48 JVettf and Rare Plants. 
in this city, and with a good crop, it can hardly be doubted that 
the exports from Milwaukie for 1848 will show almost as great 
an increase over those of 1847, as the latter does over those of 
1846. — Milwaukie Seitinel. 
NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
Epacris tauntoniensis — The Taunton Epacris. — Mr. Ball, nur- 
seryman, of Taunton, raised this beautiful hybrid, we are informed, 
between E. grandiflora and E. impressa. The flowers are of 
bright rosy-crimson color, with the five parted mouth of a pale 
pink. A single blossom is about three-quarters of an inch long. 
It is a very handsome variety, and well deserving to be in every 
collection. — Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Henfreva scaudens — Climbing Henfreva. — Dr. Lindsley con- 
stituted a new genus to which the name of Henfreva, in honor of 
Mr. A. Henfrey, has been applied. It belongs to that class of 
acanthaseus plants of which Ruellia is made the type. The spe- 
cies under notice is a stout climbing plant, but does not apparently 
attain a great height. It has large, opposite, elliptic, somewhat 
leathery, shining leaves, and racemes of large, white, sweet-scent- 
ed flowers, which have a funnel-shaped tube, and two-lipped 
limb, the segments of the latter nearly equal. It is a native of 
Sierra Leone. 
Hibiscus crassularicefolius — Gooseberry-leaved Hibiscus. — Seeds 
were sent from the Savan River Colony, and plants raised in the 
Royal Garden at Kew. It is a shrub, growing three feet high, 
and if planted and trained against a wall, is a beautiful open 
border plant, blooming all the summer season. Each flower is 
four inches across, of a rich bluish purple color. Blooming pro- 
fusely renders it very showy. — Bot. Mag. 
Plenty of bread and meat, pure air and pure water — these are 
the blessings which maintain individual health, ameliorate the 
general condition of our race, and, at the same time, ensure that 
equilibrium between physical and moral force, which is so univer- 
sally desirable. Physical degradation is always accompanied by 
corresponding moral degradation: and we know of nothing which 
more effectually secures both, than a life spent in ill-ventilated, 
ill-lighted and filthy dwellings. — C. E. D.,from the French. 
