ation in the open air. Desmòdium nùtans; Leguminòsæ. "A low slender shrub, much branched, with scattered leaves and purple flowers," from the botanic garden of Calcutta, in 1823, by Dr. Macwhirter. - Passiflòra capsularis; Passiflòreæ. A climbing triangular-stemmed plant, with alternate remote leaves divided from below the middle, and greenish flowers. It was received by Dr. Graham from the West Indies. No. XXIV. for December, contains 2069 to 2075.- Artocarpus incìsa; Urtíceæ. "A tree from 30 to 40 ft. high, with a diameter of trunk from 1 ft. to 13 ft., bearing a large head of many, spreading, fragile branches, and abounding in every part with a viscid, milky juice." The leaves are from 1 to even 3 ft. in length, and often 1 ft. broad. They are alternate, ovate, but cuneate, and entire at the base. It was seen abundantly in the Ladrone Islands by Dampier, who says that the fruit is as big as a penny loaf, when wheat is at 5s. the bushel. It is eaten by the natives of Guam, who gather it when fully grown, and while it is green and hard; they then bake it in an oven, and scrape off the outside black crust, when there remains a tender thin crust; the inside consists entirely of a fine substance, soft, tender, and white, resembling the crumb of a loaf. Sálvia involucràta; Labiata. This plant makes a brilliant appearance planted in a border, where it has attained a height of from 12 to 14 ft., and scents something like the common sage. The leaves are quite glabrous, large, and cordate-ovate; the flowers are pinkish, and form a rather handsome thyrsus. - Enothèra vimínea; Onagràriæ. A hardy, annual, erect-stemmed plant, with glaucous entire leaves, from 3 to 4 in. long; the flowers of a lilac colour, and sessile in the axils of the superior leaves. The plants will blossom throughout the summer, if the seeds be sown in the open border in spring. From the interior of Northern California, by Mr. David Douglas.- Calceolària arachnöídea; Scrophularinæ. This plant has been hitherto kept in the green-house; it has a herbaceous, round, much branched stem, with spreading opposite branches, and lingulate opposite leaves, with purple flowers. The seeds were collected by Dr. Gillies in Chile. - Didíscus cærùleus; Umbelliferæ. An annualrooted terete-stemmed plant from New Holland, with blue flowers; the fruit is between orbicular and reniform, quite flat, and granulated on the surface; the seeds are pendent and obovate. No. XXV. for January, 1829, contains 2876 to 2883.- Calceolaria connàta; Scrophularinæ. Seeds received in 1827 from M. Hogan, Esq., consul of the United States at Valparaiso. Stems herbaceous, and the blossoms produced abundantly during the whole summer and autumn, on a cool shelf in a green-house. - Brodia'a grandiflòra; Hemerocallideæ. (fig. 26.) This beautiful purplish-blue flowered plant was found by Mr. Menzies, in 1792, in New Georgia, and, subsequently, by Mr. Douglas and Dr. Sconler, throughout the dry plains west of the Rocky Mountains. The bulbs introduced to this country have flowered in the open border, in peat soil, in July.- Brassavòla tuberculàta; Orchideæ. This plant, which bears yellow flowers, resembles, in habit, B. cucullata, and is a native of the trunks of trees in rocky places, at the entrance of Bontafogo Bay. It produced flowers in July, 1828. Abrònia mellifera; Nyctagineæ. The white blossoms of this plant, which is a native of California, have a powerful honey-like smell in the evening. It flowers in sandy peat, and may soon form a valuable addition to our flower borders - Horkèlia congésta; Rosàceæ. A hardy white 26 flowered perennial, allied to the genus Sibbaldia. -Elichrysum incànum; Compósitæ. A herbaceous plant, bearing large terminal solitary flowers, from Van Dieman's Land, and flowering in May. - Vesicària arctica; Cruciferæ. A most desirable plant for rockwork, with bright vivid yellow flowers in August and September; it was first discovered at Omenak in Greenland, by Professor Gieseke. - Gília inconspicua; Polemoniaceæ. An annual branching plant, with solitary white flowers, in the early part of summer, when cultivated in sandy peat. No. XXVI. for February, contains 2884 to 2890.