Botanical Register. 277 



N. America, by Mr. Douglas. Yellow flowers in July. — Eiitoca Franklinw ; 

 Hydrophylleae. An annual, with blue flowers, not unlike the common 

 Greek valerian, from the banks of the Mississippi, by Dr. Richardson, during 

 the first over-land arctic expedition. June. — Crocus aureus. Pdthos cras- 

 sinervia ; Jroidese. An epiphyte from Demerara, with very large foliage. 

 — Crepis macrorhiza; Comp. Cichoraceae. From the perpendicular faces 

 of dry sunny rocks in the valleys of Madeira, by the Rev. R. T. Lowe, B. A., 

 to the Glasgow botanic garden, where it produced its yellow flowers in 

 June. — Conostylis aculeata ; Haemodoracese. A curious perennial, from the 

 southern shores of New Holland, by Mr. Fraser of Sydney, to the botanic 

 gardens of Edinburgh and Glasgow. 



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



Professor of Botany in the London University. In 8vo Numbers, monthly. 



4s. coloured. 



iVb. XI. for January, contains 



1292 to 1298. — Lepechinia (Lepechin, a Russian botanist) spicata ; 

 Labiata? §-A r epeteag. A Mexican annual weed. — Leucoryne (leukos, white, 

 and koryne, a club; club-like sterile stamens) odorata; Jsphodeleas. A 

 pretty little plant, from the sides of mountains between St. Jago and Val- 

 paraiso, in places where the snow had been a few days melted. Found by 

 Mi\ M'Rae, and brought by him, along with other species, to the Horticul- 

 tural Society in 1826. — Zinni« wiolacea var. coccinea; Compositae § Heli- 

 antheae. A splendid annual plant, which came up among some Mexican 

 seeds presented to the Horticultural Society by J. S. Milne, Esq. " " Such 

 is the brilliancy of the scarlet, that no mixture of the most vivid colour will 

 match it by many degrees." Propagated by seeds, and also freely by cut- 

 tings taken off when the stems have just become woody. — Pentstemon 

 attenuatus ; Scrophularineae. " One of the hardiest of its handsome genus, 

 growing from 1 \ to 2 ft. high, and freely in any kind of garden mould : pro- 

 pagated readily by division of its spreading roots. It flowers from July to 

 the end of September. The species is chiefly remarkable for the deep green 

 of the leaves, and the delicate cream-colour of the flowers." — Jasminum 

 acuminatum. From the banks of the Hastings River, New South Wales } 

 green-house ; cuttings ; and white flowers in November. — Crinum latifo- 

 lium. A rare species from the Earl of Caernarvon's collection at High- 

 clere. — Pleurothallis (pleuron, a side or rib, thallb, to flower ; one-sided 

 disposition of the flowers of some species, or probably the developement of 

 the inflorescence from what appears to be the rib of the leaves) prolifera 

 {from the leaves constantly producing young rooting plants from their 

 axillae) ; Orchideae. A curious plant from a steep rock, which the sun 

 could hardly shine upon, near Rio Janeiro. With the Hon. and Rev. W. 

 Herbert, at Spofforth, it flowers six or seven months in the year. " It is 

 remarkable for the proliferous character of its leaves. These constantly 

 produce young rooting plants from their axillae ; and, what is singular, the 

 first leaf of each new individual is produced from the same side of the axis 

 of the mother plant as the old leaf from which it sprang. This apparent 

 exception to the universal laws under which leaves are developed is due to 

 the abortion of the first leaf that is developed, which appears in the form 

 of a withered scale, while the second leaf is that which is finally and fully 

 developed." 



No. XII. for February, contains 



1299 to 1305. — Dendrobium chrysanthum ; Orchidese. A beautiful spe- 

 cies from Nepal to the Horticultural Society's garden, where it blossomed in 

 February, 1829. " It is difficult to conceive a plant at once more graceful and 

 beautiful than this: its pendulous stems, which hang from the rugged, deep- 

 brown, moss-clad trunks of trees, are clothed with lurid leaves of the most 

 lively green ; and its flowers are of the richest and deepest yellow. At first 



T 3 



