supplementary to Enc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 



+29277 j'finceum R. Br. rushy £ lAI cu 2 s Ro Kg.G.'sSd.l830. S p.l 



" This plant is perhaps less ornamental than any of the species hitherto 

 introduced into cultivation, but still interesting." (Graham.) 



CLXXXVI. Composites § Asterece. J'ster spectabilis, quite an orna- 

 mental, and happily not rare, species of this extensive autumn-flowering 

 genus, is figured in the Bot. Reg. for September, t. 1527, and described in 

 the number for October; where Professor Lindley presents the following 



Important Information respecting the Genus A'ster. " It is well known that 

 the genus J'ster has long been the disgrace of botanists ; that there is no 

 instance, in the whole range of natural history, of such imperfect descrip- 

 tions, unscientific arrangements, false species, confused synonymes, and 

 multiplied names, as this genus presents. We have for many years been 

 collecting materials, in the hope of being able to reduce it to better order ; 

 and lately we have begun to explain our ideas upon the subject, in several 

 articles that have appeared in the Botanical Register. 



" But we are fortunately relieved from the prosecution of our under- 

 taking, by the appearance of a work from the pen of the learned Dr. Nees 

 von Esenbeck, which, whether we regard the elegance of its style, the 

 precision of its arrangement, the philosophical spirit that pervades every 

 page, or the laborious accuracy with which the whole has been digested, is 

 certainly the most remarkable instance of scientific research applied to 

 systematic botany that we are acquainted with. Our labour in future will 

 be reduced to an illustration of this extraordinary production, or to a 

 criticism of such points in it as may appear to admit of improvement." 



*2337« ETJRY'BIA Cass. (Eurubiis, wide-spreading, as are its creeping offsets.) 



§corymbbsa Cass, corymbed ^ A or 2 au.s W N.Amer. 1765. D co Bot. reg. 1532 



A'ster corymbbsus Ait. Hort. Keui. Willd. Sp.Pl., and probably of Hort. Brit., No. 23166. A. cor- 

 difblius Mx., not of Nut. 



A very common plant in gardens, where each corymb usually consists of 

 numerous heads of flowers ; although, in shady woods from Canada to 

 Virginia, where the plant is native, each stem does not usually bear more 

 than from two to ten flower heads. (Bot. Reg., Oct.) 



CXCV. Asclepiddese. 



*774a PHYSI A'NTHUS Mart. {Phusa, a bladder, antkos, a flower; corolla inflated at its base.) 

 5. 2. Asclepi&de& Sp. 1. — 

 &lbens Mart. whitish -Ivil. £_ □ or 20 au W Bu. Ayr. 1830. S I.p. Mart.br. 54. t.32 



" Seeds of this fine plant were received by Mr. Neill, from Mr. Tweedie, 

 Buenos Ayres, in 1830 ; and, climbing along the roof of the stove in his 

 garden, flowered freely in August last. I possess from Mr. Tweedie an 

 excellent specimen, in no respect different from the cultivated plant." 

 (Dr. Graham, in Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal.) 



This is an interesting stove climber, of rather rapid growth, and is in 

 the collection of Messrs. Young, Epsom, as well as in that of Mr. Neill, 

 at Canonmills. The leaves are petioled, opposite, cblong, and deep 

 green and pruinose above. The corolla is salver-shaped ; pale rose- 

 coloured when in bud, afterwards white ; smooth, somewhat fleshy, and 

 faintly perfumed: its tube is half an inch long, the limb 1J in. across: 

 the flowers are borne in subdichotomous cymes. 



Caralluma fimbriata is figured in the Botanical Cabinet of Messrs. Lod- 

 diges for November, t. 1863. We mention this, that every cultivator of 

 stapelias may know where to apply for a plant of this highly curious 

 species. 



CCXI. Scrophuldrince. $ Two anther-bearing stamens. 



65. CALCEOLARIA. [2.S.162 



578c Martineaute Swt. Martineau's £ _AJ or 1 ap.au Yspot.Fotherg-corym. 1831. D It.r.m Sw.fi. g. 



" This elegant [and ornamental] freely flowering plant is the offspring 

 of C. Fothergilla fertilised by C. corymbosa, and was raised by Mr. Blair, 

 gardener to John Martineau, Esq., at Stamford Hill. It has been named 



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