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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[September, 
bipinnatifid green leaves of considerable size, and 
short-stalked brown spathes of a broadish oval out¬ 
line ending in a short point; Brazil; W. Bu i. 
Wills’ Companion to Practical Botany is 
a little book intended for the use of students, in 
which 100 common plants are described in a tabu¬ 
lated form, each occupying one page, with blank 
spaces for notes and memoranda, figures of the plants 
being in preparation and provision made for inserting 
them opposite the description. In the copy before 
us a few of the earlier figures are inserted in their 
places, and as cheap figures, to be issued we believe 
at one penny each, they are very well adapted for the 
purpose intended. Tables of the Caodollean and 
the Linnscan systems of Class fiovtiou are given. 
Nomenclator der Gefasskryptogamen, von 
Carl Solomon (Leipzig, Hugo Yoigt), is a most 
useful list of Perns, giving their names, native 
country, and synonyms, but neither descriptions nor 
references to published descriptions or figures ; hence 
it is virtually an abridged Index Pilicum. It appears 
to be carefully compiled, and brought down to the 
present time, so that it will be a handy reference 
book for the names of ferns, and all the more so as 
the contents are arranged alphabetical}'. It forms 
a small volume of nearly 400 pages. 
Mushroom Culture for Amateurs, by W. J. 
May (London: L. Ufcott Gill), contains a plain 
exposition of the various methods of growing these 
toothsome esculents, both indoors aud out. 
Journal des Boses (August) conlains a portrait 
of the Rose Cramoisi Superieur , belonging to the 
section of Bengal or China Ro'-es, we 1 known in this 
country as an elegant pot-rose or a showy bedding 
variety. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle (July 14—Aug. 11) 
contains the following no'ices of novelties:— Mas- 
devallia marginella (p. 38), a pretty dwarf epiphyte, 
with short-stalked spathu late leaves, ar d 1—2 flowered 
peduncles bearing white flowers, of which the cup 
is well developed, and the triangles and tails bent 
outwards ; the petals lip and column are also white; 
P. Sander.— Plagiolirion Horsmani, Baker (p. 38), a 
new genus of Amaryllids allied to Eucliaris, with 
ovoid bulbs, stalked oblong leaves, and scentless 
white flowers : Columbia ; P. Horsman & Co.— 
Rodriguezia Leeana, Rchb. f. (p. 38), a curious 
novelty, with ancipitous pseudobulbs, linear-ligulate 
leaves, and pendulous racemes of white flowers, the 
sepals marked with a yellow line in the centre, and 
the lip with two long linear keels ; the flowers have a 
brown spur; W. Lee, Esq.— Amianthium muscce- 
toxicum, Gray (p. 41, fig. 7), a hardy perennial with 
dense spikes of cream-coloured flowers, noticed at 
p. 126 under the more correct name of Zygadenus 
musccetoxicum. The root when bruised and mixed 
with honey is said to act as a poison to flies.— 
Cgrtandra pendula, Blume (p. 70), a showy stove 
perennial, with a short stout somewhat creeping 
stem, elliptic leaves of a dark green with greyish 
blotches, and involucrate flowers having a swollen 
tube and elliptic-oblong lobes white with silky brown 
hairs outside, the inside dotted with purple on the 
lower side ; Java ; Kew.— Spathantheum heteran- 
drum, N. E. Brown (p. 70), an interesting Arad, 
supposed by Mr. Brown to be Bulivian aud not 
African; it has solitary long-stalked erect elliptic 
leaves with deeply cut margins, and tall grern scapes 
with a boat-shaped green spatlie, and no distinct 
spadix, but bearing the flowers in rows along the 
middle of the spathe; Kew.— Promencea stapelioides 
heteroptera , Bchb. f. (p. 70), a variety with the 
sepals only partially striped; Low & Co.— Senecio 
concolor , I). C. (p. 75), a pretty half-hardy peren¬ 
nial 1—2 feet high, with narrow oblanceolate leaves 
5—7 inches long, and a loosely-branched glandular 
pubescent flowering stem supporting corymbs of 
flower heads having mauve-purple ray florets, and 
the disk florets white; S. Africa; Kew.— Gazania 
longiscapa, D. C. (p. 77), the correct name of the 
entire linear-leaved bright yellow-flowered compo¬ 
site, known in gardens as G. pinnata integrifolia an l 
Gazaniopsis stenophylla. — Maxillaria irrorata, 
Bchb. f. (p. 102), an epiphyte probably from the 
Western Andes, related to M. grandiflora, and 
having white flow’ers washed bordered and blotched 
with purple, the lip ochre-coloured with a purple 
margin; Sir C. W. Strickland, Bart. — Cattleya 
Schroderiana, Bchb. f. (p. 102), a splendid and dis¬ 
tinct new species allied to C. bulbosa, with short 
stem-like costate pseudobulbs, stout oblong-ligulate 
acute leaves, and a two-floviered peduncle tearing 
mauve-purple flowers, the lip wi'h minute lateral 
auricles, and atiansverse oblong apiculate front lobe. 
