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and the easiest culture. — Bae'ckia frute'scens. A twiggy shrub, from 

 China ; green-house ; and the easiest culture. — B&nksia marcescens. — 

 Dorstem'a tubicina. A rare and curious herbaceous plant ; from Trinidad 

 to the Glasgow botanic garden. The fragrance of the root has induced 

 the inhabitants of Peru to employ it in the room of Dorstenia: contrayerva. 



Edwards's Botanical Register. Continued by John Lindley, Fit.S. L.S. &c. 

 In 8vo Numbers. 4s. coloured. 



No. CLV. for January, contains 



1117 to 1125. — Tecoma capensis (the Bignonia capensis of Hortus 

 Keiuensis) ; Bignoniacecz. " A hardy green-house plant, of great beauty, 

 growing freely in light rich soil, and rooting from cuttings under a hand- 

 glass." The flowers are tubular, orange red, and about 2 in. long. — Mi- 

 mulus moschatus, Musk-scented Monkey Flower ; Scrophularinese. A 

 truly charming hardy perennial ; from Mr. Douglas to the Horticultural 

 Society. " It was found growing sparingly on the margins of springs in the 

 country about the river Colombia, in North-west America. The whole 

 plant is covered with a soft glandular hairiness, which emits a powerful but 

 extremely pure smell of musk, that perfumes the atmosphere in hot 

 weather, or if the plant is trodden upon. In the cold months of winter the 

 scent is much less powerful. The blossoms are a clear bright yellow, and 

 appear in profusion during all the summer. To be cultivated in perfec- 

 tion, it should be planted in peat soil, in a shady damp border. It is pro- 

 pagated by seeds, or by divisions of its creeping roots." 



Oenothera quadrivulnera ; Onagrariae. A hardy annual, not unlike that 

 very beautiful plant Oenothera Lindleyana. From the north-west coast 

 of North America, by Mr. Douglas, to the Horticultural Society. In 

 the open border it forms a diffuse patch, with stems about a foot in 

 length : if grown in a pot, for which it is admirably adapted, it becomes a 

 dense tuft of stems, about 6 in. high, which are almost covered with leaves, 

 and elegant lilac flowers, from June till the plant is destroyed by frost." — 

 Diam7/a revoluta; ^spliodelea. From Port Jackson and the tropical 

 part of New Holland, by Mr. Charles Fraser, to the Horticultural Society, 

 in 1 824. Mr. Lindley has given it the English name of " Few-flowered Port 

 Jackson Dianella," which, consistently with our opinion that the English 

 specific name ought always to be a translation of the scientific specific 

 name, we cannot at all approve of. We do not, however, mean to say 

 that much would be gained by calling this species B.ewo\ute-leaved rather 

 than Few-flowered ; but we prefer giving the English names, as we do every 

 thing else, on a fixed definite principle, and to that principle we adhere. 

 The practice of giving English names, which shall convey some idea in 

 addition to the systematic name, we object to as too indefinite ; and as pre- 

 venting gardeners and others, ignorant of the Latin language, from deriving 

 that knowledge of the meaning of Latin words which.they would derive 

 by literal translation, and by any additions (as leaved, for instance, in trans- 

 lating revoluta, revolute-leavcd) being put in a different type. 



Pentstemon Richardson^'; Scrophularineae. " A handsome hardy per- 

 ennial, growing freely in peat among American plants, and flowering 

 towards the latter end of the summer." It was found by Mr. Douglas in 

 the vicinity of the Colombia, and named by him in compliment to Dr. 

 "Richardson, the celebrated companion of Dr. Franklin in the late overland 

 expeditions to the shores of the Polar Sea. — Pentstemon angustifolium. 

 '' A very handsome plant, with rose-coloured tubular flowers, and, we be- 

 lieve, a hardy perennial." It was found by Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland 

 in Mexico, at an elevation of 7920 ft. above the level of the sea, upon 

 rocks overshadowed by trees. It flowered in Mr. Tate's nursery, Sloane 

 Street, in the summer of 1S27.— O'xalis floribunda; Oxalidese. Sent to 



