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entire lobes. Flowers lig-ht blue, or purplish light blue, and 

 sometimes white, and having oblong, obtuse petals, and 

 three broad, ovate, obtuse calyx leaves. The flowers ap- 

 pear on very delicate, downy stems or scapes, before the 

 new leaves are seen, and while some of the old leaves, on 

 long, brown, supple stems, remain green. — A variety, obtusa 

 (at Mount Auburn, &c.), has the loljes of the leaves obtuse ; 

 another variety, acuta (growing on movnitains), has the lobes 

 of the leaves acute. — Woods. — April, May. 



Hibiscus. 



Hibiscus palustris Marsh Hibiscus. A superb plant, (four 



or five feet high), which at first sight might be mistaken for 



a hollyhock. Leaves ovate, somewhat three-lobed, green 



above, whitish and soft, with down underneath ; obtusely 



serrate, with a long, sharp point. Flowers entirely " red " 



or pink, with axillary stems, longer than the stems of the 



leaves. — Sides of Charles river, near the Waltham factories. 



—August. Yours 



lours, J, g Kenrick. 



Watertoivn, Sept. 9//i, 1835. 



( To be continued.) 



Art. VI. JVotices of new and beautiful Plants figured in the London 

 Floricidtural and Botanical Magazines ; with some Account of those 

 which it wotdd be desirable to introdiice into our Gardens. 



Edwards's Botanical Register, or Ornamental Flower Garden and 

 Shrubbery. Each number containing eight figures of Plants and 

 Shrubs. In monthly numbers, 4s. colored, 3s. plain. Edited by John 

 Lindley, Ph. D., F. R. S., L. S., and G. S., Professor of Botany in 

 the University of London. 



Curtis's Botanical Magazine, or Flower Garden Displayed, containing 

 eight plates. In motlily numbers, 3s. 6d. colored, 3s. plain. Edited 

 by William Jackson Hooker, L. L. D., F. R. A., and L. S., Regius 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. 



Dicotyledonous, Polypetalous Plants. 



ni. Ranunculdcea. 



RANUNCULUS. 



Two beautiful ranunculuses are figured in the Floricul- 

 tural Cabinet for June ; they are Tyso's Othello and Water- 

 stone's Maculata Suprema. The former was first exhibited 

 in 1830, when it took a premium prize, and the root sold at 



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