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Disa grandiflora superba.— Mr. "Watson, gardener to C. Leach, Esq., Clapham 

 Park [S.C.C. and S.B.].— This was the fine variety mentioned in vol. ii., page 617. There 

 were shown in company with it some well-managed plants of the species itself, and of a variety 

 affording some distinctions of colouring, but on the whole inferior to the variety swperba. 



Funkta sp— Mr. Standish [S.C.C. and S.B.],— A pretty herbaceous perennial with 

 thick glaucous ovate leaves, having long channelled footstalks, and the flowers drooping, 

 Trench white, several produced on an erect spike. 



Gardenia Florida variegata. — Messrs. A. Henderson & Co., Pine Apple Place 

 [C. and B.].— A well-marked variegated Gardenia obtained from Japan. The leaves are 

 very boldly margined with cream colour in an irregularly sinuated way, the variegation often 

 passing inwards as far as the midrib. 



Gymnogramma chrysophylla, var.— Rev. J. G. C. Fussell, The Chantry, Frome 

 [C. and B.]. — This was a remarkable specimen of good cultivation, the plant forming an 

 immense mass some 4 or 5 feet through, and in the most perfect health. It was one of the 

 larger-growing seedling forms of Gold Fern, of which many exist in gardens. 



Hymenophyllum valvatum. — Messrs. Backhouse & Son [F.C.C. and S.K.]. — A beau- 

 tiful narrow-fronded drooping Fern, the bipinnatifid fronds of which were linear- oblong, and 

 made up of linear obtuse lobes connected by the wing of the primary and secondary rachides. 



Ligustrum sp. pol. variegatis. — Messrs. Veitch & Son [C. and B.]. — A dwarf shrub 

 with small ovate leaves irregularly blotched with yellow. "When more fully grown it may 

 probably become a useful ornamental shrub. 



LindstEa c ren at a. — Messrs. Backhouse & Son [C. and B.].— A very elegant pinnate 

 Fern, the crowded Maidenhair-like pinna) of which were crenately toothed at the edge. 



Linds^a stricta.— Messrs. Backhouse & Son [S.C.C. and S.B.]. — A pale green Fern 

 with bipinnate fronds, having small oblong recurved pinnules thickly placed along each side 

 of the rachis of the few primary pinna), and having very much the aspect of a stiff pallid 

 Maidenhair. 



Ouvirandra fenestralis. — Mr. Bull, Chelsea [C. and B.].— A well-managed plant of 

 this curious and rare aquatic, exhibited in a flowering state, the forked spike studded with 

 little sessile white flowers just appearing above the water surface. 



Pelargonium (Variegated) Italia Unita— Messrs. E. G.Henderson & Son [F.C.C.].— 

 Also noticed in vol. ii., page 676. The best of the Silver-edged tricolor zonale varieties. 



Pelargonium (Scarlet) Lady Cowper. — Mr. Francis, Hertford [C.].— A variety of 

 very dwarf habit, furnished with small bright green foliage, and producing bright scarlet 

 flowers. It was commended for its dwarf habit, and its useful decorative properties. 



Pelargonium (Variegated) Lucy Grieve— Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Son [F.C.C.].— 

 A remarkably handsome variety, more highly-coloured in the zonale marking than Mrs. 

 Pollock, which it resembles rather than Sunset. It will be found further noticed in vol. ii. 

 page 676. The best of the Gold-edged tricolor zonale varieties. 



Pink, Rev. George Jeans.— Mr. Turner, Slough [F.C.C.].— A remarkably fine Pink, 

 full-petalled, of extra large size, with the petals well arranged, the white clear, and the 

 lacing forming a heavjr edge of rosy crimson. 



Primula sinensis pol. variegatis.— Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Son [C. and B.].— A 

 very pretty variegated-leaved Chinese Primrose, in which the variegation was well marked. 

 The leaves have a deep green disk, which, in the younger ones, is margined by yellowish- 

 green, which becomes creamy yellow in the mature state. 



_ Pteris serrulata cristata.— Messrs. Veitch & Son [F.C.C. and S.K.].— A Japanese 

 variety of a well-known and most useful hardy greenhouse Fern, in which all the long ribbon- 

 like divisions of the frond were tipped by a crispy tassel. It will be an excellent Fern for 

 small glass cases. 



Quercus sp. — Mr. Standish [S.C.C. and S.B.].— A fine-looking Oak with broad, obovate 

 sinuately-lobed leaves. 



Quercus sp.— Mr. Standish [C. and B.].— An odd-looking plant, having the pinnatifid 

 leaves attenuated as if depauperated. If it proves a free-growing hardy tree, this singular 

 foliage will give it considerable interest. 



Selaginella involvens.— Mr. Standish, Ascot [S.C.C. and S B.].— A very elegant 

 dwarf -habited species of the ciroinate group, and forming another excellent subject for a 

 Ward's case. 



Statice Feostii.— Mr. Frost, gardener to Lady Grenville, Dropmore [S.C.C. and S.B.]. 

 A stout-growing hybrid, of which some account will be found in vol. i., page 693. It' was 

 raised between 8. Holfordii and 8. imbricata, and formed a mass of lyrately pinnatifid downy 

 leaves, frorn among which grew up the winged flower-stems, supporting large corymbose 

 heads of white flowers with deep purple calices. The flowers were richly coloured, and the 

 habit all that could be desired. 



Trichomanes alatum. — Messrs. Backhouse & Son [C. and B.]. — A rather large-growing 

 bipinnatifid Fern, which has the appearance of being pinnate with pinnatifid-toothed pinnaf 



