NEW FLOWERS AND PLANTS. 
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A splenium A diantum-nigrum . 
The most ornamental species for rochmork 
ai*e the following : — Polypodium vulgare and 
Dryopteris ; Allosorus crispus ; Polystichum 
Lonohitis, aculeatum, and angulare ; Lastrea 
rigida ; Cystopteris, all the species ; Athy- 
riura Filix-femina, var. crispum ; Asplenium, 
all the species ; Ceterach officinarum ; Scolo- 
pendrium vulgare ; Blechnum Spicant. 
The best species for "planting in damp shady 
situations, such as woods, and dells, and 
thickets, are the following : — Lastrea Oreop- 
teris, Filix-mas, and its var. incisa, rigida, 
spinulosa, dilatata, and Foenisecii ; Polysti- 
chum aculeatum and angulare ; Athyrium 
Filix-femina; Blechnum Spicant, and Osmunda 
regalis. 
For pot-cidture, as objects of ornament, the 
following are highly suitable : — Polypodium 
vulgare, var. cambricum, Dryopteris, and 
Phegopteris ; Allosorus crispus ; Athyrium 
Filix-femina, vars. crispum and multifidum ; 
Asplenium lanceolatum, fontanum, Adiantum- 
nigrum, Trichomanes, and marinum ; Cete- 
rach^ofRcinarum ; Adiantum Capillus-veneris ; 
Trichomanes radicans; Hymenophyllum tun- 
bridgense and unilaterale. 
All the smaller species of ferns may be 
grown in a compost of equal parts turfy peat 
and well decayed leaf-mould, intermixed with 
pure white sand, and small lumps of charcoal, 
or bi-oken pots, bricks, or porous stone. 
Whether in pots, or planted out in any situ- 
ation, they must (with one or two exceptions,) 
be well drained ; for they mostly require to 
be kept very moist, and if the soil is not well 
drained, it soon becomes soddened, and in 
that state is injurious to the roots. "When 
they are grown in pots these should be half 
filled with drainage materials, especially in 
the case of the more delicate, and the smaller- 
growing species. The more robust and the 
freer-growing of the species should have 
larger pots, less drainage, and a proportion of 
loamy soil added to their compost. Some few 
species like the addition of old mortar as an 
ingredient in the compost in which they are 
planted ; such are Polypodium calcareum ; 
Ceterach officinarum; and Asplenium Tricho- 
manes, and Ruta-mui"aria. 
Of all known plants ferns are the most 
suitable for planting in the pent-up shaded 
" court-yards," " areas," and " flats," of town 
residences, the monotonous mural enclosures 
of which, relieved by tasteful rockwork, and 
fringed with elegant fern-fronds, may be 
invested thus with some degree of cheer- 
fulness. 
NEW FLOWERS AND PLANTS. 
BuETONiA viLLOSA, lleisncr (villous Bur- 
tonia). — Fabacese § Papilionacese-Pultenege. — 
A beautiful hard-wooded shrub, heath-like 
in general aspect, bearing conspicuous butter- 
fly-shaped flowers. The habit is close and 
branching ; the branches, as well as the leaves, 
being clothed, in a more or less degree, with 
short hairs. The leaves are dense, sessile, 
and alternate, consisting each of three linear 
obtuse leaflets, the margins of which are re- 
markably revolute. The flowers grow towards 
the extremities of the branches, from the 
axils of the upper leaves, so as to form an 
oblong, almost terminal, leafy spike, the 
flowers being so numerous as to conceal the 
leaves among which they are attached ; the 
colour is a rich palish purple red, the wings 
being whitish at the base, and the standard 
having a round primrose-coloured blotch at 
its base. The heath-like appearance of this 
shrub is due to the numerous narrow sessile 
leaflets which invest the stems. Native of 
New South Wales, in the Swan River colony. 
Introduced in 1 846. Flowers in May. Ctd- 
ture. — Requires a greenhouse; turfy peat, 
loam, and sand, with plenty of drainage ; pro- 
pagated by cuttings in sand under bell-glasses, 
Chirita Moonii, Gardne'^ (Mr. Moon's 
