380 ' Don^s Gardening Botany. 



last it occurred to Mr. Herbert to have dung laid on the place 

 where the patches of the plant grew, and the result was a 

 flower stem in 1837. The leaves are about 2 ft. or 2^ ft. 

 high, and they are surmounted by the flowers, which last about 

 a month. {Bot. Reg., July.) 

 HemerocallideiT. 



1008. FU'NK/^ 



SiebolcUarea Lodd. Siebold's £ lAJ or 1 jl W Japan ? 1837 R s.l Bot. mag. 3663. 



Introduced to the gardens of Belgium by Dr. Siebold, and in 

 beauty and culture closely resembling i^emerocallis ^'aponica, 

 now Funk/ajaponica. {Bot. Mag., July.) 



Asp/i odeldcecB. 



1066. STYPA'NDRA 



frutescens frutescent n. \ 1 cu 2 ? jn.jl V N. Holland 1S36 C l.p.s Flor. cab. no. 63. 



A plant of easy culture, but of no great beauty; the stem hav- 

 ing neither decidedly the character of a woody plant, nor of one 

 that is herbaceous. In this respect it resembles some of the 

 epidendrons, which, as plants, independently altogether of their 

 flowers, are, in our opinion, less beautiful than the herbaceous- 

 looking Orchidacear. 



'Liiliacea. 



-f Ornithogalum gemmiflorum Herbert MS. A small white- 

 flowered species, resembling O. chloroleucum, sent from Lima, 

 by John M'Lean, Esq., to the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert. 

 {B. M. R., July, No. 100.) 



Com7neli7iSLCe8e. 



-\- Coinmelma. orchioidcs Booth in Litt. " More a subject for 

 the botanist, than those who are fond of showy flowers." Sent 

 to Carclevi^ by Mr. John Rule, the superintendant of the Real 

 del Monte mines, in Mexico. {B. M. R., July, No. 96.) 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. A general System of Gardening and Botany : containing a 

 complete Enumeration and Description of all Plants hitherto known ; 

 •with their Generic and Specific Characters, Places of Growth, Time 

 of Flowering, Mode of Cidture, and their Uses in Medicine and 

 Domestic Economy ; preceded by Introductions to the Linncean and 

 Natural Systems, and a Glossary of the Terms used : Jbunded upon 

 Miller's Gardeners Dictionary, and arranged according to the 



, Natural System. By George Don, F.L.S., in 4 vols. ^to. Vol. IV. 

 London, 1837. 



This work is, unfortunately, brought to a close, without being 

 completed ; and we cannot better assign the reasons for this, 

 than by quoting the preface. 



" The Proprietors take this opportunity of explaining the circumstances 

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