supplementary to Eyicyc. of Plants and Hort. Btit. 37 



bosom of the leaves, produce a striking effect. The fruit is in 

 some " esteem " among the Mexicans ; but it has not much 

 merit." (Bot. Reg., Nov.) 



1506. CRATiE'GUS 12907 glandulbsa Dec. Prod., 2. p. 62.7.; Arb. Brit., p. 817. fig. 567. 

 2 macrantha IJndl. 



Synonyme : C. macrantha Lodd. Cat; Arb. Brit, p. 819. figs. 572, 573. 



Spec. Char. — Leaves roundish or oblong, incisely serrate, 

 wedge-shaped at the base, on long petioles. Sepals pinnatifid, 

 glanded. Spines axillary, bent, longer than the petioles. Fruit 

 spherical, corymbose, 3-stoned. Stones having a thick bony 

 shell. [Lindl.) Var. 2 macrantha has the spines equal to, or 

 longer than, the leaves. Fruit smaller. [Lindl.) 



" A fine, handsome, vigorous American thorn, forming a tree 

 with a spreading head, and having firm dark green leaves, 

 amongst which are intermixed stout curved spines of unusual 

 length. I have seen them as much as 4f in. long. It flowers 

 in May, and produces an abundance of its deep vermilion-red 

 haws in the autumn. No writer upon the wild trees of America 

 notices this remarkable plant ; it is therefore, in all probabilitj^, of 

 garden origin : indeed, I entertain no doubt of its being a mere 

 variety of C. glandulosa, possibly of hybrid extraction between 

 that species and C. Crus-galli." [Bot. Reg., Dec.) 



CompositcB § Corymhiferce, or KsterdcecE. 



3401. CRASPE'DI A (see in Vol XI. p. 375.) [Bot. reg. 1908. 



*glauca Zj«(«. %\s.wQ.0Vii-herbaged ^ J\| cu. PIJ ... ap Y N.Holland 1836 S ... ?8?1. 

 Synonyme : Richea glauca Lab. 



" A curious herbaceous plant, found in Van Diemen's Land, 

 whence it was sent by Mr. James Backhouse to his brother, in 

 whose nursery at York it flowered in April last. It will, no doubt, 

 be hardy in the warmer parts of Great Britain, but had better 

 be kept in a frame in other places." (Bot. Reg., Nov.) Dr. 

 Lindley has not taken any notice of C. macrocephala Hooker, 

 described and illustrated in the Botanical Magazine, t. 34'15.; and 

 noticed in some detail in our Vol. XI. p. 375. A third kind, ac- 

 cording to the names, is registered in our Hortus Britannicus. 



Sllla. RATABPDA Raf. (meaning unknown) 21968 columnaris. [gard. 2. s. 361. 



*2 pulchtrrima I). Do?« most beautiful :^ A or 3 au R.Y N.America ? 1835 D co Swt. fl.- 

 Synonymes: Rudbeckia columnaris Pursh; R. columnifera Fras. Cat.; R. T&getes James It. j Obe- 

 liscaria columnaris Dec. Prod.; Obeliscciria pulcherrima Dec. 



Professor Don has adopted " Ratahida as a separate genus, 

 from its achenia being furnished at their inner angle with a 

 membranous fringed border ; and from the pappus being present 

 in the form of a very short membranous ciliated crown." {Sweefs 

 Fl. Gard., Dec.) A very showy hardy perennial, frequent on 

 the banks of rivers throughout the western regions of North 

 America. The rays of the flower are of a velvety brown, bor- 

 dered with yellow. There are plants in the Bristol Nursery. 



Ca7npa7itddcece. 



607. CAMPA'NULA 



♦Barrelierz Marnock Barrelier's ^ A or 1 s B R co Flor. mag. 1. t. 12. 



" This is a graceful little plant, rising to about the height of 



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