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NEW AND RARE PLANTS, 
FIGURED IN THE THREE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS AND FLORISTS* 
MAGAZINE FOR AUGUST. 
Botanical Magazine. Edited by Sir William Jackson Hooker, LL.D., &c., each 
number containing eight figures ; beautifully coloured 3s. 6d., plain 3s. ; and correspond- 
ing letter-press. 
Botanical Register. Edited by Dr. Lindley, each number containing eight figures ; 
beautifully coloured 4s., plain os. ; and corresponding letter-press. 
British Flower-Garden. Edited by David Don, Esq., Professor of Botany in King's 
College, each number containing four plates ; beautifully coloured 3s., plain 2^. Sd. 
Florist's Magazine. Edited by Mr. F. W. Smith, each number containing four 
elegantly coloured plates, with occasionally two or more plants on each plate. Large 
Quarto, 4s., Octavo 2s. 6d. The letter-press is pleasing, and the hints on culture very 
correct. 
Of the above plates, we have only selected such plants as are new or 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^). 
PROTEACE^. 
Dryandra pteridifolia. Fern-leaved Dryandra. This remarkable and 
variable plant was raised from seeds, collected by the late very indefatigable botanic 
voyager, Mr. W. Baxter, during his first visit to the south-western shores of 
Australia in 1823. The plant flowered for the first time in Britain last spring, in 
the Royal Gardens at Kew, and it is believed to be the only living species in 
Europe. It exhibits a dwarf bushy shrub, with short fiexuous branches, clothed 
with a whitish wool. The leaves crowded and pinnatifid. Flowers in terminal 
heads surrounded by coloured leaves of a faint honey-scent, and the colour may be 
said to be a mixture of white and orange. The soil recommended for proteaceons 
plants is good fresh loam, with which, if stiff, must be added a portion of sand, so as 
not to admit of its being retentive of water ; they require to be potted and watered 
with great care, and at no time allow any quantity of soil to lay on the top roots. 
Bot, Mag,, 3500. 
composite. _ 
Coreopsis filifolia. Thread-leaved Coreopsis. An interesting species of 
this somewhat handsome genus, with very narrow foliage, most like that of 
C. tenuifolia. Seeds of it were sent to this country by Mr. Drummond, from 
Texas, in the spring of 1835. It is an annual, and quite hardy, producing its 
yellow flowers about August and September, Bot. 3Iag\ 3505. 
ERICEiE (the heath TRIBE). 
Hhododendron arboreum, var. undulatum. Wavy-leaved Tree Rose-bay. 
A bushy evergreen shrub, with purple branches, raised by Mr. William Smith some 
