724" Floricidtural and Botanical Notices, 



in compliment to Miss Martincaii, a young lady of great botanical taste. 

 Drawn at Mr. Low's nursery, Upper Clapton." (F/i>wcr-(i(inU>i, Oct.) 

 Tliis li\l)ri(l lias already been noticed in this Magazine, Vol. VII. p. 510., 

 and Vol. \III. p. +8. 

 e8701a Alkins/awa D.Don Atkins's £J^oT]i jn.o Y.U Eng.liyb. 1830. D p Sw.fl.gar.2 s.168 



A short notice of this hybrid is presented, p. +7.3 : it was raised by 

 Mr. James Atkins, Nurseryman, Northampton, between C corynibosa 

 and C. arachnoidea. It enuilates C. Young;/'. It is perennial, niultipli- 

 cable by parting only, and was (juitc unhurt out of doors by last year's 

 winter. " Mr. Atkins funis that peat suits it best, and states that the 

 original plant, which is placed in a border of that .soil, is o ft. in circum- 

 ference; and sent forth, in the course of 1832, upwards of 150 stems, each 

 bearing from 30 to 70 flowers. (Sweet's Floivcr-Gardm, Nov.) 



CCXXI. Labldlte. Scutellaria macrantha Fis. is figured in Loddiges's 

 Bot. Cab. for November, t. 18G5., and seems a very desirable species for 

 the hardy flower-border. Its shoots are terminated by a spike of several 

 rather large bright blue blossoms. 



MONOCOTYI.EDONOUS PlANTS. 



CCXXXIV. J5/omtViacea;. 



951a ^'CHMEA Lindl. (Aichme, a point ; from tlic rigid points on the calyx.) fi. 1. sp. [.'5186 



Mertens« Schult. Mertens's ^ 23 or 1^ mr.ap G.ll Uemcrara 18.00 ? Sk p.r.w Bot. mag. 



A beautiful bromeliaceous plant, sent (when is not stated), with many 

 other rarities, to the Liverpool Botanic Garden, from Demerara, where it 

 is an epiphyte upon trees, by C. S. Parker, Esq. " Its noble yellow 

 green spikes, nearly 1 ft. long, tipped with richly coloured (bright and 

 deep rose red), erect, protruded portions of the petals, and the large 

 red bracteas at the base, render this plant a most desirable inmate of the 

 stove." (Sot. Ma<^., Oct.) 



CCXXXVIII. Amari/llidcx. 



•9.Wa COltnULA'RIA Sal. {Coihiila, a little basket ; sliapeof nectary.) 6. 1. 10 sp. 



7583. scrotina IJair. Utc-Jtowi-ring 5 A or i mr.ap Y Portugal 1629. O s.l Sw.fl.gar.2.s.l64 



This is the hoop-petticoat narcissus (A'iircfssus Bulbocodium) of the Bo- 

 tnnical Mag., t. 88. but not the N. Bulbocodium of Linnicus's Herbarium. 

 It is, as is well known, a very interesting and ornamenlal species. 



" The corbularias, being ciiieHy natives of the .south of Europe, require a 



very slight protection in severe winters : they thrive best in a light loamy 



soil and a sheltered situation ; but also succeed well in pots, if treated as 



bulbous frame plants. C. serotina, if occasionally trau.si)lanted when the 



bulbs are quiescent, succeeds also in the open ground." {Flowcr-Gardcn, 



Oct.) I have witnessed its thriving thoroughly, and blooming every year 



satisfactorily, at the foot of a tall eastern-aspecteil wall. — J. J). 



879. ALSTHCEME^U/^. 



oculata B. C. cycd-flivd. ^ lAJ or 5 jn Ho.cye. P Valparaiso 1831. O p.l.dimg Rot.cab. 1851 



" This appears to be a species liitherlo unknown : it is one of the climb- 

 ing kinds; and its Hovver.'^, like those of ail the genus, are beautiful. We 

 have reason to believe that it will endure the climate of this country, as 

 many of the other kimls do, planted in a border close to the front wall of 

 a stove." (liol. Cab., Oct.) 



Alstroemerj'/ j)sittacina is figured in the Tio/aiiira/ Urgis/rr for November, 

 t. l."i+0. ; where Professor Lindley, after doubting its being a native of 

 Mexico, as some state, and suggesting that it is rather a native of Brazil 

 or Chile, presents the following admiralilc remarks on the physiology of 

 leaves: — " Than these alstra'merias no |)lants evince in a more striking 

 manner the aptitude of one vegetable organ to atlapt itself to the functions 

 of another. The breathing-pores of leaves, or stomata (as botanists name 

 them), are usually |)laced upon their under side, which has also much more 

 prominent veins than the up[)er, and is covered with hairs exclusively, if 



