have very distinct meanings as synonymes is also curious: for instance, the phrase "bundled or pendulous tubers; " as if all pendulous tubers were produced in groups or bundles, whereas some, particularly in the Orchidea, are invariably solitary. We would also caution him against the employment of Latin plurals, until he ascertain the gender of their singular number: the words Hybernaculum and Lilium are neuter nouns, and, consequently, cannot have the plural in thence Hybernaculæ and Liliæ are incorrect. ; We should be doing injustice to our author, if, notwithstanding there remarks, we did not admit, as we have already done, that the volume contains much valuable information to the young and inexperienced florist. A. T. T. ART. II. Catalogue of Works on Gardening, Agriculture, Botany, Rural Architecture, &c., published since June last, with some Account of those considered the most interesting. Our Hortus Britannicus being now published, we shall in future, in enumerating the plants figured in the Botanical Periodicals, place a star (*) against all those which are not enumerated in the Catalogue. This will direct the attention of our readers to these species, which will be collected together at the end of every year, and incorporated with other newly introduced or discovered species in the Annual Supplement to that work. BRITAIN. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, or Flower-Garden displayed; New Series, Edited by Dr. Hooker. In 8vo Numbers, monthly. 3s. 6d. col.; 3s. plain. No. XLII. for June, contains 2990 to 2996. — Oncídium altíssimum. — Cròcus mínimus. A presumed British plant, unknown in our gardens, but as elegant and prettily varied with colour as any in the genus. - Euphorbia corollàta. Raised at Bury Hill, from seeds sent from North America by Mr. Nuttall. Sphácele Lindleyi. From Valparaiso; flowered in 1828. Helenium autumnàle. - A'ster lævigàtus. - *Ocymum montànum. No. XLIII. for July, contains 2997 to 3003.-Renanthèra coccínea.-*Ranúnculus cardiophýllus. "One of the many new discoveries made by Dr. Richardson and Mr. Drummond in the second over-land Arctic expedition, under the command of Captain Sir John Franklin." Found in the limestone districts of Canada, and in the alpine prairies of the Rocky Mountains, between lat. 52° and 55°. Large bright glossy yellow flowers, which remain a long time expanded; hardy. Whether a perennial or an annual is not mentioned; but "it is likely to prove a great acquisition to our collections of hardy plants." -* Indigofera sylvática. The I. speciòsa of the gardens. A showy conservatory plant, with, bright rose-coloured flowers, inclining to purple.-*Begonia longipes. stain. From Canada to the Glasgow botanic garden, by Mr. Cleghorn [? an old friend of ours]. - *Eùtoca serícea; Hydrophýlleæ. A pretty and perfectly hardy perennial alpine, from the Rocky Mountains, in North America, by Mr. Drummond. No. XLIV. for August, contains 3004 to 3010. - Terminàlia Catáppa; Combretaceæ. A tree of India, bearing a drupe, containing a nut, the kernel of which resembles that of an almond or filbert in flavour, and yields an oil equal to that of the olive. The fruit is abundantly eaten in India. - Didymocárpus Réx. From Southern Africa, by Mr. Bowie, to Kew. - Crotalària ovális. - Moricándia arvensis. "The Glasgow botanic garden is indebted for the possession of this plant to Messrs. Young of Epsom, whose choice collection of plants is only equalled by the liberality with which they distribute them wherever they can be of real service to science, and who may justly be ranked among the first and most zealous cultivators in the kingdom." Ribes cèreum. A much branched compact twiggy shrub, growing from 4 ft. to 6 ft. high, on the banks of the Columbia, whence it was introduced to the Horticultural Society by Mr. David Douglas. Ranúnculus millefoliatus. A native of Italy, in the north of Africa, and seeds of it were lately sent to the Glasgow botanic garden. - *Phrýnium coloratum; Canneæ. Introduced from Brazil by Richard Harrison, Esq., and flowered in Lord Milton's stove in April last. No. XLV. for September, contains 3011 to 3017.-*Bignònia grandifolia. One of the handsomest of stove climbers.-Lobèlia Kraússi. A stove plant, of moderate beauty, from Dominica, in 1828.