1 36 FloricuUural and Botanical NoticeSt 



at Paris, has produced a revision of the genus 6Enothera, and 

 distributed the species into several groups, w^hich he has deemed 

 and denominated as genera, on. Dr. Lindley has represented, 

 very insufficient grounds. However, Dr. Lindley has expressed 

 the following notice of a part of the results of M. Spach's re- 

 searches that he deems of value. " He [M. Spach] states that 

 certain supposed Oenotheras have their chalaza [" a sort of vais- 

 cular disk at the base of the nucleus," within the ovule, or embryo 

 seed] bordered by a fringed margin. This is an additional organ, 

 and a special type of structure : it is the beginning of the feathery 

 appendage of the seed of Epilobium; but it is incapable of per- 

 forming the office of buoying up the seed in the air, so as to en- 

 able it to be dispersed from place to place. I find the structure 

 to be as M. Spach states, and that the species collected by the 

 character are CE. Romanzovii, purpurea, and the like, which 

 vj^ill not intermix with the true evening primroses, and which 

 have quite a peculiar habit. Among othdr things, their flowers 

 have no tendency to become yellow." 

 JLI. Loasaceae. 



1477. BARTO^N/^ 



* aiirea Lindl. golden-jiotwered O or 3 jl Go California 1833 S m.s.r.m Bot. reg. 1831 



" A very beautiful half-hardy annual, discovered by Mr. 

 Douglas in California, and raised in the garden of the " London 

 " Horticultural Society, where it flowered in July last." Stem 

 2-3 ft. high, upright, branched, hispid ; the branches brittle. 

 Leaves dark green, sessile, acuminate, pinnatifid; the lower one 

 3 in. long. Flowers axillary, produced towards the tips of the 

 branches. Corolla as wide as, or wider than, a crown-piece. It 

 is only beneath bright sunshine that its splendid flowers unfold. 

 As the sun exercises its influence, the petals gradually unroll, till 

 every branch is radiant with gold ; and so metallic is the lustre of 

 the inside of the petals, that they seem as if composed of something 

 more solid and enduring than the delicate and perishable tissue of 

 a flower. Dr. Lindley has recommended for it a sheltered, warm, 

 and sunny situation, and a rich moist soil. {Bot. Reg., Feb.) 



LX. Protehceas. 



S02. PETRO'PHILA [New Holland 1830 S s.p Bot. mag. 3469 



*2436a aciculSris It. Br. needle.shaped-/ea/e<? » i 1 cu ... ap W H King George's Sound in 



Shrub erect. Leaves 3 in. to 6 in. long, thread-shaped. Head 

 of flowers terminal. Perianth silky, concave, and red internally 

 in the tips of the segments. Raised in the Botanic Garden, Edin- 

 burgh, from seed communicated by Colonel Lindesay, in 1830, 

 under the name of Petrophila filifolia. Plants flowered in April, 

 1834, and in April, 1835. {Bot. Mag., Feb.) 



LXXIII. 'Rosdcece § Quillajise. 



KAGENE'CK/^ R. & P. (M. de Kageneck, ambassador from the Emperor of Germany to the 



King o( Spain.) 22.11. Sp. 3. 



+28592 cratffigifblia i?nd/. Cratagus./ea/ed * I or 10 jn W Chili? 1830? L? Cl Bot reg. 1836 



Synonyme : K. cratsgdjdes X». Don, in Edinb. N. Phil. Journ. 10. 229. 



