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BOTANICAL NOTICES OF NEW PLANTS. 



moist pastures about Samulcottah, in the Northern Circars. It flowered in the stove of the 

 Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in October, 1838. The seeds were sent from Saharampoor 

 by Mr. Falconer. Bot. Mag. 



CARYOPHYLLEiE. Ue C. SELENACE^ Lindl. 



Dianthus ferrugine us. Lin. Yellow Pink. Bot. Reg. t. 15. This is a pretty herbaceous 

 plant bearing yellow flowers ; a colour rather uncommon, the usual colour being pink or white. 



It is allied to D. Carthusianorum, but differs in having squarrose bracts, and the smooth edge 

 of the leaves, as well as the colour of the petals. 



Whether it is to their intermixture with this, or the little known D. ochroleucus of the 

 Levant, that some of the more precious varieties of Piccotees and Carnations owe their yellow, is 

 unknown. 



The seeds from which this plant was raised were brought from the Botanic Garden, Florence, 

 by the Hon. W. F. Strangways. 



This plant grows from twelve to eighteen inches high in any light rich soil, and rather a dry 

 situation, flowering about J uly and August. It may be increased either by seeds sown in the 

 spring, or by pipings in autumn ; but like Dianthus Libanotus it suffers very much, and is often 

 entirely destroyed, if not protected from the wet in autumn and winter by a hand-glass. It is 

 a native of Calabria, the Abruzzi, and other parts of the kingdom of Naples. It is also said to 

 be a native of the Apennines. 



MONOCOTY LEDONES. 

 IRIDEiE. 



Marica gracilis. Herb. Slender Marica. Bot. Mag. t. 3713. This is a very delicate 

 plant, bearing flowers of a whitish blue colour. It was received at the Glasgow Botanic Garden, 

 from the noble collection at Woburn, where it has long been cultivated. It was imported from 

 Brazil, by Mr. Forbes, who grows it in the greenhouse. It is distinct from M. Northiana in 

 being much slenderer in every part, the partial spatha particularly long, narrow, and acu- 

 minated, and the outward sepals narrower. Mr. Herbert observes that this exhibits three erect 

 lobes to each division of the stigma, whereas Mr. Ker represents and describes M. Northiana as 

 having only two erect lobes to each. Bot. Mag. 



AMARYLLIDACEJE. Juss. 



Alstromeria Ligtu. Linn. The Ligtu. Bot. Reg. t. 13. This is a very handsome 

 species of a lilac colour, having the upper petals marked with crimson and yellow. This species 

 is characterised by its long branched peduncles, obovate or obcordate sepals, which are also but 

 little, if at all, serrated. 



It has the name of Ligtu, because it is called Ligtu in Chili. " This plant," says Dr. 

 Lindley, " probably exists in many gardens, although not distinguished from either A. pelegrina 

 or pulchra. The former," says the above author, " differs in its short, one-flowered, rigid 

 peduncles : the latter in its shorter flowers, and spathulate rather than obcordate serrated sepals." 

 It was figured from a plant in the possession of Charles Barclay, Esq., Bury Hill ; and was 

 exhibited at one of the great meetings in the Gardens of the Horticultural Society, where it was 

 conspicuous, among many beautiful species, for the delicacy of its flowers and its large size. 

 Bot. Reg. 



ORCHID ACE^E AND VANDEiE. 

 Maxillaria Vitellina. Lindl. Yellow Maxillaria. Bot. Reg. t. 12. This is a Brazilian 

 Epiphyte allied to M. racemosa, which differs in having an undivided labellum, hairy 



