Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Getty Research Institute https://archive.org/details/britishflowergar03swee w THE BRITISH FLOWER garden; CONTAINING «rolour^tr ^ HfSitripttone OF THE MOST ORNAMENTAL CURIOUS HARDY FLOWERING PLANTS, INCLUDING ANNUALS, BIENNIALS, PERENNIALS, AND FLOWERING SHRUBS; WITH THEIR SCIENTIFIC AND ENGLISH NAMES; BEST METHOD OF CULTIVATION AND PROPAGATION ; THE HEIGHTS THEY GENERALLY ATTAIN; Or any other Information respecting them that may be considered of importance. BY ROBERT SWEET, F.L.S. Author of Hortus Britannicus, Hortus Suburbanus Londinensis, Botanical Cultivator, GeraniacecB, Cistineie, Flora Australasica, the Florist’s Guide, the British Warblers, &^c. Sfc. The Drawings by E. D. SMITH, F.L.S. VOLUME III. LONDON: PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY VV. SIMPKIN AND R. MARSHALL, STATIONERS’-H ALL-COURT, LUDG ATE-STREET. 1827 to 1829. J.Tilliug, Printer, Grosvenor Row, Chelsea. BOOKS QUOTED IN VOLUME III. 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Treviranus (Lud. Christ.) Allii species, 4to. Wratisl. 1822. Vahlsymb. Vahl. (Martinus.) Symbolac botanicae, 3 fasc. fol. Haunice, 1790 — 1794. j i i. .'i M i.' >\'/ t''.' ■< --.w . It . . ,' ■ v/VV ■ n;'v' •. vti I ’ ■ ' ■ ' : !" ‘ ^ '' ,.,. , . ....... - -,- . .. . i, / ■ Tv -I ' ■' ^ - r. 1;$^ ^ ' V ■ r' - I f . • .•... ■ a : :/: ■ c^r ' .' 'T • ^ ■ • -r , ■ .; ■ • ' iij- - ' ’Vr ■ ' ■ ■ , .c.‘..,,‘ ',«■■■ . i '' .f/ . 'i .viv . ; '. • > •. ;. . •' ^ . i-.- , • • , 4VP .i M -iCr •Ml' ■ - ^ "U.. ' : i . ■• -v ^ i;'T;, »j> .•y.v J- . -v-: . 15 " . v... .Kf i 'o'/! .-T. .-xu-x^ ,. ■ X ■■ ' , ■■ ■:': seVi, ' 'il .. ^ .-- r' t. ,.^ ' ' - ■ ■ ■' X'/'l ' .*'■’• ‘L u_, ' '■ f I ;■ .“t: ‘. ‘V:m.> .-■ }l .<■ -c; ! ■ . ic,. ; V ‘‘) ■ .' ' ■ : '1 (.nr.i ' ; ?mu.- ; . ? . .v l-'T:;. ' ,, i-r^ .T. s^’ .‘ :... . : .'vw ;. , , :,- :.‘ •■:,•■.' .. /, .... .1.,, :r'>)ry^ .. .iv‘ ...■.'■■••* ♦ ..; .'•., , - • - 'v ■ - V /.;V ■: ■• ; .. ' • ' i'f.' Mf .A'.*,) .Vi'". .>.'.'viv"' .* ■ : ;• j ■' i,- ,v-- Vvto I . . ij .* A./. «*-■; .. . V ■ ; t..; | ;.;;j: , / , .. iff'- <■ ‘tX ' •'S-pX.X '■ ■ ‘‘V y' ioi i .»>?!- :ii>. ’ > ;r^'> • '? > I" 'i j< ’'‘i-M ■5*-" v .i •■XX'.. : .tli ; i.:tv . vX iX-y. -a *.v..' If. b: (. (f*, t - • ••' • • ■ •'*' . ; ' ■,• • -ibiXr ‘ •■■*•'<' '/;■. .i ■■ '; :x' ; -fX xzur,'- ‘ v . ! . |V, ■^' J.- • *rijf ^ ■■•X'. .' Vj /t x.lv'X- .’I'.v;.'! '.■^X 'X t'i-..,..y-r .-i - *■ , -. ., / ../w ■ ■ '■ v;„HX^ 'ii 'H'A:: 201 ALLIUM neapolitanum. Neapolitan Moly. Natural Order. Asphodele^. Broivn prodi\214:. ALLIUM. Periauthium inferum 6-partitum. Stamina Q. Stigma sgepius indivisuiii. Capsula supera trilocularis, trivalvis ; loculis 1-vel 2-spermis, rarissirae polyspermis. Flores spathacei umbellati, pedi- ccllati. G. Don. monog. alii. p. 3. Di visio IX. Umhella capsulifera. Spatha bi-vel triloba, brevis, marcescens. Stamina subulata, basi dilatata. Scapi iiudi, centrales. Folia lorata. Flores patentes, erecti, rarius campaniformis penduli. (Molium) Don loc. cit.p.16. Sect. 5. Flores albi ; scapi triquetreSy stigmata trifida. A. neapolitanum, foliis lorato-lanceolatis carinatis, spatM univalvi brevi amplexa, umbella fastigiat^ multiflor^, perianthii laciniisob- longis obtusissimis, staminibus perianthii fere diniidio breviori- bus. Don loc. cit. p. 86. Allium neapolitanum. Cyrill. pi. rar. neap.fasc. \.p. 13. t. 4. Willd. enum. supp. 17. Link eniim. 1. p. 316. Hornem, hafn. 1. p. 964. Tenore Catalog, pi. hort. reg. neap.p. 4. Allium album. Biv. cent. \.p. 16. Savi app. sant. viag. \ .p. 352. t. 7. Redout, liliac. t. 306. Trevir. alii. n. 20. Allium lacteum. Flor. grcec. t. 325. Prodr. \.p. 226. Bulh oblong, proliferous. Leaves 2 or 3, .sheathing the scape, lanceolately-linear, acute, channelled on the upper side, bluntly keeled underneath, striate, smooth and glossy. Scape longer than the leaves, slightly 3-sided, smooth and shining. Umbel many-flowered, drooping before expan- sion, and when expanded a little nodding. Spathe burst- ing on one side, cordate, acute, thin and membranaceous when the flowers are expanded. Flowers from 12 to 20 in our plants, loosely spreading. Pedicles smooth, long and slender, a little thickened below the flower. Perian- tliium divided nearly to the base, into 6 leaflets, which are oblongly ovate, obtuse, toothed at the points, the 3 outer ones rather the largest, of a pure white, with a strong nerve down the middle of each. Stamens 6, inserted in the base of the leaflets : filaments subulate, flat, dilated downwards, VOL. III. B about half the length of the perianthium : anthers incum- bent : pollen pale yellow. Style smooth, tinged with red, about the length of the stamens. Stigma slightly 3dobed. Germen trilocular. Seeds few, smooth, nearly globular. Our drawing of this handsome and fragrant species was made at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, from a bulb sent him by Professor Tenore, from the Royal Botanic Garden at Naples, with many other curious bulbous rooted plants, several of which are now coming into flower; we think the present species as handsome a one as any in this ex- tensive genus, of which an excellent Monograph has lately been published in the Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society of Edinburgh, from the pen of Mr. George Don, who has recorded 139 species besides doubtful ones, the greater part of which he examined and compared from the living plants, which makes the work of much more value, as it is impossible to decide on some of the nume- rous synonyms by dried specimens, and some not very cor- rect figures ; he has taken great pains to ascertain the sy- nonyms of other authors, of which he has brought together an immense number ; and as far as we have an opportu- nity of deciding, they are carefully and correctly arranged ; altogether it contains above a hundred closely printed pages. The present plant being native of the South of Europe, is rather more tender than some others ; it therefore re- quires a warm border, and to be planted about 6 inches deep, to be out of the reach of frost ; a light sandy soil suits it best, and it increases freely by offsets at the root. 1. Perianthium spread open, to show the insertion of the Stamens. 2. One of the largest leaflets, with the Stamen inserted in the base. 3. One of the smaller ones. 4. Germen, terminated by the Style and 3-lobed Stigma. ;tok. . > ■ M m'lt by wiauM 202 VERBENA sororia. Nepaul Vervain. Natural Order. Verbenace^. Broim prodr. 1. p. 510. VERBENA. Calyx 5-fidus. Corolla infundibuliformis, limbo in- Eequali, 5-fido. 4, didynama. Pericarpium tenue, cvanidiim. Semina 4. Flores paniculato-spicati. Brown prodr, 1. p. 514. V. sororia^ foliis pinnatifido-incisis petiolatis scabiis : segmentis mu- cronatis argute serrato-deutatis, spicis filiformibus subpaniculatis, floribus breviter pedicellatis, peduuculis pedicellis calycibusque glanduloso-pilosis, calycibus hispidistubo corollae brevioribus. Verbena sororia. Don prodr. Jt. nepal. p. 104. Verbena officinalis. Lour, cochin. 1 . p. tl3. Roxh. hort. beng. p. 4. nec aliorum. Perennial. Stems several from the same root, in our plants above 3 feet high, branching near the top, bluntly 4-sided, very rough, and slightly hairy. Leaves opposite, pinnatifid or deeply laciniate, strongly nerved underneath, and furrowed on the upper side, very rough to the touch, attenuated at the base or down the footstalk : segments acute, the points mucronate, deeply, unequally, and sharply toothed, thickly covered with little warts or glands, and clothed on both sides with short stiff hairs, the margins fringed : upper leaves generally 3 -parted, the segments spreading, and less toothed. Flowers terminating the stems and branches, in elongated spikes, more or less panicled. Peduncles, pedicles, and calyw, thickly clothed w ith short hairs, that are tipped with small glands. Spikes at first short, but lengthening out as they flower, and becoming very long before the seeds ripen. Bractes lanceolate, acute, about the length of the calyx. Pedicles very short,, scarcely any. Calyx angular, sharply 5 -toothed, hispid ly hairy, shorter than the tube of the corolla. Corolla funnel- form, of a lilac colour, hairy inside and without, the throat bearded ; tube slender, slightly deflexed : limb unequally B 2 5-lobed, the lower lobes nearly double the size of the upper ones, and retuse, the upper ones entire. Stamens 4, small, inserted in the upper part of the tube, 2 higher up than the others. Style short, smooth, included in the tube. Stigma capitate. Seeds 4, while young clothed with a thin shelled pericarpium, which bursts and leaves them naked when ripe. This pretty plant is nearly related to the V. officinalis of our own country, and was supposed to be the same plant by the late Dr. Roxburgh, under which name it is given in the Hortus Bengalensis ; but the plants are very different from each other, when both are seen together ; the present is much more tender than the English plant, and will scarcely endure our Winters without a slight pro- tection; we have succeeded in keeping it by placing a flower pot over the plant in severe frosty weather. It thrives well in the common garden soil, and in a good situation will attain the height of three feet and upwards. Seeds of it ripen plentifully, which, if sown early in Spring, will flower the following Autumn, and perhaps ripen seeds ; from the habit of the plant we may expect it to possess the medicinal properties of V. officinalis. Our drawing was made from a plant at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, where it was raised from seeds given him by Mr. Hood, Surgeon, South Lambeth, who received them from Nepaul, of which country it is a native. 1. Calyx. 2. Corolla spread open, to show the insertion of the Stainens. 3. Germen, terminated by the Style and Stigma. 3£y J^^/. cli- 203 SIEGESBECKIA droseroides. Sundew -involucred SiegesbecMa. Natural Order. Composite. Adansonfam. Sect. V. HeLIANTHE.E. Kunth synops. 2. p. 463, SIEGESBECKIA. Involucrum duplex; exterius pentaphylliun, patens; interins polyphj'llum, campanulatum. Jtecepiaculum palea- ceum. F/oscw/i disci tnhulosi, herraaphroditi ; radii nonnulli, unila- terales, ligulati, feminei. Akenia tetragona, calva. — Herbae ylandu- loso-viscosee. Folia opposita, integra. Flores terminates et alareSy lu~ tei. Kunth synops. 2. p. 506. S. droseroides, foiiis petiolatis rhombeo-ovatis acutis obsolete denta- tis pilosis, petiolis foliaceo-alatis, caule angulato paniculato-ra- moso villoso, floribus cory tnboso-cyniosis, foliolis involucri exte- rioribus longissimis apice dilatatis glanduloso-pilosis. Siegesbeckia droseroides. Swt. hort. brit. p. 235. Root perennial. Stem erect, herbaceous, angular, chan- nelled, in our specimens about 3 feet high, branching regu- larly all the way up, tinged with purple at the base, thickly clothed with stiffish villous hairs : branches opposite, rather slender, angular, erect or ascending, thickly clothed with glandular hairs, and generally terminated with from 3 to 5 dowers. Leaves opposite, connected at the base and clasp- ing the stem, with winged foliaceous petioles, rhomboidally ovate, acute, slightly toothed with very short teeth, triply- nerved, reticulately veined, clothed with short hairs on both sides, upper side of a dark green and pale underneath : upper ones sessile, or the petioles very broadly winged. Petioles furrowed and purple on the upper side, and rounded on the lower. Flowers terminal, upper ones in a sort of panicled cyme, all facing forward or slightly nod- ding. Peduncles rather long and slender, clothed with glandular hairs. Involucre double; outer series of 5 spreading slender leaflets, about an inch long, dilated at the point, and thickly clothed with viscous glandular hairs, which gives the appearance of a species of Drosera or Sundew: inner ones campanulate, composed of numerous short, ovate, concave leaflets, the points curved inwards, thickly clothed with spreading, viscous, glandular hairs. Receptacle convex, chaffy. Chaff spathulate, concave, enclosing the seed, hairy at the points. Rays from 7 to 10, short, spreading, nearly as broad as long, toothed with 3 blunt teeth, of a pale yellow, without stamens, but pro- ducing seed, and bearing a long exserted style and 2-cleft recurved stigma. Floras of the disk several, fertile, tube very hairy, limb inflated, 5-toothed. Stamens 5, naked. Style smooth, exserted. Stigma 2-cleft, the segments spreading, slightly papillose. Seed black, naked, quadran- gular, tapering downwards. The present plant is a native of Mexico, and requires to be planted in a warm border, and to be covered a little in frosty weather ; many plants of it w^ere raised at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, in 1825, from seeds given him by Mrs. Manners Sutton, Lady of the Archbishop of Canterbury, wLo received them from JNIexico ; from one of those our drawing was made the following Autumn, when several of them flowered. The plants at Mr. Col- vill’s w ere from 2 to 3 feet high ; but Mr. Lambert informs us that he had some plants in one of his borders that w ere from 4 to 5 feet high, and made a fine appearance, with their numerous flowers and singular Involucrum, which is almost exactly like the leaves of Drosera filiformis of Pursh, from which we have derived our specific name. It is nearly related to S. jm'ullensis of Kunth, but differs in its'angular stem, longer leaflets of the Involucrum, a much greater number of florets and rays, and in its quadrangular seeds. Its greatest beauty and singularity consists in its curious Involucrum, the glands of which are covered with a glutinous matter, which catches any small Insects that happen to alight on them. Seeds of it ripen plentifully, which should be sown in pots in a frame or Greenhouse, and from thence be transplanted into the flower borders. l. One of the inner leaflets of the Involucrum. 2. Scale of the chaff from the Receptacle. 3. Ray, showing its 3 blunt teeth, the tube hairy. 4. Floret of the disk. 5. The same spread open, to show the nerves alternating with the teeth. 6. The 5 Stamens spread open, the filaments distinct, and the antliers united. 7. Ripe seed, all magnified. Zi.> fc 204 LEONURUS sibiricus. Siberian Mother-wort. Natural Order. Labiate. Brown prodr. 499. Sect. 11. Stamina 4 fertilia, antheris omnium v.duorum completis. A, Calyx regularis ^-Jidus v. ^-19-dentatus. LEON URUS. Calyx 5-dentatus. Corollce labium superius inte- grum; inferius tripartitum : lacinia media indivisa. Antherce lobis parallelis. Brown in Hort. Ketv. ed. 2. v. '4.p. 405. L. sibiricusy foliis tripartitis : laciniis subincisis obtusiusculis, caly- cibus inermibus, galea coroiloe fornicata erecta. Spreng. syst. veg. 2. p. 738. Leonurus sibiricus. Willdeii.-sp. pi. 3. p. 111. Smith exot. bot. 2. p. 67. 1. 1)4. Pers. syn. 2. p. 126. Hort. Keio. ed. 2. v. 3. p. 406. Biennial. Stems erect, from one to 2 feet high, 4-sided, and channelled down each side, of a purple colour, and clothed with a short thin pubescence. Leaves 3-parted, nearly to the base : segments more or less divided, and bluntish ; those on the lower leaves subpinnatifid or pal- mately spreading : on the upper ones entire, all linear, channelled and bluntish, of a glossy green on the upper side and lighter underneath, slightly pubescent, and the margins slightly fringed with very short hairs. Petioles channelled on the upper side, and convex on the lower, pubescent and ciliate. Flowers in whorls, or in very close fascicles in the axils of the leaves : fascicles many-flow- ered, surrounded by numerous pungent hairy bractes. Ca- lyx 5-angular and 5-toothed, thickly clothed with spread- ing white hairs ; the teeth sharp but not pungent, and spreading, the two lower ones longest. Corolla 2-lipped : upper lip straight, and arched or concave, densely tomen- tose on the outside : lower one 3-parted ; side lobes short and straight : middle one more than double the size, the point reflexed. Stamens 4, inserted in the tube, 2 longer than the others : filaments smooth. Style smooth, longer than the stamens. Stigma bifid, one point erect, the other slightly recurved. Seeds 4, smooth and naked. The present plant is a hardy biennial, native of Siberia, and thrives well in the open borders in the common garden soil, where it makes a pretty appearance, flowering from June to August ; in rich soil it will reach the height of from two to three feet, but in poorer soil and a dry situa- tion it will be considerably less. Seeds of it ripen plenti- fully, by which any number may be raised ; those may be sown in the open ground where they are to remain, or they may be transplanted in various situations ; if sown early in Spring, some of them will flower the following Autumn, and the others early the next season ; but if sown late in Summer or Autumn, it will be late the following season before they flower. Our drawing was made at the Apothecaries’ Company’s Garden at Chelsea, in July last. 1. Calyx. 2. Corolla spread open, to show the insertion of the Stamens. 3. The four naked seeds, terminated by the smooth Style and bifid Stigma. 4 ■ <:• K . J' ( . » ■ ''•hi-.', ■ V ir--. • ■ r.i.r ^ ♦ . . , V V' - . V V "■■• ; Nvr . . . ■■ •• ,/•■ ■ ' ; '-i ' ' ■' .■■' ' ' • . . V . V '<-7- •• , ■/’: •* ' - \lr. ■ ' Af^n. ■ K ■•A n-n ■•A*' ‘ r- 4 40S. iSJmUhlei. ■ txth ly R h^ett June JS2? 205 PULSATILLA vernalis. Spring Pasque-fiower. Natural Order, Ranunculace^. DC. syst. 1. p. 127. Tribus II. ANEMONEJE. ^stivatio calycis et corollao imbri- cata ; petala nulla aut 5-6 plana ; antherae lineares extrorsae ; peri- carpia monospernia indehiscentia caudata aut ecaudata, sicca aut rarius carnosa ; semen intra pericarpium pendulum, embryone mi- nimo in fructu supero. — Caules herbacei nunquam scandentes; folia nunc radicalia nunc eaulina alter na; radices grumosce aut fascicu- latce. DC. syst. 1. p. 168. PULSATILLA. Involucrum iviioWwm a flore distans. Calyx 5-6- sepalus petaloideus. Glandulce stipitatae nectariferae ad basin sepa- lorum. Petala 0. Stamina numerosa. Cariopsides numerosae mo- nospermas in caudam longam barbatamque elongatae. — Folia radi- calia stBpiits pinnati-secta, segmentis multifidis^ lobis linearibus cu- neatisve ; flores seepius purpurei v. albi. P. vernalis, folifs pinnati-sectis ; segmentis cuneato-lanceolatis tri- fidis glabriusculis, flore erecto, involucro villosissimo, sepalis 6rectis elliptico-oblongis. DC. syst. veg. 1. p. 189. Prodr. \.p. 16. Pulsatilla vernalis. M/7/, diet. n. 3. Willden. enum. 2. p. 581. Link enum. 2. p. 88. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 664. Swt. hort. brit.p. 3. Anemone vernalis. Linn. sp. 759. Flor. dan. /. 29- Willden. sp.pl. 2. p. 1273. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 3. p. 337. Pers. syn. 2. p. 96. A hardy perennial, tufted, herbaceous plant. Leaves crowded in a close tuft, pinnate, pubescent, and fringed when young, but becoming nearly smooth by age : leaflets generally 2 pair besides the terminal one, trifid ; segments wedge-shaped or lanceolate, and generally toothed with bluntish rounded teeth. Petioles densely clothed with spreading villous white hairs. Scape thick, erect, thickly clothed with long villous white hairs, which incline down- wards. Involucre of three sessile leaflets, connected at the base : leaflets palmately spreading, the segments narrowly linear, acute, and densely clothed with long shaggy hairs, of a yellowish tint. Sepals 6, the three outer ones narrow- est, elliptic, of a light blue on the outside, and white within : inner ones obovate or oblong, bluntly rounded, lighter out- VOL. III. C side : all clothed outside with woolly rusty yellow hairs, and lined with branched veins. Stamens numerous, unequal in length: filaments smooth, yellow, attached to the base of the anthers, which are two-lobed, and yellow : jjollen white. Carpella numerous, terminated by a long bearded tail. Stigma a simple blunt point. Our drawing of this plant was made from one at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, the beginning of April last, who received several plants of it in the Winter of 1805, from the late Mr. Schleicher, of Bex, in Switzerland; they are now thriving well, and several of them have flowered this Spring. It is a very pretty Spring flowering plant, and its singular feathery involucre adds greatly to its beauty. It thrives well in the open border of the Flower Garden, but requires rather a dry situation, as too much moisture is very liable to rot its roots ; the lighter and more sandy the soil is the better it will thrive. It may also be grown in pots, but those must not be very small, or there will not be room for its roots ; it may be increased by dividing at the root, or by seeds, which ripen plentifully; those should be sown as soon as ripe, and when up should be planted into pots, or in a bed in the open ground, when care must be taken that they are not devoured by worms or slugs in Winter. 1. One of the leaflets of the Iiivolucruin. 2. A portion of the Stamens, to show their different lengths. 3. The Carpella, showing their bearded surface. 4. One of them removed, showing the slender Style and simple Stigma. */ .. H ■■■ V > ■ ; .>s I'V ./*•’• •>t . r.' i ;.V »fj. ' ' ' '■ > \ '■■ 'i - . •: ■' • ■ '"■'■If f*'r ) < r '• -fi' ■• ; ,V ' i>V 'j\(i O' .- . • / f * ■- fu.]i hy R }%eeiJurttl8l7 »e.d^Ull Si, 206 OPHRYS lutea. Yellow-flowered Ophrys, Natural Order, Orchide^. Broum prodr, 1. p. 195. Sect. I. Monandry. Anthera adnata, subterniinalis persistens. Pollinis massce e lobulis angulatis elastice cohaerentibus : basi affixae. Brown Hort, Kew, ed. 2. v. 5. p. 188. OPHRYS, Perianthium&\\hpa.tei\s. Labellum ecdlcaratum, Gian- dulce pollinis cucullis distinctis inclusae. Brown. O. luteay scapo folioso, folds ovatis glabris utrinque lineatis, labello dilatato trifido margine glabro integerrimo disco convexo villoso ; laciniis lateralibus latis ; media obcordata, perianthii foliolis ex- terioribus ovato-oblongis, interioribus ligulatis coloratis erectis. Ophrys lutea. Cavan, ic. 2. p. 46*. t. 160. Hooker exot. flor. t. 10. Spreng. syst. veg. 3. p.lOX. Moris, s. 3. p. 595. 1. 12. f. 15. Orchis myodes lutea lusitanica. Breyn, cent. 75. Root of two oblong bulbs. Leaves sessile, ovate, acute, the point slightly hooked inward, longitudinally lined with numerous lines on each side, of a bright green, smooth, and glossy. Scape leafy, smooth, cylindrical. Spike terminal. Bractes broadly lanceolate, bluntish, concave, about the length of the germen when in flower. Perianthium of 5 leaflets ; the 3 outer ones ovately oblong, blunt, concave, margins slightly revolute, the back one rounded and arched over, all of a yellowish green colour: inner ones ligulate, erect, yellow. Labellum large, hollow^ at the mouth, trifld, the margins smooth, entire, but slightly uneven, of a bright yellow, the disk or centre of a dark velvet, with a lighter oblong mark on each side, clothed with a short thick down ; side lobes broad, rounded; middle one obcordate. Column erect, obtusely rounded. Pollen masses pedicled, inclosed in a hood, each seated on a gland, yellow. For the opportunity of giving a figure of this rare and beautiful plant, we are obliged to H. B. Ker, Esq., in whose collection it flowered this Spring; the bulb was given him by W. Atkinson, Esq. who received it from Gibraltar ; and c 12 we are informed by Mr. Ker, that it has flowered in Mr. Atkinson’s collection much stronger than the plant repre- sented in our figure. It is certainly as handsome a species as any in the genus, and succeeds well in a warm border by the side of a wall in a southern aspect; the soil to be sandy loam, and if a little pounded chalk be mixed with it all the better. We do not believe that there is so much difficulty in cultivating the hardy Orchideae as is generally imagined ; we find many of the species thrive well in our garden, and the only thing that injures them is the worms, which sometimes throw them out of the ground ; this may be remedied by watering it with water that has had hot lime slacked in it, which will not hurt the plants, as it is congenial to them, and it will effectually destroy the worms for a season. Nothing can be more curious than the flowers of several species of Orchideae, some of which are also very beautiful, and are well worth the attention of the cultivator, even if a little more trouble than ordinary is required to take care of them ; and we hope to be able to supply our readers with figures of several interesting species very 1. Germen, terminated by the three outer leaflets of the Perianthium. 2. The two inner leaflets of ditto. 3. Labellum, showing the Column with the two lobed anther, and the two Pollen-masses detached from the hood, each seated on a long slender pedicle, the grains of pollen showing distinctly. 20'/ 207 AUBRIETIA purpurea. Purple-flowered Aubrietia, 'Natural Order. Crucifer.®. DC. syst. 2, p. 139. Subordo I. PLEURORHIZEM. Cotyledones planae accumbentes. Radicula lateralia. Semina compressa. Tribus II. ALYSSINEjE sen Pleurorhizeae Latiseptae. Silicula longitudinaliter dehiscens, septo lato ovali membranaceo, valvis planis aut concavis. Semina compressa, saep^ marginata. Cotyledones planae, accumbentes, septo parallelae. DC. 1. c. p. 147. AUBRIETIA. clausus, basi bisaccatus. unguicu- lata, limbo integro. Stamina majora edentula, 2 minora intbs dente aucta. Silicula oblonga, stylo persistente superata, valvis concavo- planis, septo elliptico. Semina plurima, immarginata. Cotyledones planae, accumbentes. — Herbae basi suffrutescentes, tenues, ramosce, pilosiusculce. Folia ovata aut oblonga, Integra aut dentato-angulata, pilis simplicibius aut parc^ ramosis puberula. Racemi oppositifolia et terminates, laxi, pauciflori. Pedicelli filiformes, ebracteati. Flores purpurascentes aut atbi. Habitus jh'e MalcomicB. DC. 1. c. p. 293. A. purpurea, pedicellis calyce brevioribus. DC. syst. 2. ». 294. Prodr. 1. p. 158. Aubrietia purpurea. Swt. hort. brit, p. 20. Arabis purpurea. Sibth.fl. griec. t. 643. Smith prodr. 2. p. 28. Perennial, tufted. Stems short and dense, suffruticose at the base, very much branched, the branches very short and very much crowded, clothed with fascicles of stellate hairs, and longer ones intermixed. Leaves scattered, very much crowded, oblong, or spathulate, obtuse, attenuated at the base into a kind of footstalk, sometimes entire, and sometimes with 1, 2, or 3 teeth on each side, thickly clothed on both sides with a grey stellate pubescence. Racemes erect, terminal or opposite to a leaf, seldom more than 3 -flowered. Pedicles a line or 2 long, shorter than the calyx. Flowers about the size, or scarcely as large as A. deltoidea, of a purple lilac. Calyx closed, erect, 2-gibbous at the base, stellately pubescent. Petals 4, with a long un- guis, obovate or cuneate, the unguis longer than the calyx. Stamens 6, two shorter than the others. Filaments dilated at the base, with filiform points, the two short ones toothed about half way up, long ones winged about three parts of the way up, then suddenly tapering to a subulate point. Germen nearly cylindrical, oblong, stellately pubescent and velvetty. Style filiform, smooth. Stigma slightly capitate. Pod oblong, convex, stellately downy, opening longitudinally from the point. Septum flat, membrana- ceous, with a thick margin. Seeds numerous, sometimes 40 in one pod, brown, flat, not margined. This pretty little plant is one that is well adapted for rock-work, where it forms dense tufts, that make a fine appearance, when covered with flowers ; it is more desira- ble than A. deltoidea, although its flowers are scarcely so large, as that is a more straggling plant, and is also more tender than the present. It is a native of Greece and the South of Europe, but stands our Winters very w^ell in the open air unprotected, thriving best in a light sandy soil, and is readily increased by young cuttings planted under a hand-glass, or by seeds. Plants of it may be kept in small . pots, where they will flow^er very well ; they are then also ready to be turned out in a border, or on rock-work, at any season of the year, without receiving any injury. Our drawing was taken from a plant in the Garden belonging to the Apothecaries Company at Chelsea, last Spring. 1. Calyx. 2. The four Petals. 3. The 6 Stamens, the 2 short ones toothed on one side. 4. Ovarium terminated by the Style and Stigma. 5. Pod nearly ripe, terminated by the persistent Style, all magnified except the last. ( ' r'./ , ■ (" . ; ' '■< , , ■ i'..^ . 'I',: ' n;:'^ Vin':;v^ ' -.r .1 ?.L ■4 () /l II /i .Jun.e.2SL/. E.b.Jn^UK lid. ¥ed ^-e/yJc^ 208 CLAYTONIA caroliniana. Spatula-leaved Claytonia. Natural Order. Portulace^. Juss. gen.^l^. CLAYTONIA. Supra fol.lQ. C. caroliniana^ foliis radicalibus brevi ovalibus triplinerviis loiige petiolatis : caulinis oppositis subsessilibus spathulatis utrinqiie at- tenuatis in petiolum decurrentibus, racemo solitario, sepalis obtu- sis, petalis subrolundis retusis, radice tuberoso. Claytonia caroliniana. Mich.Ji. amer. 1. p. 100. Pers. syn. 1. p. 253. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 2. p. 53. Roern. et Schult. syst. 5. p. 433. Spreng. syst. 1. /). 791. Claytonia spathulaefolia. Salisb. parad, t, 71. Pursh.Jl. amer. sept. \.p. 175. Root tuberous, producing several leaves and flower- stems. Leaves oval or spathulate, triply-nerved, entire, smooth : those at the root oval, with a long slender foot- stalk ; stem -ones opposite, more spathulate, nearly sessile, or tapering at the base into a sort of decurrent footstalk. Flower-stems spreading, simple, smooth and glossy, tinged with red or flesh-colour. Raceme terminal, simple, nod- ding before the flow'ers expand, afterwards becoming erect. Flowers all leaning to one side, of a pale blush, elegantly striped with purple lines. Pedicles smooth and glossy, short and nodding before the expansion of the flowers, lengthened and erect when in bloom, when in fruit cernuous. Ccdyoc 2-valved. Sepals broadly ovate, concave, bluntly rounded or truncate. Petals 5, roundly oval, with a small notch at the point, unguiculate, elegantly veined, with a bright yellow spot at the base of each. Stamens 5, in- serted in the claws of the petals : filaments smooth, broad at the base and tapering upwards, inserted in the back of the anthers, spreading : anthers pale red. Ovarium tri- angular, smooth. Style smooth, scarcely as long as the stamens. Stigmas 3, blunt, erect or slightly spreading. Our drawing of this rare American plant was made at the garden of Robert Barclay, Esq. at Bury-hill, in the beginning of April last, where it was flourishing well in the open borders, along with C. virginica ; we cannot conceive how the present plant continues so scarce, as it appears to ripen its seeds abundantly ; but we believe those are seldom noticed, as they ripen very quick, and are then lost. It succeeds well in a light sandy soil, composed chiefly of peat ; the seeds should be sown as soon as ripe, they will then become strong, and will flower the following season. 1. The 2-valved Calyx. 2. The 5 Stamens attached to the base of the Petals, which is left remaining to them. 3. Ovarium terminated by the Style and three Stigmas. ^1$ fjyjrr^UiL Del fuc.b) R Iwtet JzUy. JS2^ 209 STREPTANTHERA elegans. Elegant Streptanthera, Natural Order, Iride^. Browwprodr.l, STREPTANTHERA. Spatha bivalvis membranacea obtusa sublacera arido-sphacelata. Perianthium 6-partituni, corollaceura ; ttibo brevissimo : limbo regulari rotate. Stamina 3, tubo inserta ; filamentis erectis : antherce tortae stylo inclusaB. Stigmata 3, dilatata, biloba, fimbriata. Semina globosa. S. elegans, foliis ensiformibus obtusiusculis striato-nervosis medio excisis, scapo 1-2-floro, perianthii laciniis lato-ovatis basi bima- culatis. Bulb-tubers oblong, about the size of a Blackbird’s egg, clothed with a brown fibrous coat. Stem about a span high, producing Q or 3 scapes. Leaves distichous, sword- shaped, bluntish, with a very short mucro, strongly nerved and stri- ated, narrowing as if cut in a little above the middle, and attenuated towards the base, of a pale green colour, inclin- ing to glaucous, and clothed with an exceeding short pu- bescence, not to be seen without the aid of a lens. Scapes 2 or 3, cylindrical, smooth, a little flexuose, 1 or 2-flowered. Spatha short, 2-valved, scariosely membranaceous, obtuse or truncate, slightly jagged, streaked with irregular broken lines. Flowers of a pure white, slightly tinged with blush, with a bright purple centre, above which is a broken circle of black velvet, marked with large bright yellow spots. Perianthium salver-shaped, tubular ; tube purple, shorter than the spatha : limb 6-cleft, spreading, flat, the laciniae imbricate, very broadly ovate, pinnately veined, bluntly rounded, white, each marked with 2 yellow spots, on a dark velvet ground. Stamens 3, inserted in the mouth of the tube, and decurrent down it. Filaments erect, smooth, broad and channelled inside so as to enclose the style, nar- rowing towards the base ; anthers 2-lobed, twisted round and embracing the style : pollen dark purple. Ovarium VOL. III. D triquetrous, smooth, 3-furrowed. Style smooth, enclosed by the stamens. Stigmas 3, very much dilated, each 2-lobed, and fringed, bright purple. Seeds smooth, globular. The present beautiful plant is one of the bulbs that was brought from the Cape by Mr. Synnot, and has now flow- ered we believe for the first time in this country. It con- stitutes a very distinct genus, readily distinguished from all to which it is nearest related, by its anthers, which twist round the style, and its dilated two-lobed stigmas ; like the other Cape bulbs to which it is nearest related, it succeeds best in a light dry sandy soil, composed of rather more than one-third of rich light turfy loam, chopped up small, but not sifted ; this is to be mixed with full one-third of fine sand, and the remaining part of light turfy peat, or any other very light soil, the use of it being to keep the loam open ; the best loam is that of a reddish yellow co- lour, which feels soft and greasy to the touch ; but the colour does not signify, if the substance is nearly the same ; the lighter and more sandy it is the better, as it will then require less sand and peat to be mixed with it, and the small roots and fibres amongst it is the best means of keeping it light and hollow, those would be lost, if the mould was sifted, and it would be apt to bake like a brick, so that the shoots of the bulbs cannot, push through it, and become rot- ten. We never use a sieve ourselves, for sifting any sort of mould whatever, not even for sowing the smallest seeds ; it can always be made fine enough with the hands ; and the seeds come up much better, and are not so apt to damp when the mould is a little rough. This plant requires the same care as the other Cape bulbs, several of which we have seen tried in the open borders last "Winter, only covered with a single mat ; they were planted from 4 to 6 inches deep, and all succeeded very well. Our drawing was made from plants in the Nursery of Mr. Colvill ; it also flowered at Mr. Lee’s Nursery, at Hammersmith, this Spring. , . 1. Spatha. 2. The three Stamens inserted in the tube of the Perianthiiim, the anthers twisted. 3. Ovarium terminated by the Style and 3 cleft dilated Stigma/ the segments of which are 2-lobed. . 7 JO. TDAntU, DU Vui hy JC AreU. Ui I fy JSZ^ WUdtUfc 210 MUSCARI macrocarpum. Large-capsuled Muscari, Natural Order, Asphodele^. Broivn prodr. 214. MUSCARI. Supra fol. 15. M. macrocarpum, perianthiis ventricoso-c}'liadricis apice contraclis pedicellis quadriiplo longioribus, scapo compresso, foliis patenti- bus glaucis elongato-lanceolalis acuminatis concavo-canaliculatis. Muscari moscliatum (/3.) flavum. Botan. magaz, 1565. Swt. hort. brit. p. 419. Bulb large, not increasing so freely as the other species. Leaves several, spreading round in various directions, from 6 inches to a foot in length, lanceolate, tapering to a very slender point, broadest at the base, convolutely concave, and channelled on the upper side, of a brownish glaucous colour, margins tinged with purple. Scapes erect, or de- clining a little from the weight of the flowers, flattened on each side, particularly on the inner one, smooth and glossy, of a bright purple, dotted with numerous minute green dots. Raceme many-flowered. Flowers of a bright blue, tinged with purple before expansion, when expanded chang- ing to a bright yellow, and dying off brown, delightfully fragrant. Bractes very small, membranaceous, more or less lacerate. Pedicles very short and smooth, about four times shorter than the flowers. Perianthium tubular, with a contracted narrow mouth, bellied or ventricose towards the base, slightly 6-furrowed, mouth slightly 6-crenate. Stamens 6, inserted in the tube a little above the base ; filaments short, flattened towards the base and tapering upwards, inserted in the back of the anthers : anthers ver- satile, dark purple, two-lobed, divided at the base. Ova- rium triangular, smooth, white. Style short, smooth. Stigma three-lobed. Capsule very large, of a greyish lilac or purple, with three broad flat sides, very different from M. moschatum. D 2 Our drawing of this beautiful and delightfully fragrant plant was taken the beginning of May last, at the Nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, at Fulham ; they received it as long back as the year 1812 from Constanti- nople, from whence it was sent by Lady Liston, the Lady of the British Ambassador to the Porte at that time ; but as it increases so slowly, it still continues a rare plant : this year it has flowered in greater perfection than ever it did before, and appears likely to ripen seeds, so that we hope it will soon become more plentiful, as it is a very de- sirable plant for all collections, both for its beauty and fra- grance ; it certainly is no variety of M. moscJiatum^ with which it has been confused ; and the Tibcadi Muscari of the Dutch Florists, which this was supposed to be, proves to be nothing but the common M. moschatum, as we saw a bed of them in flower this year at Messrs. Whitley and Co.’s Nursery, that had been imported from Holland under that name. The present species is said to be one of the principal flowers with which the Turkish females contrive to corre- spond in secret with their lovers, which renders it a plant of great value amongst them. It thrives well in the open border of the Flower-Garden, in the common garden soil ; the bulbs to be planted from 4 to 6 inches deep, according to their size ; they will then flower every year regularly ; but they are very slow of increase, except by seeds. 