NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



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15 Rhododendron maximum hybridum, Laurel-leafed. (Bot. Mag. 3454.) 

 Cultivated in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. The leaves are larger than the 

 original species, and the flowers smaller; hut the flowers are of a pretty blush 

 tinge. 



16. Rhododendron pulcherrimum, The lovely Rhododendron. (Bot. Reg.) 

 This very handsome flowering plant is an hybrid, between R. arboreum ana 

 R. caucasicnm. It is quite hardy, and a profuse bloomer. The flowers are 

 of a fine rose colour, whitish towards the centre, slightly spotted, and very 

 handsome. Another kind is in cultivation, viz. R. Nobleanum, whose 

 flowers are of a deep rose colour, and very handsome. 



17 Rubus Nutkanus, Nutka Bramble. The appearance of the plant is 

 very like the Virginian Raspberry of our shrubberies, but the flowers in the 

 present species are white. It is a native of North America; a hardy shruo. 

 Icosandria Polygynia. Rosacese. 



18. Sileniaregia, Scarlet Catch-fly. (Brit. Flow. Gard.) The most splendid 

 of the genus, the plant is a hardy perennial, growing four feet high, and 

 producing numerous flowers in a panicled head. The flowers are about an 

 inch across, of a fine rich scarlet colour. The plant merits a place in every 

 flower garden. It is cultivated in the garden of D. Falconer, Esq., Car- 

 lowril, Scotland. Decandria Trigynia. Caryophyllea:. 



19. Veltheimia glauca, va.r. red and purple-flowered. ( Bot. Mag. 3456.) Sy- 

 nonym, Aletris glauca. A native of the Cape of Good Hope, and cultivated 

 in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. The flowers are produced in a dense 

 raceme of a reddish-purple colour, marked with paler spots, and hanging 

 pendent. HexandriaMonogynia. Liliacece. Veltheimia, in compliment to 

 F. A. de Veltheiji, a German. 



New Method of Drying Plants.— Dr. Hunefield recommends a 

 new method of drying plants, bv covering them first with the powder of 

 iycopodium, and then placing them in a vessel containing chloride of cal- 

 cium. Bv this method, the colour and flexibility are preserved. On the 

 29th of Julv, 1831, the thermometer being at 53^, Dr. Goppert, of Bres- 

 law, placed"iu a 24-ounce glass two leaves of the Hyacinth, and a specimen 

 of the Fmnaria officinalis, with two ounces of muriate of lime, in such a 

 manner that the plants were not in contact with the salt. On the following 

 dav, the leaves began to dry, and on the 3rd of August, although not dead, 

 the Hyacinth leaves were capable of being reduced to a fine powder. Even 

 fleshy plants, as the Seditm rupestre, are so much dried in seven days, that 

 they'may be pulverised. The Iycopodium powder prevents the sap from 

 escaping. — Records of Science, from Maund's Pot. Gard. 



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