NOTICES OF BOTANICAL PUBLICATIONS. 
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Paxton’s Magazine of Botany. The number for October 
contains:— 
1. Heliconia Braziliensis. This genus belongs to the natural order 
Musacece, and, like its congeners, is adorned with very ample foliage, 
and very magnificent flowers. Nor are the flowers of this species fugi¬ 
tive; they remain in perfection for a fortnight or three weeks. The 
prevailing colour is bright scarlet, relieved by yellow and white, dis¬ 
posed in an erect spike; the stem and spathas being scarlet, bearing 
bisexual flowers in their axils, the corollas of which are yellow and 
white. 
The Heliconias require a strong stove-heat, and are propagated by 
division. 
2. Collinsia bicolor. A hardy annual, discovered, and seeds of it 
sent home from California, by the late Mr. D. Douglas. When sown 
in the autumn where the plants are intended to produce their flowers 
in the succeeding spring, nothing can surpass the richness its masses 
of cheerful bluish-purple and pink flowers present. The Collinsia 
succeeds the bed-flowers in coming forth, and then most seasonably, as 
but few other annuals are in flower. 
3. Mimulus cardinalis . A hardy herbaceous plant, growing from 
four to six feet high. Another of those fine plants introduced from 
California by the lamented Douglas. 
Seeds may be sown in autumn, or early in the spring, and the seed¬ 
lings, nursed in pots of loam and leaf mould, will flower and ripen 
seeds in the summer and autumn. The plants require protection during 
winter in a dry greenhouse or frame, and, when growing freely, require 
plenty of water. The flowers are remarkably showy—scarlet and yellow, 
varied with dark purple lines near the eye. 
4. Descriptions and cuts of the following esculent tubers, viz."—the 
Sweet Potato ( Convolvulus batata), the Yam ( Dioscorea sativa ), and 
the Winged Yam ( Dioscoria alata ), extracted from The Library of 
Entertaining; Knowledge.” 
5. An extract, showing “ the relation of vegetation to seasons,” from 
the part Botany, published under the superintendence of the “ Society 
for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge,” attributed to the pen of Dr. 
Lindley. 
6. Descriptions and figures of some implements used in gardens. 
7. Description and culture of the Hibiscus rosa sinensis. 
8. On the culture of the Campanula pyramidalis. 
9. A botanical description of the natural order Combretacece , toge¬ 
ther with a list of new plants figured in the leading botanical publica¬ 
tions, and operations to be done in October among collections of plants. 
