200 NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



12. Lasthenia glabrata, smooth lasthenia. This plant was introduced into 

 the Garden of the Horticultural Society, in 1834. It is a hardy annual. 

 a native of California. It blooms in May and Jnne, ami if sown in largo 

 patches, or a small bed of it, it makes a gay appearance. The flowers ar« 

 of a bright yellow, about an inch across, resembling a single chrysanthemum. 

 Syngenesia Polygamia Superflua. Composite. 



13. Lathyrus rotundijolius, round leaved Lathyrus. A very free flowering 

 perennial species, being very showy when in bloom. It blossoms from June 

 to September. It was introduced in 1822, grows two feet high. The flowers 

 are of a bright rose colour. It has long been cultivated iu the Oxford Bo- 

 tanic Garden. Diadelphia Decandria. Leguminoss. 



14. Myanthnsbarbatus, bearded flywort. Avery curious flowering ore-hi- 

 deous plant, a native of Demarara, where it was discovered growing in the 

 clefts of the branches of trees, by Mr. John Henchman. The plant has 

 very much the habit of a Catasetum. The flowers are produced in a raceme 

 of ten or twelve upon each. The perianthemum is spotted with dark bloody 

 brown spots. The labellum is rose coloured, prettily margined with nume- 

 rous, slender, white threads. The column is spotted with bloody-brown 

 spots, the edge of purple colour. The sepals are a deep green spotted with 

 purple. The flower is about two inches across. The plant is cultivated in 

 many collections, and may be obtained without difficulty. Gynaudria Mo- 

 nandria. Orchideoe. 



15. Orchis lephrosanthus ; rar dcnsifulius. Narrow-lipped Military Orchis; 

 crouded flowered variety. (Bot. Mag.) A very handsome flowering hardy 

 orchis, which is grown in the Glasgow Botanical Garden, where it was re- 

 ceived from the continent of Europe under the name of O. simia. The 

 flower stem rises about a foot high; the flowers are of a purplish-white, 

 spotted with reddish-purple spots. The flowers are not only very handsome, 

 but highly fragrant, tiyuaudria Monandria. Orchidece. 



16. PiTonia. Moutan ; var. punicea. Red-flowered Tree Pceony. This very 

 splendid flowering variety is probably a seedling from P. Anneslei. It is 

 grown in the garden of Sir Abraham Hume, Bart., Wormleybury, Herts. — 

 The flowers are large, and of a fine carmine colour. They are concave, 

 notched and waved at the edges of the petals. It is a most splendid variety. 

 Polyaudria Digynia. Ranunculacere. 



17. Rhododendron arhoreum (hgbridum) Alla-clerense. High-clere hybrid 

 var. of the Tree Rhododendron. {Bot. Mag.) This magnificent flowering 

 variety was raised at the Earl of Carnarvon"s. The flowers are of a fine 

 rosy-carmine colour, spotted with dark, each flower is upwards of two inches 

 across, and are produced in heads of from twelve to twenty in each. The 

 plant merits a place in every collection of shrubs. The present variety was 

 raised between one of the hardy American species, (probably R. Ponticum) 

 and the R. arboreum; it is perfectly hardy. Decandria Monogynia. Ericeae. 

 Rhododendron, from rhodo, a rose, and dendron, a tree. 



18. Saponaria Calabrica, Calabrian Soap Wort. (Bot. Flow. Garden.) A 

 hardy annual having the spreading habit of S. ocymoides. The stems rise 

 about six inches from the ground. It blows from June to September. The 

 flowers are about a quarter of an inch across, of a pretty rose colour. A 

 good patch of the plant makes a tolerable showy appearance. It would 

 make a handsome edging for a border, or ornament for a rockery. The plant 

 was introduced into this country in 1 830. Seeds of it are produced freely, 

 so that they may be procured of the principal seedsmen. Decandria Trigy- 

 nia. Caryophyllere. Saponaria, from sapon, soap; alluding to the saponace- 

 ous quality of some kinds. 



19. Uvularia puberula, Downy Uvularia. (Maund's Bot. Gard.) This 

 plant was introduced into this country in 1824. The stem rises about nine 

 inches high, and is terminated by from one to three flowers. They are of a 

 pale yellow colour, drooping, in the manner of some of the Frittilarias, but 

 the flowerof U. puberula is not more than one half the size of a common 



