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eific characters: G corallis voinaweeti hypocrateriformibus fauce barbatis, follis ovatis aruti¢s 
ezule tetragano ascendente, peduaculis axiLlaribus calyce lunvioribus. 4 Genriana Saposaria. 
This is am American species. Professor Vahl, a very accurate botanist, distinguished this 
plant from the Loinean Sepenaria, under the name of fimbriata, but hater botamsts have evnsi- 
éeved them as ane end the same, and in this Dr. Sims has followed then. The pant here 
figured, is undoubtedly the same as Vahl’s fimbriata; but, we are still not satisfied that twe 
gpecies are noi coniounded in the. opsous synonymy here given; certainly we have sien, irom 
* Carolina, a species agreeing in most respects with this, but with narrower end more distant 
Teaves, and the lesser teeth of the corolla not at all jagg ged as in this’ In.the following the 
Fetter press is given on the authority of Mr.Gawter. 5. Anthericum setter tinu: of Jacquin, 
a native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was impcrted by Lee ind Keanedy, snd 
is probably new to thiscountry. 6. A curious plant of the natural order of Ensate, a native 
ef New Holland, called bere Patersonia sevicca. The generic and specific characters, are fur © 
nished by Mr. Brown, from his anpublished Flora of New Holland We lave never yet 
geen this plant, but from the figure, we suppose.it is from mistake, fs: it is relerred. to the 
Hexandria class instead af Triandria. Strictly spezking it belo gs to Monat a, but Mr. 
Gawler has elsewhere, very satistactorily, skéwn of what little i importance the connection, or - 
separation, of the filaments is, in this natural ee by an attenc ion to which, not only closely 
allied genera, but even different species of the same genus would be far-removed into distant 
paris of the.system- This genus is supposed ta be the same as Genasiris of L abillardierey, but 
as, from the deiectiveness of the fiyure and description in that wor, the identity is net quite 
eextam, Mr. Gawler bas chouzht i int to adopt ee name § sven it by dvir. Brown, in honor of 
Colonel Paterson, heutenant-governorof New South Wales, a gentleman long known to Eng- 
lish naturalisis. 7.Two varieties of Gladiclus versicobr, both much handsomer than the one be-’ 
fore figured. The coloured engraving ot these plants is the most beauticul ig the number 3 in- 
deed we have seldom seen flowers more accurately represented, m the mest highly fnished 
drawings. ©. Convallaria ste//ata, a native of Canada, long since cultivated ‘in this country, 
but still not very common. 
The Potanist’s Repository contains, t. a foliv plate ef Yucca gleriosa, a plant neither news. 
nor fare, and therefore not properly coming into the oie of that wok: %. Psoralea ginnata, 
ene cf the first plants, from the Cape of Good Hope, that fotind its way to this country, bet 
we believe no good figure of it has before appeared. 3, Serapias cordigera, a very curious 
plant of the detuieal order of orchi idee, from the cotlection of the Marquis-of Blandfor, at 
White Knights, very rarely seen in this country. If this be really he S corcigera,s we suse 
pect this species is not distinct from S. Lingua. 4. Melaleuca dsmsefoli2, supposed to be a 
new species trom } Yew South Wales 3. Linum wenustum, a beautiiul species of flax, irom 
Mount Caucasus, of which more below, ; 
$n. the Paradisus Londinensis, 1. we have a good figure and botanical history of one of the 
most curious plants which has been yct receive? from New Helland, here c-Hed Stylidiam 
siendvicsum. ‘Phe genus was first imperiectly established by Swartz, under the nate here 
wath opted. After him Labiblardiere read a memoir at the French Institute, in which he gave 
the name of Candvilea tothe genus. Dr. Smith, in his Exotic Botaay, has given twe species 
ef this genus under the appellstion ai Ventenatia major and minor. The curious property in 
vis plant, is the extracrdiwary invitability of the column bearing the anthers, and which ts 
sippased to be the style, though botanists have entertained pane doubts respecting the part 
which performs the ollice or the female organ; ii the base of this co.umn be lritated, it sud- 
deny flies over to the other side of the germen, against which it. strikes the anthers, and then ~ 
gradually recedes to its former pesilion. ‘This motion does not seem necessary to the impreg- 
ration of the stigma, if the body wpon which the anthers are seated, as this auchor and Dr. 
Smith suppose, be really this organ; accordingly, Mr, Salisbury. ree that the irritable 
elisticity of the style is rather to hake away insects from the hapten, or harey~bearing 
gland, at the base of the style, than co assist in the discharge of the pollen. On tre other 
hand, Mr, Lao villardiere considers this gland as the true stigma, and af course believes. the 
rnoticn to be necessary te.the discharge of the pol'en uponthis organ. There can be no doube 
bet that in a nateral arrangement this genus has the greatest affinity with Phyllachne, Fos- 
tera, Goodenia, and Lobelia ; ; but whether these piants should be separated from the order of 
Cumpanulacez, 28 proposed by Mr. Konig. or united with it, as maintained by Mr. Salisbury, © 
we shail not take upon us to decide 5 the latter author has, however, in the present article, 
both oa this subject, and on the humming in the hive of Engliso botanists being heard In 
Paris, more than we can undértake to explain, either the meaning, or the wit af. 2. Psonia 
edulis. the alé flora of Pallas. ihe root of this plant is eaten boiled in soup, as Palas intorins 
us, and bence it derived the name here given, which is undoubted! y better than the one taken 
trom the colour of the flower, too generally, as in this instance, liable to vary 5 nevertheless, 
its better toretain auad name,than to suiter the inconvenience of a chunze. 3. Linum hyp irt- 
ciolizm+ this is the L. venustzm, of the eas s Repositcry, above mentic ned. Both figures - 4 
were made from the same plant, and we give the preference by much to that of Mr Andrews, 
We have oiten observed a great inequality in the performances @F Mr, Hooker, and in the pre= ” 
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