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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW AND RARE PLANTS, FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS FOR 
AUGUST. 
CLASS I.— PLANTS WITH TWO COTYLEDONS (DICOTYLEDONE^). 
THE BERBERRY TRIBE {Berberace<s). 
EpiMEDiuM MUSSCHIANUM. White-flowered Barren-Wort. With small and 
almost colourless flowers, this new species is of very little value, unless it be for 
the delicacy and abundance of its foliage, and its hardy character. Dr. Siebold 
has added E. Musschianum to many others of much greater beauty, transmitted by 
him from Japan, some of which we have before noticed and figured. It blossoms 
about March in the greenhouse of the Glasgow Botanic Garden ; but at Messrs. 
Young's, Epsom, we have seen it flowering in the open ground through the months 
of May and June. Pale greenish white blossoms, w4iich are comparatively dimi- 
nutive, are its principal points of distinction. Bot. Mag. 3745. 
THE BIRTHWORT TRIBE {AristolochiacecB). 
Heterotropa asaroides. Messrs. Morren and Decaisne have thought it 
necessary to form a new genus of this plant under the above title, on account of 
the different disposition of the stamens and structure of the anthers, from the 
established character of Asarum. We have previously described it as Asarum 
japonicum. The leaves resemble, in variegation of hue, those of some species of 
Cyclamen ; while the flowers are contracted pitcher-shaped, dark-brown, with a 
purple and yellow centre, and exceedingly curious. It was forwarded to Europe 
by the same gentleman and from the same empire as the preceding, and plants may 
be obtained from the Epsom Nursery, where it blooms in the greenhouse in the 
early part of March ; the flowers lasting for several days. Bot. Mag. 3746. 
THE BEAN TRIBE {Le gummosa}). 
Inga ITarrisii. Mr. Harris's Inga. Handsome leaves, curious as well as 
showy blossoms, and an apparent disposition to bear a considerable quantity of 
them, render this species a worthy remembrancer of the horticultural zeal of Thomas 
Harris, Esq., of Kingsbury, by whom it was imported from Mexico, and after 
whom Dr. Lindley has named it. The peduncles of each leaf seem to separate into 
pairs at a short distance from their base, and on both of these divisions three hairy 
leaflets, about an inch and a half long, are produced. The short pink corollas, 
which appear in clusters, and are tipped with green, are surmounted by bunches 
of long pink filaments, with yellow anthers ; and these have a most interesting 
appearance. A rich soil, and a medium temperature between that of the green- 
house and stove, are recommended for its cultivation. Being a climbing shrub, it 
may be trained to the rafters of the house. Bot. Beg. 41. 
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