Botanical Magazine, — Botanical Register, 



253 



to be referred. Linnaeus ranked it among the palms, but at the same time 

 thought its mode of leafing referred it to the ferns. Jussieu and Ventenat 

 ranked it with the ferns. The late Sir James Smith " looked upon it, 

 along with Zamia, as constituting an intermediate order betwen the Palmge 

 and the i^ilices. In Persoon's Synopsis, the natural order Cycadeae is esta- 

 blished, and the place of it suggested, corresponding with the ideas just 

 mentioned of Sir James Smith. Our learned countryman, Mr. Brown, in 

 his inestimable Prodroinus FlorcB Ndv<s Holldndice, has placed the order the 

 last of the Monocotyledones, immediately before the Dicotyledones ; call- 

 ing the embryo, indeed, pseudo-dicotyledonous." 



5olanum Balbisii (J. B. Balbis, hot. auth.). A hot-house shmb,"2 ft. high 

 with prickly pinnatifid leaves, beautiful bluish purple flowers, and globose 

 yellow-brown fruit, about the size of a cherry. — Francisc^a Hopeana ; 

 Scrophularlnese. " A most interesting and desirable " stove plant, sent 

 from Brazil, by Marshal Beresford, to his sister Mrs. Thomas Hope, of 

 Deepdene, Surrey. — O'xalis y-osea, the O. floribunda of Lindley, p. 169. j 

 Oxalfdeas. " One of the handsomest, if not the very handsomest, of this 

 beautiful genus, rising to the height of a foot, or a foot and a half, and 

 covered with the fine rose-coloured blossoms, which it bears for very 

 many weeks in succession." — Encyclia {enhyhloo, to wrap round; column 

 of fructification wrapped round by the lab^Ilum) viridiflora ; Orchldese. A 

 stove epiphyte, of little beauty. — CKnothera Lindleyw. A hardy annual, a 

 foot or IS in. high, with linear-lanceolate leaves and delicate lilac petals, 

 flowering in the open border from June till it is destroyed by the frosts. 

 " A most desirable inmate of the garden. Introduced by the Horticul- 

 tural Society from the north-west coast of America, where it was found in 

 1826, in the dry woodless part of the interior, by that zealous collector and 

 traveller, Mr. David Douglas, who is engaged in preparing the narrative of 

 his interesting journey, and a description of his discoveries, for publication. 

 It has been his wish that it should bear the name of John Lindley, Esq. 

 F.R.S., recently appointed botanical professor in the London University, 

 and 1 am happy in the opportunity of thus laying it before the public." 



Edwards^s Botanical Register. Continued by John Lindley, F.R.S. L.S. &c. 



Professor of Botany in the London University. In 8vo Numbers, monthly, 



4s. coloured. 



No. IV. for June, contains 



1152 to 1158. — Calochortus {kalos, handsome, chortos, a kind of grass ; 

 beautiful flowers borne on grassy herbage) macrocarpus {makros, long, kar- 

 pos, fruit ; the fruit of the other species is short and roundish) ; 6 and 3, and 

 jLiliaceae {fig. 74.) A " fine plant from the un- 

 dulating, dry, barren grounds around the Great 

 Falls of the Colombia river, and on the summit 

 of the low hills between them and the Grand Ra- 

 pids, 200 miles from the ocean." It is extremely 

 rare, but will no doubt become as well known in 

 our gardens as the once equally rare Tigridia Pa- 

 vonza. Stem from 1 to 2 ft. in height ; leaves 

 glaucous ; flowers rich deep purple. — Brunsvigia 

 (Charles Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg) cilia- 

 ris ; 6 and l,and kmavy\\\de<B. A Cape bulb, which 

 very seldom flowers ; the specimen figured was 

 from the conservatoiy of J. H. Slater, Esq., of 

 Newick Park, near Uckfield. " Mr. Herbert re- 

 commends it to be grown in a moderately light 

 loam, the neck of the bulb being kept above 

 ground, and a little sharp white sand placed in 

 contact with the bulb. In the autumn the leaves appear ; the roots should 



