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PLANTS FIGURED IN BOTANICAL PERIODICALS. 
Plants figured in Botanical Periodicals for May and 
June, 1834. — Curtis's Botanical Magazine contains figures and 
descriptions of—1. Zycopetalum Mackaii , a beautiful and curious 
flowering orchideous plant; 2. Neottia calcarata , spurred neottia, a 
West India genus, also belonging to orcliideae ; 3. Goldfussia aniso - 
phylla, unequal-leaved goldfussia; 4. Chilodia scutellarioides , scutel- 
laria-like chilodia ; 5. Saxifraga ligulata , fringe-leaved saxifrage; 
6. Epacris impressa , foveolated epacris; and 7. Acacia prensans, 
prickly-feathered acacia. 
Botanical Register for June contains—1. Verbena multifida, var. 
contracta, a Chilian herbaceous plant, but hardy enough for a place in 
our flower borders ; 2. Gesnerct allagophylla , shifting-leaved gesnera, 
a stove didynamous plant, valued more for its rareness than for any 
particular beauty it possesses; 3. Campanula garganica, the harebell 
of St. Angelo, a pretty little trailing campanula, which Dr. Lindley 
thinks may survive our winters if it can be kept free from the 
chilling rains; 4. Psoralea macrostachya, long-spiked psoralea, a 
perennial herbaceous diadelphous plant, having purple spikes of flowers, 
but of no great beauty; 5. Pentstemon staticifolius , sea lavender-leaved 
pentstemon, a new hardy didynamous plant, raised from seed sent from 
California by the late lamented Mr. Douglas. One plant only exists 
in the garden of the Horticultural Society, but as it is a fine showy 
border flower, it is to be hoped that it will be extensively propagated. 
Sweet's British Flower Garden. The May number contains—1. 
Rhododendron venustum , lovely rhododendron, one of the handsomest 
dwarf varieties of this magnificent genus ; it should be in every collec¬ 
tion, as it is perfectly hardy. 2 Narcissus maximus , great daffodil, a 
common name, but by no means a common species of the daffodil family. 
There are no doubt many varieties of this old favourite genus, but this in 
Mr. Don’s opinion (as well as it was that of the late Messrs. Haworth 
and Sweet) is a real species. 3. Abutilon pulcliellum , fragrant abutilon, 
a hardy shrub from New South Wales, bearing numerous small white 
flowers, diffusing a perfume somewhat like that of the hawthorn ; it is 
a monadelphous plant, and belongs to the natural order Malvacece. 
4. Mutisia latifolia, broad-leaved mutisia, a South American climbing 
herb of very remarkable habit; the stems being winged, and the midrib 
of each leaf produced into a long naked spirally convolute tendril, by 
which it supports itself on other plants. It is a syngenesious genus, 
and bears large white or purple flowers. It flowered for the first time 
in England in the collection of the Rev. Townsend Selwyn, of Kil- 
mington Rectory, Wilts, and was beautifully figured and presented to 
Mr. Don by Miss Selwyn. To this plant Mr. Don has appended some 
