458 Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



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

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

 " Encyclopaedia of Plants,'' and of the " Hortus Britannicus." 



Curtis y 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 Mower-Garden ; each monthly number containing four plates ; 



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



Linnsean Society. 



POLYPETALOUS DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



XLV. Grossuldcece. 



719. RPBES. 

 5924a niveum Lindl. v/hlte-Jlwd. 36 or 4 mr.ap W N.W.America 1827? Ceo Bot. reg. 1692' 

 " Brought to the Horticultural Society, by Mr. Douglas, from North-west America : " the time 

 when is not stated. 



R. niveum is of the appearance and height of the common European species 

 of gooseberry, and it has some similarity to the R. triflorum, an American 

 species; but it is quite distinct from both. The berry of R. niveum is of 

 " about the size of that of the black currant [R. nigrum], and of the same deep 

 rich purple colour. It has altogether the appearance of a small smooth 

 gooseberry ; but its flavour is very different : it is entirely destitute of the 

 flatness which is more or less perceptible in even the best gooseberries ; in 

 lieu of which, it has a rich subacid, vinous, rather perfumed flavour, which is 

 extremely agreeable. The fruit is rather too acid to be eaten raw; but, when 

 ripe, it makes delicious tarts, and would probably form an excellent means of 

 improving the common gooseberry by hybridising." (Bot. Reg., August.) 

 R. niveum, apart from these considerations, is an addition to the number of 

 the hardy species of shrubs. Its flowers, white, pendulous, and small, are 

 borne in'pairs and threes from the centre of the clusters (each of two or 

 three) of leaves. 



LXXIII. HosdcecE. A variety of rose, named the village maid, is figured 

 in The Floricultural Cabinet for August, which has a flower of a middle size, 

 full of petals, and these striped with longitudinal lines of a colour distinct 

 from that of the ground; what the colours are is not stated : one can hardly 

 believe them to be white and lavender, as depicted in the figure. " It is totally 

 different from the York and Lancaster " (R. damascena var.), and also from 

 the rosa mundi (R. gallica var. versicolor). Mr. William Rogers of the 

 Southampton Nursery possesses it, who has remarked that he purchased it 

 from the collection of a French florist, under the name of village maid, 

 and that " the magnificent appearance of the large full-headed plant, worked 

 on a standard, has drawn forth the admiration of all who have seen it." 



LXXVII. Leguminosce. 



1262. PULTENi£\4. 



fl0583 flexilis Sm. ttenile-tivigged tt \ ] or 1J ap.jn Y Port Jackson 1801. C s.I.p Bot. reg. 1694 



Dillwynza teucrwides Sieber. The PultenaVYt flexilis of Sweet's Flora Australasian, t. 35., has 

 glaucous leaves and hairy calyxes ; and is a plant entirely different from the P. flexilis Sm., which 

 as closely allied to P.joolygala?fblia Budge : but the calyx of that species is interspersed with 

 villous hairs, its leaves are smaller, and it is altogether a more abundant.flowering plant. 

 P. euchlla Dec. has also smaller cuneated leaves, and a remarkable ample calyx ; like, as Decan j 

 dolle observes, Euchilus R. Br. : and, to my view, especially like that of some Gompholbbia. 

 {A. Cunningham, in Bot. Beg., August.) 



P. flexilis Sm. is a small shrub with twiggy branches, which are garnished, 

 in their upper part, with small shining leaves, and with yellow small flowers, 

 one from the axil of each of most of the upper leaves. 



Acacia hastulata Sm. is figured in the Bot. Mag. for August, t. 3341. "The blossoms are delight- 

 fully fragrant, smelling like [those of] hawthorn." The figure of this seems to resemble, even 

 to identity, the A. cord&ta of some living collections ; as, for one, that of Mr. Knight. (See p. 281.) 



