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for on my return from Cornwall I found a plant, almost leafless, but blooming, 
in a Torquay garden, and in the pages of a contemporary I saw last week the 
species recorded as hardy in Argyleshire. Moreover, Mr. Charles Smith, Jun., 
of Guernsey, famous for his Ixias, and a most inteUigent young man, to whom 
it was a real pleasure to show my plants, informed me that R. formosum was 
hardy in his island. 
It would be very interesting to obtain, and I should be grateful for any 
further information tending to show the hardiness of this species, which is 
sometimes called R. formosum and sometimes R. Gibsonii ; but let informants 
be careful to identify the species. I was once mightily amazed to hear that 
R. Maddenii was hardy ; on enquiry and inspection it turned out that the plant 
was not R. Maddenii at all, but a hardy variety called Madden’s argenteum ! 
J. H. M. 
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