302 Monthly Bo tanical pepere iF eb. , 
‘Tapeyronl (ioe : the Gisdiolis pean, ‘of Jacquin and Vahl, ‘put very properly s: sé- 
parsted from that. genus by Mr. Gawler; this article contains an enumeration of the species, 
in which Mr. G. no longer. makes Lamark’s. “Ixia fastigiata, distinct from L. corymbosa. _ 
Morea pavonia, ‘Mr. Gawler had berore shown that what Mr. Curtis called Iris pavonia, 
in a former part of the Magazine, was a variety of Morea tricuspis. The present very rare 
and beautiful species, as well as the last, was figured from the collection of Lee and Kennedy. 
Centaurea macrocephala, of Count Mushin Pushkin, native of Papas, never before figured, 
communicated by Mr. Loddiges, of Hackney. ; 
Erica aristata, a showy and rare species, from the cpticetion of Mr. Williams, of Turn- 
ham Green. 
Erica andromeda flora. Another species, altogether deserving of the same epithets, from 
the collection of Mr. Knight, nursery-man, King’s s road, late gardener to Mr. Hibbert. - The 
specific characters of both che above species of Erica, are taken from the unpubléshed edition 
of the Hortus Kewenhsis 5 and we are encouraged b seay in the belief that the excellent ba- 
tanist Mr. Dryander, a pupil of Linnwus, is seriously engaged in. the publication of that 
useful work. 
Hedysarum capitatum. Another native of Mount Caucasus, from Loddiges’s garden. The 
name seems to be hesitatingly adopted from Desfontanes. The peculiar shape of the ra- 
ceme, from the lower flowers being close oppressed to the stalk, whilst those recently ex- 
panded are patent, suggested to Dr. Sims the English name of Scoptre-Mowered : 3 and should 
it hereafter turn cut that it is different from the. a of the Flora atlantica, the name 
ef sceptriformis will probably be adopted. 
In No. 276 of the Botanical Magazine, we have, Cyanella sina 3 a very rare species. 
Mr. Gawler has framed a. new. generic character. 
(Amaryllis Ornata Var..), or the Cape-coast Lily. Mr. Gawler at first considered the 
Cape-coast Lily, the Ceylon Lily, and the great White-flowered Lily from Sierra Leone, as 
the same species ; he has since, at the suggestion of Mr. Dryander, sepurated the last, une 
der the name of A. gigantea. He still considers the two former as mere varieties: in plants . 
of So very natural an order, both the species and the genera are so very indistinctly marked,: 
that it-is-extremely difficult to decide. what are species and what are varieties, and to which 
genus many species belong. In this instance, we are inclined to side with che cultivators, 
who are best acquainted with the plants in every stage of their growth, and. who, one and 
ali, consider the Cape-coast.Lily and the Ceylon Lily, as distinct species. 
Messecansha pilesa (PB), asmooth variety. {This genus was framed by Mr, Gawler, out-of 
the large heterozeneous assemblage, under the name BE Ixia, ‘and contains a set of a ae 
which are night-flowering and very fragrant. 
Geissorhiza setacea: another newly- “established genus, from the same assem lage. Mr. 
Gawler has here united three of his former species, viz. setacea, rochensis, and obtusata, under - 
one, considering them as mere varieties; we think cultivation must determine the question. 
” pmpatiens coccinea, a new and showy species of Balsam, introduced from the East Indies 
by Dr. Roxburgh, and cultivated in the stove, at Mr. Salisbury’s Botanic.Garden. 
Campanula peregrina 5 a species of Bell-flower, known for some years in eurgardens; but 
of very doubttul origin, From its habir, it ig¢as Dr. Sims observes, very corey to bea 
production of the Cape 5 Siberia or Northern Asia may lay a much more probabl le claim, 
~ Campanula dar bata 3 an Alpine plant, native of Southern Europe. 
Tbbetsunia genistoides. Mr. Salisbury, in thejlast volume of the Transactions of the Iiseiacen 
Society, has pointed outsseveral distinct genera, which have been heretofore huddled toge- 
ther, under the name of Sophora ; many of the species, of which had no other claim to be 
considered as belonging to the same genus than that of having papilionaceous flowers, with 
.aendistinct'stamens. He had not however given the characters, or affixed any names to some 
of these genera. Dr. Sims has here adopted one of Mr, Salisbury’s genera, has supplied the 
generic charactersy.and applied the name of [betsonia, in honour of Mrs. Agnes Ibbetson, 
who has shown herself to be a Jady of superior talents, by several papers on vegetable phy- 
siology, published in Nicholson’s Philosophical Journal. The-species here figured, has been 
Jong known in collections of rare plants under the name of Sophora ; genistoides. ra 
We have not received any number of ithe Botanist’s Repository since our last ert! 
“OF English Botany, two numbers DAVE been ayant —_ contain pectin ee 
phenogamic species. \ 
Stachys arabigda. Supposed to be a new species: from Scotland. oT us it ‘appears to ap- 
oach in habic to a Galeopsis. » 
Lotus corziculatus and Lotes major. In the Flota ‘Bria titeay’ Dr Sinialt Hau enumerated 
: these plants as varieties; they are now considered by him as distinet species, of which we 
“should think ‘there can be little doubt, ‘bat: caltivation would ars $4 sagt the ies. 
tion more Satistactorily.. 
Aira levigata 3 a supposed new species’ ‘of grass from: Scotland; it aapieiched A. Beis, 
en | may perhaps be a viviparous Alpine variety of that species, notwithstanding the difer- 
ence in the rachis, “Dr. Smith has sade a curious ‘observation from: this plant, that in the 
‘vivi «rous florets, the change of the plumes into leaves, is evinced by the awn remaining 
q iné top of the leaf. 
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