14-4' Iloricultural and Botanical NoticeSi 



were planted in pots ; and these were to be plunged in soil, to 

 keep the plants in a condition for being transplanted with suc- 

 cess.] The figure of V. polysperma was taken from a plant in 

 Mrs. Marryat's collection. {Brit. Flow.-Garden, Feb.) 

 CXLVII. Crassiddcece. 



1468. SEMPERVrvUM. 

 12481a Cirbicum Horn, city « or i_J or ... d.j.f Y Teneriffe 1827. C s.l Bot. reg. 1741 



" It flowers in the months December, January, and February ; 

 and is one of the handsomest of the shrubby species of this in- 

 teresting genus." The figure portrays a rosaceous tuft of 

 leaves tipping a branch, as the leaves do in S. arboreum ; and a 

 fine pyramidal panicle, towards 9 in. long, of golden-yellow 

 flowers ; so numerous, and so disposed, as to almost touch each 

 other on every side. Plants of this species are " found com- 

 monly on rocks and the roofs of houses in Teneriife ; in inland 

 parts of the island, where the air is damper than in the valleys." 

 It was first found by Dr. Christian Smith ; latterly, by Messrs. 

 Webb and Berthelot. Messrs. Young and Penny, nurserymen, 

 of Milford, near Godalming, Surrey, have plants of this and 

 other interesting plants from the Canary Islands for sale. [Bot. 

 Jteg., Feb.) 



CLVII. 'Begonidcea. 



2654. BEGO^N/^. 



geramifhWa. Hook. Geranium-lfd A 23 or lis W.R Lima 1833. O l.t Bot. mag. 3387 



This species was discovered in the neighbourhood of Lima; 

 and roots were brought to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, by 

 Mr. M'Lean, in 1833. In September of the following year, they 

 produced their exceedingly pretty and very delicate red and 

 white flowers, which contrasted well with the glossy and deep 



green foliage Leaves on long rounded footstalks, cordate, 



the sides nearly equal, plaited, cut into many unequal very acute 

 lobes ; these inciso-serrate, green on both sides, paler beneath, 

 above of a full and very bright and glossy green ; the margin 

 red, perfectly glabrous, as is the whole plant. Stem about 1 ft. 

 high. [It may produce, under future culture, taller stems.] 

 Peduncles terminal, tipped with the flowers. {Bot. Mag., Feb.) 



Plants Dicotyledonous, Monopetalous. 

 CLXX. YiricdcecE. 



1174. DABCE^C/^ D. Don 9944 poliifblia. 



cor611aalba ■/. r. AfacA-fl!^ white-corollaed H- or 11 jn.s W Ireland 1830. L s.p Svv.fl.gar.2.s.276 



Mr. J. T. Mackay, assistant botanist. Trinity College, Dub- 

 lin, and curator of the College Botanic Garden, has, in the 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., iv. 167., in a communication dated Jan. 17. 

 1831, thus spoken of the Daboe'c/a (Menzies/«) ^oliifolia:^ — It 

 " is very abundant on the sides of mountains and dry heaths all 

 over Cunnemara, a wild district of the county of Galway ; and 

 in Mayo, as far north as the mountain called Croagh Patrick : 



