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NEW AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS 
FIGURED IN THE TWO LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS, AND FLORISTS 
MAGAZINE FOR JANUARY. 
Botanical Register. Edited by Dr. Lindley, each number containing 
eight figures ; beautifully coloured 4s.y plain 3^. ; and corresponding letter-press. 
Botanical Magazine. Edited by Dr. Hooker, each number containing eight 
figures ; beautifully coloured Ss. 6c?., plain 3^. ; and corresponding letter-press. 
British Flower-Garden. Edited by Mr. David Don, each number con- 
taining four plates ; beautifully coloured 3^., plain 2s. 6d. 
Florists' Magazine. Edited by Mr. F. W. Smith, each number containing 
four elegantly coloured plates, with, occasionally, two or more on each plate. Large 
quarto 4*., octavo 2s. 6d. 
Of the above twenty-four monthly plates we have only noticed such plants as 
are new and very rare, and only such new ones as are handsome, and deserve to be 
extensively cultivated. For descriptions and figures reference must be made to the 
works themselves. 
CLASS I PLANTS WITH TWO COTYLEDONS (DICOTYLEDONE^). 
INDIAN FIG tribe (CACTEiE). 
Cereus Napoleonis. Napoleon's Cereus. This plant was sent by Mr. Kay, 
of Clapton, about ten years ago, to the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, where it 
flowered for the first time in September last. The flowers open in the morning 
and close in the afternoon. It is very like the C. grandiflorus, and is slightly, 
not very agreeably, perfumed. Bot. Mag. 3458. 
composite. 
Coreopsis coronata. Crowned Coreopsis. Seeds of this beautiful plant 
were gathered in Texas, and received from Mr. Drumraond during the spring 
of 1835. The plants raised from them flowered copiously in the summer and 
autumn ; those in the open air continuing to display their handsome flowers, remark- 
able for the circle of brown spots placed at a distance from the disk, till October, 
when they were cut off by the frost ; those in a frame continued much longer in 
perfection. Bot. Mag. 3460. 
EPACRIDEtE. 
Cosmelia rubra. Red Cosmelia. A marshy plant found upon the coast of 
New Holland. In this country it is a very pretty green-house plant, with the 
habit of an Epacris. It flowers in May. Bot. Reg. 1822. 
the birth-wort tribe (ARISTOLOCHm). 
Aristolochia fcetens. Stinking Birth-wort. A native of the West Indies, 
whence it was obtained by Mrs. Marry at, in whose stove at Wimbledon it flowered 