1. Perianthium spread open, to show the insertion of the 6 Stamens. 2. Ova- rium terminated by the Style and ^-lobed Stigma. 3. Full grown Capsule. ., V’.. ii/t 2>ei Pub by Ji fynet Ju.ly J6Z^ 211 WISTERIA chinensis. Chinese Wisteria. Natural Order. Leguminos^. DC. prodr. 2. p. 93. Subordo I. PapILIONACE^ Tribus V. Phaseoleje. Co- rolla papilionacea. Stamina monadelpha aut saopiCis diadelpha (9 et 1). Legumen polyspermum dehisccns continuum membranis cellulosis transversis inter semina sitis soepe subdivisum non ver^ articulatum. Radicula super loborum commissuram inflexa. Coty- ledones crassae per germinationem immulatae aut in folia crassa vix stomatibus donata conversae, extr^ terram et saepius extra spermo- dermium exsertae. Folia primordialia opposita! omnium foliola numero imparia saspitis pinnatim, rarius palmatim disposita. DC. prodr. 2. p. 381. WISTERIA. Calyx campanulato-subbilabiatus, labii superioris dentibus 2 brevibus, inferioris lobis 3 subulatis. Corolla papiliona- cea, vexillo bicalloso, alis caring conformibus, caring bicipiti. Sta- mina diadelpha. Tubulus nectarifer ovarii stipitem cingens. Legu- men substipitatum coriaceum bivalve l-Joculare seminibus subtoru- losum. — Frutex scandens. Folia impari-pinnata exstipulata. Racemi terminates. Flores coeruleo lilacini, junior es bracteis deciduis amen- taceis cincti, adulti ebracteati. DC. 1. c. p. 389, 390. W. chinensis, alis 1-auriculatis, ovario villoso. DC. prodr. p. 390. Glycine chinensis. Sims Botan. magaz, t. 2083. Glycine sinensis. Botan. regist, t. 650. Lcdd. hot. cab. t. 773. Stem shrubby, climbing, extending to a great length : young branches pubescent. Leaves pinnate : leaflets oppo- site, 2 to 5 pair, terminated with an odd one, petiolate, ob- longly ovate, acuminate, thinly clothed with prostrate hairs on both sides, penninerved and reticulately veined, margins fringed with a short dense pubescence ; the partial foot- stalks short, densely pubescent, producing a bristle-form stipule-like appendage at the base of each, which is very hairy and fringed. Petioles long, pubescent, striate, slightly furrowed on the upper side, very much swollen at the base. Racemes terminal, drooping, many-flowered. Flowers large and handsome, fragrant. Peduncle slightly angular, densely pubescent. Bractes lanceolate, taper-pointed, pu- bescent and fringed, deciduous and membranaceous. Pedi- cles slender, drooping, thickly clothed with unequal short woolly hairs. Calyx short, bell-shaped, two-lipped, inflated \ at the base, light blue : upper lip shortly notched, or bluntly £-toothed : lower one 3-lobed, the lobes broad, acute, densely tomentose. Veocillum large, roundly heart- shaped, keeled at the back, of a pale blue colour, striate near the base, the unguis channelled, and where it joins the vexillum ending in two callous points. Wings large, dark blue tinged with purple, unequal sided, blunt, slightly one- eared near the base on one side, and having a slender unguis on the other. Keel large, scarcely so long as the wings, of a bluish purple, deeply notched at the point, and divided a good way up from the base, eared near the base, with slen- der unguis. Stamens 10, one distinct, and nine joined nearly to the points, the points distinct and ascending : anthers slightly incumbent. Ovarium stipitate, villous, particularly on the upper edge. Style ascending, slightly hairy at the base and smooth upwards. Stigma slightly capitate. This is one of the most beautiful hardy climbers ever introduced to this country ; it is a native of China, and has now been several years in our gardens, and proves to be quite hardy, making one of the finest ornaments for a wall or bowser in the Flo w^er- Garden when covered with its large bunches of fragrant flowers. Our reason for giving it a place in this work, is to make all our Subscribers ac- quainted with so grand a plant, which any one may grow by the side of his house, or any other convenient situation, as it will thrive in any tolerable good soil, and may be in- : creased by layers ; or young cuttings, planted in sand, and -placed under hand-glasses on a little bottom heat, will strike root readily. ( ’ Our drawing was made from a plant in the collection .of the Comtesse de Vandes, at Baysw^ater; and we also saw it flowering very fine against a wall at the Nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Co. at Fulham, where we also observed plants of what we believe to be W. fioribunda, another fine spe- cies, and equally hardy. The genus has been divided from the heterogeneous assemblage that was confused under Glycine, and was first established by Mr. Nuttall on W , frutescenSy a North American species. 1. Calyx. 2. Vexillum. 3. Alee or wings. 4. Keel spread open. 5. Vexillum, with the upper part taken oflf, to show the two callous points above the unguis. 6. The 9 Stamens joined into a tube, but distinct at the points. 7. The distinct one. 8. The villous Ovarium, terminated by the Style and capitate Stigma. 212 TRILLIUM erythrocarpum. Red-f7mited Trillium, Natural Orders Smilace^. Brown prodr, 292. TRILLIUM. Perianthium 6-phyllum, patens : foliolis 3 exte- rioribus angustioribiis calycinis *. 3 interioribus petaloideis. Sta- minad. Filamenta glabra: anthera longitudinaiitcr adnata. Stylus 0. Stigmata 3, reflexa. Bacca trilocularis, polysperma . T. erythrocarpum, pedunculo subcernuo : perianthii foliolis interi- oribus ovali-lanceolatis acutis undulatis rccurvatis exterioribus subduplo longioribus, foliis ovatis acuminatis basi rotundatis bre- vissime petiolatis. Trillium erythrocarpum. Mich.jl. amer, 1. p, 216. Spreng. syst, 1. p. 150. Swt. hort. hrit, p, 415. Trillium pictum. Pursh.fl, amer. sept. 1. p. 244. Root tuberous, in our plant producing three stems. Stems erect, angular, smooth and glossy. Leaves ovate, taper-pointed, rounded at the base, or sometimes slightly cordate, with very short footstalks, triply-nerved, smooth and glaucous. Pedicles slightly nodding, smooth and glossy, slightly angular. Perianthium of 6 leaflets, spread- ing : 3 outer ones calyx-like, green, acute, about half the length of the inner ones, which are petal-like, ovate, acute, undulate, more or less recurved, white with a bright purple mark at the base, veined. Stamens 6 : filaments smooth : anthers attached their whole length by their back to the filaments, two-lobed, bursting on each side : pollen cream- coloured. Ovarium smooth, 3-celled. Style none. Stig- mas 3, reflexed or revolute, channelled on the upper side. This plant is described by Pursh, as growing in sphagnous bogs, on the high mountains of Pensylvania, Carolina, and Canada, flowering in May and June. The plant from which our drawing was made, was received last Winter from North America by Mr. Colvill, at whose Nursery our drawing was made the beginning of May last. The only method to make it thrive in this country is to plant it out in a bed of peat soil, in rather a moist situation ; or where the ground is naturally of a boggy swamp it would succeed well, as would many other species of this genus, the greater part of them growing in moist situations in their native country : those species that grow in dry rocky situations are more easily cultivated, and will thrive well in a bed of sandy peat soil, in any open dry situation : at Mr. Knight’s Nursery in the King’s Road there is a large bed of T. gran- dijiarum quite established, and thrives and flowers as well as if growing on its native mountains. 1. The three outer leaflets of the Perianthium. 2. Three of the Stamens, front view, inserted in the base of the 3 inner leaflets of the Perianthium. 3. The other 3 Stamens, inserted in the 3 outer leaflets, back view. 4. Ovarium, terminated by the 3 Styles. f i • TJ IhcUeiUc J't.h fy^ee^jdii^ JSZJ. 213 CYPRIPEDIUM arietinum. Ram’s-head Ladies' -Slipper. Natural Order. Orchidejs. Brown prodr. 309. Sect. VI. DiANDREJE. Stamina 2 antlierifera. CYPRIPEDIUM. Supra fol. 71. C. arietinunif caule folioso, foliis lanceolatis glabris obsolete ner- vosis amplexicaulibus, perianthium pcntapbyllum, labello saccato- calcarato piloso. Cypripedium arietinum. Botan. magaz. 1569. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. V. 5. p. 222. Spreng. syst. 3. p. 745. Stems several from the same root, about 6 inches in height, densely clothed with very short rigid hairs, slender, erect or slightly flexuose, bearing four or five leaves. Leaves lanceolate, acute, sessile and clasping the stem, attenuated towards the base, concave on the upper side and keeled un- derneath, slightly veined, and striated with numerous longi- tudinal lines, smooth on both sides, the margins fringed with very short hairs. Flowers solitary, terminal, leaning for- ward, slightly fragrant. Ovarium angular, channelled, lean- ing forward, not twisted, clothed with very short hairs. Pe- rianthium of 5 leaflets, green tinged with purple, and clo- thed with small glandular hairs : upper one ovately lance- olate, acute, arched over, the point slightly reflexed : 2 side ones very narrow, linear, acute; 2 lower ones spreading, falcately lanceolate, scarcely acute, about the length of or scarcely as long as the labellum. Lahellum inflated at the mouth, tapering to the base, clothed with woolly hairs, parti- cularly near the mouth, where they form a dense white patch, white, elegantly veined and netted with purple ; inside dense- ly hairy. Column lohe nearly round, spoon-shaped, keeled in the centre, which makes a hollow on each side : side lobes shorter, blunt, hollow, each containing an anther. Stamens 2, one in each of the side lobes. Style curved inward. Stig- ma large, thick, fleshy, nearly orbicular, slightly fimbriate. VOL. III. E Several species of this beautifuland interesting genus were imported from North America, this Spring, by Mr. George Charlwood, and are now growing at the Nursery of Mr. Dennis, at Chelsea, where they have flowered magnificently; besides the present species, were C. Jiumile, C.parvifiorum, C,puhescens, and C. spectabile ; of the latter species, a beautiful white variety flowered with him, of which we in- tend shortly to publish a figure : several other curious Ame- rican plants, and seeds, were received by him at the same time, and may be procured from him at a moderate rate ; amongst the rest, a great many plants of different species of Sarracenia^ or Side-saddle flower. The plant from which our drawing w^as made, in May last, was the strongest of the sort that we ever saw, producing three flower-stems at once ; it was cultivated in a pot of light leaf mould ; but we believe the best way to succeed well with the plants of this genus would be to plant them in a shady wood ; the soil to be composed of decayed leaves and turfy peat soil, so as to imitate as much as possible their natural places of growth.. Pursh mentions the present spe- cies as growing in sphagnous woods, about Montreal, in Canada ; and we have been informed by a gentleman who visited that country, that the soil in which the different spe- cies grow wild, is so light, that by a very slight pull they may be taken clean out of the ground, without injuring a root, the whole being composed of decayed leaves and branches, so that the hand may be thrust several inches deep in the ground with ease. 1. Perianthium spread open, divested of the labellum, showing its 5 leaf- lets. 2. Labellum split open, to show its villous inside. 3. InvSide view of the Style, with the anthers affixed to the two side lobes, and the column lobe at the back of the Stigma. 4. Outside view of the same, divested of the column lobe. 5. Column lobe taken from the Style. 214 ERYTHRINA Crista-galli. Cock's comb Coral tree. Natural Order. Leguminos^. Juss.gen.Vt^b, Subordo I. PAPILIONACEM.— Trihus V. PHASEOLEiE. Supra fol 142. ERYTHRINA. Supra fol. 142. E. Crista-galli, caule arboreo, petiolis aculeatis glandulosis, foliolis ovalibus ovatisque glaiicescentibus coriaceis obtusiusculis, calyce truncato subbidentato, staminibus 9 connexis deciuio libero, ca- ring calyce triplb longiore. Erythrina Crista-galli. Linn. syst. nat. ed. 12. p. 473. Mantissa 99. Lam. encycl. 2. p. 391. Willden. sp. pi. 3./?. 916. Hort. Keiv. 3. p. 9. ed. 2. V. 4. p. 252. Smith exot. hot. 2. p. 69. t. 95. DC. prodr. 2. p. 413. Spreng. syst. 3. p. 244. A stout growing Shrub in our collections, but said to grow to a tree in its native country : branches straight, erect, slightly angular upwards, but cylindrical below and striated, of a pale pea green colour, changing to a bright glossy purple on the upper part amongst the flowers. Leaves alternate, on long footstalks, each producing three leaflets, which are also petiolate ; leaflets oval, or ovate, entire, ending in a blunt point, of a thick leathery texture, dull green, or slightly glaucous on the upper side, more glaucous underneath, with a strong midrib, which sometimes produces a prickle, pinnately nerved and reticulately veined with very small inconspicuous veins ; footstalks of the leaf- lets green, and fleshy, the terminal one producing two sessile glands at the base on the upper side, the side ones producing one each, which are slightly pedicled or raised up. Petioles purplish, generally producing 3 to 6 hooked prickles, angu- lar, flattened on the upper side and rounded on the lower, very thick and fleshy near the base, smooth and glossy. Flowers axillary and terminal, the branch lengthening out into a sort of raceme, generally in threes, the upper part without leaves, of a deep scarlet, dying off to dark crimson. Peduncles of a bright dark purple or chocolate colour, at first ascending, but afterwards, from the weight of the flow- ers, becoming twisted, which makes the flowers resupinate. Calyr campanulate, smooth and gloss37,of a purplish brown, contracted at the mouth before the flowers expansion, slightly striate ; when the flower is expanded, it becomes truncate, with a brown membranaceous border, terminating at the back of the vexillum into a sort of blunt tooth, and at the front of the keel into a sharp rigid subulate one, pro- ceeding from below the point. Bractes deciduous, very small, membranaceous, one at the base of each peduncle, and two at the base of the calyx, one on each side. Vexil- lum very large, an inch and a half long, and an inch and a quarter broad, rounded, slightly concave, with a channel on the upper side, striated with numerous slender lines, that are strongest at the back, of a bright scarlet, crimson at the base, becoming darker as the flowers begin to fade. Wings very small, about half the size of E. laurifolia^ shorter than the calyx which encloses them, very slightly 3-lobed, very pale and almost membranaceous, erect . Keel rather more than an inch in length, sharply keeled, acute, strongly striate. Stamens 10, ascending, 9 joined in a tube but distinct at the points, the tenth distinct, all extended beyond the keel. Ovarium pedicled, very woolly, termi- nated by a flat purple smooth Style. Stigma small, blunt, but scarcely capitate. We have now the pleasure of giving our readers, as we promised, a figure of this splendid plant, which is without douht the E. Crista- gain of Sir J. E. Smith’s Exotic Botany, and which he ascertained to he the plant of Linnaeus : without a comparison of the two plants, the E. laurifolia of No. 142. might he easily mistaken for the pre- sent subject ; hut when seen together, nothing need be more dis- tinct : this is a much stronger growing plant than the other, with leaves of a very different form and texture, and the plant would most probably attain a large size in a warm climate; we are not certain that it is so hardy as the other, never having seen it tried in the open border; nor to the best of our recollection had we ever seen the plant till last October, when we saw it in fine bloom, in the grand Conservatory of Alexander Baring, Esq. at the Grange, in Hampshire, E. laurifolia flowering by the side of it at the same time ; and from a fine specimen sent us from thence by Mr. P. Arthur, in May last, the present figure was taken ; from the part where the flowers began, to the end of the shoot, was about 2 feet in length, and would have still been more, before the whole of the flowers were expanded ; and the whole of the plants in the Con- servatory, when we visited it, were thriving with the greatest lux- uriance, and many of them were the finest specimens of the sort that we had ever seen, particularly several species of Polygala; and Acacia vestita^ the long pendant branches of which hung down like a weeping Willow, and made a grand appearance. The present plant will thrive well in any rich light soil; and young cuttings of it planted in sand, under hand-glasses, on a moist heat, will soon strike root. If intended to be tried in a warm border of the garden, it must he planted deep, so that the part which pro- duces the annual shoots may be out of the reach of frost; the earth can easily be removed from it in Spring, to give it the benefit of the sun, to accelerate its breaking afresh. E. laurifolia requires the same treatment, to succeed well with it. 1. Calyx. 2. Vexillum. 3. Keel spread open, to show the inside. 4. The two very short wings. 6. The single Stamen. 6. The 9 connected ones. 7. The villous Ovarium, terminated by the smooth purple Style and small Stigma. U5 - \ ^7"" '■/< ^ -~y £l>J-mi.th Dei. . Ji fmrft 215 NOCCA latifolia. Broad leaved Nocca, Natural Order- Composite;. Adanson fam. 2. 103. Subordo III. CarDUACEM, — Tribus IV. Echinopsideae. Kth, synops. 2. p. 364. NOCCA. Flores capitato-congesti, bracteati. Involucrum mono- phyllum, tubulosum, uniflorum ; limbo diviso. Flosculus solitarius, tubulosus, hermaphroditus. Antherce basi bidentataa. Akenia magis niiuusve compressa, coronata urceolo minuto fimbriate aut laciniato. Receptaculum alveolato-ciliatum. N. latifolia^ caule fruticosa, foliis sessilibus amplexicaulibus oblon- gis acuminatis triplinerviis serrulatis integerrimisve supra basim ampliatis supra scabris : subtus mollissime pilosis, capitulis corym- bose paniculatis. Nocca latifolia. Cervantes Mss. in herb. Lamb. Swt. hort, brit.p.2\9. Paulli de la Llave et Joannis Lexarza Novorum vegetabilium de- scriptiones in lucent prodeunt opera. Reip. Mexic. CIV. fasc. 1. /).31. A tall Strong-growing, upright, soft-wooded shrub : branch- es furrowed or striate, thickly clothed with a short white pu- bescence, the upper parts with long spreading villous hairs. Leaves opposite, sessile, more or less clasping the stem at the base, oblong or elliptical, taper-pointed, triplinerved, at- tenuated towards the base, and entire ; the upper part on the large leaves serrulate, the small ones quite entire, the upper side and margins rough, and clothed with short hairs, underneath very soft, feeling like velvet, clothed with short soft woolly hairs, strongly nerved, and re ticu lately veined. Flowers white, numerous, fragrant, in terminal corymbosely panicled heads. Bractes 6 to 8, surrounding the head of flowers, leaflike, unequal in size, elliptically lanceolate, acute, rough, clothed with short hairs, and fringed with hairs that are tipped with small transparent glands. Receptacle slightly honey-combed, fringed with short hairs. Involucre one- leaved, tubular, one-flowered, thickly clothed with long soft hairs : limb 5-cleft5'the laciniae unequal, very hairy, two of them more than double the length of the others. Florets large, tubular, 5 -toothed, very woolly outside, contracted from about the middle to the base, the teeth erect, ovate, acute. Stamens 5, inserted in the tube about the middle, where it begins to become inflated : filaments smooth, dis- tinct : anthers united into a tube, each bearing two short teeth at the base. Akenia or seed enclosed in the tubular Involucre, compressed, terminated by a short crown, that is fringed with short hairs. Our drawing of this stately growing plant was made from specimens in June last, received from A. B. Lambert, Esq., in whose collection, at Boyton, it has flowered this Summer for the second time. Mr. Lambert received the seeds from Mexico, sent by Cervantes under the name that we have adopted, and it has since been published by Llave and Lex- arza in a work on several new genera and species of Mexican plants. In Mr. Lambert’s garden it is planted out by the side of a wall in a southern aspect, where it grows freely to the height of 10 or 12 feet, and produces its flowers, dying back a good way in Winter, and making fresh wood for the following year ; the flowers are not very splendid, but they are pretty and singular, and very sweet-scented, which makes it a desirable plant. It will thrive well in any rich light soil, and young cuttings, planted under hand-glasses, or even in a shady border, and well watered, will soon strike root. Mr. Lambert also possesses plants of N. ruhra^ and some other species. 1. One of the Bractes at the base of the flowers. 2. Tubular Involucre, that encloses the seed. 3. Floret. 4. The same spread open, to show the veins alter- nating with the teeth. 5. The upper part of the tube taken off, to show the inser- tion of the Stamens, the filaments distinct, and the anthers united. 0. Seed, terminated by the Style and Stigma. Z16. IL JmiUiJlel ■ Puii H Jwee6. 23 Z^. WiOdsU Je. 216 CLAYTONIA grandiflora. Large-flowered Claytonia, Natural Order. PoRTULACE^. Juss. gen.^\2. CLAYTONIA. Supra fol. 16. C. yrundijloraf foliis lineari-lanceolatis utrinque attenuatis, racemis solitariis multifloris, sepalis obtusissimis, petalis ovalibus obtusis integris striatis, radice tuberosa. Root a large tuber. Stems numerous, proceeding from the root, spreading, succulent, dotted all over with nume- rous small white dots. Leaves linearly lanceolate, very long, tapering to both ends, channelled on the upper side and slightly keeled on the lower, smooth but dotted with nume- rous small dots, succulent ; two on each stem, opposite, ses- sile. Raceme terminal, many-flowered, drooping before the expansion of the flowers. Pedicles smooth and glossy, slen- der, dotted, erect when the flowers are expanded, afterwards nodding. Calyx 2-valved ; sepals ovate, very blunt, nearly truncate at the points. Petals 5, large, oval, rounded at the points, entire, of a blush-colour, veined with numerous branching light purple veins, and a yellow spot near the base of each. Stamens 5, inserted in the base of the petals : fila- ments smooth, broadest towards the base, attached to the back of the anthers, which are 2-lobed, and sagittate at the base. Ovarium smooth, triangular, 3-celled. Style smooth, erect. Stigmas 3, connivent, spatulate, slightly fimbriate. Our drawing of this fine and rare plant, was made from one in the collection of Robert Barclay, Esq., of Bury-hill, near Dorking, where we also saw the true C. virginica in bloom, with which we have no doubt but the present plant, and another very distinct one, and perhaps some others, have been confused by authors, from the want of seeing the plants in a living state to compare ; the difference was first pointed out to us by Mr. D. Cameron, Mr. Barclay’s gardener. The C. virginica of Linnseus, is the one generally cultivated by that name in the gardens, with narrow linear leaves, and obovately cuneate retuse petals, as may be readily ascertain- ed by comparison of the figures referred to by him ; it is also the C. virginica of Pursh. The C. virginica of the Botani- ceJ Magazine, if. 941, with linear leaves, and entire narrow petals, is very different from both, and should be named C. Simsii; this is also the plant of the second edition of the Hortus Kewensis ; other authors, that describe their plant with entire petals, intend either that plant, or the present, or perhaps both, though the three plants are as perfectly dis- tinct as any plants in one genus had need be. The present plant, as well as C. virginica and C. caro- linianay were cultivated in a border of peat soil in Mr. Barclay’s garden, where they were all flourishing well, and flowering abundantly, in April and May last, and we believe have all ripened seeds : the seeds of those, as of many other herbaceous plants, should be sown soon after they are ripe ; the young plants will then become strong before Winter, and some of them will flower the following Spring ; if the seeds are not sown till Spring, the plants will take another year before they bloom. ]. Calyx, showing the two broad sepals. 2. The 5 Stamens attached to the base of the petals, the upper part cut off to show the form of the filaments. 3. Ovarium, terminated by the Style and three Stigmas. W-- ■•crv . ' :•!* ’ ' ‘ . • "V' ' ■: '{'*• ■' r.- ;’V -p-* ■ , t- ' ■ y. ■ J . , ■/■* r'’ - , (, j .• s ^ t ' ^; f,. • .;-.yO , -Vi W*-- ■ - - VflV. v- vel ■ Fitb.iy. 217 HYPECOUM procumbens. Procumbent Hypecoum, Natural Order, Papaverace^. DC. syst. 2. p. 67. HYPECOUM. 2 lanceolata. Pe^a/a 4 inaequalia, 2 exte- riora majora, interiora saepius apicc 3-fida, lobo medio cochleariformi. Stamina 4, petalis opposita. Ovarium elongatum. Stigmata 2 substi- pitata. Capsula siliquaeformis, longa, bivalvis, saepibs articulationi- bus transverse nodosa, placentis 2 lateralibus. Semina inter articu- lationes solitaria, alternatim utrique placentae adfixa, exarillata. Em- bryo filiformis, arcuatus. Albumen carnosiim. — HexhodannucByparvcB, succo Jlavo foetcB. Radices simplices, perpendiculares. Folia glabra^ glauca^ radicalia petiolata pinnatisecta, segment is in lobos plurimos pinnatim multijidis. Scapi caulesve srepius plurimi bifidi aut dicho- tomi. Folia caulina floraliave sub ramis pedicellisve sita, sessilia, ra- dicalibus creterum similia. Flores terminales, flavin reverd solitarii sed subumbellatim nascentes. DC. sjst. 2. p. 101. H. procumbens y folds decompositis, laciniis lineari-lanceolatis acntis, petalis 3-lobis externis dorso glabris, siliquis arcuatis. Spreng. syst. veg. 1. p. 491. Hypecoura procumbens. DC. syst. nat. 2. p. 101. Prodr. 1. p. 123. Rcem. et Schult. syst. 3. p. 482. Willden. sp.pl. 1. p. 704. Sibth.fi. grcEc. 2. p. 46. t. 155. Schkuhr. handb. 1. p. 90. t. 27. Smith in Rees cycl. n. 1 . Root annual, simple, perpendicular, of a pale yellow co- lour. Leaves glaucous, smooth : radical ones several, peti- olate, pinnately multipartite : leaflets bipinnatifid, the seg- ments linearly lanceolate, acute, entire or toothed a little : stem-leaves with shorter foot-stalks, and less divided. Scapes several, erect when in flower, but becoming procumbent or bending when in fruit, branching at the point into 2 to 5 branches; at first when in flower approaching to an umbel, but afterwards lengthening out into a sort of raceme. Floral- leaves many parted at the base. Pedicles erect, cylindrical, continuing to increase in size with the seed pod. Flowers bright yellow. Sepals 2, lanceolate, acute, streaked. Petals 4*, VOL. III. F unequal, all smooth at the back; the two outer ones largest, oval-oblong, concave, bluntly 3-lobed ; 2 interior ones much smaller and narrower, trifid above the middle, the upper segment denticulate. Pods flat, falcate, or shaped like a sickle, taper-pointed, curved inwards, articulate or jointed and furrowed with several furrows, the joints knotted. The present plant varies very much in size and form, ac- cording to. the soil and situation in which it is grown, so that our present figure resembles H. imherhe of the Flora Graeca, more than it does the H. procumhens of the same work ; but we have seen the plants growing in both states, so that there can be no doubt of ours being the true plant. H. imherhe is readily distinguished by its fimbriate sepals, and the upper lobe of the trifid petals being much broader and cordate, and not toothed. Our drawing was taken from a plant at the Garden be- longing to the Apothecaries’ Company, at Chelsea, where it sows itself in the ground, and comes up annually without any trouble ; it is a very pretty annual plant, continuing a long time in bloom, and if sown in Autumn will flower early in Spring, but if sown in Spring, it will flower later in the Summer ; it only requires to be sown in the open borders, and to be kept free from weeds. Seeds ripen in abundance. 1. The two Sepals. 2. The two outer Petals. 3. One of the inner ones, back view. 4. The other one, front view. 5. The four Stamens. 6. Ovarium termi- nated by two Stigmas. fh BsZ JiJ. ky jT 218 AQUILEGIA alpina. Alpine Columbine, Natural Order, Ranunculace.®. DC, reg, veg, syst, 1. p. 127. Tribus IV. HELLEBORES, ^stivatio calycis et corollae imbri- cata. Petala nunc 0, nunc irregularia bilabiata nectarifera. Calyx petaloideus. Carpella capsularia intbs dehiscentia polyspernia. DC, prodr, 1. p, 44. AQUILEGIA, Calyx 5-sepalus deciduus colorato-petaloideus. Petala 5 supern^ hiantia bilabiata, labio exteriore raagno plana, in- teriore minimo, deorsiim producta in calcaria totidem cava apice callosa inter sepala exserta. Stamina nunierosa in phalanges 5-10 disposita, interiora abortiva antberis nullis filamentis dilatatis mem- branaceis oblongis. Ovaria 5. Capsulae totidem erectae polyspermas stylis acuminatae. — Herba0 pereunes erectee ; radices Jibrosee; folia radicalia aut inferiora longe petiolata, petiolo trifido hiternaiim secta, seg mentis trifidis dentatis scepius obtusis; superior a in lobos linear es partita autsecta; flores terminates ^ ccerulei^ albiy rosei aut purpureij rarissime sordide flavescentes, DC. reg. veg. syst. 1. p. 333. A. alpina, calcaribus rectis apice subincurvis limbo petalorum di- midio brevioribus, caule 2-3-floro folioso, foliorum segmentis in lobos lineares profunde multifidis. DC. syst, 1. p, 336-337. Prodr, \.p. 50. Aquilegia alpina. Linn, spec, 752. DC,Jl,fr. 4. p, 912. Deless, ic, sel, t, 48. Lodd. bot, cab, t, 657. Spreng, syst, 2. p, 630. Swt, hort. brit. p, 6. Root perennial, herbaceous. Stem about a foot high, slightly flexuose, clothed with a short pubescence, bearing from 3 to 5 leaves, and 2 or 3 flowers. Leaves slightly glau- cous: lower ones on long foot-stalks, twice ternate, the leaf- lets deeply 3-lobed or 3-parted, broadly cuneate, divided into numerous short broadish linear blunt segments, reticu- lately veined, lightest underneath : those higher up ternate,* the leaflets petiolate, 3-parted ; upper ones 3-lobed or en- tire, linear, acute. Petioles dilated at the base, nearly cy- lindrical, or slightly flattened on the upper side, thickly F 2 clothed with short spreading hairs. Flowers very large, 3 inches across, of a dark azure blue, a little nodding. Pe- duncles pubescent, cylindrical. Calyx of 5 sepals, decidu- ous ; sepals divaricately spreading, broadly ovate, tapering towards the point, which ends abruptly as if snipt off, fold- ed in towards the base, to make room for the large hollow spurs of the petals, more or less rugose, unguiculate, of a dark blue, brown at the points, slightly pubescent towards the base. Petals 5, alternate with the sepals, affixed by the centre, of rather a lighter blue, broadly wedge-shaped, each terminated at the back into a long hollow spur, the point of which is hooked inwards, and is more or less pubescent. Sfamens numerous, surrounding the ovariums, the filaments unequal in length, produced in sets, attached to the base of the anthers : sterile ones dilated and membranaceous, bear- ing no anthers. Our drawing of this very rare and magnificent plant was taken in June last, at the Nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, at Fulham, where it was in fine bloom for a considerable time, and has ripened its seeds, so that we hope it will soon become more common, as it ought to be in every collection. The plant from which our drawing was made, was grown in the open border, and was thriving with great luxuriance, so that we believe it has generally been lost by being confined in pots ; it prefers a rich loamy soil, and the seeds should be sown as soon as ripened ; the plants will then become strong before Winter, and will bloom the following Summer. 1. One of the Sepals. 2. One of the Petals, showing the large spur at the base, a little curved at the end. 3. One of the barren Stamens. 4. One of the fertile ones. 5. The 5 Carpella nearly full grown. ' ' , Zl9 1 t Jmtth M J‘^i h £./n»ce. V* ir,jdB.U~ Sn 219 ORCHIS coriophora. Bug-scented Orchis. Natural Order. Orchide^. Brown prodr. 309. Sect. I. Monandry. Anthera adnata subterminalis persistens. Pollinis massee e lobulis angulatis elastice cobaerentibiis : basi afBxae. Brown Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. p. 188. ORCHIS. Supra fol. 65. * Radice tuherosa indivisa. O. coriophora, caule folioso elato, foliis lanceolatis acutis striatis, la- bello trilobo; medio angustiore longiore; lateralibus denticulatis, foliolis perianthii conniventibus, calcari conico ovarium breviore. Orchis coriophora. Willden. sp. pi. 4. p. 14. Pers. syn. 2. p. 503. Hall. helv. t. 34. Jacq, aust. 2. 1. 1*22. Spreng. syst, 3. p. 687, Swt. hort. brit. p. 382. Roots composed of two fleshy tubers, above which are produced several thick succulent fibres, which spread in va- rious directions. Stem in our plant about 16 inches in height, smooth, erect, slightly angular, clothed with leaves. Leaves lanceolate, acute, channelled on the upper side, and striated with longitudinal furrows, sheathing the stem at the base, of a pale green, covered all over with small glittering scale-like specks. Spike terminal, many-flowered. Flowers brown, strong-scented, resembling the smell of bugs. Bractes lan- ceolate, acute, sheathing the ovarium at the base, the points curved inwards, scarcely reaching to the point of the peri- anthium, the margins transparent, with a strong green nerve down the centre. Ovarium twisted, angular, longer than the spur. Periantliium leaning forwards, of 5 leaflets, conni- vent or forming an arch, and all stuck together, the two in- ner ones smallest : 3 outer leaflets oblongly lanceolate, acute, the middle one broadest, and equal sided, the side ones un- equal sided : 2 inner ones very narrow, linearly lanceolate, acute. Labellum 3-lobed, of a brownish green, spotted with numerous small purple spots : middle lobe longest, oblong, obtuse, entire : side ones obliquely ovate, acute, more or less toothed with small teeth. Spur conical, bluntish, more than half as long as the ovarium, at first bending round like the ovarium, but at last becoming straight or nearly so. An- ther Q-lobed, each lobe enclosed in a purple hood. Pollen- masses on slender pedicles, each seated on a small purple gland at the base. Our drawing of this curious plant was taken at the Nur- sery of Mr. Colvill, from a bulb received from Professor Tenore, from the Royal Botanic Garden at Naples, and at the same time we saw several others of the same species in flower, that had been received from the late Mr. Schleicher, collected in Switzerland. It appears to be a very free grow- ing species, and its flowers are very singular, but they pos- sess a disagreeable scent. It succeeds well in a light sandy loam, and from its appearance we suspect it would prefer a little chalk mixed with it ; the ground in which it is planted should have a dry bottom, as nothing is more injurious to it than too much moisture when in a dormant state. We were much gratified in July last, with the appearance of a collection of hardy Orchideae, at the Nursery of Messrs. Young, at Epsom, where they were planted in beds, made of their natural soil, and were growing and flowering much stronger than when growing wild. 1. The Perianthium spread open, showing the 5 leaflets, with the twisted Ovarium at the base. 2. Labellum three-lobed, the side lobes toothed, showing the Spur at the base. 3. The Pollen masses detached and pedicelled, seated on little purple glands. zzo. Ai /tfuJRZ? VrfOdai Sc 220 COLLINSIA verna. Vernal Collinsia. Natural Order, Scrophularin^. Brown prodr, Sect. II. Stamina 4 antherifera. COLLINSIA. Calyx qiiinqueBdus. Corolla bilabiata clausa ; la- bio superiore bifido, inferiore trifido ; lacinia intermedia carinato- saccata genitalia arete tegens. Capsula rotunda, subunilocularis, sub- quadrivalvis. Semina duo vel tria. — Planta annua ; folia opposita et verticillataf integra; pedunculi verticillati axillares, unijlori. Nut- tall in tbe Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- phia. V, I, p, 190. C. verna, foliis radicalibus petiolatis rotundato-obovatis spathulatisve denticulatis : caulinis sessilibus ovato-lanceolatis : superioribus li- nearibus verticillatis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis subverticil- latis, corollae laciniis subemarginatis. Collinsia verna. Nuttall loc, cit, p, 190. jo/. 