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ingly fine. I have also a very beautiful, delicate white one, 
found on the very damp parts of the moorland in this neighbour¬ 
hood-; and a delicate rose-coloured one from the same district. 
I have grown most of these in the open borders, but I prefer 
growing them in good-sized pots, as many of them have the 
utmost dislike to have their roots meddled with. I found that 
disturbing the border in spring often injured them. The first 
eleven grow well, and some of them increase considerably in size 
and beauty, if planted in good meadow-soil, pressed well about 
their roots, with a covering of about an inch and a half of bog 
soil on the top. The Cypripediums should be grown in a 
mixture of bog soil and sphagnum moss. I have at this moment 
a lot in bloom, which I consider far more interesting than one 
half of the tropical ones, though I am a dear lover of all these 
fantastical children of nature. 
I found, a short time ago, a very singular variegated-leaved 
Orchis, in the neighbourhood of Matlock, Derbyshire, which, I 
think, may prove new altogether to us. 
G. T. Dale. 
Longsight , Manchester. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
Ericine^e. —Decandria Mo?iogynia. 
Rhododendron Nilagiricum (Zenker). A most lovely shrub, 
and, what adds to its value, perfectly hardy, having endured 
several winters in the open ground, in the nursery of Messrs. 
Lucombe and Pince, who raised it from seed sent from Nepal, 
and with whom it flowered in April, 1848, being, we believe, the 
first of the species that has blossomed in this country. The 
under side of the leaves is covered with a rufous tomentum, which 
amply distinguishes it from R. arboreum, and the flowers are 
white or cream-coloured towards the middle, deepening into 
bright rose at the outer portion of the petals. Dried Neelgherry 
specimens of the same species exhibit them, varying from the 
above state to a deep crimson.— Rot. Mag. 4381. 
BROMELiACEiE. —Hexandria Monogynia. 
Vriesia speciosa (Hooker). I have little hesitation in referring 
this beautiful plant to Dr. Lindley’s genus Vriesi, established on 
