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coloured blossoms in a hot-bed in the Edinburgh botanical garden, ilfalope 

 trifida gives a near idea of the plant. — 3101. Jsplenium Nidus. In its 

 native countries seems to be a parasite on the trunks of trees. It is a 

 highly ornamental plant, and deserving a place in every collection. lt& 

 fronds form a circle, hollow in the middle, and would alone justify Lin- 

 naeus's epithet Nidus, or bird's nest; but, in addition to this, he says, " the 

 root fixes itself upon the lofty trees, whence the leaves rise erect, and 

 arrange themseb^cs in a circle like an umbel, in the hollow centre of 

 which the birds frequently build their nests." Each leaf or frond of this 

 fern is from " 2h ft. to 3 ft. in length," undivided, and of a rich green colour, 

 studded beneath with the parallel lines of dark brown fructification : it is a 

 superb plant, and is, we believe, in Messrs. Loddiges's matchless filicetum. 



Edwards's Botanical Ilcgister. New Series. Edited by John Lindley, F.R.S, 

 L^S. ttc. Professor of Botanj' in the London University. la 8vo Nimibers, 

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No. VI. of Vol. IV. for August, contains 

 1427. Hove« lanceolata *linearis. An elegant small-sized green-house 

 evergreen, with purplish lilac blossoms. — 1428, Maxillaria *tetrag6na. A 

 shy-growing s;)ccies, not beautiful, whose flowers, produced in June, have 

 the fragrance of fresh violets. — 1429. iSalvia *foli6sa. A Mexican annual, 

 with azure blue blossoms expanded in August and September. The plant 

 is new, and readily propagated by seeds. — 1430. Banks/rt (/ucrcifolia. 

 Beautiful. — 1431. Cheiranthus mutabilis. A beautiful old green-house 

 plant, not near so prevalent as it should be ; it is most easil}' cultivated. — 

 1432. /Ranunculus *creticus var. macropliyllus. A frame perennial, with 

 fine foliage and large yellow flowers. — 1433. *Eul6phia Macka/«Hrt. The 

 Zygopetalum Macka« of our Hortus Britdnnicus. A lovely stove orchideous- 

 phuit. 



No. VII. of Vol. IV. for September, contains 

 1434. Mirbeh'rt.? Baxter/'. From Nev^ Holland about the year 1825, by 

 Ml*. Baxter. A remarkably free grower, rimning like Brachysema latifo- 

 lium. It does not increase well by cuttings, but layers succeed better. 

 The plant is always in flower, except about three months in winter : it 

 commenced flowering last February, and had not been a day without 

 flowers till the middle of August, when fresh blossoms were again about to 

 expand. The leaves are evergreen, not large, and placed oppositely, con- 

 sequently in pairs. The flowers are not large, and are yellow spotted with 

 red, and disposed about five together in clusters. — 1435. jLupinus Sabin/- 

 duns (L. Sabini of our Hurtus Britdnnicus). A perennial herbaceous spe- 

 cies, with fine racemes of yellow blossoms; it has been hitherto fountl dif- 

 ficult of cultivation, and is, in consequence, extremely scarce. Drawn from 

 the Horticultural Society's garden. — 143G. FiEonia albiflora var. *P6tts//. 

 A splendid crimson-flowered garden variety, originated in China, whence it 

 was brougiit to the Horticultural Society, by the late Mr. John Potts, after 

 whom Mr. Sabine named it. The handsomest kind of the whole genus, 

 but extremely scarce at present. — 1437. Pyvus Bol]wylleri««r/ ; the 

 P. PoUverk of our Hortus Britdnnicus and of otiicr works. " The BoUwyller 

 pear tree grows in the woods round the town of that name in Alsace." Of 

 no value as a fruit, but common in shrubberies as an ornamental tree ; 

 increased by grafting on the crabstock.- — 1438. Rose *Clare. Sent from 

 Italy, witii several other beautiful kinds of rose, by Mr. Clare. Its blossoms 

 are single, and its principal charms ai"e its constant flowering, and the deep 

 rich crimson of its petals. Perhaps it is " a hybrid between 7^. indica and 

 R. semperflorens," or, [jerhaps, from their styles being similarly formed, it 

 is rather " a domesticated variety of R. sempervirens." Its foliage is of 

 rich deep evergreen, and it is as hardy as the common China rose. Grown 

 far several years against a west wall ; it has not exceeded the stature of 