9. Gen. amer. v, 2. p, 4G. “ Root fibrous, annual. Stem often simple, or branched to- wards the base, terete, nearly smooth, (pubescentin our plant,) abouttwelve inches high. RadicaUeaves petiolate, roundish, or obovate-spathulate, denticulate; stem-leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, sparingly denticulate and somewhat sca- brous on the margin, sessile and subamplexicaule, some- times a little pubescent, but usually smooth ; floral leaves verticillated in threes, fives or sixes, ovate-lanceolate or li- near lanceolate, acute and mostly entire, diminishing upwards to the size of mere bractes. Peduncles 1 -flowered, axillary, commencing usually to appear with the third pair of leaves, filiform, nearly erect and somewhat pubescent, about an inch in length. Calyx subcam panu late, cleft more than half way down, and membranaceous at the base ; segments greenish, semi-lanceolate, acute, the two lower laciniae horizontally divergent. Corolla nearly in the form of a violet, bilabiate, closed; upper lip white, spirally reflected, bilobate with a small, prominent, arched palate, of a yellow^ colour spotted with saffron ; all the lobes of the flower obovate and ernar- ginate ; lower lip trifid, bright azure blue, lateral segments horizontally deflected, coalescing with the central lobe, which appears in the form of a closed carinated sacculum including the stamina and style, and rarely opening except for an instant when irritated apparently by heat,as with many of iheHedysa- rums; tube of the corolla short and gibbously curved, forming with the sacculum an oblong canal. Stamina didynamous, all arising from the lower lip ; anthers yellow, horizontal : the rudiment of a fifth stamen at the base of the corolla tube. Stylelong and capillary. Stigma scarcely any. Germ4-seed- ed. Capsule round, acute, shorter than the persistent calyx by which it is inclosed, partly 1 -celled and 4-valved, by abor- tion 2 and 3-seeded; valves opening rather more than half way down, where undivided, uniting with the small and imperfect receptacular dissepiment ; only about a third part of the capsule is divided by a partition. Seed brownish, oval, or elliptic, convex on the outer side, inner side umbilicately perforated ; externally a little rugose and reticulately punc- tured ; (about the size of mustard seed.) Corculum flat and erect, greenish; radicle inferior. Perisperm cartilaginous, including the corculum, perforated in the centre on the inner side, by which orifice the seed is attached to the receptacle.” Nuttall above quoted. 191-192. First described by Mr. Nuttall in the work above quoted, and from which we copied the above description ; he observes that he first became acquainted with it in 1810, when he met with it on the alluvial soils of the Alleghany, and on the bor- ders of Lake Erie, and again in 1816 on the banks of the Ohio. Our specimens we received from Mr. George Chari- wood, in June last, who raised them from seeds received by him from his friend in Philadelphia, in the cargo of curious plants and seeds that we mentioned in our last number ; the only thing which disagrees with Nuttall’s figure and descrip- tion in our specimens, is that ours appears to be rather more pubescent. It is a very beautiful annual plant, requiring no- thing but to be sown in the borders of the Flower-garden, in the Spring, and to be kept free from weeds. 1. One of the Root-leaves. 2. Calyx. 3. Corolla spread open, showing the 4 Sta- mens enclosed in the keel of the under lip, with the barren one at the base of the tube. 4. Ovarium, terminated by the Style and small Stigma. V.>, i'k' w -MS M ■ ^1' 'K^r^ ■' . >5®4' 'b' ' ’1’ - ^ ' ' - ■■• ./•: Infe' •4lv‘fe,"';, ^SmS "iVn-v-,, . . - , , , i ■ Kj'-'f^'.J"' ■ '■'■■' - " . '’&ff \' '4 i' -ife »kt; '■■ -, i fc'.' ■■ ■ -^^^ ■^-^.»^..»i^St^^:;.^ ‘*^’^{>};; ■i ^ . ,:y - « .■ M L4JVI fc* >>27. 1 / i . bf yt luZj- I I 221 PHLOX canadensis. Blue Canadian Lychnidea, Natural Order. Polemoniace^. D. Don obs. on Polemon. p. 4. PHLOX. Supra fol. 29 et 190, P. canadensis^ caulibus erectis subpubescentibus, foliis inferioribus ovatis : superioribus lato-lanceolatis oppositis alternisque, ramu- lis pubescentibus paucifloris compactis, calycibus subulato-linear- ibus, corollae laciniis lato-obcordatis ; tube subcurvato adscen- dente calyce sesquilongiore. Plant growing in a thick tuft, producing a great many branches : hranches erect, glossy, green or tinged with pur- ple, more or less spotted. Leaves sessile, nearly smooth, or very slightly pubescent, the margins slightly fringed, and the nerves underneath clothed with short recurved hairs : lower ones and those on the sterile shoots ovate, acute, at- tenuated towards the base ; those on the flower stems some- times opposite and sometimes alternate, broadly lanceolate or oblong, broad at the base, upper ones gradually narrower and more pointed. Flowers blue, tinged with lilac, lightest towards the base, in a terminal few-flowered panicle, the stems of which are densely clothed with short hairs that are terminated with minute glands. Pedicles short, thick- ening towards the calyx. Calyx 5 -cleft, densely clothed with glandular hairs, the laciniae subulately linear, erect, or a little spreading at the points. Corolla tubular, with a 5-cleft, spreading limb : tube slender, straight, or a little curved and ascending, striated, about half as long again as the calyx : lacinice of the limb broadly obcordate, about half the length of P. divaricata, and much broader. Sta- mens 5, inserted in diflerent parts of the tube, and inclu- ded : filaments very short : pollen bright yellow. Ova- VOL. III. G rium smooth, conical. Style short, smooth. Stigma trifid, the segments erect. Our drawing of this pretty new species, was taken from a plant at the N ursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, at Fulham, in July last; it had been imported from Montreal, in Canada, last Winter, under the name that we have adopted ; it is related to P. divaricata, and also to V.pilosa^ but is a stronger growing plant, and more upright than either of those, and the shape of the flowers are different from P. divaricata, as well as the habit of the plant. It appears to be of free growth, and forms a large tuft, so that it will be readily increased, thriving well in the open border of the flower-garden, in the common gar- den soil, and may be readily increased by cuttings, planted under hand-glasses, or by dividing at the root. Numerous species of this beautiful genus appear to have been confused by different authors ; perhaps the present plant has been confounded with P. dwaricata; several other species, we believe, have been confused with P. ma- culataj P. glabe7*rimay and others, which can only be put to rights by seeing them growing together; dried specimens resemble each other so much, that it is scarcely possible to decide any thing by them, where the species are so nearly related, but when seen grown together, their difference is readily perceived. 1. Calyx. 2. Tit1)e of the Corolla spread open, to show the insertion of the Stamens. 3. Ovarium, terminated by the Style and trifid Stigma. B.i ty S -jvrre t Oct^ IS 1 7. V'eJ-XeUfc. 1 Iifmi 222 HERBERTIA pulchella. Plaited-leaved Herhertia, Natural Order. Iride^. Brown prodr. p. HERBERTIA. Perianthiurn corollaceum, sexpartitum; tubo brevissimo : laciniis tribus interioribus multo minoribus. Stamina 3. Filamenta connala. Antherce lineares. Stigmata 3, laminaeformia, bibda. Capsula oblonga, trilocularis, polysperma. Semina angulata. — Herbae caulescentes. Radix bulbosa. Folia ensiformia v. linearia, plicata, vaginantia. Flores terminates, spathacei, ccerulei. H. pulchella, foliis lineari-ensiforrnibus utrinque acutis plicatis, pe* riantilii laciniis basi tuberculato-barbatis. Root an oblong or flattened bulb, clothed with several brown membranaceous shells. Leaves narrowly ensiform or linear, plaited, acute, tapering towards the base, and sheathing the stem, more or less glaucous, those on the stem shorter and narrower. Stem slender, leafy, flexuose, simple or divided, smooth, cylindrical. SpatJia 2-valved, the inner one much the longest, convolute, acute, with membranaceous margins, enclosing the flowers before ex- pansion. Peduncles slender, cylindrical, inclosed in mem- branaceous bractes. Flowers blue, tinged with purple, and striped with white. PeriantJimm seated on the ovarium, petal-like, deeply 6-parted, with scarcely any tube, the la- cinise connected at the base ; the three outer ones much the largest, obovate, attenuated towards the base, spreading, or slightly reflexed, striated with darker veins, and striped with white a little above the base, bearded below the white stripe with numerous dark blue tubercles, the upper part smooth and glossy : three inner laciniae very small, erect, lanceolately spathulate, also striate, purple, tuberculate to- wards the base, but less so than the outer ones. Stamens 3, the filaments connected into a tube the length of the style, G 2 which they enclose, the points and part of the anthers sticking to the back of the stigmas : anthers linear, ex- tending beyond the stigmas. Ovarium smooth, slender at the base, and thickening upwards. Style short, smooth, pale purple. Stigmas 3, spreading, linear, a little dilated upwards, bifid, the segments linear, acute, spreading. Cap- sule oblong, 6-channelled, every other channel deeper, 3-celled, many-seeded. Seeds angular, horny, close-pressed on each other. Several bulbs of this beautiful plant, with many others, were received, last Spring, by Mr. J. B. Mackay, of the Clapton Nursery, that had been collected on an Island in the Bay of Maldonado, by Mr. J. Anderson, the Collector on board of Captain King’s ship, who has made a great collection of plants and seeds, in and near the Straits of Magellan, some of which Mr. Mackay expects to receive shortly. The present very distinct genus, which we believe has never before been published, we have named in compliment to the Honourable and Reverend William Herbert, Author of an interesting work on the Amaryllidece, and who, we believe, possesses the greatest number of species of bulbs in this country, which he cultivates with great success, at his seat at Spofforth, near Harrogate, Yorkshire. The bulbs of this plant require the same sort of treatment as the common Tiger-flower, Tigridia pavonia ; to be planted out in a border of light sandy soil in Spring ; and, after flowering, to be taken up and kept dry, out of the reach of frost till the following Spring ; or if left in the ground all the Winter, they will require covering, like the Cape bulbs ; if grown in pots, an equal mixture of turfy loam, peat, and sand, will suit them very well. Seeds ripen plentifully, so that we hope to see it shortly in general cultivation. 1. The 3 inner segments of the Perianthium. 2. The three Stamens, with their filaments united in a tube, but distinct at the points, the tube split open. 3. Style, and three Stigmas. 4. Ripe Capsule, open at the top, showing the three partitions. 5. One of the Seeds. . iv ,T, ' ' ‘ ^ -T- ^ ' ,:: : !'■ ‘ 'j^ :■ fl- •,\ lN*fl.'.'»«(fcV**»» J-^ 1 . ■iTl -' ■■^ 5 J^h ty It fimt OctJS£2 WcJiUii fc- 223 VIOLA pubescens. Downy Violet. Natural Order. ViOLARiiE, DC. prodr. 1. p. 287. VIOLA. Supra fol. 69. Sect. III. ChAMMLANIUM. Stigma sph0eroideo-capitatum,Titrin- que fasciculis pilorum onustum, foramiiiulo minuto sublaterali. Sty- lus compresso-clavatus. Stamina oblonga approximata. Torus pla- niusculus. Capsula saepe trigona. Folia seminalia saepibs subro- tunda. Petala 2 ungue barbata. DC. prodr. 1. p. 300. V. pubescenSf caulibus siniplicibus erectis v. subprocumbentibus an- gulatis superne villosis, foliis lato-cordatis acumiuatis obtuse ser- ratis pubescentibus, stipulis ovatis oblongisve subserratis, sepalis lanceolatis acutis patentibus ; calcare brevissimo subsaccato, cap- sula glabra. Viola pubescens. Nutt. gen. amer. 1. p. 150. DC. prodr. \.p. 301. Swt. hort. brit. p. 37. Perennial. Stems several from the same root, not branched, erect or sometimes procumbent, angular, smooth on the lower part, the upper part clothed with spreading villous hairs. Leaves broadly cordate, rather bluntly acu- minate, bluntly serrate, the teeth curved inwards, more or less pubescent, strongly and numerously veined underneath, the main ones springing from the base, and branching in all directions. Petioles slightly winged, villosely pubescent. Stipules broad, ovate or oblong, bluntish, the upper ones acute, some entire, others slightly serrulate, pubescent. Peduncles slender, furrowed, pubescent, with two small bractes about the middle of each. Bractes one on each side, ovate, obtuse, alternate or rarely opposite. Flowers bright yellow, marked with dark stripes. Calyx of 5 spreading sepals, which are lanceolate, acute, pubescent, with white membranaceous margins. Corolla of 5 petals. the upper ones and side ones nearly equal in size, spread- ing: upper ones not bearded, with 2 faint blue lines near the base, one of which is much larger than the other : side ones bearded a little above the unguis with a dense tuft of clavate pellucid hairs, and striped with 2 or 3 blue lines from the base: the lower one producing a short blunt pouch at the base, and elegantly striped with numerous purple lines, most of which are slightly branched. Stamens 5, anthers fixed by their back to the filaments, which ter- minates beyond them in a dry brown membrane. Ovarium smooth, or sometimes slightly pubescent, even on the same branch. Style smooth, produced on one side, gradually thickening upwards. Stigma capitate, flattened, with a fas- cicle of hairs on each side. Capsule smooth and glossy. We are glad of the opportunity afforded us of giving a figure of the present plant, to show the difference between it and V. eriocarpa, already published at No. 102; the present plant is readily distinguished by its simple stems and smooth capsules, the flowers are also of a brighter yel- low, and the upper petals not bearded. Our drawing was made from fine specimens that we re- ceived from Robert Barclay, Esq. of Bury-hill, near Dork- ing, who imported it from Montreal, in Canada, last Win- ter ; it is now growing luxuriantly in the open borders of his garden, and has ripened abundance of seeds ; we also obtained specimens of the same species from the Nursery of Messrs.Whitley, Brames, and Milne, of Fulham, who had also received it from Montreal, with many other curious plants, so that it will probably soon become plentiful, as it must certainly be very hardy, thriving well in a rich light soil, and may be increased by dividing at the root, or by seeds ; the seeds, if sown as soon as ripened, w ill produce flowering plants for the next season. 1. Calyx. 2. The lower petal, showing the short spur or pouch at the base. 3. The two upper smooth petals, and the 2 side ones, bearded above the un- guis. 4. The 5 Stamens spread open. 5. Ovarium, terminated by the Style and Stigma. 6. The smooth Capsule. « V»-i# <* ^ ; •< *?, •:> /: %o*' > « •> r' i f I j • \ m WeiLcUli. fc-. E7}Sinith J)fL ■ Tui by jH fweeE /)cEJS27 224 PHLOX odorata. Sweet-scented LycJinidea. Natural Order. Polemoniaceje. D. Don obs. on Polern. p, 4» PHLOX. Supra fol. 29 et 190. P. odorata, caule erecto superne ramoso scabriusculo, folds aciinii- natis glabris margine scabris : inferioribus linearibus : mediis ob- longo-lanceolatis; superioribus cordato-ovatis, ramis corymbosis miiltifloris subfastigiatis, dentibus caljcinis ovatis brevi acumi- natis erectis, corollaB laciniis cuneato-obovatis. Phlox bimaculata. Hortulanorum. Stem straight, erect, in our specimens three feet high, branching from about the middle, bluntly four-sided, green, more or less spotted with irregular spots and marks, the lower part smooth and glossy, upper part and the small branches roughish, and clothed with a short pubescence. Leaves variable, smooth, and glossy ; tapering to along slender point; the margins rough, of a dark glossy green on the upper side, underneath paler ; lower ones linear, the next lanceolate, others oblongly lanceolate or ovate, the upper ones cordately ovate, all opposite or very rarely slightly alternate, in which it differs from P. maculata, P. latifoliay and some others, in which the upper leaves are mostly alternate. Branches opposite, slender, pubescent, terminated with a cymose co- rymb of flowers, at the base of which are two leaves oppo- site to each other. Corymbs rather crowded with flowers, flattened at the summit, the fascicles several-flowered. Brac- tes narrow, linear or subulate. Pedicles short, purplish, pubescent. Flowers of a bright red lilac, very sweet-scent- ed. Calyx short, tubular, 5-toothed, 5-angular, smooth, membranaceous between the angles, of a brownish purple : teeth short, ovate, with a short acuminate point, erect or the points very slightly reflexed. Corolla tubular, with a 5-cleft spreading limb : tube purple, striate, curved upwards, more than three times longer than the calyx: segments of the limb spreading, cuneately obovate, a little rounded ; mouth, of a bluish purple. Stamens 5, inserted in the tube, 3 ex- tending to the mouth, the anthers partly exserted, and two low^er down in the tube : filaments short, attached to the back of the anthers : pollen golden yellow. Ovarium smooth and glossy. Style smooth, about three parts the length of the tube. Stigma trifid. Our drawing was made from a fine plant, sent us by Mr. George Wheeler, Nurseryman, at Warminster, under the name of P. himaculata ; it has probably been confused by some with P. maculata^ but is certainly a very distinct plant from any that are at present described ; its flowers are delightfully fragrant, so that it is worthy a place in ail col- lections ; as the scent still continues in the flowers of the dried specimens, that were gathered in June last. It is a stately upright plant, attaining the height of three feet, and some of the panicles of the flowers are above a foot in length, and continue in bloom a long time. It suceeeds well in the borders of the flower-garden, in the common garden soil, but it is also well to keep some plants in pots to be protected in frames in severe weather, as the plants in the ground are sometimes injured : it may be increased by di- viding at the root, or cuttings, planted under hand-glasses, strike root readily. 1. One of the lower linear leaves. 2. One of the lanceolate ones from the middle of the stem. 3. Calyx. 4. Tube of the Corolla spread open, to show the insertion of the Stamens. 5. Ovarium, terminated by the Style and trifid Stigma. hyR 1 2SZy. 225 AMPHEREPHIS intermedia. Intermediate Ampherephis. Natural Order. Composit^e. Adanson fam.'2. 103. Subordo III. CarduACEM. — Sect. III. Veraoniaceae. AMPHEREPHIS. Involucrum hemisphaBricum, bracteatum, poly phj Hum, imbricatum. Receptaculum planum, nudum. Flosculi crebri, omnes tubulosi, hermaphroditi. Akenia cylindracea, sulcato- costata, nuda. Pappus pilosus, caducus; pills complanalis.— Fruti- culi ramosissimi, ramis foliisque alternis, serratis. Floribus termi- nalibusy solitariis, pedunculatis, purpureis. Kth. synops.2. p. 368. A. intermedia, foliis oblongo-ovatis serratis basi attenuatis, foliolis involucri spinoso-aristatis. Ampherephis intermedia. PI. sel. hort. ber.f. 5. Link enum. 2.p. 309. Swt. hort. brit.p. 219. Stem much branched, suffrutescent at the base : branches alternate, clothed with a short pubescence, and longer un- equal hairs intermixed. Leares alternate, oblongly ovate, acute, attenuated towards the base, and winged down the petiole, unequally serrate, the teeth large and sharpish, slightly pubescent; underneath pennately nerved, the nerves strong and branching near the points : upper side furrowed. Flowers terminal, of a bluish purple. Peduncle short, pubescent. Capitulum surrounded at the base by several leafy bractes, which are unequal in size, the inner ones smallest. Involucrum hemispherical, composed of nume- rous small leaflets, in several series, closely imbricate, lower ones ovate, terminated by a sharp spiny rigid point, the upper ones oblong, terminated by a thin membranaceous point. Receptacle flat, naked. Florets tubular ; the tube very slender at the base, widening a little upwards ; the limb deeply 5-cleft. Stamens 5, the anthers united into a tube, naked at the base : filaments distinct. Style smooth VOL. III. H at the base, but pubescent near the stigma. Stigma bifid, the points reflexed or re volute. Seeds cylindrical, furrowed or ribbed, terminated with a pappus of flat, chaflf-like, de- ciduous hairs. This pretty plant is a native of Brazil, and requires the treatment of the half hardy annuals, the seeds to be sown early in Spring, either on a hot-bed made on purpose for rather tender annuals, or it may be raised in pots in the Hot-house or Greenhouse, or in frames, and must then be planted out, in a sheltered situation of the Flower-garden, about the middle of May, that it may attain strength to flower fine in Autumn. It will probably survive several years, if kept in the Stove through the Winter, and may then be increased by cuttings. Our drawing was made in September last, from a plant, about a foot high, at the Apothecaries Company’s Garden at Chelsea, where it was raised by Mr. W. Anderson, from seeds received from Mr. Otto, Curator of the Royal Bo- tanic Garden at Berlin. It thrives well in any rich light soil, and produces an abundance of seeds. 1. One of the lower leaflets of the Involucrum, showing the spine at the point. 2. One of the inner ones, with a membranaceous point. 3. Capitulum split through the middle, to show the naked receptacle. 4. One of the Florets, with the seed at its base. 5. The same split open, showing the Stamens. 6. The same divested of the Stamens, to show the nerves. 7. Anthers connected, with the filaments distinct. 8. Seed, showing the ribbed surface. iJ 226 ARGEMONE grandiflora. Large-flowered Argemone. Natural Order, Papaverace^. DC, syst. 2. p, 67. ARGEMONE, Sepala 2-3, concava, mucrone superata, pilis aculeiformibus aspera, aut laBvia. Petala 4-6. Stamina numerosa. Ovarium ovatum; stigmatibus 4-7 radiantibus persistentibus concavis liberis (nec super discum sessilibus) coronatum. ovata, l-lo- cularis, valvulis apice dehiscens, placentibus linearibus. Semina spliaerica, scrobiculata. — Herbae annuce, succo Jlavescente donata, in caule foliis et calyce pilis rigidis subaculeata, aut Icevia. Pedunculi axillares solitarii, aut terminales paniculati, semper erecti nec ante anthesin injlexo cernui, Flores Jlavi aut albi, DC. syst. 2. p. 85, pa- rum mutatis. N, grandijlora, foliis sinuatis laevibus deutato-spinulosis ; iiervis in- ermibus, floribus paniculatis terminalibus polyandris, calycibus laevibus, capsula obtuse quadrangula subinermi. Annual, Stem branching, smooth, or a little prickly at the base, spotted, and the branches tinged with purple, be- tw^een 3 and 4 feet high. Leaves sessile, sinuate or nearly pinnatifid, smooth, the nerves and veins not spiny : lower ones very similar to Acanthus mollis^ above a foot long, and about half a foot broad, the segments oblong, distinctly and horizontally spreading, sinuately toothed, the teeth and points terminated with a weak spine : stem ones smaller and less divided, very slightly glaucous, the segments more acute, nerves purplish. Flowers very above 4 inches across when expanded, of a pure white, in terminal pani- cles, forked at every division of the stem, the flowers in pairs. Peduncles short, smooth. Calyx of 3 sepals, which are smooth, ovate, convex, and terminated by a sharp horn like point, deciduous, dropping off as soon as the flower expands. Petals 6, in our specimens, very broad and much imbricate, narrow at the base, rounded at the margins, which H 2 are slightly uneven or undulate, strongly veined with nume- rous veins from the base, which branch upwards. Stamens very numerous, crowded, surrounding the ovarium : fila- ments smooth, the inner ones double the length of the outer ones : pollen golden yellow. Capsule 4-furrowed, bluntly 4-angular, glaucous, thickest in the middle and tapering to both ends, bearing one to three set8e on each angle, or sometimes none. Stigmas 4, spreading, pitted, the pits pale blue, and the margins of a velvetty purple. For the opportunity afforded us of giving a figure of this grand plant, we are obliged to the kindness of Robert Barclay, Esq. of Bury Hill, in whose superb collection it was raised this Spring, from seeds received from Mexico. Mr. D. Cameron informs us that the seeds were sown on heat in Spring, and the plants were transplanted into the open ground, where they have attained the height of from three to four feet, and have every appearance of being an- nual; the flowers are larger than A. albifiora, and are pro- duced in greater abundance, the capsules are much smaller, and the plants altogether a great deal smoother, one of the plants only having a few prickles at the base. It is certainly one of the grandest annuals that has been introduced for some time, and no garden where there is room ought to be without it ; but of course it will not be common for some time, as Mr. Cameron informs us that it does not seed freely, which is rather surprising, as it bears such an abun- dance of stamens, which are well supplied with pollen, and the plants continuing in full bloom from the end of July to the middle of October. 1. The 3 Sepals in different views. 2. Portion of the Stamens. 3. Ovarium, terminated by the Stigmas. 4. Capsule farther advanced, the Stigmas nearly withered up. ':V ■ i j ■’ ■ '■• ■ 'M '■■**' •' ''' ' I • */ by S'. Mat-. jfov.idZ^. WeddeibJi. 227 CARAGANA frutescens. Shrubby Caragana. Natural Order. Leguminos^. DC, prod. 2. p, 268. Subordo I. PapILIONACEJE. — Tribus II. Lote^. Supra Subtribus IV. GalEGEJE. Lcgumen l-locwVdXQ. diadel- pha, rarius monadelpha. Caw/es herbacei fruticosi aiitarborei. Folia primordialia aut alterna aut opposita disparia, iiiio simplici, altero pinnato. DC, I, c. p. 243. CARAGANA. Calyx breviter tubulosus 5-dentatus. Corolla ob- tusa recta alis vexilloque longitudine subsequalis. Stamina diadelpha. (9 et l). Stylus glaber. Stigma terminale truncatum. Legumen ses- sile, junius compressum, demum subcylindricum, polyspermum stylo mncronatum. Semina subglobosa. — Arbores iVuticesve Sibiri- cce aut Orientates. Folia ahrupte pinnata, foliolis mucronatis petiolo apice setoso aut spmescente. Pediculi axillares unijiori scepius fasci- culati. Flores Jlavi aut in sold C. jubata albi subrubentes, Stipulae sce- pius spinescentes. DC. prodr. 2. p.268. C. frutescens, foliolis bijugis ad apicem petioli approximatis obovato- cuneatis glabris, stipulis membranaceis, petiolo apice brevi spi- nescente, pedunculis solitariis calyce dnpio longioribus, legumini- bus glabris. Caragana frutescens. DC, prodr.2,p. 26Q. Pers. syn.2. p.S\2, Swt, hort. brit. p. 125. Robinia frutescens. Linn. spec. 1044. Pall.fl.ross. t. 43. Willden. spec. 4. p. 325. Schmidt arb. \ .p. 34. t. 34. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 325. Spreng. syst. 3. p. 245. Lam. diet. 1. p. 616. A handsome bushy shrub : branches spreading, angu- lar, smooth. Leaves smooth, pinnate, with 2 pair of leaf- lets, which are very close to each other, at the point of the petiole : leaflets obovate or cuneate, tapering to the base, mucronate, pinnately nerved, and reticulately veined, of a pale green colour. Petioles channelled on the upper side, and convex on the lower, terminated in a short slender spine. Stipules lanceolate, acute, slightly fringed. Flowers soli- tary, or sometimes in pairs, produced in the abortive shoots of the last year, of a bright yellow colour. Peduncles long and slender, jointed, smootL Calyx flattened, tubular, 5- toothed, striated with branching veins, smooth ; teeth acute, the two upper ones rather shortest. Vexillum large, spread- ing, slightly emarginate, keeled on the outer side, and channelled within. Wings spathulate, about the length of the vexillum and keel, eared on one side at the base, and producing a long slender unguis on the other. Keel flat, two eared, also slenderly unguiculate. Stamens 10, diadel- phous, 9 joined in a long lube, but distinct at the points, ascending, the other distinct to the base, and shorter. Ova- rium long, flat, smooth, and glossy. Style smooth, ascend- ing. Stigma a simple blunt point. The specimens from which our drawing was made, was communicated to us by A. B. Lambert, Esq. in whose garden, at Boyton, they flowered in May last. It makes a handsome plant for the Shrubbery, and is quite hardy, be- ing a native of Siberia ; and though it has been cultivated in our gardens ever since the year 17»52, it still continues scarce, as do the other species of this genus, owing princi- pally to their being so little known ; the generality of Gar- deners, not being sufficiently acquainted with plants, par- ticularly hardy shrubs, to be enabled to select a pleasing variety, but fill their Shrubberies with a great number of common things, of very few sorts, many of which are alto- gether useless, instead of selecting a pleasing variety, which would scarcely cost more, and would require no more care or trouble in cultivation. The present species thrives well in the common garden soil, and maybe increased by seeds or cuttings, or by graft- ing on the common C. arhorescens ; if from cuttings, they should be planted the latter end of August, or beginning of September, in a shady situation, and will require to be watered occasionally if the weather prove dry. 1. Calyx. 2. Vexillum. 3. The two wings. 4. The keel spread open. 5. The distinct Stamen. 6. The other 9 connected in a tube, but distinct at the points, the tube laid open. 7. The smooth Ovarium, terminated by the Style. ii} ■•■ ; :■■, , ,•■ " ''V ' . ■:' .■■■' r-^V •i - ( i i rtib by JSZ J. 228 ALSTR(EMERIA Mrtella. Hairy -leaved Alsircemeria. Natural Order, AMARYLLiDEiE. Brown prodr. p, *29^. ALSTRCEMERTA. Perianthium superum, petaloideum sub- campanulatum, sexpartitum, irregulare ; laciniis duabus interioribus basi tubuloso-convolutis. Stamina 6, laciniis inserta, demum decli- nata. Stigma trifidum. Capsula trilocularrs ; loculis poljspermis. — Caulis erectuSy scandens aut voluhilis, foliatus. Fiores umbellati. Kth. synops. 1. p. 288. A. hirtellay caule volubili glabro, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acumi- natis multinerviis supra in venis birtis, umbellis multifloris, pedi- cellis 2-3-floris bracteatis laxis, perianthii laciniis exterioribus paulo brevioribus. Alstroeineria hirtella. Humb. Bonpl. et Kunth. nov.gen.pl. 1. p. 284. Kth. synops. \ .p. 289. Sprang, syst. 2. p. 81. Swt. hort. brit.p, 409. Roots perennial, tuberous, resembling small potatoes. Stems several from the same plant, simple, twining, in our plant four feet and a half in height, smooth and glossy, more or less tinged with purple, a little compressed, or slightly angular, the obsolete angles proceeding from the footstalks of the leaves, being very slightly decurrent down the stem. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, ovately lan- ceolate, taper-pointed, longitudinally many nerved, of a thin membranaceous texture, resupinate, the footstalk be- ing twisted, so that the upper part of the leaf is downwards, the nerves thickly clothed with numerous long twisted white hairs, so as to give the appearance of being villous, between the nerves striated; the other side smooth, and slightly glaucous. Petioles short, flat, and thin, tinged with dark purple, twisted. Umbel terminal, many-flowered. Involucre of 6 or 7 leaf-like unequal leaflets, some double the size of the others, all petiolate. Peduncles 2 or 3-flow- ered, bracteate, loosely spreading, angular and furrowed, smooth, dark purple. Bractes sessile, ovate, acute, con- cave. Pedicles triangular, sulcate, clothed with a few short inconspicuous hairs on the upper part, as is also the ova- rium. P erianthium connivent, but spreading at the mouth, deeply 6-parted : the three outer segments lan- ceolately spathulate, acute, concave, veined, keeled at the back, the keel and point clothed with short rough hairs, outside of a pale orange -colour, tinged with red, green near the point, inside rather paler : inner segments a little lon- ger, convolute, and tubular from the middle to the base, inclosing the honey, the points spreading flat, broadly wedge-shaped and irregular, also strongly keeled at the back, which is of a green colour ; inside green, elegantly spotted and striped with dark purple. Stamens 6, inserted in the base of the perianthium : filaments straight at first, afterwards declining, very rough, being clothed with a short gland-like pubescence : pollen brown. Ovarium be- low the perianthium, 6-angular, slightly pubescent. Style short, erect, about half the length of the Stamens, clothed with the same gland-like pubescence. Stigma trifid, the laciniee at first connivent, afterwards spreading. Capsule very large, triangular, narrow at the base, and broad at the end, 3-celled, and many seeded. Seeds about the size of small peas. This handsome plant is a native of Mexico, and we be- lieve has now^ flowered with us for the first time in this country ; it is quite hardy, having stood three Winters in our garden by the side of a wall in a southern aspect, without protection ; the seed from which our plant was produced, was given us by Mrs. Manners Sutton, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lady, and was sown at once in the open bor- der ; it first showed flower last Autumn, but it came too late, so that it did not expand ; this Summer it began flowering the beginning of August, and continued to produce different flowering shoots until the middle of October, and is ripening abundance of seeds : it is planted about 6 inches deep in a light sandy soil. 1. The three outer leaflets of the Perianthium. 2. The three inner ditto, the Stamens inserted in their base. 3. The other three Stamens, with the upper part of the Perianthium taken from them, two of them burst, showing the pol- len. 4. Ovarium. 5. Style, and trifid Stigma. C. Filament removed from the anther, to show its slender point. '■'f, Vi ^1* i y ., ’ ■..■ ^:\V> . ■•;:>• s. ■5. r > -? V' r^: ’/ JP^l iy Z .2iec-7^y- 229 GASTROCARPHA runcinata. Turnep-lemed Gastrocarpha. Natural Order. Compositje. Adanson f am » 10^, 8ubordo II. LABIATIFLORM. DC, in Ann, Mus. 19. p. 63. GASTROCARPHA. Inmlucrum 5-phyllum. Reeeptaculum pa- leatum : paleis difFormibus; exterioribus cucullatis, basi gibbos^, apice trimcatis cum mucronulo flosculum quasi involucello proprio obvallantibus. Flosculi hermaphroditi, bilabiati, aequales. Pappus paleaceus, brevissimus, polypbyllus. D. Don Mss. Descr. Inmlucrum 5-phyllum (nunc 6-phyllum) : foliolis ovatis mucronatis, aequalibiis. Reeeptaculum paleatum : palece difformes; exteriores^y periphasricas, simplici ordine digestae, foliaceae, dilatatae, cucullatas, margin! bus ciliatis, fere collapsis, flosculas marginales sigillatim quasi involucello proprio, includentes, apice truncatae, mucronuloque instructae, extus basi gibbos^, reticulatim varicosae ; ceterae interiores, lineari-lanceolatae, scariosae, canaliculatas, apice acuminate simplici, v. bi-aut tricuspidato. Flosculi omnes herma- phroditi, bilabiati, subaequales (periphericis paulo majoribus) extus pilosiusculi ; lahio exteriore ligulato, tridenticulato, patulo ; interiore multo minore, profunde bipartite, revoluto ; laciniis linearibus, acu- tis : tubo limbo breviore, apice paululhm dilatato. Filamenta capil- laria, teretia, glabra, elastica, articulo manifesto. Antherre coalitae, flavae; appendicul^ lineari-lanceolat^, acut^, alb^, antherae ipsius longitudine terminatae, basi longe bisetae : setis simplicibus, attenu- atis. Stylus filiformis, laevis, basi bulbosus. Stigma biparlitura : lohis linearibus, compressis, extus bisulcatis, apice truncate, papilloso- hispidulo, parhm dilatato. Achenia difformia ; marginalia obovata, dorso gibbosa, laevia; disci pentagona, minute papillosa. Pappus uniforrnis, paleaceus, brevissimus, polyphyllus : foliolis lanceolatis, mucronatis, ciliatis, rigidis, simplici serie contiguis, persistentibus, basi solutis. — Herba (Chilensis) erecta, ramosa, virens, copios^ glan- duloso-villosa^ tempore fiorendiformosaf odorem moscho similem redo- lens; radice fbrosd, annua. Caulis teres yjlexuosus, spithamccusy v. pedalis; in hortis tamcn scepe ^ pedes attingens. Folia alternUy pro- funde runcinato-pinnatifiday suprd opacUy subtits luciduy hi^v. tripol- licaria: in hortis siBpe spit liamcea v. pedalia ; caulinis superior! bus basi auriculatd amplexicaulibus ; segmentis lanceolatisy mucronatis, undulatis, lobatisy acuteque dentatis. Flores diffusi paniculatiy pedi- cellati. Involucrum foliaceumy virens, hirtellum. Flosculi plures (12- 16) singulo involucro, niv'ei. D. Don Mss. Gastrocarpha runcinata. D. Don Mss. “ The LahiatiflorcB constitute an interesting group, allied on one hand to the CicJim'acece, and on the other to VOL. III. I the CarduacecE ; and although it may be difficult to de- fine the precise limits of these three several families, yet of the propriety of retaining them distinct, there can, I think, be no question. The curious plant, above described, is an important addition to the order, forming, as it does, the type of a new genus, connecting the compound capitulum of PoLYACHYRUS with the simple one of Leuceria ; to the latter genus the Triosis senecioides of Dr. Hooker (Ex. FI. t. 101) must be referred.” ‘‘ I had already defined the character of Gastrocarpha, in the Lambertian Herbarium, from specimens collected by Mr. Caldcleugh in Chili, when an opportunity fortunately occurred of improving the description, by an examination of living samples, the plants having produced their flowers abundantly this Autumn, in the valuable collection of Alexander Baring, Esq. at the Grange, Hampshire, where they were raised from seed last Spring, and where, under the active superintendance of our intelligent friend, Mr. McArthur, a great number of the rarest and most interest- ing plants are successfully cultivated. The genus is inti- mately allied to Polyachyrus of our learned friend, Don Mariano Lagasca, but is readily distinguished from that genus by its simple capitula, by the equality of its florets, and finally by its uniform, paleaceous seed crown. The whole plant has a strong musky smell.” For the above account of the present subject, we are obliged to the kindness of Mr. D. Don : it is a handsome strong growing annual plant, the seed of which should be sown on a little heat early in Spring, and from thence be planted in the borders of the Flower Garden. The generic name is intended to mark the peculiar structure of the mar- ginal paleae of the receptacle, and is derived from a belly, and Kapcpog, chaff. 