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NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
ARTICLE VIII.—NEW AND RARE PLANTS, 
FIGURED IN THE PERIODICALS FOR OCTOBER. 
CLASS I.—PLANTS WITH TWO COTYLEDONES OR SEED-LEAVES. 
RANUNCULACEiE. 
Clematis Montana. —Mountain Virgin’s Bower. This species 
was originally collected by Dr. Francis Hamilton, atChitlong, in the 
valley of Nepal, flowering in April, and it appears to be a pretty 
general plant on the mountains, at an elevation of, from 5000 to 
7000 feet above the level of the sea. It proves to be quite hardy, 
and seems to flourish as well in the climate of England as on its na¬ 
tive mountains. It loves a loamy soil, and is readily multiplied by 
layers,— Brit. Floiv. Gard. 253. 
SOLANEjE. • 
Neirembergia aristata.— Bristle-pointed Nierembergia. A 
native of the sandy plains on the banks of the Parana, where it was 
discovered by Mr. Tweedie, and from seeds transmitted by him to 
Mr. Neill, the plant was raised in the garden at Cannonmills, in 
1832. In habit it comes very near to gracilis and jilicaulis, but is 
essentially different. Flowers purplish white. It thrives best in a 
mixture of peat and sand, and roots freely at every joint, if the 
branches are allowed to lie on the surface of the earth.— Brit. FI 
Gard, 255. 
CAMPANULACEvE. 
Campanula divergens. Spreading Bell-flower. This is not sur¬ 
passed in beauty by C. Medium, which it resembles in habit, and by 
several botanists it has even been regarded as the normal state of that 
species. It occurs wild in Hungary, Transylvania, the Bannat of 
Temeswar, and also in Siberia. Flowers of a deep violet colour, 
about an inch long. It delights in a light gravelly, or chalky soil, 
and produces its seeds abundantly. It occurs frequently in gardens 
under the name of pulcherrima, but whether it is identical with the 
plant so called by Schrank we are uncertain.— Brit. FI. Gard. 256. 
Campanula macrantha polyantha. Large-flowered Giant 
Bell-flower, many-blossomed variety. Alphonse De Candolle, in his 
valuable work on the Campanulacese, as well as Dr. Sims, and lately 
even Dr. Fischer himself, are of opinion, that the present Bell-flower, 
is only to be considered a variety of the C. latifolia: but on a care¬ 
ful comparison of the two, growing side by side in the Glasgow Bo¬ 
tanic Garden, Dr. Hooker could not but look upon them as really 
distinct. Besides the much larger and deeper blue colour of the 
