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from the Tonglo swamp, Sikkim, at an elevation of 10,000 feet, bearing 
much finer flowers than those figured in Mr. Dykes' monograph — 
it grows on the dry, hot rockery at Colesborne, but does not thrive 
in wet, peaty soil, like that of its native home ; the Siberian form 
of Cypripedium macranthum ; Anigozanthus sp. ; Bomarea sp. raised 
from seed collected at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, and grown planted out in 
a warm-house border ; Urceocharis x Clibrani ; Eremurus seedlings 
raised at Colesborne by crossing the broad-leaved early-flowering 
robustus-himalaicus forms with the narrow-leaved Bungei-Olgae group 
and giving a race intermediate in flowering between the two. 
Castilleja sp.' — Mr. Elwes also showed a shoot of a Castilleja from 
the rock garden at Colesborne, possibly the same species as that 
exhibited by Mrs. Longstaff last year (Journ. R.H.S. xli. p. cvii) and 
grown also by Mr. Beamish near Cork. This plant was one of several 
sent home by Mr. F. R. S. Balfour in August 1913. Mr. Balfour says 
concerning it : " Others of the same lot and of the same species are in 
bloom at my place, Darysk, in Tweeddale. I am uncertain whether 
it is C. purpurascens Greenm. or C. miniata Dougl. I am inclined to 
think the latter, as it grows above timber line and is cardinal-scarlet, 
whereas the former is more usual at lower altitudes and of usually a 
purplish hue. The plants I sent home were lifted at about 8,000 feet 
near Lake Agnes in the Canadian Rockies, and formed sheets of scarlet 
near snow level in the mountain meadows, where it is at its best in 
late July and August. It is occasionally pinkish or rarely whitish in 
colour. There is, however, a white species, C. pallida, which occurs in 
similar situations with more hairy bracts. 
" On Mount Rainier (Washington) in September I saw Castilleja in 
masses above timber line mixed with Pulsatilla occidentalis and Aster 
pulchellus, Gentiana calycosa, Polygonum bistorta, Veratrum viride, 
Dodecatheon Jeffrey^ — altitude about 9,000 feet' — the flowers of a 
distinctly purplish-crimson, not at all the scarlet shade of what seemed 
otherwise the same species as I found in the Canadian Rockies. C. 
septentrionalis must, I think, be a synonym of C. purpurascens, though 
of this I am not sure. I notice Mrs. Henshaw says they are of every 
colour from coral-pink to cardinal and from canary-tint to tangerine. 
" They are all, I think, undoubtedly parasitic to some extent, but 
not saprophytic. The genus is not represented in Europe. For mass 
of colour I never saw anything to equal them, except, perhaps, a 
British Poppy field." 
New Notholirion.- — Mr. J. C. Allgrove sent a plant collected by 
Purdom in China and evidently nearly related to Notholirion Hookeri, 
differing, however, in being much more robust, reaching 2 feet 6 inches 
in height, in having much more curved stamens, and in having the 
spreading tips of the perianth green. It is an interesting plant, 
sharing with N. roseum ( = macrophyllum) and N. Hookeri a position 
intermediate between Fritillaria and Lilium. N. roseum has been 
and often is still assigned to Lilium as L. Thompsonianum (see p. cxxiv). 
Purple-tubed Primula sikkimensis.< — Mr. E. A. Bowles showed 
