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F. Strangways, into this country, in whose collection of plants at Abbots- 

 bury, in Dorsetshire, it has bloomed. The plant produces several (lowers 

 singly upon one stem about four inches high : each flower is canipanulate 

 when expanded about two inches across, of a deep violet colour. Both the 

 foliage and flowers render the plant interestingly pretty. Pentandria Mono- 

 gynia. Solanea?. Mandragora, from Mandra, an ox stall, and ayorous, dan- 

 gerous; from the effects it produces on cattle, when accidentally gathered 

 with their food. 



10. Oenothera serotina, Late flowering evening primrose. (Hot. Reg. 1840.) 

 The plant is a native of North America, a hardy perennial, growing luxuri- 

 antly in a peat border. It very much resembles the long cultivated species 

 A. fruticosa. The flowers are each about an inch across of a brownish- 

 yellow colour, several being produced in, a corymbous head. The plant 

 blooms from July to November. 



11. GLnolhcra, densiflora, Close flowered. (Maitnd's Hot. Gard.) A hardy 

 annual plant growing three feet high; produces spikes of numerous small 

 rose coloured flowers. 



12. Pentstemon Murrayaims, Mr. Murray's scarlet Pentstemon. (Bot. 

 Mag. 3472.) A hardy perennial plant, a native of the Texas, from whence 

 it was sent in 1 834, "by Mr. Drummond. Seeds arrived at the Glasgow 

 liotanic Garden in 183a, but the plant bloomed late in autumn. The 

 plant grows about three feet high, producing spikes of numerous flowers of 

 a rich shining scarlet colour; each flower being an inch and a half long or 

 upwards. It is a most splendid flowering plant, and we think it is most 

 deservedly named after the skilful Curator of the Glasgow Botanic Garden. 

 A single spike has been known to produce upwards of fifty blossoms. It 

 ought most certainly to he grown in every flower garden; we hope it will 

 speedily be possible. Didynamia Angiospermia. Scrophulariuse. Peuste- 

 mon, from pente, five, and stemon, stamen. 



13. Pereskia Bleo, Rose coloured flower. (But Mag. 3478.) A native of 

 South America, discovered by Humboldt. It was sent to the Glasgow Bo- 

 tanic Garden by Mr. Tate, from Mexico. It is a handsome flowering stove 

 plant, producing rose coloured flowers about two inches across, producing a 

 pretty appearance. Icosandria Monogynia. Cacteae. Pereskia, in com- 

 pliment to N. F. Peireskius. 



14. Tristania macrophylla, Large leaved. A native of New South Wales, 

 and cultivated in this country by R. Harrison, Esq., of Liverpool, who 

 received it under the name of T. Laurina. In its native country it appears 

 to grow to fifty or sixty feet high. Mr. Thomson has bloomed it in the 

 greenhouse. The flowers are white, resembling a single hawthorn blossom ; 

 they are produced singly upon the stem of the plant, which is terminated by 

 foliage. The leaves are of a fine green, large and handsome. Myrtacese. 

 Tristania, from treis, three, and estania, to stand; in allusion to the ternate 

 disposition of the blossoms. 



\5. Zephyranthus JUrwnmondii, Mr. Drummond's. (Brit. Flower Gard.) 

 A pretty neat flowery bulbous rooted plant, sent from the Texas by the late 

 Mr. Drummond, to whose memory the species is recorded. The scape is 

 single flowered, rising one foot high; the flower is of a whitish pink colour, 

 about an inch and half across. Hexandria Monogynia. Amaryllidete. 



