724 Tloricultural and Botanical Notices, 



in compliment to Miss Martineau, a young lady of great botanical taste. 

 Drawn at Mr. Low's nursery, Upper Clapton." (Flower-Garden, Oct.) 

 This hybrid has already been noticed in this Magazine, Vol. VII. p. 510., 

 and Vol. VIII. p. 48. 



28701a Atkins/a/ia D.Don Atkins's £ .AJ or 1| jn.o Y.R Eng.hyb. 1830. D p Sw.fl.gar.2,s.l68 

 A short notice of this hybrid is presented, p. 473 : it was raised by 

 Mr. James Atkins, Nurseryman, Northampton, between C. corymbosa 

 and C. arachnoidea. It emulates C. Youngw. It is perennial, multipli- 

 cable by parting only, and was quite unhurt out of doors by last year's 

 winter. " Mr. Atkins finds that peat suits it best, and states that the 

 original plant, which is placed in a border of that soil, is 5 ft. in circum- 

 ference; and sent forth, in the course of 1832, upwards of 150 stems, each 

 bearing from 30 to 70 flowers. (Sweet's Flower-Garden, Nov.) 



CCXXI. Labidtce. Scutellaria macrantha Fis. is figured in Loddiges's 

 Bot. Cab. for November, t. 1865., and seems a very desirable species for 

 the hardy flower-border. Its shoots are terminated by a spike of several 

 rather large bright blue blossoms. 



MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



CCXXXIV. Bromeliaceae. 



951a iE'CHMEA Lindl. (Aic/ime, a point ; from the rigid points on the calyx.) 6. 1. sp. [3186 



MertensH Schult. Mertens's ^ 23 or 1J mr.ap G.R Demerara 1830 ? Skp.r.w Bot. mag. 



A beautiful bromeliaceous plant, sent (when is not stated), with many 

 other rarities, to the Liverpool Botanic Garden, from Demerara, where it 

 is an epiphyte upon trees, by C. S. Parker, Esq. " Its noble yellow 

 green spikes, nearly 1 ft. long, tipped with richly coloured (bright and 

 deep rose red), erect, protruded portions of the petals, and the large 

 red bracteas at the base, render this plant a most desirable inmate of the 

 stove." (Bot. Mag., Oct.) 



CCXXXVIII. Amaiyllideas. 



*933a CORBULA , RIA Sal. (Corbula, a little basket ; shape of nectary.) 6.1. 10 sp. 



7583. serotina Haw. \sXe-flowering ?f A or J mr.ap Y Portugal 1629. O s.l Sw.fl.gar.2.s.l64 



This is the hoop-petticoat narcissus (Varcissus Bulbocodium) of the Bo- 

 tanical Mag., t. 88. but not the N. Bulbocodium of Linnaeus's Herbarium. 

 It is, as is well known, a very interesting and ornamental species. 



" The corbularias, being chiefly natives of the south of Europe, require a 

 very slight protection in severe winters : they thrive best in a light loamy 

 soil and a sheltered situation ; but also succeed well in pots, if treated as 

 bulbous frame plants. C. serotina, if occasionally transplanted when the 

 bulbs are quiescent, succeeds also in the open ground." (Flower-Garden, 

 Oct.) I have witnessed its thriving thoroughly, and blooming every year 

 satisfactorily, at the foot of a tall eastern-aspected wall. — J. JD. 



979. ALSTRCEME N R/J. 



oculata B. C. eyed-jlwd. J| iAI or 5 jn Ro.eye. P Valparaiso 1831. O p.l.dung Bot.cab. 1851 



" This appears to be a species hitherto unknown : it is one of the climb- 

 ing kinds; and its flowers', like those of all the genus, are beautiful. We 

 have reason to believe that it will endure the climate of this country, as 

 many of the other kinds do, planted in a border close to the front wall of 

 a stove." (Bot. Cab., Oct.) 



Alstrcemena psittacina is figured in the Botanical Register for November, 

 t. 1540. ; where Professor Lindley, after doubting its being a native of 

 Mexico, as some state, and suggesting that it is rather a native of Brazil 

 or Chile, presents the following admirable remarks on the physiology of 

 leaves : — " Than these alstrcemerias no plants evince in a more striking 

 manner the aptitude of one vegetable organ to adapt itself to the functions 

 of another. The breathing-pores of leaves, or stomata (as botanists name 

 them), are usually placed upon their under side, which has also much more 

 prominent veins than the upper, and is covered with hairs exclusively, if 