1. Involucre. 2. Receptacle, showing the chaff in the centre, and one of the inflated paleae on one side, the others taken off to show the chaff. 3. One of the paleae, with the two-lipped Floret inserted in it, the inner lip spread out. 4. Flo- ret, with the seed at its base, seated on a pedicle, radiately crowned with short paleae. 5. The 5 Stamens, the anthers united into a tube, each with two long setae at the base, the filaments distinct. 0. Seed, terminated by the Style and Stigma. 7. Seed crowned with short chaff, magnified. ^ ■'4' i. ''•' ■r^r,: . ■ : > f' •' r . if;. ■• ^ ■ tA'" < Liy P> I ?\t,i!i j lb ,Y ' c-- • : .'c ■t: )r**i r ■ -■ t •. f ':'■ '• f.: , ^ •■ : » L; -. ,. .-v. \y^ 1 4 ^ . I zso. Ji'iif K^jkr:ej>2)a We-d,ieU' JiSTni^ Del, . 230 CHELONE rosea. Rose-coloured Chelone. Natural Order. Scrophularin^. Kth. synops.^. 'p.WO. Tribus II. Stamina 4 antherifera. CHELONE. Supra fol. 120. Sect. II. PENTSTEMON. Filamento steriii superne barbato. C. rosea, caule herbaceo glabro, foliis lanceolatis acutis argute ser- rulalis sessilibus glabris : superioribus latioribus, pedunculis ax- illaribus subtrifloris, corollis parvis subinflatis, labio inferiore dense barbato : laciniis limbi brevissimis, filamento steriii su- perne barbato. Chelone rosea. Cervantes Mss. Swt. kort. brii.p. 305. Perennial, herbaceous, or slightly suffrutescent at the base, much branched: hranches erect or slightly flexuose, smooth and glossy, and somewhat viscous. Leaves rather crowded, opposite, sessile, smooth and glossy, sharply serrated, the points of the teeth a little bent inwards: lower ones narrowly lanceolate, acute; the upper ones near the flowers broader, cordate at the ba^'C, and clasping the stem, more taper-pointed. Flowers of a bright purplish red, about half the size of C. campanulata, in a terminal paniculated raceme. Peduncles cylindrical, glossy, viscous, and more or less clothed with glandular hairs, the lower ones sometimes 4 to 6-flowered, the greater part of the others three-flowered, the upper ones only 1 or 2-flowered. Bractes lanceolate, acute, entire, covered with glandular hairs, and fringed. Pedicles longer than the bractes, of a glossy purple, viscous and glandularly hairy. Caly^r 5-part- ed, the segments lanceolate, acute, tipped with purple, glan- dularly hairy and fringed, spreading. Cm^olla tubular at the base, slightly inflated upwards, keeled at the back, thickly clothed with small hairs, that are tipped with minute glands : limb 2-lipped, the upper lip very short, slightly tw^o-lobed, and naked inside : lower lip longer, trifid, spreading, densely bearded inside, and striped down the tube. Sta- mens 5, inserted in the tube near the base, four fertile and one sterile, two of the fertile ones rather longer than the other two, the two shortest much dilated to the base, the I 2 two longer very slightly so, but rugose : anthers cleft above half way up from the base : pollen white : bar- ren filament straight, slender and smooth downwards, di- lated and densely bearded at the point, and a little below, on the upper side. Ovarium pyramidal, smooth. Style slender, smooth, about the length of the shortest stamens. Stigma a simple blunt point. Our drawing of this handsome species was made in October last, at the Nursery of Mr. Tate, of Sloane-street, Chelsea, who raised it from seeds given him by G. Acker- man, Esq.; at that time several plants of it were in fine bloom in the open borders, along with several other curious plants from Mexico, that were raised from seeds by him at the same time. We have frequently seen packets of seeds of it from Mexico, marked C. rosea of Cervantes, whose name we have adopted ; we do not know- that it is in any other collection besides Mr. Tate’s at present, though we have seen it raised in others, but for want of care they were soon lost when in a young state. It is certainly a very beautiful plant when covered with flowers, and will attain the height of two f^t or more, when grown in a rich light soil, but it will probably require a little covering in very se- vere w eather, like C. campanulata, either with a mat or a little fern or straws, but it should be always exposed in mild weather; where there are frames to spare, a few plants might be kept in them in pots, to be turned in the borders in Spring ; the common garden soil suits them very well ; and young cuttings, planted under hand-glasses in the open air, will soon strike root. It may also be raised from seeds, which we see are ripening on Mr. Tate’s plants. We agree with Kunth and Sprengel in uniting Pent- STEMON wdth Chelone, as the characters that have been given are certainly not sufficient to constitute distinct ge- nera ; and should it be hereafter found necessary to divide them, several of those with smooth barren stamens must be referred to Pentstemon, and Chelone must be limited to C. glabra, C. ohliqua, and C. LyonL 1. One of the lower leaves. 2. Calyx. 3. Corolla spread open, showing the inside, the lower lip densely bearded. 4. The four fertile Stamens, and one producing no anthers, but dilated and bearded at the point, all inserted in the base of the tube. 5. Ovarium, terminated by the Style and simple blunt Stigma. 231 SALPIGLOSSIS straminea. Straw -coloured Salpiglossis, Natural Order, SoLANE-E. Brown prodr, 1. p. 443. Sect. II. Corolla non plicata, regularis. Stamina didynama. Embryo leviter arcuatus. Pericarpium capsulare v. baccatum. SALPIGLOSSIS, Calyx 5-angularis, 5-fidus. Corolla infundi- buliformis, limbo 5-lobo. Filamentum quintum sterili inter sta- mina longiora. Stylus apice linguaeformis. Stigma truncatum, transversum. Capsula ovata, 2-locularis, bivalvis : valvis bipartibi- libus. Dissepimentum contrarium, utrinque placentiferum. Semina numerosissima, erecta, angnlata, compressiuscula, truncata, extus punctis plurimis elevatis scabra : duplex; exterior crassiuscula Crustacea; interior tenuissime membranacea albumini adnata: al- bumen copiosum, carnosum. Embryo teres, curvatus, laeteus. Coty- ledones breves, ovales, obtusae, bine planae, inde convexae. Radicula cylindrica, obtusissima, cotyledonibus duplb longior centripeta. D, Don Mss, S. straminea^ uiidique piloso, foliis inferioribus petiolatis lanceolatis sinuatis : superioribus subsessilibus linearibus integerrimis, flori- bus paniculato-racemosis. Salpiglossis straminea. Hooker, exot.jlor. t, 229. Herbaceous. Stems erect, branched ; branches densely clothed with short viscous hairs. Leaves very variable, hairy on both sides and fringed, the hairs glandular ; those at the root broadly lanceolate or oblong, bluntish, more or less sinuate, the lobes also bluntish, and sometimes slightly toothed : lower stem-ones narrower, lanceolate, also more or less sinuate: the upper ones nearly sessile, linear, and entire. Petioles slightly winged. Raeemes panicled. Flow- ers rather distant, inodorous, sometimes on long peduncles, and sometimes nearly sessile. Peduncles terminal and la- teral, one-flowered, thickly clothed with viscous glandular hairs, as is the calyx, and the outside of the corolla. Calyx 5-angular, 5-cleft, the angles acute; segments nearly equal, or the two upper ones rather longest, keeled, acute. Cw'olla funnel-form, cream-coloured, the tube slender towards the base, and inflated upwards, strongly veined with numerous longitudinal blue veins, which are pennately branched, in- side orange-coloured ; smooth inside, and hairy without : limb 5-lobed, spreading, the lobes deeply emarginate or 2-lobed, rugose from the branching veins. Stamens 5, in- serted in the tube, four fertile and one sterile, tw^o of the fertile ones rather longer than the other two, the barren one shorter than either, and inserted betw^een the two longest : filaments clothed with a few loose weak hairs towards the base, the upper part smooth, and of a blue colour: anthers large, two-lobed, attached to the filaments by the back : the barren one very small, and devoid of pollen : pollen orange- coloured. Ovarium smooth, pyramidal. Style smooth, slender at the base, and thickening upwards, the upper part flat and ligulate. Stigma transverse, truncate, chan- nelled through the centre. The present genus has been referred to Bignoniace^ by Persoon, Sprengel, and also Dr. Hooker in his Exotic Flora, from which order it is certainly very distinct, and appears to be an intermediate genus betw^een the two tribes of SoLANEiE, being nearly related to Petunia on one hand, and to Anthocercis on the other Our drawing was made from fine specimens, kindly sent to us from the superb collection of Mrs. Marryat at Wim- bledon, where it was raised from seed received from V alpa- raiso last Spring, and flowered abundantly in the open bor- der of the Flower Garden the latter end of Summer and Autumn, growing to the height of 18 inches, or there- abouts ; it has every appearance of being perennial ; but if left in the open border all the Winter, it will be proper to cover it with a mat or some litter in severe frosty weather, and to leave it exposed when the weather is mild ; it strikes readily from cuttings, so that young plants can be preserved in Frames or in the Greenhouse through the Winter, and from thence be turned into the open ground in Spring; they will by that means flower much earlier, and will be more likely to perfect seeds : the seeds should be sown early in Spring on a gentle hot-bed, or in the Greenhouse, and from thence be planted in a warm border of the Flower Garden. 1. Calyx. 2. Tube of the Corolla spread open, to show the insertion of the Stamens. 3. Ovarium, terminated by the Style, the upper part ot which is flattened, and the transverse Stigma. ", lx. ,.' I r^. — n I'., IP :fl" 7*‘ ISJ) Jm i,th- DfL . Bji.h\-£Sweei J)ecJS2J^ 232 PHLOX reflexa. Reflex ed-leaved Lychnidea. Natural Order, PoLEMONiACE,®. D. Don. ohs. on Polem.p. 4. PHLOX. Supra fol. 29 et 190. P. rejlexa, caiile pubescente scabro maculate, foliis reflexis glabris supra nitidis : inferioribus angusto-lanceolatis ; superioribus cor- datis acutis, floribus congesto-paniculatis : ramulis multifloris, dentibus calycinis ianceolatis niucronatis patentibus, tube corollas glabro curvato ; limbi laciniis rotundato-obovatis basi imbricatis. Phlox reflexa. Hortulanorum. Perennial. Stems erect, from two to three feet high, bluntly quadrangular, clothed with a short rough pubes- cence, of a pale green, spotted w ith dark purple. Leaves opposite, nearly sessile, very much reflexed, very smooth, and of a dark glossy green on the upper side, and pale un- derneath, the nerves also smooth, but the margins a little roughish : lower ones narrowly or linearly lanceolate, acute; the upper ones short, broadly cordate, and taper-pointed : upper ones sometimes opposite, and sometimes alternate. Flowers in a close crowded panicle, very sweet-scented, dark purple ; the flowering branches many flowered, and more or less divided. lanceolate, mucronate, rough at the margins. Pedicles short, slender, roughly pubescent. Calyx shortly tubular, smooth, 5-angular, 5-toothed, more or less tinged with purple: teeth lanceolate, with membra- naceous margins, mucronate, keeled. Corolla smooth and glossy: tube dark purple, curved, striate, smooth: limb 5-cleft, spreading : the lacinias roundly obovate, imbricate at the base, the points distinct, dark purple, lighter at the base, where each is marked wdth a dark purple spot, which gives a radiate appearance. Stamens 5, inserted in different parts of the tube, two of them near the mouth, but scarcely exserted: pollen golden yellow. Ovarium smooth and glossy. Style smooth, slender, included in the tube. Stigma trifid, spreading. Our drawing of this very handsome plant was made from fine specimens kindly sent to us by Robert Barclay, Esq. of Bury-hill, under the name that we have adopted ; we also received it by the same name from Mr. Wheeler, Nur- seryman, of Warminster ; we are inclined to believe it to be of hybrid origin, and believe its parents to be P. suffruti- cosa, and V , pyramidalis, as it has the dark colour of the flowers of the former, and its leaves are also similar ; but its habit and rough spotted stalk is that of the latter; its flowers are very sweet-scented, which still makes it the more desirable ; it is certainly deserving a place in every collection, as it thrives well in the open borders of the Flower Garden, where it will attain the height of from two to three feet ; in Mr. Barclay’s garden, that and the other species of Phlox are grown in peat soil, where they grow very luxuriantly, and produce very large panicles of flowers ; but it will grow in any rich light soil ; and young cuttings, planted under hand-glasses in Spring, will soon strike root, and will make flowering plants for the same Summer. 1. One of the lower leaves. 2. Calyx. 3. Tube of the Corolla spread open, to show the insertion of the Stamens. 4. Ovarium, terminated by the smooth Style and trifid Stigma. Fub. hr ED hru-th DfE 233 PHLOX pyramidalis. Pyramidal Lychnidea. Natural Order, Polemoniace-®. D. Don obs. on Polem. p. 4. PHLOX, Supra folio 29, and 190. P. pyramidalist caule erecto scabro maculato, foliis cordato-oblon- gis acuminatis glabris margine scabris, panicula fastigiata pyra- midali, corollae laciniis cuneato-truncatis, dentibus calycinis sub- ereclis lanceolatis acutis. Phlox pyramidalis. Smith exot, bet, 2. t. 87. Pursh fi. amer, sept. p, 148. Hort, Kew. ed. 2. v, l./).325. Rwm. et Schult. syst, 4,p, 358. Spreng. syst. 1. p. 623. Stems erect, from ^ to 3 feet high, roughish, thickly clothed with a short pubescence, not much branched, but terminated with a close compact pyramidal panicle of flow- ers : branches erect, obsoletely quadrangular. Leaves cor- date, sessile, oblong, ovate, or lanceolate, taper-pointed, smooth, edges a little roughish : lower ones opposite : up- per ones sometimes alternate. Flowers in a close compact panicle, pyramidal on the main stem, scarcely so on the side ones. Bractes subulate. Pedicles very short, pu- bescent. Calyoc 5-cleft, segments lanceolate, keeled, acute, nearly erect, or points slightly spreading, joined below by a thin membrane. Corolla tubular, tube nearly 3 times as long as the calyx, gradually thickening upwards : limb 5 -parted, lacinia3 broadly cuneate, truncate, slightly twist- ed, at first imbricate, afterwards becoming distinct, of a pale flesh-colour or lilac. Stamens 5, inserted in the tube, one just below the mouth and scarcely extending be- yond it, two a little lower down, the other two still farther down, and one of those below the other : filaments very short, attached to the anther at its back : anthers sagittate, two-celled : pollen yellow. Germen green, smooth. Style VOL. III. K smooth, filiform, included in the tube. Stigma trifid, seg- ments blunt, connivent. This fine species is readily distinguished from those to which it is nearest related by its rough stem, erect growth, close pyramidal panicle, and its small flowers, which are considerably less than any other to which it is akin : it is of strong growth, and will sometimes attain the height of three or four feet, thriving well in the borders of the Flower Garden, if planted in rich light soil, where it will continue to flower for a great part of the Summer and Autumn ; but if the Summer prove hot and dry, it will need a constant supply of water, or the flowers will be poor and blighted. Young cuttings, planted under hand-glasses in Spring, strike root readily, and will flower the same season ; it may also be increased by dividing at the root. Our drawing was made from a plant that we received from Mr. G. Wheeler, Nurseryman, Warminster, who possesses a choice collection of hardy perennial herbaceous plants, with whom they thrive remarkably well. The present species is sometimes liable to be destroyed in very severe dry frost, if it be not a little protected, so that it is better to have a few plants of it in small pots, to be protected in frames in Winter, or to be covered by mats. 1. Calyx. 2. Tube of the Corolla split open, to show the insertion of the 5 Stamens. 3. Ovarium, terminated by the Style and trifid Stigma, luhhy 234 ASTER patens. Spreading Jiairy-staWd Stnrwmd, Natural Order. Composite. Adanson fam. 2. 103. Sect. II. CARDUACEJE. — Div. 6. Asterece. Kunth. syn. 2. p. 399. ASTER, Involucrum subhemisphaericum, polyphyllum, imbri- catum ; foliolis inferioribus saepius patulis. Receptaculum planius- culum, punctato-scrobiculatum. Flosculi disci creberrimi, tubulosi, Iiermapiiroditi ; radii ligulati, feminei, saepissime plures quam de- cern. Pappus pilosus, sessilis. Frutices, suffrutices aut scBpius her- bae ; ramis foliisque tloribus scepissime paniculatis aut co- rymbosist rarius solitariis; radiis violaceiSf purpureis aut albidis. Kunth. syn. 2. p. 400. A, patenSf caule ramoso hirto ; raniis patentibus paucifloris micro- phyllis, foliis radicalibus petiolatis ovatis obtusis subcrenatis; caulinis iutegerrimis oblongo-lanceolatis ovatisque ciliatis cordatis amplexicaulibus reticulato-venosis utrinque scabris pilosis, foliolis involucri imbricatis lanceolatis patulis. Aster patens. Willden. sp.pl. 3. p. 2034. Pers. syn. 2. p. 444. Horf, Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. p. 56. Pursh.ji, amer. sept. 2. p, 551. Spreny. syst. 3. ^.529. Stem sufFrutescent at the base, from 18 inches to 2 feet in height, more or less branched, thickly clothed with short rigid hairs, terminated in a spreading panicle of flowers. Leaves at the root petiolate, ovate, obtuse, more or less notched, inclining to glaucous, not so rough as the stem ones, reticulately veined underneath, fringed with short hairs : stem ones entire, oblongly lanceolate or ovate, acute, clasping the stem, cordate, and rounded at the base, ciliate, reticulately veined, very rough and hairy on both sides, of a darker green than those at the root ; those on the lower part of the flower stems shorter and broader in proportion, the upper ones very small and narrow. Flower stems slender, more or less branched, hairy, generally terminated with a single flower. Involucrum oblong, or between cylindric and hemisphaerical : leaflets short, imbricate, lan- ceolate, acute, pubescent, ciliate, their points spreading or slightly reflexed. Receptacle flat, honeycombed. Rays from 20 to 30, of a light blue inclining to purple, hairy at -the back near the base, and bearing a smooth style and 2 bluntish ligulate stigmas, but no stamens. Florets of the disk numerous, at first yellow, afterwards changing to a brownish purple, tubular, 5-toothed, producing stamens and pistils. Stamens 5 : anthers naked at the base. Style exserted, smooth. Stigmas 2, fimbriate. Seeds small, pubescent, crowned with a radiate pappus of long simple hairs, We have ascertained the present species to be A, patens of Pursh, by comparison with his original specimens, now in the Herbarium of A. B. Lambert, Esq. ; it is a very handsome and distinct species, and well worth cultivation in all collections, where it will flower from August to No- vember, in the open borders of the Flower Garden, thriv- ing well in the common garden soil ; it will also flower well in a smallish size pot, and is readily increased by dividing at the root. Our drawing was made from fine specimens, sent us from the superb collection of Robert Barclay, Esq. of Bury-hill, who had received the plants from North Ame- rica ; the radical leaves were taken from a plant growing in a pot at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, of the King’s-road, Chelsea. 1. Radical leaves. 2. Capitnluni split throngh the middle, to show the leaflets and honey-combed Receptacle. 3. Front view of the Receptacle, divested of the Involucnim. 4. One of the Rays. 5. Floret of the disk seated on the seed. 6. The same spread open. 7. The 5 Stamens, with distinct filaments, and the anthers connected. 8. Seed, terminated by the Style and bifid Stigma. J.JjJ-7/ntA 5 Wfd/ieic fc 235 CHELONE atropurpurea. Dark purple Chelone, Natural Order. Scrophularin^. Kth. synops. 2. p. 110. Tribus II. Stamina 4 antherifera. CHELONE. Supra fol. 120. Sect. II. Pentstemon. Filameuto sterili superne barbato. C. atropurpurea, caule sufFruticoso subflexuoso nitido superne glan- duloso-piloso, foliis sessilibus argute serrulatis glabris : inferiori- bus lanceolatis utrinque attenuatis ; superioribus ovatis acumi- natis amplexicauiibus, pedunculis axillaribus subtrifloris, caly- cibus corollisque glanduloso-pubescentibus, corollis levissinie barbatis, filarnento sterili superne barbato. Root perennial. Stem sufFruticose at the base, more or less flexuose, from 3 to 5 feet in height, branching, smooth and glossy ; the lower part of a pale green colour; becom- ing purple upwards, and of a glossy appearance as if var- nished, slightly viscous, and clothed with short hairs that are tipped with small glands. Leaves sessile, smooth and glossy, sharply toothed with small horny teeth, the points of which curve inwards : lower leaves and those on the small branches narrowly lanceolate, tapering to both ends; others broadly lanceolate, and broad at the base; the upper ones ovate, clasping the stem, and tapering to a long slender point, slightly pubescent. Flowers dark purple, in a long terminal panicled raceme. Peduncles axillary, generally 3-fiowered, the upper ones only two-flowered, glossy. Bractes lanceolate, acute, glossy, slightly pubes- cent and fringed. Pedicles glossy, clothed with short glandular hairs. Calyx 5-parted, glandularly pubescent, the segments nearly equal, lanceolate, acute, purple, the points spreading, slightly viscous. Cm'olla tubular, nar- row towards the base, the upper part inflated, and campa- - nulate, thickly clothed with glandular hairs on the outside. 2-lipped, gaping at the mouth, inside striped, smooth; upper lip 2-lobed ; lower one 3-lobed, very slightly beard- ed: lobes ovate, rounded. Stamens 5, inserted in the tube at the base, four producing anthers, and one sterile ; tw o of the fertile ones longer than the other two : filaments attached to the back of the anthers, smooth, the two long- est equal in size throughout, the shorter ones dilated very much at the base, between those tw^o is the sterile one, di- lated at the point, and bearded on the upper side about one third its length, very densely so near the point. Ova- rium pyramidal, smooth and glossy. Style smooth, about the length of the stamens. Stigma a simple blunt point. Our drawing of this grand plant was made this Summer from fine specimens kindly given to us by Messrs. Young, Nurserymen, at Epsom, who possess a valuable collection of fine herbaceous plants, which they cultivate with great success ; since that we have also received specimens of it from R. Barclay, Esq. of Bury-hill. It is a native of Mexico, as we have ascertained by fine specimens in the Herbarium of A. B. Lambert, Esq. in whose garden at Boyton they were raised from Mexican seeds. It is near- est related to C. campanulata^ but is readily distinguished by its broad upper leaves ; it is also a stronger growing- plant, and its flow^ers are of a dark purple, and it is alto- gether a more desirable plant; when grown in strong ground, it will sometimes attain the height of five feet, and continues to bloom from July to October, thriving best in a rich light soil, but should be protected a little in severe frosty weather ; young cuttings planted under hand- glasses, or in a shady border without glass, will strike root readily, or it may be increased by seeds. 1. Calyx. 2. Corolla spread open to show the inside, and the few hairs on the lower lip. 3. The four fertile Stamens inserted in the base of the tube, the two shortest filaments much dilated at the base. 4. Sterile filament much bearded at the point. 5. The conical Ovarium, terminated by the Style and simple blunt Stigma. 6. One of the lower leaves. 236 LATHYRUS amphicarpos. Subterranean LatJiyrus, or Earth-pea, Natural Order. Leguminos^, DC. prodr.2.p.{)Z. Subordo I. PAPILIONACEM.— Tribus IV. ViciEiE. Supra fol, 194. LATHYRUS. Supra fol. 194. Sect. I. Eulathyrus. Vexillura basi edenlatum. Foliola op- posita vel abortu nulla. Petiolus august^ alatus. §. 2. Annul j pedunculis 1-3-Jloris. ** Foliis unijugis. L. amphicarpos, caulibus alatis difFusis, foliolis lanceolatis cirrhis siniplicibus, stipulis semisagittatis unidentatis petiolo longioribus, peduncuUs unifloris folio longioribus, leguminibus caulinis subter- raneisque ovatis dorso et fronte bialalis subdisperinis, seminibus subcoinpressis. Latbyrus amphicarpos. Linn. spec. 1029. Brot. Jl, lus. \62. t. 66. Willden. sp. pi 3. p. 1078. Pers. syn. 2. p. 304. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. V. 4. p. 305. DC. prodr. 2. p. 373. Sprcng. syst. 3. p. 261. — Moris, hist. 2. p. 61. sect. 2. t. 25. /. 1. Root annual, fibrous, some of the fibres bearing large tubercles. Stem.s numerous, much branched: branches spreading in all directions, smooth, 4-angular, two of the angles winged. Leaves smooth, bearing one pair of leaflets ; the lower ones terminated by a very small leaflet : upper ones terminated by a simple tendril, which is more or less twisted : leaflets 3-nerved, smooth, those on the lower leaves short, nearly ovate, obtuse; on the upper ones lan- ceolate and acute, spreading. Petioles short, slightly win- ged, flat on the upper side, and keeled on the lower, not so long as the stipules. Stipules lanceolate, acute, semisa- gittate, with one small sharp tooth on each at the outside, taper-pointed at the base. Peduncle 1 -flowered, generally longer than the leaf, with a short blunt bracte at the base of the pedicle. Calyx campanulate, 3-cleft, the laciniae lan- ceolate, acute, keeled, spreading; the two upper ones broadest. Flowers pink, tinged with blue. Vexillum broadly obovate or obcordate, striated with numerous darker veins, which are more or less branched. Wings obovate or broadly spathulate, with a slender unguis on one side at the base, and a short blunt ear on the other. Keel shorter than the wings, inflated, with 2 short ears, one on each side, the unguis bifid at the base. Stamens 10, diadelphous, 9 join- ed in a tube, but distinct at the points; the other distinct. Ovarium smooth, containing 3 ovula. Style ascending, smooth about half way up, the upper part villous. Stigma slightly dilated. Pod ovate, flat, 1 to 3-seeded, two winged at the back and front, back wings broadest and undulate. Seeds chestnut-coloured, nearly round, slightly flattened on each side.^ Our drawing of this singular plant, was made last Sum- mer from living specimens, kindly sent to us by A. B. Lam- bert, Esq., in whose garden at Boyton they flowered and ripened their seeds ; Mr. Lambert informs us,' that the plant from which our drawing was made, was raised the prece- ding Autumn, and had continued to grow in the open bor- der all through the Winter, but was protected a little in se- vere frost; by this management it flowered earlier, and its flowers and pods under the ground were also produced; but we believe, if sown early in Spring, it might answer nearly as well; February we should consider a very proper time to sow it; and as the plants grow they should be earthed up a little, that they may be able to produce their flowering shoots under ground. It is a native of Syria, and a very pretty annual plant, producing its flowers in succes- sion a great part of the Summer ; it only requires to be sown in the open borders of the Flower Garden, in light soil. 1. Flowers from the roots. 2. The fungus like tubercles from the roots. 3. Calyx. 4. Vexillum. 5. The two Wings. 6. Keel. 7. The 9 Stamens that are all joined below, but distinct at the points. 8. The tenth distinct one. 9. Ova- rium, terminated by the villous Style, and dilated Stigma. 10. Seed pods from the roots. 11. One of those from the branch. 12. The same open, to show the three seeds. ID Smt'ih.de'l ■ 237 BIDENS striata. Striped-flowered Bidens. Natural Order, CoMPOSiTiE. Adansonfam, 2. 103. Subordo VI. HELIANTHEJE. Kth. synops. 2. p. 463. BIDENS. Involucrum polyphyllum ; foliolis duplici serie dis- positis ; exterioribus saBpius longioribus, alius formae et patentibns. Receptaculum planum, paleaceum. Flosculi disci tubulosi, berma- phroditi; radii ligulati, neutri, rarius nulli. Akenia quadrangulari- compressa, 2-5-aristata ; aristis persistentibus, retrorsum liamosis. — Herb80 ramis foliisque oppositis, integris, incisis aut varie partitis. Flores terminates, solitarii aut corymhosi; radio scepisume flam, ra- rius albo, Kth. synops. 2. p. 478. Sect. II. Foliis divisis ; akeniis subtetragonis. B. striata, caule erecto ramoso, ramis pubescentibus, foliis ternatis : foliolis oblongo-ovatis acutis serratis glabris margine scabris ; tcr- minali acuminato majore, radio albido purpureo-striato, akeniis compresso-quadrangularibus l-2-aristatis ; aristis insequalibus. Stem erect, much branched, attaining the height of four feet; branches unequally 6-angular, and striate between the angles, clothed with a short pubescence, the angles thickened and purplish. Leaves all ternate, or very rarely a simple one near the top, petiolate : leaflets oblongly ovate, acute, cuneate at the base, serrate, with rough mar- gins ; smooth and glossy, and of a dark green on the upper side ; underneath paler and slightly pubescent, numerously nerved, and reticulately veined ; terminal one petiolate, taper-pointed, the point entire, generally unequal at the base, about twice as large as the side ones, and sometimes more than that: side ones generally with short footstalks, but sometimes sessile, also mostly unequal at the base, nearly as broad as long. Petioles channelled on the upper side and keeled on the lower, winged a little at the margins, and clothed with long spreading hairs. Flowei's terminal, panicled. Peduncles angular, furrowed, pubescent, a little thickened at the base of the flower. Involucrum many- leaved, in two series, and of two different forms, but about the same length: outer series consisting of from 8 to 10 leaflets, which are linear, acute, hairy, 3 -nerved, and spread - VOL. Til. L ing, or the points a little reflexed : inner series consisting of the same number, which are broadly lanceolate, acute, mem- branaceous, close-pressed to the florets, but spreading at the points. Receptacle flat and paleaceous, the chaff nar- rowly linear, nearly as long as the florets. Rays generally 5, but sometimes 6 to 8, broad, and spreading, sterile, ter- minated by three shallow rounded teeth or lobes, white, but striped at the back, with several prominent purple veins. Florets of the disk numerous, yellow, tubular, 5-toothed, the teeth ovate, acute, spreading. Stamens 5, filaments distinct, slender : anthers united into a tube, black, naked at the base, but terminated by chaffy points. Style smooth, yellow. Stigma bifid, the segments linear, fimbriate, spread- ing. Seed rough, flattish, 4-angled, generally 2-aristate, one of the aristas longer than the other ; some seeds have only one arista, and others are without any. This handsome Autumn-flowering plant is a native of Mexico, and the specimens from which our drawing was made was kindly sent to us from the superb collection of Robert Barclay, Esq. of Bury-hill : Mr. Cameron informs us that the seeds were sown on a hotbed last Spring, and afterwards planted out in the open border, where they pro- duced a few straggling flow^ers through the Summer ; but that the plant from which our specimens was taken, was then (the thirteenth of November) in full beauty, the plant being nearly four feet high, and bushy from the bottom, and completely covered all over with flowers and flower- buds ; he thinks it likely to prove perennial if protected through the Winter; but from its appearance we should judge it to be scarcely better than an annual. We also re- ceived specimens of it from Mr. Tate, of the Sloane-street Nursery, who raised a great many plants of it from seeds sown in the open borders ; but as they were not sown till late in Spring, they did not flower so strong as Mr. Bar- clay’s. Mr. Tate received the seeds, with those of many other rare plants, from George Ackerman, Esq. of the Strand, who received them from Mexico. 1. Involucre, shovring the two series of leaflets. 2. Receptacle, showing the long narrow sharp-pointed chaff. 3. One of the Rays. 4. Floret of the disk spread open. 5. The 5 Stamens, the anthers united, and the filaments distinct. 6. Seed terminated by two unequal aristas, also the Style and bifid fimbriate Stigma. •f ^>*1' r r'. f:.,' . -V 1? ■ .. ' 4 I i - i Jk '. Jiti. hjiJi fu: 8CYPHANTHUS elegaus. Elegard Cup-Flower, Natural Order, Loase^. Juss. ann. mus.^, jp.21. SCYPHANTHUS, Calyx superus, profunde quinquepartitus, persistens ; laciniis a0qualibus. Petala 5, basi calycis inserta, brevis- sime unguiculata, concava, aequalia, adscendentia. Squamce 5, ibidem insertae, cum petalis alteriiautes ; apice peltatae, lobatae, tricornae. Stamina numerosa, creberrima, perigyna ; decern exteriora antlieris destituta horumque bina squamis opposita; reliqua longiora, dis- posita per fascicules quinque, petalis opposites. Antkerce biloculares, erectae, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium inferum, prismaticum, siliquaeforme. Stylus 1, erectus, trigonus, simplex. Capsula pris- raatica siliquaeformis, limbo calycis coronata, 1-locularis, poly- sperma, apice trivalvis. Semina ovalia, rugosa. YLQvhdi voluhilis ; ramis retrorsum strigosis, VoMix opposita, bipin- natifida : superiora pinnatijida, hispido-hirta, Flores sessili, erecti, solitarii. Petala lutea. S, elegans, caule dichotomo volubili, foliis oppositis ; inferioribus bipinnatifidis : superioribus pinnatifidis : laciniis obtusis ciliatis. forked at every joint, slender, soon becoming hard and brown, twisting round each other, or round any small branches within their reach, thickly clothed with small rigid hairs, which bend downwards, and causes a roughness to the touch. Leaves opposite, thickly clothed with short rigid hairs, the margins fringed: lower ones bipinnatifid, be- coming smaller and less divided upwards : the upper ones simply pinnatifid: segments lanceolate, bluntish, fringed. Flowers yellow^, sessile, solitary, cup -shaped ; when the buds first appear they are terminal, but a young shoot is soon produced, generally on each side, so that when ex- panded, they are mostly seated in a fork between two branches. Ovarium resembling a pod of some cruciferous plant, many-angled and many-furrowed, thickly clothed with short rigid hairs, which bend upwards, 1 -celled, many- seeded. Calyx seated on the ovarium, deeply 5-parted, the laciniae spreading, or the points reflexed, obovately lanceo- late, bluntish, tapering to the base, clothed with short stilf hairs and fringed, persistent. Petals 5, inserted in the base of the calyx, ascending so as the flower to form a cup or bowl, shortly unguiculate and concave near the base, which forms a short blunt spur, terminated in a broad rounded point, or sometimes slightly emarginate, pubescent outside. Scales 5, petal-like and alternate with the petals, also shortly unguiculate and hollowed out like a spur near the base, peltate at the point, six-lobed, of a bright glossy pur- ple, terminated in three horns, resembling barren filaments, with spatulate points. Stamens numerous: 10 sterile ones, flat, attenuated to the point and curved inwards, glan- dularly pubescent, 2 inserted in the base of each of the scales, one on each side : fertile ones in 5 sets, opposite to the petals, and enclosed in their hollow cavities before the anthers burst, they then spring forward and enclose the style: anthers bursting longitudinally: straw-coloured. Style simple, 3-sided. Capsule long and slender, bursting into three valves at the point, many-seed- ed. Seeds brown, oval, rugged. The present beautiful flowering plant is a native of Chili, and is generally considered in our collections as the Loasa rolubilis of Jussieu ; but we have examined a specimen of that plant in Mr. Lambert’s Herbarium, that was received from Jussieu himself; in that the capsule is short and tur- binate, and does not belong to the same genus as the pre- sent plant. Our drawing w as made from a plant in the collection of H. B. Ker, Esq. of the Regent’s Park, who raised it from seeds received from the Horticultural Society, who we be- lieve first introduced it. It may be treated as a half hardy annual, to be sow n on a hotbed or in the Greenhouse, and from thence to be planted in the flower-borders, and wdll probably prove a perennial if covered in frosty weather, or placed in the Greenhouse. We have derived the generic name from aKVfpog, a cup or bowl, and avOog, a flower, from the form of its flowers. 