4-22 Floricultural and Botanical Notices^ 



above the axils of the leaves, are fragrant, the odour that of the 

 flower of the cowslip ; corollas safFroa-coloured. The figure 

 has been derived from a plant which had flowered in the stove 

 of the Chelsea Botanic Garden. A number of young plants of 

 it were raised in the late Mr. Colvill's nursery, in 1829, from 

 seeds collected in Caraccas by Mr. Fanning. Some of these pro- 

 duced flowers in the spring of 1834. High temperature, and a 

 soil composed of equal parts of loam and vegetable earth, are 

 conditions favourable to the artificial culture of the plant, with 

 plenty of water while it is in a growing state. {Bot, Beg., the 

 figure in June, the description in July.) 

 CCVII. Primuldce(E. 



451. PRI'MULA 3800 cili^ta C?- Auricula, the other P. ciliata.) 1833. D. s. 1. Sw. fl. gar. 2. s. 29& 



2 purpur&.ta i). Uore purple-coroWasti ^ A or ap Dp.P Eng. hybrid (Parents, one a var. of 



Mr. Edward Leeds, nurseryman, Manchester, has communi- 

 cated a flowering plant of it, and information that it is a hybrid 

 production raised in the Manchester neighbourhood from one of 

 the numerous varieties of Primula Auricula and P. ciliata. Mr. 

 D. Don has stated it to be an extremely showy variety, from the 

 brilliancy of its blossoms, which it produces in great profusion. 

 The corollas are of the richest purple colour. The plant is of 

 very easy culture. [Brit. Flow. Ga?^den, July.) 



In the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal^ July, 1835, is 

 a communication, p. 108 — 114., entitled, " On the Characters of 

 certain Groups of the Class Personatse. By David Don, Esq., 

 Libr. L.S. &c." The primary of the groups on which, and on 

 sections of which, characteristics are supplied, are the orders 

 Scrophularineae, Rhinanthaceae, Orobanchese, ChelbncEe, Arago- 

 ac<7<^, Siblhorpzacf-t^. The scope of Mr. Don's communication is 

 distinct from that of Mr. Bentham's, noted in our p. 376, 377., as 

 it embraces a wider range, and does not characterise, only enume- 

 .rates, the genera that are included in the groups characterised. 



CCXI. Scrophidurinea. 



1798. RUSSE%/^. [Bot. reg, 1773 



j'lincea Zuccarini rashy-brancked H □ or 3 jl.au S Mexico (? near Oaxaca) 1833 ? C s.l 



Upright, about 3 ft. high, abounding in slender twigs, which 

 have a disposition to droop ; the leaves are, in most instances, 

 so minute as to be inconspicuous ; and the twigs from these 

 characters present some semblance to rushes, or to the twigs of 

 an equisetum, or a casuarina. Flowers appear in abundance in 

 July and August; the corolla is scarlet colour, trumpet-shaped, 

 an inch long. Propagated very easily by cuttings. " Found in 

 Mexico by Count Karwinski, and lately introduced to the gardens 

 of this country from Berlin and Munich." {BoL Beg., July.) 



CCXIV. Boragine(C. 



433. SY'MPHYTUM. 

 f 3592 caucasicum Bieb. Caucasian ^ A or 2 my azure Caucasus 1820 D Co Sw. fl. gar. 2. s. 294 



Is highly ornamental, its flowers having the brilliant corollas -— 



