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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
THE ORCHIS TRIBE (Orchidacece). 
C yrtoch i lum mystacinum. Whiskered Curvelip. One of the least hand- 
some species of this showy genus ; the flowers being rather diminutive, and entirely 
of a yellow colour. Richard Harrison, Esq., of Aighburgh, imported plants of it 
from Peru, and it blossomed in the collection of this gentleman towards the close 
of the year 1837- Its pseudo-bulbs are corrugated, monophyllous at their summit, 
with an indefinite number of leaves enveloping their base, from the axil of the 
uppermost of which the flower- spike appears. This last is branched, the flowers 
are somewhat scattered, and have, in common with other true species of Cyrto- 
chilum, " the base of the lip united to the face of the lower part of the column." 
Bot. Reg. 62. 
' THE LILY TRIBE (Liliaceas). 
ScIlla pratensis. Meadow Squill. The Hon. W. F. Strangways, who has 
the rare merit of collecting and cultivating all the scarcer kinds of European 
plants, grows this highly interesting species in his garden at Abbotsbury, where it 
blooms in the month of June. " It is a beautiful little rock plant, quite hardy, 
and a welcome addition to our gardens, from flowering after the spring bulbs are 
gone, and before the autumnal species appear." It inhabits meadow land by the 
side of the river Korenicza, in Croatia. The flowers are borne in great abundance, 
and are of a bright purplish-blue colour. In its culture, it is indispensable that 
the bulbs be taken from the soil, or protected from moisture during the period of 
their natural torpidity. Bot. Reg. 63. 
In an Appendix to the Botanical Register now issuing, and comprising an 
Index to that work from the time of its commencement, Dr. Lindley has furnished 
a useful account of the Flora of the Swan River Colony ; and as coloured plates of 
the principal plants are attached, we subjoin a brief notice of those which appeared 
in the November Part. None of the plants figured have, we imagine, flowered in 
this country ; but the large quantities of seeds imported, and the number of young 
plants at present in nurseries, render it desirable that something should be known 
respecting them by both grower and purchaser. 
Chrysorrhoe nitens. This species is represented as one of surpassing 
beauty ; the dense clusters of its golden-coloured, delicately fringed, and star-like 
flowers, forming a most gorgeous display. It is a small shrub, with very narrow dimi- 
nutive foliage, and slender, partially bare branches, the flowersbeing collected together 
at the extremities of the smaller shoots, so as to present a perfect mass of splendour. 
The leaves and stems resemble those of some of the weaker species of Pimelea. 
Verticordia insIgnis. An extremely elegant little shrub, with small, oppo- 
site, divaricate, serrated, and closely-pressed leaves, and pretty pink flowers, which 
appear in corymbs. Like those of Chrysorrhoe, these last are surrounded with a 
beautiful fringe, or rather a great number of lobes, with hair-like protuberances 
round their margin ; but in Verticordia these stand nearly erect, while, in the 
