FloricuUural and Botanical Notices. 



Art. VI. FloricuUural and Botanical Notices on Kinds of Plants 

 nevoly introduced into our Gardens, and that have originated in them, 

 and on Kinds of Interest 'previously extant in them ; supplementary 

 to the latest Editions of the " Encyclopcedia of Plants" and of 

 the " Hortus Britannicus." 



Curtis s Botanical Magazine; in monthly numbers, each containing 

 eight plates ; 3*. 6d. coloured, 3*. plain. Edited by Dr. Hooker, 

 King's Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. 



Edwards s Botanical Register ; in monthly numbers, each containing 

 eight plates ; 4*. coloured, 3*. plain. Edited by Dr. Lindley, 

 Professor of Botany in the London University. 



Siveet's British Flower- Garden ; in monthly numbers, each containing 

 four plates; 35. coloured, 9.8. Sd. plain. Edited by David Don, 

 Esq., Professor of Botany in King's College, and Librarian to the 

 Linnaean Society. 



Embryo dicotyledonous : Corolla polypetalous, 

 or not any. 



IX. Crucidcecc. 



1838. TESICA^RIA. [co Bot. mag. 3464 



* grandiflbra Hook, large-flowered O or 1\ jl to o Y Texas, Mexico 1835 or, else, 1834 S 



M. Berendier has discovered three species in Texas of Mexico, 

 namely, lasiocarpa Hook. 7ns., gracilis, and grandiflora Hook. Mr. 

 Drummond, also, found the last two. He sent seeds of, at least, 

 grandiflora " in the spring of last year, which produced plants 

 in the summer, exhibiting a profusion of blossoms, and a bright- 

 ness and size in the flower [by the figure, the corolla is farther 

 about than a sixpenny-piece], equalled by few plants of this 

 natural order, and which render the species most highly deserving 

 of cultivation, whether in the flower-border, or on the shelves of 

 a cool green-house. The almost sessile, spreading, and concave 

 petals give it an appearance very unlike that of most cruciform 

 flowers. The blossoms are long-lived ; and the same plant will 

 yield a succession of flowers from July to October." [Bot. Mag., 

 Jan.) 



XL VI. Cactdcece. 



1472. CE^REUS. 



»12559a Napole5nzs Graham Napoleon's • ZD spl. 6 s W ... 1825? C si Bot. mag. 3458 

 Synonymes : Cactus Napolebnzi Hort., Cfireus triangularis var. mdjor Salm-Dyek, 



Dr. Graham has described this species. As compared with 

 triangularis, the far greater length of its joints, their diiFerent 

 form, and the shape of the edges between the tubercles, have led 

 Dr. Graham to conclude it to be not a variety of that species. 

 Its flower is very like that of grandiflorus : one was 8 in. long, 

 and, when fully expanded, 6 in. across. The outer segments of 

 the perianth are straw-coloured, lanceolate-linear ; the inner, 

 pure white, spathulate-linear. Stamens yellow ; stigma yellow, 

 protruded, of many segments. This kind was received at the 



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