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trina. The species, however, well deserves 
to commemorate Mr. Bentham, who has very 
successfully laboured in the family to which it 
belongs. 
Veronica odora is also a shrubby species, of 
elegant appearance, but much more slender in 
its growth than the former. Its slender 
branches have a peculiarly upright, somewhat 
fastigiate habit. The leaves are of very equal 
size and figure, elliptic-ovate, and they are 
very precisely arranged in the decussate form. 
The flowers are small and white, and grow at 
the ends of the shoots in crowded sub- capitate 
racemes. They are very sweet scented ; in- 
deed the species is more remarkable for the 
delicious fragrance of its flowers, resembling 
that of the jasmine, than for any special beauty 
of appearance. It is found in the form of scat- 
tered bushes, in woods near the sea, on Lord 
Auckland's group of islands. 
Veronica odora. 
Besides these,- the Veronica elliptica (V. 
clecussata), a shrubby species long known in 
our gardens, is found abundantly near the sea, 
both in Campbell's and in Lord Auckland's 
Islands. Dr. Hooker remarks : " I saw but 
one specimen in full flower, growing on an 
inaccessible rock overlooking Rendezvous 
Harbour. From a distance it seemed powdered 
with white flowers." 
In New Zealand this genus is one of the 
most extensive of flowering plants, containing 
upwards of two dozen species, of which four- 
fifths are shrubby or arborescent. One or two 
very handsome ones of this habit are already 
introduced to our gardens, such as V. speciosa, 
with deep purple flowers, and very broad ob- 
tuse leaves ; V. elliptica, seldom seen well 
grown, but then really beautiful, with white 
flowers, and small neat elliptic leaves ; and 
V. salicifolia, with lance- shaped leaves, and 
long drooping spikes of French- white flowers. 
These species do best in a cool greenhouse, 
if they are grown in pots. In some sheltered 
situations, and in mild winters, V. elliptica has 
stood out uninjured (and most probably the 
others here mentioned would also do so), but 
it will not do this in ordinary seasons. They 
may most properly be ranked as half-hardy 
plants, and would flourish to perfection in 
some of those glass structures without artificial 
heat, which we may now hope to see erected 
very extensively for the purpose of growing 
the numerous plants of sterling beauty which 
will hardly survive our climate unprotected. 
They grow very readily in a soil composed of 
three parts turfy loam, and one part peat 
earth, lightened with sand and leaf mould ; 
and all propagate freely from cuttings. 
NEW BRITISH PLANTS. 
The following additions to the Flora of this 
country have been announced during the past 
year. Some of the plants appear to have been 
detected earlier, but the facts were not made 
public until the present season. We have 
made our notices of them brief, and have put 
them into the form most likely to be useful ; 
that is to say, we have appended to each plant 
a brief botanical character, as published in the 
various foreign botanical works where the 
plants have been described. The books 
which are professedly devoted to the descrip- 
tion of the species inhabiting this country, are 
of course, at present, deficient as regards these 
recent additions ; the specific definitions we 
have given, will therefore be useful to those 
who are interested in British Botany, but who 
have not access to a botanical library. 
Carex argyroglochia ( Hornemann ). — 
" Spikes oblong distichous ; spikelets 4 to 6, 
alternate, obovate ; fruit ovate, acuminate, 
glabrous, as long as the silvery glume ; beak 
bifid ; bracts longer than^the spikelets." Spikes 
two or three approximate : glumes oblong, 
rather acute : perennial. Near C. ovalis ; dif- 
fering in its long foliaceous bracts. A plant 
with this character was found by Mr. West- 
combe, near Malvern, Worcestershire. 
Gli/ceria hyorida (Townsend). — Closely 
allied to G. plicata and G.fiuitans. Found 
by Mr. Townsend at Doveclale, Gloucester- 
shire. 
Hieracium heteropkyllum (Bladon). ■ — 
" Leaves all sessile, cauline, lowest lanceolate, 
upper ovate acuminate." — Stem 1 to 3 J feet 
high, clothed with slender silky hairs, spring- 
ing from an oblong glandular base. Leaves 
all cauline, the base not truly clasping. Flowers 
size and colour of those of macufatum ; scales 
of the involucre attenuated towards the point, 
