Ha'worth's Monograph on l:iiarcissine<jE. 479 



in the ci'evices of old walls, for which lime rubbish is a substitute ; while the 

 black peat soil, mixed with it, would be likely to improve their. colours." 



No, XL VIII. for June, contains 

 189. Duke of Wellington Rose. This beautiful hj'brid was raised from 

 a seed of the i?6sa indica, which had been impregnated with the pollen of 

 iJosa damascena. There is scarcely a more splendid rose grown, and it is 

 almost unequalled for the abundance of its flowers : these are of a rich 

 dark red colour, and produced all through the spring and summer. In its 

 productiveness of blossoms it most resembles the female parent, jRosa 

 indica; the common China, or as it is frequently called "monthly" rose, 

 now happily a prevalent ornament to the fronts of houses all over Eng- 

 land. " The best stocks on which to bud, or otherwise work, most roses, 

 are the stems of ^osa tomentosa, as this is a free and strong growing 

 species." The Wellington Rose is published from Whitley's nursery. 

 " Mr. Smith, of Coombe Wood, will have several very distinct and 

 curious hybrid roses in flower this season ; among the rest he has a seed- 

 ling, from Rosa odorata var. flavescens, with leaves like those of the yellow 

 Austrian ; this must certainly be fine, and will doubtless be yellow in 

 colour. — 190. Caledonian Hero. — 191. Lady Haggerston's Pink. — 192. 

 Nestor Ranunculus. 



A Monograph on the Subordei' V. of AmaryUidese, containing the 'Nards- 

 sinecB. By Adrian Hardy Haworth, Esq. F. L. S. &c. Published as 

 an Appendix to the First Volume of the Second Series of Sweet's 

 British Floiver-Garden, and obtainable with the 25th Number of that 

 work. Also, separately, in royal 8vo, price 2s. 6d. 



This is a useful contribution to systematic botany, and a valuable and 

 indispensable manual to the students and cultivators of this group of 

 plants. Like all this author's productions, it is the fruit of a long course 

 of patient and practical application to the subject. Mr. Haworth has for 

 " half a century " sedulously collected, cultivated, and studied the iVai'cis- 

 sineae, those choicest ornaments of the hardy garden, for their beauty, 

 fragrance, and precocity. His diligent research has been rewarded by the 

 discovery of 148 species, besides numerous varieties, most of them now 

 existing in Britain ; and many of the remainder once did, as testified by 

 Parkinson and other old writers, and Mr. Haworth supposes still may in 

 old country gardens. (See his enquiries respecting " Lost or missing hardy 

 Bulbous Plants," Vol. VL p. 368., VH. p. 247.) His analytical investi- 

 gation of these plants, during the period mentioned, has acquainted him 

 with such discrepancies in their structure and habits, as, to his mind, utterly 

 forbid the longer association of them in one genus. He has divided them 

 into sixteen, and founds their distinctions on differences in the structure 

 of the flower and fruit ; and, subordinately, on differences of habit also. 

 The specific characters are derived from the relative proportions of all the 

 parts of the flower to one another and to the fruit, the proportions be- 

 tween all parts of the habit, and from the colours of the flowers and foliage. 

 Mr. Haworth finds the characters derived froin the relations of proportion 

 to be indelible : and that colour, in this natural group, in Crassulacese, and 

 elsewhere, also supplies trustworthy characters : Mr. Brown has attested 

 the validity of characters derived from colour in the umbelliferous plants. 



Mr. Haworth's genera, thus constituted, are the following, which we 

 leave for botanists to discuss ; begging however, in so doing, to subscribe 

 our own admiration of the congruity evident in his generic assemblages. 



1. Corbularia Salisbury {porbida, a little basket, which the large crowns 

 resemble), 10 species; the Hoop-petticoat family. 2. A'ja^ Haworth (the 

 brave Greek in the Trojan war), 24 species; the Daffodil family. 3. 

 Oileus Haiv. (the lesser Ajax of the poets), 5 species ; the Clipt-trunk 



