This fine variety of one of the most useful of winter decorative plants resembles the type form of P. pulcherrima, so far as regards growth of foliage, the difference consisting in the color of the fine-spreading head of bracts which are larger, smooth, and of a brilliant rosy carmine hue. In the specimen from which these notes are drawn up, the crown of colored bracts measured fiteen inches across; the infloresence first branched trichotomously, and then each of these branches were forked. The number of bracts displayed on these six ramifications was forty-five, all perfect in form, and pure in coloring, the larger ones measuring seven inches in length, and upwards of two inches in breadth. The bracts are much smoother and flatter than in the old form, and spread out so as to form a fuller and more regular crown.

Erythrtna ParceLLii - A very handsomely variegated-leaved stove plant from the South Sea Isles. It has a stoutish woody stem, furnished with alternate leaves, the petioles of which are fully six inches long, and support three leaflets, the middle one of which has a footstalk of one to two inches in length, and the lateral ones a stalk of half an inch in length. The leaflets are upwards of five inches long, sub-rhomboidal, more or less acuminate, and narrowed in a somewhat angular manner towards the base. The variegation is yellow, sometimes forming a featherlike stripe along the costa and main veins, somewhat more suffused, and forming a band an inch wide, in which case the lateral veins take on more color, and the colored line becomes again branched; when at its fullest coloring, the center of the leaf is mottled with yellow. There is a peculiar thickening of the petiole with glands just below each of the leaflets. The leaves are strikingly ornamental in character. The flowers are very attractive, of a bright cinnamon red color.

Adianttim Henslovianum is considered a very beautiful addition to the list of Maiden Hair Ferns, and has recently been introduced in England by Veitch & Sons. Fronds two to three feet in height, proportionately broader, with the lower pinnate slightly branched, thus becoming tripinnate. The stipe is of moderate length, erect, dark brown, glossy, while the rachis is, like the under-surface of the fronds, hairy. Texture of fronds rather thick and herbaceous, color a light green. Considered by florists and pomologists peculiarly distinct and possessing beauty. Is a native of Peru and Columbia and the Galapagos Islands.