380 Don^s Gardening Botany. 



last it occurred to Mr. Herbert to have dung laid on the place 

 where the patches of the plant grew, and the result was a 

 flower stem in 1837- The leaves are about 2 ft. or 2| ft. 

 high, and they are surmounted by the flowers, which last about 

 a month. [Bot. Meg., July.) 

 Hem eroca llidece. 



1008. FU'NK/^ 



Sieboldwno Lodd. Siebold's £ lA) or 1 jl \V Japan ? 1837 R s.l Bot. mag. 3663. 



Introduced to the gardens of Belgium by Dr. Siebold, and in 

 beauty and cult are closely resembling /:^emerocallis japonica, 

 now Funkmjaponica. (^Bot. Mag., July.) 



AlijjJiodeldcece. 



1066. STYPA'NDRA 



frutescens frutescent tt. i 1 cu 2 ? jn.jl V N. Holland 1836 C l.p.s Flor. cab. no. 63. 



A plant of easy culture, but of no great beauty ; the stem hav- 

 ing neither decidedly the character of a woody plant, nor of one 

 that is herbaceous. In this respect it resembles some of the 

 epidendrons, which, as plants, independently altogether of their 

 flowers, are, in our opinion, less beautiful than the herbaceous- 

 lookinjT Orchidacete. 



'Liilicicece. 



-h Ornithogalnm gemmiflbrum Herbert MS. A small white- 

 flowered species, resembling O. chloroleucum, sent from Lima, 

 by John M'Lean, Esq., to the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert. 

 {B. M. R., July, No. 100.) 



CommeH?iacedd. 



-h Conunelhm orcJuoidcs Booth in Litt. " More a subject for 

 the botanist, than those who are fond of showy flowers." Sent 

 to Carclew by Mr. John Rule, the superintendant of the Real 

 del Monte mines, in Mexico. {B. M. i?., July, No. 96.) 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. A general System of Gardening and Botany : containing a 

 complete Enumeration and Description of all Plants hitherto known ; 

 Tvith their Generic and Specific Characters, Places of Growth, Time 

 of Flowering, Mode of Cidture, and their Uses in Medicine and 

 Domestic Economy ; preceded by Introductions to the LinncBan and 

 Natural Systems, and a Glossary of the Terms used : founded upon 

 Miller s Gardener s Dictionary, and arranged according to the 

 Natural System. By George Don, F.L.S., in 4 vols. 4to. Vol. IV. 

 London, 1837. 



This work is, unfortunately, brought to a close, without being 

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 than by quoting the preface. 



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