38 Uloricultural and Botanical Notices, 



previous notices, the orders cited in application to the species 

 noted on have been placed in a course of succession after that 

 in which they are placed in Lindley's Introduction to the Natural 

 System of Botany ; and the numbers prefixed to them are those 

 he has used in that work to denote their successional place in 

 his series of all the orders. 



The author, in his system presented in his Key^ has employed 

 some devices in nomenclature which he has thus explained : — 

 *' To prevent confusion in the use of the names of the numerous 

 divisions in the natural system, it is to be observed, that the 

 names of the suborders terminate in ea; ; of the orders in acece ; 

 of the alliances, in ales ; and of the groups, in osai. The higher di- 

 visions have merely plural terminations. The ear of the classical 

 critic may be offended at many of these terminations ; but the 

 distinction which they establish is too important not to outweigh 

 all verbal niceties of construction," The author has other notes on 

 this part of his woik, in his preface, thus ; — " I have . . . ventured 

 to reform the language of botanists in some respects, by carry- 

 ing out their own principles to their full extent; thus securing 

 a more uniform kind of nomenclature, and expressing the value" 

 of the classes, orders, &c., in all cases, by the manner of the ter- 

 mination of their names. The scheme of arrangement which Dr. 

 Lindley has proposed in his Keyh a production that no one can 

 investigate without high profit. — J. D. 



*** The degree of rank of the groups down to the orders : — 1st, the class ; 2d, the subclass ; 3d, 

 the group ; 4th, the alliance. 

 Class Exogenfe or Dicotyledbnes, subclass Completae (plantfe) polypetalfe (the contents of this 



group are about identical with those of the groups DichlamydeEE thalamiflbra; and Dichla. 



m^dese calycifldrte in Hort. Brit.), group Albuminbsa;, alliance Ranales, order iJanunculaceje. 



1399. DELPHI'NIUM 1 14134 cheilanthum " large-lipped " D. Don. [co Sw. fl. gar. 2. s. 309 



* 2 multiplex Z). Dora mu\t\pVied-sepa!ed ^ A spl 3 to 5 jn Dp azure blue D 



See Penny, in Gard. Mag., Vol. IX. p. 489. 



" The type of this species is decidedly the finest of the per- 

 ennial species : it is also rare . . . Flowers," of the variety, "blue. 

 In rich loamy soil, it will attain the height of 4 ft. or 5 ft." {Penny, 

 as above ; see, too, in the place there cited.) " A double variety 

 of one of the finest species of the genus. It is a most lovely 

 plant, the flowers being equal in size to those of the double va- 

 riety of grandiflorum, and of a still richer colour, a deep azure 

 blue; stems 3 ft. high. A mixture of peat and loam will be found 

 to suit it best. Our drawing was taken from the collection of 

 Messieurs Allen and Rogers, at Battersea." (Z). T)on, in the 

 Brit. Floxver-Garden, Nov.) 



Cl. Exigenae, subcl. Completze polypelala?, group Albumin&saJ, alliance Grossciles, order Gros. 



sulcLceaj. 



719. BPBES * glutinbsum [? BenthamJ and * wzalvkceum lSmith2 



are the names of two species of Ribes that are described in the 

 Hort. lYajis.) second series, vol. i. part 6., in a continuation of a 

 " Report on some of the more remarkable hardy ornamental 

 plants raised in the Horticultural Society's Garden, from seeds 



