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Graving (in honour of D. F. Gravina, Prince de Lascara, 

 gentleman of the bedchamber to the King of the two Sicilies) 

 was produced, and pronounced to be one of the finest of the 

 genus; it is cultivated and sold by the Chevalier Soulange- 

 Bodin, with whom it is said to have produced seed. 



Soulange-Bodin having fecundated Magnolm Yidan with 

 the pollen of M. obovata var. discolor, Dec, the M. purpurea 

 of the British nurseries, obtained a magnificent hybrid, named 

 M. Soulangmwa, and which is to be had in the Clapton and 

 other London nurseries. We are much inclined to think this 

 hybrid will not be permanent, and that it will soon return 

 to M. Yidan. 



M. Fion, a nursery-florist, Rue des Trois Couronnes, 

 No. 14., a Paris, justly celebrated for his fine collection and 

 excellent culture of exotic trees and shrubs, placed a Z)aphne 

 indica and a D. collina so near together in the open air that 

 their branches intermixed. The desired result took place ; 

 D. indica produced one seed, which was sown in the autumn 

 of 1820, came up in 1821, and in the spring of 1822, its 

 shoot was cut over by the surface, and grafted upon D. collina. 

 In two years it came into flower, and is recognised by some 

 of the qualities of both of its parents. Its leaves are more 

 beautiful than those of D. indica, and it is more hardy than 

 that species ; it has a fine odour, and remains a long time in 

 flower. M. Fion has produced another hybrid between 

 D. collina. and D. Cneorum. Both plants, we believe, are 

 now in the London nurseries. 



In England, Mr. Herbert has obtained upwards of a score 

 of hybrid Crinums which ripen seeds, independently of 

 other hybrid Axn&ryWidece. Linnaeus is said to have admitted 

 hybrids in the genera Veronica^ Primula, Campanula, >Sblanum, 

 Chenopodium, Tropae N oluni, iJheum, Cotyledon, Morbus, jS6sa, 

 Geum, Chelidonium, Papaver, .Delphinium, Geranium, Txx- 

 folium, Centaurea, A'xyris, ^maranthus, Pbterium, and Agk- 

 ricus ; he also admitted other species which he suspected to be 

 hybrids, and designated them by the adjective spurious ; and 

 many which he considered approaching to that state, and de- 

 signated by the specific names terminating in ibides. Kohl- 

 reuter obtained a great many hybrids, and no man more than 

 the English nurseryman, Colville. 



From all this the writer concludes that hybrids are formed 

 by nature ; an opinion which, he says, he holds in common 

 with Linnaeus, Salisbury, and some other eminent botanists. 



After giving the instances of a hybrid between i^anunculus 

 gramineus, and R. ^>latanifolius, created in the botanic garden 



