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Echeveria SECtJNDA. This exceedingly pretty plant forms a fine addition to 
the genus Echeveria. With the aspect of a common Houseleek, and a similar 
arrangement of its leaves, it produces its blossoms solely on one side of the spike, 
and does not seem to have so straggling a flower-stalk as some of its allies. The 
leaves all curve inwards, are mucronate at the points, and have a reddish band 
round the margin. The flowers are of a bright scarlet colour, yellow internally. 
" It has now been cultivated for some time in the garden of the Horticultural 
Society, where it was received from Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., and it proves a 
very beautiful greenhouse plant, of the easiest management, remaining in flower 
during many weeks in the summer." If kept in a sitting-room or greenhouse, it 
should be freely exposed to light through the summer, and duly protected against 
dampness. Suckers spring from its sides, which may be taken off and potted in 
sand, when they will soon strike root. Bot. Reg. 57- 
Hardenbergia digitata. "A new Swan River climber, raised by Mr. 
Toward in H. R. II. the Duchess of Gloucester's garden, at Bagshot. It is clearly 
distinguished from all the previously discovered species of the genus, by its leaflets 
growing in fives, not in threes. Its flowers too are smaller than in any of the 
other species." It is a slender greenhouse climbing shrub, of rather weak growth, 
and bearing a considerable number of its neat blue blossoms, which appear in long- 
racemes, and are elevated on lengthened peduncles. Having first bloomed in 
April of the present year, it is supposed that it will generally flower in the spring. 
A round trellis is an excellent thing for supporting it, and it thrives in common 
compost. Bot. Reg. 60. 
Hymenoxys californica. From Californian seeds presented by Mr. Buist 
to Mr. Moore, and raised by him in the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, this small and 
almost worthless annual has originated. Its stems grow to the average height of a 
foot, and are seemingly very much attenuated, while the leaves are pinnatifid, and 
the flowers are borne solitarily on long terminal peduncles, being of a yellow 
colour, with a tinge of brown round the outside of the disk. It is expected to 
prove a common hardy annual, and much of its tenuity may be owing to its having 
been grown in a pot. The flowers are expanded in September. Bot. Mag. 3828. 
Lemonia spectabilis. Imported by Messrs. Loddiges from Cuba, and 
flowered in their collection in August last. It forms a beautiful dwarf shrub, and 
flowers so abundantly, that when its blossoms had been opened for several weeks, 
it is represented as " a plant of no ordinary ornament. Of course it will be a 
stove plant ; but when we consider how few stove shrubs will produce their 
blossoms, such a novelty as this is doubly welcome." The leaves are opposite, 
trifoliate, and, we believe, evergreen. From their axils, the flower-stalks, which 
are about the length of the leaves, are protruded, bearing generally about two 
showy reddish purple blossoms on the summit. Dr. Lindley has named the genus 
in compliment to Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., M.P., for the liberality with which he 
has long supported botanical science. Bot. Reg. 59. 
