464- Botanical, Floricultural, and Arhoricultural Notices, 



derick Westcott, Esq., Honorary Secretaries of the Birmingham 

 Botanical and Horticultural Society. 



VapaveuAceje. 



Glaucium rubrum Dec. This plant Dr. Lindley considers to be the same as 

 the G. clegans of our gardens. (B. M. R., No. 78., July.) 



-\-Vapaver amce'num. A beautiful annual poppy, raised by the Horticultural 

 Society from seeds sent from the north of India. The leaves are glaucous, 

 and flowers vermilion, with a white base. (B. M. R., No. 80.) 



Malvdcece. 



Mdlva mauritdnia L» The plant usually sold in the seed-shops under this 

 name Dr. Lindley considers to be merely " a large state of M. sylvestris ; " but 

 he adds that the true species has been lately recovered from Algiers by the 

 French, who have dispersed it under the name of the zebra mallow. (B. M. 

 R., No. 82., July.) 



Leguminbsce, 



1235. EDWA'RDSW 



Macnato'nwa Graham Mr. MacNab's 34 or 6 jl.au Y ?1820. C co Bot. mag. 3735. 



" This strikingly handsome shrub," says Dr. Graham, " has been for many 

 years in cultivation in the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, having now a stem 

 which measures II in. in circumference; but when or whence it was intro- 

 duced we do not know." It differs from E. grandifldra in its nearly equal 

 petals, the wide separation of the petals of the keel, and its flowering when in 

 full leaf. It was named by Dr. Graham in honour of Mr. Macnab, of the Bo- 

 tanic Garden, Edinburgh. (Bot. Mag., July.) 



Acacia cuneata Benth. This plant (from the Swan River) has flowered at 

 Vienna with Baron Hiigel. (B. M. R., No. 74., July.) 



Philadelphdcece. 

 1479. PHILADE'LPHUS 30449 laxus Bot. Reg. 1839, 39. 



Composites. 



•\-Centaurea pulchra Dec. This very beautiful annual was raised, in the 

 present year, in the Horticultural Society's garden, from seeds collected in the 

 north of India by Dr. Falconer. The flowers are blue, deepening to violet in 

 the centre, with a silvery involucre. (B. M. R., No. 84., July\) 



Gesneriacese. 



1698. GESNE'RW 



stricta Hook. Sj Am. upright £ □ or 5 jl S South Brazil 1834. C pi Bot. mag. 3738. 



This handsome species resembles in habit the G. sceptrum of Martius ; " but 

 the flowers are very different in shape ; the corolla having a remarkable curva- 

 ture on the upper side, and, following its direction, the style is singularly ge- 

 niculated at its base ; the upper lip, too, is much longer ; the style and anthers 

 exserted." Roots of this plant were sent by Mr. Tweedie from Rio Grande, 

 in South Brazil, to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where they produced flowers 

 for the first time in July, 1835. (Bot. Mag., July.) 



Epacriddcece. 



504. E'PACRIS 



coccineus Paxt. scarlet 2k i | or 3 mr.ap S hybrid 1838. C co Paxt. mag. of bot. vi. 123. 



A very showy kind of E'pacris, on account of its scarlet flowers and yellow 

 anthers ; raised by the gardener of Alderman Copeland, at Leyton, in Essex, 

 probably from seed of E. impressa. It is observed, in describing this plant, 

 " that seedling epacrises vary so exceedingly in colour in their native districts, 

 that it is impossible to establish specific distinctions, or even varieties, upon 

 the hue of the flowers alone. Were we to act in accordance with this state- 

 ment, we should be constrained to consider our plant a mere casual departure 

 from the usual colour of E. impressa. In bestowing upon it a specific desig- 

 nation, therefore, we are bound to declare upon what we believe its claims to 

 that position to rest." Notwithstanding this declaration, we do not think 

 the writer justified in distinguishing a plant by a specific name which he ac- 



