580 Flm-icidtural and Botanical Notices, 



eight plates; 45. coloured, 35. plain. Edited by Dr. Lindley, 

 Professor of Botany in the London University. 

 Sweet's British Flotver-Garden ; in monthly numbers, each containing 

 four plates ; 35. coloured, 25. Sd. plain. Edited by David Don, 

 Esq., Librarian to the Linnaean Society. 



The Pollen of Plants, taken and kept dry and from the Action 

 of Frost for Years, retains its Power of Fecundating. — D. Beaton, 

 under Fuchsm, in p. 582. of the present Number. 



Embryo Dicotyledonous: Corolla Polypetalous. 

 XXIV. MalvdcecE. 



■ 200-k». SPH^RA'LCEA Hil. {Sphaira [in Greek], a globe, alcea [in Latin], marsh-mallow." 



(G. Don's Gen. syst. of gard. and bot., i. 465.) -Why not from the Greek alcea, a wdd kmd 

 of mallow? This is in Smith's Schrevelius's Lexicon. Sphaeralcea would be then wholly of 

 Greek. Carpels disposed in a round head.) 16. 8. Sp. 7. and one variety. Synonyme, 3/alva, 

 section 3, Sphsroma Dec, in his Prod., i. 433.) [gard. t. 517 



117838 angustifblia HiV. narrow-leafed tt| 1 pr 8 au.s Pk Mexico 1780 C e.l Maund's bot. 



A plant which had flowered in a pot had but a single flower 

 at " the axil of each leaf; but in the open border, where we now 

 have it in beauty, it produces a cluster of them at each axil, and 

 from two to four are usually expanded at once. Although a 

 native of Mexico, we have found it quite hardy, and its suckers, 

 which spread widely under ground, afford sufficient increase." 

 [B. Maund, in his work, The Botanic Garden, October.) Is not 

 this the only species of plant in Malvaceae which produces 

 *' suckers which spread widely under ground" ? — J. D. 



Those of the species of Malva described in Loudon's Hortus Britannicus, to which Nos. 17835, 

 17836, 17837, 17838. 17842. are preHxed, are now deemed species.of Sphcer&lcea ; two'otiier species 

 and one variety are described in G. Don's Syst. ; on No. 17835., see in Gard. Mag., IX. 616. 



XLVII. Onagrdrics. 



1188. FU'CHS/A [1830? C p.l Bot. reg. 1805 



dfscolor Lindl. two-coloured A 1 or 3 ? au R P Port Famine, in the Falkland Islands 



" It is difficult to distinguish It botanically from grScilis and ten^Ua ; yet it is decidedly different." 

 — Lindley. 



" Remarkable for its compact bushy" manner of growth, its 

 deep purple branches, its small very undulated leaves, and also 

 for its being apparently more hardy than any other fuchsia yet 

 in the gardens. For the latter reason we attach especial impor- 

 tance to it ; for, by a judicious intermixture of its pollen with such 

 beautiful plants as F. conica, globosa, and its other more tender 

 relatives, the whole race may probably be rendered capable of 

 bearing the climate of Great Britain, and may thus become far 

 more generally valuable than they yet are." {Bot. Beg., Oct.) 



Fuchsm, Opi?iions and Facts on the Nature of the Relations of 

 certain Kinds of, one to another, and Facts in relation to the Ex- 

 tent to 'which they will hybridise one with another. — In the 

 October number of the Botanical Register, Dr. Lindley has 

 figured Mr. Low's fuchsia from .Port Famine, and remarked 

 that, " if we are asked to state in what respect this differs bota- 

 nically from F. gracilis and tenella, we should find it very diffi- 

 cult to answer the question. The botanical difference, if any. 



