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Centaurea argentea. — Mi\ Bull, Chelsea [C. and B.]. — A perennial, with white 

 cottony leaves. Useful for flower-garden purposes, but of no interest as a flowering plant, in 

 which character it was shown, the flowers being purplish and like those of common Knap- 

 weed. The leaves, which were very elegant, were pinnate, with the segments pinnatifid, 

 the segments being numerous and narrow; the whole surface clothed with white cottony hairs. 



Cypripedium Stonei. — Mr. Williams [F.C.C. and S.K.].— A very beautiful species 

 from Borneo, noticed in Vol. ii., page 689. 



Deutzia crenata plore pleko. — Mr. Standish, Ascot [F.C.C. and S.K.]. — A very 

 handsome hardy Japanese shrub introduced by Mr. Fortune. It had opposite, shortly-stalked, 

 ovate-acuminate, finely serrated leaves, and terminal racemes of drooping flowers, which are 

 double white, punctately tinged on the outer surface with deep rose. 



Fuchsia Pillar op Gold. — Messrs. F. & A. Smith, Dulwich [C.]. — A variogated and 

 yellow-tinged variety, the golden glow on the foliage giving it rather a striking effect. 



Homoianthus viscosus. — Messrs. Veitch & Son [C ; and B.]. — A free-blooming hardy 

 perennial from Valdivia. It forms a tuft of oblong-cuneate, sinuately-toothcd root-leaves, 

 from amongst which rise numerous flowering-stems li foot high, each bearing about three 

 or four capitules corymbosely arranged, and about as large as those of the Chicory ; the florets 

 of a purplish- violet colour, paler towards the centre of the head. It will make a good border 

 flower of the composite class. 



Lastrka erythrosora. — Messrs. Veitch & Son [S.C.C. and S.B.]. — A handsome hardy 

 Japanese Fern, with fronds about 3 feet high with dark stipes, bipinnate, of ovate outline, 

 of a bright shining green ; the pinnules oblong, falcate, acute, and more or less lobed, but 

 chiefly remarkable for having their under surface decorated with lines of red dots, these dots 

 being, in fact, the indusia overlying the roundish heaps of spore-cases in the form of deep 

 red scales which are very evident in the younger stages of the fructification. It is a charming 

 addition to our hardy Ferns, associating well with Lastrea opaca, another fine hardy ever- 

 green species lately introduced from Japan and China. 



Lychnis Senno. — Mr. Standish [S.C.C. and S.B.]. — A fine hardy herbaceous plant, with 

 erect stems about 2| feet high ; hairy, opposite leaves, which are stained on the under side 

 with chocolate purple, and bear in their upper fdrks large deep crimson flowers 2 to 2£ in.oh.es 

 broad, and having the margin toothed ; the calyxes are hairy and purplish. Another form 

 called striata was shown with the foregoing. This had the leaves slightly and unequally 

 variegated at the edge, and the flowers rather larger than the other, crimson streaked with 

 white. 



Marattia (?) Cooperi (Moore).— Messrs. Veitch & Son [F.C.C. and S.K.]. — A very 

 beautiful Fern of the marattiaceous group, but, as yet, only doubtfully named, not having 

 borne fructification ; it is, however, quite unlike all the species of this group hitherto made 

 known. From the large purplish massive rootstock rise the purple stipites, which, in the 

 moderate-sized plant exhibited on this occasion, divide into about two pairs of branches of 

 oblong outline and bipinnate; the leaflets or pinnules being shortish, oblong- acuminate, 

 doubly inciso-serrate on the margin, and of a motley half- variegated green colour. These 

 compound branches being most gracefully spreading and pendent from the nearly upright 

 stipes. It comes from Australasia. 



Mimulus maculosus. — Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Son, St. John's "Wood [C.]. — A 

 group of varieties of the new hybrid spotted Monkey-flowers, named Annie, Elise, Lizzy, 

 Rosa, Mary, Bessie, was commended in the lump as ornamental novelties too little dissimilar 

 to be otherwise noticed. 



Ouvirandra Berneriana.— Messrs. Jackson & Son, Kingston [F.C.C. and S.K.]. — 

 Of this, which is one of the beautiful Lattice-leaf plants of Madagascar, a fine healthy plant in 

 a large deep glass pan was shown. The leaves, all submerged, were long, narrow, and ribbon- 

 like in form, full of holes between the regular quadrangular system of network, of which 

 they are composed. They are much longer and narrower than in 0. fenestralis, an admirable 

 sample of which, shown by Mr. Bull, served for comparison. 



Pancratium amboiense. — Messrs. Veitch & Son, Exeter and Chelsea [F.C.C. and S.K.]. 

 — This was a fine-looking stove bulb introduced from the Philippine Islands. It had bold, 

 cordate, ribbed leaves ; and these, together with its tall scape of pure white flowers, were 

 suggestive of some of the lovely species of Eucharis, though sufficiently unlike them on 

 further examination. The scapes were about 2 feet high, and supported an umbel of several 

 erect white flowers, the perianth segments of which were stiff, oblong- elliptic, and the staminal 

 cup very small. 



Pansy - (Fancy) Bob Ridley, Harlequin, Dazzle.' — -Mr. Bragg, Slough [C], 

 Pansy (Fancy) Pallas. — E. J. Lowe, Esq., Beeston [C.]. — A large, showy, purple 

 and yellow variety, with dark blotch. 



Pelargonium Achilles.— G. W. Hoyle, Esq., Eeading [F.C.C.]. — A high-coloured 

 sort of good properties ; crimson, clouded with maroon, the centre pure white. A very attrac- 

 tive flower. 



