618 Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



of a green-house or of a frame : " during winter only, of course, is, at most, 

 meant. (^Bot. Mag., Sept.) 



Astragalus vesicarius (bladdery-calyxed milk vetch) is figured in the 

 Botanical Magazine for September, t. 3268 , where the following remarks 

 on it are given : — " This very handsome and very highly desirable species 

 is a native of barren wastes in the south of France, and of Russia as well 

 as of Hungary, and is perfectly hardy : it flowers in May. Although, as 

 cultivated in the Glasgow Botanic Garden from seeds communicated by 

 M. Otto of Berlin, the flowers are always of a rich purple colour, becom- 

 ing darker and almost blue in age, yet they appear, in a wild state, to be 

 sometimes cream-coloured or white." 



Legmninosce ^ Mimosece. 



2S37. ACA^CIA. 



24667« vemiciflua C7<». varnish-flowing « i_J or 6 mr.my Y N. HoU. 1823. C s.l.p Bot. mag. 3266 

 Synonymes : No. 24682. Hort. Brit. ; and also. No. 24732., according to Cunningham, in Bot. Mag. 



A slender twiggy shrub, remarkable for a glutinous substance which 

 clothes not only the young stems, but (although in a less degree) the 

 young foliage also. Mr. Cunningham discovered this species " in the 

 country around Bathurst [New Holland], where it flowered throughout the 

 winter. It also adorns the barren hills near Cox's River, at the cool sea- 

 son of the year ; and in about December its pods are ripened. With us, 

 at Kew, it blossoms in the spring, along with many others of its kindred ; 

 mingled with which, it forms an agreeable contrast by its slender habit and 

 deep yellow flowers," which are grouped into globular heads, seated on 

 short axillary stalks. (^Bot. Mag., Sept.) 



CXXni. Oxalidece. 



1414. O'XALia 

 119S5rt: brasiliensis jB. C. Brazilian if lA] or J my Ro Brazil 1829. O p.l Bot. cab. 1962 



We received bulbs of it, in 1829, from Mr. Warre, who collected them 

 himself in Brazil. . . It is a very pleasing plant. We have kept it very 

 well in the green-house, potted in light loam and peat. It increases itself 

 freely by offsets. (^Bot. Cab., Sept.) 



O'xalis crenata [Vol. VIII. p. 16., Vol. IX. p. 78. 232.] appears to be 

 one of the most accommodating and prolific plants I know ; but it cannot 

 have too rich a soil. The only plant which has flowered in this neighbour- 

 hood is one raised by a gardener of the name of Saunders, from a tuber 

 weighing only 28 grains, which he planted in an old cucumber bed, and 

 which has produced a bush as large as a gooseberry bush. This plant 

 flowered on the 3th of August, and has produced above 1000 blossoms, 

 making a most splendid appearance ; but these all fall off" without pro- 

 ducing seed. The brief descriptions of this plant, given in De CandoUe's 

 Prodromiis and Turton's translation ^of Linnaeus's Systema Naturce, are 

 extremely vague and inaccurate. De Candolle speaks of the umbel as 5 

 to 6 flowered, while it really is from 10 to 13 or 14 flowered. The calyx is 

 deeply 6 or 7 cleft ; the corolla is 6, 7, or 8 petaled ; and the number of 

 stamina is 15 or 16, arranged in two rows, in the outer of which the fila- 

 ments are above one half shorter than the 9 or 10 within. — Wm. Hamilton, 

 15. Oxford Place, Plymouth, Aug. 26. 1833. 



In a previous letter, dated March 9. 1833, Dr. Hamilton remarked, 

 that a knowledge of the proportion of amylaceous contents in an equal 

 weight of the tubers of O'xalis crenata Jacq. and of those of the potato 

 (5'olanum tuberosum i.) is very desirable ; and that it is to be hoped cul- 

 tivators of, and experimenters on, the O'xalis crenata will direct their 

 efforts to the determination of this point. See, in p. 59-i., a notice of the 

 use of the leaves of O'xalis tetraphylla as sori'el. 



CXXIV. Tropceolea;. 



1148. TROPiE^OLUM 9311 mkjus. 



3 atrosanguipeum D. Don, dark red O -* or 3 jn.o Peru Garden var. S co Sw.fl.g.2.s.20i 



This is a splendid variety of the common nasturtium. " Its large dark 