1. Calyx, with a portion of the capsule attached to it. 2. Two of the Petals, front and back view. 3. Two of the Scales that are alternate with the petals, front and side view, showing the two sterile Stamens at the base of each. 4. The two barren Stamens, with the upper part of the scale detached from them, 5. The fertile Stamens, the petals taken from them. 6. The 3*side.d simple Style. 7. Capsule, terminated with the calyx, the upper part of the segments taken otf. 8. Seed. 231» PLATYSTYLIS cyanea. Blue-flowered Platystylis. Natural Order, Leguminos^. DC. prodr. 2. p. 93. Subordol. PAPILIONACEJE — TViJms IV. VlClE^. Suprafol.V,)A, PLATYSTYLIS. Calyx campanulatas, 5-fidus, lobis 2 stiperi- oribus brevioribus. Corolla papilionacea. Stamina diadelpha. Sty- lus latus spatulatus apice villosus. Legumen oblongum uniloculare bivalve polyspermuni. Semina subglobosa.— Herbae erectce. Stipulse semisag ittatre. Petioli in setam brevem simplicem desinentes. Folia abrupte pinnata paucijuga. Racemi axillares pedunculati. P. cyanea, caule angulato basi subramoso, foliis bijugis: foliolis ap- proximatis lanceolato-linearibus cuspidatis longitudinaliter 5-7-li- neatis, stipulis semisagittatis lineari-subiilatis, pedunculis elongatis paucifloris, calyce petalorum unguibus breviori. Orobus cyaneus. Stev. in mem, soc. cur. mosq. 4. p. 51 . Bieh.Jl. taur. suppl. p, 464. DC. prodr, 2. p. 380. Spreng. syst. 3. p* 259. Root perennial. Stems erect, about a foot high, branch- ing at the base : branches smooth, angular. Leaves on short footstalks, bearing two pair of leaflets, the petiole ter- minated by a slender setiform leaf-like point, very similar to the stipules : leaflets near each other, straight, lanceo- lately linear, acute, terminated by a short mucro, smooth, of a pale green, longitudinally lined with five to seven slen- der lines. Stipules very narrow, semisagittate, broadest at the base, but terminated in a slender subulate point, scarcely so long as the petioles, which are very short and furrowed on the upper side. Peduncle very long, quadrangular, much longer than the leaves, smooth. Racemes few-fiow- ered. Flowers large, of a bright purplish blue. Pedicles about the length of the calyx.- Calyx campanulate, smooth, purplish : the lacinim short, about half the length of the tube : two upper ones very short, obtuse : the lower ones broadly lanceolate, acute. Vexillum large; obovate, notch- ed at the point, channelled down the front, and keeled at the. back, veined with numerous branching veins. Wings obovate, shorter than the vexillum, eared on one side with a large rugose uncinate ear, the other side producing a long slender flat unguis. Keel shorter than the wings, of a lighter colour, sharply keeled, acute, shortly eared. Stamens 10, diadelphous, 9 joined together, but distinct at the points, the other distinct its whole length. Ovarium flat, smooth, many-seeded. Style flat, broadly spatulate or dilated to- wards the point, villous or bearded inside, the point mar- ginate. Our drawing of this handsome plant was made in July last, at the garden belonging to the Apothecaries’ Company at Chelsea, where it was raised from seed the year before by Mr. W. Anderson, from seeds received from Dr. Fischer. It is a native of Caucasus and Iberia, and is quite hardy, thriving well in the open borders in the common garden soil, where it ripens its seeds. We have given it as a genus distinct from Orobus, on account of its broad spatulate stigma, which agrees much better with Lathyrus, but is also different from that genus, from which it also differs en- tirely in habit, and in wanting the tendrils, the habit being precisely that of the former genus ; and it may be consider- ed an intermediate one between the two. Orobus sessili- folius of Dr. Hooker, in Botanical Magazine, 279b, is a nearly related species of the same genus, and probably some others, very different from the true species of Orobus with a slender linear style. The generic name is derived from liKaryg^ broad, and ffrvXtc, a style or column, from its broad style. 1. Calyx. 2. Vexillum. 3. The two Wings. 4. Keel. 5. The distinct Stamen, and the nine connected ones. 6. Ovarium, terminated by the large flat dilated spatulate Style. h' . \ , '■ -Pui b^Jl/W££^TdJS2^. IJ/JmUh J)tl- 240 CYPRIPEDIUM spectabilc. Showy Ladies Slipper. Natural Order, Orchide^. Srown 'prodr. Sect. VI. DIANDRM. Stamina 2 antherifera. CYPRIPEDIUM. Supra fol. 71. C. spectahile, canle folioso, lobo styli elliptico cordato obtuso, la- bello periantbii foliolis obtusis longiore antice fisso. Cypripedium spectabilc. Salisb. linn, trans. v. 1. p. 78. Willden. sp. pi. 4. p. 143. Pursh.Ji, amer. sept, 2. p. 594. Hort, Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. p. 221. Lodd. hot. cab. t. 697. Spreng. syst, 3. p. 745. Cypripedium album. Hort. Kew. 3. p. 303. Botan. magaz, 216. Scknevoogt ic, 2. Cypripedium canadense. Mich.Jl.amer,2. p. 161. a incarnatuniy labello incarnate. Supra fig. B. 0 album t labello extus albo, foliis pallidioribus. Supra Jig. A. Perennial. Root tufted, producing numerous long fleshy fibres. Stem slightly flexuose, from 18 inches to 3 feet in height, thickly clothed with unequal spreading hairs, the points of which are reflexed. Leaves sessile, clasping the stem, ovate, acute, plaited, channelled on the upper side with numerous deep furrows, and striate with numerous small* longitudinal lines, strongly nerved underneath, thickly clothed on both sides with short spreading hairs, the mar- gins fringed. Flowers from 1 to 3, terminal, large, and very handsome. Ovarium ribbed, densely clothed with reflexed hairs. P erianthium oi 4 leaflets; white, and pubescent on both sides, upper and lower ones broadly ovate, obtuse, veined, spreading; side ones broadly lanceolate, and more acute, also striate, and spreading horizontally. Lahellum very large and inflated, white, the fore- part purple or flesh- coloured, rarely altogether white as in var. jS, the upper part split in front, and bent inwards at the mouth ; inside more or less elegantly spotted with purple, and striped near the "1 ' ' ' ' spreading crooked white cordately elliptic, obtuse. more or less spotted, keeled inside : side lobes short, bluntly rounded, fleshy, each producing an anther. .Style bent in- wards. Stigma large, fleshy, orbicular, fimbriately crenu- late. The present beautiful white variety of this species was introduced from North America by Mr. G. Chari wood, at the same time as C. arietinum, and from a plant flowered by him our drawing was made last Summer. We had never before seen or heard of a white variety, so that it is a very rare plant ; the flower of the common variety, given at the bottom of the plate, was also from one of his plants, and at the same time he had in flower C. humile^ C. parvijloriim, and C. puhescens, and many other Orchideous plants ; also different species of Sarracenia, and other plants, that he re- ceived at the same time ; and plants of any of them may be received from him, by sending an order to 146, Drury- lane : the present species succeeds best in a light soil, con- sisting chiefly of decayed leaves and rotten branches of trees, and should be planted in a sheltered situation ; and we have no doubt but it would succeed well in a shady wood, under the shelter of trees, where it would most pro- bably naturalize itself by seeding. 1. Labellnm of the white variety spread open, to show the hairy inside and the red spots. 2. The large cordate lobe of the Style. 3. The two side lobes to which the two Stamens are fixed. 4. The large fleshy orbicular Stigma, front view. 5. Back view of the same. SB-jitij /n SfL March ISM 241 AMORPHA fragraiis. Fragrant Bastard Indigo, Natural Order. Leguminos^. DC. prodr. 2. p. 93. Subordo I. PAPILIONACEM. — Trihus II. Lote^. DC. prodr.*2. p. 115. Subtribus lY. Galegeae. Legumen \-loculare. Stamina diadelpha^ rarius rnonadelpha. Caules herbacei fruticosi aut arborei. Folia pri- mordialia aut alterna aut opposita disparia, imo simplici, altero pin- nato. AMORPHA. 5-dentatus obconico-campanulatus. Corollce vexilliim ovatum concavum, alae et carina 0. Stylus filiformis rectus glaber, (aut hirsutus). Stamina exserta, basi imii rnonadelpha. Le- gumen conipressum ovatum lunulatumve l*loculare 1-2-spermum. — Frutices boreali Americani. Folia impari-pinnata, foliolis multijiigis pellucido-punctatis scBpius basi stipellatis. Stipulao caulinoi^ deciducc. Racemi spicati elongati scEpius ad apices ramorum suhfasciculati. Flores cceruleo-molacei. DC. prodr. 2, p.256. A.fragrans, fruticosa pubescens, foliolis elliptico-oblongis utrinque obtusis mucronulatis : junioribus pubesceiitibus, calycibus pubes- centibus pedicellatis : dentibus superioribus obtusis inferioribus acutis, stylo hirsuto. Amorpha nana. Suns Botan, magaz. t. 2112, 7iec aliorum. A Strong upright deciduous Shrub : branches angular, slightly pubescent. Leaves pinnate, generally bearing from 6 to 8 pair of leaflets, terminated by an odd one : leaflets on short footstalks, oblongly elliptic or ovate, blunt at both ends, terminated by a short macro, the terminal one broad- est, when young clothed with a canescent pubescence, but nearly smooth when old. Stipules at the base of the leaf- lets and petioles setaceous. Petioles furrowed on the up- per side and keeled on the lower, clothed with a thin pu- bescence. Spikes terminal, from one to four. Flowers dark purple, very fragrant, much crowded, on short footstalks. Pedicles slender, smooth or slightly pubescent. Cahpc 5- VOL. III. M - toothed, obconical, slightly pubescent, punctate with mi- nute purple dots: teeth villosely fringed, the two upper ones shortest and obtuse ; the three lower ones acute, mid- dle one longest but not acuminate. Vexillum broadly obo- vate, concave, slender at the base, longitudinally veined with several dark veins, purple. Wings ahd Keel none. Stamens 10, longer than the vexillum, all connected at the base, the upper part distinct and purple : pollen orange- coloured. Ovarium short, smooth, 2 or 3 seeded. Style hairy, about the length of the Stamens. Stigma a small blunt point. We are assured by Mr. Lambert, that the plant from which the specimens were procured for our figure, is the very same from which the drawing was made for the Bo- tanical Magazine above referred to ; but at the time that figure was made, the plant was grown in a pot in the Greenhouse, whereas it is now growing in the ground in the open border ; and we are informed by Mr. Lambert, that it has made shoots of ten or twelve feet in length, the last year, and is now grown to a large robust shrub. This will account for the difference in our figure and that in the Botanical Magazine. Mr. Lambert first received the plant from Mr. T. Nuttall, for his A. nana^ which Pursh quotes as a synonym to his A. microphylla ; this synonym is again quoted by Nuttall, in his Genera of American plants, un- der K,nana\ but we have examined the specimens of A. microphylla of Pursh, of which there are some excellent ones in Mr. Lambert’s Herbarium, and they are not in the least related to our plant, the leaflets not being above one- third the size, and of a different form, and crowded to- gether ; the calyx also, is not the least like the present, so that there must have been some mistake with the present plant, which appears to be quite a new species. Our drawing was made from fine flow^ering specimens, received from Mr. Lambert's garden at Boyton, where it continued in bloom the greater part of the Summer. It is a native of North America, is quite hardy, and the delight- ful scent of the flowers will make it a very valuable shrub. l. Calyx. 2. VexilluTn. 3. Stamens connected at the base. 4. Ovarium, ter- minated by the hairy Style and simple Stigma. Pub ly/iJwfirt. WariJi-lSlS. 242 ARGEMONE ochroleuca. Straw-coloured Argernone. Natural Order, Papaverace^. DC,syst.2.p.61. ARGEMONE, Supra fol. 2*26. A. ochroleuca, foliis profunde sinuatis pinnatifidisve glaucescenti- bus : nervis aculeato-setiferis, floribus lerminalibus solitariis, sta- ininibus paucis, capsula oblonga profunde sulcata aculeatissima, aculeis subreflexis ; stigmatibus distinctis patenlibus. Annual, Stem 3 or 4 feet high, branching ; branches slightly glaucous, irregularly clothed with sharp setae-like prickles, which are strong enough to perforate the fingers when handling it. Leaves sessile, very deeply sinuate or sometimes nearly pinnatifid, undulate, glaucous, and ele- gantly painted up the centre and along the middle of the lobes with a bluish white, which gives them an elegant ap- pearance : lobes spreading, toothed, the teeth and points acute and terminated by sharp spines ; the nerves under- neath producing small rigid prickles irregularly here and there. Flowers terminal, solitary, pale straw-coloured, the young branches growing beyond them. Peduncle short, prickly, producing one or two small leaves a little below the flower. Calyx of three sepals, tinged with purple, those are clothed irregularly with various sized setae, and termi- nated with long slender horn like appendages, which end regularly into a sharp spine, deciduous, first breaking away at the base, and are then pushed off by the expansion of the petals. Corolla generally of .6 petals, which are spread- ing, obovate, tapering to a slender base, crenulate, strongly many veined, the veins much branched. Stamens not so numerous as in the other species. Filaments smooth, yel- M 2 low, slender at the base and thickening upwards, but be- coming again very slender where it is attached to the base of the anthers. Ovanum bristly or setiferous, the setae be- coming strong prickles as the capsules become large. Stig- mas 5 or 6, distinctly spreading, hollow or pitted at the points, dark purple. Capsule oblong, glaucous, nearly equal in size throughout, deeply 5 or 6-channelled, the angles rather acute, very spiny ; the spines unequal in length, some of them very long and recurved, the shorter ones straight. Seeds numerous, brown, glossy, rugged, winged on the side that they are attached to the capsule. The present plant is readily distinguished from A. mex- icana by its narrower, deeper divided, and sharper leaves, by the shape and the deep channels of the capsules, and very readily by its * distinctly spreading stigmas, those in A. mexicana being so crowded together that it is difficult to separate them ; from the other two species it is very readily distinguished af hrst sight. It is a very handsome annual plant, attaining the height of three or four feet, and 'continuing to bloom from August to October, and may be raised from seeds sown in the open border in April, or if wanted to bloom early, the seeds may be sown in February or March, on a gentle hot-bed, or in pots in the Greenhouse, from \vhence they may be planted in the open borders in April or May, thriving well in the common garden soil, and seeds ripen in abundance, by w'hich any quantity may be raised. The specimens from which our drawing w^as made, were kindly sent to us by Robert Barclay, Esq. in w hose superb collection at Bury-hill they were raised last Spring from seeds received from Mexico, at the same time as A. gran- diflora, Mr, Cameron informs us that they were sown on a hot-bed in Spring, and from thence planted into the open borders ; he has also lately informed us that he thinks A. grandijl(yra wall prove perennial, as the plants are pro- ducing suckers from their roots, but the present, he says, is strictly annual. 1. The 3 Sepals of the. Calyx in different views. 2. Three of the Stamens de- tached to show their form. 3. Capsule full grown, 4. Stigmas, showing their distinct spreading habit. i 2^3. hd h/ J /wre^ JSFS. CUNILA mariaiia. Mint-leaved Mountain Dittany, JSatural Order. Labiate. Brown prodr. 1. p. 499. Sect. I. Stamina 2 fertiiia ; v. dum 4 fertilia. AntlieraD omnium dimidiatae. CUNILA, Calyx cjlindricus, 10-striatus, 5-dentatus, faiice villo- sus. Corolla ringens : labio siiperiore erecto, piano, emarginato. Stamina 4: 2 sterilia brevia: 2 fertilia longe exserta. Cariopses 4, C. marianay foliis ovatis subsessilibus serratis punctatis glabris : nervis subtus hirsutis, corymbis axillaribus terminalibusque di- chotomis. Cunila mariana. Linn. spec, pi, ed. 2. p. 30. WUld. spec. 1. p. 122. Vahl enum. 1. p. 214. Pers. syn. 2. p. 129. Pursh Jl. amer. sept. 2. p. 406. Nutt. gen. amer, \. p. 16. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 1. p. 48. Spreng, syst. 1. p. 54. Lodd. hot, cab, t. 1205. Ziziphora mariana. RcBm. et Schult. syst. 1. p. 208. Calamfntha erecta virginiana mncronato folio glabro. Moris, hist. 3. p. 4\3. sect.W, t, 19./. 7. — Pluk. mant, t. 344./. 1. Root perennial. Stem erect, much branched, sufFrutes- cent at the base : branches erect, or slightly spreading, quadrangular, purple, smooth below, and pubescent up- wards. Leaves opposite, nearly sessile, or with very short footstalks, ovate, acute, more or less serrate, the teeth ra- ther distant, punctated with numerous small dots on both sides, of a smooth glossy green, and slightly hairy on the upper side; underneath paler, strongly nerved, the nerves clothed with long spreading hairs. Petioles very short, clothed with long hairs. Flowers numerous in our speci- mens, of a bright purple, in dichotomous corymbs, both axillary and terminal, the corymbs several times forked with a flower in each fork. Bractes oblongly linear, blunt. Pedicles slender, smooth, purple. Calyoc cylindrical, 10- striate, 5-toothed, clothed with short hairs, the mouth closed with a tuft of villous white hairs ; teeth short, nearly equal in size, ovate. Corolla ringent, tubular, inflated upwards, clothed with short hairs inside and out: upper lip straight, flat, and emarginate ; the lower one 3-cleft, the laciniae flat, ligulate, spreading. Stamens 4, inserted in the tube, 2 fertile and bearing anthers, the other two short, sterile, and bearing no anthers, and inserted lower down the tube; fertile ones with very long filaments, exserted a great length beyond the mouth ; anthers kidney-shaped, two-lobed, in- serted by the back to the filaments. Style smooth, ex- serted. Stigma bifid, purple, the laciniae rather unequal, straight, or slightly spreading. Fine strong specimens covered with flowers, of this scarce and handsome plant, w’ere sent to us in August last, from the collection of Robert Barclay, Esq. of Bury-hill, where they were growing luxuriantly, cultivated in the open bor- der of the Flower-garden, in sandy peat soil ; his plants were imported from North America, where, according to Nuttall, they grow chiefly in rocky, and, to the south, in mountainous situations ; so that it w ill make a handsome plant for ornamenting rock-work, or at any rate should be grown in a dry situation, as too much moisture would be likely to rot it in Winter, or it may be grown in small pots, and can then be protected under lights in frames in very wet weather or severe frost. It may be increased by di- viding at the root, or by seeds. 1. Calyx closed. 2. The same spread open to show the 10 stripes, and the beard at the month. 3. Corolla spread open, showing the two fertile stamens, and the two barren ones below them. 4. The 4 Seeds, terminated by the Style and cleft Stigma. 244 GALEGA persica. Persian Goafs-Rue. Natural Order, LEGUMiNOSiE. Juss. gen. 345. Subordo I. PAPILIONACEM.—Trihus II. Lotese. Supra fol. 159. Subtribus IV. Galegeae. Legumen uniloculare. Stamina diadel- pba rarius monadelpha. Caules herbacei fruticosi aut arborei. Folia primordialia aut alterna aut opposita disparia^ imo simplici, altero pinnato, DC. prodr. 2. p. 243. GALEGA, Supra fol. 159. G. persica, foliolis ovato-oblongis subretusis mucronatis glauces- centibus, caule angulato flexuoso, stipulis anguste lanceolatis sa- gittatis, bracteis lineari-subulatis pedicellis longioribus. Galega persica. Pers. syn. 2, p. 330. DC. prodr, 2. p. 248. Swt, hort, brit, p, 1 24. Root perennial. Stems several, much branched from near the base ; branches nearly erect, or more or less spreading, flexuose, angular, furrowed, smooth, tinged with purple at the joints, from 2 to 3 feet high. Leaves alter- nate, pinnate, generally producing 5 pair of leaflets, and terminated by a terminal one ; on weak branches there are sometimes not more than 3 or 4 pair of leaflets on each leaf, and on strong ones sometimes 6 pair : leaflets oppo- site, ovate or oblong, rounded at the point, and slightly retuse, terminated by a sharp weak mucrone, smooth on both sides, the upper side of a blue glaucous colour, under- neath green, and pennately veined, the veins branched. Petioles smooth, angular, furrowed on the upper side, and thickened at the base. Stipules narrowly lanceolate, taper- pointed, broad at the base and sagittate, the ears long and taper-pointed. Flowers white, slightly sweet-scented, in close axillary racemes, which are very numerous, one in the axil of each leaf, sometimes longer than the leaves, and sometimes shorter ; this is also the case with G. officinalis; so that the character given by Decandolle of the length of the racemes does not hold good. Peduncles nearly cylin- drical, slightly angular, and striated. Bractes linearly su- bulate, longer than the pedicles, sometimes but little longer, and sometimes twice the length. Pedicles short and slen- der. Calyx tubular, with 5 long slender subulate teeth. Vexillum ovate, deeply channelled down the centre and keeled at the back, the margins recurved. Wings shorter, spathulate, concave, eared on one side, with a very slender unguis on the other side. Keel slenderly unguiculate, sharp- ly keeled, the point ascending and notched. Stamens 10, all joined in a tube, the points distinct and ascending, the upper one divided lowest down. Ovarium smooth. Style smooth, ascending. Stigma a very small head. Pod 1 -lo- cular, striate, linear, nearly cylindrical, few-seeded. Seeds distant, nearly cylindrical. The present plant is nearly related to the white variety of G. officinalis^ but is nevertheless a truly distinct species, easily distinguished when seen growing together, though they are united by Sprengel in his Systema Vegetabilium, as are numerous other plants, in the same work, many of which have not the least affinity with each other, and some of them belonging even to different sections of the genus. Our drawing was made from a fine plant last Summer, communicated to us by Mr. W. Anderson, Curator of the Apothecaries’ Company’s garden, at Chelsea, where it was raised from seeds that Mr. Anderson received from France. It is a very desirable plant for the Flower-borders, being quite hardy, and flowers from July to October, and ripens plenty of seeds, which should be sown any time in Spring, either in pots, or in the open borders. 1. Calyx. 2. Vexilluin. 3. The two Wings. 4. Keel. 5. The 10 Stamens, con- nected into a tube. 6. Ovarium, terminated by the Style and small Stigma. 7. Pod. 8. One of the Seeds. ' .i'lX ■ ryt,jiSiS- 245 DIANTHUS Fischeri. Fischer s Pink, Natural Order. Caryophylle^. DC.'prodr. 1. p.Sbl. Tribus I. SiLENEM. Sepala coalita in tubum cylindraceum apice 4-5-dentatum. DIANTHUS, Calyx tubulosiis 5-dentatus basi squamis 2-4 op- positis imbricatis. 5 longe unguiculata. Stamina \0, Styli2. Capsula 1-locuJaris. Semina compressa bine convexa ind^ concava, peltata. vix curvatus. Z)C. proc?r. 1. />. 355. Sect. II. Caryophyllum. Flores paniculati vel solitarii. §. 2. Fetalis jimhriatis. D. Fischeri, caule erecto paniculato-ramoso, floribus aggregato-co- rymbosis, squamis calycinis ovatis cuspidato-acuminatis erectis tube duplo brevioribus, petalis multifidis fauce subpilosis, foliis lanceolatis serrulato-scabris. Diantbus Fischeri. Spreng. cat, sem. h. hal. 1810. PL min. cog. 2. p, 62. Syst, veg.2. p. 376. DC. prodr, 1. p, 365. Perennial. Stem about eighteen inches in height, pani- culately branching ; branches spreading, nearly cylindrical, slightly angular, and thinly clothed with a short roughish pubescence. Leaves opposite, lanceolate, acute, connected at the base, slightly glaucous, strongly 1 -nerved, striate, the margins very rough, serrulate with numerous minute cartila- ginous teeth. Flowers of a beautiful lilac, fragrant, crowd- ed in paniculated corymbs. Pedicles very short, enclosed in the lanceolate taper-pointed bractes. Calyos tubular, stria- ted, purple, terminated in 5 lanceolate' taper-pointed teeth, surrounded at the base by 4 ovate, sharp, taper- pointed scales, about half the length of the tube. Petals 5, spread- ing : the unguis long, flat, strongly 2-nerved, narrowing to the base: limb multifid, the segments again jagged, 3-ner- ved, fauce slightly bearded, or thinly clothed with long white hairs. Stamens 1 0, inserted in the receptacle, every other VOL. Til. N one shorter : filaments smooth, inserted in the back of the anthers a little above the base. Oimrium smooth and glossy, nearly cylindrical. Styles 2, smooth, about twice the length of the stamens, fimbriate and twisted at the point, obtuse. For the opportunity of giving a figure of this very hand- some plant, we are obliged to Messrs. Young, Nurserymen, of Epsom, in whose Nursery we observed it flowering in profusion in the open border, in July last; and from fine specimens kindly given to us by them, our drawing and de- scription w ere made ; according to Sprengel it is a native of the south of Russia, so that it is likely to succeed well in our gardens ; but, like the rest of this genus, will require to be raised from seeds or cuttings regularly, as the old plants will be apt to die off, after bearing such an abundance of flowers ; it is certainly one of the most desirable plants for the Flower-garden, the flowers being very sweet-scented as well as beautiful. It thrives well in a rich garden soil, and young cuttings, planted under hand-glasses, will strike root readily ; and it will be a good plan to keep some young plants in pots that may be preserved in frames through the Winter, for fear the old ones should be killed with a supera- bundance of w et. 1. Calyx. 2. One of the Petals, showing its long nnguis. 3. The 10 Stamens, every other one longest. 4. Ovarium, terminated by the two Styles and fim- briate Stigmas. Note. We have lately received a plant of the fine hybrid Magnolia. M. Sou- langeana, from the Chevalier Soulange-Bodin, Secretary of the Horticnltnral Society of Paris, who raised it from seed ; it will be in bloom in our garden in a few days, where any person who wishes may be gratified with a sight of it. 2^6 DIPLOCOMA villosa. Villous Diplocoma. Natural Order, Composite. Adamon fam. 2. 103. Subordo III. CARDUACEM,—Oi\, 6. Astereoe. Klh. syn. 2. p. 399. DIPLOCOMA, Involucrum polyphyllum, imbricatura. Rccepta- culum paleaceo-favosum. Flosculi radii foeminei, ligulati ; disci her- raaphroditi, tubulosi. Antherce basi muticae. Achenia periphaeriaB apice calva; hermaphroditis papposa: ^ajppo duplici; exterior e hr t- vissiino, paleaceo ; interiore elongato, piloso. D. Don Mss. Descr. Involucrum globosum,' polyphyllum, imbricatum, pilis ar- ticulatis Haccidis glandulisque plurirnis pedicellatis copios^ vestitum: foliolis linearibus, attenuatis, adpressis, obtuse carinatis. Recepta- culum paleaceo-favosum. Flosculi radii copiosi, foeminei, ligulati, apice obtus^ trideriticulati ; disci numerosi, hermaphroditi, tubulosi, 5-dentati. Filamenta capillaria, glabra. Antherce basi muticae, ap- pendicul^ ovato-lauceolata terminatae. Stylus teres, laevis, basi sira- plici. Stigmata radiis semicylindrica, obtusa, laevia ; disco lincari- lanceolata, bispidula. di (For mia ; radio oblonga, laevia, apice calva; disco cuneata, sericeo-villosa, papposa; pappMs duplex ; ex^ terior brevissimus, setaceo-paleaceus ; interior pilosus, denticulis scaber, 6-pl6 longior, cinereus, siccitatc rufescens. — Herba (Mexi- cana) pe?'ewwts, pilis longis articulatis patulis glandulisque copiosis pedicellatis intermixtis vestita, hispidula. Caules erecti, ramosiy tereSy intus medula far eta y sesqui-v. bipedalis, crassitie vix ultra pennam corvinam eequantes. Folia alternay sessiliay quandoque subamplexU cauHuy oblonguy mucronatUy integerrima v. denticulatUy uninervia, sesqui v. tripollicaria, semi-v. unciam lata; inferiora majora; superi- ora lanceolata, acuminatUy sensim minora. Flores pedunculatiy aureiy subcorymbosi. D.Don. Mss. Diplocoma villosa. D. Don AIss. Doronicum villosum. Sesse et Mocinno Mss. A herbaceous perennial. Stems from a foot to eighteen inches in height, branched and terminated by a loose corymb of flowers, striated with numerous longitudinal stripes, some of which are tinged with purple, densely clothed with spread- ing hairs, that are unequal in length. Leaves ovately ob- long, entire, or occasionally toothed, hairy on both sides and fringed at the margins : root ones ovate, obtuse, with a few bluntish teeth on each side : stem ones sessile, clasping the stem a little at the base, some of them fiddle shaped, others tapering gradually to the point, which is acute, reticulately veined ; the upper ones or those on the flower-stalks, sessile, lanceolate and acute. Corymbs loosely spreading, branch- ed. Peduncles striate, very hairy, thickened near the flower-head. Flowers large, yellow. Involucre many- leaved, closely imbricate, villosely hairy : leaflets narrowly linear, terminated by a purple point. Receptacle honey-- N 2 combed, the partition between each seed irregular, termi- nated in unequal fleshy points. Rays numerous, spreading, narrowly ligulate or linear, each terminated by three small teeth, tubular at the base, the tube pubescent, producing a style and bifid stigma, and a hairy seed without pappus. Florets of the disk numerous, tubular, slender at the base and widening upwards, 5-toothed, the nerves alternate with the teeth, which are ovately lanceolate, acute, spreading. Stamens 5, inserted into the tube : filaments slender, dis- tinct : anthers connected into a tube, exserted when the floret is expanded, naked at the base. Akenia or Seed flat, striate, hispidly hairy, crowned with a double pappus, which is radiately spreading ; the inner one composed of long slender hairs, the outer one of short flat chaff-like ones. •Style smooth, exserted. Stigma bifid, the points con- nivent. “ The genus Diplocoma differs essentially from Doro- NicuM, in having an imbricate irregular involucrum, by its chaffy honey-combed receptacle, and finally by its double seed- crown, and its hornless anthers ; its double pappus in the seeds of the disk, the structure of the receptacle, and the marginal seeds being destitute of pappus, remove it widely from the normal group of Inulce ; and the same characters, with the exception of the hornless anthers, will prevent its being confounded with the genus Chrysopsis of Nuttall, the Diplostephium of M. Kunth. We have as- certained it to be the Doronicum villosum of Sesse and Mocinno, from comparison of wild specimens in the Lam- bertian Herbarium. Our drawing was made from living samples, communicated by Robert Barclay, Esq. in whose rich and varied collection at Bury-hill the plant had been raised last Spring from Mexican seeds.” For the above account, we are indebted to Mr. David Don, who kindly allowed us to copy it from his manuscript. Mr. Cameron informed us that the plants have been in flower in the borders all the last Summer, and have ripened seeds, but it will most probably require a little covering in Winter to preserve it from the severest frost. The generic name is composed of AtTrXooc, double, and ico/ur?, a lock of hair, in allusion to the seeds being furnished with a double pappus. 1. Involucre. 2. Receptacle. 3. One of the Rays with the seed at the base, without any pappus. 4. Floret of the disk with the seed at the base, terminated by the double pappus. 6. Floret spread open, to show the nerves alternating with the teeth. C. The 5 Stamens, the anthers united and the filaments distinct. 7. Seed, showing the inner pappus, and the Style and Stigma. 8. Seed magni- fied, to show the outer pappus. Sj)jin,cnjj. iy X JS2S 247 PAP AVER alpinuin. Alpine Poppy. Natural Order, Papaverace^. DC. syst. veg. 2. p. 67. PAPAVER. Supra fol. 172. — §. 1. Capsulis hispidis. P. alpinunif capsuM hispid^ obovato-oblong^, sepalis pilosiusculis, pedunculis radicalibus, foliis glabriusculis bipinnatisectis, lobulis tenuibus subacutis. DC. loc. cit.p. 72. Prodr. 1. p. 118. Papaver alpinum. Linn. spec. 725. Jacq.Jl. aust. t. 83. Willden. sp, pi. 2. p. 1145. Pers. syn, 2. p. 62. Hart. Kew, ed, 2. v. 3. p. 289. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 569, Papaver Burseri. Crantz ausir, 2. p, 138. t, 6,f, 4. A dwarf perennial herbaceous plant, becoming thickened at the base, and sometimes producing several shoots. Leaves more or less crowded, petiolate, smooth or slightly pubescent, slightly glaucous, pinnate ; the leaflets distant, pinnatifid, or sometimes bipinnatifid ; segments narrow, bluntish or scarcely acute, spreading. Petioles slender, flattened on the upper side, and hairy at the edges, the hairs long and at a distance from each other, bending inwards. Peduncles about a span in length, cylindrical, smooth on the lower part, the upper part thickly clothed with close- pressed hairs. Calyx of 2 sepals, clothed with soft brown close-pressed hairs. Petals 4, white, with a yellowish green unguis, nearly orbicular, more or less crumpled, and notched at the margins, the two outer ones about double the size of the inner ones. numerous, surrounding the germen : fllaments smooth, slender, of various lengths : anthers joined by their base to the filaments, two-celled, opening longitudinally to discharge the pollen, which is of a bright yellow. Germen oval, bristly, terminated with from 4 to 6 sessile, radiate, fringed stigmas, and betwixt each is a glossy green crescent-shaped gland. Our drawing of this pretty and very rare Alpine plant was made last Summer at the Apothecaries Company’s Gar- den, at Chelsea, where it continued to flower a great part of the Summer and ripened seeds, so that we hope there will be no danger of its being again lost, which we believe it frequently has; as the plant generally cultivated as P. aU pinum, is, P. pyrenaicum of Decandolle, a species with a yellow flower, and which is also very apt to die off as well as the present ; but as it is of stronger growth and seeds abundantly, it is more easily preserved. The present species has now flowered two years following with Mr. Anderson, but much stronger last Summer than the former one ; as the plant is so liable to die off in Winter, the best way to preserve it is to grow it in rock-work, and to place a little pot over it in very severe dry frost, or when there is a superabundance of rain ; we have succeeded in preserv- ing many tender things by that means, as it partly answers the purpose of the snow that covers them through the grea- ter part of the Winter in their native country; if kept in pots in frames through, the Winter they must be exposed to the open air at all times, except in very wet weather, or severe frost, or they will be almost certain to damp off. Seeds, sown early in Spring, will flower the same Summer. 1. Portion of the Stamens to show their difference in length. 