586 Anali/sls of Periodical JVoiis on Zoology and Botany. 



cific character might have been more simple, but that of Wicxia 

 viminea (GS*) exceeds all bounds ; for instead of singling out, 

 as it were, only the two or three distinguishing peculiarities of 

 the species, it is extended to a description of the whole plant. 

 Naturalists in general, who wish to facilitate a knowledge of 

 species — the true end of all systems ; or who hope to have 

 their characters adopted, would do well to imitate the imequalled 

 perspicuity, in this lespect, of the great Linnaeus. 



PI. 665. Costiis angustifolius, a new and superb plant sent 

 by Dr. Wallich from Nepal, is here recorded as a variety of 

 speciosuSy from which ophiion, however, we totally differ. 



PL 666. Begonia argyrostigma, a singular species from Bra- 

 zil ; the leaves being covered with silver-like spots. 



PI. 667. Loasa tricolor, from Peru. We must again advert 

 to the diffuse specific character given to this plant. We shall, 

 however, copy it, as the subject is singular and interesting, 

 L. urens, erecta, foliis oppositis, bipinnatifidis, ambitu angulari 

 cordato ; calyce petalis eequali ; coronoe foliolo singulo extus 

 caudiculis subtrinis linearibus diffiis^ prostratis ad imam baseos 

 marginem appendiculato : staminum fasciculis subdecandris. 



PI. 668. Arum Dracontiu?u oi'Pursh, but notof Thunberg: 

 native of North America. 



Cia-tis's Bota?iical Magazitie. No. 430. 



PI. 2356. Crdssula versicolor, from the Cape; already figured 

 in the Register, PI. 320, Andromeda axillaris, a variety of 

 the plant described by Pursh. Broussonetia papyrifera, the 

 Paper Mulberry Tree : a vegetable of little beauty, but most 

 important to the inhabitants both of Japan and Otaheite ; the 

 former of which fabricate paper, and the latter a beautiful 

 white cloth, from the inner bark of this tree. 



Spigelia anthelmia : considered in hot climates an excellent 

 specific for worms. We add, on our own authority, that it 

 naturally grows in moist shady thickets, and the borders of 

 woods and plantations. 



Hove7iia didcis, Willd, Iris f areata, from Caucasus. 



Tetragonia expansa. New Zealand Spinach. This plant ap- 

 pears to be a valuable addition to our esculent vegetables; and 

 its cultivation has recently been strongly recommended by 

 Mr. Anderson, in the 4th vol. of Horticultural Transactions. 



Plate 2363 terminates this Number, with Statice jEgyptiaca, 

 a species recently introduced by P. B. Webb, Esq. 



Geraniacecc. No. 34. 



Only one real species is in this Number, Horia nutans^ 

 which is thus defined -.—^H. acaulis, scapo diviso, umbellis ca- 



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