xiiey must have 
been packed in the most careful manner, as they are 
as fresh-looking and whole as if just cut from the 
plant. There are many decorative purposes peculiar 
to the Christmas season to which th^e fine plumes 
could be put, and their cost is not so high as might 
have been expected, seeing they have come from a 
far distant country, 
SCUTICARIA Steelii.-A well-grown plant 
of this beautiful Orchid is now in flower in the col- 
^ CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA (see p. 557).— Some 
^ time since we gave a woodcut of the stem and seed- 
vessels of a plant under the above name. We have 
been reminded that the plant represented was C. 
americana and not C, racemosa. We were led into 
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