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Xo. LV.for Jidyy contains 

 3081. Columnea hirsuta. A shrubby stove plant, climbing slightlv, with 

 very showy scarlet blossoms. — 3082. Drosera binata. FromXew Holland. 

 The plant figured sprang up out of soil imported thence to Kew, and Dr. 

 Hooker suggests that the other New South Wales and Cape species may 

 be successfully introduced, " if the seeds be kept in moist earth durin^ the 

 voyage." — 3083. Fritillaria leucantha. A hardy white-flowered species, 



remarkable for the termination in a tendril of its Unear-lanceolate leaves. 



3084. Anthericum ? *plum6sum. Herbaceous, fi om Chile, with white plu- 

 mose or bearded petals ; curious. — 3085. Pterostylis nutans. Herbaceous, 

 orchideous, green -flowered, and from New Holland. — 3086. P. curta. 

 Another species, with more red in its blossoms. Both curious. — 3087. 

 Farsetirt lunarioides. A hardy biennial, with yellow blossoms and moon- 

 shaped silicles, thriving well il' its seeds be sown in open borders whose 

 soil is dry and calcareous. 



Edwards's Botanical Register. New Series. Edited by John Lindlev, 

 F.R.S. L.S. &c.. Professor of Botany in the London University. Li 8vo 

 Numbers, monthly, -i*. coloured. 



Xo, III. of Vol. IV. for Mat/, contains 

 14-06. Cattley« guttata. " The spottmg of the flower in this species is re- 

 markably different from any thing that has yet been seen in the same genus. 

 It may be interesting to cultivators to know that what are called the stems 

 of this genus, and indeed of many other orchideous plants, that is to say, the 

 erect stalks that bear the leaves, are analogous to tubers, and really the 

 branches of a rhizoma, or prostrate stem, which creeps upon the surface of 

 the ground, resembling a root, and that consequently each of the leaf- 

 bearing branches may be safely cut off with a portion of the rhizoma 

 attached for the purpose of propagation. The gardener of >Ir. Harrison 

 of Liverpool has practised this method with great success." — 1407. 

 Azalea calendulacea var. *Stapleton/fl«fif. " The fourth of the Highclere 

 azaleas, named in compliment to Lady Harriet Stapleton, daughter of the 

 Earl of Caernarvon. This lovely variety is perhaps the most beautiful 

 that has been raised among those hybrids in which the characters of A. 

 calendulacea preponderate, as in tliis the prevailing colour is a rich deep 

 rose, w ith no more yellow than is just sufficient to soften the general tint." 

 — 1408. T'rifolium vesiculosum. A species of clover occasionally met with 

 in English botanic gardens ; pretty in its blossoms, and interesting in its 

 bladder-like calyxes : set down here as perennial, but usually considered 

 annual. — 1400. ./asminum Wallich/owz/w. Professor Lindlev has been 

 here unfortunate in overlooking 3Ir. David Don's name and description of 

 this species in the Prbdromus Florce Xejmlensis. It is there called J. 

 pubigerum, this epithet being expressive of a short and possibly deciduous 

 pubescence, which is ob\-ious enough on the imperfectly expanded, and 

 recently expanded leaves. The figure in Bot. Reg. exhibits none of this 

 pubescence, except on the calyxes of the blossoms. " It is perfectly hardy, 

 and must be considered a great addition to our shrubberies." — 1410. Al- 

 stromerw pulcheUa var. *pil6sa. This variety differs from the original in 

 having its leaves fringed with long hairs, and its sepals deeply and distinctly 

 serrated. A. pulchella and its varieties " would probably prove quite 

 hardy if grown on a south border, covered in winter by a wide sloping 

 thatched roof, such as is now in use, with great success, in the garden of 

 the Horticultural Society. But the safest way to treat [all] the species of 

 Alstromer/rt is to plant them in hght loamy soil, in a border within a 

 glazed pit, which is just heated enough to keep out frost in winter. Here 

 tiiey w ill grow with great vigour, throwing up strong suckers in all direc- 

 tions, and flowering beautifully : their leaves will not, on the one hand, be 

 parched by the drying cold winds of April, nor, on the other, scorched bv 



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