- *Encyclia pàtens. A stove epiphyte, from Rio de Janeiro to the rich collection at Aigburgh.. -Vanguièra velutina; Rubiàceæ. A stove shrub, from Madagascar, of very little beauty. - *Ceropègia élegans; Asclepiadece. A most elegant stove twiner, showing its beautiful greenish white flowers, thickly spotted with purple, in January. It was sent to the Kew garden, by Dr. Wallich, in 1828.-Brachystélma críspum; Asclepiadea, A most elegant bulb, sent from the Cape of Good Hope, by Mr. Bowie, to the select collection of Mr. Neill, at Cannon Mills. *Anthéricum bulbòsum. A handsome yellow-flowered Anthéricum, from New South Wales. 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. IV. for June, contains 1327 to 1334.- Anòna (menona or manoa, Malayan names) laurifòlia. A small tree, from the islands of the Caribean Sea, flowering in August; blossoms large, of a deep orange; foliage handsome; fruit of no value. Mammillaria pulchra. Mímulus propinquus. - *Cactus (subgen. Epiphyllum) Ackermánni. From Mexico, by Mr. George Ackermann, in compliment to whom it was named by Mr. Haworth. It is remarkable, “that about the same time that Mr. Tate's imported plant blossomed, our artist was summoned by Mr. Mackay to make a drawing of a seedling raised by Mr. Smith, gardener to Lord Liverpool, at Combe Wood, which proved so similar to this as to give rise to doubts as to the originality of the species. We understand that the flower of this seedling is rather larger, and its colour deeper red than that of the Mexican plant. It was first brought into bloom by John Brampton, Esq., of Stoke Newington, a gentleman who cultivates a small but very select collection of stove and green-house plants." The young to. "The shoots have a deep red margin, which is not the case with the mules referred “A most desirable species, excelling, in brilliancy of colouring, even the well-known C. speciosíssima." Acàcia uncinata. "Very near A. armàta.” — Podolòbium trilobàtum. "The leaves of this and some other leguminous plants are opposite; a striking exception to the general fact, that in that order they are alternate; and a proof that what botanists consider even the most fixed characters are occasionally liable to deviation: so imperfect are the means we at present possess of distinguishing, by external indications, the constitutional peculiarities of vegetation."- Justícia guttata; Acanthacea. A tender stove perennial, flowering in August, and increasing freely by cuttings. Presented by the East India Company to the Horticultural Society. It is a native of the Pundua Mountains. marking of the corolla with deep blood-red spots, upon a greenish ground, is exceedingly pretty: when closely examined, it will be found to arise from the presence of a deep crimson colouring matter, filling here and there the cavities of the cellular tissue of the parenchyma, and not existing in that part which forms the ground colour. When will natural philosophy tell us why contiguous spaces on a plane surface, the functions and anatomical structure of which are uniform vary thus in the matter they secrete?" *Lobèlia purpùrea. A handsome half-shrubby plant, from Valparaiso, growing in the open border in the summer, but requiring protection in the winter. It does not ripen its seeds, and can only be increased by cuttings, or division of the crown of the root." No V. for July, contains 1335 to 1341.- Brunsvígia grandiflòra. A noble addition to the genus; no doubt a native of the Cape of Good Hope. Approaching B. striàta in flower, and B. Josephine in bulb. Kennedya monophylla var. longiracemòsa. Raised from New Holland seeds, by Mr. Rollison of Tooting. A green-house plant, of much beauty, propagated readily by cuttings. Pothos scándens; Aröídeæ. Imported from China by Mr. Tate of the Sloane Street nursery. It roots into the bark of trees, in the most shady forests of India. - Tillandsia stricta; Bromeliacea. From Buenos Ayres and Brazil, to Peter Kendall, Esq., a zealous cultivator of curious hothouse plants, who presented it to the Horticultural Society. "This is among the most beautiful of its tribe, and one that is very easily cultivated. Mr. Kendall finds it succeed remarkably well with the following treatment: In June he takes it out of the stove, and suspends it from a wall in the open air, where he leaves it without