cognomen. Industrious cultivators deserve to be 
encouraged and distinguished, for to them the scien- 
tific botanist owes an immense debt of gratitude; 
but we think it would be preferable that the English 
name only of plants should be devoted to this 
purpose of commemoration. 
In the year 1837 several varieties of Mimulus 
were raised in the Bury St. Edmunds Botanic Gar- 
den, and the best amongst them was published in 
the Botanist, under No. 51, as Hudson’s Hybrid 
Mimulus; but it is quite distinct from the present 
very handsome one, which we shall distinguish as 
the Scotch variety of roseo-cardinalis, it having been 
originated in the vicinity of Edinburgh, whence we 
received it in 1840. The flower of the present 
plant is altogether of a deeper colour than that of 
the Bury garden ; the spotted throat of the latter 
being replaced by a deep crimson tint, but the lobes 
of the corolla are more reflexed, as in cardinalis. 
This new variety has already been introduced to 
the London nurseries, in some of which it has been 
called atro-rosea, and in others Maclearii. In 1842 
it will, without doubt, be met with in many country 
collections. 
The Rev. Professor Henslow has paid consider- 
able attention to hybrid plants, and in the spirit of 
true philosophy esteems the enquiry into the laws 
of their variation one of high interest. To forward 
the acquisition of information regarding those laws, 
the Professor has drawn up a set of questions, which 
should be in the possession of every cultivator, and 
which we will shortly annex to the Botanic Garden, 
for the benefit of our subscribers. 
