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PART II. 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS 



WHICH WIS HATE NOTICED SINCE OUR LAST. 



1. Begonia heracleifolia, Cow-Parsnip-leaved. A very pretty and delicats 

 flowering species, cultivated in the hot-houses in the Edinburgh and Glasgow 

 Botanic Gardens. The plant grows to a large size, and having fine palmate 

 leaves six or eight inches in diameter, and a flowering scape from two to 

 three feet long, it makes a line appearance. Moniecia Polyandria. Bego- 

 niaceoe. Begouia, after Michael Begon, a French Botanist. 



2. Cineraria macrophylla, large leaved. This species was introduced into 

 this country in 18.32, and is cultivated in the Birmingham Botanic Garden. 

 It is a native of the Altaic Mountains, and grows from two to three yards 

 high; a hardy perennial. The flowers are small, of a greenish-yellow 

 colour, and are produced in June and July. Syngenesis Superflua, Cine- 

 raria, from cineres ashes; referring to the colour of the downy leaves. 



2. Crattegus Douglassii. Mr. Douglas's Thorn. Synonym, C. punctata. 

 This pretty species is grown in the Garden of the London Horticultural 

 Society, and was brought there from North West America, by the late Mr. 

 Douglas. The flowers are white, about the size of our common English 

 thorn. The fruit is small, of a dark purple colour. Icoaandria Mono-Peu- 

 tagynia. Rosacea;. Crataegus, from kralos, strength; referring to the hardness 

 of the wood. 



4. Daubcnya aurca, Golden flowered. Messrs. Young, of Epsom Nursery, 

 introduced this bulbous greenhouse plant into this country, from the Capo 

 of Good Hope. The flowers are produced in a low aggregate cluster; they 

 are of a fine golden yellow colour. Hexaudria Monogynia. Asphodelaeea 1 . 

 Daubcnya, in compliment to Dr. C. Daubenv, Professor of Botany at Oxford. 



5. Delphinium cheilatlthum, var multiplex. Double flowering, large-lipped 

 Larkspur. A most splendid flowering variety, cultivated in the Nursery of 

 Messrs. Rogers and Allen, liattersea, near London. The flowers are 

 about the size of the generally cultivated species D. grandillornm ; but 

 are more showy, of a very deep azure blue, slightly tinged with rosy-purple. 

 The flower stem rises to about a yard high. Polyandria Trigynia. Ranun- 

 culacew. Delphinium, from Delphini, a dolphin; resemblance of nectary. 



6. Dyckia rarifloria, Few-flowered, (but. Mag,) This plant is of the 

 Bromeliaceu,' tribe (Pine Apple) of plants. It is a native of the Brazils, and 

 was introduced into this country in 1832. It is cultivated in the plant 

 stove at tho Edinburgh Botanic Garden, where it has flowered. The haves 

 are near a foot long, very spinous at the sides. The flowering item rises to 

 about two feet high, producing about ten or twelve blossoms upon each 

 stem. The flower is about one inch long, of a pretty orange colour. Ilex- 

 andria Monogynia. Bromeliacere. Dyckia, in honour of Prince do Nalm 

 Dvck. 



7. Erodium serotinum, Fate glittering-flowered Heron's-Bill. {Brit. Flow. 

 Card. 312.) Synonyms, E. ruthenicum, E. mullicaule. This verj handsome 

 flowering species is cultivated in the noble collection of plants belonging to 

 Airs. Marrvatt, Wimbledon. It is a native of Siberia, from whence it was 

 obtained in 1821. The flowers are produced in abundance, upon numerous 

 s-tems, every stem having about seven blossoms. Each blossom is more 

 than an inch across, of a fine violet-blue, marked with dark red veins. It 

 deserves a place in every flower garden. Blooms in June and July. 

 Monadelphia Pentandriu. Geraniacea?. Erodium. from rrodiui, a heron ; 

 referring to the long bealc of the fruit 