water, attention, or protection, till the succeeding October; thus creating a sort of artificial winter. When the time for placing it again in the stove arrives, it is found withered, discoloured, and, in appearance, half dead: as soon, however, as it is again submitted to heat and moisture, it recovers rapidly, commences a new and vigorous growth, and in the course of a few weeks loses all traces of its previous sufferings, assuming a rich healthy vegetation. After throwing out suckers from each side, it shoots up its spikes of bright blue flowers, which begin to open in March, and endure till the end of April: when the period for a cessation of growth draws near, its parts harden, its flowers fall away, and by June it is ready again to undergo the same treatment as before. It is no doubt desirable to create an artificial winter, or cold season, for all tropical plants, if it be possible, but this is generally impracticable; and although Mr. Kendall's management succeeds with this, and two or three similar plants from the same part of the southern hemisphere, it by no means follows that it can be applied generally; on the contrary, we know, from experience, that Brazilian and West Indian epiphytes of the orchis tribe are destroyed by it." Passiflora ligulàris. Nearly related to P. quadrangulàris and edulis; the fruit is said to be about the size of an orange, and eatable; the leaves are entire. — Justícia quadrangu laris. A tender stove plant, of easy culture in a damp hot atmosphere. -Phycélla Herbertiana; Amaryliídea. From the Andes, by Mr. M‘Rae, in November, 1825. No. VI. for August, contains 1342 to 1348.— Senecio lilácinus. "A most lovely shrubby plant, cultivated easily in the conservatory, striking freely from cuttings, and well adapted for the flower-garden in the summer." From the garden of the Duke of Northumberland, by Mr. Forest. It is supposed to be a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and to have a near affinity with S. lanceus.Argemone mexicana var. ochroleuca. *Crássula turrita. From the "very rich collection" of C. Law, Esq., Nelson Terrace, Newington Road, now about to be disposed of, and which is "one of the most interesting in the neighbourhood of London." *Habránthus Andersòni. From Monte Video, to Mr. Mackay of the Clapton nursery, in 1829, by Mr. Anderson, his collector, in whose honour the specific name is given by the Honourable and Reverend W. Herbert; flowers of a golden yellow, with brownish red streaks on the outside, in April and May.-*Drímia villòsa; Asphodèleæ. A green-house bulb, from the Cape of Good Hope to Mr. Tate of the Sloane Street nursery, in May, 1826.— Collòmia heterophylla. — Gèum chilénse var. grandiflòrum. - No. VII. for September, contains 1349 to 1355. Ribes sanguíneum; Grossulàceæ. The district of the Columbia River, on the north-west coast of America, abounds with currants, remarkable for the great beauty of their flowers. One of these is R. aureum. The present subject "is inferior in beauty to no plant in cultivation. It is as hardy as the common currant of the gardens, and bears a vast profusion of bunches of the most lovely purplish-red flowers, during the end of April and beginning of May, remaining in perfection full three weeks." Readily increased by cuttings, either of the new or old wood. Prefers a dry soil, but not peaty, as it is apt to die off in swampy places. "This species was sent by Mr. Douglas to the Horticultural Society; and of such importance do we consider it to the embellishment of our gardens, that if the expense incurred by the Horticultural Society in Mr. Douglas's voyage had been attended with no other result than the introduction of this species, there would have been no ground for dissatisfaction. It is not the number of objects that a public body or an individual accomplishes that creates a claim to public gratitude, so much as their utility; and, in this view, the gentleman who brought the first live plant of the now common China rose to England deserves his country's gratitude in a greater degree than all the collectors who have sent plants to Kew for the last twenty years. But if we consider that it is not R. sanguíneum alone that the Horticultural Society has introduced through the same active traveller, but that the gigantic pines of North-west America, one