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NEW AND RARE PLANTS, 
FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS FOR SEPTEMBER. 
THE RANUNCULUS TRIBE (RANUNCUL ACE^e). 
Delphinium intermedium; var. ccerulescens. A third and very striking 
variety of Delphinium intermedium, with very pale flowers, and tall stern. It has 
rather small flowers ; its leaves and leaf-stalks are downy, especially the former on 
the under side, and there are many weak long hairs on the bracts and pedicles. 
These circumstances show how unimportant is the hairiness of the leaves, stem, and 
flowers, in this genus. Bot. Reg. 1984. 
THE NIGHT-SHADE TRIBE (SOL ANA CE^). 
Grabowskia Boerhaa viiEFOLiA. Boerhaavia-leaved Grabowskia. A 
spiny scrambling shrub, with singular fleshy, glaucous leaves, which give it a grey 
appearance, like Atriplex Halimus. It is hardy enough, in the garden of the 
Horticultural Society, to live out of doors against a south wall, where it does not 
suffer at all in modern winters ; even in the last severe one it was not much 
injured. Notwithstanding the dull aspect of both leaves and flowers, it forms a 
pleasing appearance when mixed with others and greener plants. It, is a native of 
Brazil, where Sellow found it in the fields and woods of the southern provinces, a 
common shrub growing from six to ten feet high. It is also found in Peru. Bot. 
Reg. 1985. 
THE CONVOLVULUS TRIBE (CONVOL VUL ACEiE). 
Pharbitis divers ifolia. Three-lobed Convolvulus Major. A very pretty 
little half-hardy annual, about half the size of the common Convolvulus major, of 
which it has very much the appearance. It differs, however, in constantly pro- 
ducing at the latter part of the year three-lobed leaves, instead of entire ones, so 
that specimens of the same plant, collected at different seasons, would be thought 
essentially different. In the first stage of its growth, it is like P. hispida, and at 
the next, it resembles P. hederacea, only that the calyx and inflorescence are 
distinct. A native of Mexico, whence seeds were obtained by Geo. F. Dickson, 
Esq. Bot. Reg. 1988. 
THE DIANTHUS TRIBE (SILENACEiE). 
Silene CHLORiEFOLi A. Armenian Catchfly. This is one of the neatest of 
all herbaceous plants in its broad, trim, firm, well-coloured leaves, and its compact 
manner of growth ; the flowers are of the purest and brightest white, and are 
deliciously fragrant ; it is quite hardy, if not exposed to a wet soil in winter ; is 
easily increased both by seeds and cuttings, and thrives equally whether grown as 
a rock plant or in the common flower border. When grown upon rock- work, its 
flowers are only about half the size they acquire in a deep rich light soil. It was 
found in Armenia by Tournefort, and was introduced so long since as 1796, by 
Mr. Hunneman. Bot. Reg. 1989. 
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