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of America, where that indefatigable naturalist has detected no less than 17 

 species in his first visit to the shores of the Columbia, and several have re- 

 warded him on his second visit, as well as in California. Thus the genus may 

 be considered to have its maximum on the western side of the Cordillera of 

 North America. The present very handsome species is a native of South 

 America, and was raised by Mr. Neill, from seed sent by Mr. Tweedie of 

 Buenos Ayres, and flowered freely in the greenhouse at Canonmills, in June, 

 1833. The plant is suffruticose, (somewhat woody.) erect, branched. Leavps 

 (about six inches across) digitate, leafets about nine, linear-lanceolate, silky 

 on both sides. Flowers : corolla, pale lilac ; vexillum, orange, and slightly 

 spotted in the middle ; keel, of a deep purple at its poiut. Culture : hardy, 

 growiug in any good garden soil. Increased by seeds, or division of plant. 

 Lupinus from Lupus, a wolf; supposed to destroy the fertility of the soil. 



2. AnthijUis Webbiana, Rose-coloured Kidney-Vetch, or Lady's Finger. 

 Diadelphia, Decandria. Leguminosa;. Root, perennial. Stems, one or more 

 from the same root, erect, six to eight or ten inches high, branched. This 

 species was communicated by Mr. Cameron in May last, from the Botanic 

 Garden of Birmingham. It has been introduced from Tenerifle by Philip 

 Barker Webb, Esq. Tt is indeed an extremely delicate and pretty plant. 

 Flowers: terminal, in compound heads, rose coloured. It is hardy. Culture: 

 increased by division. Soil: it should be cultivated on a dry soil. Authyllis, 

 from Anthos, a flower; and ioylos, a beard, or down, in consequence of the 

 hairy or downy calyces. The most popular of its English names has been 

 given from a fancied resemblance in the bracteas to the fingers of the human 

 hand; hence Lady's Finger (not Ladies' Finger, as commonly written), the 

 fingers of our Lady, the Virgin Mary, to whose honour many plants were 

 dedicated by our forefathers. 



3. Grevillea arenaria, Sand Grevillea. Tetrandria, Monogynia. Proteacea\ 

 This plant is an old inhabitant of the English gardens, flowering freely in the 

 spring mouths, only requiring the shelter of a well-lighted greenhouse. It is 

 found in the alluvial, sandy banks of the Hawksbury River, in the colony of 

 New South Wales, where, however, it appears to have a limited rauge. — 

 Flowers: bluish purple. Culture: increased by seeds or cuttings. Soil: 

 loam and sandy peat. Grevillea, in compliment to C. F. Greville, a patron 

 of natural science. 



4. Andromeda salicifolia, Willow-leaved. Decandria, Monogynia. Ericeae. 

 This plant is an inhabitant of the tropics, and not in elevated situations. It 

 was first discovered in the Mauritius by Commerson, and we are informed 

 by Mr. Telfair that it is plentiful in the woods of BelomPre. Messrs. Hel- 

 singborg and Bojer gathered it in hilly places on the banks of rivers in the 

 province of Emirena, Madagascar. It was introduced to the garden of the 

 late Robert Barclay, Esq. by the late Mr. Telfair. (The latter gentleman 

 died, after an illness of five days, on the 14th of July.) The plant is of a low 

 shrubby growth, glabrous throughout. The colour of the flowers is of a 

 greenish hue, partaking little of the fine purple so remarkable in drawings 

 from living native specimens. Culture : it requires the protection of a warm 

 greenhouse, and should be cultivated in soil containing a considerable propor- 

 tion of peat. Increased by layers. Andromeda, from the Virgin Andromeda. 



5. Nulfallia Papaver, Papaver (Poppy) like Nuttallia. Monadelphia, Po- 

 lyandria. Malvaceae. This plant, it appears, has been sent from the Southern 

 States of North America. There are three species now introduced into this 

 country, (see page 125, Vol. 1.) The species are hardy, ornamental, and pe- 

 rennial, " appearing to afford an additional link of connection between the 

 Genera Sida and Malva;" for whilst the present species has all the habit of 

 the other Nuttallias, there is the involucre of a Malva. The plant has nu- 

 merous stems arising from the crown of the root, ascending, slightly hairy. 

 Flowers : corolla of five petals, campanulate, large, red purple, pale towards 

 the centre of the flower. Nuttallia, in honour of Mr. Thomas Nuttall, 

 Professor of Mineralogy, Cambridge. 



G. Pimvleagraciliflora, slender flowered. Decandria, Monogynia. Thymeleae. 

 Of this genus the species are very difficult to be distinguished, and at first sight, 

 the present plant might be easily taken for the P. sylvestris, (see Vol. I, 



