The following are the more interesting of the herbaceous plants grown

Gaillardia bícolor, aristàta, and Silène marítima flòre plèno and

Messrs. Jeffries and Son are growers of seeds, and deal in them. I am, Sir, yours, &c.—John Smith, Gardener to Dykes Alexander, Esq. St. Matthew's Ipswich, Dec. 27. 1832.

ART. IV. Floricultural and Botanical Notices of new Plants, and of old Plants of Interest, supplementary to the latest Editions of the "Encyclopædia of Plants," and of the "Hortus Britannicus." Curtis's Botanical Magazine; each monthly Number containing eight plates; 3s. 6d. coloured, 3s. plain. Edited by Dr. Hooker, King's Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow.

Edwards's Botanical Register; each monthly Number containing eight plates; 4s. coloured, 3s. plain. Edited by John Lindley, F.R.S., Professor of Botany in the London University.

Sweet's British Flower-Garden; each monthly Number containing four plates; 3s. coloured, 2s. 3d. plain. Edited by David Don, Esq., Librarian to the Linnæan Society.

Loddiges's Botanical Cabinet; each monthly Number containing ten plates; 5s. coloured, 2s. 6d. partly coloured. Edited by Messrs. Loddiges. Maund's Botanic Garden; each monthly Number containing one plate, bearing pictures of four plants; ls. 6d. coloured and large paper, 1s. smalĺ paper. Edited by Benjamin Maund, F.L.S.

DICOTYLEDONOUS POLYPETALOUS PLANTS.

XLVI. Cáctea.

1472. CE REUS. setòsus B. C.

bristled

or au Pk Brazil 1829. C It. Bot. cab. 1887

"It has a trailing stem, rooting as it goes, for two or three feet in length. Its flowers are readily produced, and usually about the month of August." (Bot. Cab., Jan. 1833.)

Mr. Dennis has raised a number of seedling cereuses; and, as many of them are from hybridised seeds, some interesting varieties are expected. Mr. Dennis possesses an interesting-looking kind, but not of his own raising, named Cèreus oxypétalus.

LI. Loàseæ.

1478. MENTZE LIA. 12637a hispida Willd.

hispid

A or 1 ap Y Peru 1831. S s. Bot. mag. 3205

This is an interesting plant; but its flowers, of a rich yellow colour, and exceeding in outline the size of a shilling, seem not numerously produced. Dr. Hooker conceives that this may be distinct from the M. áspera of Linnæus. The powdered roots of some species of this genus are violently purgative, and in consequence used medicinally. (Bot. Mag., Dec.) LVI. Myrtacea.

2179. MELALEUCA.

19603a? Fraseri Hook Fraser's

or 1... Pa.Ro N.S. W. 1829. C p.l Bot. mag. S210

Mr.

"A lowly, much-branched shrub, with many short opposite or subverticillate branches, bearing generally, towards their extremities, and crowdedly, linear awl-shaped leaves. Flowers collected into a spike, of a broadly oval or subglobose outline, at the extremity of the branches, only terminated by two or three shoots of the current year's growth.' Fraser, late colonial botanist at Sydney, sent it to the Glasgow garden, named M. genistifòlia, but it is very different from the species so named by Smith. M. Fràseri is a pretty species. (Bot. Mag., Jan. 1833.) LXXII. Aristolochiæ.

374. ARISTOLO'CHIA. 22849a cymbifera Mart.

boat-flwd.

or 20 jl.au Y.P St. Paul 1829. C p. Bot. reg. 1543 A most remarkable species, in the style of A. labiosa. The leaves, by the one figured, emulate in size those of the hardy A. sìpho; and the flower, in its size, and the length of its lip, exceeds that of A. labiosa. Its introduction to England was by a seed-vessel, sent from South America by Mr. Parish to Mrs. Hawkins, of Bignor Park, about five years ago.

That lady gave the seed-vessel to the Rev. John Austen, of Pulborough Rectory, in Sussex, who raised plants from it; and from a plant in his stove, growing in rich soil under the pavement at the back of the stove, the specimen figured was supplied. In this situation it grows so vigorously, that armfulls of it require to be annually destroyed, to prevent its overrunning the house. It strikes very readily from cuttings. Huge as are the flowers of this species, they yield in size both to A. cordiflòra and gigantèa, in which the blossoms are from 15 to 16 inches across, being large enough to form hats for the Indian children, who amuse themselves with them. (Bot. Reg., Dec.)

LXXIII. Rosacea.

1528. POTENTI'LLA.

atrosanguínea-pedàta Maund (hybrid) ✰ ▲ or 1 jn.s Dp.O Eng.hyb. 1831 D co Bot. gard. 385
"The novel colour of this new hybrid flower renders it very desirable.
The plant is slender, like P. pedata. We," says Mr. Maund," raised it
from seed of the P. atrosanguínea, fertilised with pollen of P. pedàta ;
and we believe that a more perfect mixture of two distinct and dis-
similar species is not known. The dark red of the one, and full yellow of
the other, are well mingled, and produce a rich deep orange. The foliage,
also, of it is intermediate between that of its two parents." Mr. Maund,
on the wrapper of his Botanic Garden for January, 1833, has the following
additional remark on this plant: "We have presented the stock of our
new Potentilla to the Messrs. Pope, nurserymen, Handsworth, near Bir-
mingham. This appeared to be the only practicable method by which we
could accommodate all who may wish to possess it."
LXXVII. Leguminosæ. § Genísteæ.

