104 Notices of new and beautiful Plants 



XLVII. Ona^rdria;. 



FU'CHS/^. 



In Loudon's Magazine for November, a correspondent gives 

 some information respecting some species of this genus. F. 

 conica, gracilis, tenella, virgata, and many more varieties, 

 It is stated, may be originated by fertilizing the stigmas of 

 coccinea with the pollen of arborescens. All the Chilian 

 species or varieties, will intermix with aborescens. But 

 what is very singular, arborescens will not intermix Avith 

 their pollen. F. excorticata crossed with either conica or 

 globosa will produce fac-similes of F. discolor (p. 59). 

 Seedlings thus produced, it is said, will not flower until the 

 second or third year. 



F. longiflora is now called the "long-legged iraposter," by 

 the imposition which some persons have tried to practice 

 upon the public with this species. "Longepedunculata," it 

 is said, would have been a better, and a "less roguish," 

 name. The writer states, for the information of those who 

 are engaged in hybridizing plants, that, '■Hhe pollen of most 

 (perhaps all) plants is capable of maintaining' its fertilizing prop- 

 erties for an indejinite space of time. It should be kept from 

 moisture, and in a temperature above the freezing point (32°). 



LX. Protekcew. 



ISOPO'GON JR. Brown. 

 spalhulditiis R. Brown var. linearis Hooker Linear-leaved Isopojon. A green-house shrub; 

 growing about two feet high ; flowers pale purple; appearing in the spring; readily propa- 

 gated by cuttings; a native of King George's Sound; introduced in 1830. Hot. Mag., t. 3450. 



This is a beautiful species of Isopogon, and although not 

 so handsome as I. Loudoni is "deserving a place in every 

 choice collection." Its growth is rather irregular. Leaves 

 numerous, linear spathulate, thick, dark green. The flow- 

 ers are disposed in numerous heads on the extreme points 

 of the lateral branches, which the plant throws out in abun- 

 dance. Flowers pale purple, in solitary sessile heads, thick- 

 ly surrounded with leaves : it is a free bloomer. When this 

 tribe shall be more appreciated in this country, it will be 

 deemed a fine addition. Discovered by Mr. Baxter, in 

 1829. {Bot. Mag., Nov.) 



LXXIII. Rosdcet^. 



CRATyKGUS 



Dou%\Aai Lindley; C. punctdtavar. brevispina Douglas in Hook Ft. Bor. Am. Mr. Douglas's 

 Thorn. A hardy small tree, with white flowers; appearing in May; a native of north-west 

 America. Bot. Reg., t. J8I0. 



A neat and beautiful species, which Dr. Lindley believes 

 "to be essentially different from all the published species of 

 this genus." The whole of the synonymy, are, however, in 

 great confusion, from the want of some monographer, and it 

 is not certain, but this may have appeared in print under 

 some other name. Mr. Douglas, who discovered it in 

 north-west America, considered it only a variety of punctata, 



