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Plants were raised from seeds soon after that period, and they form small, but handsome, bushy 
greenhouse plants ; bearing numerous flowers in the month of May in the Royal Botanic Gardens 
of Kew." The leaves are very long, slender, and deeply pinnatifid ; the flowers being terminal, 
and almost buried among the foliage. The plant is dwarf, but much branched and straggling ; 
while the leaves are numerous and dense. Bot. Mag. 4035. 
Era'nthemum monta'num. Justly called by Dr. Roxburgh a very beautiful flowering shrub, 
and " a native of the Circar mountains. It is also found by Dr. Wight, probably not unfrequently, 
in the Madras Peninsula ; and I possess numerous specimens," says Sir W. J. Hooker, " from 
Colonel and Mrs. Walker, gathered in Ceylon. It is allied to E. strictum, but abundantly 
distinct in the very different bracteas, larger size, in the colour of the flower, and the much 
longer tube. Nees described four varieties, chiefly differing in the nature of the bracteas, and in 
the hairiness about them and the calyx : the stem also seems to vary. It flowers copiously in the 
stove in April and May." The stems are weak, with four-sided branches, ovate-lanceolate and 
acuminate leaves, and lilac or rosy purple flowers, which have a very long, curved tube, and 
appear in loose panicles. Bot. Mag. 4031. 
Lipa v ria pa'rva; var. angustifo v lia. "A small, erect, but rather straggling shrub, long 
cultivated in the greenhouse of the Royal Gardens of Kew, and considered a new species of 
Liparia. It has, however, since the publication of the Leguminosse in Decandolle's 'Pro- 
dromus,' been published in the ' Linnsea,' and, still more recently, in Walpus' useful ' Reper- 
torium Botanices Systematicae," under the name here adopted. It flowers in the early spring 
months, and makes a pretty appearance with its rather large, orange-yellow heads of flowers." 
The stem is somewhat weak and flexuose, or straggling, and the leaves are oblong-lanceolate 
rigid, and acute. Both the leaves and flowers turn black in drying. Bot. Mag. 4034. 
Narcissi, hybrid. Several curious hybrids are figured, which were raised by the Hon. and 
very Rev. the Dean of Manchester, " from seed at Spofforth, and are amongst those which have 
already flowered." It is stated by Mr. Herbert that many Narcissi, which have been distin- 
guished as species, and even made into fresh genera, are never known to bear seed, and they are 
hence regarded as mules. Mr. H. has entirely verified this supposition in some of his hybrids ; 
producing what have been regarded as separate species or genera from two other decided species. 
u Fig. 5," he says, "is the produce of the wild Yorkshire daffodil, Ajax pseudo-narcissus, by 
pollen of N. poeticus, and is decidedly a variety of the plant ealled N. incomparabilis. Fig. 3 is 
the produce of JV. incomparabilis, by the same N. poeticus, that is, two generations from the 
daffodil by the poetic narcissus ; and in it the change is complete, from the form of stamina in the 
daffodil to that in the true narcissus, and it is evident that one cross more (or at least two further 
crosses) would, out of the wild daffodil, produce the true Pheasant-eye Narcissus." Other, 
and very curious instances, of a like character, are adduced, and Mr. Herbert observes that, t( it 
is desirable to call the attention of the humblest cultivators, of every labourer indeed, or operative, 
who has a spot of garden, or a ledge in his window, to the infinite variety of Narcissi that may be 
thus raised, and most easily in pots at his window, if not too much exposed to sun and wind, 
offering him a source of harmless and interesting amusement, and perhaps a little profit and 
celebrity. The six anthers should be carefully taken out before the flower, which is to bear the 
seed, blooms. This may be done through a slit cut in the tube ; and the yellow dust from another 
sort must be applied to the point of the style. The two-flowered N. biflorus, which has no 
ovules, may be an accidental mule, barren from extreme old age, (perhaps many centuries,) as 
well as from hybridity. It will be remembered, that many years ago the writer asserted that 
Crinum amabile was a sterile mule. He can now state that, although it has long been introduced 
into Jamaica, and flourishes there exceedingly, it is as sterile there as in the east, and has never 
been known to produce a seed." Bot. Reg. 38. 
Onci'dium uniflo v rum. " This curious little plant, allied to the rare Oncidium barbatum, 
inhabits trees in the forests of the Organ Mountains of Brazil, where it was found in April 1841, 
by Mr. Gardner. For its introduction to gardens we are indebted to Sir Charles Lemon, who 
received it from Brazil in August 1841, through Lieutenant Turner of H. M. Packet { Ranger,' 
and in whose collection at Carclew it flowered in November 1842." The pseudo-bulbs are 
roundish oblong when young, and afterwards become thinner and furrowed. The leaves are 
oblong, lanceolate, acute, and a good deal recurved. The flowers are solitary, issue from the base 
