PART II. 



REVIEWS 



A Catalogue of Flower Roofs, Plants, §"c. grown by J. Tyso fy 

 Son, Wallingford, Berkshire, for 1836. 



We have favourably noticed the former Catalogues of tfcuso respected 

 Gentlemen, in the Cabinet, (Vol. 1. page 17.) The arrangement is on the 

 same excellent plan, but each year we perceive the collection advertised 

 becomes more select, both in Ranunculuses, Tulips, Geraniums, Carnations, 

 Picotees, Pinks, Dahlias, and Pansies. 



The New Botanist's Guide to the Localities of the Rarer Plants of 

 Britain, on the Plan of Turner and Dilhvyn's Botanist's 

 Guide. By Hewett Cottrell Watson. Vol. I. ; England 

 and Wales. Longman & Co. 1835. 12ivio. p.p. 403. 



The object of the author is stated to be — 1st, to exhibit the ascertained 

 distribution of our less common indigenous and naturalized plants throughout 

 Britain; secondly, to foim a Guide Book for Botanical Tourists, by speci- 

 fying the localities of each plant, as selected from the statements found in 

 different works, &c. on British Flants. Wo intend in a future number of 

 the Cabinet, further to notice this publication. 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS 



WHICH WE HATE NOTICED SINCB Orit LAST. 



1. Adetmiapendnla, Pendulous fruited. (Brit. Flow. Gard. 322 ) Synonym, 

 Hedysarum pendulum. Mr. Tweedie sent seeds of this neat, interesting 

 flowering plant, from Buenos Ayres, to Dr. Nbiix, at Canon Mills, near 

 Edinburgh. It has bloomed profusely during the last year. The plant is 

 a hardy herbaceous creeper, having numerous stems near a foot high, which 

 produce many solitary flowers, in an upright raceme. The flowers are small, 

 about half an inch across ; they are of an orange-yellow colour, striped with 

 purple. In its native habits in Buenos Ayres it grows in sandy pastures: 

 it will, therefore, be found to flourish well in this country in a sandy loam. 

 The plant is quite hardy. It is cultivated in the Chelsea botanic Garden, 

 as well as by Dr. Neill. Class, Decandria; Order, Monogynia. Natural 

 Order, Leguminosa;. Adesmia, from A, without, and desmos, a bond; the 

 stamina being free. 



2. Bartonia anrea, golden flowered. (Bot. Key. 1831.) The flowers of 

 this new half hardy annual plant very much resemble at first sight some of 

 the finest yellow floweriug Oenotheras. The stems rise to two feet high, and 

 are branching, each producing several flowers. Each flower is about two 



