NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
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Periodicals for March contain^ 
CLASS L- PLANTS WITH TWO COTYLEDONS (DICOTYLEDONEiE). 
THE CROWFOOT TRIBE (RANUNCUL ACEiE). 
Delphinium montanum. Mountain Larkspur. This species is considered 
by Professor Lindley as one of the most handsome of the genus. It grows five or 
six feet high, is covered with soft green down, and its flowers, which are pale blue, 
are compactly arranged in simple branched racemes, sometimes as much as two feet 
long. Its roots are perennial, and it produces seeds abundantly. Its native 
country is the Alps of Central Europe. Professor Lindley proposes, for the 
benefit of Botany and Horticulture, to bring into notice, through the Botanical 
Register, the many little known though beautiful species of Delphinium. The 
plant is hardy, grows delightfully among bushes, and flowers in August. 
Bot. Reg., 19S6. 
THE MALVA TRIKE (MALVACE^). 
NuTTALLiA CORD ATA. Heart-leaved Nuttallia. A worthy herbaceous plant, 
with neat foliage, and pretty pale pink flowers. The seeds were collected by Mr. 
Drummond, in North America. Bot. Reg., 1938. 
THE WATER-LEAF TRIBE (h YDROPHYLLACE^). 
Nemophila atom aria. Speckled Nemophila. A new, but not very pretty, 
species of Nemophila, nearly related to the beautiful N. insignis, but entirely 
destitute of the brilliant blue in the corolla of that species. Independently of the 
small size of the flowers, and the want of blue, this species is to be distinguished 
from the insignis by the following characters. The leaves are less deeply cut, and 
their lobes are broader, and hardly ever divided into secondary lobes ; the flower- 
stalks are rough with hairs, not smooth ; the recesses of the calyx have much 
shorter appendages ; the corolla is hairy, and strongly marked with numerous dull 
lead-blue specks, both on the inside and outside; the style, too, is longer and rather 
hispid. The seeds were sent from the Imperial Garden at St. Petersburgh, and 
probably gathered in California. Bot. Reg., 1940. 
the compound-flower tribe (asteracete, or composite). 
MoRNA NiTiDA. The Beautiful Morna. This is a lively perennial plant, with 
its starry heads of the richest and most transparent yellow, having quite a metallic 
brilliancy, when illuminated by the sun. It may indeed be said, that Elych-ysmn 
hracteatum, and hicolor, are more showy ; but they, altogether, want the delicacy 
of Morna, while the latter is destitute of none of their richness and brilliancy. It 
was found inhabiting the dry country about the Swan River, whence it was 
introduced in 1835, by Sir James Stirling. It was first brought into notice in this 
country by Robert Mangles, Esq. Bot. Reg., 1941. 
the CACTUS TRIBE (CACTE^). 
EcHiNOCACTUS M AMMiLL ARioiDES. Mammillaria~hke Echinocactus. This 
fine species was introduced by Mr. Hitchen, from Chili, and is intermediate 
