supplementary to Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 79 



Honoraiy Secretaries of the Birmingham Botanical and Horticul- 

 tural Society. 



'Ranuncula' cem. 



1159. DELPHI'NIUM [Fl. Graac, 6.t.505. ; Swt. fl-gard. n. s. t 366. 



*tenuissimum Sibth. s\en&&iest-hranched O or 1 au P Greece 1835 S r.m Sibth. et Sm, 

 Synonyme: D. divaricatum Ledeb. in Fisch. et Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Itnjier. Petrop., 1835, p. 7.; and 

 Flor. Cab., No. 16. 



A very distinct and delicate annual species of larkspur, which perfects its 

 seeds freely in the open border. {Br. Fi.-Gard., Jan.) 

 J^alsamindcecB § Tropcsbleas. 



1148. TROPiE^OLUM 

 f29307 brach^ceras Hook, short-spurred _£. lA] P-r 12 au Y Chili C l.p Bot. reg. t. 1926. 



" A beautiful little Tropae^olum, forming the prettiest possible match for 

 T. tricolor, whose habit it possesses, with a substitution of clear delicate 

 yellow in the petals for the rich crimson of that species. Like it, the present 

 species is not uncommon about Valparaiso, in bushy places in the mountains. 

 The Chilians call it Flor de Ferdiz. It is not a little singular that our gardens 

 should still be without the other tropseolums that grow wild near Valparaiso. 

 Weeds enough, including common lucern, and the corn plants that were car- 

 ried out from Spain, have been sent home; while some of the most interesting 

 parts of the Chilian flora remain neglected. For instance, it was only the 

 other day that the first species of Chlorae^a, of which there are probably 20 

 in Chili, reached England, through Capt. James Mangles ; and of the genus 

 before us we are still without T. polyphyllum, whose flowers grow in heads 

 as large as the fist; and T. aziireum, which, to the herbage of T. tricolor, adds 

 the colour of the deep blue of a Siberian larkspur." {Bot. Reg., Jan.) 



Rosacece. 



1522. iJO'SA 13493 sinica Ait. ; Arb. Brit., No. 75. p. 776. 



Synonymes : R. trifoli&.ta Bosc ; R. ternata Pair. ; R. cheroke^nsis Donn ; R. nivea Dec. Hort. 

 Monsp. Prod., 2. p. 599. ; R. hjrstrix Lindl. Monog. ; R. IsevigSta Michx. Fl, Bar. Amer. 



" A very common rose in the gardens of Italy and the south of France, 

 where it is highly ornamental, from the profusion of its snow-white flowe s, 

 and the handsome shining appearance of its evergreen leaves. It is less su'tcl 

 to this climate, in consequence of being rather tender ; but it flowers beauti- 

 fully in the climate of London, when trained to a south wall. It is a native 

 of China, where it appears to be the common dog rose of the country. Kow 

 that the races of cultivated roses have become so much improved by hybrid 

 intermixture, it is well worth ascertaining how far this is suited to alter the 

 foliage and size of blossoms of some of the other Chinese species. What 

 would be most to be feared is, that its delicate constitution should be commu- 

 nicated to its ofi^spring : but this might be avoided by mixing it with some 

 very hardy species, and then using the variety so obtained as the subject of u 

 second intermixture. There is so much beauty in the foliage, and such re- 

 markable firmness, combined with delicacy, in the petals of R. sinica, as to 

 make it highly deserving of a trial." {Bot. Reg., Jan.) 



OnagrdcecB. 



1183. ffiNOTHE^RA 10021 frutic6sa. 



2 ambigua Hook, ambiguous ^ A or 1 jl Y N. America 1813 D co Bot. mag. 3545. 



Synonymes: CBnothSra ambigua Spreng. Syst. Veg., Dec. Prod. ; ffinothgra canadensis Gold, in Edin. 

 Phil. Journ., Dec. Prod. 



" ffinothera fruticosa is a species widely extended throyghout North 

 America, from Canada to Carolina ; but so variable in its foliage and hairi- 

 ness, as to have suggested the idea of the species ; " CE. ambigua Spi-eng. and 

 Dec. ; CE. canadensis Gold, and Dec. ; CE. serotina Sivt. and Lindl. ; CE. in- 

 cana Nutt., Dec, and Torrey ; CE. Fraseri Pursh ; and, in all probability, 

 CE. linearis Michx. ; being nothing more than varieties. {Bot. Mag., Jan.) 



^axifragdcece. 



805. HEU-CHER^ [t. 1924. 



*cyUndrJlcea Lindl. cylindrical-panzcfcd ^ A el 2 my Cr N. America 183- D l.p Bot. reg. 