— AEchmea Rarleei, Baker (p. 102), an acaulescent 
Bromeliad, with lora e ensiform leaves having 
prickly margins and thinly lepidote, and an erect 
panicle with distichous yellow flowers, the tracts of 
the peduncle lanceolate bright red; British Hon¬ 
duras ; Kew.— Plagiolirion Horsmmni , Baker (p. 
105, fig. 16), a woodcut of the New Columbian bulb, • 
allied to Eucharis, described in Gard. Chron., p. 38. 
—Sarcopodium Dearei , Hort. (p. 108, fig. 17), a 
prettv dwarf Jnd an Orchid with ovate compressed 
pseudobulbs, oblong acute petiolate leaves, and soli¬ 
tary flowers on radical scapes, of an olive yellow, the 
dorsal sepals with purple spots, and the lateral ones 
with blue stripes; the front lobe of the lip is singu¬ 
larly mobile ; Lieut.-Col. Dpare.— Phacelia cam- 
panularia, A. Gray (p. 135, fig. 25), a very 
handsome lialf-hardy Californian annual, with 
brilliant blue bell-shaped flowers an in:h and 
a-hulf in breadth; W. Thompson. — Acrosti- 
cum magnum, Baker (p. 135), a large simple- 
fronded fern from British Guiana, which according 
to our views should be called Rlaphoglossum mag¬ 
num ; it is allied to E. perelegans, and has sterile 
lanceolate fronds 2—3 feet long on stipes of 3—-4 
inches, green on both surfaces, with pale inc m- 
spicuous appre-sed scales on the upper side, and 
ferruginous spreading scales on the lower; fertile 
fronds not seen.— Angulua Ruektri retusa, Bchb. f. 
(p. 135), a remarkable variety with the flowers 
lemon-coloured outside, and covered with dark 
purple blotches within, the lip with rectangular side 
lobes, and small reflexed hairy middle lobe ; W. 
Bull. — Odontoglossum Schlieperianum flavidum, 
Bchb. f. (p. 135), the O. grande flavidum of 
Klotzsch, a fine sulphur-colmred variety with light 
cinnamon bars at base of sepals and petal*, orange 
at the base of the lip and on the callus ; B. S. 
Williams.— Rodgersia podophylla, A. Gray (p. 140, 
fig. 23), a hardy herbaceous plant of stately habit, 
with large palmatelv-lobed leaves, and a flower-stem 
3—4 feet high hearing a large pyramidal panicle of 
small white flowers; it belongs to the order of 
Saxifrages ; Japan ; introduced by Veitch & Sons.—■ 
Scilla litiida, Baker (p. 160), a Cape bulb, with 
cotemporary leaves, 6—8 in a rosette, aud deuse ob¬ 
long racemes of gre^n flowers tinged on the outside 
with dull purple; E. Horsman & Co.— Trichopilia 
Kienastiana, Bchb. f. (p. 166), a handsome plant allied 
to T. suavis; it has ligulate pseudobulbs tw o inches 
long, oblong-ligulate acute leaves, and two-flowered 
racemes of white flowers, having a few yellow lines or 
spots on the disc of the lip; Consul Kienast .—CaJanthe 
anchorifera, Bchb. f. (p. 166), a Polynesian species 
related to C. veratrifolia, with whitish-ochre flowers, 
having the anterior lobe of the lip bent like an 
anchor; W. Bull.— Caccinia glauca, Savi (p. 173, 
fig. 27), a stout succulent perennial 1—2 feet high, 
with oblong-obovate glauc ous leaves, and flowers with 
a remarkable angulate toothed calyx, and salver¬ 
shaped starry-limbed pale blue flowers, changing to 
