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that it will soon be adopted by one or more of them in their botanical pub- 

 lications. 



We are, indeed, at a loss to account for the indifference of Mr. Curtis, 

 the conductor and proprietor of the Botanical Alagazmc, to these improve- 

 ments. Does he or Professor Hooker think them of little consequence? 

 If so, we can tell them, and some other editors of botanical works also, 

 that the public think otherwise; and we can tell them also, that, if they 

 persist, they will in time feel this to be the case. We wish every success 

 both to the Botanical Magazine and the Botanical Register ; but how is it 

 possible that we can recommend the former, when, by neglecting the im- 

 provements of the day, it perversely persists in keeping itself inferior to the 

 latter. Let the Botanical Magaziiie adopt the accentuations and tiie Italic 

 designations, and it will then be in advance of even the Botanical Register. 

 We have still other improvements to suggest, but we shall not do so till 

 we see these adopted. 



Edwards's Botanical Register. Continued by John Lindley, F.R.S. L.S. &c. 

 Professor of Botany in the London University. In 8vo Numbers, monthly. 

 4s. coloured. 



1^0. VII. for September, contains 



1173 to 1180. Streptocarpus Rexij ; ^xgnomacecc § Didymocarpeae. 

 {fig. 28.) This beautiful stove peren- ^_^ 

 nial plant flowers every month in the _ %£/. 

 year, in great profusion. It may be easily ^ '^ 

 cultivated in light peat and loam, with 

 a litle sand, and increased by seeds. — 

 CoUomia grandiflora ; Polemouiacea;. 

 A fine hardy annual about 2 ft. high, 

 with flowers in hemispherical heads, 

 stem erect, and leaves ovate-lanceolate. 

 From the north-west of North Ame- 

 rica, by Mr. Douglas. It flowers 

 abundantly in June and July. It 

 should be cultivated in a poor shady 

 l)order, among other plants. — Liparis 

 (/iparos, unctuous ; soft surface of 

 the leaves of some species) elata ; Or- 

 chideje. A " tender, stove, herbaceous plant," discovered near Rio 

 Janeiro by Sir Henry Chamberlain. It grows freely in decayed wood, and 

 flowers in July and August. — Berberis repens ; Berheridecc. This hardy, 

 evergreen, yellow-flowered shrub is a native of the north-west part of 

 North America, and flowers in April. Propagated with difficulty by its 

 creeping roots. — Z)aphne hybrida. "Nothing is known of its origin." 

 It is quite hardy, blossoms nearly all the year, and is desirable from 

 its delicious fragrance. — T^Uima (an anagram of Mildlla, the genus from 

 which this is divided bj^ Mr. Brown) grandiflora ; jSaxifrageae. A hardy 

 perennial found on the north-west coast of North America, by Mr. 

 Menzies. It produces its flowers in April and May, but they are not 

 strikingly beautiful. " It loves a shady peat border, in which it is protected 

 from high winds." — Lonicer« involucrata ; Caprifoliaceae. A curious, 

 hardy, low, rather scrubby shrub, from Hudson's Bay, in 1824. It 

 requires peat earth in a shady border. Eutoca {eutokos, fruitful ; from the 

 number of seeds which it bears) multifldra; IIydrophylle£e. A hardy 

 annual of great beauty, from dry, exposed, sandy situations in the north- 

 west of North America, by Mr. Douglas. It flowers from April to May, 

 is well adapted to rockwork, but will not thrive in the ordinary highly 

 manured soil of a garden. 



