BOTANICAL NOTICES OF NEW PLANTS. 



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LOASEjE. Juss. 



Loasa lateritia. Hook. Red-flowered Loasa. Bot. Mag. t. 3632. This 

 is a very beautiful and distinct species of Loasa, discovered by Mr. Tweedie in 

 Tucuman, from whence seeds were sent to the Glasgow Botanic Garden. It is an 

 annual in its native country, but the seedlings Mr. Murray raised in the year 

 1836 stood in the stove through the winter, and flowered the following May. It 

 therefore may be regarded as a biennial. Bot. Mag. 



CACTEiE. D. C. 



Mammillaria Lehmanni. Hort. Berol. Lehman's Mammillaria. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 3634. Syn. M. Octacantha et kucacantha, D. C. Rev. p. 113, Mem. p. 11. This 

 species was formerly in the rich collection of Mr. Hutchins, but is now the property 

 of Mr. Mackie, who communicated to Sir W. J. Hooker the drawing figured. 

 It is a peculiar species, from having at the axils of the mammillae black spots, 

 which in the hot weather discharge a black viscid juice. Bot. Mag. 



COMPOSITE. Vaill. 



Morn a nivea. Lindl. Snowy-white Morna. Bot. Reg. N. S. t. 9. A 

 half-hardy annual, raised from seeds by R. Mangles, Esq., who received them 

 from the Swan River. It differs from Nitida not only in the scales of the flower 

 heads being white instead of yellow, but also in their being quite entire, and from 

 the unfading brightness of the flowers, which retain their shape and colour if 

 carefully prepared, and thus form a charming addition to the everlasting flowers 

 already known. Bot. Reg. 



CARICE^!. 



Carica citriformis. Jacq. Small Citron-fruited Papaw. Bot. Mag. t. 

 3633. This specimen was communicated from the stove of Charles Horsfall, 

 Esq., Liverpool, in 1835. That gentleman procured it from the curator of the 

 Botanic Garden, Rotterdam, as the C.monoica, Desf. but it differs from that species, 

 the latter having deeply sulcated and pointed fruit. The seeds vegetate speedily, 

 and soon come to perfection, specimens at the Botanic Garden, Glasgow, and 

 Woburn, having borne fruit the same year. Bot. Mag. 



EUPHORBIACEiE. 



Euphorbia Veneta. Willd. Venetian Euphorbia. Bot. Reg. N. S. t. 6, 

 A half-hardy, half-shrubby, evergreen plant, inhabiting the vicinity of Venice, 

 Nice, Genoa, Dalmatia, Friuli, and other places in the same part of Europe. It 

 is allied to Characias. 



The specimen was drawn from a plant in the collection of the Hon. W. F, 

 Strangways. Bot. Reg. 



MONOCOTYLEDONES. 

 LILIACEiE. 



Thysanotus proliferus. Lind. Proliferous Thysanotus. Bot. Reg. N. S. 

 t. 8. Another beautiful plant raised in the garden of R. INIangles. Esq., of 



