supplementary to Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 401 



"Georgia, into the Botanic Garden, Glasgow; whence it was sent to the Bo- 

 tanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 1832, and there it first produced a succession of 

 flowers in the green-house, in the beginning of Oct. 1833." (Dr. Graham, in 

 Brit. Flow. -Gar den, July.) 



Apetalous Dicotyledonous Plants. 

 LXXXILz. Garryaceee Lindley. An order characterised in the Botanical 

 Register for July, 1834, t. 1686. ; and there stated to be allied to the Cupuli- 

 ferae ; to connect them with the Coniferae ; and also, by means of some 

 similarities to the Chlorantheae, with the Gnetdcece. 



GA'RRY^i Lindl. (Named, by Mr. Douglas, in compliment to Nicholas Garry, Esq., secretary 



of the Hudson's Bay Company ; to whose kindness and assistance he was much indebted during 



his travels in North-west America. — "Lindley.) 21. 4. Sp. 1. — 



ellfptica Lindl. e]hpt\c-leafed. * cu 6 o G N. California 1828. L 1 Bot. reg. 1686 



The specimen figured is from a plant of the male sex, which flowered in the Horticultural Society's 



garden in Oct. 1833. It is not stated that a female plant is alive in Britain. 



Very similar in appearance to a Fiburnum. Its branches, when young, are 

 pubescent and purplish ; when older, smooth and greyish. Its leaves are 

 opposite, devoid of stipules, shortly petiolate, oblong ; about, according to the 

 figure, 2 in. long and 1 in. broad ; waved, acute, leathery, evergreen ; dark 

 green and smooth above; beneath hoary with simple twisted interwoven 

 hairs. The flowers are disposed in pendulous tail-shaped catkins, of about 

 from 4 in. to 5 in. in length. It was introduced, in 1828, from Northern Ca- 

 lifornia, where Mr. Douglas discovered it. In relation to British gardens, it 

 may be deemed a hardy evergreen shrub : it prefers a loamy soil, and may be 

 readily increased by layers. Dr. Lindley has remarked, that " it is probable 

 that it is the greatest botanical curiosity in all Mr. Douglas's collections : for 

 it appears to represent a natural order, on the one hand, altogether distinct 

 from any previously known ; and, on the other, connecting certain well-known 

 natural orders in an unexpected and satisfactory manner." Dr. Lindley has, 

 in Bot. Reg. t. 1686., elucidated the characteristics of the plant, and his views 

 •of its affinities. (Bot. Reg., July.) 



MONOPETALOUS DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



CLXX. TLricdcece D. Don. 



Mr. D. Don has, in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal for July, pro- 

 duced " An Attempt at a New Arrangement of the -Ericaceae." This will be 

 news of interest to botanical cultivators; all of whom have perceived that 

 there has been much of heterogeneousness in the great collection of species 

 hitherto referred to the genus -Erica. Mr. D. Don says that " the examination 

 of this interesting family [the -Ericaceae, which include the andromedas, &c] 

 was undertaken with the view of assisting my brother in the laborious under- 

 taking in which he is now engaged [the elaboration of the work, A General 

 System of Gardening and Botany, by G. Don, F.L.S.] ; and, as a complete ac- 

 count of the species will appear in a forthcoming volume [vol. hi.] of that 

 work, I have omitted most of them in the following pages," &c. 



" As happens in other very natural families, the characters of the generic 

 groups in the -Ericaceae are not so strongly marked as in those that are less 



so ; but we are not, on that, account, to give up the idea of dividing them 



Whatever opinion may be formed of their title [that of the groups into which 

 Mr. D. Don has divided the -Ericaceae], to rank as separate genera, the 

 arrangement of the species will, I trust, be found more natural than any 

 hitherto proposed." 



The names of the proposed groups, the etymology of their names, and the 

 species typical of the groups, are the following : — 



-Erica {E. cinerea L.), Gypsocallis (etymon not given. E. vagans L.), Pachysa {pachys, thick ; 

 substance of the corolla. E. ardens Andr.), Ceramia (Jceramion, a little pitcher. E. urceolaris 

 Soland.), Desmia (desme, a little bundle ; flowers crowded. E. conferta Andr.), Eurylepis 

 (eurys, broad, lepis, a scale; calycine scales dilated. E. ifalicacaba L .), Eurystegia {ettrys, broad, 

 stege, a cover; calyx large. E. glaiica Andr.), Lophandra (lophos, crest, aner andros, a man or 

 stamen ; cells of the anthers crested. E. pyramidalis Andr.), Lamprotis {lamprotes, splendour ; 

 calyx glistening. E. calyclna L-), Callista (kallistos, most beautiful. E. Walker? Andr.), Eury. 



