NEW PLANTS, ETC. 



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NEW PLANTS, ETC., FROM THE SOCIETY'S 

 GARDEN. 



1. ACONITUM AUTUMN ALE.* 



Received from Mr. Fortune April 6, 1846, as a " species of 

 Aconite flowering in winter." From Chusan among 

 his dried plants. 



In its manner of growth this Aconite resembles A. Napellus ; 

 in the form of its flowers A. Cammarum. It grows about 3 feet 

 high, and produces its flowers, which are lilac and white, in a 

 simple spike, which however in time becomes a panicle by that 

 retrograde development which seems common to all Aconites. 

 The smell of the blossoms is heavy and unpleasant ; and they 

 have a great tendency to form subulate petals in addition to the 

 ordinary hammer-headed ones ; in one flower as many as seven 

 of such processes were counted, and of them one was an inch long. 



It is most nearly related to A. japonicum, from which it ap- 

 pears to differ in its pubescence, in its helmet not being exactly 

 conical, but very blunt and rounded, and in the filaments having 

 broad wings expanded on each side into a tooth. 



This species was found cultivated in the gardens of Ningpo, 

 in the north of China. It is prized there chiefly on account of 

 its habit of blooming late in the autumn or winter. As it will 

 certainly prove quite hardy in Europe, and retain its habit of 

 flowering in winter, it will therefore possess some interest to the 

 collectors of new hardy herbaceous plants. Nov. 23, 1846. 



2. PlNUS GRENVILLE^.f 



Found by Mr. Hartweg on the Cerro de San Juan, or 

 Saddle Mountain, near Tepic, in Mexico, attaining a 

 height of 60 or 80 feet. 

 Leaves in fives, 14 inches in length on the wild specimens, very 

 robust, triquetrous, thickly set on the branches, dark-green, and 

 very much resembling those of Pinus macrophylla, but rather 

 longer ; sheaths persistent, nearly l^inch in length, rather rough 

 and scaly ; seed-leaves on the young plants mostly ten in number, 

 and rather long ; branches mostly solitary, rarely in pairs, irre- 

 gular, and very robust ; buds very large, imbricated, non-resi- 



* A. autumnale ; (Cammarum) pubescens, foliis palmatifidis laciniis pin- 

 natifidis lobis subfoliatis acutissimis, spica simplici stricta, galea compressa 

 rotundata sensim acuminata, cucullis obtusis circinatis, filamentis utrinque 

 in alam latam acuminatam productis, ovariis 3 villosis. — J. L. 



t P. GrenvillecE ; foliis quinis longissimis triquetris validis serrulatis, va- 

 gina longissima subscariosa, strobilis pendulis solitariis sessilibus rectius- 

 culis longissimis, squamis rhombeis tetragonis rugosis obtusissimis, ala 

 semine multo longiori biloba, — G. Gordon. 



