15 

 PART II. 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS 



WHICH WE HAVE NOTICED SINCE OUR LAST. 



1. Belli* integrifolia, American Daisy. (Bot. Mag. 3455.) Synonym, 

 Ecliptaintegrifolia. F. A. Michaux, the celebrated naturalist, who travelled 

 in North America, and published an account of the trees, &c. of that country, 

 first mentions this rare plant as inhabiting the shady hills and banks of the 

 river Tennessee. A general opinion prevailed that no species of our favourite 

 Daisy was to be found in the New World. It appears that when Mr. Nuttall 

 published his genera of North American plants, he had not then discovered 

 the plant, but since that time it appears he found it in the Arkansa Prairies. 

 Mr. Drummond sent seeds of it to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where 

 plants have been raised, and bloomed in the open air in June and July of 

 the present year. The plant is annual, and tho flower steins rise about six 

 inches high, each stem having one flower. The flowers are about the size of 

 our common Daisy, white with a purple tinge. Class, Syngenesia; Order, 

 Superflua. Natural Order, Coinposita?. 



2. Brassia caudala, Long-tailed, (Flower). (Bot. Mag. 3451.) Synonyms, 

 Malaxis caudata, Epideudrum caudatum, Helleborine ramosissima. A na- 

 tive of Jamaica, and now cultivated in many collections of Orchidete in this 

 country. The plant is profuse in blooming, and continues to flower for a 

 long time. The flowers are produced in spikes, each having from eight to 

 ten large flowers. Sepals have exceedingly long slender tails ; they, as well 

 as the petals, are of a pale greenish-yellow colour, marked with fine dark 

 brown spots, producing a very pretty effect. Lip yellowish, marked with 

 red-brown spots. Gynandria Monaudria. Orchideie. Brassia, in compli- 

 ment to Mr. Brass, a collector of plants in South Africa. 



3. Calliopsis Drummondii. (Bot. Mag.) A hardy annual, growing two 

 feet high, much resembling the (commonly called) Coreopsis tinctoria, — the 

 blossom being a little larger, with a less dark centre. Flowers, bright yellow 

 with a dark reddish-brown eye. Syngenesia Polygamia Frustranea. Com- 

 posita?. Calliopsis, from Kallos, pretty, and ophis, an eye. 



4 Centrocarpha chrysomelia, yellow and dark flowered. (Maund's Bot. 

 Gard.) Synonym, Rudbeckia Newmannii. A perennial border flower from 

 South America, in 1821, growing from two to three feet high, and blooms 

 from July to September. The flowers are showy ; yellow with a dark centre 

 (disk), about three inches across. Syngenesia Frustranea. Composite. Cen. 

 trocarpha, from Kentron, a sharp point, and karphe, chaff; alluding to the 

 sharp bristly points of the chaff of the receptacle. 



5. Coccoloba virens, Green Sea-side Grape. {Bot. Reg. 1816.) This plant 

 is cultivated in the hot-house at Sir Abraham Hume's, Wormleybury, 

 Herts. The flowers are produced in racemes about two inches long, of a 

 greenish-yellow colour. The blossoms are small and uninteresting. Oclan- 

 dria Trigynia. Polygonacere. Coccoloba, from Kokkos, a fruit, and lobos, 

 a lobe ; referring to the lobed seeds. 



6. Elichrysum bicolor, Two coloured. (Bot. Beg. 1814.) A new hardy 

 annual, growing about two feet high. The flowers are of a bright yellow, 

 the underside of the lower petals tinged with red. It is far handsomer than 

 the common yellow Elichrysum, an old inhabitant of our flower garden. It 

 is in the possession of Mr. Low, Clapton Nursery, near London. Synga 

 nesia Polyandria, Asteracea;. Elichrysum, meaning a golden spiral. It 

 ought to be spelt Helichrysum. 



