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NEW AND RARE PLANTS, 
FIGURED IN THE THREE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS AND FLORISTs' 
MAGAZINE FOR SEPTEMBER. 
Botanical Magazine. Edited by Sir William Jackson Hooker, LL.D., &c., each 
number containing eight figures ; beautifully coloured Ss. 6(i., plain Ss. ; and correspond- 
ing letter-press. 
Botanical Register. Edited by Dr. Lindley, each number containing eight figures ; 
beautifully coloured 4s., plain '3s. ; 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 2s, Sd., and 
corresponding letter-press. 
Florists' Magazine. By Mr. F. W. Smith, each number containing four elegantly 
coloured plates, with occasionally two or more plants on one 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^). 
THE GREEK VALE RIANTRIBE (pOLEMONIACEJE). 
GiLiA tenuiflora. Slender-flowered Gilia. A hardy annual, sent by Mr. 
Douglas from California to the London Horticultural Society, under the name of 
Gilia Splendens. The outside of the corolla is of a pale rose colour, while the 
inside is of a uniform violet : for the flower garden, Dr. Lindley says, it is not 
worth cultivating, but it is very pretty in nosegays, or as an ornament to rooms. 
Bot. Beg., 1888, 
THE ROSE TRIBE (rOSACE^). 
Crat^gus spathulatea. Spathula-leaved Thorn. This species possesses 
but little attraction, although it is somewhat singular on account of the fruit even 
when ripe remaining green. It grows about four feet high, and retains its leaves 
late in the autumn. Bot, Beg,, 1890. 
the pea tribe (leguminos^). 
Lupinus latifolius. Broad-leaved Lupin. A hardy perennial, collected in 
California by Mr. Douglas ; it, like the other species of this genus, flowers freely ; 
in the present instance, the flowers are of a purple violet-colour, and are produced 
from July to September. Bot, Beg,, 1891. 
myrsine^. 
Ardisia odontophylla. Tooth-leaved Ardisia. A very desirable species 
not only on account of its being a handsome evergreen, but more particularly for 
its delicious fragrance ; the flowers are of a pale salmon -colour, slightly streaked 
