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thickly crowded leaves, so numerously as to constitute long dense spikes, 

 — 1728. £'rica regerminans. " A bushy short-growing sort, and begins to 

 flower in autumn, continuing throughout the whole of the winter and 

 spring. The flowers are very fragrant," very numerous, and red and 

 small. — 1729. Pyrus spectabilis. A well known, and almost indispensable 

 ornament of shrubberies and lawns. Chinese crab, or apple, it is also 

 called; its fruit, sometimes produced, is austere. — 1730. Beg6n?« dipetala. 

 " It requires the stove, and produces its pleasing flowers in April." 



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No. LXXX.for August, contains 

 317. Soldanella alpina. The soldanella of the ancients was the sea 

 bindweed (Calystegia Soldanella) of the moderns. — 318. yinemdne nemo- 

 rosa flore pleno. " Spread over a wide space, and well established ; its 

 foliage in spring forms an even carpet of verdure for the earth, which is 

 seen spotted with its delicate flowers, as the blue firmament is studded 

 with shining stars." A. nemorosa abounds in woods in Suffolk, and a re- 

 cent communication from Mr. Turner of the botanic garden. Bury St. 

 Ednumd's, in the Magazine of Natural History, vol. iv. p. 442., informs 

 us that " the blossoms of this plant are very fragrant ; so much so, that 

 a wood in which it abounds is as fragrant as a bank of violets (Fiola 

 Oflorata)." The leaves of A. nemorosa not rarely produce two interesting 

 species of parasitic fungi, the ^cidium leucospermum Dec. and the Puccinia 

 Anemones Pers. ; and the leaves of A. coronaria produce another species, 

 the ^cidium quadrifidum. Respecting all these, see the lucid and mas- 

 terly account by Mr. Baxter of the Oxford botanic garden, in Vol. III. 

 p. 490, 491. of this Magazine; and farther remarks on the same subject, 

 in Vol. III. p. 382., and Vol. IV. p. 192. — 319. Phlox *crassif61ia. A 

 very pretty species, assimilating to P. reptans or to stolonifera, but having 

 its corollas more rosy. — 320. i/orminum pyrenaicum. Its deep blue coi'ols 

 are pleasing ; but it never will be every body's plant. 



No. LXXXI. for Sei^tembcr, contains 

 321. J?anunculus amplexicaulis. A well known perennial, which, from 

 it glaucous entire foliage and white blossoms, we think peculiarly' elegant ; 

 and it is very desirable in every garden, from its flowering earl}', and from 

 growing without trouble in various soils and situations. li, ^;arnassiaef61ius, 

 a species exhibiting the same habits and same features, but still " more 

 elegantly touched," is cultivated with much greater difficulty. This diffi- 

 culty probably proceeds from not assimilating our mode of culture 

 sufficiently to the plant's native habits. Its native stations are the lofty 

 ledges of the Pyrenees, immediately contiguous to the limits of perpetual 

 snow. The figure represents an excited, distorted, unusual specimen, fw?-- 

 tis's Botanical Magazine, t. 266., is as it should be. — 322. Aquilegia 

 canadensis. " Independently of the positively virtuous sentiments which 

 the dissection and examination and study of flowers originate, the mind 

 must thereby become less and less the willing receptacle of meaner sub- 

 jects." Flowers in the figure not true to nature ; those of Botanical 

 Magazine, t. 246., far better. — 323. Hepatica triloba; single and double 

 blue; the colour of the double blue too light, it being naturally consider- 

 ably more intense than the single. The raising of hepaticas from seed 

 recommended on the experience of Dr. Hill, author of a folio on garden- 

 ing, both for obtaining new varieties and more strongly growing plants of 

 old ones. Transplanting hepaticas when in blossom reconunended. Surely 

 a fitter time is August or thereabout, previously to the commencement of 

 their autumnal rooting, on which their vigorous blossoming in spring must 



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