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the north-west coast of America, are more truly deserving of cultivation) 

 and of a place in our borders and in our shrubberies, than the present sde- 

 eies. Its original discoverer was Mr. Menzies, and it has since been 

 gathered by Mr. Douglas, by Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, and by Br. 

 Scouler, in countries extending from lat. 48 p , in California to 52° N. 

 Most of the species of this genus hitherto known to us, recommend them- 

 selves by the excellence of their fruit; their flowers being insignificant, both 

 as to size and colour: — here we have a species remarkable for the fine pur- 

 plish red of the numerous clusters of flowers, and the delicate green of the 

 copiously veined foliage. But in proportion to the beauty of the flowers, 

 in this instance, is the worthlessness of the fruit, which, though it has not, 

 that I am aware, been produced in this country, is described by Mr. Douglas 

 as " turbinate, brownish black, bitter, having a tough, leathery, thick skiu, 

 with numerous minute, angular seeds, adhering together by a small portion 

 of limpid, viscid mucus, and completely destitute of the pulpy substance 

 common to most species of the tribe." The whole plant possesses the pecu- 

 liar fra^-auce of our Black Currant CRibcs nigrum). It is easily increased 

 by cuttings, thriving well even in the west of Scotland; and in the early 

 spring, before the foliage appears, it is rendered conspicuous by the copious 

 racemes of flowers, which last till the full expansion of the leaves. 



<}. Stimulus luteus, var. variegalns, Yellow Chilian Monkey-flower, var. 

 Hidynumia, Angiospermia. Scrophularinea?. This is a very beautiful 

 plant, quite hardy, and deserving a place in every garden, flowering as it 

 do,-, almost the whole summer through. [See Vol. I. plate 9.] 



6. Acacia elongata, Slender curved-leaved Acacia. Polygamia, Mousecia. 

 l.eguminosa'. This slender and graceful species of Acacia is frequent on 

 the Blse Mountains of New South Wales, and it also inhabits rocky hills 

 in the interior to the westward of Port Jackson, where it was originally dis- 

 covered during the first expedition of Mr. Oxley on the Lachlan river, in 

 1817; but was not introduced io the English gardens till 1823, when plants 

 «< ■!-.• raised at Kew from seeds sent by Mr. Allan Cunningham. 



7. Acacia umbrosa, Shady Acacia. Introduced in 1823 by Mr. A. Cun- 

 ningham. " It delights in dry shady woods iu New South' Wales, in the 

 mountainous districts on the coast; at Illawarra, and elsewhere.'' It flowers 

 in the spring, and Its blossoms are powerfully fragrant. 



Edwards'* Botanical Register. Edited by Dr. Lixdley, Pro- 

 fessor of Botany in the University of London. Price 4s. 

 coloured; 3s. plain. 



1. Rhododendron arborcum, var. album, White Tree Rhododendron. The 

 previously raised varieties are, Scarlet and Rose. Decandria, Monogynia. 

 Rricee. Never did we behold any (lower more perfectly lovely than was 

 fins, whn received from the conservatory of W. Wells, Ksq., Redleaf, 

 1 DnMdge, Kent, in February last. Its leaves of the richest and deepest 

 green, mellowed by the warm ton,- of their under surface— its large clusters 

 of bell-shaped flowers hanging loosely, yet compactly, by their slender stalks 



■ad the half transparent snowy corollas, without a stain or a spot, save 

 what Nature had given them to render tin ir whiteness the more pure and 

 brilli ant,- formed together an effect which few objects could rival, and none 



surpass. It far surpasses tl (her varieties. The onlv way to treat the 



■ stfblly In toll country, Li as hardy conservatory plants. Rhode 



den, li,,n, from r/ivdo, rose; ami dmilron, a tree. 



2. TrUeltia laxa, Loose-flowering, Rexaadrifc, Mbnogynia. Asphodclete 

 ■r. Bi .imam [Hcrt. Trant, Vol. I. s.s. page 418) remarks, that this is " „' 



handsome plant, the scape of which is from a foot to eighteen Inches 



Its flowers are about an inch across, of a deep blue colour; they 

 j5K>w in u ku umbel. It »cuU freely, uud will soon bo common." Ft i'seiuy 



