supplement ary to Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 43 



munds, as " of a most beautiful shrub, free-bloomer, and quite 

 hardy," has been submitted to Mr. D. Don, who has identified 

 it as of the species Psoralea glandulosa. Mr. Alexander Scott, 

 Pince's nursery, Exeter, has since communicated, orally, that he 

 had seen, in some garden that he had visited in the course of a 

 professional tour, a plant of Psoralea glandulosa, with a stem as 

 thick as his wrist, and with branches 12 ft. or more in spread. 

 In whose garden was it ? Was the plant growing against a wall ? 

 Had its branches been trained ? The specimen from Bury St. 

 Edmunds is about 6 in. long ; and consists of a portion of branch 

 more than 3 in. long, some leaves, and five stalked racemes of 

 numerous small flowers, whose corollas, when the specimen was 

 received, when it was somewhat withered, though not dried, were 

 in colour blue and whitish. It is easy to conceive that a plant 

 of this species, with numerous branches, thus terminated, and 

 very many of the flowers open together, must be beautiful indeed. 

 The dried specimen has a remarkable odour, perhaps com- 

 parable to that of boiled parsneps : this may be ascribed to matter 

 contained in the very numerous minute glands that are situate 

 upon the surface of the herbage. The dried leaves of this spe- 

 cies are used as tea by the natives of Mexico. 



Cl. Exog., subcl. IncompletEe (plantae), group TubifertisEe, alliance Protenfe*, order Yioteacets. 

 303. ISOPO^GON. „,^„ 



t spathulatus iJ. Sr. spathulate-/(?fl/<?rf [Sound 1830 C s.p Bot. mag. 3450 



*2 linearis R. Br. MneaT-spathulate-leafed St \ | or 2 and a;bove sp Pa P King George s 



It is a plant of strong growth, flowering with freedom in the 

 spring of the year, and deserving a place in every choice col- 

 lection. The disposition it manifests to push forth its heads of 

 pale purple blossoms at the extreme points of the lateral branch- 

 lets, which the plant throws out rather abundantly, and by which 

 it is readily propagated, render spathulatus var. linearis well worth 

 the cultivator's care. The branches are fully clad with leaves, 

 these are wedge-shaped, obovate, or linear-spathulate, with an 

 acute point, scarcely 1 in. long, a quarter, more or less, broad. 

 Introduced to the nurseries near London from seeds collected 

 by Mr. William Baxter. {Bot. Mag., Nov.) 



01. Ex6g., subcl. Incompl., group CurvembrybsEe, alliance PolygonMes, order Polygonaces. 

 1212. COCCO'LOB A. {" From hohkos, fruit (in this case, seed), and lobos, a lobe ; in allusion to the lobed 



seeds." — Lindley, in Bat. Reg., t. 1816.) 

 *10302a virens Linril. %xeex\-racemed-nnd-lcnfed « □ ou ... au Yellow-green «' We [Dr. Lind. 



ley] are unacquainted with its native country, but presume it to be the West Indies " 1825 ? 



C .r.m Bot. regis 16 



Virens Lindl. has been distinguished and elucidated from it in 

 a living state, in Sir A. Hume's collection of plants at Worm- 

 leybury, in which it flowered in August, 1833. It differs from 

 obtusifolia Jac. in the form of its leaves, from microstachya W. 

 in their size and proportion to the racemes. {Bot. Reg., Dec.) 



Cl. Exog., subcl. CompletjB (plants) monopetala?, group Polycarpbsse, alliance £ricMes, order Eti~ 



c^ceas. 

 1339. /mODODE'NDRON 11006 maximum 



_* var. h:ybridum //oo/c. hybrid « or WP ? hybrid ?1830 L p.I Bot. mag. 3454 



