256 JVotices of new and beautiful Plants 



ber of seedling plants last winter, but whether they have yet 

 flowered or not, we have not learnt. 



Labidcece. 

 Gardoquia Hooker'i. — Seeing you have referred to Mr. Pax- 

 ton's figure of this plant, and as it is so great a favorite, I beg 

 leave to correct several misrepresentations respecting its locality, 

 &c. At the same time they, I am well aware, are not attributa- 

 ble to Mr. Paxton, as I know they originated in Sweet^s Flower 

 Garden, and when last in England I wrote Mr. David Don on 

 the subject; but having been since in the West Indies, and see- 

 ing them copied in the Magazine of Botany, I have no know- 

 ledge whether they were attended to, but, from the latter cause, 

 I am led to infer otherwise. 



The Gardoquia was first discovered by Lewis Le Conte, 

 Esq., in the month of September, 1830, on the banks of the 

 Altamaha River. This gentlemen, to whom England is at the 

 present indebted for many of its choicest floral gems, which 

 through me were there introduced, not only informed me of the lo- 

 cahty of this plant, but took a three days' journey to show it 

 me. I took the plants with me to England, in the spring of 

 1832, left them with Mr. Skirving, of Liverpool, as they were 

 sickly, to be transmitted to Mr. Geo. Charlwood, of London, 

 entire. Sometime afterwards some were sent. My directions 

 to Mr. Charlwood were, that should the plant prove a new ge- 

 nus, to call it Lecontia, but if only a new species, to give that 

 gentleman the credit which he so justly merited, by giving its 

 specific name, Lecontii; — judge then, of my astonishment, in 

 1835, on my return to England, to find this honor conferred on 

 Dr. Hooker. Such is the history of this pretty shrub. It 

 grows on a sandy hill, and, as far as I know its locality, is con- 

 fined to that spot. 



You say Mr. Buist imported this plant from London, — both 

 Mr. Buist and myself know how he became possessed of the 

 plant, or rather, I should say, plants; but as I should be sorry to 

 attempt to make your work the medium of a private controversy, 

 I shall only add, Mr. B. obtained his plant in Philadelphia. No 

 plants, whatever seeds may, have been imported from England. — 

 Yours, respectfully, Alexander Gordon, [Botanical Collector,) 

 Philadelphia, June 20, 1837. 



MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PlANTS. 



Amaryllid'dceie . 



PANCRA'TIUM 

 cal^thinuin Cup-flowered Sea-daffodil. A stove bulb; growine from two to three and a half 

 feet liiKh: with white flowers; appearing in summer; a native ol" Brazil. Pa.i. Mag. Bot., 

 Vol. III. 



A species long known in the gardens of Britain, but sel- 

 dom met with in collections. It is a very beautiful plant, with a 



