of Neiv Plants, 303 



of the racemes numbered as many as seventeen flowers 

 each, and the great number which were expanded at once 

 made a rich display ; its pure white trumpet-shaped flow- 

 ers, with their delicate rosy-colored throats, contrasting 

 finely with the smooth and deep green waxen foliage, by 

 which they are relieved. It is, without doubt, the finest 

 greenhouse climber that has been lately introduced. 



Achimeiies longiflbra., which we also noticed at p. 268, is 

 now in bloom at the conservatory of the Public Garden in 

 Boston. It is, as Dr. Lindley has described it, (Vol. VIII. 

 p. 297,) the " gayest of our stove herbaceous plants," 

 and yields to nothing which has been imported to England 

 within the last twenty years, "except the Wistaria sinen- 

 sis." The plant is compact in its growth, with foliage so 

 delicate that one can scarcely believe the flowers belong to 

 it. In shape they somewhat resemble the white petunia, 

 but the color is the softest caerulean blue. It must be in 

 every good collection of plants." 



Interesting Plants of New England. — Our correspondent, 

 E. Tuckerman, Jr., has an excellent article in the last No. 

 of Silliman's Journal., containing observations on many 

 rare or otherwise interesting plants of New England. It 

 occupies several pages, and will be found valuable to all 

 botanical students. 



NeiD Species of Plants. — Mr. S. B. Buckley, in the same 

 Journal, has described several quite new plants, whose 

 locations were discovered during a recent "botanical tour 

 through the mountains of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee 

 and Carolina. Among the number noted as new are Strep- 

 topus mac ulatus i>/^cA:. iSmilax grandiflora Buck. 3 species 

 of Phacelia, 2 Andromedas, Angelica Curtisu Buck. A^rum 

 polymorphum Buck. 3 species of Carex, Diervilla sessiliflo- 

 ra Buck. Hypericum graveolens Buck. Scuttellaria arguta 

 Buck. Faccinium hirsutum Buck. Zizia pinnatifida Buck. 

 Thalictrum debile Buck. Pxis Duerinckii Buck. Justicia 

 laetevirens Buck. Malva LeContw Buck. Pteris alabamen- 

 sis Buck. Phlox glutinosa Buck. 



Botanical Collections in the West. — Three enterprising 

 botanists are now making collections in the far West, and 

 their dried specimens will be offered to subscribers, in sets, 

 as they come to hand. Two of these collectors, Mr. Chas. 

 A. Geyer and Mr. Luders, who are for the present attached 

 to Sir Wm. Stewart's party, have already reached the Rocky 



