"78 Mamshi d^ Horticulture. 



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REVIEWS. 



Art. I. Magasin d' Horticulture, contenant la Description, la St/no- 

 nymie, et la Culture des Plantes les plus remarquables, les plus 

 Tares, et les plus nouvellement introduites en Belgique, et toutes les 

 Nouvelles de quelqu Inthet qui ont rapport a V Horticulture. Supple- 

 ment aux ouvrages de Dumont-Courset, Noisette, Vilmorln, Poi- 

 teau, &c. Par R. Courtois, Docteur en M(^decine, Sous-Directeur 

 du Jardin Botanique de I'Universit^ de Liege, &c. 8vo, 10 monthly 

 numbers. Liege, 1832-3. 



In the preface, the author informs us that England has her 

 Botanical Magazine, Register', and Cabinet ; France, her Herbier 

 de r Amateur ; and Belgium her Sertum Botanicum; but that 

 these works, being illustrated with coloured plates, are only 

 accessible to a few. He therefore proposes to publish descrip- 

 tive notices, without plates, of all the plants newly introduced 

 into Belgium. In addition to this descriptive list, he proposes 

 devoting a few pages, in every number, to horticultural and 

 botanical news. 



On looking over the numbers before us, we find short descrip- 

 tions of 677 species, chiefly from English periodicals, but partly 

 from Continental works, and a few from plants in Belgian nur- 

 series, and particularly in that of M. Jacob Makoy, at Liege. 

 There is an introduction, explaining botanical terms, and giving 

 an outline of the natural system, with its improvements by Dr. 

 Lindley, as in his Introduction to Botany, edit. 1832. 



The following plants, described in Dr. Courtois's Magasin, do 

 not appear yet to have found their way into our Hortus Britan- 

 nicus, and most of them not into British nurseries, unless we are 

 to suppose that they exist there under different names : — Ca- 

 mellm japonica candidissima, called by some C. Siebold/; it is 

 stated to have been brought direcdy from Japan, by Dr. Siebold ; 

 that it assimilates to C. j. Wellbank/a?za, and is deemed by some 

 a species. Cheiranthus Chelri folio variegato, floribus purpureis 

 plenis ; this kind has been received at Claremont from Dr. Cour- 

 tois; and is stated to be a very pretty one. Acacia paradoxa 

 Dec, A. curvif61ia Bonjpland. A^cer eriocarpon Mx. var. inter- 

 medium Courtois, seen in the garden of " M. Membrede a Ol- 

 beck ; " [looks as if intermediate between eriocarpon Ma\ and 

 riibrum Z/.] ^'sculus Hippocastanum f51io toto luteo Cour- 

 tois. Amaryllis Carnarvon^ Dec, Zdgus Hort. Par. Ane- 

 mone arborea, ^ristolochia galeata Martins. -Betula carpathlca 

 W. and K., anticifolia Courtois, nitida Don. Calceolaria excelsa, 

 and varieties of it. Catalpa virginiana flore caeruleo. Cam- 

 panula muralis (syn. C. Portenschlagw«« R. and S.), Cerasus 

 Mahdleb nana, Corylus purpi^rea Hort. (the leaf is purple). Di- 



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