1 1 8 Notes and Gleanings. 



Notice of some Flowering Shrubs New to Floriculture. — Pre- 

 pared from " Descriptions in the Proceedings of the Californian Academy of 

 Natural Science," vol. ii., by John L. Russell. 



The fine new species of plants, of all the different sections of phenogamous 

 and cryptogamous alike, brought to light by researches into the botany of Cali- 

 fornia, have rendered the flora of the Western coast of great interest to horti- 

 culturists. Through the studies of Dr. Kellogg, of San Francisco, on plants 

 brought to him by collectors and by his own herborizations, we are made ac- 

 quainted with many exceedingly interesting specimens, described and figured in 

 the magazine quoted above ; and the labors of H. N. Bolander have given, to 

 the scientific world, treasures in lichens, mosses, and kindred plants, scarcely 

 conceived of before in our North-American flora. The forest-trees of that State 

 have also passed under his observation ; he being, in fact, indefatigable and 

 devoted in his regard to the vegetable productions of the country, and one to 

 whom botany will be greatly indebted for his laborious researches. 



The plan of this present paper was simply a passing notice of some facts in 

 the shrubs of California, brief, and of little value perhaps, except as a record of, 

 or reference to, subjects which properly belong to a journal of horticulture and 

 botany. 



The fly-honeysuckles are already well known as among our most common as 

 well as most popular hardy shrubs, beautiful alike in their clustered flowers and 

 difterent-tinted berries. Two new ones are here introduced to us ; viz., Loiiicera 

 co/ijjigiaiis (Kellogg) ; nat. ord., Caprifoliaceae. This shrub belongs to the Xy- 

 losteums, and is closely allied to the L. carulea (L.) ; its flowers dark purple, gib- 

 bous at base, on the outside glabrous, deeply bilabiate. The flowers are quite 

 small ; the stem erect, branching ; branches four-angled ; bu Js sharp and quad- 

 rangular, elongated ; the leaves short, petioled, obtuse, soft, velvety throughout. 



L. intenncdia (K.), Xylosteum (Jussieu). Resembles L. involncrata if seen 

 without the flower, and having a curved, tubular, rather irregular, corolla ; decid- 

 uous, opposite, elliptical, acuminate leaves ; the fruit small ; purple, distinct 

 berries. 



A new flowering currant is Ribes balsamifcra (K.), or balsamic currant. Nat. 

 ord., Saxif?-agacece (Gray) ; Ribeslacecs (Endlicher). 



Glandularly villous and viscid or resinous throughout ; leaves sub-reniform, 

 cordate, three to eight lobcd, incisely toothed, pale glaucous ; flowers bright 

 yellow (appearing with the leaves), in a condensed raceme ; fruit round, villous. 

 The entire plant exhales the odor of Popiilus balsa7nifera (Balm-of-Gilead tree) ; 

 from which circumstance the specific name was applied. 



Lipochate hasiaia {K.). Nat. ord.. Composite© ; sub-tribe Heliantheae. Stem 

 two to three feet high, branches opposite, striate ; leaves opposite, oblong, has- 

 tate, triangular, acute, entire, or mucronate-toothed below, rigid coriaceous ; 

 flowers orange-color, with five to thirteen rays ; disk flat, yellowish ; anthers 

 dark brown. The peculiar foliage and terminal golden flowers must render this 

 an interesting shrub, of an order little seen in the suffruticose state. 



Ceatwthits cordulatus (K.), Rhamnacea;. A shrub four or five feet high, with 

 erect, flcxuous branches, and numerous very short branchlets, small, ovate-cor- 



