 

 five-fid limb ; involucre cylindric, truncate, with plumose long or short awns. Corolla of the ray nearly half an 

 inch long, tube pubescent, upper lip two-lobed, lobes short, rounded; lower lip lobed, lobes ovate obtuse; 

 corolla of the disk flowers shorter, tube equalling the campanulate four-lobed limb. Stamens with filaments 

 twice as long as the corolla lobes.— Botanical Magazine, 6526. 



Maranta crocata. A small compact-growing plant, with short obtuse leaves, dark 

 green, conspicuous for the silvery sheen upon them. The flower-spikes are short, the bracts 

 which conceal the flowers orange-coloured. It will thrive in a warm stove, in ordinary soil, 

 either loam or peat. 



Hamamelis arborea. A hardy shrub from Japan. 



The flowers are handsomer and larger than those of H. virginica, which it is not unlike. Its blooms are purple 

 and yellow in coloi r, and are produced in tufts in winter from the naked, thin, leafless shoots ; they are very 

 distinct and singular in appearance. 



