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blossoms; cultivated in Mr. Kuight's Nursery, King's Road, Chelsea. It ap- 

 pears to be a variety of A. decipiens; having paler flowers, and the petals 

 more reflexed. Culture : increased by cuttings struck in sand and peat j soil : 

 sandy peat and loam equal proportions. Acacia, from Akazo, to sharpen ; 

 many species being very thorny. 



3. Leonlice Allaica ; Hexandria Mouogynix Berberidea;. This veiy pretty 

 plant flowered very freely in a cold frame in April. It is a native of the west- 

 ern part of the Altai Mountains; flowers j'ellow; plant grows six inches high. 

 Culture: parted at the roots; soil, sandy loam and peat. Leontice, from 

 Leontos; the fancied resemblance in the leaves to the print of a lion's foot. 



6. Arabis rosea, rose coloured rock cress. Tetradynamia Siliquosa. Cruci- 

 ferjB. This plant probably flowered for the first time in this country, in 

 February, 1833, in the garden of the Rev. Mr. Selwyn, of Kilmington, Wilt- 

 shire. It is a native of Calabria, and is best treated by keeping it under a 

 cool frame, though it will perhaps prove quite hardy. The plant grows .ibout 

 a foot high, flowers large in proportion to the size of the plant, collected into 

 a dense bead ; colour, of a beautiful deep rose. It is a pretty addition to 

 the herbaceous border plants. Culture : increased by division of plant ; 

 soil, rich loam. Arabis, from the plant originally coming from Arabia. 



7. Ptoris pedata, Pedati-leaved Brake. Cryptogamia Felices. Felices. This 

 plant was received from Jamaica into the Glasgow Botanic Garden. The 

 bright green of the foilage, edged by the pale brown line of the involucre, and 

 the glossy black purple stipilets render this Fern a desirable inmate in stove 

 collections. Culture: increased by division of plant; soil, jieat and loam, 

 Pteri.s, from Pteris, a Fern in Greek, and that from Pterun, a plume, or fea- 

 ther. 



Edwards's Botanical Register. Edited by John Lindley, Esq., 

 Profes.sor of Botany, iu the London University. Coloured 4s., 

 Plain 3s. 



1. Mnothira tenella ; var. tenuifolia, large purple Chilian Evening Primrose. 

 A hardy annual of great beauty, flowering in July, August, and September ; 

 the plant grows about nine inches high. The collectors who went out to Chili 

 and the Islands of the Pacific with Captain Beechy, returned in 1829; and 

 Mr. Lambert, of Boyton House, procured from them, among other things, 

 specimens of another Evening Primrose, the j?L. tenuifolia, upon which ripe 

 seeds were found. These being sown produced a plant, which is, as far as 

 gardens are concerned, a very dill'ereut plant from 7F.. tenella. It difl'ers from 

 it in having longer and more channelled leaves, and much larger and fiir 

 more showy flowers; for white in Ai. tenella the flowers are half hidden by the 

 leaves; in Ji-]. tenuifolia the leaves can scarcely be discovered for the flowers. 

 il-Uiothera, from Oinos, wine; thera, a catching, acquired smell. 



2. Calceularia ru'jusa, sage leaved slipper wort. A native of Chile, intro- 

 duced iu 182-1. In many respects it approaches C. integrifolia, but it is readily 

 known by its deeper yellow flowers, its brown purplish branches slightly 

 covered with wool on their youngest parts, by the coarser diverging serrattures 

 of it» leaves; and as Dr. Ilooksr observes by the small upper lip of its corolla. 

 It is a balfhardy j)laut, requiring a coul frame protection in winter and grown 

 in borders in summer. Calceolaria, from Calceolus, a slipper, corolla. 



3. Amrljinchier Jlt'iri(h, many flowered. Icosandria; Pentagynia. Pomacea^. 

 A native of .North West America, where it was found by Air. Douglas; it forms 

 a handsome shrub, in the way of snowy mespilns, flowering in May. Like 

 that s|>ecii'N, it is best propagated by layers. Flowers, white. Anielanchier, 

 from Amelanehier, Savoy name for Medlar. 



4. Callipri'im lulen, yellow, pretty face. Ilexaiidria Monogynia. Aspho- 

 dclex. Found in California and sent by Mr. Douglas. It proves to be a hardy 

 handsome, bulbuus plant, giowing freely in a i^haded peat border, and flower 



