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SOUTH METROPOLITAN FLORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
6. Colletia horrida. Bristly colletia. A hardy evergreen, resem¬ 
bling furze, having small campanulate flowers of no great beauty. It 
is a Chilian plant. 
7. Pholidota imbricata. Imbricated pholidota. A curious orclii- 
deous plant from the East Indies. 
The British Flower Garden, continued by D. Don, Esq., 
Librarian of the Linnaean Society. This contains— 
1. Phlox stoloniferci; var. crassifolia. Fleshy-leaved creeping 
phlox. A pretty dwarf plant, received from North America about ten 
years ago. It is perfectly hardy. 
2. Symphytum Caucasicum. Caucasian comfrey. Resembles the 
S. asperrirnum very much, but is a smaller plant. 
3. Rhodanthe Manglesii . Captain Mangles’ Rhodanthe. A beau¬ 
tiful syngenesious flowering plant from the Swan River, Australia. 
This cannot fail but to be a great favourite among florists. Mr. Don 
gives an interesting history and manner of culture of the plant. 
4. Primula ciliata: var. purpurata . Purple-flowered, fringed, 
auricula. This is a hybrid, originated about Manchester, and, like all 
its congeners, very showy 
Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, for July, contains— 
1. Azalea marginata. Bordered flowered azalea. Avery handsome 
hybrid, produced from A . coccinea, fertilised with the pollen of A. 
sinensis. 
2. Camellia Japonica Cunninghami. Mr. Cunningham’s camellia, 
produced by a union of the common-striped and the warratah. Many 
of the flowers are elegantly striped with white. Foliage, glossy green. 
3. Tropceolum tricolorum. Three-coloured Indian cress. A very 
elegant species, introduced some years back from South America. 
4. Myanthus barbatus. Bearded flowered Myanthus. A very 
curious and fragrant species, imported from Trinidad, by Mr. Lowe, of 
Clapton ; and which flowered at Chatsworth in April last. 
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 
It is just announced in the newspapers, that “ A South Metropolitan 
Floricultural Society ” is on the eve of being established ; and to which 
a considerable number of practical and amateur florists, both on that 
and the north side of the town, have already enrolled their names as 
supporters of the measure. A first meeting has already been held at 
the Horns, Kennington, to consult on the steps necessary to be taken 
