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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
ConvOLVULACE iE.— Pentandria JVLonogynia. 
Convolvulus italicus (Gussone). According to Mr. Choisy, 
this beautiful twiner is a mere variety of Convolvulus althceoides ; 
but we agree with Professor Gussone and others in regarding it 
as truly distinct. Its leaves have no trace of the silkiness so 
characteristic of that species, but are deep green, and covered 
with very coarse pubescence; its flowers are much larger (deep 
rose colour), and its calyx is guarded by long bristle-like hairs. 
It appears to be very common in the south of Europe and in the 
north of Africa. We have it from both Egypt and Algiers. In 
those countries it decorates hedge-rows, vineyards, and waste 
places with its charming blossoms in April and May; with us, 
however, it is an ornament of autumn. It is a hardy, climbing 
perennial, which grows freely in any good garden soil and dry 
situation. It is best suited for planting among stones, on a rock- 
work, or at the bottom of a bush or hedge, where it can scramble 
over the outer twigs, and where its roots are perfectly dry during 
winter, otherwise it is destroyed by the wet of our cold season. 
It is a true perennial and easily increased by the roots, but it 
may be treated as an annual, since it flowers freely the first 
season from seeds.— Bot. Reg. 12-47. 
PHiLADELPHACEiE.— Decandria Di-pentagynia. 
Beutzia staminea (R. Brown). A small, hardy, deciduous shrub, 
which grows freely in any good garden soil, and produces abun¬ 
dance of white, sweet-scented flowers about the end of May or 
beginning of June. It was raised in the garden of the Horti¬ 
cultural Society in 1841, from seeds presented by Dr. Royle, from 
tne north of India, of the very high mountains of which it is a 
native. It was originally found in Kamaon by Mr. Blink worth. 
Bot. Reg. 13-47. 
k^CROPHULARiACEiE.- — I) i dy n cl mi (i Ayigiospevinia. 
Penstemon miniatus (Lind.) A very pretty, little, half-shrubby 
perennial, which is nearly hardy, requiring the same kind of 
treatment as P. genlicinoides. The vermilion-coloured flowers 
