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the same ordeal; but all survived, and, in due course, made a 

 grand entry into town." {Don's Miller, vol. iv. p. 9S.) 



The tanghin was introduced into this country by Charles 

 Telford, Esq., who sent seeds of it to his ft'iend, the late David 

 Barclav, Esq., at Bury Hill, where the original pliint was raised. 

 Several plants were afterwards struck from cuttings, one of 

 which was presented to the Birmingham Botanical and Horti- 

 cultural Society, by Charles Barclay, E^q.. M.P., along with 

 many other valuable plants, when the Society's gardens were 

 first formed in 1831. This plant recently flowered in great 

 perfection, and in all probability for the first time in England. 

 It grows freely in peat, loam, and sand, well drained, and is 

 readilv propagated bv cuttings of the old wood taken off with a 

 heel; "otherwise they will rot, as the pith is of considerable 

 diameter, which, with the milky juice, soon causes them to 

 decav. The cuttings should be put into sand, and covered with 

 a beil-glass." {Fl. Cab., Aug.) 



Asclepiadhceae. 



+ Morren'm odoraia Lindl., syn. Cynanchum odoratum Hook, 

 et Arn. " This plant has been raised in the garden of the 

 Horticultural Society, fi-om seeds obtained from Buenos Ayres 

 by the Hon. W. F. Strangways ; and it flowers in August and 

 September in the green-house. In habit it is similar to Oxype- 

 talum Banks?'/ ; and, like that species, it twines round sticks or 

 trelliswork, with some rapidity, to the length of a few feet." 

 The flowers have nearly as much fragrance as those of Pergu- 

 laria odoratissima, and are of almost the same colour. The genus 

 is named by Dr. Lindley, in honour of " Professor Charles 

 Morren of Liecre, the discoverer of the manner of cultivating 

 vanilla, so as to make it produce with certainty a crop of its 

 aromatic fi-uits. and one of the most distinguished vegetable 

 anatomists of the present day." {B. M. R., Sept., No. 129.) 



Conrolvuldcecc. 



Calystegia sepium. This plant has lately been raised in the 

 Horticultural Society's Garden, from seeds collected by Major 

 Mitchell in Australia; and it does not appear to Dr. Lindley to 

 ** present any valid marks of distinction" from the common bind- 

 weed of the European hedges. '• The flowers are pink, and 

 rather larger, and the posterior angles of the leaves more 

 rounded." {B. M. B., Sept., No. 104.) 



Boraginece. 



Y^chium giganteum. " With the great miijority of the plant 

 cultivators of this country, the preference for particular flowers 

 is almost as fleeting and inconstant as that for dress : and, as in 

 that fickle propensity, the objects which at one time excite the 

 most livelv interest, and are held in the highest estimation, are, 



