mpplementary to Encyc. of Plants a?id Hort. Brit. 539 



open Garden, and remarhable either for their Beauty^ their Rarity, 

 or the singidarity of their Structure* Conducted by G. B. Knowles, 

 Esq., M.R.C.S.,'F.L.S.,&c., (CorrespondingMember of the Medico- 

 Botanical Society, and Professor of Botany in the Birmingham 

 Royal School of Medicine), and Frederic Westcott, Esq., Hono- 

 rary Secretaries of the Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural 

 Society. In monthly numbers, 4to, 2*. 6d. each. London, Long- 

 man and Co. ; Birmingham, John M. Knott. No. I. for Septem- 

 ber contains 4 plates, and 8 pages of letterpress. 



This new botanical periodical is brought out in a superior style; 

 the figures are very beautifully lithographed, and coloured with 

 great care ; and the letterpress is highly respectable. We are 

 most happy to learn that its success has far exceeded the expect- 

 ation of its projectors. Having given this notice of the work, with 

 the title at length, we shall in future confine ourselves to abridg- 

 ing the title, in the same manner as we do those of the other peri- 

 odicals, omitting to mention it at all when, in consequence of no 

 new plants being figured in it, we do not make any use of the 

 work. This has always been our practice in respect to the other 

 periodicals; notwithstanding a complaint made by one of our cor- 

 respondents, that we acted partially in this respect. 

 The Florists Magazine ; a Register of the neixest and most beautiful 

 Varieties of Florist's Flotvers. Drawn from Nature ; engraved 

 and coloured in the most finished style. By Frederick W. Smith. 

 With popular Descriptions, and practical Directions for their Cul- 

 tivation. In monthly numbers, 4to, 2s. 6d. each. London, Orr and 

 Smith. 



No. XV. for September, completes the second volume of this 

 work, in which, as expressed on the title page, the drawings are 

 coloured in the most finished style We have recommended the 

 work as a very suitable prize in the case of florists' flower ex- 

 hibitions. 



Crucifera or Brassicdcea^. 



a27a. STREPTA'NTHUS (C?. M, vol. X. p. 237.) '" [3516. 



*kyzicinthoides Hook. Hyacinth.hke-Jlowered O or 3 au Bsh.p Texas 1834 S. s.l Bot. mag. 



A remarkable cruciferous plant, having the appearance, when 

 in flower, of some kind of hyacinth. It is a hardy annual, a na- 

 tive of Texas, which was sent home by the late Mr. Dummond. 

 It flowered in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, for the first thne, in 

 August, 1835. {Bot. Mag., vol. x., new series; Sept.) 



Another species, S. obtusifolius Hook., is described in the Bot. 

 Mag., t. 3317., and is noticed in Vol. X. p. 237. 



LegumindcecB § Papiliondcece. 



1985. /.UPI^NUS 



*latif61ius Lindl. broad-leaved 5k A <" 1| Jy B California ? 1834 S. l.p Bot. reg. 1 1891. 



Apparently distinct from both L. rivularis and L. littoralis, to 

 which, however, it approaches more nearly than to i.polyphyllus. 

 In Dr. Agardh's Synopsis Generis Lupijii, 16 certain species of 

 the genus ^Lupinus are described, and 7 others mentioned as 

 litde known. Of the former, no fewer than 34 are in Mr. Douglas's 

 collections. {Bot. Reg., vol. xxii. ; Sept.) 



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