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A. japonicum of. Thunberg ; and this name in Dono’s Catalogue ought probably to have been 
added as asynonym. . Dy. Sims would not have been satisfied, from the descriptions extant 
of A wncinatum, chat the pliant here figured isthe same, but the specimen preserved in the 
Banksisn Herbarium, under that name, from North America, appears to be in no respec 
different. It is very distinct in iis foliage from every other known species, , 
Anemone nurcissifora. One of those old plants ot our gardens, thet are now rarely met 
with. The Anemone fasciculata, of the Specics Plantarum, is made by Wildenow a veriety 
of the Narcissus-flowered Anemone: but not being taken up asa synonym, the manner ia 
which the circumstance is mentioned here, might lead to the supposition, that it was an orie 
gine! obsrvation of Dr. Sims; which it is not. We cannot agree with the author, in thinke 
ing thet Clusius’s Ranunculus montenus is another variety 5 for that appears really to belong 
to the genus in which the French botanist has placed it. 
Mimosa stricta, She cwin flowered Mimosa. One of that division which, by Wildenow, 
is Separated from the rest as a genus, to which he has restored the old name of Acacia, an 
exarnple, whieh Dr.-S. nas not thought fit to follow 3 and, indeed, before the fruit of most 
of them shall have been examined, any attempt to settle the numerous species of this inre- 
resting family must prove fruitless. The present species, as well as some others related to 
it, affords an instance how diffcyltit is in some cases for the botanical terminologis: to apply 
Proper terms to pares of an anomalous appearance: what here strikes the eye as simple leaves, 
' are obviously the foliaceous petioles of the plant, which, even if analogy did not point out, 
would be sufficiently cemonstrated by the seedling plants, the leaves ef which are pinnated 
in all Mimose; an4, we may add, in all/plasts of a natural order in which pinnatéd leaves 
o@ecur, We cannot, however, blame Dr §S. for describing those parts as fglia simplicia, and 
agree with him, that they perform the function of real Jeaves, But this may be said of 
Many other parts of piants. 
ihe ‘Colchicum Syzantinum. A beautiful species, larger and fuller in all its parts than any 
other of the genus Mr. Gawler is the first systematic botanist who introduces it to the 
notice of the public, Since the time of Clusius, who received the bulbs from Constanti- 
nople in 1598, it has been mentioned only by old Parkinson, to whom it was evidently 
known ani superficially by fonn Bauhin. The very\characteristic figure is accompanied 
é ) by a complete, though concise, and not always very easily inteliigible, description. ; 
t Tris ruthenica, Pigmy Flag. This plant has also been hitherto unknown to boetanists at 
large, theugh, as Mr. G. candidly acknowledges, it is completely described and figured im 
Gmelin’s Flora Sibirica’ This species is not unlike the North American I. werna, irom 
which itis, however, distinct enough, by having a much yr tube to its corolla, 
“Anthericum canaliculatum. We are sorry to find that Mr. SG. Has begun to furnish text to 
© Sauires, with the prototypes of which he is acquainted from get specimens only, Some dif- 
ferences are mentioned here as subsisting between the description of the Hortus Kewensis, 
the Banksian Herbarium, and Mr. Edwards’s Figure of A. canaliculatum,. Arthericum dir- 
sutum, of Thunberg’s Prodomus Flore Capensis, Mr. G. guotes as dubious, regretting that 
Wilderow has taken up indiscriminately abl the species from that publication, without cone 
_ sidering the impossibility of determining many of them from the short, and often not very 
-eharacteris.ic specific phrases, by which they aré introduced to us. We are of opinion, thata 
-Proscmus of: a Flora, if this Jatter make its appearance, is a useless, and if the more de- 
.tailed description remain unpublished (as it seems to be the case with Thunberg’s Flora Ca- 
 ‘pensis), becomes a dangerous publication. e 
Amaryllis advena ; from Chili; a new Sgecies: for though Feuillée has already described 
and givena tolerable figure of this plabt, no subsequent systemat’c botanist has mase any 
Mention of it; not evew Molina, nor Ruiz, ana Pavon, in ther Account of the Vegetables 
of Chili. Though not very large and showy in its flowers, these are still sufficiently elegant 
fo attract notice, even when surrounded by more splendid congeneric species: they! are of a 
pretty bright vermilion, irregularly streaked with a greenish-ycllow, especially on the inner 
ake like the colours of the flower cf the superb lily. 
‘The Botanists’ Kepository 6F lest month contains, 1. An Ornithogaium, brought by Mr; 
E Aripps from Alexaudria, Jt appears tu us tovbe intermediate beeween Ornithogalum fatifolium 
and arabicum; species that ave but imperfectly understood with regard to the several varieties 
through whch they pass. Mr. Andrews calls it O. e/atum. 
@  Nitravia Schoberi. Mr. Belt avails himself, with great success, of the method of cultiv 
_ Nating plants that grow in places: abounding with sait, by artificially applying that stimulant 
to their roots and leaves. 1t is peshaps owing to this treatment, that the Nitraria 
; " Schoberi produced fruit, which we suppose is seldom the case in gardens. The berries are 
» ¥ed, and are here said to taste of salt. 
+; A species of Bignonia, introduced from Cayenne by Lord Seaforth. It flowered in Mr. 
Lambert's stove at Boyton, where it was considered as a new species, atid called B. uncara, 9 
_ Plame sounding not very unlike dn abbreviation of unguis cutis by which we are surprised the 
author was nat led to examine if it might sot be the same; a8 indceg we make no suruyle io 
“pisnounce it coke, The apt pame of Ungua Cuti Was derived ixom the same hooked icn- 
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