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HE Botanist’s Repository, No. 120, cuntains—-Lonicera japonica. If this figure be a 
faithful representation of Thunberg’s plant, the déscription of it given in the Flora 
Japonica must be very faulty. The colour of the flowers is not the most important differs 
ence ; in this figure they are white, changing to a pale yellow. ‘The colour is probably paler 
from being kept ina greenhouse, out of dvors they would perhaps have been a deeper yellow : 
‘Thunberg says they are red. 
Phlomis samia. The flowers of this species, which are described by Desfontaines as violet- 
coloured, are here represented of a bluish lead-colour on the outside, and purple within. 
Sophora japonica; drawn from a specimen taken from a tree forty feet high and upwards, 
growing in the garden of John Ord, esq. at Purser’s Cross, Fulham. There are several 
large trees of this species dispersed about the country, which however blossom but seldom. 
It isa hardy tree, although Martyn, in his useful edition of Miller’s Dictionary, has errone- 
ously represented it as requiring a stove or glass case. 
A superb lily, from China, here mistekenly called sfeciosum. It is a new species not 
described before, except by Keempfer. We shall have, presently occasion to speak of this 
plant again. The first and last of these figures being of a folded size, this number contains 
four only. ? 
"Fhe seme species again occurs in the last number of the Botanical Magazine, under the 
name of Lilium figrinum: the same, as Mr. Gawler informs us, which is intended for it in 
the new edition of the Hortus Kewensis; a work we are anxiously waiting the appears 
ance of. 
Morza éduli: y. The yellow-flowered variety of the eatable Iris, native of the Cape of 
Good Hope, where all the varieties are used as food, being first slightly boiled together with 
the scapes, tied in bunches. 
Bemanthus albifics. Native of the Cape, from the most extensive collection of Messrs. 
Eee and Kennedy. ' 
Stapelia prlwvinata. This is perhaps the handsowest of all the large-flowered specics of 
this very curious genus. We have not however seen any specimens in which the colours 
have been so distinctly marked as in the figure here given. The segments of the corolla 
are likewise very soon rolled back, in which situation the variegated parts are much out of 
stght. 
Liperia pherica. Another Cape plant, new to this country, and the more valuable, as it 
is the spccies from which Linnzus framed his generic character. 
Evgenia fragrans. Except that this plant has only four petals and a four-cleft calyx, it 
is no way distinguished from a Myrtus, to which genus Swartz has, perhaps more properly, 
added it. Dr. Sims considers the distinction of the genera as altogether artificial; and as at 
present constituted, the species are undoubtedly far from being arranged according to their 
nearest affinities. ‘Ihe natural order of Myrti stand in great need of a total reform in their 
division inte genera, but th’s reform can hardly be advantageously marle at present, the op- 
portunities of seeing the fruit of many of the species rarely occurring to European botanists. 
"The numbers on these two pilates are erroneous; that of the former agreeing with the letter- 
press of the latter, and vice versa. 
The drawing of Nymphza da/miana being postponed to the next number, we of course post- 
ne our remarks till the next Report. 
The phenogamic plants ef the last number of English Botany aremm= 
Dipsacus fudionum. Dr. Smith doubts if this be really a distinct species from the sylwestris, 
and acknowledges that he has n2ver seen it growing in any situation where it could be sup- 
posed to be wild. The chicf difference consists in the greater rigidity and curvature at the 
point of the bractes or scales between the flowers. This it must be allowed is an important 
circumstance, as it is the rigidity and form of these parts which alone renders it applicable 
in the manufacture of wool; nor is it at all an usual effect of cultivation to increase the 
rigidity of parts, smoothness and softness is the more constant change produced by repeated, 
culture in sich soil. 
Echium italicum. -Native of Jersey, but the drawing was taken from a garden specimen, 
2s well as that of the last; the chief difference ftom the common Viper’s bugiless, is in the 
smalier size, white colour, and great regularity of the corolla, the leaves and stalks tqo are 
rather hairy than brstly, and the plant has altogether a more hoary appearance. 
Hieracium murorum. Dr. Smith has kere given us a figure of the true Hieracium muroruity 
whereas that of all the local Floras, hie supposes to be the H. sy/vaticum, which he acknow- 
ledges to have mistaken for it in the Flora Britannica. Drawn from a specimen taken from 
Ciedder Rocks, by Mr E Forster. 
Hicracium Lawsoni. From a garden specimen, but undoubtedly of British origin. By 
Rneans of these two species of Hawkweed, Dr. Smith has ‘urther settled some difficulties 
respecting the synonyms of this very difficult genus, and has made some corrections of his 
former synoaimy, given in the ninth volume of the Jransactions ef the Linnzan Society. 
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