374< FloricuUural and Botanical Notices, 



LXXVII. Leguminbsa:. 



2071. PSORA'^LEA. (Psoraleos, warty ; in allusion to the very general presence of little tubercular 

 secretions upon the surface of different species. Lindley, in Bot. Reg., t. 1769.) 



[Bot. reg. 1769 

 18635a macrost^chya Dec. long-spiked 3i A or 3 jl P California (see below) 1833 ? S s.l 



DeCandolle has described P. macrostachya from dried spe- 

 cimens communicated to him by Lagasca ; and has given Nutka 

 in North America as the native country of it. " Our [Dr. 

 Lindley's] drawing was, however, made from plants [" in the 

 garden of the Horticultural Society "] obtained from California 

 through Mr. Douglas ; and we, therefore, suspect some error in 

 the former statement." P. macrostachya Bot. Reg. is a " hand- 

 some, hardy, perennial " species ; " yielding seed in tolerable 

 plenty, and readily increasing by division." It is pubescent all 

 over ; its stems are erect and branched, its leaf is of three 

 ovate-acuminate leaflets. The flowers have purple corollas, and 

 are disposed closely in spikes upon axillary long peduncles : 

 more than twenty flowers are shown in the spike depicted. A 

 singular hairiness pervades the rachis (the axis upon which the 

 flowers are situate) and the " green parts of the flower. . . . 

 After the flowers have fallen off", this produces a singular 

 appearance ; the naked rachis remaining at the end of each 

 flower stalk [peduncle] in the form of a long hairy tail." [Bot. 

 Reg., June.) 



CXVI. 'Rutdcece. 



676. BARYO'SMA. ^" 



[bluish [? blush] colour when fully expanded" C.G. H. ... C p.l Bot.inag.3413 



crenul^ta [ ] crenulated-(/V/. * \ | or 2| " early spring " " purple in bud, of a delicate 



Dr. Hooker has presented a digest of synonymes : Di^sma latifolia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 290., is one 

 of these ; odorata R. Sf S. is not included ; and the omission, if just, affects No. 5575. of Loudon's 

 Hort. Brit. 



Handsome : the flowers appear in early spring, and continue 

 a long time in perfection ; are purple in bud, and of a delicate 

 bluish [? blush] colour when fully expanded. {Bot. Mag., June.) 



Embryo Dicotyledonous : Corolla Monopetalous. 



CXXII. Geranidcea. 



Pelajgoniums. — Certain early-flowering varieties, cultivated 

 by Messrs. Dennis and Co., are noticed in p. 296. The aggre- 

 gate of beauty in the blossoms of the kinds in flower at Messrs. 

 Dennis and Co.'s, on June 10., was, to u.s, striking, and very 

 highly gratifying. Of the more mentionable of the kinds flower- 

 ing at this date, these are the names of some : — Wells's Fanny, 

 diversum of the French cultivators. Miss Annesley, Dennis's 

 Fanny, Lauretta, Lucifer, Amelia, Catesbyaw?/?w, irassicbides, 

 jRosa mundi, vulneratum, Adanson?, Sweetidnum germanicum, 

 olympicum, bipinnatifidum. Lauretta, Lucifer, Wells's Fanny, 

 diversum. Miss Annesley, are, perhaps, those of the kinds cited 

 which would be the more popularly esteemed. Of Lauretta, 

 the corolla is in colour towards lilac ; the spots not large, but 

 beautifully marked. Lucifer, scarlet, with dark velvety spots. 