of which yields timber superior to the finest larch; Acer macrophyllum, the wood of which is as much better than our sycamore as the species is superior in the beauty and amplitude of its foliage; Gaultheria Shallon, an evergreen shrub of great merit; have all been secured to this country, and distributed in every direction, to say nothing of the beautiful lupines, pentstemons, berberries, œnotheras, and other plants of less moment; when all this, we say, is considered, it is not too much to assert that this result alone has justified all the expenditure of the Society's garden from the commencement, and has stamped it with a character of great national utility, which nothing but future mismanagement can shake.' This species was originally discovered in 1787, by Archibald Menzies, Esq., during his first voyage round the world; and again, in his second voyage with Van Couver, in 1792. Lime, or lime rubbish, mixed with the soil in which it grows, adds to the profusion and depth of tint of the blossoms. *Lachenalia pállida of Thunb. - Phlóx speciosa. A rare species from Columbia, extremely impatient of cultivation. "The late incessant rains have nearly destroyed it; and it is to be feared that it will be soon lost altogether."- Acàcia lunàta.—*Sterculia Tragacántha. The tragacanth tree of Sierra Leone; "a gum resembling gum tragacanth being copiously exuded by it when wounded." Vaccinium ovàtum. A handsome evergreen shrub, bearing an edible fruit, like most of the vacciniums, and of easy culture in shady situations. *Scilla plúmbea. A bulb imported from the Cape to Kew, and drawn there by Mr. Edwards in 1813, but now probably lost. Botanical Cabinet. By Messrs. Loddiges. In 4to and 8vo Parts, monthly. 1571 to 1580.-*Pleurothallis saurocéphalus; Orchideæ. Rio Janeiro. *Erìca multiflòra.—*Lantàna lavandulæfòlia. — I`ris pùmila. — Mímulus rivulàris. - Fothergilla alnifolia. -*Watsònia compácta.- Onoclèa obtusilobàta; Filices. From Dr. Wray of Augusta; stove. naúltia multiflòra. Anthéricum glaúcum. Part CLIX.for July, contains *Leche 1581 to 1590.-Plantàgo montàna. - -*Andrómeda calyculàta ventricòsa. Styphèlia longifolia.-* Rhododéndrom daúricum sempervirens. "Much more adapted to our climate than the deciduous variety, as it flowers later, and is less subject to injury from early frosts.- Prímula Pallàsä. -*Caméllia japónica corallina. One of the varieties raised from seeds by Mr. Chandler. -Armèria fruticosa.-Diplàzium plantagineum; Filices. A native of Jamaica. - *Fumària càva.—*Calàdium lívidum. Part CLX. for August, contains 1591 to 1600.-*Andrómeda polifòlia angustifolia.-*Bléchnum lancèola. Ranunculus amplexicaulis. - *Pyrus japónica. - *Justícia Gendarússa. - Phlóx crassifòlia. — Prímula inflàta.—Prùnus boreàlis. —Amýgdalus sibírica. Epidéndrum rigidum. Part CXLI. for September, contains 1601 to 1610.-*Stèlis tubàta. A curious epiphyte, from New Spain, in 1828.-Rubus spectabilis. From the Columbia River, by Mr. Douglas, to the Horticultural Society, where it appears to be quite hardy, producing red flowers in May. Whether it is a trailer, or a subfrutescent plant, like the common raspberry, is not mentioned. -Stréptopus ròseus.- Játropha panduræfòlia.-Vaccinium ovàtum. - Petrèa erécta. Prùnus depréssa, the Cérasus depréssa of Pursh, bearing a black, sweet, and agreeably flavoured cherry.- *Erìca vernàlis. - Řanúnculus montànus. The British Flower-Garden. By Robert Sweet, F.L.S. &c. In 8vo Numbers, monthly, 3s. No. XIII. for June, contains 66 49 to 52. Saxifraga retùsa. A beautiful and rare little species, resembling S. oppositifòlia, from M. Schleicher, to the Chelsea garden. -Rhododéndron Smith. A hybrid between R. pónticum and R. arboreum; raised from seed by Mr. W. Smith of Coombe Wood, and will, there can be little doubt, prove quite hardy; peat soil and layers; or young cuttings, with their wood nearly ripened, taken off at a joint, and planted in pots of sand, placed in a frame, or under a hand-glass, in a little bottom heat, will not be difficult to root."- Plectocéphalus (plektos, plaited, kephale, a head; plaited leaflets of involucrum) americànus; Compósitæ Centaurèæ. From the Arkansa territory, in North America, to Bury Hill. A beautiful annual, with blue and pink flowers, deserving a place in every collection. — Prímula villosa. |