1952. CROTALA'RIA. 17387a? striàta Hook.

The figure is " from a drawing made ten years ago from a plant in the collection of the late Mr. Walker, of Arno's Grove, but unaccompanied with any remark. The flowers are small, numerous, and yellow streaked with red. (Bot. Mag., Dec. 1832.)

Leguminosa. § Mimoseæ.

2837. ACACIA. §4.

24743a intermèdia Cun. intermediate

or 8 ... Y N.Holl. 1818? C s.l.p. Bot. mag. 3203

Figured from the Kew collection, off a shrub of strong growth, 8 ft. high, and much branched; the branches twiggy, and bearing copious foliage, the leaves or phyllodia nearly 3 in. long, and linear-lanceolate. "Flowers crowded, fragrant, arranged in rather long, slender, cylindrical, spreading, sessile, deep yellow spikes, shorter than the leaves." "This kind has long existed at Kew; but no botanist, before Mr. Cunningham, has described its characteristics: its nearest affinity is to A. floribúnda Willd. and A. mucronata Willd. (Bot. Mag., Dec.) The time of its flowering is not stated.

XCVI. Rhámnea. Pomadérris betùlina Cun., already given in our Additional Supplement, is figured in the Botanical Magazine for January, t. 3212. It is an interesting-looking species, described as a slender, and much branching, shrub," with numerous small leaves, shaped like those of birch, and " green and nearly glabrous above, but clothed beneath with a dense rusty down. Flowers small, collected into numerous dense bracteated heads, which are sometimes on short solitary peduncles, from the axils of the leaves, or they form a sort of panicle at the extremity of the numerous branches." Figured from the Kew collection, into which it was introduced from New South Wales, in 1823, by Allan Cunningham, Esq. CXXIII. Oxalideæ.

1414 OXALIS. §2. Cumingi Herb.

Cuming's

N? prau.s Go Chile 1831. S s.1 Bot. reg. 1545 A pleasing species, with small pubescent leaves, and rather numerous

golden flowers, the size of a sixpenny piece. The Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, who raised it from seeds, introduced to England by Mr. Cuming, thus speaks of it :-"The appearance of the little pot, containing four and five seedlings, which produced a constant succession of blossoms, expanding without sunshine, and on the wettest days, was very pleasing." (Bot. Reg., Dec.) Mr. Herbert considers the plant likely to prove a perfectly hardy annual, but in a frame it will possibly be perennial.

CXXIV. Tropadleæ. Tropæ'olum pentaphyllum is figured in the Bot. Mag. for Oct., t. 3190., and in the Bot. Reg. for Dec., t. 1547. It is a tuberous root-stocked green-house or pit perennial, with wreathlike stems, gracefully climbing by means of the long tendrilly footstalks of its pretty, somewhat starlike, leaves. The peduncles of the numerous, and not unhandsome, flowers, are gracefully long and drooping. The plant is dormant during the winter, and should then have plenty of air. Mr. Neill, Edinburgh, and Mr. Knight, Chelsea, possess the plant. CXL. Caryophylleæ. § Silèneæ.

1386. DIA'NTHUS. 11469a Libanotis Lab.

of Lebanon

▲ or 4 au W.spot Mt. Leb. 1830. C lp Bot. reg. 1548 "We incline to think this most lovely species the very finest of the genus. Mr. Lambert is its fortunate possessor. We presume, from its native country, the highest points of Mount Lebanon, that it will require a warm and dry situation; it will then thrive in the open air." The flowers are borne in pairs on the tips of the peduncles, their tube is long, and the five white petals are spotted in their middle part, and end in a cut fringe, somewhat in the manner of D. supérbus. (Bot. Reg., Dec.)

Dianthus aggregàtus is figured, from Mrs. Marryat's garden, in Sweet's Flower-Garden for Nov., t. 166. "It is closely related to D. barbàtus, of which species it may be, perhaps, only a variety; but it is a highly ornamental plant, and, therefore, deserving of a place in every flowergarden. The plant is perennial, delighting in a light soil, and is increased by cuttings, or by seeds, which it perfects in abundance."

CLXXV.

609. LOBE LIA. 5102a mucronata Cav.

DICOTYLEDONOUS MONOPETALOUS PLANTS.
Lobeliàceæ.

mucronate-lvd or 3 au Bt.C Chile 1831. D 1.p Bot. mag. 3207 This beautiful species is nearly related to the splendid L. Tùpa, and is expected to prove, like that, comparatively hardy. "It is a much smaller plant than that, in all its parts, bearing a much shorter and more lax raceme of [12 to 14] flowers, but which are equally brilliant in point of colour." Introduced to the Glasgow botanic garden by Alexander Cruickshanks, Esq. (Bot. Mag., Jan. 1833.)

