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country, five of which were rare. Of that exotic-looking evergreen, 

 Yucca, there is a very complete collection ; and an ample stock of that 

 most elegant species, Y. recurva. A kind of tart rhubarb was pointed out 

 to us by Mr. Young as having been raised from seed in this nursery ; it is 

 a hybrid between the giant rhubarb, and Wilmot's early, and it shoots 

 up in spring three weeks earlier than the latter variety. It will be an 

 invaluable addition to the kitchen-garden. We shall not attempt to 

 go farther into details, and must refer the reader to Mr. Penny's list, 

 p. 489. 



Art. III. Floricultiiral and Botanical Notices of new Plants, and 

 of old Plants of Interest, supplementary to the latest Editions of 

 the " EncyclopcBdia of Plants,'' and of the " Hortus Britanuicus." 



Curtis' s Botanical Magazine ; each monthly Number containing eight plates ; 

 3s. 6d. coloured, 3s. plain. Edited by Dr. Hooker, King's Professor of 

 Botany in the University of Glasgow. 



Edwards's Botanical Register; each monthly Number containing eight 

 plates; 4^. coloured, 3s. plain. Edited by Dr. Lindley, F.R.S., Pro- 

 fessor of Botany in the London University. 



Sweet's British Flower-Garden ; each monthly Number containing four 

 plates; 3s. coloured, 2s. 3rf. plain. Edited by David Don, Esq., Libra- 

 rian to the Linnaean Society. 



Loddiges's Botanical Cabinet; each monthly Number containing ten plates ; 

 5s. coloured, 2s. Qd. partly coloured. Edited by Messrs. Loddiges. 



Dicotyledonous Polypetalous Plants. 

 IX. Criiciferce. 



1827. ^'RABIS. 

 l&lSoa rhsea. Dec. rosy-flwd. ^ A? or If Ro Calabria 1832. S s.l Bot. mag. 3246 



" This beautiful and rare plant " is figured from the garden of the Rev. 

 Mr. Selwyn of Kilmington, Wilts. " Flowers large in proportion to the 

 size of the plant ; collected into a dense rounded raceme or corymb, of a 

 beautiful and rather deep rose colour." {Bot. Mag., June ) 

 XL VI. CdctecE. 



1472. CE'REUS 12565 speciosissimus 



2 lateritius Lindl. brick-red tt. ZU or 2 my.s Bri.R Eng.hyb. 1831. C l.s.It Bot. reg. 1596 



" This variety was raised by Mr. Presslej^ gardener to Walter Boyd, 

 Esq., of Plaistow, in Essex. It approaches C. Jenkinsoni in many respects, 

 but has paler and more brick-red petals. It was exhibited at a meeting of 

 the London Horticultural Society, on May L 1832, and was much ad- 

 mired. No one seems to have any difficulty in cultivating plants of this 

 description : nevertheless, it may be well to know that they succeed much 

 better in a soil composed of a large proportion of leaf mould, mixed with 

 sand and loam, than in any other compost. {Bot. Reg., July.) 



XL VII. Onagrdrics ^ Ondgrece. 



1183. ffiJNOTHE'RA. 



densiflbra Lindl. close-flowering O or 3 ? aut P N. California 1831. S s.l Bot. reg. 1,593 



A remarkable species, sent by Mr, Douglas to the Horticultural Society, 

 in whose garden it flowered in 1832, and was proved to be an annual ; and 

 where it produced seeds in abundance. The stem is straight, and, in a rich 

 soil, corymbosely branched from each of the axillary buds of the main 

 stem, which in the genus ffinothera usually produce a single flower, 

 being developed into a short branch that, itself, bears flowers in the axils 

 of its own leaves. The stem-leaves are linear lanceolate, sessile, acumi- 

 nate, and toothed. The flowers are small, but very numerous ; and thus 



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