make a showy pot-plant, though in any case pleasing and peculiar, on account of the prevailing faint orange tint. Frontispiece, right hand.

Minima.

SULPHUREA, The sulphur-leaved ivy (syn. Marginata canescens).—A weakgrowing and peculiar-looking plant, handsome when seen on a large extent of wall, but not distinct enough for pot culture. The leaves are small, triangular,

and flat, or spoon-shaped and concave, with small ear-like lobes. The variegation is plentiful enough, but dull, the prevailing colours being pale sulphur

yellow and impure cream colour, with about an equal proportion of a dull darkgreen ground. The plant has been received in one instance labelled Marginata argentea; a pretty example of the vagaries of nursery nomenclature.

Marginata grandis.

CHRYSOPHYLLA, The goldenleaved ivy (syn. Aurea spectabilis, Aurea densa minor, Digitata aurea, Aurea or golden, Aurea maculata, Canariensis aurea marmorata, Foliis aureis). A distinct variety, which has a different name in almost every nursery where it is to be found. There may be more than one variety, ndeed, to justify the multiplicity of names, but our plants, obtained from various sources, and labelled as in the foregoing list of synonyms, vary so little that we have resolved to consider them identical, and to make the name Chrysophylla represent them all. This is a free-growing climbing plant in an intermediate condition, and occasionally under pot culture producing fruiting shoots. The leaves are broad, variously lobed, but the lobes are always obtuse and few in number, the greater part being obscure. The variegation appears in patches on the young growth, many of the leaves being wholly of a deep yellow, others mottled with paler yellow on a green ground, a large proportion of the plant being of a dark green, without any trace of variegation. A fine variety when planted out in a poor gravelly or chalky soil, but under pot culture and in rich soil apt to run out." The golden spray in the centre of the frontispiece represents the young growth; at the foot, right hand, of the plate at page 62 is represented an old mottled leaf.

Marginata major.

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CHRYSOPHYLLA PALMATA (syn. Palmata aurea).—The exact counterpart of the last in colouring, but the leaves are distinctly palmate, with five blunt short lobes, all projecting forward.

Marginata media.

SUCCINATA, The amber-tinted ivy.—A distinct and delicate variety, the gift of W. B. Dunnett, Esq., of Dedham, Essex, whose collection, planted out on a rockery, constitutes an extremely interesting feature of a beautiful garden. The stems

are dark green when mature, but when young brilliant carmine or coral red. The leaves are bluntly sagittate in form, and richly mottled with amber and pale green,

Marginata minor.

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occasionally of a rich yellowish cream colour without a trace of green, and in other cases streaked with emerald green on a ground of clear amber. so constant that it matters not in what kind of soil it is grown. figured at the foot, right hand, of the title-page.