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and thence to the Hackney garden in 1829. — Grevillert iuxifdlia. One 

 of the finest species of one of the most beautiful and singular families 

 of Australian shrubs. — .Erica pilularis. — Lasiopetalum dumosum. — 

 .<41yssum alpestre. From Mount Cenis. — GloxinaVz caulescens. — Jsple- 

 nium flabellifolium. A delicate little fern, discovered by Mr. Brown near 

 Port Jackson. — £axifraga /eucanthemifolia. From arctic America. — 

 Ononis fruticosa. — Fiburnum lantandides. " A small hardy tree, a native 

 of shady woods, on high mountains, from Canada to Virginia: with us it 

 arrives at the height of 4 or 5 ft., and flowers in June. The leaves, which 

 are deciduous, are large and showy. It may be increased by layers, and 

 thrives best in a mixture of peat with common garden earth." 



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No. Fill, for January, contains 



29 to 32. — Gagea minima. The present pretty little spring-flowering 

 plant has caused a good deal of confusion amongst botanists, many suppos- 

 ing it to be a distinct species from the Linnean plant ; we are, therefore, 

 glad of an opportunity of clearing up all doubts, from a comparison of two 

 well preserved specimens in the Linnean herbarium, marked in Linnams's 

 own hand-writing. 



" The plants from which our drawing was made, at the nursery of Mr. 

 Colville, were received from M. Schleicher of Bex, who collected them in 

 Switzerland, and sent them under the name of Ornithogalum Sternberg^. 

 It may be considered a very valuable plant, on account of its early flower- 

 ing, which is about the same time as the snowdrop and crocus, making a 

 variety at the season that it is most needed, and expanding its bright, little, 

 starry flowers to the sun ; those close up every evening, and expand again 

 at the sun's approach. A border in a southern aspect is the best to plant 

 it in, as the flowers will then appear earlier, and expand sooner of a morn- 

 ing ; a light sandy soil suits it best, and it increases by offsets from the bulbs, 

 or by seeds. 



" The genus was first named by Mr. Salisbury, in the Annals of Botany, 

 in compliment to Sir Thomas Gage, a great amateur of botany." 



No. IX. for February, contains 

 33 to 36. — Cypella Herbert^ ; Trideae. From Buenos Ayres : not un- 

 like Tigridia ; producing a great number of bright orangy-yellow flowers, 

 which expand in succession during a great part of the summer. The bulbs 

 should be planted in light soil, by the south side of a wall, and protected 

 like Cape bulbs during severe weather. — Lubfnia (M. de St. Lubin, a 

 French officer, who travelled in the East Indies) atropurpiirea ; Primula- 

 cese. The iysimachia atropurpurea of Hooker's Exotic Flora. A creep- 

 ing-rooted herbaceous perennial, very beautiful, and requiring a sheltered 

 border and a southern aspect. — Taghtes florida. A handsome peren- 

 nial species from Mexico, requiring a little protection during winter, but 

 not so much as T. lucida. — Phlox glaberrima. From wet meadows in 

 Carolina. Reddish-lilac flowers, dyeing off bluish. " It is a very handsome 

 plant, readily distinguished from most others by its entire smoothness and 

 glossy appearance : what still makes it the more desirable is its low growth, 

 seldom exceeding 18 in. in height, and thriving well in the common garden 

 soil. It may be readily increased by dividing at the root ; or young cuttings 

 planted under hand-glasses in spring will soon strike root, and make flow- 

 ering plants the same summer." 



No. X.for March, contains 

 37 to 40. — -Lathyrus venosus. A most luxuriant species, from low 

 meadows in Pennsylvania, and the declivities of shady hills in Alleghany. 

 It propagates freely by seeds or division, and, we think, deserves trial as a 



