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yet introduced in a living state, are of particular interest to all readers con- 

 nected with the commerce of the country or its foreign possessions. The 

 Butter Nut, above described, is an example of this improvement. 



Edwards's Botanical Begister. Continued by John Lindley, Esq. F.L.S. 

 In 8vo. Numbers. 4s. coloured. 



No. CXL V. for March, contains 

 1041 to 1050. — Myrtus ? obscura; (the ? indicates a doubt whether it be 

 really a species of Myrtle, the seeds not having yet been examined) Geis- 

 somlria longiflora, Oxalis tenera, Clitoria virginiana, Fuchsia parviflora, 

 Crinum sumatranum, Oncidium divaricatum. 



No. CXLVI.for April, contains 



1051 to 1058. — Dodonae'a obldngifolia, Fuchsia gracilis var. multiflora, a 

 small bush resplendent with purple, green, and crimson, raised from 

 Chilian seeds in 1824; easy culture. Gonolobus grandiflorus, Oxytropis 

 Lambert, and Tradescantia virginica var. pilosa. 



iE'sculus carnea, flesh-coloured horse-chestnut, " one of the most beau- 

 tiful of all our hardy trees ; resembling the common horse-chestnut in 

 general appearance, but smaller, and bearing a profusion of fine bunches of 

 rich flesh-coloured flowers." Whoever has a common horse-chestnut in 

 his garden may have buds of this new species inserted in the side shoots in 

 July next, which, in the spring following, would probably flower. Plants 

 may be had at Messrs. Loddiges ; but the planting season being past, cut- 

 tings may be asked for from the Chiswick Garden, from whence the 

 fig. in the Botanical Register was taken. All the horse-chestnuts are beauti- 

 ful, but this species is eminently so. See Arnott in Jam. Phil. Jour. Mar.1827. 



Nicotiaraa multivalvis, white Columbia tobacco, a handsome hardy an- 

 nual, with an intolerably offensive odour. Triumfetta micrope'tala. 



We are glad to observe that most of the figures in this and the preced- 

 ing Number are from plants in the garden of the Horticultural Society : it is 

 much better that a Society should encourage others to do things than attempt 

 them themselves. We hope the projected quarto work on plants which 

 flower in the Chiswick garden will never see the light ; it would indeed be 

 most impolitic, as well as improper, to attempt such a work when we have 

 already so many publications having the same object in view, and perfectly 

 well conducted. At no former period has this country displayed such a 

 number and variety of elegant and useful botanical periodicals ; and as 

 some of them are within the reach of every reader, we may reasonably 

 hope for the wide diffusion of this branch of science and taste. 



Botanical Cabinet. By Messrs. Loddiges. In 4to. and 8vo. Parts. 

 5s. and 2s. 6d. 



Part CXIX.for March, contains 

 1181 to 1190. — O'robus sylvaticus, Patersonia glauca, Ornithogalum au- 

 reum. An elegant bulbous-rooted free flowering plant, native of the Cape 

 Gnidia ochroleuca, Plectranthus australis, Erica epistomia, Magnolia yulan, 

 Desfon., (yn purple, and Ian lily, the name applied by the Chinese to the 

 purple Magnolia, but by some accident given to this species when first 

 introduced ; pack is white. J. M. Perhaps Mr. Salisbury's specific name 

 conspicua is on this account preferable,) native of China, introduced, in 

 1780, by Sir Joseph Banks, but little known during twenty years afterwards ; 

 a beautiful tree, height thirty or forty feet, perfectly hardy ; flowers in 

 April, covered with white tulips, having a fine delicate fragrance. Inarch- 

 ing on the M. purpurea, fresh loam with a little peat. O'phrys alpina, 

 Polygala cordifolia, Ponthieva petiolata. 



