64 NEW AND RAKE PLANTS. 



PART II. 

 LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS, 



Nuticed since our last. 



1. Cratoegus flava, Var. Lobata. Rough barked Thorn, single fruited 

 variety. (Bot. Reg. 1932.) Natural Order, Roseaceoe ; Class, Icosandria ; 

 Order, Pentagynia. The original species produces its fruit in clusters, but in 

 the present variety they are solitary. They are of a greenish-yellow, slightly 

 tinged with pale red at the end. The plant forms a compact spreading head. 

 The bark splits very much like that of an elm tree. Cratcegus, from Kratos, 

 strength, alluding to the density of the wood. 



2. Cratcegus oxyacantha, Var. Oliveriana. Hairy-leaved Black Haw- 

 thorn. This variety of the common Hawthorn very much resembles the origi- 

 nal species. Its berries are produced in large clusters, but are of a sloe-black 

 colour, producing a pretty appearance. It is stated that the piant is a native of 

 Asia Minor. 



3. Gaillardia bicolor, Var. Drummondii integerrima. Two coloured 

 Gaillardia. Drummond's entire leaved variety. (Bot. Mag. 3551.) Compo- 

 site ; Syngenesia ; Frustranea. This variety appears identical with Gaillardia 

 picta, excepting all the leaves being entire. The fine large blossoms, more than 

 two inches across, the large crimson disk, surrounded by a ray of fine yellow, 

 produces a very showy appearance, and renders the plant well deserving a place 

 in every flower garden. Gaillardia, in compliment to M. Gaillard de Maren- 

 tonneau, an amateur botanist. 



4. Hippeastrlm breviflorum. Short flowered Knight's-Star Lily. (Bot. 

 Mag. 3549.) Aniaryllideae ; Hexandria; Monogynia. Mr. Tweedie found this 

 very distinct species in the neighbourhood of Buenos Ayres. The scape rise.^ 

 about three feet high, bearing an umbel of six handsome flowers. Each (lower 

 is about four inches across, white striated with red, and down the middle of the 

 petal, at its lower part, is a stripe of yellow. It is a very handsome species, ami 

 well merits a place in every collection of liliaceous stove plants. It has bloomed 

 at the Glasgow Botanic Garden. 



5. Lachenalia glaucina. Glaucous flowered. (Bot. Mag. 35.J2.) Aspho- 

 delete; Hexandria; Monogynia. This very handsom as been sent by- 

 Baron Ludwig from Cape of Good Hope to the Glasgow Botanic Garden. The 

 scape rises near a foot high., producing a spike of numerous flowers. They are 

 at first of a palish blue, changing, however, as they become older, to a rosy- 

 lilac. The perianth (calyx) is also coloured, and prettily spotted with blue. 

 There are two varieties of this plant, one having pale blue flowers, and plain 

 leaves ; the other having lilac or rose coloured flowers, and spotted leaves. 

 Lachenalia, in compliment to W. de la Chenal, a botanical Author. 



6. Limnanthis douglassii. Mr. Douglas's Limnanthes (Bot. Mag. 35.54.) 

 Linmanthca ; Decandria; Monogynia. A native of California, from whence il 

 was sent by Mr. Douglas. The plant is annual, quite hardy, decumbent, stems 

 growing ten or twelve inches long. The ends are crowded with numerous fra- 

 grant flowers, each about an inch across, much resembling in size and form the 

 Nemophila grandiflor::. A large portion of the flower is a deep yellow, the 

 extremities of the petals being white. It blooms from June to August. Lim- 

 nanthes, from lumen, a lake; and anthos, a flower. The plant, probably, in its 

 native habits growing by the sides of lakes, rivers, &c. 



7. Lobelia cardinaj^IS; var. Milleri. Mr. Miller's Lobelia. (Brit. Flow. 

 Gard. 372.) Lobeliaeea?. Pentandria; Monogynia. A very handsome flower- 

 ing variety, raised by Mr. Evans, gardener to Mrs. Batt, Newhall, Salisbury, 

 Wiltshire. It is an hybrid between L. cardinalis, and L. syphilitica. The 

 plant is perennial, quite hardy, blooming from July to the end of the summer 

 season The stem rises three feet high, having a long raceme of flowers, of a 

 lively purple colour, darker up the centre of the petals. The plant deserves a 

 place in every collection. Plants may be bad at. the public Nurseries. A num- 

 ber of very fine flowering hybrid Lobelias have recently been raised, and will 

 be offered to the public this spring. (See Messrs. Godwin's Advertisement in 

 February Cabinet.) They are highly ornamental, and great acquisitions to the 



