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Edwards's Botanical Register. Continued by John Lindley, F.R.S. L.S. 5rc. 

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

 45. coloured. 



No. I. of Vol. XV. for March, contains 

 1217 to 1223. — Luplnus plumosus ; Leguminosae. From Northern 

 California, in 45^ north, growing in gravelly soil, and flowering through 

 June and July. — /Vis tenax. Common in North California, in dry soils, 

 or open parts of woods. The leaves are linear, rigid, tough, and ever- 

 green ; flowers of a dark purple, on stems about half the length of the 

 leaves. " The native tribes about Aguilar river, in California, find t his plant 

 very serviceable for many purposes ; from the veins of the leaves fine cord 

 is made, which is converted into fishing nets; and from its buoyancy, great 

 strength, and durability, it suits this purpose admirably. It is also made 

 into snares for deer and bears ; and a good idea may be formed of its 

 strength, when a snare, not thicker than a 16-thread line, is sufficient to 

 strangle Cervus ^'Ices, the Great Stag of California, one of the most pow- 

 erful animals of its tribe. The cordage is also manufactured into bags and 

 other articles. 



" From the foregoing account, and from what we have seen of the plant, 

 we incline to think it might be profitably cultivated in waste land in this 

 countr}' for hemp. It is quite hardy, grows readily, and might soon be in- 

 creased considerably ; being a perennial, it would be cultivated at little 

 expense, and there is no doubt that it would be far more advantageous to 

 a British agriculturist than the celebrated New Zealand flax, of the suc- 

 cess of which in this climate there is now, we presume, no probability." 



Amaryllis coranica, var. pallida. From J. H. Slater, Esq., of Newick 

 Park. — CEnothera viminea. From the north of California, by Mr. Dou- 

 glas. "A sort of woody annual, of great beauty, and perfectly hardy." — 

 Q£. decumbens. From the same place, by the same gentleman ; a hardy 

 annual, of easy culture. — .S'pirae'a chamaedrifolia. A hardy shrub, from 

 Kamtchatka, " where the inhabitants use the leaves for tea. The strong 

 shoots are manufactured into smoking tubes for tobacco pipes, and the plant 

 itself makes excellent clipped hedges." — Tupistra (dim. of tt/pis, a mallet; 

 flower) nutans ; yiroideas § ? ? TdccecE. A singular plant from the East 

 Indies, by Dr. Wallich. 



No. II. for April, contains 

 1224 to 12.51. — Corrse'a pulchdla; ^utaceee. Introduced from New 

 Holland, by Mr. Mackay of the Clapton Nursery, about 1824. A handsome 

 under-shrub, of easy culture and preservation in a cold pit. — Trachymene 

 {trachys, rougii, hymen, a membrane ; coat of the fruit.) A beautiful blue- 

 flowered New Holland annual, from Mr. Eraser of the Botanic Garden, 

 Sydney, flowering in the open border in October and November ; but must 

 be protected by glass to perfect its seed. — 5tachys (Salviae. A handsome 

 half-shrubby plant, from the neighbourhood of Valparaiso in 1825, by Mr. 

 James Macrae, and more remarkable as a botanical curiosity than as an 

 object of horticultural interest. — Justic/« picta, frequent in British collec- 

 tions, and one of the commonest of shrubs cultivated in India. Native 

 country unknown. Dr. Wallich, in bis extensive journeys in India, has 

 never seen it but in gardens. — Coreopsis aurea. A hardy biennial, re- 

 markable for the beauty of its handsome yellow flowers, supported by 

 slender stalks 3 ft. high. — Cotoneaster frfgitla. From Nepal, by Dr. Wal- 

 lici), and through the East India Company to England. A small, but very 

 handsome, hardy deciduous tree, with snow-white blossoms during April and 

 May, and bunches of crimson haws in September and October. — Z/Upinus 

 arbustus. Perennial, in gravelly soils in North Cahfornia, invariably under 

 the shade of solitary pines and oaks. By Mr. Douglas, to the Horticultural 

 Society. — Canna discolor. 



