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and lively purple flowers, which promises " to be a most valuable and inte- 

 resting addition to our stoves." Twelve species of Barbacem'a are known to 

 MM. Spix and Martius ; the present one differs from any of these, and is 

 believed to be the first that has been cultivated. " The seeds were gathered 

 from a bundle of Brazilian moss, by the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert of 

 Spofforth ; and some young plants being sent to Lord Milton's collection 

 at Wentworth House, they were there brought to flower under Mr. 

 Cooper's (Gard. Mag., vol. ii. p. 420.) judicious management, when a beau- 

 tiful specimen was communicated to Dr. Hooker in the month of August, 

 1827." — Helianthuspubescens. A perennial sunflower from Illinois, perfectly 

 hardy, growing 8 ft. high, and deserving a place in every shrubbery. — Tri- 

 folium alpestre. — Omalanthus {homalos, smooth, anthos, flower) ; Monoe v cia 

 Monadelphia, and EwphorhidcecB. A smooth shrub, with rhombeo-ovate 

 acuminate leaves. From New Holland, to Dr. Graham, in 1824. Kept in 

 the stove at Edinburgh, but probably fit for the green-house or cold-pit. — 

 O'xalis bipunctata. " Perhaps only a luxuriant state of O'xalis violacea." — 

 Cerastium Biebersteim'i, Bieberstein's Mouse-ear Chickweed. From the 

 Taurian Alps. — /beris Tenorea«#, Tenore's Candy-tuft. From the Neapo- 

 litan territory ; and " an equally desirable plant for the garden, and espe- 

 cially for rockwork, with the i". nana." 



No. XII. for December, contains 

 2784 to 2790. — Camellia reticulata. Quarto size. — Nicotics nocti- 

 fldra, Night-flowering Tobacco. An annual from the Andes, with purple 

 and white flowers of a powerful fragrance. — .Sisyrinchium chilense. — 

 .Malva obtusifolia." — Tberis nana. — Maxillaria racemosa ; Orchideae. — 

 Trifolium olympicum. As inadvertent omissions in this Number, the 

 duration of T'rifolium, propagation and culture of most of the species, and 

 the natural order of £isyrinchium and .Malva, are omitted, while to Ca- 

 mellia, and all the others, the natural order is given. We notice these 

 omissions, hoping, at the same time, not to give offence, for no man values 

 Dr. Hooker more highly than we do, but simply in confirmation of what 

 we have stated in a subsequent page. (p. 327.) This number completes 

 vol. i. of the new series, and is dedicated by Dr. Hooker to Robert Bar- 

 clay, Esq., of Bury Hill, under whose auspices the first series of the Bota- 

 nical Magazine was begun, forty years ago, by its original projector and editor, 

 Mr. William Curtis. 



Edwards's Botanical Register. Continued by John Lindley, F.L.S. In 8vo 

 Numbers. 45. coloured. 



No. CLIII. for November, contains 

 1103 to 1109. — Jacardnda tomentosa; 14 and 2, and Bignomaras. A 

 handsome half-deciduous shrub, hitherto kept in the stove, but probably 

 hardy enough for the conservatory, with purple flowers in June. — Malacho- 

 dendron (malakos, soft, dendron, tree ; leaves) ovatum. — .Rosa B&nksice lutea, 

 Lady Banks's Yellow Rose, the Wong-mo-ne-he-vong of the Chinese. From 

 Canton, by the Horticultural Society's collector, Mr. John Damper Parks, 

 in 1823. More prolific in flowers than the white variety, though less 

 fragrant ; rather more hardy ; leaves of a deeper and richer green ; flowers 

 freely against a wall. " Strikes readily from cuttings, and will probably 

 prove a good stock for budding other roses upon." Altogether a most 

 desirable shrub. — Tulipa montana. A crimson tulip from the moun- 

 tains of Persia, said to be distinct from any species previously described. — 

 Collinsza grandiflora {fig. 110. facing p. 322.); 14 and 2, and Scrophularinae. 

 From the dry banks of the Colombia river, by Mr. Douglas, the Horticultu- 

 ral Society's collector. " One of the most beautiful hardy annuals with 

 which we are acquainted, covering the ground with a carpet, as it were, of 



