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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
LiATRis propInqua. Sir William Hooker says that this species was "sent 
from the Horticultural Society'^s Garden of Edinburgh in the autumn of 1839, 
under the name of L. paniculata, "With that species it has no affinity, nor can we 
find any described one, nor any in our extensive herbarium of North American 
species, that will correspond with it/' It is nearly related to L. spicata, but is 
much smaller in every respect, and has fewer leaves, with sharper scales to the 
involucre. From the pointedness of its bracts, it has derived its name. The habit 
is weak and somewhat rambling ; and the flowers are too diminutive to be very 
ornate. It is only valuable as an autumnal-flowering plant. Bot. Mag. 3829. 
Rhododendron arb6reum ; cinnamomeum, fl5ribus roseis. All this array 
of names is intended to indicate that the subject of them is a rose-coloured sub- 
variety of the tree Rhododendron, or a variety of what is sometimes called 
R. cinnamomeum. It is undoubtedly a most magnificent plant, producing 
immense clusters of flowers, some of the individuals on which, according to Mr. 
Campbell, of the Manchester Botanic Garden, with whom it has blossomed in 
March of the present year, are two inches and a half in diameter. The foliage, 
too, is extremely fine, and has a deep brown hue on the under side. We should 
judge it to be the noblest Rhododendron which has hitherto bloomed in Britain, 
and especially meriting cultivation in large collections. The blossoms are of a pale 
rose colour, prettily spotted with red, and opening very widely at the mouth. The 
appellation is rather an unfortunate one, from its extreme length, and as it is not 
at all likely to come into general use, the merit of the plant would far more readily 
be appreciated if the name of its collector or of the person who j^rimarily flowered 
it were substituted. Bot, Mag. 3825. 
Senecio Heritieri ; var. cyanopthalmus. A curious variety of the old 
Cineraria lanata of the gardens, rendered particularly striking by having white 
rays to its flowers, with an intensely blue disk. Sir William Hooker observes that 
" Composit93 with a white ray and yellow eye or disk are common, as every one 
knows, but I have never met with any having a white ray and a blue disk." It 
was communicated by Mr. Morrison, gardener to — Clelland, Esq., of Rosemount, 
near Belfast, in whose greenhouse it flowered in May 1839. The rays of the 
blossoms are large and a little recurved, and the contrast in the colour, as well as 
its singularity, is no doubt highly pleasing. Bot. Mag. 3827. 
NEW, RARE, OR INTERESTING PLANTS IN FLOWER IN THE PRINCIPAL 
SUBURBAN NURSERIES. 
Angrcecum bilobum. The species which we noticed in our September 
Number, p. 187, as blooming with Messrs. Loddiges, and which was then without 
a specific name, has received the above appellation from Dr. Lindley, on account 
of the peculiar indentation at the end of its leaves ; thereby dividing them into 
two short, unequal, rounded lobes. It is now again blossoming in the same collec- 