2. Capsule ter- minated by the four spreading Stigmas that are fringed, and between each is a crescent-shaped gland. m Im f] n } " r H , ^ 1 W/f i S 2> fmtlK 2^^ t 248 PHLOX scabra. Rough-leaved Lychnidea, "Natural Order. Po lemon i AC e^e. D. Don. obs. on Polem. p. 4. PHLOX. Supra fol.29 et 190. P. scabrut caule inferne glabro superne pubescente, foliis oblongo- lanceolatis acutis supra scabris: margine undulatis denticulato- scaberrimis, floribus laxe paniculatis, calycibus pilosis : dentibus subulatis rectis, tube corollas curvato villoso : laciniis obovatis pa- tent! bus. Phlox americana. Hortulanorum. Stem erect, 3 to 4 feet high, slightly decurrent, of a pale green, smooth, and glossy below ; the upper part pubescent, dark purple at the joints. Leaves or short footstalks, oppo- site, oblongly lanceolate, acute or taper-pointed ; the lower ones becoming narrow towards the base, upper ones much broader, very rough like a rasp on the upper side, of a bright green; underneath paler, smooth, pennately nerved, the nerves much branched, and connected a little within the margins, the margin much undulate, and sometimes slightly recurved, very rough, occasioned by minute teeth which bend inwards : upper leaves pubescent and fringed with longish hairs. Flowers fragrant, of a lilac colour, lightest at the base, in loosely spreading panicles, the branches clo- thed with stiffish unequal short hairs, and terminated by a loose many-flowered corymb. Bractes lanceolate, fringed with long hairs and tapering to a long slender point. Pedi- cles slender, pubescent, purplish. Calyx tubular, very hai- ry, 5-angled, membranaceous between the angles, termina- ted in 5 long slender straight subulate teeth, which are very taper-pointed. Corolla tubular, with a 5 -cleft, divaricately spreading limb : tube a little curved, densely clothed with villous hairs : segments of the limb rather long and narrow, smooth, distinctly spreading, obovate, with a slight notch at the point. Stamens 5, inserted in different parts of the tube ; and all included ; pollen straw-coloured. Ovarium smooth and glossy. Style smooth, included. Stigma trifid, erect. Our drawing and description of this very distinct species, was taken from fine specimens kindly sent to us from the collection of Robert Barclay, Esq. of Bury-hill, in August last, under the name of P. americana ; we also received a plant of it under the same name from Mr. G. Wheeler, Nurseryman, of Warminster. It is readily distinguished from all others with which we are acquainted by the long filiform teeth of the calyx, the villosely hairy tube of the corolla, and its very rough leaves ; we believe it to be a new and nondescript species, as it does not agree with any pub- lished description that we have had an opportunity of ex- amining ; it thrives well in the open borders of the flower- garden, and may be increased by suckers from the root ; or by cuttings planted under a hand-glass, but which must not be kept too close, or they will be apt to damp off ; it is also a good plan to preserve some plants in pots of all the diffe- rent species of this genus ; they can then be preserved in spare frames through the Winter, and can be covered with the lights in severe frost, or in very wet weather, as the old plants in the ground frequently die in Winter, so that others are wanted in Spring to supply their place. 1. Calyx, terminated by the 5 long filiform teeth. 2. The pubescent tube of the corolla laid open to show the insertion of the 5 stamens. 3. Ovarium, ter- piinated by the sleuder Style and trifid Stigma. r • ' ■ ' ,• vX-.,., - :V; ^ i[>y A V;. ,/'x ■', X- ',', ' ■-•V; , jX;- fr ' ■ '■■■•■.: ,v ■ y..-, , * ' 'ly, ;/•' ' 'W > -.4 >v % Vl,.. .1 r- »i "x’% J EI-JhutTil'U.. Pui JS ^3- WedJ^U Ji 249 ORCHIS longicornu. Long Jlat~spii7'red Orchis. Natural Order. ORCHiDEiE. Brown prodr. 309. Sect. I. Monandry. Anthera adnata subterminalis persistens. Pollinis masses e lobulis angulatis elastice cohaerentibus : basi afiBxae. Brown Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. p. 188. ORCHIS. Supra fol. 65. * Radice tuberosa indivisa. — -j f Labello diviso. O. longicornu, labello lato trilobo : lobis lateralibus rotundatis : me- dio minore subretuso, perianthii laciniis conniventibus obtusis, cornu adscendente elongato spathulato compresso, bracteis acutis ovario brevioribus. Orchis longicornu. Poiret Itin. 2. p. 247. Desf. atl. 2. p. 317. t. 246. Willden. sp. pi. v. 4. p. 19. Pers. syn. 2. p. 503. La- marck cncycl. 4. p. 591. Botan. regist. 202. Orchis longicornis. Smith prodr. flor, grace, v. 2. p. 212. Sims Botan. magaz, 1944. Root composed of two oval fleshy tubers, above which are produced a few spreading fleshy fibres. Leaves several, spreading, lanceolate, bluntish, but terminating in a short point, keeled and striate at the back, and channelled on the upper side, smooth, of a bright glossy palish green co- lour. Stem from a span to nine inches in height, leafy at the base, the leaves sheathing the stem, smooth, and more or less purple. Flowers from 6 to 10, varying a little in colour, very handsome. Bractes lanceolately linear, acute, shorter than the ovarium, which it sheaths at the base, of a thin texture, and of a pale purple colour. Ovarium twisted, angular, purple. Perianthium of 5 leaflets, connivent, and forming an arch, obtuse, lilac or pale purple ; the three outer ones double the breadth of the inner ones, oblong, concave inwards : the inner ones spatulately linear. La- bellum large and spreading, three-lobed : the side lobes VOL. III. O large, rounded, of a rich dark velvetty purple : middle one small and short, slightly retuse, of a lighter purple, and spotted with small black specks on the upper side. Spur long and flat, spatulate, or widened towards the end, light purple, ascending. Anther 2-lobed, each lobe enclosed in a light purple hood. Pollen-masses pedicled, each pedicle seated on a little gland at the base. The present handsome species of Orchis is native of the South of Europe, Barbary, and Greece, and is nearly re- lated to the O. Morio of this country, but differs in the length of its spur, besides other distinctions. Our drawing was made from a plant given us by Mr. W. Anderson, Cu- rator of the Apothecaries’ Company’s Garden at Chelsea ; we planted it in a border in our garden last Spring, at which time the bulb was so small that it was not strong enough to flower, but it continued to grow, and is now a strong plant, and producing offsets ; it came into flower in February last, and continued in bloom till the beginning of April ; the soil in which it is grown is of a light sandy na- ture, and we find the greater part of the hardy Orchideae thrive in it very well, and continue to increase in strength, instead of diminishing. We saw several plants of it in the Chelsea Garden flowering at the same time ; but being in pots in the frames, they did not flower so strong, but we observed several young seedlings coming up in the pots with them, that had sown themselves the preceding Spring. 1. Ovarium, terminated by the back leaflet of the Perianthium, and the two inner smaller ones. 2. The two side outer leaflets of the Perianthium. 3. La- bellum, showing the two large side lobes, and the shorter middle one, with the long flat spur at the back. 4. Column showing the two lobes of the Anther, the pollen-masses detached from the hood, pedicled and seated on small glands;. 250 250 RHODODENDRON arboieum. Scarlet-flowered tree Rhododendron. Natural Order, Erice^. D. Don. 'prodr. ji. nepal. p- 148. Subordo III. RhODORACEjE. D. Don. loe. cit. p. 152. RHODODENDRON. Calyx 5-parti tus. Corolla monopetala, saepius campanulata v. basi lubulosa, (nunc rar6 rotata s. 3-partita,) limbo 5-loba, subbilabiata ; lahio superiore latiore, saepius maculate. Stamina 5-10, saepi5s exserta. Antherce, apice foramine dnplici liiantes. Capsula 5-locularis, 5-valvis, raro (in R. arhoreo) 10-locu- laris, 10-valvis, septicido-dehiscens. Placenta simplex, angulata. Semina compressa, scobiformia, alata. — Erutices v. Arbores, scepius sempervirentes. Folia alternaf integerrima, apice sphacelata s. ylan- duld luted terminata. Flores terminates, corymbosi, speciosi, colore varii. D. Don. prodr. p. 152. R. arboreum, foliis lanceolatis acutis subtiis argenteis basi subacu- tis, floribus confertis, peduneplis calycibusque lanatis, corollis campanulatis : laciniis bilobis margine crispato-crenulatis, cap- sule lO-ioculari tomentos^. D. Don. prodr. p. 154. Rhododendron arboreum. Smith exot. bot. t. 6. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 292. Botan. regist. 890. Swt. kort. brit. p.264. A handsome evergreen tree, in its native country about the size of a middling-sized Cherry-tree, 20 feet high or more, clothed with a hard thick bark, which cracks irregu- larly, and peels off : branches smooth, erect, or spreading and ascendant, round, thick and succulent when young, but becoming hard by age. Leaves lanceolate or rarely elliptic, acute, sometimes very long, of a thick leathery substance, penninerved, the nerves branched, and connected a little within the margin ; upper side of a light yellowish green, but glossy ; underneath silvery white, obsoletely reticulate : margins a little thickened, very slightly refiexed. Petioles flattened and furrowed on the upper side, and rounded on the lower, rugged, and more or less clothed with a short woolly pubescence. Flowers of a bright scarlet, in a close nearly globular crowded corymb, from 15 to 20 in each. Bractes scale-like, surrounding the corymb, numerous, variable, round or roundly ovate, a little pointed, concave inward and striate ; 1 -nerved at the back, and clothed with short silvery wool, the edges membranaceous. Peduncles short, tomentose. Calyx short, and tomentose, the seg- ments very short and broad. Corolla large, bell-shaped, scarlet, spotted inside with innumerable small black specks, 5-lobed, the lobes nearly equal in size, broad, slightly two- lobed, the margins a little curled, and notched with small unequal crenatures, the five divisions are cucullate or cup- ped at the base, where they are filled with honey. Stamens 10; ^laments unequal in length, ascending: anthers pur- pie, two-lobed ; each lobe opening at the point to discharge the pollen. Ovarium 10-angled, densely clothed with white tomentum. Style a little longer than the stamens. Stigma capitate, slightly two-lobed. Our drawing of this beautiful scarlet variety, was made from a plant in flower this Spring, in the collection of the Earl of Liverpool, Coombe-wood ; it is without doubt the finest species of the genus ; but in the neighbourhood of London, it requires a little protection in Winter, either to be placed in a Greenhouse or Conservatory, or if planted in the open border, it will need the protection of a mat or some other covering in severe weather. In Devonshire, and the more southern counties, it will succeed well in the open air all the Winter, thriving best in peat soil, or in very light sandy loam, and may be increased by seeds or layers, or by inarching on the R. ponticum, or other strong grow- ing sort. Mr. W. Smith, his Lordship’s Gardener, has succeeded in raising numerous hybrids between the present species and ponticum, and others between the present and Azalea pontica ; those will be still more valuable, as they will be quite hardy as well as curious and beautiful : he has also raised a great quantity of seedling varieties of Azalea indica, and mules between it and R. dauricum : and also a quantity of curious hybrids between Cereus speciosus (^phyllanthoides, DC.) and C. speciosissimus, some of which are nearly of a flowering size. We agree with Mr. D. Don in uniting Rhodora and Azalea with Rhododendron, as there are no proper limits between them, and we have succeeded in muling the whole of them together, the produce of which will still unite them closer. 1. One of the Bractes. 2. Corolla divested of the limb to show its bell-shape, and the hollow lobes at the base. 3. Stamen. 4. The short Calyx, enclosing the woolly Ofarinm, terminated by the Style and slightly 2-lobed capitate Stigma. 6. Ovarium spread open to show the 10 angles. £J)S■n^lJh, Bel- hJ> hy £- M52.5 . Wecld^Ziyr^ 251 YUCCA puberula. Puhescent-stemmed AdawHs Needle. Natural Order. Tulipace^. Kth. synops. 1. p. 292. YUCCA. Supra fol. 53. Y. puberula, acaulis, foliis patentibus lanceolatis lineari-lanceola- tisque planis glaucis apice concavis mucronulatis margine filameU” tiferis, caule erecto paniculato^raraoso ; ramis flexuosis tomentoso- pubescentibus, perianthii lauiniis elliptico-lanceolatis acutis. Yucca puberula. Haworth in the Philosophical Magazine and An- nals, for March 1828. p. 186. Root perennial, producing numerous suckers, stemless. Leaves from a foot to 18 inches in length, and from an inch to an inch and half in breadth, spreading, smooth, of a very blue glaucous colour, flat or a little concave at the points, of a thin weak texture, generally erect, or spreading straight, the points of some of the old ones slightly bent downwards, lanceolate or linearly lanceolate, tapering to the base and point, the point terminated by a softish brown spine, longitudinally striated with numerous faint lines; margins smooth, edged with a yellowish brown membrane, which tears up irregularly so as to appear like numerous threads, that are more or less curled. Flower-stem erect or slightly flexuose, from four to four and a half feet in height, clothed with a woolly pubescence, which increases in thickness on the upper part of the stem, leafy below the branches, the leaves from 3 to 5 inches in length, and pressed close to the stem, beginning to branch about two feet from the ground : hranches densely clothed with a soft woolly down, much bent or flexuose, spreading.- Flow- ers crowded, of a lemon-scent, white or tinged with green, in threes at the base of the branches, in pairs higher up, and towards the point solitary. Bractes broadly lanceo^ late, taper-pointed, broad at the base, caducous. Pedun- cles nodding, less pubescent than the branches. Perian- thium 6- parted, nearly to the base, inflated in the middle, slightly pubescent outside, the , leaflets elliptically lanceo- late, acute, the three inner ones broadest, the points gene- rally curved inwards. Stamens 6, inserted in the base of the perianthium : filaments densely clothed with long pel- lucid fleshy hairs, scarcely as long as the Ovarium, thick- ening at the points when the anthers burst : anthers sagit- tate. Ovarium 6-furrowed, smooth. Stigma three-sided, deeply three-furrowed, 3-parted about half way down, the points two-lobed or emarginate. ' Our drawing of this plant was made from fine specimens kindly communicated to us last Summer, by Mr. J. Miller, of the Bristol Nursery, w^ho believes he received it from North America. Mr. Haworth, on our showing it him, immediately pronounced it as a new species, and he has since published it in the Philosophical Magazine and Annals, under the name that we have adopted : it is nearest related to Y.fiaccida and Y. glaucescens, particularly to the former, which has also pubescent flower-stems, but differs from the present by its flaccid leaves, that are all bending downwards from about the middle, which has occa- sioned it to be confounded with. Y. recurvifolia in most of our collections, but that is a very different and much scarcer plant, of strong growth, with green leaves, and not filamentose at the margins, or very rarely so. The present plant thrives well in the open borders in the common garden soil, and makes a fine appearance when in bloom ; it is increased by the suckers from the root. 1. The 6 Stamens, showing the hairy filaments. 2. The Ovarium. 3. Stigma, three-furrowed and three-parted about half way down, the points emarginate. in /Truth MeL Tu h ^ K Jive/st Zff 2/5. WeddM--/'‘> 252 HORMINUM pyrenaicum. Pyrenean Horminum. Natural Order. Labiate. Brown prodr. p. 499. Sect. IV. Stamina 4 fertilia. Corolla bilabiata. Calyx bilabiatus. HORMINUM. Calyx turbinatus striatus, fauce glaber, supra 3-dentatus, infra bifidus. Corolla labium superius bilobum, inferius trilobum, laciniis subaequalibus. Stamina Ay didynama. — Folia rcBque radicalia; caules simplices ; flores laxe verticillato-spicati. H. pyrenaicum, foliis ovato-subrotundis crenato-dentatis, verticillis inferioribus distantibus. Pers. syn. 2. p. 132. Melissa pyrenaica, Willden sp. pi. 3. p. 148. Jacq. hort. vind. 2. p, 86. t. 183. Lam. ill, t. 515. Spreng. syst.2. p. 692. Root perennial. Leaves radical, tufted, spreading, ovately rounded, rugged, unequally notched at the margins with broad shallow notches, punctated with innumerable minute dots, smooth on both sides, upper side of a darkish green, paler underneath. Petioles furrowed on the upper side, and rounded on the lower, pubescent. Stem erect, naked, from a foot to 18 inches in height, quadrangular, channelled on each side, clothed with a short pubescence. Flowers in whorls round the stem, distant on the lower part, dark blue, generally 5 or 6 in each whorl. Bractes broad, cordate, acute, longitudinally nerved, ciliate. Pedi- cles short, of a dark bluish purple, pubescent. Calyx tur- binate, 2-lipped, striated with dark purple veins, spreading at the mouth, pubescent outside, and naked within : upper lip sharply 3-tobthed, the teeth spreading : lower lip bifid, the lacinise taper-pointed. Corolla tubular, 2-lipped, pu- bescent ; upper lip shortly 2-lobed, arched over : lower one 3-lobed, the middle lobe largest : tube hairy inside. Stamens 4, inserted in the tube, 2 long and 2 short : jila- merits smooth, attached to the back of the anthers. Style smooth, pale blue. Stigma 2-cleft, lower segment longest. Our drawing of this handsome plant was made last Sum- mer from fine specimens sent us from the extensive collec- tion of rare plants belonging to Robert Barclay, Esq. of Bury-hill ; we have also received specimens of it from Messrs. Young’s Nursery at Epsom, and from Mr. G. Wheeler’s Nursery at Warminster. It is certainly a most beautiful perennial plant, and continues in flower a great part of the Summer, thriving well in the open borders of the Flower-Garden, but it is also a good plan to keep some plants in pots, that they may be protected in frames in Winter, as those in the open ground are sometimes apt to be killed by excessive moisture; those in pots can also be turned into the borders at any time, wherever they are wanted, and without injury to the plants. It is certainly a plant that ought to be in every collection, as it makes a fine show when in flower. It may be increased by dividing at the root, or by seeds. If the seeds are sown as soon as ripe, they will make flowering plants for the next Summer. 1. Calyx. 2. Corolla spread open to show its bearded base, and the inser- tion of the Stamens, the Anthers being attached to each other in pairs. 3. The four Ovariuras terminated by the Style and bifid Stigma. ^53. £3jTTui^ 5^1 . /i'eJdd/ Ji •253 (ENOTHERA speciosa. Handsome white (Enothera. Natural Order. OnagrARI^. DC. prodr.S. p. 35. (ENOTHERA. Supra fol. 5 et 133. CE. speciosa^ puberula, caule suffruticoso, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis utrinque attenuatis serratis subpinnatifidisque nervosis subtus pu- bescentibus, floribus racemosis, racemo nudo primiim nutante, pe- talis obcordatis stamina aequantibus, capsulis obovatis angulatis. DC. prodr. 3. p. 50. (Enothera speciosa. Nuttall in mem. acad.nat. scien. philah. 1821. p. 119. Hook. exot.Jlor. 80. Spreng. sgst. 2. p. 230. Swt. hort. brit. p. 152, Root perennial. Stem sufFruticose, upright or ascending, much branched, from two to three feet in height, thickly clothed with a short dense pubescence, the points of the short hairs curved inwards. Leaves numerous, oblongly lanceolate, bluntish at the point, unequally toothed with blunt teeth, runcinate or nearly pinnatifid near the base, clothed on both sides with a short pubescence. Petioles short, flattened on the upper side, and rounded on the lower, pubescent. Flowers very large, white when first expanded, but dying off blush, at last becoming purple, terminating the branches in a longish nodding raceme, the flowers expanding in succession. Bractes lanceolate, acute, terminated in a brown callous point, more or less toothed. Ovariuim below the flower, sessile, spatulately 4-angular, pubescent. Calyx tubular, pubescent, 4-cleft, the segments long and narrow, lanceolate, acute, generally connected near the points, but divided at the base. Petals 4, in- serted in the mouth of the tube, obcordate, crenulate at the edges, strongly nerved with numerous nerves from the base, which branch all over the petals. Stamens 8, in- VOL. III. P serted in the mouth of the tube, 4 opposite to the petals, and 4 alternating with them : filaments smooth, about half the length of the petals, inserted in the back of the anthers : pollen stringy, straw-coloured. Style smooth, reaching beyond the stamens. Stigma 4-cleft, the segments nearly cylindrical, blunt, succulent, spreading. One of our finest hardy perennials, native of plains near the red river in North America, where it was first disco- vered by Mr. Nuttall ; it is now becoming plentiful in our collections, where it thrives well in the open borders in a rich light soil, and soon makes a large plant, as it pro- duces shoots from its base, which run under ground, and come up at some distance from the original stem ; these shoots taken off in Spring will become strong plants before Autumn, but if taken off in Autumn, they will seldom succeed so well, being very apt to die off before they have made sufficient roots ; young cuttings, planted under hand- glasses in Spring or early in Summer, will strike root rea- dily, and will become strong and well rooted enough to stand the Winter; but if struck late in the Summer, their roots will not be sufficiently ripened to keep them alive through that season ; we have seen a great quantity of them die off through that circumstance. Our drawing was made from fine specimens, given to us by Robert Barclay, Esq. of Bury-hill, where it was grown in a border of peat soil, and was thriving luxuriantly, pro- ducing a great number of its fine large flowers ; we also received fine specimens of it from Messrs. Young, Nur- serymen, at Epsom, Surrey, where we, last Summer, saw a considerable clump of it in full bloom. 1. Calyx. 2. The 8 Stamens inserted in the mouth of the tube, the anthers inserted to the filaments by their back. 3. The Ovarium. 4. The upper part of the Ovarium terminated by the long Style and the four-cleft spreading Stigma. J: D/mUhDtl. Ji/hiyJiJvpcei yiTedd^ljc. 254 PRIMULA glaucescens. Glaucescent-leaved Primrose, Natural Order, Primulace/E. J3rowu prodr, 4'21, PRIMULA, Supra fol. H, P. glaucescens, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis rigidis cartiiagineo- marginatis subtus glaucescentibus, umbella pauciflora, calycibus aciiminato-dentatis. Spreng, syst, 2. p, 576. n, 46. Primula glaucescens. Morett, P. integrifolia. Wulff, et P.calycina. Gaud, ex Spreng, syst, loc, cit. Stem short. Leaves numerous, sessile, rigid, radiately spreading, imbricate over each other, oblongly or broadly lanceolate, acute, slightly undulate, or sometimes quite flat, entire, with a cartilaginous or horny margin, that is slightly erose, smooth and of a glossy green on the upper side ; underneath pale or glaucescent. Scape short in our plant, about the length of or a little longer than the leaves, smooth, obsoletely angular, or sometimes flattened. Umbel in our plant five-flowered. Involucre of 5 long, narrow, linear, acute bractes, that are nearly as long as the pedicles and calyx together, in our plant. Pedicles shorter than the calyx, smooth. Calyx tubular, deeply 5-cleft, tinged with a reddish purple ; the segments lanceolate, taper-pointed, and keeled. Corolla tubular, with a deeply 5-cleft, spread- ing limb, of a bright purple : tube large, bluntly 5-angular, about twice the length of the calyx : limb much spreading, the segments distinct, or slightly imbricate towards the base, very broad, roundly obcordate, veined, unguiculate at the base, and producing a gland like protuberance be- tween the segments, the lobes bluntly rounded ; sometimes, but rarely 3-lobed : slightly pubescent within the mouth. Stamens 5, inserted in the tube. Ovarium smooth, stria- ted. Style smooth, not exserted. Stigma capitate. p 2 For the opportunity of giving a figure of this handsome and rare plant, we are obliged to Mr. W. Anderson, the Curator of the Apothecaries’ Company’s Garden at Chel- sea, where it first came into flower in April last he had raised it from seed about three years before, that he re- ceived from the late Mr. Schleicher, of Bex, who collected it in Switzerland ; it is nearer related to P. integHfolia than to any other with which we are acquainted, but is readily distinguished by the long taper-pointed segments of the calyx, which in P. integrifolia is short and bluntly rounded. The present plant will prove a great acquisition to the genus Primula, and it appears to be easy of cultivation ; the plant from which our drawing was made was grown in a small pot, in light sandy loam, but it would doubtless succeed well in rock-work, or in a border where it did not get too much moisture; and it may be increased by divi- ding at the root ; or, which is more preferable, by seeds, which we believe will ripen. 1. Calyx. 2. Tube of the Corolla spread open, to show the insertion of the Stamens, and the white gland-like substances at the mouth. 3. Ovarium ter- minated by the Style and capitate Stigma. 4. One of the long slender Bractes of the Involucrum. ■^' kr 'fV V'^i .1' ^• :.v^' i j ' f ■ I 1 'r ,.^ '’v'.- -.«' i a^ ■ ■■" -V ''V: ^ I,- i,-'^ ■ ■' > ... ' V . - <.a‘ . ' . , ^ -rt ‘Z ^A^p.: : ,« ■ ■ '* '»(;^ifr ■..>>'■!'•. ««^i|^' ' ■ ‘>^s"- •:^.i^.V- < vfr ' I Jr V .W.' 1*v. ■'\5'‘/,f. ’ / r «•/-; -v.^’-' . ’ii-'' • ‘va* V •.y-^v . '> . . Siv ■vti'. >•• ^ : H [i^'" ■’- ..<' V •/ , ■»" ■4 A.: ^ , ; J# 4' ',^i, V, .’■ ' ' ■ ^ ■|>.y^,'-jr';, ♦'!^i5?ii“'' .ppp ife.„ Jjm '/ 1^ • '.' /liil^. . ^.iw . -- . *• A ^>4 y fM //jT. \ |« \l':y 1 1 \ 1 \ 1 ! 1= R^h JS^S Ji 255 IRIS caucasica. Caucasean Iris, Natural Order, Iride^e. Brown prodr. 30*2. IRIS. Supra fol, 68. I. caucasica, imberbis, foliis circinato-falcalis conduplicatis scapo subbifloro longioribus, perianthii laciniis exterioribus crista rugu- losa notatis ; interioribus minutis lanceolatis reflexis, stigmatibus obtusissimis retusis, ovarium teretiusculum. Iris caucasica. Steven dec. pi. iber, ex Marsch. Bieb. taur. cauc. 1 . p. 33. Hoffm. comm, mosqu. V. 1. P. 1. p. 40. Roem. et Schult. syst, 1. p. 480. Link enum. 1. p. 60. Sprenq. sysi. 1. p. 159. Swt. hort. hrit. p. 349. Statura 1. pumilaB, Radix bulbosus tunicatus. Flores magnitudine I. persicae ochroleuci vel leucophaei : tubo filiform! : petalis exte- rioribus ovatis obtusis in medio crista rugosa lute^ loco barbae : in- terioribus minutis lanceolatis integerrimis trifidisve reflexo-patu- lis; stigmatibus magnitudine fere petalorum raajorum erectis : laminis hyalinis obtusissimis retusis. D. Steven ex M. Bieb. loc. cit. tunicate, of the size and form of l.persica^ clothed with thin membranaceous scales, and producing from the base several large fleshy roots. Leaves channelled, disti- chous or fan-shaped, lanceolate, falcate, conduplicate, taper-pointed, glaucous on the outside and green within, longitudinally striated with white lines, also margined with white. Scape shorter than the leaves, generally 2-flowered. Spathe inflated, striate. Flowers straw-coloured: tube slender: outer segments ovate, obtuse, marked with a rugged yellow crest, but not bearded : inner .segments small, lanceolate, acute, undulate, slender at the base, re- flexed or bent dow^nwards. Stamens 3. Ovarium nearly cylindrical. Stigmas 3, large, erect, about the size of the largest segments, very broad at the end, transparent, bluntly rounded and retuse. We are obliged to the Honourable and Reverend W. Herbert, of Spofforth, Yorkshire, for the drawing made by him of this very rare plant, which flowered in his col- lection in February last, in a pot plunged in a dry border, sloping to the south, without any protection, in which situation it has been kept six or seven years, when it was first raised from seed. It is a native of Mount Caucasus, and is mentioned by Marschall Bieberstein as being fre- quent on sunny hills round Tiflis, flowering early in Spring ; we have seen a native specimen of it in Mr. Lambert’s Herbarium, which agrees precisely with our plant, the bulb nearly resembles the Persian Iris, as does the habit of the plant. I. alata is a nearly related species, of which we have had a bulb growing in a border in our garden these three years, w here it thrives well, but has not yet flowered. It will be some time before the present species becomes common in our collections, except more seeds or bulbs of it are introduced from abroad ; it will also require more than ordinary care to preserve it in good health, as it will be very liable to rot, if in too moist a situation ; we would recommend a dry border of light sandy soil, where the wet passes off* readily. I 2^^- 250 CINERARIA aurantiaca. Orange-coloured Cineraria, Natural Order. Composite. Adanson fam. 2. 303. Subordo. V. JACOBEM. Kth. synops. 2. p. 440. CINERARIA. Involucrum profunde multi partitum, ecalycula- turn ; laciniis aequalibus. Receptaculum nudum. Flosculi disci tu- bulosi, liermaphroditi ; radii ligulati feminei. Antherce basi nudae. Pappus pilosus, sessilis. — Frutices aut herbaa alternifolice. Flores terminales. Kth. synops. 2. p. 458. ** Herbacea, Pedunculis multijloris, Foliis indivisis. C. aurantiaca, caule simplici sublanato, foliis radicalibus ellipticis repando-dentatis in petiolum decurrentibus, caulinis lanceolatis in- tegerrimis, corymbo paucifloro, involucri foliolis apice sphacelatis. Cineraria aurantiaca. Willden, sp. pi. 3. p. 2081 . Enum, 2. p. 893. Pers. syn. 2. p. 440. Botan. mayaz. 2262. Lodd. hot, cab. 325. Link enum, 2. p. 334. Spreng. syst. 3. p. 549. Swt. hort. brit, p. 232. Stem, leaves, peduncles, and calyx, clothed with long white wool, appearing as if laid on in flakes. Stem in our plant about a foot in height, simple, erect, furrowed. Leaves variable : lower ones elliptic or ovate, obtuse, de- current down the petiole, repandly toothed, the teeth very small, dark-coloured, underneath strongly pennately nerved, upper part of the nerves branched : upper leaves sessile, lanceolate, more or less acute, entire, the margins slightly reflexed, decurrent down the stems. Flowers terminating the stem in a more or less flowered corymbus, which in our specimen w as 1 1 -flowered, at first of a bright orangy brow^n, changing to a dark orange, afterwards becoming golden yellow, orange-coloured underneath, very sweet-scented. Peduncles from one to three inches long, cylindrical. In- volucrum bell-shaped, one-leafed, divided into numerous narrow linear laciniae, nearly equal in size and length, their points acute, spreading, purplish, giving the appearance of being dead or sphacelate. Receptacle naked, dotted, glossy. Rays about 16, ligulate, spreading, 4-nerved, 3-toothed at the point, tubular at the base, bearing a style and perfect seed, but no stamens. Fl(yrets of the disk tu- bular, dilated towards the mouth, 5-toothed, the teeth of a brown orange colour. Stamens 5, inserted in the tube : the filaments distinct ; anthers all connected into a tube, naked at the base. Style smooth, exserted beyond the sta- mens. Stigma bifid, dilated, spreading. Seed hairy, ter- minated by a pappus of numerous long rough hairs. This very handsome Alpine plant is a native of Swit- zerland, and is very liable to rot in Winter, in this coun- try, except grown in rock-work, where the wet does not stay long to injure it ; if grown in the open borders, it will require to be planted in a light sandy soil ; and when there is a continuance of rain or damp weather, it will be neces- sary to cover it with a pot or some other covering to keep off a part of the moisture ; but it must be left exposed when the weather is favourable ; or it may be grown in pots in a light sandy soil, it can then be protected in frames, but it must be always exposed when the weather is favour- able : dry frost is also very injurious to it, but if covered with snow it will take no harm. Our drawing was made, last Summer, from fine plants in full bloom at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, where they were raised from seeds received from the late Mr. Schleicher ; it is desirable for its fragrance as well as beauty. 1. Part of the Involiicrum, showing the length of the segments, inclosing the naked dotted Receptacle. 2. Ray, with the seed at the base. 3. Floret of the disk, showing the five teeth, with the seed at the base. 4. The 5 Stamens, the anthers united together, the filaments distinct. 5. Seed, terminated by the Style and bifid Stigma. 257 CUMMINGIA campaimlata. Hyacinth-Jiowered Cummingia. Natural Order, Asphodele^. Brown prodr. 1. 274. CUMMINGIA, Perianthium semisiipcrum ! campanulatum, 6- fidum, deciduum. Antherce basi emarginat^ filamentis brevissimis dilatatis insertae, conniventes. Ovarium triloculare : ovulis indelini- tis. Stigma punctum pruinosum. Capsula trilocularis, loculicido- dehiscens : loculis oligospermis. D. Don Mss. Descr. Perianthium semisuperum, monophyllum, campanulatum, coloratum, basi circumsciss^ deciduum : limbo 6-fido, patente, aes- tivatione imbricate : laciniis obtusis, duplici ordine dispositis ; inte- rioribus latioribus, substantia etiam tenuioribus, margine pilis sim- plicibus (nec articulatis) praesertim basin versus fimbriatis; exterior^ bus omninb glabris. Stamina 6, inclusa, basi periantbii inserta : Jila- menta brevissima, basi dilatat^ obcuneata, tenuissime membranacea: antherce in conum conniventi-approximataB, basi insertae, ibique ob- tuse emarginatae, tunc sagittato-lanceolatae, compresso-tetragonae, biloculares, apice membranaceo-acuminatae, bidentatae (dentibus di- varicatis) interims apicem infra foramine amplo oblique oblongo de- mum hiantes ; loculis parallelis, bivalves, infern^ sensim dilatatis: valvulis margine involutis, polline pulvereo intfis obrutis, loculos perinde geminos mentientibus, et ergo antherae pseudoquadri- loculares. Ovarium apici pedicelli semiimmersum ! (perianthium hinc certe cum apice pedicelli articulatum) triloculare : ovulis indelini- tis (18-20) duplici serie angulo interiori loculorum insertis, adscen- dentibus. Stylus rectus, subulatus, glaber, stamina longitudine excedens, vasorum fasciculis tribus manifestis, quorum singulo ovarii septo perpendiculari. Stigma punctum truncatum, prui- nosum. Capsula (immaturam tanlum vidi) globosa, semiinfera, trilocularis, loculicido-deliiscens : loculis abortu oligospermis. Dis- sepimenta crassiuscula, quasi e duplici laming constituta, intervallo angustissimo sejuncta, ab extensione parietis interioris capsulae or- tum ducentia, hinc capsula periods tricocca. Semina ovoidea ; testa Crustacea, laevi. — Herba (Chilensis) elegans. Hyacinth! yhc/e. llhi- zoma bulbo-tuber. Caulis spithamceus v. pedalis, erectus, apice pani- culatim ramosus. Folia Hnearia, canaliculata^ apice subulata, uervis aliquot manifestis per agrata; caulina basi semivaginata. Flores laxe paniculatif nutantes, pulcherrimi. Pedicelli filiformes, simplices, non articulati. Bracteae ovato-lanceolatce, acuminatce^ scariosce, nervosce. Perianthium semipollicare^ violaceum, fauce pallidiore, maculisque atropurpureis notatd. D. Don Mss. Cummingia campanulata. D. Don Alss. Conantheral campanulata. Hooker exot.Jlor. 3. t. 214. Spreng. syst, 4. par. 2. p. 136. Conanthera bifolia. Sims Botan. magaz, 2496. non Flor. Peruv, ** This interesting plant, whose elegant blue flowers, emulating those of the Hyacinth, justly entitle it to a place in every collec- tion, is a native of Chile, and was introduced to this country a few Q years ago. It blossomed for the first time in Europe, in the late Mr. Walker’s choice collection, at Arno’s Grove, near Southgate, and was shortly afterwards published in the Botanical Magazine, under the name of Conanthera hifoliay it being then regarded as identical with the plant of the Flora Peruviana. Had it not been for the corroboration afforded by the excellent figure and description of Feuillee, there might have been reason to question the accuracy of the representation given in the Flora Peruviana ; as a hexaphyl- lous perianthium, with an inferior ovarium, was a structure scarcely to be looked for in this class of plants ; but specimens of the true Conanthera hifoliay lately collected near Santiago in Chile by my friend Mr. Caldcleugh, and now deposited in the Lambertian Her- barium, remove all doubt as to the distinction of the two plants, and readily explain the apparently paradoxical structure above mentioned. In the greater part of Asphodeleje the 'pedicellus is articulated, and in some genera this articulation is placed imme- diately under the perianthium, so as to be easily overlooked, but by an experienced observer. In Conanthera and Cummingia, from the ovarium being immersed in the dilated apex of the pedicellus, the articulation, although present, is still less apparent, being situated near the summit of the ovarium, where the base of the perianthium separates spontaneously. The anthers are composed of four valves with involute margins, and when cut across they appear four-celled ; the dorsal portion extends considerably beyond the extremity of the valves, forming with them an oblong, oblique, aperture, through which the pollen is emitted, for, although the valves are free along their whole length, the pollen is clearly not emitted late- rally. The stigma is truncate, and not acute. The capsule inter- nally from the separation of the septa, is really tripartible, and although polyspermous, it may be compared to the fruit of Euphor- bia, wherein the septa are also distinct.” ** Conanthera differs from Cummingia, nearly as Hyacinthus does from Scilla, in having a deeply divided perianthium : the segments, however, are not, as in Scilla, separate quite to the base, but are connected together by the dilated filaments. The comparison be- tween the flowers of Conanthera, from their reflexed segments and converging anthers, and those of Dodecatheon, is more apparent, than between them and those of Solanum. The genus Echeandia of Ortega, referred by Persoon to Conanthera, is widely removed from it by having a free capsule with polyspermous cells, filaments elon- gated and glandular, anthers simple and obtuse at the apex, and the pedicles jointed at the middle, as in the normal group of Aspho- DELE^.” “ The genus is named in compliment to Lady Gordon Gumming, whose attachment to the science of Botany justly entitles her to this distinction.” For the above account we are indebted to Mr. David Don. Our drawing was made from a plant that flowered in April last, in the choice collection of A. Arcedeckne, Esq. of Glevering Hall, near Wickham Market, Suffolk. It will doubtless succeed well with the treatment of Tigridia pavonia, and other rather tender bulbs, to be planted about six inches deep in the ground, and to be taken up in Winter, or to be covered with straw or mats. 1. The 6 Stamens, inserted in the tube of the Perianthium, the tube spread open and divested of its upper part, showing the short dilated filaments, and long anthers that are bifid at the points. 