Lobèlia speciosa is figured in Sweet's British Flower Garden for Jan. 1833, t. 174., and stated to be an Irish, not a Scottish, hybrid, as I had before registered it. This plant finely grown in pots; and several plants of it, placed among potted plants of the scarlet-flowered kinds, L. fúlgens, spléndens, and cardinalis, give to the group a lively contrastedness of colour. I saw a group of this kind in Messrs. Dennis and Co.'s nursery, on the 20th of August last. At the same nursery I saw, on Sept. 30., two very interesting species of Lobèlia blooming, which had been imported, in 1832, from North America, by Mr. Alexander Gordon: whether they have ever been described or not, I do not know: one is called L. glandulòsa, and has glands on the edges of its leaves, at the shallow ser ratures. Both species have blue flowers. -J. D.

CLXXXVI. Compósitæ.

335. SENE CIO. Tussilaginis Less.

Coltsfoot-lvd. or 1 my P Teneriffe 1829. C p. Bot. reg. 1550 Cinerària Tussiláginis Herit, and Willd.

"It is a handsome green-house plant, flowering very abundantly, and is readily increased by cuttings." (Bot. Reg., Jan. 1833.)

CXC. Cinchonàceæ Lindl.

389. MANEʼTTIA. cordifolia Mart.

heart-lvd.

or 10? au.d S Buen. Ayr. 1831. S pl Bot. mag. 3202

A graceful evergreen suffruticose twiner, with stalked pendulous scarlet tubular corollas above an inch in length: the height or extent to which the plant attains is not stated. The plant seems well furnished with foliage. The leaves are shining and opposite; in figure cordate, acuminate, and the lowest and largest 4 in. long, and nearly 24 in. broad, gradually diminishing in size to the uppermost, which are 4 lines long and 2 lines broad. The plant is figured from the stove of Mr. Neill, Canonmills, where it first showed flower in August last. Another and stronger specimen is just now (10th October) opening its first biossoms; and, being covered with a profusion of buds in every stage, promises to be exceedingly ornamental during many weeks. It was raised from seed sent home by Mr. Tweedie. (Bot. Mag., Dec.)

CCXI. Scrophularineæ.

1783. MI'MULUS. 15900a variegatus Dou.

variegated-flwd ▲ or 1 su W.Ro Chile 1831. S It. Bot. cab. 1872 Lately introduced from Chile into France: we received it by the kindness of our friend, M. Mirbel, of the Jardin du Roi, at Paris. It flowers in long succession during the summer, and thrives best if the pot is placed in a pan of water: it appears to bear seeds freely, and, being probably not longlived, it is requisite to renew it frequently. (Bot. Cab., Dec.) The limb of the corolla is large; and of its five divisions, four are white, the lowest rosy, with some yellow towards the throat : it seems in habit closely related to M. guttatus and luteus.

In the Horticultural Society's Garden, on Sept. 3. 1832, I was shown a very pleasing herbaceous species of Mimulus, the M. ròseus of Douglas: it has rosy largish corollas, and foliage not very unlike that of M. moschàtus.

CCXIII. Solàneæ.

582. SOLA'NDRA.

4611a guttata D. Don spotted-Alwd or 12 jn.jl Pa. Y Mexico 1830. Ć r.m Bot. reg. 1551 A splendid species, "introduced from Mexico, by Mr. Tate, of the Sloane-street Nursery, from whom Mr. Lambert obtained the plant, which blossomed in the stove, at Boyton, in the early part of last summer. It appears to be fond of warmth and moisture, grows luxuriantly, is readily increased by cuttings, and promises to produce its blossoms more freely than the other species." (D. Don, in Bot. Reg., Jan. 1833.).

Nierembérgia linariæfòlia of our Additional Supplement, is published in Sweet's British Flower-Garden for December, by the name of N. gracilis, to which that in the Supplement must be altered. Mr. D. Don remarks the very close affinity of this genus to the genus Petunia, and also the close affinity of the genus Petunia to the genus Salpiglóssis. This seems practically proved by the Salpiglóssis integrifòlia of the Botanical Magazine, 3113., being as palpably a Petunia as it can stare. It is a most ornamental species, with largish rosy crimson blossoms; and, in the Horticultural Society's Garden, I learned, on Sept. 3. 1832, that a blossom or blossoms of it had been there just previously impregnated with the pollen of Petunia nyctaginiflòra. Mr. D. Don proposes to call the Salpiglóssis integrifòlia of Hooker Petunia phœnícea.

CCXIV. Acanthacea.

1727. RUE'LLIA.

oblongifolia B. C. oblong-lvd.

or 3? s Ro Brazil 1830. C lt. Bot. cab. 1889

"One of the last plants we received from our late friend, Robert