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resemblance of the flower to those marine animals so common 
upon our rocky coasts, known by the name of sea anemone. 
The general character of the plant approaches- that of P. alata ; 
the petals of the flowers are a pale greenish white, the nectary 
or filamentous crown is composed of numerous spreading, in¬ 
curved, worm-like filaments, beautifully banded with red, blue 
and white.— Bot. Mag. 
Syngenesia Frustranea — Composites. 
Senecio Calamifolius. An old inhabitant of the greenhouse 
of the Royal Gardens at Kew, having been introduced from the 
Cape by Mr. Bowie, but it seems never to have been described 
by any author. Few species are better marked, the leaves in¬ 
deed are more like those of some mesembryanthemum than of 
any groundsel; it blossoms in August, and from its copious 
large yellow flowers has a lively appearance.— Bot. Mag. 
Gynandria Monandria — Orchidacecs, § Vandece. 
Peristeria Humboldti. For this noble plant, which has a 
pendulous raceme a couple of feet long, we are indebted to 
John Wilmore, esq., of Oldford, near Birmingham, who imported 
it from Porto Cabullo, in the province of Venezuela, about three 
years since; it flowered for the first time in March 1842. In 
many respects it has the habit of P. Barkeri, but the leaves have 
longer footstalks. This plant appears to be the long-sought 
Anguloa superba of Humboldt.— Bot. Reg. 
Pentandrta Monogynia —Campanulacece. 
Campanula Lcsjlingia. A pretty little half-hardy annual, 
found wild in sandy places all over Portugal, and in the country 
round Mogador; it rises from six to nine inches high, copiously 
bearing its neat lilac-coloured flowers. The seeds should be 
sown either in the month of August or March, and treated as is 
usual with half-hardy annuals; the autumn-sown plants will 
flower about the end of May, those raised in spring, not before 
the middle of July; they continue a long tim&in flower. 
Bog. Reg. 
Octandria Monogynia — Melastomacece. 
Centradenia Rosea. A pretty greenhouse half-shrubby plant, 
introduced from Mexico by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., 
of Exeter; when allowed to blossom quietly in a cool green¬ 
house, it forms a deep green bush studded all over with gay ‘ 
flesh-coloured stars. It is a soft wooded species growing a foot 
or so high in sandy peat, and striking readily from cuttings. 
Triandria Monogynia — Tridacece. 
Crocus Tnsularus. Many bulbs of this pretty and variable 
crocus were sent to the learned Dean of Manchester, atSpofforth, 
in 1840 and 1841, by the British Consul at Bastia. The out¬ 
side of the flower apears to be striped with red and yellow, the 
interior is pale crimson.— Bot. Reg . 
