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the character of which is so pure and touchingly beautiful. 

 Would that such influences were wider felt, and regarded as 

 means of social advantage ; while, at the same time, the 

 relative importance and utility of every sort of plant, how- 

 ever humble or however magnificent, would be understood 

 and valued by all. 



We have been shown a specimen of the new kind of 

 Gomphrena, which the Messrs. Hovey have introduced, and 

 an account of which may be found in the advertising sheet 

 of their Magazine, and also a brief allusion to which is to be 

 noticed in the Magazine for 1850, (XVI, p. 507,) and in the 

 ^^Retrospective Vieiu of the pi'ogress of Horticulture for 1852," 

 in the January No. for this year, on page 11. The specimen 

 consisted, however, of little else than its terminal head ; but 

 from what we did see, we regret that our attention was not 

 drawn to it sooner, and that we could not have seen it in a 

 growing state. We think that it will recommend itself at 

 once, as a new and richly colored annual, well fitted to our 

 sunny and almost oriental summers. Mr. C. M. Hovey, who 

 is most familiar with its form and habits, is inclined to con- 

 sider it as a new species ; and as he received its seeds from 

 New Mexico, his opinion may prove to be correct. Should 

 this be so, we think it proper to bestow upon it a name re- 

 minding us of those to whom so many in the community 

 are indebted, through their commendable zeal in horticultural 

 and floricultural pursuits, and the New Orange Globe Ama- 

 ranth will be known as Gomphrena Hoveyi. 



Hingham^ February 10, 1853. 



Art. VII. Floricultural and Botanical Notices of New and 

 Beautiful Plants, figured in Foreign Periodicals ; with 

 descriptions of those introduced to, or originated in, Amer- 

 ican Collections. 



New Heliotropes. — Two new and splendid varieties of 

 this fragrant family have been produced by the French 



