Reviews and Extracts. — Botany, ^c. 
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Article II. — Reviews of, ami Extracts from, Works on 
Botany, S^c. 
1.—Edwards’s Botanical Register, &c. (New Series) By John 
Bindley, F.R.S., &c. Monthly. 8vo. 4^. coloured. 
No. 9, FOR November, contains 
Carton*s Rhododendron. —'One of the elegant Highclere varieties raised in 
1825, named in honour of Mr. James Carton, gardener to the Earl of Caer¬ 
narvon. The flowers are of a rich lilac colour, tinted with purple. Stdtice 
'pnberida, Downy-leaved Statice.—A little white flowering green-house her- 
^ baceous plant, native of the Isle of Graciosa, one of the Canaries, where it 
was discovered by P. B. Webb, Esq. Michauxia This is sup¬ 
posed to be identical with M. decdndra of Fischer. It is a native of Persia, 
where it was found on Mount Albourg, by the French travellers, Olivier and 
Bruguiere. The flowers are ochreous-yellow, and the plant is thought to be 
a frame perennial. Ulexgenistoides, Portuguese Furze.—A pretty yellow . 
flowering green-house shrub. Said to be found in sandy pine woods, in i 
Portugal. Aristolochia cauddta, Livid-flowered Birthwort.—A creeping | 
stove perennial; the flower is pitcher shaped, and of a yellowish-brown colour. j 
It is similar in many respects to A. trilubdta, but its flowers are smaller and • 
differently coloured. Calceolaria arachnoidea, Cobweb Slipper-wort.—A 
purple flowering hardy species, introduced from South America, by Dr. Gillies, 
and Mr. Cruckshanks, and is an interesting ornament to our gardens. He~ 
miclidia Baxteri, Baxter’s Hemiclidia.—A handsome yellow-flowering ever¬ 
green shrub 5 a native of Lucky Bay, on the west coast of New Holland. | 
2.—Botanical Cabinet. By Messrs Loddiges. Monthly. 4to j 
coloured, 5s .; 8vo, partly coloured, 2s.0d. 
Part 175, for November, contains | 
Onosnia echioldes. —A native of the South of Europe; a hardy perennial, with 
yellow flowers. Erica trosmla, rubra. —An exceedingly beautiful kind, ; 
producing a profusion of rose-coloured flowers. Erica congesta. —A dwarf 
spreading white-flowering species. Both this and the last require a cool airy 
green-house. VieussexXxia glaiicopis. —This is a most delicate and beautiful 
bulbous plant, from the Cape of Good Hope. The flowers are delicately 
white, with a purple eye-like spot at the base of the petals. The flowers last 
but a single day, but are followed by others in succession from the same 
spathe. Camellia Japonica Pressii. —This fine variety was raised from seed 
by Mr. Press, atE. Gray’s, Esq. of Hornsey; its flowers are a delicate white, 
slightly striped w'ith rose-coloured streaks. Phycella gladca. —This plant | 
is the same with the P. ignea gladca of the Botanical Magazine, 2687, and is 
a very pleasing green-house plant, with crimson 'flowers. Bossicea Scolo- 
pendrium. —A native of New South Wales, introduced in 1792. It requires 
the shelter of a conservatory or green-house, and has flowers of a yellow co¬ 
lour.' Orchis fuscescens. —A half-hardy plant, native of North America. 
Enonymvs brdldtus .—This species of the Spindle-tree thrives well in the green- 1 
house; its rose-coloured flowers, though not splendid, have a very pleasing J 
appearance. Hdkea repdnda. —This little green-house shrub is a native of * 
the south-west coast of New Holland, bears white flow'ers, and is by no means | 
despicable. 
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