2. The half inferior Ovarium, termi- nated by the Style and simple Stigma. 258 SALPIGLOSSIS picta. Painted Salpiglossis. Natural Order, Solan e^. Brown prodr. i. p, 44^, Sect. II. Corolla non plicata, regularis. Stamina didynama. Embryo leviter arcuatus. Pericarpium capsulare v. baccatum. SALPIGLOSSIS. Supra fol. 231. S. picta, glanduloso-piloso, caule paniculato-ramoso ; ramis dicbo- tomis, foliis inferioribus ovato-oblongis obtusis rugosis sinuato- dentatis : superioribus lanceolatis acutiusculis undulatis integer- rimis, filamentis undique glanduloso-pilosis. Herbaceous. Stems erect, two or three feet high, thickly clothed with short spreading hairs, that are tipped with small glands, the upper part paniculately branched, the branches forked. Leaves at the root oblongly ovate, obtuse, very rugged, sinuate with broad rounded teeth ; those on the stem with short footstalks ; lanceolate, scarcely acute, en- tire, undulate, strongly nerved underneath, thickly clothed with short hairs on both sides : upper leaves smaller, nar- rower and linear. Flowers racemed, in a terminal panicle, on longish peduncles, which are lateral, or in the forks of the branches. Bractes lanceolately-linear, bluntish, thick- ly covered with hairs that are tipped with small glands, as are the peduncles, calyx,and outside of the corolla, the glands broad towards the base and tapering to a point. Pedun- cles cylindrical, three or four times the length of the bractes. Calyon 5-angular, 5-cleft, the angles acute, of a dark colour, two upper segments rather longest. Corolla large, funnel- form, the tube slender to the base, becoming bell-shaped and inflated about the middle, where the stamens are in- serted ; limb spreading, 5-lobed, the upper one nearly double the size of the others, the lobes each two-lobed, pale cream- coloured : the tube elegantly marked on the inside on the two lower segments with a bright bluish purple, that extends more or less in veins over the segments, becoming stronger in colour and more extended after the expansion of the flowers : the three upper segments marked at the base and down the tube with a bright golden yellow, which is also strongly veined and edged with dark purple ; nerves on the outside of the tube strong and much branched, the colour showing through, but not so bright as on the inside. Sta- mens 5, inserted in the tube, where it becomes inflated, and decurrent down it, four fertile and one barren ; the four fer- tile ones didynamous, or two shorter than the others ; the barren one inserted between the two longest, and bearing the rudiment of an anther : filaments dark purple, clothed their whole length with short hairs, that are all tipped with small black glands : anthers two-lobed, those on the short filaments double the size of the others. Ovarium smooth, conical, terminated by a smooth dark purple Style, that is cylindrical below, and widening upwards, where it becomes flattened and tongue-shaped, but slightly keeled on both sides. Stigma truncate, transverse, and channelled through the centre. Our drawing of this magnificent plant, was made in May last, from fine specimens that flowered in the collection of A. B. Lambert, Esq. at Boy ton; and we are informed by Mr. Lambert that it still continues to flower, and is ripen- ing its seeds; the plants were brought from Scotland last year by Mr. D. Don, who received them from P. Neill, Esq. of Edinburgh, in whose garden they w^ere raised from seeds that had been sent from Chile ; several other species were raised by him at the same time, one of which flowered last year, and is figured by Dr. Hooker in the Botanical Maga- zine, by the name of S. atropurpurea ; and S. straminea flowered at Mr. Lambert’s at the same time as the present. We believe they will prove perennial, and may be cultivated in the open border with a little protection in Winter^ where they thrive well in the common garden soil. A plant sent to us by Mr. Tate, of the Sloane Street Nursery, last Au- tumn, marked purple Salpiglossis, we planted in a border of our garden ; this we covered through the W inter when frosty, by placing a garden pot over it, and left it exposed when there was no frost ; it succeeded very well, and is now growing very strong, and covered with flower buds. It is readily increased by young cuttings, planted under a hand- glass, or even in a shady border without glass, Salpiglossis is derived from (raXTriyyog, a trumpet, and yX(i)(7Gigj a tongue, the flowers being trumpet-shaped, with a tongue-shaped style. 1. Calyx, clothed with glandular hairs. 2. Tube of the Corolla, showing the insertion of the Stamens, the barren Stamen between the two longest of the fertile ones, and those two are considerably less than the shorter ones. 8. Oy^- fkim, terminated by the Style and transverse Stigma. 259 Fuh ljj;£~fve£2- JS13 . ID fhn.U:h^ J)dl Weddell. A 259 MUSCARI pallens. Pale Muscari. Natural Order, AsPHODELEiE. Brown prodr, MUSCARI, Supra fol. 15. M. pallens, foliis linearibus acutis glaucis glaberrimis, racemo stricto pyramidato, perianthiis congestis inflato-cylindricis : fauce aperta. Muscari pallens. Fisch. catal. gorenk, 1812. p,Q, Link, enum, 1. p. 331. Spreng. syst. 2. p, 66. Swt, hort. brit. p, 419. Hyacintbus pallens. Marsch. Bieb, taur, cauc, 1. p, 283. — 3. p, 213, Root bulbous, readily increasing by its offsets. Leaves several, quite smooth, glaucescent, linear, acute, channelled on the inner side, striated at the back with numerous lon- gitudinal lines, at first erect, but as they lengthen out becom- ing more or less bent by their weight. Scapes erect, smooth and glossy, more or less tinged with red or purple, particular- ly on those with the bluest flowers, terminated with a short py- ramidal raceme of flowers, very much crowded or squeezed together. Flowers nodding, very pale blue, or white tin- ged with blue, exceedingly fragrant. Bractes small, scale- like, white, 2 or 3 at the base of the pedicle. Pedicles very short, white or pale blue. Pe^nanthium tubular, nearly cy- lindrical, but a little inflated, the mouth spreading widely open, not nearly closed as in M. hotryoides : slightly di- vided into six short, broadish, rounded segments, at the mouth, that are a little reflexed. Stamens 6, inserted in the tube : filaments short, smooth, slender towards the point, and inserted into the back of the anthers : anthers purple, two-lobed. Ovarium three-sided, glaucescent. Style short, smooth. Stigma a simple blunt point. A very pretty spring-flowering bulb, native of Tauria and Caucasus, and flowering in our borders in April and May : it is of late introduction, and we believe was first in- troduced by Mr. W. Anderson, Curator of the Apothecaries’^ Company’s Garden at Chelsea, who received it from Dr. Fischer. It is delightfully fragrant as well as pretty, and two or three flowering stems are produced from the same bulb in succession. It is nearest related to M. hotryoides, but its flowers are more cylindrical, much more expanded at the mouth, and they are also more crowded together. A light sandy soil in the open border suits it best, to be planted from four to six inches deep, according to the size of the bulbs, which are quite hardy, and are readily increased by offsets from the roots : they may also be grown in pots, which can be removed into the house when in flower, for the sake of their fragrance, but the flowers will not be so fine in pots, as those in the open ground. Our drawing was made from plants at the Chelsea Bo- tanic Garden this Spring. Muscari of Tournefort is a name derived from the Latin, and signifies, the top of a herb, wherein the seed lieth : it is also used for a fly-flap, to kill or drive away flies, the head of flowers on the simple stem not being very unlike something of that kind. 1. Perianthium spread open, to show the insertion of the Stamens. 2. One of the Stamens detached. 3. Pedicle, showing the small scale-like bractes at its base, the ovarium seated on it divested of the perianthium, and terminated by the Style and simple blunt Stigma. E/^ T^. RJ^eet Riu-fy. 2£Zti- yvedddi-fc 260 MAGNOLIA Soulangeana. Soulange-BodirCs Magnolia. , Natural Order, Magnoliace^. DC. sysf. 1. p. 439. MAGNOLIA. Calyx 3-sepalus, deciduus, interdOm nullus (se- palis forsan omnino petaloideis et pro petalis externis habitis). Petala 6-12, bi-tri-quadruplicive ordine disposita, decidua. Stamina numerosa. Carpella spicatim conferteque disposita, angulo externo dehiscentia, 1-2-sperma, persistentia. Semina baccata, subcordata, funiculi umbilicalis longissimi ope extrk capsulam pendula. — Ar- bores pulcherrimre, folia integral stipulae 2 opposittE, folia junior a tegenteSf in gemmam acuminatam-convolutcB, cito caducce ; flores ad apices ramorum terminaleSy solitarii, hreviter pedunculati ; bractea unica lateraliter jissa aut duce oppositce alahastrum includentes mox eaducee et lineam circularem super pediculum^ ut stipulce secus rarnu- loSf relinquentes. DC. syst. 1. p. 449 — 450. et Prodr. 1. p. 79. Sect. II. Gwillimia. Species Asiaticae, bracteis saepius duabus oppositis alabastrum includentibus, antheris introrsis, ovariis sub- distantibus. DC. syst, 1. p. 455. M. Soulangeana, foliis deciduis obovatis abrupte acuminatis reticu- lato-venosis utrinque pubescentibus, floribus erectis 3-sepalis, petalis 6 obovatis, stylis subreflexis. Magnolia Soulangeana. Ann. soc. hortic. par. 2. ex. Soul, Bod, A stout, upright, branching, deciduous Shrub : branches erect or ascending, when young pubescent, afterwards be- coming smooth and glossy, and clothed with a brown bark, that is spotted here and there irregularly. Leaves decidu- ous, appearing about the same time as the flowers, obovate, attenuated towards the base, and terminating rather abruptly in a taper-point, strongly nerved underneath, the midrib pen- nately nerved with nearly horizontal nerves, that are again branched, so that the leaves are reticulately veined, thickly clothed with short hairs on both sides, particularly on the veins, but becoming smoother by age. Bractes 3, decidu- ous, enclosing the flower-bud before expansion, ovate or ovately lanceolate, concave and brown on the inner side, the outside densely clothed or matted with white hairs, that gives them a grey appearance. Calyx of 3 sepals, petal- like, but smaller than the petals, oblong, rounded at the points, white, slightly tinged with purple at the back. Petals 6, in two series, large and spreading when the flower is expanded, obovate, rounded at the point, or sometimes slightly retuse, strongly veined with longitudinal veins, inside white, the outside more or less tinged with purple, strongest when most exposed to the sun, and when the flower is first expanded, it afterwards becomes lighter. Stamens nume- rous, surrounding the carpella in several series : filaments very short and succulent, pale purple : anthers linear, at- tached by the base to the filaments. Carpella in a long slender spike. Ovariums each one-sty led. Style smooth, of a greenish white, a little recurved. Stigma simple, acute. This handsome plant is a hybrid production, and was first raised in the collection of the Chevalier Soulange-Bodin, at his establishment, Jardin de Fromont, near Paris, from the seed of M.conspicua (M. Yidan,T>C,) and from a plant sent by him to us, and which we planted in our garden by the side of a wall in a southern aspect, where it produced its handsome flowers, our drawing was made the beginning of May last ; the large leaf was procured from a plant at the Nursery of Mr. Lee, at Hammersmith, as those on our plant were not fully grown ; its other parent was supposed to be ]VI. ohovata var. purpurea, but the recurved styles prove that to be erroneous, and determine it to have been M. Kohus (the M. gracilis of Salisbury), which is also a purple- flowered species ; we are informed that most of the prin- cipal Nurserymen about London are now in possession of it; and it will be a great acquisition to our gardens, thriving well in a sheltered situation in the open air, but better against a wall, and may be increased by layers, or by inarching or budding on the commoner sorts. The generic name was given by Linnaeus, to immortalize the merits of P. Magnol, Professor of Botany at Montpelier, and Author of several Botanical works. 1. One of the large leaves. 2. Bud expanding, to show the deciduous bractes that are not yet dropped off. points, white, slightly tinged with purple at the back. Petals 6, in two series, large and spreading when the flower is expanded, obovate, rounded at the point, or sometimes slightly retuse, strongly veined with longitudinal veins, inside white, the outside more or less tinged with purple, strongest when most exposed to the sun, and when the flower is first expanded, it afterwards becomes lighter. Stamens nume- rous, surrounding the carpella in several series : filaments very short and succulent, pale purple : anthers linear, at- tached by the base to the filaments. Carpella in a long slender spike. Ovariums each one-sty led. Style smooth, of a greenish white, a little recurved. Stigma simple, acute. This handsome plant is a hybrid production, and was first raised in the collection of the Chevalier Soulange-Bodin, at his establishment, Jardin de Fromont, near Paris, from the seed of Mxonspicua (M. Yulan,T>C,^ and from a plant sent by him to us, and which we planted in our garden by the side of a wall in a southern aspect, where it produced its handsome flowers, our drawing was made the beginning of May last ; the large leaf was procured from a plant at the Nursery of Mr. Lee, at Hammersmith, as those on our plant were not fully grown ; its other parent was supposed to be M. ohovata var. purpurea^ but the recurved styles prove that to be erroneous, and determine it to have been M. Kobus (the M. gracilis of Salisbury), which is also a purple- flowered species ; we are informed that most of the prin- cipal Nurserymen about London are now in possession of it; and it will be a great acquisition to our gardens, thriving well in a sheltered situation in the open air, but better against a wall, and may be increased by layers, or by inarching or budding on the commoner sorts. The generic name was given by Linnaeus, to immortalize the merits of P. Magnol, Professor of Botany at Montpelier, and Author of several Botanical works. 1. One of the large leaves. 2. Bud expanding, to show the deciduous foractes that are not yet dropped off. 261 \ \ LUPINUS tomentosus. Woolly various- CO loured Lupine, Natural Order. Leguminos^. Juss. yen. 345. Siibordo I. PAPILlONACEM.— TribusY. Phaseole^. Supra fol. 142. LUPINUS. Calyx profundi bilabiatus. Corolla papilionacea, vexillo lateribus reflexis, caring acuminate. Stamina monadelpba, vagin^ integr^, antheris 5 parvis subrotundioribns praecocioribus, 5 oblongis serioribiis. Stylus filiformis. Stigma lerminale subro- tiindum barbatum. Legumen coriaceum oblougum compressum ob- lique torulosum. Cotyledones crassae per germinibus in folia con- versaB. — Herbae aut sufFrutices. Stipulae petiolo adnatce. Folia see- pius foliolis 5-9 digitatis constantia^ rarius simplicia. Foliola ant^ explicationem aut per somnum complicata. Pedunculi oppositifolii terminates. Flores racemoso-spicati alterni aut verticillati pedicellati aut sessiles. Bractea sub pedicellis. Bracteolae 2 lateraliter calyci adnatce eaducce aut nullce. DC. prodr. 2. p. 406-407. L. tomentosus, suffruticosus totus sericeo-tomentosus, floribus verti- cillatis pedicellatis bracteolatis, calycis labio utroque subintegro : foliolis oblongis obtusiusculis mucromilatis basi attenuatis, ovario hirsutissimo. Lupinus tomentosus. DC. prodr. v. 2. p. 409. Stem sufFruticose, or shrubby towards the base, very much branched : branches erect, thickly clothed with a short silky tomentum. Leaves digitate, consisting of from 8 to 10 leaflets, densely clothed with a short silky tomen- tum : leaflets oblong, attenuated to the base, when young acute, but as they become older bluntish, with a short ma- cro, from an inch to an inch and a half long, and the broad- est nearly half an inch broad in the widest part, regularly spreading. Petioles broadest at the base, gradually narrow- ing upwards, the upper part nearly cylindrical, but at the base flattened on the upper side, thickly clothed with short silky wool, as are the stipules, pedicles, bractes, and calyx. Stipules narrowly linear, acute, bearded at the points, attached to the base of the petioles. Flowers verticillate, in long terminal ra- cemes, at first straw-colour, tinged and striped with light blue, afterwards changing to a bluish purple, becoming darker by age. Bractes deciduous, narrowly linear, acute, longer than the flowers, when they are in the bud state. Pedicles cy- lindrical, slightly nodding, a little longer than the calyx. Calyx 2-lipped, the lips concave inwards ; lower one entire, keeled below : upper one slightly notched at the point, and there fimbriate. Yexillum broad, nearly round, but slightly VOL. III. R notched at the point, sharply keeled at the back and chan- nelled on the upper side, spotted on each side of the chan- nel with several small blue specks, and a large blue spot on each side near the base. Wings about the length of the vexillum, ovate, concave inwards, bluntly rounded, striped more or less with blue lines, that branch considerablv. Keel acute, with a long sharp dark purple point, fringed longi- tudinally with long white hairs on the inner side, slightly eared on each side at the base, and bearing a slender un- guis. Stamens 10, all joined into a tube at the base : an- thers 5, short and nearly round ; the other 5, much larger and oblong. Pod densely clothed with long white hair. Style ascending, smooth and glossy. Stigma small, capi- tate, bearded. This fine plant is a native ,of Peru ; and from the kind- ness of A. B. Lambert, Esq. we have had an opportunity of comparing our specimens with those collected by Ruiz and Pavon, now preserved in that gentleman’s Herbarium, with which they agree precisely ; the plant is woody at the base, and would make a sort of shrub, if a little protection were allowed it in Winter ; to be planted against a wall in a southern aspect, and to be covered with a mat in severe frost, would suit it very well. It thrives well in the common garden soil ; and if pretty rich, the stronger it will grow ; it may either be increased by cuttings, that root readily, under a hand-glass ; or by seeds, which ripen plentifully. Our drawing was made this Summer from a strong plant growing in the open border, with above a hundred spikes of flowers open on it at once, at Mr. Colvill’s Nursery, at Roehampton, where every thing appears to be thriving with the greatest luxuriance. We had received it the Summer before, from the collec- tion of Robert Barclay, Esq. of Bury Hill, from Messrs. Young’s Nursery, at Epsom, Mr. Miller’s, of Bristol, and Mr. Wheeler’s, of Warminster, but the flowers always drop- ped off in carriage : the two varieties at the bottom of the plate, were from the Nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, at Fulham, where it is cultivated by the name of L. peruvianus, Lupinus is derived from the Latin, and signifies a kind of pulse of bitter and harsh taste. 1. A bluer variety. 2. A lighter variety. 3. Calyx. 4. Vexillum. 5. The two AVings. 6. Keel, showing the fringe on the upper edge. 7. The 10 Sta- mens, the 5 short ones with oblong anthers, the 5 long ones with round ones. 8. The hairy Ovarium, terminated by the smooth Style and small capitate fringed Stigma. X': ■. y ‘‘■'4. ■ .' !'■ ■' %jS'' ,'■, I**',', •-, -x 4:^4'. '^1?.^. , v, iN’**''' v ., . 1 -0^ V s. r ''•■ ..... .. ' y' •*^c' • .C 'vV t^'. . : : . ,. ! . v : > 'J: .\. ■ • .f . 'tf-' .: ;si.m:[x- y ur- . • '• ■ V-- ; ' .J i^,.' . :. ‘U W- 4-c; w*. ’ ■ / ''imv .■ ■ •:y ■ ■'■’.^. ^’:V >■ ■ -i 4^.^’ ‘^f .• ' .A.il,,. -Ji '■^‘fe'Y.. -1^' ,,'l ifei. 'f /‘V "'V ■’ . i V' ■ • '4' *■ ■ 4-V' J ';"■ - m [Ll-,.'^ IW . 'M ''■ ' eWp>« ,.• ; ; 'fV'fiiAtlL/i, 13 3-rn L th 3 el 262 NICOTIAN A noctiflora. Night-flowering Tobacco. Natural Order. Solan E^. Brown prodr. 1. 2^.443. NICOTIANA. Supra fol. 107. N. 7ioctiJlora, glanduloso-viscosa, foliis petiolalis oblongo-lanceo- latis acutis undulato-crispis, floribus paniculatis hypocraterifor- niibus, corollas tiibo cylindraceo calycc multoties longiore ; limbi laciniis asqualibus obcordatis emarginatis. Nicotiana noctiflora. Hooker Botan. magaz. 2785. Apparently perennial, viscous or clammy, and thickly clothed all over with short spreading hairs. Stems erect, two to three feet high, branching, strong and disagreeably scented. Leaves oblongly lanceolate, acute, tapering to the base, where they end in a longish footstalk, very much waved or curled near the margin ; lower ones broadest, becoming gradually narrower upwards. Petioles slightly winged on each side, flattened above, and convex below. Flowers in terminal panicles, white, or slightly tinged at the back with a purplish green, slightly drooping, or leaning forwards, sweet-scented, small, linear, acute. P edicles cylindrical, slightly nodding. Calyai tubular, 5-cleft ; seg- ments short, narrowly lanceolate, acute, keeled at the back, the keel extending down the tube, between which it is trans- parent. Corolla tubular, salver-shaped ; tube cylindrical, nearly equal, but slenderer towards the base, nearly three times the length of the calyx, greenish white, pitted in a little in five small hollows just above the insertion of the stamens, and a little way above the calyx ; limb spreading, plaited, slightly 5-cleft, the segments obcordate, rounded, terminated in a deepish notch, and channelled down the centre on the upper side, white, or tinged with a greenish purple at the back. Stamens 5, of various lengths, inserted in the tube and decurrent down it; two of them generally exserted : filaments slender, densely hairy at the base, and R 2 bent round like a bow, a little above their insertion, smooth^ and tapering upwards, inserted in the back of the anthers : anthers two-lobed, the lobes thick and blunt. Ovarium pyramidal, smooth and glossy, seated on an orange-coloured receptacle. Style smooth, slightly exserted. Stigma green, capitate, or a little clavate, furrowed through the centre, so as to be slightly two-lobed. Our drawing was made from fine specimens sent to us by A. B. Lambert, Esq. in whose splendid collection at Boyton, it flowered in June last, and is likely to continue in bloom nearly all the Summer. It was raised from seeds received from Chile, last year, and is a great acquisition to our gardens, as its flowers are very sweet-scented as well as beautiful, the flowers expanding most in the evening, but ours continued more or less expanded all the day ; from its appearance, we believe it will prove perennial, if pro- tected a little in Winter, the same as N. suaveolens, (N. un~ didata of Ventenat,) a New Holland species, to which the present plant is somewhat related, but is sufficiently distinct; if sown in a little heat early in Spring, or in a warm border, it will flower the same year, and may then be treated as an annual ; but if not in a warm situation, it will scarcely flower in time to ripen its seeds, so that it would be well to protect a few plants of it in frames, or in the Greenhouse, in pots, through the W^inter ; or if planted in a warm border, and covered with a garden pot in severe frost, or a little hay or straw, it will most probably succeed very well, in the same manner as Petunia nyctaginifiora, which has stood with us three Winters, in a warm border, with no other protection than a mat thrown up against it when the frost has been severe, and it has never had a single leaf injured, and is covered with its handsome white flowers from May till November, hundreds being open on it every day; we have succeeded well in protecting several rather tender plants by placing a pot over them in frosty weather; and where the plants are low, we stuff the pots with hay. The genus was named by Tournefort, after Jean Nicot, Ambassador from France to Portugal, from whence he brought the Tobacco plant, in 15b0. 1. Calyx, showing its transparent sides between the angles. 2. Tube of the Corolla spread open, showing the insertion of the 5 Stamens. 3. Ovarium, terminated by the Style and Stigma. ^ 2)JrrL4.thl/ei . MZS. 263 RHODODENDRON Gowenianum Mr, G Owen's Rhododendron, Natural Order. Ertce^. D. Don prodr. Jl, nepal. p. 148. Subordo HI. RHODORACE^. D. Don loc. cit. p. 152. RHODODENDRON. Supra fol. 250. R. Gowenianum, ramis tomentoso-pubescentibus, foliis sempervi- rentibus aut subdeciduis oblongis acutis margine subrevolutis : junioribus pubescentibus : adultis glabris apice recurvis, floribus racemoso-cor37mbosis, tubo corollas laciniis paulo breviore. A handsome smallish branching Shrub : branches spread- ing, ascendant, when young thickly clothed with short woolly pubescence. Leaves evergreen, or scarcely deciduous, el- liptically oblong or lanceolate, acute, entire, pennately ner- ved, the margins slightly rolled back; when young pubes- cent on both sides, but becoming smooth and glossy when old, of a dark green on the upper side, and pale underneath, reticulately veined, the points more or less recurved, or re- volute. Petioles short, a little flattened on the upper side and rounded on the lower, pubescent. Flowers in a termi- nal raceme-like corymb, 17 in our specimen, of a delicate light purple. Bractes ovate, taper-pointed, concave, soon turning brown, and dropping off. Peduncles cylindrical, clothed with a woolly pubescence. Calyx 5-parted, nearly to the base, pubescent: segments linear, obtuse, fringed with glandular hairs, the points very slightly reflexed. Co- rolla funnel-form, pubescent outside : tube 5-angular, wi- dening upwards, scarcely so long as the segments of the limb. Limb 5-cleft, the segments distinctly spreading, nar- rowly ovate, scarcely acute, but pointed, channelled on the upper side and bluntly keeled underneath, with here and there a faint brownish spot on some of the segments. Sta- me7is generally 9, but sometimes 10, inserted in the base of the calyx. Filaments ascending, unequal in length, slen- der, thickly clothed with long spreading hairs more than half their length, the upper part smooth, inserted in the back of the anthers. Ovarium 5-angular, clothed with a silky tomentum. Style smooth, ascending, longer than the stamens. Stigma capitate, rugose, viscous. The present singular and handsome plant is of hybrid origin, and was raised from seeds in the superb collection of American plants at the Earl of Carnarvon’s, at High- clere; the seed was procured from Azalea nudijlora ox viscosa, that Mr. J. R. Gowen had fertilized' with the pol- len of a hybrid Rhododendron, between R. ponticum and R. catawbiense\ and we are informed by that gentleman, that there is in the same collection nearly a hundred seed- lings, very healthy plants, two years old : they are all from Azaleas ; from different varieties of A. viscosa and nudi- flora, are all free growing plants, evergreeen in ordinary Winters, but in severe frost showing a tendency to shed their leaves more or less : they were procured by fertilizing the Azaleas with the pollen of Rhododendrons, that are in- termediate between R. ponticum and catawhienseT In the same collection are numerous hybrid Azaleas, between most of the different species and varieties, and also plants from the hybrid R. catawbiense diud ponticum, with R. ar- horeum, so that in the course of a few years we may ex- pect this tribe of plants to rival if not exceed all others. In the Earl of Liverpool’s collection, at Coombe-wood,. there are numerous plants of hybrid production, between R. arbor eum and R. ponticum, also between the former and Azalea pontica and other sorts ; and in Mr. Russell’s Nursery, at Battersea, there are others between R. arbor eum and R. catawbiense. By the different species of Rhodo- dendron, Azalea, and Rhodora, mixing altogether so freely^ there can be no reason for keeping them apart as distinct genera. They all succeed well in peat soil, or light sandy loam. Our drawing was made from a fine specimen kindly sent to us by J. R. Gowen, Esq. the beginning of last June, and in compliment to him we have named the present subject. The generic name is derived from poSov, a rose, and SsvSpov, a tree, from the plants generally bearing rosy-co- loured flowers. 1. Bracte. 2. Calyx, Style, and^Ugm^ 3. The 9 Stamens, which in some flowers are extended to 10. . »■ -. * ■ ll.' ’tW\ ■ '.''llV-’*' ' .. . -I? .v‘ ,V . i ’ . ' . ■ P ; ^ . r^:’' '^v . '■ ' "'■ .»: w 4JV ■ ' '• ' ■■ I . '<*' Hi .. ' ' ,:' ■ '-?• 'tt' ■ • '• ■ ' ' ' ’ , ■■ >' V W ' ■'* ■ ■ i\ V-i- M' ' '• ■■ ■ : . !:.." ’ ■ 1::, " ■...':’ Bui /cJwttu AufJifBS 264 PIPTANTHUS nepalensis. Nepaid Piptanthus. Natural Order. Leguminos^. DC. prodr. 2. p. 93. Subordo I. PAPILIONACEM. — lYibus I. SoPHORE^. Corolla papilionacea. Stamina libera. Legumen continuum nec articulatum. Cot^'ledones planae foliace®. — Tribus satis naturalis, accedens ad Loteas mediantibus et Ammodendro et Astragalis chronopodiis, ad Hedysareas mediante Adesmi^, quibus sunt stamina libera et So- phora© sectio secund^ quae staminibus gaudet subcoalitis. DC. prodr. 2. p. 94. PIPTANTHUS. Ca/i/a; cam panulatus 5-fidus bilabiatus postice convexus deciduus ; basi attenuatus persistens. Petala inaequalia, vexillo lateribus subincurvis, alis apice involutis, carina monopetal^ obtus^ apice bifid'A. Stamina 10, decidua. compressum li-, neare stipitatum polyspermum. — Frutices. Folia trifoliolata. Sti- pule niagnce cordato-ovatre, basi coadunatce^ caducce. llacemi termi- nates; floribus bracteatis verticillatis JiaviSf bracteis ovatis deciduis. P. nepalensis, foliolis elliptico-lanceolatis utrinque attenuatis subse- riceis, racemis terminalibus villosis, tloribus ternato-verticillatis. Baptisia nepalensis. Hooker exot.flor. 131. Spreng. syst. v. 4. pars. 2. p. 171. Thermopsis napaulensis. DC. in ann. sc. nat. 4. p. 98. Prodr. v. 2. p. 99. Thermopsis laburnifolia. D. Don prodr. Jior. nepal. p. 239-240. Swt, hort. brit. p. 107. Thermia laburnifolia. Spreng. syst. v. 4. par. 2. p. 171. A handsome, upright, branching, evergreen Shrub : hran- ches bright green, nearly cylindrical, angular while young, clothed with a silky pubescence. Leaves petiolate, ternate, bright green, soft to the touch, clothed on both sides with a thin silky pubescence : leaflets oblong or elliptically lanceo- late, acute, tapering to both ends, pennately veined, the veins branched ; young leaves folded inwards a little, and more pubescent. Petioles channelled on the upper side and rounded on the lower, pubescent. Stipules very large, connected at the base, cordately ovate, cuspidate, con- cave below, the points sometimes a little reflexed, thickly clothed with short soft villous hairs, deciduous, or soon turning yellow and dropping off. Racemes terminating the young branches, in our specimens many-flowered, the stem between the whorls of flow^ers three-sided, densely villous. Flowers pale yellow, three in each whorl, dying off rather a deeper yellow. Bracte large, ovate, acute, undulate, con- cave inwards, thickly clothed with a soft pubescence, one at the base of each peduncle, and nearly equalling it in length. Peduncles thickly clothed with .short villous hairs. Calyx campanulate, two-lipped, 5-cleft, a little convex at the back, thickly clothed with short woolly hairs, deciduous and dropping off at the thickened part, with the petals and stamens, the lower part persistent and tapering downwards, including the lower part of the pedicle of the ovarium ; upper lip bifid, the lower one trifid, the segments spread- ing, the lowermost generally reflexed. Vexillum large, ob- cordate, reflexed, channelled through the centre, striated with numerous small lines, keeled at the back, the margins slightly folded inwards. Wings shorter than the vexillum, semicord ate at the base and eared on one side, the ear curved inwards so as to enclose the base of the keel, the other side producing a slender unguis. Keel large and blunt, 1 -leaved, cloven at the point, longer than the vexillum, producing a slender unguis on each division, at the base on one side, the other side eared with a broad rounded ear. Stamens 10, distinct, falling off with the calyx and corolla: jUa- ments smooth, ascending at the points, unequal in length, inserted in the back of the anthers. Ovarium linear, com- pressed, stipitate, densely clothed with a close-pressed silky down. Style smooth, ascending. Stigma a very small in- conspicuous head. Our drawing of this handsome Shrub was made from fine specimens kindly sent to us the beginning of June last, by Robert Barclay, Esq. of Bury Hill, in whose splendid collection it flowered in the open border, where it had stood all the Winter, and where it thrives in the common soil of the garden. Botanists have considerably disagreed in regard to the ge- nus to which this plant should be referred. Dr. Hooker, in the Exotic Flora, referring it to Baptisia; M. Decandolle, and Mr. D. Don, have referred it to Thermopsis ; the lat- ter, however, doubting the propriety of its being added to that genus. Mr. Lindley considers it a species of Anagyris : we have no doubt in ourselves, but it should constitute a genus distinct from the whole of these, differing from Bap- tisia in its flat pod, from Thermopsis in its deciduous sta- mens, and from Anagyris in the form of its flowers, and difference of pod ; and, we believe, from the whole, in its deciduous calyx. We have derived the generic name from TTtTTTw, to fall, and avfloc, a flower, the flower falling off alto- gether, calyx, petals, and stamens. 1. Shows the deciduous character of the Calyx. 2. Calyx. 3. Vexilluna. 4. The two wings. 5. Keel. 6. The 10 Stamens. 7. The young pod, termi- nated by the Style and small Stigma, 'V X Xrri i./ 4- X/L 265 ESCHSCHOLTZIA californica Mr. Menzies' Eschscholtzia. Natural Order. Papaverace-E. ESCHSCHOLTZIA. Pedunculus in receptaculum tubulosum obconicum apice expansum subsinuato-truncatum terminans. Calyx calyptrata, monophylla, ovato-conica membranacea indivisa k mar- gine interiore receptaculo inserta, junior petala fovens circumscisse dehiscens, mox decidua. Petala 4 obovata receptaculum inserta. Stamina cum petalis inserta, filamentis brevibus imo petalo subad- natis, 6-8 ante petalum quodque ; antheris terminalibus linearibus bilocularibus. Ovarium liberum elongatum, apice desinens in stig- mata 4 elongata, 2 loiigiora, 2 subabortiva. Capsula siliquesformis cylindracea 10-costata 10-striata bivalvis, valvis ideb longitudinaliter 5-striatis. Placentae marginales 2, ali^ cum placenta alterius valvae contigu^. Semina parva, globosa extbs reticulata, albuminosa. Em- bryo rectus, radicul^ ad hilum vers^. — Herba kahitu Chelidoniiy Hypecoiy Roemerice. Folia alterna multijida^ Pedunculi oppositi- folii aut axillares \-jlori. Fiores Jlavi, Eschscholtzia californica. Chamisso- in Nees Horre phy&icae berol. p. 73. t. 15. DC. prodr. 