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to see so many additions to this beautiful and 

 singular order of plants, because they thrive in 

 the back parts of stoves, and under the shade and 

 drip of other plants, where scarcely any thing 

 else would grow, and thus, under judicious selec- 

 tion and management, every spare hole and ob- 

 scure corner of a tropical hot-house rnay be 

 rendered highly interesting. 



This plant was received by Professor Graham 

 of the Edinburgh botanic garden, " where so 

 much has been done lately to extend the high 

 reputation of that noble collection." 



No. XXXIII. for September, contains 

 2932 to 2957. — Pontederia (Julius Pontedera, 

 Prof. Bot. at Padua in 1700) aziireai 6 and ], 

 and Ponteder£'£r. A floating stove aquatic from 

 South America, introduced to Kew from Brazil a 

 few years ago, and generally known under the name of P. crassipes. — Mi- 

 telia pentandra; (Saxifrageae. A hardy perennial from the Rocky Moun- 

 tains of America, by Mr. Drummond, to the botanic gardens of Glasgow and 

 Edinburgh. — ZJraba aurea. From North America by Mr. Drummond. — ■ 

 Tradescantm crassula. From Berlin to the Edinburgh botanic garden. 

 Stove; white flowers. — Andromeda /jypnoides. "This extremely pretty 

 little plant was introduced from Canada, by Mr. Blair, into the extensive 

 and interesting collection of Mr. Cunningham, at Comely Bank, near Edin- 

 burgh, in 1826; and this enterprising cultivator had the satisfaction of 

 seeing the plant come into flower in his garden in May last : the first time 

 it had been seen in Scotland, and after it had been lost in England. Pursh 

 and Nuttall confine the American station of this plant to the north-west 

 coast; but this Mr. Blair did not visit. It is, therefore, more diffused in the 

 northern parts of America; and, as it is a most abundant plant in the north 

 of Europe and Asia, it is extremely probable that it may one day, in the 

 north of Scotland, reward the labour of some British botanist; for, unless 

 M'hen it is in flower, it maybe very easily overlooked." (Graham.) — 

 O'robus stipulaceus. From the Glasgow botanic garden, and supposed to 

 have been introduced there by accident, from North America. Resembles 

 O. setiformis, but is rather larger. 



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. 



No. V.for July, contains 



1247 to 1253. — Echeveria (M. Echeveria, a skilful botanical painter, 

 employed on the Mexican Flora) gibbiflora. " A very handsome succulent 



f'lant, belonging to a small tribe peculiar to the Flora of tropical America. 

 t lives readily in the green-house, where it flowers in November and 

 December," Raised in the Horticultural Society's garden from seeds re- 

 ceived from Mr. James M'Rae. — Pjrus sinensis. " This, the Chinese 

 Pear, Sandy (from the grittiness of its fruit) Pear, or Snow Pear, as it is 

 indiscriminately called, is a species at present very little known in Europe. 

 It differs from the European pear in having longer and greener branches ; 

 larger, more lucid, and almost evergreen leaves; insipid, apple-shaped, 

 warted, very gritty fruit ; and a calyx, the inside of which is destitute of 

 the down that is found in all the varieties of the European pear." Worth 

 notice as an ornamental plant. — O'xalis tortuosa. From Chile, by Mr. 

 James M'Rae, in 1825, and here grows in the green-house, with a tortuous 

 scaly stem, to the height of a foot or thereabouts, producing yellow flowers 

 in June, — Polygonum injucundum, Unattractive Polygonum. An annual, 



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