41(> J^otices of new and beautiful Plants, 



justify. Blank subscription lists accompany each number of the 

 Gardenerh JMagazine, from which we have condensed these re- 

 marks, and they have also, we believe, been sent to all the hor- 

 ticultural societies throughout the world. A list of the names of 

 the subscribers will be published in the above mentioned work, 

 and we hope that, among them, will be found those of many of 

 our own countrymen, who know how to appreciate the services 

 Mr. Douglas has rendered to botany and floriculture. Had a sub- 

 scription list been sent to us, with a request to use our exertions 

 to procure names, it should not be any fault of ours if we did not 

 add a large number. 



Eiip/iorMacetE. 



JEUPHO'RB/J fiilgens Kai~w. 



A species under this name is mentioned, by a correspond- 

 ent, in the Gardener''s Magazine, as existing in the garden of 

 M. L. Anderae, sen., of Frankfort. It was introduced from! 

 Mexico by the Baron Von Karwinsky, together with the E. 

 heterophylla Kane, (pulcherrima Willd. Her.) He found them 

 growing during his scientific journey, in that country, and brought 

 living plants of them to Germany. The following description of 

 it is given. " Euphorbia fulgens is an elegant and very orna- 

 mental plant, of the following characteristics: it is a branched, 

 upright, leafy, freely growing, and freely flowering shrub. All 

 its green parts bear a glaucous bloom. Its shoots are slender, 

 twig-like, round, glabrous, and curved outwards in their terminal 

 portion; bearing the flowers along this portion in groups, in the 

 axils of the leaves. The leaves have petioles nearly one inch 

 long, and disks that are lanceolate, tapered to both ends, entire, 

 about three inches long, and from half an inch to one inch across 

 in the broadest part. The groups of flowers are upon short 

 stalks, and consist of from two to four flowers (as they w^ould be 

 ordinarily called), each upon a stalk about one inch long; and 

 each showy from its involucre, which is of a bright red color, 

 and which has a tube of less than half an inch long, and a hori- 

 zontally spread border of a diameter somewhat less than that of 

 a sixpenny piece, and consisting of five obcordate lobes. One 

 may imagine that a bush, abounding in groups of these involucres 

 displayed together, must be splendid, and well merit the appli- 

 cation of the epithet fulgens: which, however, the inventor of 

 the name may rather have intended to express a brilliance in the 

 redness, than the general effect produced by a display of flowers 

 of this color. The plant appears disposed to produce plenty of 

 seeds." It has never been figured in any of the English botani- 

 cal magazines. (Gard, Mag. for Aug., p. 390.) 



