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NEW AND RARE PLANTS, 
FIGURED IN THE THREE LEADING PERIODICALS FOR OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, 
AND DECEMBER. 
Botanical Register. Edited by Dr. Lindley, each number containing eight figures ; 
beautifully coloured 4s., plain 3s. ; and corresponding letter-press. 
Botanical Magazine. Edited by Sir William Jackson Hooker, LL.D., &c, each 
number containing eight figures ; beautifully coloured 3s. Qd., plain 3s. ; and correspond- 
ing letter-press. 
British Flower-Garden. Edited by David Don, Esq., Professor of Botany in King's 
College, London, each number containing four plates ; coloured 3s., plain 2*. 3d., and 
corresponding letter-press. 
Of the above figures, we have only selected such as are new and 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 (DICOTYLEDONEiE). 
ROSACEA (THE ROSE TRIBE). 
Rosa lutea ; var. plena. Williams's Double Yellow Briar. A very interest- 
ing variety, forming an erect bush several feet in height, sending forth plenty of 
root-shoots, and producing full fragrant double yellow or sulphur- coloured flowers. 
It was raised about ten years ago by Mr. John Williams, of Pitmaston, near 
Worcester, from seeds obtained from the single yellow rose, which but very rarely 
matures its fruit in this country. Mr. Williams describes this variety as one of 
vigorous growth, and from its flowering freely, the size, form of its blossoms, it may 
be looked upon as making a valuable addition to our hardy collections of roses. It 
flowers in June, and may be increased by layers, or by being budded upon stocks of 
our native roses. Brit. Fl. Gard., 353. 
SOLANE^ (THE NIGHT-SHADE TRIBE). 
Nierembergia Phcenicea ; var. rosea. Pink -flowered Nierembergia. Cer- 
tainly a pretty hybrid obtained, as a great many more have been, between N. Phce- 
nicea and nyctaginijlora. The present variety was raised by Mr. Rodgers, of 
Battersea, and, like others of this group, it grows and flowers freely in the open 
border, and is readily increased by cuttings. Brit. Fl. Gard., 354. 
SCROPHULARIACEiE (THE FIG-WORT TRIBE). 
Pentstemon heterophyllum. Various-leaved Peritstemon. A very interest- 
ing and pretty species of this valuable genus ; seeds of which were collected in 
California, by Mr. Douglas, and by him transferred to the London Horticultural 
Society. It is a hardy herbaceous plant, producing an abundance of pale purple 
blossoms from June till October, and may be propagated both from cuttings and 
seeds. Bot. Beg., 1899. 
legtjminos^ (the pea tribe). 
Cytisus jEolicus. ^olian Cytisus. A new, and certainly pretty species, 
discovered in Stromboli, by Professor Gussone, and raised by the Hon. W. R 
