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TRIBE EPIDENDREiE. 
LvELiA ANCEPS (Two-edged Laelia). — A very beautiful kind, imported from 
Mexico by Messrs. Loddiges. The flowers are large, and of a purple-rose colour ; 
and from Dr. Lindley's figure and character it appears one of the most interesting 
of the Orchidece tribe. It will probably succeed, without difficulty, in any hothouse 
which is adapted for the cultivation of Maxillarias, and plants of that description. 
Bot Reg. 1751. 
TRIBE ARETHUSBiE. 
Pterostylis concinna (Neat Pterostylis)^ — This graceful little orchideous 
plant, like the majority of the species of this remarkable genus, is a native of the 
vicinity of Port Jackson, where it was discovered by Mr. Brown, and introduced 
to the Royal Gardens at Kew, by Mr. Allan Cunningham, in 1828. — Hooker, in 
Bot. Mag. 3400. 
Pterostylis acuminata (Acuminated Pterostylis).- — Another species of this 
singular Australian genus. It was also introduced by Mr. Allan Cunningham, 
from the neighbourhood of Port Jackson, in 1827. The flower is so large, in 
proportion to the size of the plant, as to render this one of the most striking of this 
genus yet known in cultivation. Flowers greenish- white. — Hooker, in Bot, 
Mag. 3401. 
tribe opiiryde^. 
Habenaria goodyeroides (Goodyera-like Hahenaria.) — This is a rare and 
interesting, though not a very beautiful plant ; it is a native of Bombay, and was 
introduced by J. Nimmo, Esq. — Hooker, in Bot. Mag. 3397- 
PECULIARITIES OF PLANTS. 
Our last remarks, Vol. I. page 54, related to those plants possessing the 
property of entrapping insects by their irritability, or by remarkable appendages 
attached to their leaves. We now come to others equally, if not more, destructive 
to the insect race, by having their stems, leaves, or flowers, or all three, covered 
with a viscous liquid ; the insects settling upon such are unable to escape, every 
struggle entangling them more than the last. 
Amongst these may be enumerated the Robinia viscosa. Calceolaria viscosa, 
several species of Silene, sweet-briar, common moss-rose, and the Fraxinella. 
The moss-rose has not only a stem thickly covered with the viscous liquid, but 
possesses a mossy coat, which, when not disfigured by dead insects, is, in every 
body's estimation, a great addition to its beauty. This beautiful variety is said 
have been raised quite accidentally, by planting a common Provence rose in a very 
damp and shady situation ; and it has been thought by some persons that any rose 
may be made mossy by constantly keeping it in the shade, and where the air is very 
damp for want of ventilation. This opinion we can by no means agree to, as a 
general rule, whatever might be done in a solitary instancCo 
