MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. 
green ; Eogiera Eoezlii, a cinchonaoeous skrul), allied 
to Ixora ; one of the digitate-leaved Begonias, named 
luxurians, having mnch the appearance of B. digitata, 
and said to he very aho^vy ; two species of Erionema — 
melastomaceons plants, with ornamental variegated fo- 
liage : one — E, marmorea — variegated with silver mark- 
ings ; the other — E. Enea — with golden variegations ; a 
new Anguria, named Warczewiczii ; Franciscea grandi- 
flora, with the habit of hydrangoeformis ; Puya longi- 
flora ; P. reemwata ; TUlandsia carnea ; Maranta rosea- 
lineata, and a species from Cayenne ; Phi'ynium zebri- 
num ; Charianthus coccineus, and many others. — M. 
Messrs. J. and A. Henderson, Jl?ine-Apple Slaoc. — 
Jan. 22. — Among the more remarkable subjects here 
noted, were some well-bloomed small plants of Erica 
Sindiyana — a very free-growing, winter-hloomiag heath, 
something in the way of hiemalis, but distinct and much 
finer. "We also saw a very neat-flowered Begonia, a 
hybrid between manicata and hydi'ocotylifolia, of less 
delicate testui-e than the former, and with larger and 
deeper-coloured flowers, hut of the same habit of growth ; 
it is a very good addition to this favourite race, though 
by no means to be compared with Messrs. Henderson's 
B. cinnahai'ina, which is perhaps the finest of the genus. 
An Acacia — olivaifolia — was also blooming ; it is a deep 
yeUow-flowered species, and a good conservatory plant. 
The fine Warrea Lindeniana was just coming into bloom. 
In one of the stoves wore some good plants of Tupa 
thapsoidea, which had been for some time in flower ; 
and in the same house, the beautiful orange- coloui'cd 
-iEschynanthus speciosus, which has the great merit of 
flowering fi-eely while in a dwarf state. Some of these 
we shall have to notice more in detail hereafter. In a 
greenhouse, in company of various Boronias, Erioste- 
mons, and other hard- wooded plants, was a stiu'dy plant 
of the Pleroma elegans, which had grown to a very large 
size, and promises to be a magnificent object in the 
blooming season. — M. 
NOTICES. 
Hares-foot Fern. — In the Gardenm's' Chronicle of last 
year, there is a description, in some notes on Ciutra, of 
a magnificent group of three immense Cork trees, the 
whole of the larger branches of which are covered with 
the Hares-foot Fern, the bright green of the leaves and 
the light brown stems of the roots, well contrasting with 
the dark nigged bark, and the deep green masses of foli- 
age ; and round this group, a large Vine was climbing, 
wreathing the whole group mth its yellow and red 
foliage. The ^vl•iter seems to have considered this mass 
of vegetation the most beautiful group he had ever seen. 
It appears, from the second volume of the Life of 
Southey, just published, that, fifty years ago, he was 
equally struck with the beauty of this very group, and 
he gives the very same description of it, except, that he 
saw it in the spring, when the Vine leaves were bright 
green, and the old fronds of the Fern of the preceding 
year, were yellow. My reason, however, for calling at- 
tention to this, is principally to notice, that the Haresfoot 
Fern usually grown in a pot, will, if tied to a block or 
post, iu a greenhouse or orchid-house, grow much better 
than in earth, and the light brown root-stocks soon cling 
round the posts or blocks. — /. Woolleij, Cheshunt. 
Adventitious Shoots of Cardamine latifolia. — The 
circumstance of adventitious shoots and buds being 
foi-med on plants, after they have sustained any serious 
injmy, is familiar to most persons engaged in botanical 
or horticultiu'al pm-suits. Some species, indeed, bear 
such shoots every year without having been wounded. 
But there is a class of adventitious buds, examples of whicli 
are not so numerous : these are such as are found grow- 
ing spontaneously on leaves, and presenting nothing to 
which the cause can be traced. M. Naudin has ob- 
served on a leaf of Drosera intermedia, two indi'sdduals 
of the same species reduced to the proportions of the 
smallest miniatm-e ; M. H. de Cassini has observed si- 
milar productions at the base of the leaflets of Cardamine 
pratensis ; and I am enabled to add another still more 
remarkable. I was one day gathering plants at the foot 
of Carrigou, one of the Pyi'enees, when a leaf of Car- 
damine latifolia was found, whose upper surface presented 
eight individuals of diflferent sizes, and of the same kind 
as the parent. They were u-regularly distributed over 
the leaf, fi-om the base to the apex, but each of them 
sprang from a vein. On looking with a glass, I ob- 
served the smallest to be like a kind of obtuse cylinder, 
about a quarter of an inch in height. In the others, 
the cylinder was somewhat thicker, and green. But 
this leaf had also at the axil of the petiole an elongated 
bud, which, at the outside, presented a second leaf 
rolled up ; the exterior leaf was seen first ; by and by, 
a circle of small whitish excrescences were developed 
below on the tubercle at the base ; they were elongated 
in rootlets, which, at fii-st upright, became extended 
over the parent plant, and were about an inch long. 
These radicles were covered with a few hau-s, and were 
of a Avhitish colour, while the leaf preserved the colour 
of the parent plant. It is not to be thought that the 
tubercle in question was a special organ. It was simply 
a base of the stem where roots escaped, as occurs in the 
true rhizoma, and trailing or imderground stems. I 
placed the leaf of C. latifolia, which I have described, in 
some wet soU. By and by it perished, but at the end of 
a month, one of the little plants or shoots sprang up, al- 
though I had neglected it. These facts lead us to the 
following conclusions ; — 1. Leaves and branches diflir 
generally, without doubt, in thefr form and position ; hut 
it is not impossible that, without any wound, the one as 
well as the other is capable of producing individuals si- 
milar to the parent plant ; and in this the two sorts of 
organs seem to be confounded, a confusion which, with 
some Lentibularious plants, extends to all the characters. 
2. As these small plants issue from the nerves of the 
leaf, it woidd appear that the productive force resides 
in them more than in the surrounding tissue. 3. The 
rootlets of these small plants were white, and yet they 
were exposed to the sun and air like the leaves, confirm- 
ing a circumstance that has been long known — viz., that 
the white coloirr of the roots in general is not owing to 
their situation, but to their internal organization. 4. 
M. de Cassini observed shoots produced spontaneously 
from organs of anon-essential character, and thatwithout 
any injury. On my plant, which was another and dif- 
