372 Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



As a practical man, and one that has had some experience in 

 rearing pines for the market, I can safely assert that this is the 

 simplest and cheapest mode of pine-culture that has come under 

 my observation ; and in those districts where coals are cheap, for 

 instance, Staffordshire, a persevering individual, with a few small 

 glass-houses, might supply the London market infinitely cheaper 

 than it is at present supplied, and realise a better profit than 

 market-gardeners are in the habit of doing. Mr. Knight, after 

 the present crop of fruit is cut, is going to give over pine-grow- 

 ing altogether ; he has sufficiently proved the efficacy of his mode 

 of pine culture, and as the pine-apple was never a favourite fruit 

 of his, and as, indeed, he does not consider it a wholesome one, 

 he means to use the houses for other purposes. I am, dear Sir, 

 yours, &c., — S. Lauder. Downton Castle Gardens, March 31. 

 1835." 



Art. X. Floricultural ayid Botanical Notices of neixily introduced 

 Plants, and oj" Plants of Interest previously in our Gaj-dens, supple- 

 mentary to the latest Editions of the " Encyclopcedia of Plants" 

 and of the " Hortus Britannicus" 



Curtis s Botanical Magazine ; in monthly numbers, each containing 

 eight plates ; 3s. 6d. coloured, 3s. plain. Edited by Dr. Hooker, 

 King's Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. 



Eduards'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., Librarian to the Linnsean Society. 



Embryo Dicotyledonous : Corolla Polypetalous. 

 IX. CrucifercE. § Cotyledons flat, incumbent on the radicle, — 

 Notorhizeae. 



r? Affinity] MORI'S/^ [? Authority]. {Professor Moris, who discovered the species on the moun. 

 tains of Sardinia. — D. Don.) 15. 2. Sp. 1. — 



[S lt.l Sw.fl.gar.2.s.290 

 hypogae''a [? Authority] />-«z7-iKte-mig- ^ ?£? A? pr 4 ap Y Mountains of Sardinia 1833. 

 " It derives its specific name from its capsules burying themselves in the ground, like some of the 

 Violet." — D. Don. And like /i'rachis hypogaj^a and Trifblium subterr^neum. 



Green glabrous polished leaves, about 2 in. long, and cut in 

 somewhat the mode of those of the shepherd's purse and those 

 of the dandelion (dent de lion), are produced from the crown 

 of the plant upon the earth's face. Peduncles not a few, from 

 the same source, attain about an equal length ; and each bears 

 at its tip one flower, whose corolla, of four petals, is of a bright 

 yellow colour, and, in extent, something less than a sixpenny- 

 piece. These are the more obvious of the features of the plant's 

 physiognomy : and those of our readers who regard plants 

 according to their physiognomy only, will hence, and from the 



