NEW AND RARE HARDY PLANTS. 
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FRAXINUS LONGICUSPIS. 
A slender deciduous Japanese tree, with tetragonous branohos, whoso bark is marked by lenticular 
-warts. It has pinnate leaves, with two or three pairs of leadets, which in the mature state are 
lanceolate with a long acuminate point, but in the young plants are blunt, and even rounded The 
inaoresconce forms an erect terminal or lateral panicle. According to Siobold this is one of the 
plants on which the wax insect feeds. 7s. Gd. 
FUNKIA LILIIFLORA. 
A splendid variety ; flowers of great dimensions (4 inches across), snowy white, and hio-hly odori- 
ferous. 36*. Qd, ® 
GLADIOLUS CRUENTUS, vide page 5. 
gunnera manicata. 
This majestic species originates from cold and freezing regions, known in Southern Brazil under 
the name of Campos des Lages. It is one of the last and best discoveries of the collector M Libon 
who found It in marshy parts, and at the foot of the principal spur of Sierra do Mar. From the 
conscientious account of this traveller, every leaf of this Gunnera acquires about 15 feet in circum- 
ference, and ono can easily imagine the space this colossal plant covers. 10«. Qd. and 155 . 
GUNNERA SCABRA. 
This is a native of the Andes of Peru, and although now pretty widely distributed, is certainly 
mot, however, yet as largely cultivated as, by its merits, it deserves to be. It should be found wanting 
in no garden where a space of 15 or 20 feet in circumference can be allotted to it, s i that it may 
spread out its magnificent foliage. Its broad leaves, borne upon stout petioles, are more than feet 
in diameter. For producing a picturesque appearance on a large lawn, or in parks, few subjects 
equal a finely grown specimen of this noble plant. If planted in a deep rich soil it speedily attains 
a majestic size. 2«. Gd. and 3«. Gd. 
HEDEBA ALOEEIENSIS VABIEGATA, HEDEEA LATIFOLIA MACTJI,ATA 
2«. Gd. 2s. Gd. 
,, other choice sorts, Ijt. Gif. and 2s. „ silvery variegated. Is. G<i. 
HEPATICA ANGULOSA. 
A magnificent new species, fully twice the size of the common blue Eepatioa in all its parts. 
Leaves five-lobed, hairy ; flowers sky blue, frequently as large as a crown piece ; a plant that ought 
to be in every garden. Is. 6rf. and 2s. Gd. 
HIBISCUS SYRIACUS PURPUREO-PLENUS ARGENTEO- 
MARGINATIS. 
This is a desirable plant of American introduction ; the leaves are bright green, margined with 
-white i flowers purple, very double, and freely produced. 2s. 6<i. and 3s. Gd. 
HOTEIA JAPONICA, stj?i. Spiraea barbata. Is. Gd. and 2s. Gd. 
HYDRANGEA JAPONICA PANICULATA GRANDIFLORA. 
This splendid variety was introduced from Japan by the late Dr. von Siebold. The trusses are of 
immense size, the flowers white, very delicately shaded ivith light rose. 2s. 6<f. and 3s. Gd. 
IDESIA POLYCAEPA, syn. Polycarpa Maximowiozii. 7s. 6if. 
IRIS K^EMPFERI RUTHERFORD ALCOCK. 
A most gorgeous variety, producing flowers of an exceedingly bright indigo blue, G inches in 
-diameter. 7s. Gd, 
IRIS VIOLACEA. 
This is a beautiful new species of a genus which comprises many a gem of the herbaceous border. 
It is a perennial, and perfectly hardy in our climate, being a native of the Caucasus. The leaves are 
lanceolate-ensiform, cuspidate ; the scape 2 feet high and leafy ; the spathes each two-flowered ; 
and the flowers themselves of a rich deep violet purple, having a cylindrical tube, the outer seg- 
ments of the perianth deflexed, 2 inches long, broadly ovate, spotted with yellow towards the base. 
For this charming novelty Mr. W. B. is indebted to Dr. de Bary, from whose specimens, culti* 
vated in the Botanic Garden at Halle, it has recently been described by Dr. Klatt. I5s. 
