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NEW AND RARE PLANTS, 
FIGURED IN THE THREE LEADING PERIODICALS FOR JANUARY. 
Botanical Register. Edited by Dr. Lindley, each number containing eight figures, 
coloured 4s., plain 3s. ; and corresponding letter-press. 
Botanical Magazine. Edited by Sir William Jackson Hooker, LL.D., &c., each 
number containing eight plates ; beautifully coloured Ss. 6d., plain 3s. ; and correspond- 
ing letter-press. 
Of the above figures, we have only selected such as are new and very rare ; and, amongst 
these, only such as deserve to be extensively cultivated. For descriptions and figures, 
reference must be made to the works themselves. 
CLASS I.— PLANTS WITH TWO COTYLEDONS (DICOTYLEDONEtE). 
THE ROSE TRIBE (ROSACEiE). 
Potentilla Thomasii. Thomas's- Cinquefoil. This species has yellow or 
lemon coloured flowers, which it appears to produce very freely; the whole is hand- 
some, and, as a border plant, desirable ;it was gathered on Mount Pollino, and is per- 
fectly hardy, thriving best in light loamy soil, and increased by divisions or seeds. 
Brit. FL Gar., 365. 
the crow TRIBE (rANUNCUL ACE^). 
Delphinium tenuissimum. Slender-branched Larkspur. A delicate and in- 
teresting species of Larkspur, growing about a foot high, of a branching habit, with 
the leaves deeply divided into linear acute segments. The flowers are of a rich 
purple, rather smaller than the D. consolida. It is quite hardy, and, like the other 
annual species of the genus, multiplied by seeds, which it perfects freely in the open 
air. Brit. Fl. Gar., 366. 
the rose TRIBE (rOSACE^). 
Rosa Sinica. Three-leaved China Rose. A very common climbing rose in the 
gardens of Italy and the south of France, where it is highly ornamental, from the 
profusion of its snow-white flowers, and the handsome thriving appearance of its ever- 
green leaves; to succeed well it should be trained to a south wall, where its delicate 
white flowers will appear about May. Bot. Reg. 1922. 
BALSAMINACEiE. THE NASTURTIUM TRIBE (tROP^OLEJE). 
Trop^olum brachyceras. Short-spurred Tropseolum. This interesting 
and new species of Tropseolum was received by the Rev. G. Gumming Rashleigh 
of Hyde Lodge, near Winchester, from a friend at Valparaiso, where it is not 
uncommon in bushy places in the mountains. The Chilians call it Flor de Perdiz. 
The flowers are of a clear delicate yellow, with the base of the back petals prettily 
lined with reddish-purple pencil-like markings : its habit is that of T, tricolorum. 
Bot, Reg., 1926. 
THE EVENING PRIMROSE TRIBE (ON AGRACEJE). 
CEnothera fruticosa; var. ambigua. Shrubby Evening Primrose. A 
rather handsome annual, with bold rather pale yellow flowers, and lanceolate, more 
or less toothed slightly downy leaves. It flowers in July. Bot. Mag. 3543. 
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