222 Notices of new and beautiful Plants. 



open at eleven or twelve o'clock, at night, and by day light, are 

 closed again forever. This is a most singular plant of the cacti tribe, 

 displaying its superb and fragrant blossoms in the night. It has 

 been described as 



" Queen of the dark, whose tender glories fade 

 In the gay radiance of the noontide hours." 



" The closing of the flowers may be retarded, as Mr. Murray has 

 ascertained, even for a whole day, by removing the bud before it is 

 fully open, and putting the cut end into wet sand." — (Bot. Mag.) 

 This plant flowered at the Botanic Garderr in Cambridge, a 

 year or two since, and was visited by several persons. 



Cactus Ackermanii major, a new variety, was in bloom the latter part of 

 last inonti), in the conservatory of J. P. Gushing, Esq., Watertown. It is a 

 magnificent flower, expanding at least six i/rc/ies in diameter, of a brilliant 

 scarlet color.. Cereiis speciosus, and flaggellifornis, are now in bloom at 

 Messrs. Cushing's, Perkins's, and otiier places. 



XL VII. OiiagrdrcfB. 



CEnothera sinuata is figured in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, for March, 

 (t. 3392.) It is the siime as the minima of Pitrsh. FL Am. and J\l'iitt, Gen. 

 Am., and the sinuata of Torrey, Mich, and otliers ; an insignificant species 

 indigenous in our vicinity. — (Bol. Mag., March.) 



LVI. MxjrtacpcB. 



Myrtus tomentusa. This i)retty species is now in full flower at Mr. 

 Cushing's, Waicrtown. We hope to see it become better known, and in 

 every green-liouse. 



LXXVII. hrguininbsm. 



SOPHO^RA. 

 toinentosa. L. Downy sopliora. A native of Madeira ; an evergreen shrub, 

 growino- to a considerable size ; propagated from seeds ; fig. in the Bot. Mag., 

 t. 3390.° 



This plant has never yet flowered in England ; the drawing was 

 made in Madeira, where it is " a very ornamental shrub." — {Boi. 

 Mag., March.) 



ACA^CIA. 

 unduUpfolia. Minn. Cvnn. Waved-leaved, variable Acacia. A green-house 

 shrub ; grows about four feet high, and much branched ; flowers yellow ; pro- 

 pagated, but not easily, from cuttings. Figured in Bot. Mag., t. 3394. 



This species was discovered in New South Wales, by Allan Cun- 

 ningham, in 1822. It was found " occupying arid spots, at eleva- 

 tions three thousand feet above the level of the sea. Although an 

 inhabitant of districts, in which the temperature, in the w inter months, 

 is often reduced to the freezing point, and where even snow remains 

 upon the surface for a short period, in seasons of unusual severity, 

 for the latitude of that colony, it nevertheless requires, in this country 



