284 Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



Art. V. Floricultural and Botanical Notices of netx Plants, and of 

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

 " Encyclopcedia of Plants," and of the " Hortus Britannicus" 



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 ; 



4s. coloured, 3s. plain. Edited by Dr. Lindley, F.R.S., Professor of Botany 



in the London University. 

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



3s. coloured, 2s. 3d. plain. Edited by David Don, Esq., Librarian to the 



Linnaean Society. 



Dicotyledonous Polypetalous Plants. 



III. Hanunculdcece § spuria. 



1596. PJEO^NIA. (By some, from Pteon, a noted physician of antiquity ; by others, and with 



much more probability, from Pceonia, a mountainous country of Macedonia, where some of the 



species grow wild. — D. Don.) 



14094 Moutan H. K. " The M. papaveracea appears to be really the normal form of the species, as the 



late Mr. George Anderson suggested." (D. Don.) [Sw .fl.gar,2.s.238 



var. variegata D. Don particoloured-peta/ed Sk spl 1| ap.jn W.P Eng. hybrid? ... L p.l 



A low-growing bushy kind, branching from the ground, and scarcely woody. 

 Flowers about 6 in. across. Petals white, stained with a deep rose colour in 

 various parts; the base marked with numerous radiating streaks of violet and 

 purple. Anthers yellow. The Earl of Mountnorris, whose successful culture 

 of the tree pseony has been rewarded by the production of several splendid 

 varieties, far excelling any of those imported from China, has been so fortunate 

 as to raise the present fine variety also, which is remarkable for its dwarf and 

 almost herbaceous habit. It has been raised from seeds of the P. M. joapa- 

 veracea, which His Lordship supposes had been accidentally fertilised by some 

 of the herbaceous species. 



All the varieties raised at Arley [we suppose, those whose names are registered in Hort. Brit. 



p. 482.] were from papaveracea, and not from Banksz'i, as the gardener had inadvertently stated. 



The tree pseonies are propagated by layers, which should be twisted a little ; and the soil best 



i adapted for them is a mixture of vegetable earth and fresh meadow loam. (The British Flower- 



Garden, May.) 



LVI. Mi/rtdcece § Chamcelauciece. 



1495. CA'LYTHRIX Lab. (Kalyx, a calyx, and ihrix, a hair; the remarkable hairlike terminations 

 of the calyx. Not from kalyx, and trixos, triple, as some explain it : misled, perhaps, by Labil- 

 lardiere, the describer of the genus, having spelled the word Calytrix. — Bot. Mag., May, 1834.') 

 12. 1. Sp. 12. — [C s.l Bot. reg. 409 



■f-12833 glabra B. Br. glabrous -Ifd. and bracted it] | or 4 ap.jn W Australia and V.D.I. 1818. 



tl2834 virgata Cun. twiggy-branched * |_J or 2 ap.au ? W N.S.W. 1823. Csp Bot. mag. 3323 

 Synonyme : C. ericoides Cun. in Field's New South Wales, p. 350. The specific name unsuited, 

 being applicable to all the species of the genus. (Cun. in Bot. Mag. 3323.) ; 



C. virgata is very closely allied to C. glabra, in having its leaves consider- 

 ably less crowded on the branches, which are altogether smoother, more 

 slender and twiggy, and much more productive of flowers at the extremities. 

 It is, moreover, a freer-flowering shrub ; and, as it continues in that condition 

 longer than C. glabra, and is readily increased by cuttings, it has much to 

 recommend itself to British cultivators. The species is in the Kew collection. 



12835 scabra Dec. rough-lfd. and bracted ttt | | or 4 ap.jn W Australia 1824. C p.l 



Mr. Allan Cunningham has, in the Bot Mag. for May, t. 3323., supplied a synopsis of all the 

 known species of this erica-like habited genus ; and sketched their distinctive characters, and 

 adduced their habitats and synonymes. The names of the recognised species are these : — With 

 the leaves stipuled : glabra 'R. Br., virgeita Cun., curtoph^lla Cun., tetraptera Dec, decandra 

 Dec., Fraseri Cun., flav^scens Cun., strigbsa Cun., btunioides Cun., scabra Dec. With the leaves 

 not stipuled : conferta Cun., microphylla Cun., to which the exstipulata Dec. is synonymous. Mr. 

 Cunningham has stated that " three species of this genus are now in cultivation in the English 

 gardens." These we have given above, with tabular details ; and, as we cannot find any trace of 

 the C. floribiinda and C. pubescens given in Hort. Brit., it seems advisable to cancel the 

 account of the genus therein given, and to substitute the present one. 



LXXVII. Legumindsce. 



1980. ADE'SMIA. 



viscbsa Gill S; Hook, clammy-herbaged * ^ or 12 my.o Y.Taw Chile 1832. Clt.l Sw.fl.gar.2.s,230 



