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the earliest and most abundant development of those radicles which are 
indispensible to the success of the coiling system. 
Our limits are exceeded., and time presses; hence we must defer our 
further observations to a future period. 
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Edwards’s Botanical Register, continued by Professor Lindley. 
The August number contains: — 
1. Epidendrum Skinneri. Mr. Skinner’s Epidendrum. This very 
handsome orchideous plant was introduced from the neighbourhood of 
Guatimala, by James Bateman, Esq., jun., Knypersly, with whom it 
dowered last January. Being collected and sent to England by G. H. 
Skinner, Esq. he has been honoured by its specific name. It bears a fine 
spike of purple dowers, and blossoms freely. Dr. Lindley compliments 
Mr. P. N. Don, Mr. Bateman’s gardener, for the good management of an 
imported plant, in bringing it into dower so early. It is also in Messrs. 
Loddiges’ collection. 
2. Aptosium depressum . Depressed Aptosium. A genus founded 
by Burchell, and described by Bentham. The dowers are didynamous, 
and the plant belongs to the order Scrophulariacece. It is a native of 
the Cape of Good Hope, and was first raised at Hamburgh, by Dr. 
Lehmann. It is a greenhouse under-shrub, bearing light blue dowers 
clouded with darker blue, and relieved by a bordering of white at the 
eye. It is nearly allied to Salpiglossis. 
3. Trifolium fucatum. Farded (that is, painted or brinded) Clover. 
A pretty annual, the seeds of which were collected by Mr. Douglas in 
California, and sent to the Horticultural Society. The dowers are 
cream-coloured, most of the petals being tipped with rose-colour. 
4. Crataegus tanacetfolia.. Tansy-leaved Hawthorn. Is common 
in our nurseries, and propagated by grafting on the common haw¬ 
thorn. The haws are very large, and grow singly, and are recom¬ 
mended as an inferior table fruit. They grow to a tree-like size, and 
are worth a place in every collection. 
5. Crataegus odoratissima. Sweet-scented Hawthorn. A common 
bush on the hills adjoining the Black Sea, and elsewhere in the Crimea. 
It is propagated like the foregoing, and is a highly ornamental plant, 
as well from its bundles of sweet dowers, as for its large scarlet 
fruit. 
6. Douglasia nivalis. Snow Douglasia, named and described by 
Dr, Lindley, in Brande’s Journal, in 1828. This is one of the new 
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