PASSIFLORA KERMESINA. 
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moist, and therefore favourable to the reanimation of the whole tribe, 
appears in abundance, with several species of Diuris, which like the 
Crowfoots of our English Meadows, bespangle the grassy lands of 
that colony, by their rich and various bright yellow flowers, in the 
months of spring— Bot. Mag. 3377. 
Microtis media. Middle-sized Microtis. When Capt. King re¬ 
turned from New South Wales, in 1823, he brought home with him 
turfs of the Cephatotus of King George’s Sound, at which port he 
had touched in his passage. From the sod that contained the 
Australasian Pitcher-plant, sprang up, unexpectedly, this Microtis. 
Its flowers, like those of the last, are small, and of a yellow green 
colour_ Bot, Mag. 3378. 
ARTICLE VI. 
PASSIFLORA KERMESINA, CRIMSON FLOWERED PASSION FLOWER. 
(See Wood Engraving.) 
In Vol. 3, p. 41, of the Horticultural Register, our readers may pro¬ 
bably recollect, that in noticing the new plants figured in the Botani¬ 
cal Periodicals, we named the Passiflora kermesina, as being beauti¬ 
fully figured in the Botanical Register for December, 1833. We 
were much struck with the beauty of the flower, and with Dr. Lind- 
leys remarks upon it, and in consequence of our own plants not being 
in flower, we had a wood cut made from this fine figure of the Doc¬ 
tor’s, intending to have offered a few remarks on the progress of Botany 
in Britain, and on the value of the three leading periodicals of the 
day, viz. the Botanical Register, the Botanical Magazine, and the 
British Flower Garden, and so to have introduced the wood cut of 
this passion flower. But being prevented by a multitude of engage¬ 
ments from prosecuting our design, and having an opportunity within 
two months afterwards of figuring one for our Magazine of Botany, 
which appeared in the following March, we were induced to post¬ 
pone the insertion of the wood cut. We now give it, not, it is true, 
attended with the proposed remarks, (which we shall defer for a 
month or two longer,) but with a short account of the culture of 
several other species. It may not be amiss just to notice here by 
the way, that the number of new plants figured annually in the above 
three periodicals give us some idea what is going on in the Botani¬ 
cal world. As to the Botanical Register alone, out of the ninety-six 
plates given last year, nearly half were either entirely new, or old 
plants of value which had been lost, and were re-introduced. 
