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Vnck\y-fruited Spindle-wood. A shrub from Nepal, climbing to a great 

 distance. — Witneringia montana, St. Lorenzo Potato ; 5 and 1, and So- 

 lanacese ; the Solanum montanum of Ruiz and Pavon, and S. Laurentw of 

 Dr. Mitchill, who, in his address to the Horticultural Society of New York 

 (reviewed, p. 97.), recommends its culture, as keeping longer than the 

 common potato. The roots are about the size of a chestnut, yellow, and 

 of a good flavour ; employed by the Indians in their soups and ragouts, and, 

 according to Ruis and Pavon, excellent for fattening swine. It may be 

 cultivated like the common potato, or treated like a common green-house 

 plant. — Aarum canadense ; 11 and 1, and Jristolochieae. A hardy peren- 

 nial from North America, cultivated in England before 1713, and deserving a 

 place in every collection, from the singular construction of its flowers. From 

 the aromatic flavour of the root, it is much employed in Canada and Ca- 

 rolina as ginger. It flowers from April to July. 



No. X. for October, contains 

 2770 to 2776. — Banksia integrifolia. • — Mirbelk grandifldra ; Legu- 

 minosae. — Hutchf nswis stylosa ; Cruciferse. A pretty little plant like Draba. 

 From elevated places in the Neapolitan mountains. Flowers in March and 

 April of a fine purplish rose colour, with the fragrance of the Heliotrope. 

 It will probably prove a valuable addition to our hardy alpines, — Oncidium 

 pulchellum ; Orchideas. Epiphytic. Stove. — SciWa esculenta flore albo. — 

 Calceolaria purpurea. From the Cordilleras, by Mr. Cruickshanks, to the 

 Edinburgh and Glasgow botanic gardens in 1826. Resembles C. corym- 

 bdsa (Gard. Mag., vol. ii. p. 187), but with purple flowers. — Gesnena ver- 

 ticillata ; Gesn erice. " Beautiful and graceful," and " in every way deserv- 

 ing of more extended cultivation." Stove. 



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No. CLL for September, contains 

 1088 to 1095.' — Geiim (from geyo, to communicate a good taste ; roots 

 aromatic) coccineum; 12 and 1, and J?osaceae. An " extremely beautiful, 

 hardy perennial," supposed to be a native of Chile, and communicated by M. 

 Balbis of Lyons to most of the principal gardens of Europe. [One of the finest 

 hardy herbaceous itosaceae that have been introduced since Potentilla atro- 

 sanguinea.] Easy culture. — Grevilleaj'uniperina ; 4 and 1, and Proteaceae. 

 A New Holland shrub, with the aspect of a juniper bush ; of the easiest 

 culture. — iSisyrinchium cyaneum. From Kangaroo Island, by Mr. William 

 Baxter, collector to F. Henchman, Esq. F.L.S. H.S. — Camellia Sasdnqua 

 flore pleno. Mr. William Beattie Booth, of the Horticultural Society's 

 garden, is occupied on a complete history of Camellias. — Pitcairm'a 

 flammea; 6 and 1, and Bromelidcea;. A noble addition to the genus Pit- 

 cairma. From Rio Janeiro, by Mr. William Harrison, " to whose exertions 

 we owe the introduction of a larger number of rare Brazilian plants, than 

 to those of any other individual." Stove; culture of the pine-apple. — 

 O'phrys {ophrys, eyebrow; arched form of the calyx) tenthredinifera 

 var. minor ; Orchideas. A beautiful little plant, from hilly places in Sicily 

 and other places upon the European shores of the Mediterranean. — Vale- 

 rianella congesta, CAose-headed Corn-Salad. A beautiful annual. "The 

 handsomest species of the genus ; red flowers ; perfectly hardy, and easily 

 cultivated in the open border of the flower-garden." From the north-west 

 coast of North America, by Mr. Douglas, in 1826, to the Horticultural So- 

 ciety. — Cyclamen (kyklas, circular; root, or spiral coil of the flower-stalks 

 when the seed is ripening) persicum var. laciniatum. A cut-flowered 

 variety of Cyclamen, which made its appearance accidentally among some 

 seedlings in the garden of the Countess of Sandwich at Hinchingbrook. 



