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THE FLORIST. 
Carnation, but rather broader, and of a deep green; flower-stem growing 12 to 
15 inches high, numerous, bearing a profusion of blossoms. An English variety. 
Captain Trevor Clarke. 
Dianthus htbridus multiflorus. a handsome hybrid Pink, of continental 
origin, having dark green Carnation-like leaves ; of vigorous habit, being from 
12 to 18 inches high ; freely producing sweet-scented rose-coloured flowers, 
which are rather more than an inch in diameter. The flowers-stems are robust, 
and yield a succession of bloom from June till October or November. A con¬ 
tinental variety. Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son. 
Dipteraoanthus Herbstii. {Eot. Mag. t. 5156.) Acanthaceae. An 
elegant soft-stemmed stove shrub, with broad lance-shaped leaves, and many 
flowers, crowded into a kind of panicle at the ends of the shoots, and having a 
long, slender, graceful tube, swelling out to a trumpet shape, and curved towards 
the end, rose-coloured, with a white, spreading limb. Brazil. Kew. 
Epacris multi flora. Epacridacese. A very handsome greenhouse shrub, 
with something the habit and aspect of E. grandiflora, having downy stems, 
ovate acuminate leaves, and very numerous flowers, with crimson tubes, and 
rounded erect white segments, crowding the flowering branches. New South 
Wales. Messrs. Rollisson ^ Sons. 
Erica aristata, v. Barnesii. {Flor. Mag. t. 5.) Ericaceae. A very 
beautiful greenhouse shrub, with large, pinkish salmon-coloured, ventricose 
flowers, remarkable for the breadth of the square-ended white limb segments, 
and the deep sanguineous mouth. An English variety. 3Iessrs. Low ^ Co. 
Erica aristata, v. Lowii. A handsome form of the awned Heath, having 
the flowers of a fine varnished red, with an inflated tube, and dark contracted 
mouth; the segments of the limb small and ovate. An English variety. 
Messrs. Low ^ Co. 
Erica aristata, v. virens. {Flor. Mag. t. 5.) A fine, showy variety, 
with large whorls of bright, varnished, red flowers, slightly ventricose, the 
mouth sanguineous, and the limb-segments small blush-white. An English 
variety. Messrs. Low ^ Co. 
Erodium PELAKGONiiFLORUM. Geraniaceae. (i?oL t. 5206.) A pietty 
half-hardy perennial, with ovate-cordate radical leaves, and umbels of 8—10 
white Pelargonium-like flowers, the two upper petals stained with red. 
Anatolia. W. W. Saunders, Esq. 
Eucharidium grandiflorum, V. ALBUM. Onagracese. A neat dwarf¬ 
growing blush white variety, which may probably be useful where light colours 
are in request. An English variety. Messrs. Carter ^ Co. 
Eucharidium grandiflorum, v. roseum. A blush-coloured variety, rather 
larger than the foregoing, but more flushed with rose-colour. An English 
variety. Messrs. Carter ^ Co. 
Gardenia radicans, v. fol. variegatis. Cinchonacese. An interesting 
dwarf, free-blooming shrub, with narrow lance-shaped leaves, almost Willow¬ 
like in character, irregularly edged with white; flowers white and, like the 
allied forms, deliciously fragrant. Japan. Messrs. Veitch ^ Son. 
Gesnera gloxini^flora. Gesneracese. A handsome erect-growing hybrid, 
producing large ovate hairy dark-coloured leaves, and numerous axillary flowers, 
as large as those of a Gloxinia, deep rich rose-colour, with a paler tube and 
deeper throat. It is a fine ornamental variety, of Continental origin. Messrs. 
E. G. Henderson ^ Son. 
Gilia achilleaefolia, V. ALBA. PolemoniacesB A pretty variety of this 
useful species, having the flowers pure white. An English variety. Messrs. 
Carter 4’ Co. 
Gutierrezia gymnospermoides. {Bot. Mag. t. 5155.) Compositee. A 
hardy perennial three to four feet high, with spathulate lower leaves, and heads 
of orange-yellow florets which form a ray an inch or more across. New Mexico. 
Kew. 
Hemerocallis disticha, V. FLORE PLENO. {Flor. Mag. t. 13.) Liliacese. 
A very fine herbaceous perennial, probably requiring greenhouse treatment. It 
has the habit of the common day Lilies, but narrower leaves, and large double 
tawny yellow flowers marked with a blotch of deep brownish crimson on each 
segment. Brought from Madagascar. Messrs. Veitch ^ Son. 
