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marked with yellow bands, is a welcome addition to a favourite family. Pyrethrum 
TcJiihatcheivii^ from Asia Minor, may be recorded rather fop its utility than its 
beauty; it is a prostrate plant, with finely cut leaves, adapted for clothing with 
the freshest verdure lawns and banks which may be exposed to exceptional drought. 
From these we pass on to Eock Plants, and here we have some true gems to 
chronicle, such as Iheridella rotunclifolia, of densely tufted habit, with rosy-lilac 
yellow’-eyed flowers, from the Alps; Dianthus neglectus, also from the Alps, two 
or three inches high, growing in tufts, wdth great bright rosy flowers ; Lychnis 
Lagascoc, from the Pyrenees, forming hemispherical masses of rosy-pink blossoms, 
like those of a Silene ; Primula g)edemontana, of the Swiss Alps, auricula-like in 
habit, with large rosy-purple flowers ; Androsace pubescens, another denizen of 
the Alps, forming a mat of green leaves, overlaid with pure white flowers ; 
and finally, Nertera depressa, a densely tufted x4.ntarctic mountain herb, incon¬ 
spicuous while in bloom, but exceedingly ornamental when studded with its 
globose orange-coloured fruits, of the size of small peas. 
New Greenhouse Plants are more numerous, and we must pass over many 
having more or less interest attaching to them. Passijlora Munroi, a garden 
hybrid, is a fine creeper, with three-lobed leaves, and violet-coloured flowers, 
having the coronal ray purple barred with white. Tetranthera Llmysii, from the 
French gardens, is a laurel, with oblong, slightly undulated leaves, elegantly 
variegated with yellow, greenish yellow, and deep green, w’hile the petioles are 
of an intense red. The Aralia, Sieholdii aureo-marginata furnishes a well- 
marked and distinct yellow variegated form of a fine Japanese evergreen shrub. 
Toxicophloea spectahilis, a Natal apocynaceous plant, remarkable for its first- 
sight resemblance to an Ixora, is an evergreen shrub, producing terminal 
close heads of white flowers, and might probably be grown into a handsome 
specimen. Machaya hella is a very pretty, slender-growing South African acan- 
thad, producing a profusion of campanulate flowers of a pale lilac colour, trans¬ 
versely pencilled in the throat with delicate purple lines. Salvia involucrata 
Deschampsiana, remarkable for its close, ovate, spike-like heads of inflated- 
tubed, bright rose-coloured flowers, has been found in the French gardens, and 
would probably be a good decorative plant. Cordyline indivisa latifolia is a very 
broad-leaved form of this finest of all Oordylines. Phormium Unax Veitcliianum 
variegatuin is an elegant golden-striped variety of the smaller-growing form of 
broad-leaved New Zealand flax. Pelargonium hispidum is a handsome, free-flower¬ 
ing species, quite distinct from the usual cultivated types, with palmatifid leaves, 
and large purple flowers having tw^o broad upper and three narrow lower petals, 
and is one of many which are well wmidh taking up by the breeder. Gymnotlirix 
latifolia, an elegant Montevidean tall-growing perennial grass, perhaps requiring 
protection in w-inter, but otherwise quite adapted for the open garden, grows 
9-10 ft. high, and has elegant catkin-like nodding flower-spikes. We can only 
mention Pncephalartus grandis and plumosiis^ and Macrozamia excelsa and Denni- 
