CALCEOLARIA FOTHERGILLI-THYRSIFLORA. 
LEOPARD-SPOTTED SLIPPERWORT. 
Class. Order. 
DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
SCROPHULARIACE®. 
H^'brid 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Raised in 
orig-in. 
1 foot. 
June, July. 
Perennial. 
1834. 
No 595. 
The general shape of the flowers of this genus 
being somewhat like that of a shoe gave rise to its 
name, from the Latin word calceolus. In accord- 
ance with the rule we have adopted for distinguishing 
hybrids, (see the article Potentilla atrosanguinea- 
pedata. No. 385) the present plant has a specific 
name compounded from those of its parents. The 
advantage of the rule is obvious. 
This beautiful variety of Calceolaria was raised 
by Mr. Thomas Williams, gardener to John Will- 
more, Esq. of Oldford, near Birmingham, from seeds 
of Calceolaria Fothergilli, the flowers of which had 
been fertilized by pollen of Calceolaria thyrsiflora. 
The neat upright growth of this plant, its hardy 
character, and its abundance of beautifully spotted 
flowers, recommend it to particular notice; and we 
have the greater pleasure in making this announce- 
ment, inasmuch as it will soon be met with in most 
of the principal nurseries, having been very libe- 
rally distributed amongst flower cultivators in va- 
rious parts of the kingdom, under Mr. Williams’s 
name of Calceolaria pardanthera. There are very 
few persons, perhaps not one, who have propagated 