-Poinciana règia; Decan. Monog. and Leguminòsæ Cæsalpineæ. (fig. 27.) "A magnificent tree 30 or 40 ft. high, having an erect trunk, three feet in vast diameter, for half its Bury Hill, from seeds sent by Mr. Telfair; and there is every reason to think they will be brought to great perfection in that well managed establishment." - Portulaca grandiflòra.- Iris tripétala. Eschscholtzia califórnica; Polyán. Tetrag., and Papaveraceæ. The following note, appended by Dr. Hooker to the description of this genus, shows the influence of accident in botanical matters, and may guard young botanists against confounding the names of two genera very much alike in sound. "Named by Chamisso in honour of Dr. Eschscholtz, an excellent botanist and entomologist, who accompanied him as a fellow-naturalist in the voyage round the world, under the command of Kotzebue. It is not, perhaps, generally known, that this gentleman is a descendant of the John Sigismund Elsholtz, a Prussian botanist, author of a Flora Marchica, and after whom Willdenow named the Elshóltzia cristàta. The Russians, into whose service the present Elsholtz went, wrote his name Eschscholtz, by mistake. The genus is now so well established, that the alteration to another generic name might create unnecessary confusion." We have now, in consequence, Elshóltzia and Eschscholtzia. Pæònia albiflòra v. ròsea. -Enothèra decumbens. An annual from dry soils and mountain valleys in South California, by Mr. David Douglas, in 1827, to the Horticultural Society.- Escallònia rùbra; Pentán. Monog., and Escallòneæ. A shrub from Chile, with numerous twiggy, rounded, red branches, more or less pubescent, and sprinkled with pedicellated glands, and terminal peduncles of deep red flowers. Raised in the botanic garden of Liverpool, where it flowered in September last, and supposed to be hardy. We are happy to find that Dr. Hooker has at last thought it worth while to follow Mr. Lindley, Mr. Sweet, and ourselves, in giving the derivation of the generic names; his next step is to give the accentuations; and a third step, which we hope the public will induce all our three friends to take, is the adoption of our mode of designating classical, aboriginal, and commemorative names by Italic letters. We had the pleasure of pointing out this improvement in September last, in Paris, to Professors Decandolle, Mirbel, Desfontaines, and others, and we have reason to believe that it will soon be adopted by one or more of them in their botanical publications. We are, indeed, at a loss to account for the indifference of Mr. Curtis, the conductor and proprietor of the Botanical Magazine, to these improvements. Does he or Professor Hooker think them of little consequence? If so, we can tell them, and some other editors of botanical works also, that the public think otherwise; and we can tell them also, that, if they persist, they will in time feel this to be the case. We wish every success both to the Botanical Magazine and the Botanical Register; but how is it possible that we can recommend the former, when, by neglecting the improvements of the day, it perversely persists in keeping itself inferior to the latter. Let the Botanical Magazine adopt the accentuations and the Italic designations, and it will then be in advance of even the Botanical Register. We have still other improvements to suggest, but we shall not do so till we see these adopted. Edwards's Botanical Register. Continued by John Lindley, F.R.S. L.S. &c. Professor of Botany in the London University. In 8vo Numbers, monthly. 4s. coloured. No. VII. for September, contains It 1173 to 1180. Streptocarpus Réxi; Bignoniaceae § Didymocárpeæ. (fig. 28.) This beautiful stove perennial plant flowers every month in the year, in great profusion. It may be easily cultivated in light peat and loam, with a litle sand, and increased by seeds. Collòmia grandiflòra; Polemoniaceæ. A fine hardy annual about 2 ft. high, with flowers in hemispherical heads, stem erect, and leaves ovate-lanceolate. From the north-west of North America, by Mr. Douglas. It flowers abundantly in June and July. should be cultivated in a poor shady border, among other plants. - Líparis (liparos, unctuous; soft surface of the leaves of some species) elàta; Orchídeæ. A "tender, stove, herbaceous plant," discovered near Rio Janeiro by Sir Henry Chamberlain. It grows freely in decayed wood, and flowers in July and August.- Bérberis rèpens; Berberidea. This hardy, evergreen, yellow-flowered shrub is a native of the north-west part of North America, and flowers in April. Propagated with difficulty by its creeping roots.