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S. combines the A. Whelevi of Willdenow. Gzrtner is here accused of havinz described the 
ardllus of the seeds rather carelessly as incomplete: but we are inclined to think, that Mr. S. 
himself did not examine this appendage with his usual care, or that he was not aware of the 
meaning of the term imcompletus, which, according to that carpologist, denotes an arillus not 
entirely surrounding the seed; and such it is represented in the plate by Mr. Hooker. 
Chlamysporum juncifolium. A new hexandrous genus of the natural order of Asparagi, anative 
of New Holland, and related to Dianella and Sowerbaea; the principal generic chiaracter con- 
sists in six petals, of which, three narrow outer ones are but toolike a calyx in the figure, 
and three inner ones much broader, frinved, withering on the receptacle ; a membranaceous, 
three-celled fruit, splitting in the middle of the cells; seeds covered by an incomplete cal- 
Jous arillus, from which the generic name is derived. The petals of this species are ofa pure 
ple colour. 
The plants marked with G. in the last month’s number of the Botanical Magazine are: 
the small blue, white, and pink varieties of the Spanish Hare-bell, Scilla campanulataz. The 
larger blue variety has been formerly figured in the same work. Mr. G. has given us the sy- 
nonymy of all the varieties together, but has not sufficiently distinguished them, or even particu- 
larly pointed outthe varieties themselves. Among thesynonyms we find Hyacinthus cernuus 
of Hort. Kew, distinct fromthe H cerauusof Linnzus, whichis merely a pink variety of his H. 
non scriptus, (now Scilla non scribta.} 
Morea collina y, the S:syrinchium elegans of Redouté’s Liliacées; a straw-coloured equal 
Aowered variety of the one, already figured in the Magazine. Mr. G. has added a synopti- 
cal view of the twenty-nine species known to him: the present species belongs to the division 
with filiform or convolute stigmas. Ue 
Sowerbeajuncea. The text to this plate will please those readers who are dissatisfied with 
the usual redundancy of Mr. G.’s pages: it contains nothing. Not having had an opportuntty 
of examining the Mowers himself, rather than wait for it, the author refers to Mr. Andrews’s 
dissections to prove that the anthers are bilocular. ‘The natural stiffness of the plant is rather 
caricatured in the figure 5 a fault rarely occurring in the drawings of Mr. Edwards. 
Geissorhiza secunda 8. The white variety, with rachis mostly reclined, of Ixia secunda, al- 
ready described and figured in an earlier number of this work. ‘This variety appears to have 
been introduced for the purpose of giving Mr. G. an opportunity of presenting to his readers am 
improved generic character and synoptical view of the species of Geissorhiza, a genus of his 
own, from the formerly heterogeneous Ixia. The remaining plants of this number are, 
The bushy Wortleberry. This is the Vaccinium dumosum of Solander’s MSS. where we 
are informed, that Dr. Pitcairn introduced it into'this country from North America in 1774. 
In the Botanist’s Repository, where this plant is figured under the same name, It is said to 
have been introduced by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, in i783. Dr. Sims could never find ten 
stamina, though the divisions of the calyx and corolla were constantly five; the fact is, 
that it will sometimes produce this combination, and at other times, four cleft corollas with 
ten stamina, which is rather a singular phenomenon. 
The Cucubalus ste/latus, four leaved Campion. ‘nis is one of those species that have no co 
rona, the presence of which part was by Linnzeus cousidered as characteristic of the genus Si« 
lene; but which is by no means constant, as occurring also in some species of Cucubaius. 
As Dr. Sims had no opportunity of examining the fruit of this species, he thought it safest to 
let it remain with Cucnbalus, to which genus, even as drawn from C. baccifer, it appears un- 
doubtedly tobelong. This species, though not showy, displays acertain elegance in its delicate 
white drooping flowers, very pleasing tothe eye. It is anold plant, a native of several parts of 
North America, and cultivated in our gardens since 1688. ; 
Diapensia /zpponica. Whether we consider the modest oeauty of this little alpine plant, 
or the singularity of its economy, and its thriving in those hyperborean regions and elevations, 
where scarcely any other phzenogamous plants are met with, the Northern Diapensia has the 
greatest claims to our_attention, and we are the more indebted to Dr. Sims for a good figure 
of it, as there are but few that express its habit with exactness. We observe, however, in 
one of the flowers, in Mr. Edwards’s figure, a struciure which we suppose does not belong to 
it: the bottom of the calyx or the receptacle displays a round disk with six notches, with 
something like the base of the style in its centre. ‘Is it meant to expressan abortive ovary 4 
or is it an inaccuracy in the design ? 
Nandina domestica. We are glad to see this curious and rare plant introduced into our gar- 
dens: the drawing was taken at Messrs. Lee and Kennedy’a, where it flowered in the stove. 
We were first made acquainted with it by Kampfer,who describes it in his Amoenitates under 
the name of Nandsjofk: the next account of it was that of Thunberg and Gartner, and Kemp- 
fer’s figure ofitwas given by Sir Joseph Banks in the Plante selecte Fapon.ca@, found among the 
MSS: of the former celebrated travejier. This plant is cultivated in China and Japan, and in 
the latter country seen in every little garden about the houses. Neither of the above authors 
informs us, if any use is made of it: but, indeed, the elegant foliage, with the pyramidal 
panicles of small white flowers, and particularly the succeeding crimson berries, are sufficient 
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