Dr Graham's Description of' New or Hare Plants. 175 



The subject of the present article was given to us by David Falconar, Esq. 

 in whose garden at Carlowrie, near Edinburgh, (distinguished especially 

 for being rich in this genus) it flowered in May 1828 ; and a second spe- 

 cimen was sent by him from the garden of Messrs Dickson and Co. 

 seedsmen, Edinburgh. A figure from this last will appear in the Botani- 

 cal Magazine. According to Lamarck it is a native of hilly, stony places, 

 in France and German^'. 



Nicotiana glauca. 



N. glauca; caule sufFruticoso erecto ramoso ; foliis inaequaliter cordato- 

 ovatis, acutis, obsolete sinuatis, nudis, glaucis, longe petiolatis ; flori- 

 bus paniculatis, terminalibus ; calyce quinque dentato ; coroUte limbo 

 regulari, laciniis acutis, brevissimis. 

 Description — Plant probably short-lived. Stem erect, round, branched, 

 of great height — native specimens said to be 20 feet high — ours above 

 ten, and still growing freely. Branches ascending obliquely. Leaves pe- 

 tioled, somewhat unequal at the base, cordato-ovate, obscurely sinuate, 

 acuminate, smooth, soft, naked, veined (5 inches long, 3 broad), middle 

 rib strong ; petiole round, spreading, shorter than the leaf (3 inches long). 

 Panicle terminal, secund, lax ; pedicels rising from the axils of minute 

 subulate bractea?, which, however, are often awanting. Calyx persist- 

 ing, as long as the pedicel, tubular, obscurely angled, with five sharp, 

 unequal, erect, ciliated teeth. Corolla green in bud, afterwards of uni- 

 form yellow colour, covered with close, white, soft pubescence on the 

 outside ; tube slightly curved downwards, thrice as long as the calyx, 

 within which it is contracted, and five-furrowed, beyond this five-sided, 

 and of nearly uniform diameter, till near the faux, where it is slightly 

 inflated, and again contracted immediately below the limb ; limb small, 

 cup-shaped, segments short, acute, erect. Stamens unequal ; filaments 

 slender, incurved from the sides of the corolla at their apices, also ap- 

 proaching each other above^their insertion into the corolla at the extre- 

 mity of the calyx, below this adhering to the inside of the tube, in the 

 structure of which they are lost downwards ; anthers short, oblong, 

 pendulous, bilobular, lobes unconnected at their apices, green before 

 bursting, immediately afterwards reflected and brown, on the longer fi- 

 laments subexserted ; pollen light yellow. Stigma dark green, subex- 

 serted bifid, segments short, spreading; style filiform, somewhat com- 

 pressed ; germen ovate, bilocular ; ovula very numerous, oblong, crowdetl 

 along a large columnar receptacle. Whole plant to the base of the pedi- 

 cels of beautiful glaucous hue, and pruinose ; at this point, at the base 

 of the petioles, and on the young leaves, by the sides of the middle rib 

 near the petiole, the colour is dark purple. The bloom is easily rubbed 

 from every part but the leaves (where it is more fixed), leaving the cu- 

 ticle of lively green, as on the pedicels and calyx, where the bloom is 

 awanting. Whole plant inodorous. In the arrangement of the species 

 this should follow N. cerinthoides. 

 The plant was raised in 1827 from seeds communicated without specific 

 name, to the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, by Mr Smith at Monk- 

 wood, whose son sent them from Buenos Ayres. It was kept in the 

 stove, but, on coming into flower in the middle of March last, was re- 

 moved to the greenhouse. It will bear flowers for several weeks yet to 

 come. A small plant still in the stove is ripening its seeds there. 



Polygala paucifolia. 



P. paucifolia ; caulibus simplicibus erectis, infeme squamis vice foliorum ; 

 foliis altemis petiolatis ovatis; floribus hexandris subternis, sublermina- 

 libus, cristatis. 

 P. paucifolia, WiUd. vol. iii. p. 880 — Persoon^ vol. ii. p. 272 — Decand. 



Prodr. lleg. Veget. pars i. p. 331 PursK vol. ii. p. 4G4 Nuttall, 



vol. ii. p. 87. — Bigehw^ Flora Bostoniensis, p. 267 — Elliotfs Botany of 

 South Carolina and Georgia, voL ii. p. 180. 

 Triclisperma grandiflora, RaHnesque, Speech, i. p. 117. 



