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NEW PLANTS. 
SARRACENIA SWANIANA. 
A very handsome and well-marked hybrid between S. mriolaris and S. im,rpxi.rca. Awarded a 
Ki-st Class Certificate by the Floral Committee of the Koyal Horticultural Society. It partakes most 
of the aspect of S. purpxirea, but is more erect. The pitchers are funnel-shaped slightly incurved, and 
having a broadish wing. The lid is cordate-ovate with a bilobed apex. The colour is a greenish purpde, 
the lid and the inside of the tube being closely reticulated with crimson veins. For illustration, vide 
piage 4. 10s. 6rf. 
SARRACENIA TOLLIANA. 
A very handsome hybrid raised between S. Drummondii alba and S. jlava. It is remarkable for its 
long, slender, funnel-shaped pitchers and very broad wing. The orifice appears as if cut straight across, 
with a recurved margin. The funnel is either wholly deep purple-red with darker ribs and veins, or 
greenish with dark purple ribs and veins. Tlic lid is bro.ad, reniform, and undulated, and is reticulated 
with reddish-puiide. 10s. 6d. 
SARRACENIA WILSONIANA. 
A very distinct and striking plant, also a hybrid, raised between S. purpurea and S. flava, so distinct • 
and pleasing as to have won a First Class Certificate from the Floral Committee of the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society. The pitchers are quite erect, shortish, funnel-shaped, constricted a short distance 
below the apex, gi-ecn striped with deepj purple- crimson ribs, wliich ai-e more or less united by cross- 
veins. The wing is of medium width and veined with puiqde-orimson. The lid is very broad and full, 
eordate-reniform, and strongly marked by dichotomous ribs, united by smaller veins, the inside more 
closely reticulated with deep purple-crimson. 10s. 6d. 
SCHISMATOGLOTTIS DECORA. 
This is a dwarf stove perennial of the Araceous group, with very short stems, and ovate acuminate 
leaves, the upper surface of which is green, decorated with thickly distributed oblong silvery grey 
blotches, covering fully half the area, the under surface being pale green. It has been imported from 
Horneo. 1 Os. 6d. 
SCHISMATOGLOTTIS VARIEGATA. 
A small growing stemless Arad, with oblong lanceolate leaves of a dark green colour, marked down 
the centre with a silvery band, nearly an inch broad, the midrib being pale green. The spathe is 
•glaucous green, and the limb boat-shaped, pale yellowish green. Native of Borneo. 10s. 6d. 
SCINDAPSUS ARGYR.ffitJS. 
A creeping-stemmed Arad, the stems fixing themselves by rooting as they advance in growth. The 
leaves are glabrous, the juvenile ones ovate acuminate, very silvery and glossy on the surface ; the 
older and more mature leaves are pinnatifid, and become silvery on the surface like the younger ones. 
It has been imported from the East Indies. 10s. 6<f. 
SELAGINELLA AMCENA. 
A beautiful new Club-Moss, belonging to the caulescent group. It grows about a foot high, the 
erect stem being furnished with small ovate-acuminate scattered leaves ; the upper portion is triangular 
and pinnately branched, the branches themselves, which are set on horizontally, being bipinnate, and 
tbe w'hole plant of a bright and cheerful green. The upper part of the stem and the branches have 
spreading distant acuminate leaves, with smaller and narrower intermediaries. It has been introduced 
from Mexico, and, from its neat and elegant form, will bo a charming addition to the genus. 7s. 6d. 
SELAGINELLA COGNATA. 
k very fine species, of sub-climbing habit, named jn-ovisionally as above. It has stoutish erect 
rooting stems, which are furnished with obliquely-ovate spreading leaves, set on at about half an inch 
•apart. The branches are ovate, eight to ten inches long, alternately pinnate, the iirimary branchlets 
ovate, about three inches long, with six or eight alternating secondary branchlets. The leaves become 
gradually smaller on the successive series of branchlets, the small intermediate ones converging with 
the point upeurved, which gives the surface a somewhat bristly appearance. It has been introduced 
from the Isles of the South Pacific Ocean. 10s. Gd. 
SELAGINELLA PERVILLEI. 
A handsome species of the plumose group, growing up into a tufted mass. The stems, which are 
red, and grow erect, terminate in a pinnately triangular frond, ramose on the upper part, the branches 
being puberulous and tripinnate, and of a fine dark green colour. The leaves are oblong-falcate and 
acutish, entire on the margin. The fructification is spicate and quadrangular, situated at the tips of 
the branchlets. 7s. Gd. 
