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NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
Fig. 4 is of a very novel struc- 
ture, but is not adapted to grow such 
a variety of plants as the former. 
Any fine greenhouse plant, or two, or 
three, when in full bloom, might be 
placed in a pot in the receptacle at 
the centre of the table ; and when the 
flowers fade, take the plants away and 
introduce others in their stead : this 
would have a pretty appearance, and 
keep up a lively interest the whole 
summer. 
Fig. 4. 
NEW AND RARE PLANTS, 
FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS FOR FEBRUARY 
AND MARCH. 
Botanical Magazine. Edited by Sir William Jackson Hooker, LL.D., &c., each 
number containing eight plates ; beautifully coloured 3s. 6d.y plain Ss. ; and correspond- 
ing letter-press. 
Botanical Register. Edited by Dr. Lindley, each number containing eight figures, 
coloured 4^., plain Ss. ; and corresponding letter-press. 
British Flower Garden. Edited by David Don, Esq., professor of Botany in 
King's College, London, each number containing four plates ; beautifully coloured, 3^., 
plain, 24". 3d. ; and corresponding letter-press. 
Of the above plates, a selection has been made of such plants as are new or rare, and 
of the new ones, only such as are handsome, and deserve extensive cultivation. For 
fuller particulars, reference must be made to the works themselves. 
CLASS I PLANTS WITH TWO COTYLEDONS (DICOTYLEDONE^). 
THE INDIAN FIG TRIBE (cACTACEiE). 
Pereskia aculeata. West Indian Gooseberry. This old and well-known 
plant has not been figured before in any English publication ; a circumstance Dh 
Lindley accounts for by its seldom flowering. The flowers form clusters of white 
