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Art. VI. London Nurseries. 



JEpsom Nursery. — New or rare plants which have flowered during the 

 months of September and October, 1829 : — 



DICOTYLEDONE^l. 



Subclassis 1. Thalamiflo'rje. 

 Nat. Ord. Hanunculdceee. 



Trib. 2. Anemonece. Anemone (JDec.) multifida Dec. 



Trib. 4. YLellebbrece. Jconitum (Tourn.) pallidum Nutt. 

 Papaverdcece. 



Argemdne (Tourn.) grandiflora Sweet. B. F. G. t. 226. This fine plant is 

 not noticed on account of its novelty, but for the purpose of correcting an 

 error of botanical writers, in considering it an annual. No plant is more 

 decidedly perennial ; for plants are now growing in this nursery, raised from 

 the imported seeds in 1827, which are also much stronger, and the flowers 

 are considerably larger than those of one year's growth. It requires the 

 protection of a frame or green-house. The name was first given, and the 

 species correctly defined, by Mr. Sweet in his Flower-Garden, which seems to 

 have escaped the observation of the writer of the Bot. Reg. t. 1265., who has 

 adopted the name as of garden origin. — A. Barclayaraa Penny in Hort. 

 Eps. ed. 2. ined. Another perennial species I of great beauty (from the 

 inexhaustible store of rare plants belonging to R. Barclay, Esq.), with spot- 

 ted stems and sulphur-coloured flowers. It possesses abundant specific 

 difference from the other recorded species. The treatment advised for A. 

 grandiflora is applicable to this species also. 



DroseracecB. 



? Parnassia (Tourn.) csarifolia Vent. This pretty plant has not, I believe, 

 found a place in any of the botanical periodicals, although the most inte- 

 resting species in cultivation. The radical leaves are reniform, cauline 

 leaves cordately orbicular ; flowers large, white, marked with green lines, 

 branched at their apex : thrives in a moist, shady, peat border, or in small 

 pots of turfy peat placed in a pan of water. In your Encyclopaedia of Plants, 

 this genus is inadvertently referred to i7ypericine£e. Mr. Lindley has more 

 recently referred it to *5axifrageae. Synopsis Brit. Flora, p. 68. 

 (xeranidcetB. Trib. 3. Pelargoniece. 



Pelargonium (L. Herit.) peramplum Sweet. Ger. t. 61. (Stent's Leopold of 

 the gardens about London). — P. Cameronidmcm Penny in Hort. Eps. 

 .part 2. ined. This beautiful hybrid plant is intended to commemorate a 

 most excellent practical botanist, and one of the best of cultivators. It was, 

 I apprehend, raised by Mr. Young of Taunton, and is recognised in the gar- 

 dens about London under the name of P. guercifolium coccineum. — P. 

 nutans Sweet. Ger. 2d s. t. 66. (Smith's Nonpareil of the gardens about 

 London). — P. succulentum Sweet. Ger. 2d s. t. 69. 



Oxalidece. 



O'xalis {Lin.) camosa Molina. Bot. Reg. 1063. A pretty species, with 

 " singularly fleshy " leaves and yellow flowers. If planted in the open bor- 

 der, early in summer, it acquires a considerable stem, and its lively flowers 

 are produced in great abundance until November : frame or covering in win^ 

 ter. It possesses a most agreeable acidity, far greater than has been observed 

 in other species of the genus. 



HutdcetE. Trib. 1. Diosmece, 



Riita (Tourn.) albiflora Hooker. Ex. Fl. t. 79. R. JDampdtis Hamil. MSS. 

 This is certainly a i?uta in habit and odour, but evidently departs from 

 that genus in several particulars. Suffruticose ; stem erect, 1-2 ft. in height, 

 the extremity paniculately branched ; leaves bipinnate, leaflets obovate re- 

 tuse ; flowers white ! tetrapetalous, 8-stamened ; ovarium on a very long 



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