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ON PHOSPHORESCENCE IN THE MOSSES.—NEW GARDEN PLANTS. 
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13. La Lilliputienne ; brownish red, rather tall, very 
free. 
14. La Pygmee ; deep yellow, tinged with buff. 
15. Le Jongleur ; clear yellow, very free. 
16. Madame Lemichez; deep lilac, double. 
17. Modele; pure white, of fine form. 
18. Nini; anemone flowered, reddish buff. 
19. Poulidetto; lilac rose, very double, free. 
20. Pomponette; bluish lilac, tinged with 
anemone centre. 
21. Sacramento ; bright orange yellow. 
22. Solfaterre ; clear primrose, fine. 
23. Surprise; white tipped with rose, fine. 
24. Sydonie ; pure white, semi-double.—A. 
orange, 
Modele is probably the best variety which has yet been 
produced. Its flowers are hemispherical, about 1|- 
inch in diameter, very full in the centre, the florets 
all strap-shaped, broad, and very slightly notched : 
the colour is a pure white. 
Sacramento is a bright yellow variety, in the same style 
as Modele, and equal to it: with age a tinge of buff 
is acquired at the tips of the florets. 
Perfectum is a variety, with broad flat entire florets, 
of a motley rosy-lilac; but it has a few quilled 
florets in the centre, which is rather flat : it is 
nevertheless desirable; the flowers are 1# inch in 
diameter. 
Asmodie has copper-coloured flowers, yellow in the 
centre, and acquiring a deep reddish tinge on the 
older florets : the flowers measure If inch across, 
and the florets are smooth and broad, but the centre 
is rather flat. 
La Pygmee is a small clustered-flowered kind, having 
the characters of the variety called La Fiancee, but 
the colour is deep yellow,—a very pretty variety 
for bouquets. 
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ON PHOSPHOEESCENCE IN THE MOSSES. 
B E. MILDE has recently made some observations on this subject, in the Botanische Zeitung, which 
are interesting in reference to the debated question of luminosity of plants. He states that he had 
formerly observed an emerald-green light emitted from the germinating fronds of Ferns, which were 
standing in a dark part of the Orchis-house of the Botanic Garden at Breslau, and this exactly resem¬ 
bled what he had seen on the little germinating plants of Schistostega osmundacea (the well-known 
Catoptridium smaragdinum of Bridel) in hollows of the cliffs at the summit of the Altvater in Bohemia, 
in 1848. This summer he met with the same phenomenon in another locality, perceiving the light in 
clefts of the rock at some distance. The rock was kept constantly moist by a shower of fine spray 
from a neighbouring waterfall. The light was emitted from globular bodies. On close inspection it 
was found that the luminous places were thickly clothed with another moss, Mniurnpunctatum, almost 
every leaflet of which bore a largish drop of water, and this produced the pretty light which made 
exactly the same impression on the eye as that of the germinating Schistostega. Meyen was correct 
in saying, that the luminosity of this latter must be struck out of the phenomena usually cited as illus¬ 
trations of the evolution of light from plants ; for it is the cellules of the germinating plant of Schis¬ 
tostega swollen into little globules, and the little drops of water on the leaves of Mniurn, which produce 
that glimmering by a peculiar refraction and reflection of the day-light; and there is no true production 
or evolution of light from the substance of these vegetables. The light of Schistostega is improperly 
termed phosporescent, for it is of a delicate emerald green.—A. H. 
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Mm (toiira pratts. 
Saxe-Gothjea coxspicua, Lindley. Conspicuous Saxe-Gothsea. Order Pinacese (Conifer tribe).—This plant 
which has been named in honour of bis Loyal Highness the Prince Consort, is a very beautiful, hardy, evergreen 
tree, growing thirty feet high, and in its foliage and habit of growth, resembling the common yew tree. It is, in 
truth, inteimediate between the yew tribe and the coniferous plants, having, as Dr. Lindley has remarked, the 
male flowers of a Podocarp, the female of a Dammar, the fruit of a Juniper, and the seed of a Dacrydium. It is 
described as a tree of beautiful growth, and will, no doubt, rank as one of our most highly-valued hardy evergreen 
trees affoiding also a useful timber. It inhabits the Andes of Patagonia, ascending from the s um mer snow-line 
to that of perpetual snow, and was introduced in 1849, by Messrs. Yeitch, of Exeter. A very full and beautifully 
illustrated account of it is given in the Journal of the Horticultural Society, vi., 258, from which we have taken 
the annexed figure. 
