252 Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



remark, in the last place, that these plants differ as much from the 

 coffee chicory, as from the wild chicory and the common 

 chicory, while they, perhaps, are only a variety of the latter. 

 10. Commerce Place, North Brixton Boad, Dec. 1835. 



Art. XIII. Floricultural and Botanical Notices on Kinds of Plants . 

 netdy 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 Biitannicus." 



Curtis s Botanical Magazine ; in monthly numbers, each containing 

 eight plates ; 3s. 6d. coloured, 35. 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; 4s. coloured, 3s. plain. Edited by Dr. Lindley, 

 Professor of Botany in the London University. 



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

 four plates ; 3s. coloured, 2s. 3d. plain. Edited by David Don, 

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

 Linnsean Society. 



Maund's Botanic Garden, or Magazine of Hardy Flower Plants cul- 

 tivated in Great Britain ; in monthly numbers, each containing 

 four coloured figures in one page; large paper \s.6d., small Is. 

 Edited by B. Maund, F.L.S. 



'Liindcece. 



' *Berendi6rj Hook. Berendier's O ? I ox ?2 au Y O Bejar 1835 S s.l Bot. mag. 3180 



Synonyme: Plotziz Hook. MSS. 



An exceedingly beautiful and new species of iinum, dis- 

 covered by Mr. Drummond at Rio Brazos and San Felipe, and 

 introduced by him into our gardens in 1835. In the Glasgow 

 garden, it has been kept in a cool frame, where it flowered in 

 Auo-ust; but there is reason to think it inay prove a hardy 

 annual, and, if so, it will be a valuable acquisition to our gardens. 

 {BoU Mag,, April.) 



Legumindcea:, or Yahdcece Lindl. 



eU4. KENNE^DYyi. 

 »1938Ia Stirlfng; Lindl. Stirling's £. i_J or ?3 ap S Swan River 1834 ?C s.p Bot. reg. 1845 



" A graceful green-house trailing plant, native of tha Swan 

 River. It was raised by Robert Mangles, Esq., of Whitmore 

 Lodge, from seeds given to him by Sir James Stirling, the 

 governor of the colony, in compliment to whom it has been 

 named. It has thin, broad, pale green leaves, fringed with 

 lono- weak hairs; and its twin scarlet flowers sufficiently charac- 

 terise this species, which, moreover, is botanically remarkable 