- Daphne hýbrida. Nothing is known of its origin." It is quite hardy, blossoms nearly all the year, and is desirable from its delicious fragrance. - Téllima (an anagram of Mitélla, the genus from which this is divided by Mr. Brown) grandiflòra; Saxifrageæ. A hardy perennial found on the north-west coast of North America, by Mr. Menzies. It produces its flowers in April and May, but they are not strikingly beautiful. "It loves a shady peat border, in which it is protected from high winds."-Lonicera involucrata; Caprifoliaceæ. A curious, hardy, low, rather scrubby shrub, from Hudson's Bay, in 1824. requires peat earth in a shady border. Eùtoca (eutokos, fruitful; from the number of seeds which it bears) multiflòra; Hydrophylleæ. A hardy annual of great beauty, from dry, exposed, sandy situations in the northwest of North America, by Mr, Douglas. It flowers from April to May, is well adapted to rockwork, but will not thrive in the ordinary highly manured soil of a garden. It No. VIII. for October, contains 1181 to 1187. Bilbergia pyramidalis; Bromeliacea. A beautifulflowered plant from South America, highly deserving cultivation. - Clívia (named in compliment to Her Grace the Duchess of Northumberland. "Such a compliment has long been due to the noble family of Clive, and we are proud in having the honour of being the first to pay it ") nóbilis; Amaryllide. (fig. 29.) A fine green-house plant, much resembling a Cyrtanthus, of easy culture, and may be propagated either by seeds or suckers.-Brodiæ a grandiflora; Hemerocallideæ. A beautiful, hardy, bulbous plant, with purple flowers, from North-west America, by Mr. Douglas, to the Horticultural Society, in 1826, and grows freely in a peat border. Verbèna (from ferfaen, the Celtic name) Melindris (the vernacular appellation in the province of Buenos Ayres); Verbenàceæ. A handsome perennial scarlet-flowered plant, with opposite leaves, and abundantly flowering from cuttings in June and September, but, probably, requiring a frame in winter. It is common on the plains of the Pampas of Buenos Ayres, and is found in the provinces of Cordova and San Luis. Sophora velutina; Leguminòsæ. "A fine green-house shrub," which, if naturalised, would be very desirable. It is a native of Nepal, and is raised from seed. - Galárdia aristàta. A handsome, hardy, nearly evergreen, perennial plant, with fibrous roots, and found by Mr. David Douglas in the north-west of North America. It is propagated from seeds, or divisions of the roots and flowers, from June to October. - Cotoneáster (cotoneum, the name of the quince, by Pliny, and ad instar, similitude; resemblance to quince) microphýlla; Pomaceæ. A hardy evergreen shrub, of great beauty, flowering in April and May; the flowers frequently in twos or threes. It strikes readily from cuttings or layers, and grows from 2 to 3 ft. high. 1188 to 1194. No. IX. for November, contains Amaryllis acuminata var. longipedunculata; Amaryllidea. This fine variety of A. acuminata was found near San Pablo Quatro-Venados, in the state of Oaxaca, in Mexico, and differs from it in . A being more robust in its growth, with narrower 30 loam, well watered when coming into flower, but after the blossoming is over to be kept dry. - Calandrínia grandiflòra; Portulaceae. A beautiful succulent from Chile, to the Horticultural Society, by Mr. James M'Rae, in 1826. It is a handsome bush, with large bright rosy purple flowers, and fair glaucous leaves. Great care is required in its cultivation; cuttings or seeds. No. X. for December, contains 1195 to 1202.-Hamèlia (the celebrated Henry Louis Duhamel Dumonceau, "whose researches in vegetable physiology are the most perfect model of patient investigation, and accurate deduction, with which botanists are acquainted") ventricosa; Rubiàceæ. "A handsome hothouse plant, growing vigorously, and flowering in abundance in nearly all the summer months." It becomes a large tree in its native country, Jamaica, yielding handsome variegated planks, called by the cabinet-makers Spanish elm or king wood. Pyrus spùria; Pomàceæ. (fig. 31.) A handsome shrub, or small tree, but little known, and rarely seen in gardens. It has been supposed to be the hybrid offspring of the mountain ash, and the arbutus-leaved pear |