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EXTRACTS—FLORICULTURE. 
PRIMULACE^E. 
Lysimachta Azorica, Azorian Loose-strife.—A small plant growing about 
two inches high, with yellow flowers, supposed to be a native of the Azores. It 
was received at the Glasgow Botanic Garden from that of Copenhagen. It is 
cultivated in a pot, and treated as an Alpine plant: that is, protected from the 
fickleness of our winters, and kept in a cool, shady situation in the summer. In 
the month of June, a pot filled with this little plant is a beautiful object, for the 
peduncles are so long as to elevate the bright and comparatively large yellow 
flowers above the tops of the stem and the delicate green foliage.— Bot. Mag. 
CLASS II.—MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS OR ENDOGENES. 
ORCHIDEAS. 
Gong v ora maculata, Spotted Gongora.—Many a strange figure has been 
met with among orchideous plants, and numerous are the animal forms which 
Botanists have fancied they could recognise among their singular flowers. Some 
are said to bear little men and women swinging below their canopy of petals, 
others have appeared to carry the likeness of lizards, frogs, and other reptiles, 
crouching among their leaves, while some have been compared to Oberons and 
Titanias hanging by their tiny arms from the bells, where they have concealed 
themselves. To what the flowers of the plant now figured can be likened, we 
know not, tmless to some of the fantastic animals of heraldry : a griffin segreant , 
as they term it, would serve as well as any other for a comparison. This most 
curious species was sent to the Horticultural Society, of London, by Richard 
Harrison, Esq. from his garden at Liverpool: it was originally introduced from 
Demerara, in 1S32, by Mr. Thomas Moss, of Otterspool. It flowered in the 
hothouse in May : its bunches of flowers were two feet and a half long, and hung 
down most gracefully from the pot in which the plant was suspended.— Bot. 
Beg. It requires the stove, and may be potted in turfy-peat, mixed with rotten 
wood. 
Sauroglo'ssum elatum, Tall Lizard’s Tongue.—A green flowering stove 
plant, native of the woods of Brazil, whence it was sent by Mr. Henry Harrison. 
It requires to be cultivated in earth, like other terrestrial Orchideae of the Ne- 
ottia tribe, to some of which, such as Spiranthes grandiflora and Pelexia spiran- 
thoides, it bears a good deal of resemblance.— Bot. Reg. 
Alpine Plants. —Plants are called alpine when their natural habitations are 
situated where trees cannot exist, such as the tops of mountains, or very high de¬ 
grees of latitude. But they are often found in various low situations, where 
they flower and produce their seeds as well as in those higher regions : yet this is 
always referable to the agency of wind or water, which convey the seeds from 
their original places of growth to the lower parts of the country. These plants 
will grow very well in a bed in the garden, the soil of which should consist of one 
part peat, one part leaf mould, and two parts pasture ground, mixed with a lit¬ 
tle sand; though the principal object of their culture is moisture. The Alpine 
plants, although in winter they are chiefly protected in their native places by 
snow, can endure very severe frosts, to which they are often exposed before the 
snow falls, or after it is melted. They are, besides, not much injured by the 
heat of the sun. In their natural situation, they are continually exposed to ex¬ 
treme changes; from severe frost during the night, to the burning rays of the 
sun, and to tempests during the day. Artificial rock-work, for the cultivation of 