3. p. 344. Lindl. hot. reg. 1168. Root perennial, fleshy. Plant quite smooth, about a foot high, much branched ; branches spreading, glaucous, longitudinally striate with numerous transparent lines. Leaves alternate and opposite, glaucous, bipinnatifid, the segments multifid, flat, linear, obtuse, and terminated with a sort of callous point ; the upper ones not so much divided as the lower ones. Petioles slightly winged, channelled on the upper side, and slightly keeled below\ Peduncles ax- illary, or opposite to a leaf, long, cylindrical, striate with several transparent lines, and terminated below the flower in a top-shaped, calyx-formed, tubular receptacle, that is truncate, and shallowly sinuate round the edges. Calyx 1 -leaved, calyptra-like, ovately conical, taper-pointed, part- ing from the receptacle to which it was joined, and slip- ping over the petals when the flowers begin to expand, VOL. III. S of a thin membranaceous texture, green, and striated with numerous longitudinal lines. Petals 4, inserted in the re- ceptacle, golden yellow, deep orange-coloured at the base, broad at the end. Stamens about 30, or rather more: fila- ments short, more or less connected into sets at the base : anthers golden yellow, linear, two-lobed, bursting by the sides for the exclusion of the pollen, attached by their base to the filaments. Ovarium smooth, elongate, 10-striate, terminated by 4 filiform Stigmas, two about double the length of the others. This pretty plant was first discovered, a great many years since, by Archibald Menzies, Esq. who brought specimens of it to this country ; it was afterwards discovered by Cha- misso in the expedition commanded by Captain Kotzebue, and is described and figured by him in the Horae Physicae, where he has named it in compliment to his fellow traveller Dr. Eschscholtz, Physician and assistant naturalist to the expedition. But the seeds from which the living plants in this country w^ere first raised, were sent, we believe, by Mr. David Douglas, the indefatigable collector sent out by the Horticultural Society, who discovered it on the coast of California, and who, by his exertions, has collected a great number of new and rare hardy plants, with which our gar- dens are now enriched. The present plant is said to be perennial, but from its appearance we should suppose it to be only an annual, or at most a biennial ; at any rate it is a very handsome free flowering plant, continuing to bloom till Winter, and will flower the first year that it is sown, and ripen its seeds ; those may either be sown in the open ground, or may be raised on a hot-bed, and transplanted when young into the borders. Our drawing was taken at the Nursery of Messrs. Whit- ley, Brames, and Milne, at Fulham, where we saw a bed of it in full bloom this Summer. I. A few of the Stamens, showing the shape of the filaments, attached to the base of the anthers. 2. The Ovarium, terminated by the 4 Styles, 2 double the length of the others, the ovarium seated at the base of the tubular receptacle, the margin of which is shallowly sinuate. 3. Pod, nearly full grown. 4. The same split open, showing the unripe seeds. A.I iy Ji fwae/:^ Jif>, 1SJ?(} . 266 P0LEM6NIUM villosvim. Dwarf hairy P olemonium. Natural Order, Polemoniace^. D. Don.in Edinh, phiLjourn. Oct. 1822. POLEMONIUM. Supra fol. 182. P. villosum, caule piloso angulato erecto, foliis pinnatis multijugis : foliolis ovatis obtusiusculis utrinque pilosis, floribiis subpanicula- tis nutantibus, corollae laciniis rotundis crenulatis. Polemoniuni villosum. Riidolphi. Georg, besch, des russ. reichs. 3. p. 771. 1800. Polemonium humile. Roem. et Schult. syst. 4. add. p. 792. 1819. ex Herb. Willd. Mss. Polemonium Richardsoni. Graham in Botan. magaz. 2800 ? Polemonium coeruleum var. /3 Grnel. sib. 4. p. 103. n, 69. Root perennial, simple, or generally so, elongated to a great length. Stem erect, about a span high, scarcely longer than the radical leaves, leafy, angular, thickly clothed with weak hairs and soft down intermixed, more or less tinged with purple. Leaves pinnate, hairy on both sides, bearing from 8 to 12 pair of leaflets, and terminated by an odd one, decreasing in number up the stem : leaflets sessile, oppo- site and alternate, ovate, slightly oblique at the base, blunt- ish, terminated in a brown callous point, hairy on both sides, fringed at the edges, rather succulent, obscurely veined, of a light green colour. Petioles slightly winged, channelled on the upper side, dilated at the base, where it is more or less tinged with purple. Flowers pale blue, slightly nod- ding, of rather a disagreeable scent, in a sort of few flowered corymbose panicle. Peduncles villosely hairy, slightly vis- cous. CalyoG campanulate, 5-cleft, villous and viscid : the segments erect or slightly spreading, ovate, bluntish. Co- rolla rotate ; tube about the length of the calyx : yellow in the throat : limb spreading, 5-cleft ; the segments broadly obovate, rounded, slightly crenulate, striated with numerous purple veins, slightly pubescent outside. Stamens 5, in- serted in the mouth of the tube, and alternate with the sesf- ments of the limb : fllaments slender, flattened, tapering to the point, and each surrounded at the base with a dense beard, or fascicle of hairs : anthe7'S two-lobed, at first sa- s 2 gittate, after bursting becoming flattened and nearly round : pollen white. Ovarium smooth, roundly oval, seated on a sort of crown. Style smooth, slender, longer than the sta- mens. Stigma in our specimens all 3-cleft, the segments blunt, pubescent, at first reflexed, then becoming revolute. Our drawing of this pretty species of Polemonium was made from specimens kindly sent to us by Robert Barclay, Esq. in whose*‘‘Splendid collection at Bury Hill, plants of it were raised last year, from seeds given him by Mr. Hunne- man, under the name of P. pulchellum^ who received them from Siberia ; we have determined it to be the P. villosum of Georgi in the work above quoted, which was published in the year 1800, but appears not to have been seen by Roemer and Schultes, or Sprengel, who have published it under the name of P. humile', we are obliged to Mr. D. Don for pointing it out to us in the above work, and also for the sight of fine native specimens of it in Mr. Lambert’s Herbarium, that were collected by Pallas, and by him named V, pubescens. We believe the P. Richardsoni of Graham in the Botanical Magazine is not specifically dis- tinct ; the only difference we could see in them at Mr. Bar- clay’s, where they were both growing and flowering toge- ther, was, that the rachis betvv^een the leaflets of P. Rich- ardsoni was smoother, and the flowers rather less and of rather a lighter colour ; but at the same time we noticed that different plants of P. villosum varied considerably in the form of their leaflets, and also in the colour of their flowers, so that we think they will both prove to belong to the same specie^. It thrives well in the open borders in the common garden soil, and may be increased by seeds, or by dividing at the root. In Mr. W. Russell’s Nursery at Battersea, we see a great many fine plants of P. sibiricum for sale, which has hi- therto been a scarce plant in the neighbourhood of London. Polemonium is derived from ttoXs/xoc, war ; but it is not known at present what plant was originally meant ; it is from its supposed vulnerary qualities ; it is also said to have caused war between two Kings, as to which should have the merit of its discovery. 1. Calyx. 2. Tube of the Corolla spread open, to show the insertion of the Stamens, bearded at the base of the filaments. 3. Filament detached, to show the beard at the base. 4. Ovarium seated on a crown, terminated by the smooth Style and 3-cleft Stigma. 267 ALSTRCEMERIA Simsii. Sims's hairy AlstrcRmeria. Natural Order, Amaryllide^. Kth. synops, 1. p. 285. ALSTRCEMERIA, Supra fol. 228. A. Simsii, caule erecto glabro, foliis ellipticis spathulatisve glaucis subtortis ciliatis, umbella multiflora erecta, pedunculis 2-4-floris, perianthii laciniis inaequalibus subspathulatis apiculatis : laterali- bus subserratis : superioribus maculatis. Alstroemeria Simsii. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 80. Swt. hort, brit. p, 408. Alstroemeria pulcbella. Sims Botan, magaz. 2353. Hooker exot, Jlor. 64. Lindl, botan, regist, 1008. non Linn. Roots a fascicle of long fleshy white tubers, some of which are about the thickness of the finger, and extending from 6 inches to a foot in length. Stems several from the same root, erect, 3 or 4 feet high, varying in thickness ac- cording to their strength, smooth. Leaves about 3 inches long, and an inch broad in the widest part, acute, much ta- pering to the base, 2 or 3 times twisted, of a white glau- cous colour, pubescent, and fringed at the margins. Umbels terminal, producing several peduncles or flower stems. In- volucre composed of several leaves. Peduncles smooth, generally 3 or 4-flowered, with a lanceolate fringed bracteal leaf at the base of each flower-stalk. Pedicles smooth, a little angular, thickening upwards. Ovarium below the flower, 6-angular, smooth, nearly top-shaped. Perianthium deeply 6- parted, the segments unequal, with cartilaginous points : 4 lower ones broadest, of an orangy scarlet, spread- ing open or a little reflexed : the upper ones narrower, of a ligher colour, striped or spotted with dark purple or vel- vet. Stamens 6 ; filaments smooth, three of them longer than the others : anthers bursting at various times in suc- cession : pollen of a greenish grey. Style smooth, purplish. Stigma trifid, the segments spreading, or reflexed at the points. We have given a fine figure of this splendid plant, that our Subscribers may be acquainted with its hardiness, a plant of it given us by Mr. W. Anderson, having stood well in a warm border in our garden several years, without any protection, where it thrives well, and grows more stout and robust, but not near so tall as when drawn up in a Green- house or Conservatory ; but it requires to be well watched, that the snails and slugs do not devour it, as they are par- ticularly fond of it, and of the whole of this genus : it re- quires the ground made for it, of a composition of light loam, mixed with a little peat or decayed leaves, and about half sand ; or if the loam be heavy, more than half sand will be required, as the greater part of the species grow in sandy soil in their native country : it should be planted full six inches deep ; and in very severe frost, if covered with a little hay or straw, it will be more safe : several late authors have given this as A. pulchella ; but it is certainly very different from Linnaeus’s A. pulchella ; we have therefore adopted Sprengel’s name, as the species was first published by Dr. Sims in the Botanical Magazine. Our drawing was made from a strong plant, bearing nu- merous strong stems, loaded with flowers, in the Conser- vatory of Mr. Colvill, in July last; we think nothing could exceed its grandeur in appearance. We have no doubt but the greater part of the species of this handsome genus will thrive well in a warm border in the open ground, heavy soil and a moist situation being more injurious to them than cold : our plant of A. hirtella has this year attained the height of ten feet, with three stout stems, the largest terminated with thirty-nine flowers, the others with about twenty each, which made a fine appear- ance, and continued in bloom above two months, being still in flower. The genus was named by Linnaeus, in compliment to his friend Claudius Alstroemer, who first sent him seeds of A. Pelegrina from Spain, to which country it had been introduced from Peru. 1. The 6 Stamens, three of them with the anthers burst, showing the pollen, the other three not burst. 2. Ovarium terminated by the smooth Style, and trihd Stigma. , r '■ m' - ■ ■ i;- s '^,'V V.1 ' \ •• i: " i.> . '■"■ ■ .■ fe'i':--; • ' '71 EDJna.tl'.IieL . 268 OENOTHERA roseo-alba. Rose and White (Enothera. Natural Order. Onagrari^. DC. prodr.3. p. (ENOTHERA. Supra fol. 5 et 133. Sect. II. On AGRA. Stigma quadrifidura. Antherce oblongo-li- neares basi saepe emarginatae. Fructus oblongus cylindrico-tetrago- nus, valvis linearibus. DC. prodr. 3. p. 46. CE. roseo-alba, canescens, foliis petiolatis ovato-oblongis obtusiuscu- lis denticulatis, petalis roseo-albis crenatis medio rubro-macula- tis capsulis elongatis cylindrico-tetragonis pubescentibus. CEnothera roseo-alba. Bern, in sched. hort. Erford 1824. Reichenb, hort. bot. 1. p. 34. t.41. ex DC. prodr. p. 48. 71.29. Spreng, syst. 2. V. 4. par. 2. p. 150. Annual, erect, canescent, branching : branches erect, clothed with a short canescent pubescence, as are the leaves, ovariums, and calyx. Leaves petiolate, rather succulent, ovately oblong, bluntish at the point, slightly toothed here and there vvith very small teeth, or sometimes quite entire, attenuated towards the base, pennately veined, the veins rather inconspicuous. Petioles slightly winged, which causes a slight channel on the upper side, convex below, clothed with a short pubescence. Flowers axillary, the leaf sometimes growing on the short pedicle at the bottom of the ovarium, white tinged with blush, marked at the base with rose colour. Ovarium unequal in length, those on the lower part of the stem much longer than the upper ones, shortly pedicellate, nearly cylindrical, bluntly four- sided and four-furrowed. Calyos of 4 sepals, connected into a short tube at the base, the limb divided into four, that are sometimes connected by two’s at the point, some- times altogether, and others are all distinct ; sepals lanceo- late, acute, broadest at the base, concave on the upper side, all reflexed or bending downwards when the flower is ex- panded, tubular and 4-angular before expansion. Petals 4, broad at the end, and very much crenulate, tapering to the base, inserted in the tube of the calyx at the mouth, white tinged with blush, with a pale rose-coloured base, and a bright rose-coloured interrupted spot in the centre of each. Stamens 8, also inserted in the mouth of the tube, 4 oppo- site to the petals, and 4 alternating with them : filaments smooth, rather flattened, purple; anthers purple, linear, attached to the filaments by their base : pollen pale yellow. Style smooth, about the length of the stamens. Stigma 4-cleft, the segments straw-coloured, villosely hispid, at first erect, afterwards spreading. For the opportunity afforded us, of giving so good a figure of this fine plant, we are indebted to the kindness of Robert Barclay, Esq. from whom vv^e received fine speci- mens of it in full bloom in July last ; and when we visited his collection in the same month, we observed large patches of it, that made a fine appearance ; it is certainly one of the most beautiful of the genus, and thrives well in the open border of the Flower Garden, requiring nothing but the common treatment of hardy annuals. It seems not well ascertained of what country the present subject is a native, some giving it as Nepaul, and others supposing it to be America ; we are inclined to believe it a hybrid production, produced in the German gardens, between (E. Romanzovii and CE. ccespitosa ; but that remains to be ascertained ; the habit of the plant is nearly intermediate between the two ; its flowers are more like CE. Lindleyana than any other, but the habit of the plant is totally different ; it is certainly a great acquisition to our hardy annuals, and is well worthy a place in every garden. The generic name is derived from oivoq wine, and a fierce beast, the roots being boiled, and given them in a decoction to drink, to calm their ferocity. 1. Calyx, the 4 segments all separate, and bent downwards to show the in- sertion of the stamens. 2. The 8 Stamens inserted in the mouth of the tube of the calyx. 3. Upper part of the Ovarium. 4. Style terminated by the 4-cleft Stigma. ■ r*' '.'i.-r- vvV''^ , ' , ■' >1- > ■■■ ■ '■>s' :4r -• ->■ /• ' : ' ,v'.'«^' ■v'f^ ./'J- . .■ .'-v. ■ ■ -H 5.' • ft \ . ^ . ; * ■ ,- r I ,' Vf:' ■/ '* n)K .y : :v.Avy; ' . '4^' .‘r , '-■ .'V, ,-.s'- ■■r f,lr*'<^V< W ■ ■ '^'•' V.''-'./;, „ ■ > ' > 4« . ■*.»-% • r.: ■ V.'y .'' * ' i.-'t • ■ ■ liti, .:• y?'* • ■'.Oo'^.v ■'> ■.•vjj'3«,.. v; ; ’:f^ ; (jyy V . -iP ^ M- "■^f'V I:'- .' ■ *,‘'2|'''^4 /f,- ,-.\N%^','-. f'.rA-' - 56-;’' -it , ,. ,,;;V,A''. < m V- .-^ « ■ '^' :'‘ ; ,>.4:4 • - — ^‘■- . ‘j-., .1.-. . ..iV ; .V;V ; ■.'/.^nYS.' XfedJ ^77 ‘ffy. £DJrniidi^»l i Ifi Ifm^Sw mSm / ! ’Mm) - 269 RHEUM AUSTRALE. Officinal Rhubarb. Natural Order, PoLYGONEiE. Juss. gen. RHEUM. P erianthium ordine G-partitum. Stamina jilamenta basi in cjathulum connata. Stigmata 3, peltata ! imberbia, disco inaequaliter tuberculata. Nux triquetra. Embryo axilis, rec- tus.— Herbae {Asiaticrje) perennest robustce. Folia ampla, srepius in- divisa. StipulaB vaginanies. Flores spicato-paniculaii, plerumquc ex viridi albi. D. Don Mss. R. australe^ papilloso-asperum ; foliis cordatis obtusissimis planis, petiolis profunde sulcatis, panicul^ elongate, pedicellis hexagonis verrucosis. Rheum australc. D. Hon prodr. Jl. nep. p» 75. Spreng. syst. v. 4. par. 2. p. 166. Rheum Emodi. Wallick Mss. Planta robusta, papillis minutis, callosis, albis, dein purpuras- centibus, singulis v. fasciculatis copiose obsita. Caulis erectus, subflexuosus, ramosus, valid us, altitudine varius, nunc (sub dio cul- ta) saep^ lO-pedalis, sed spont^ nascens vix 3-pedalis, teres, sul- catus et striatus, nunc viridis, tunc erubescens, diametro biun- cialis, substantia crassitie fere semipollicem aequanti ; inti^is cavus, parietibus medulla spongiest nive^ succulenta interrupt^ vestitis, basin versus validior, tbm papillis obliteratis laevem evadit. Rami validi, profundiils sulcati. Folia ampla, petiolata, cordata, obtu- sissima, quam in caeteris planiora magisque membranacea, margine integerrima denticulisque cartilagineis, fasciculatis, duplici ordine undulatim digestis, erubescentibus, copios^. ornata, utrinque mi- nute papillosa, tactu asperiuscula ; subtils copiosibs vestita, tunc fere pubescentia, costis 5 validissimis (lateralibus vix basi connatis) venisque robustis varicosa, interstitiis membranaceis ; suprd gra- mineo-viridia, venis coslisque colore sanguinolentis, depressis, bine reticulatim rugosis : basi truncate : posticibus remotis, rotundalis; latitudine longitudineque 2-4-pedes mquantia; caulina sensim mi- nora ; suprema costis exterioribus basi alatis. Petioli robusti, an- gulato-sulcati, rubro-papillosi, asperiusculi, subtus convexi, viridis, suprb plani, erubescentes, marginibus elevatis rotundatis, sesqui v. bipedales, crassitie pollicem v. 2-pollicem aequantes ; radicales nunc tripedales, suprb omninb plani. Ochrece amplae, vaginantes, mem- branaceae, vasculares, extbs copies^ papillosae, caule increscenti utrinque fissae, apicibus acuminatis, subite marcescentes, longitudine 5-unciales. Panicula elongata, coarctata, foliis nonnullis ornata. Flores omnium minimi, atrosanguinei ! copiosissimi, pedicellati, pen- duli, interrupt^ verticillati, in racemis spicatis erectis dispositi. Pedicelli bexagoni, apice crassiore clavati, sesquilineam longi. Perianthium duplici ordine 6-partitum, ante expansionem hexago- VOL. III. T num, extiis cum pedicellis punctis elevatis numerosissimis instruc- tum : segmentis oblongis, obtusissimis, carnosis, hinc convexis ob- tuse carinatis, inde concavis, apice membrariaceis ; 3 exterioribus plurinii^m minoribus. Stamina 9, perianlhio multo breviora ; alter- nis paul5 longioribus, segmentis periantbii interioribus sigillatim oppositis; caeteris per paria! segmentis exterioribus oppositis api- cibus divergentibus : Jilamenta complanata, acuminata, atropurpu- rea, basi in cyathulum connata, hinc discus periantbii incrassatus: antherm biloculares, subrotundae, medio insertae, erectae, demum incumbentes, colore saturatiore : loculis parallelis interims iongitu- dinaliter dehiscentibus, utrinque solutis, medio tantbm connatis. Ovarium triquetrum, laevissimum. Styli 3, teretes, glabri, brevis- simi, angulis ovarii cruciatim reclinati. Stigmata peltata ! suborbi- culata, imberbia, pendula, nigro-purpurea, disco crasso inaequalit^r tuberculato-rugoso, margine parum revoluto. Nuces triquetrae, san- guineae, splendore nitidissimae, pulcherrimae : angulis alatis, acutis, dolobratis, basi apiceque paululbm productis, rotundatis ; testa sim- plex, cartalaginea : albumen copiosum, farinaceurn. Embryo inver- sus, axilis, rectus, lacteiis: eotyledones orbiculatae, vasculares! com- planatae : radieula supera, teres, crassa, cotyledonibus brevior, basi mucronulo tenuissimo munita. Plumula inconspicua. /). Don Mss, The plant that yields the fine Rhubarb of commerce, having been long involved in obscurity, it is gratifying to have an opportunity of giving a figure of it, taken from living plants that flowered about the end of June last, in the collection' of A. B. Lambert, Esq. at Boy ton House, Wilts ; but independent of the interest attached to it as a medicinal plant, it has other claims to a place in the “ British Flower Garden,” being undoubtedly the hand- somest of the genus. The stem in the cultivated plant, is from 7 to 10 feet high, the leaves are numerous, ample, and of a grassy green : the flowers are smaller than in any other species of the genus, of a dark or blood red colour, and disposed in many branched clusters ; the seeds that afterwards appear, are dark red, with a highly polished surface, resembling, at a distance, clusters of glittering beads. "When bruised, they emit a powerful odour of Rhu- barb, are highly astringent, and dye the fingers red, from the quantity of colouring matter contained in the testa. It is perfectly hardy, and appears to ripen its seeds even more copiously than the other species ; and, from some trials that have been made with the footstalks of the leaves, it seems disposed to vindicate its medicinal claims, even in our own climate. The colour of the flowers would alone be sufficient to distinguish it among its congeners ; the late period of flowering deserves also to be remarked. As all the species are endowed, in a greater or less degree, with similar properties, much diflerence of opinion has arisen, both among botanists and pharmacologists, respecting the one that yields the Rhubarb of commerce : Linnseus considered it at first as the produce of his R. rha- harbarum or undulatum, but he afterwards appears to have altered his opinion in favour of R. palmatum^ which opinion has been almost universally adopted by pharma- cological writers, although it is admitted that the qualities of the root of the R.palmatum differ materially from the Turkey rhubarb of the shops ; but this deterioration has been attributed to the difference of soil and climate. The following extracts are from a communication of mine, in- serted in the Number for April, 1827, of ‘‘ The Edinburgh new Philosophical Journal.” “ But it was reserved for Dr. Wallich, the zealous Su- perintendant of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, to set this long agitated question at rest, by the transmission of seeds, and dried specimens of the true Rhubarb plant to Europe. Last Spring, Mr. Colebrooke received a quantity of the ripe seeds from Dr. Wallich, and presented a portion of them to Mr. Lambert, who has been so fortunate as to raise a number of plants of this valuable vegetable.” The R. australe appears to be peculiar to the great table lands of central Asia, between the latitudes of and 40®, where it is found to flourish at an elevation of 11,000 feet above the level of the sea. — Large quantities of the roots are annually collected for exportation in the Chinese provinces within the lofty range of the Himalaya. The best is that which comes by way of Russia, as greater care is taken in the selection ; and on its arrival at Kiachta, within the Russian frontiers, the roots are carefully exa- mined, and the damaged pieces removed.” The above account is from the pen of Mr. David Don, who first described the species in his Prodromus Flora) Nepalensis.” It is certainly a valuable acquisition to our gardens ; and as it produces such an abundance of seeds, it is likely soon to become plentiful, and is already in several of the Nurseries and Collections about town ; we have seen several strong plants of it at the Nursery of Messsr. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, at Fulham, but they have not yet flowered. Mr. Anderson, at the Apotheca- ries’ Company’s Garden at Chelsea, has it also growing very luxuriantly ; and any person who has a garden may now grow his own Rhubarb, by which means he will be certain to get it true, which is frequently not the case when purchased at the Druggists or Apothecaries, who often sell the common sort for it, as we have repeatedly found ; this latter is of very little use, and it is only deceiving the pub- lic who buy it. We are informed that the stems of the leaves of this spe- cies have the same effect as the root, only of course a greater portion of them will require to be used ; they may be made up in a small tart like the stems of the common Rhubarb ; and we are of opinion that if this medicine is judiciously used, either the stems or roots, there will be very little need of any other ; we never use any other sort ourselves ; and there can be no doubt but too much of any sort weakens, and after a time completely destroys the constitution, particularly the mineral compositions so much now in use. The best method of raising plants of this species from seeds, is to sow them in pots, which should be placed in frames in Winter, as the young plants will be liable to be killed by severe frost ; if the seeds are very dry, many of the plants will not come up till the second year ; but if sown as soon as ripe, the greater part will come up the following Spring. When planted in the borders, they will require to be planted deep, that the frost may not injure their crowns in Winter ; and if the Winter is very severe, it will be requisite to cover them up a little; a good rich loamy soil suits them best. Rheum^ according to Dioscorides, has its origin from the river Rha, (now the Volga,) “ beyond which grows a root bearing its name, that is much renowned in medicine.” Rhaharbarum of Tournefort is derived from the same source. Linnseus derives it from pew to flow, from its medicinal qualities. 1. Perianthium spread open, to show its unequal segments. 2. The 8 Sta- mens. 3. The rough glandular Pedicle, terminated by the Ovarium, three Styles and peltate Stigmas. 4. Part of a branch of Seeds. 5. Small Leaf, partly coloured, to show the little red glands at the margin. 270, fu b hj J} Snrrrt-.Crt iJiid . ZDSyiUhlfel- 270 TROP^OLUM tricolorum. Three-coloured Indian Cress. Natural Order. TrOP^OLE^. Juss. mem.mus.^. TROPjiEOLUM. Calyx 5-partitus, irregularis, infra laciniam inferiorem calcaratus, coloratus. Petala 5, cum laciniis calycis al- ternantia, magis minusve unguiculata et inaequalia, integra vel in- cisa; tria superiora liypogyna, duo inferioracalyci inserta. Stamina 8, liypogyna. Filamenta libera. Antherce biloculares. Ovarium ses- sile, tricoccum; ovulum 1 in quolibet cocco, axi centrali affixuni, pendulum. Discus nullus. Stylus 1. Stigma trifidiim. Fructus tri- coccus, exsuccus ; coccis subfungosis, 1-spermis, indehiscentibus, axi centrali affixis, tardius solubilibus. Endospermium nullum. Co- tyledones inter se conferruminatm. Radicula supera. — Herbae dif- fuscB vel volubiles. Folia alterna^ exstipulata {primordialia opposita, petiolis basi bistipulatis,) simplicia et peltatUf rarius digitata, Pe- dunculi axillares, solitariif unijlori, ebracteati. Ktli. synops. 3. p. 235-236. T. tricolorum, caule tenuissimo scandente ramoso, foliis peltatisectis : segmentis 6-7 oblongis obovatisve integris basi attenuatis, petiolis cirrhosis, petalis unguiculatis calyce persistente subclauso parura longioribus obtusis integerrimis. Root tuberous, oblong, with a rough brown bark. Stem very slender, attaining the height of 10 or 12 feet, very much branched, smooth, climbing or ascending, supporting itself by the footstalks of the leaves that twist round and catch hold of sticks or branches in the same manner as tendrils which they resemble. Leaves peltate, smooth, di- vided nearly to the base into 6 or 7 segments, that are ra- diately spreading, unequal in size, oblong or obovate, dis- tinct, bluntly rounded at the point, or sometimes mucro- nulate, tapering to the base, but sessile, faintly veined, of a light green colour. Petioles slender, cylindrical, smooth, twisted like a tendril, and laying hold of any small branch within its reach. Flowers numerous, axillary. Pedu7icles 1 -flowered, very slender at the base, thickening upwards, smooth, purple. Calyos 5-parted, terminated in a long slender spur at the base, of a glossy scarlet orange-colour, with a circle of dark purple, nearly black, round the mouth, the mouth closed inwards, so as only to leave just room enough for the points of the petals, which extend a little beyond it, inflated below the mouth : spur slenderest in the middle, thickened and blunt at the end : segments of the limb straight and rigid, ovate, bluntly rounded, those from which the spur is produced rather largest, but the difference in their size is very little. Petals 5, inserted in the calyx, and alternate with the segments, small, unguiculate, broad and flat at the point, of a bright yellow colour, unequal in size, those on the upper side broadest, and not so slenderly unguiculate. Stamens 8 ; filaments smooth, unequal in length, thickish, but becoming very slender abruptly at the point, attached to the base of the anthers : anthers two-lo- bed. Ovarium smooth, 3-lobed. Style erect, 3-striate, shorter than the filaments, terminated in 3 acute, unequal Stigmas, one of which is more than double the size of the others. Seeds 3, sometimes 1 or 2 of them abortive, in- closed in the persistent calyx. This very elegant climbing plant, which is certainly one of the most beautiful and interesting that has been intro- duced to this country for some time, has been in flower ever since June last, at the Garden belonging to the Apo- thecaries’ Company at Chelsea, and will continue to bloom till killed down by frost, being now about 10 feet high, and covered with flowers from the bottom to the top, which makes a very gay and lively appearance : some roots of the present, and another species, were presented to Mr. Ander- son, by Miss Oriana Georgiana Reinagle, who received them from Miss White, daughter to the Vice Consul at Valparaiso, who observes, “ Our Virandas are covered with many sorts of such creepers.” The roots were tuberous, those of the present species were oblong, and the other spe- cies that has not flowered were flat, not unlike a Cyclamen root; they left Valparaiso in October, 1827, and were planted in the Botanic Garden at Chelsea, in March, 1828. Those planted in pots, and placed in the Hothouse, did no good, but drew up very weak, and soon dwindled away ; but the others that w ere planted by the side of a wall in the Garden succeeded very w'ell, grew very luxuriantly, and have ripened abundance of seeds. A light sandy soil suits them best, and the roots should be taken up as soon as the frost injures the stems, when they may be kept in a dry place, out of the reach of frost, in a little dry earth or sand till the following March or April, when they should be plant- ed from 4 to 6 inches deep, according to the size of the roots. The seeds should be planted in April or May, if in the open ground, or earlier if sown in pots in the Green- house or Stove. We have no doubt but young cuttings, planted under hand-glasses in Spring, would also strike root, and make tubers by Autumn. The generic name is derived from the form of the leaves, which resemble a trophy or shield, most prominent m T. majus. 1. Calyx spread open, showing the 5 segments. 2. The 5 Petals, alternate with the segments of the calyx. 3. Spur. 4. Footstalk of the Flowrer. 6. The 8 Stamens. G. Ovarium, terminated by the Style and three unequal Stigmas. 7. Fruit. WeddeUJi 7)j:„ ,Jh DrL- •t i''(£if2S. 271 SALPIGLOSSIS atropiirpurea. Deep-purple-fiowe7'ed Salpiglossis, Natural Order, SoLANE^. ^r own prodr, p, Sect. II. Corolla non plicata, regularis. Stamina didynama. Em- bryo leviter arcuatus. Pericarpium capsulare v. baccatiim. SALPIGLOSSIS. Supra fol. 231. S. atropurpurea, glanduloso-piloso, foliis inferioribus pctiolatis el- liptico-oblongis sinuatis penninerviis ; superioribus sessilibus lan- ceolato-linearibus integerrimis, caule paniculato-ramoso, ramis dichotomis, filamentis glanduloso-pilosis, stylo edentiilo. Salpiglossis atropurpurea. Graham in Botan. magaz. 2811. Perennial, or perhaps biennial ? all over glandularly hairy. Stem sufFrutescent at the base, in our specimens in the open ground about two feet high, paniculately branch- ing, the branches forked and bearing a flower in each fork, all over thickly covered with hairs, the hairs tipped with pyramidal glands. Leaves of various shapes and sizes, hairy on both sides ; lower ones petiolate or on long foot- stalks, elliptically oblong, obtuse, more or less sinuate, the lobes shallow and rounded, penninerved, the nerves branch- ed a little, but the leaves scarcely rugose : the petioles slightly winged on each side : stem-leaves lanceolately li- near, a little undulate, sometimes a little bluntish, others are acute ; upper ones sessile, quite entire, and glandularly hairy. Flowers large, dark purple, sometimes nearly black, orange-coloured in the throat, veined with darker veins. Peduncles in the forks of the branches, or opposite to the bractes, shortish, but unequal in length. Bractes leaf-like, scattered. Calyoc 5-angular, 5- cleft, angles dark-coloured : segments lanceolate, acute, keeled, two upper ones rather longest. Corolla large, funnel-form, the tube slender at the base, and to a little above the calyx, becoming inflated and bell-shaped from the middle, where the stamens are insert- ed : limb spreading, 5-lobed, the upper one largest, and the two lower ones smallest, the lobes each two-lobed, bluntly rounded with a deepish notch between the lobes : outside of the tube strongly nerved with numerous prominent nerves, which branch into veins, and extend over the whole flower. Stamens 5, inserted in the tube where it becomes inflated, and decurrent down it, included within the mouth, four fer- tile and one sterile; the four fertile ones didynamous, or two longer than the others: filaments purple upwards and light below, the two shortest broadest below, and clothed with hairs their whole length, that are tipped with black glands: 2 longer ones only hairy below and naked up- wards, sterile one also hairy, and bearing the rudiment of an anther: the anthers on the long filaments smallest: pol- len golden yellow. Omriiim smooth, conical, terminated by a smooth Style, that is cylindrical below, but widening and becoming flat and tongue-shaped upwards, but slightly keeled on both sides. Stigma truncate, transverse, and chan- nelled through the centre. Our drawing of this beautiful plant, was made from fine specimens kindly sent to us from the collection of Robert Barclay, Esq. of Bury -hill, in July last, where it was raised from seeds received from Chile; it varies considerably in the size of its flowers, according to the soil and situation in which it is grown ; the figure in the Botanical Magazine, being taken from a weak plant, grown in a pot, being so small as scarcely to be recognised as the same species, par- ticularly as the tube of the corolla extends so far beyond the calyx, which in Mr. Barclay’s plant is scarcely longer than the calyx ; but the plants being grown in rich soil in the borders of the garden accounts for this, the tube being much shorter where the flowers are large. A plant of the same species, sent to us by Mr. Tate, of Sloane Street, last Autumn, we planted out in a border in our garden, and when the weather was frosty through the Winter, we placed a garden pot over it, which succeeded very well ; it flow- ered very strong this Summer, and ripened its seeds ; the flowers were as near as possible intermediate in size and in the length of the tube between the one figured in the Maga- zine and the present figure. Mr. Tate received the seeds of it and S. straminea from Chile, sent home by the British Consul, with seeds and bulbs of various other curious plants. All the species of this handsome genus prefer a rich light soil, and should be planted in a warm border, where they will require a little protection in Winter ; it is readily in- creased, either by cuttings planted under hand-glasses, or by seeds, which ripen plentifully. If the seeds are sown soon after they are gathered, and the plants preserved in frames, the light window of a room, or Greenhouse, and planted in the borders in Spring, they will flower and ripen their seeds the next Summer. 1. Calyx. 2. Tube of the Corolla split open to show the insertion of the Stamens, the two shorter fertile ones clothed with hairs all their length, the hairs tipped with black glands, the longer ones hairy below and smooth up- wards, sterile one with the rudiment of an anther. 3. Ovarium, terminated by the tongue-shaped Style and transverse Stigma. 4. Radical leaf. 4-. .■'i; ■ r , V . .4: • • •^,- ''I' ■ *■ . ■ I. '^’ /* . ■ ■{■■■' •'"•V .•!' v; t > ',>"^ . T^j ;-i.,'4 '■vn''^v‘' V c -, « ’■•'■■•* ■ -Sr/ ->.....■ #; ' ’^T- X: y-'’",; ''’^‘ ■ ' ■ ■ v^''- • r>y . ■' (Ciy - ■>*• " ■> • ."S:'’ ’I'i" . ■■#/; y’- ,v^ < ' - V^ % m y'''’,.|r.’'*'. /’y “«'•■•'■ ■ ;■ =. ■',,"■■* ;-i'' 'e-, ; V / ■ . y-'- y"- " yyv ^ i" ,, ■4-^yyy-“' ■ j- • •y'v<€ ,f> .' ‘'VlilrkA' '.-. . V . , , , . , A;. VI 17 ^ y v^. '. ■ - J 'til^ V;? .J44J4-, 272 TAXANTHEMA incana Hoary Sea Lavender, Natural Order, Plumb agin eje. Brown prodr, TAXANTHEMA, Supra fol. 37. T. incanay foliis lanceolatis trinerviis subundulatis apice mucronatis incano-pubescentibus, scapo paniculate ramosissimo, ramis tri- quetris. Taxanthema incana, Swt. hort, hrit, p. 332. Penny in Young*s Hor~ tus Epsomensis, par, 1. p, 46. col, 2. Statice incana. Lmn, mant, p. 59. 513. Syst, veg, p. 300. Vahl symb, 1. p. 25. Willden. sp, 1. p, 1525. Pers, syn. 1. p, 333. M, Bieb. Ji. taur, cauc, 1. p, 251. Rcem, et Schult, syst* 6. p, 783. Spreng. syst, 1. p, 959. Statice speciosa. Forsk, cat, cegypt, p. 65. n. 192. nec aliorum, Statice rubella. Gmcl. it, 2. t, 34. Gmel, syst, veg, 1. p, 512. Perennial ; herbaceous. Leaves radiately spreading, the centre ones erect, lanceolate, acute, more or less undu- late, terminated by a sharp rigid mucrone, tapering to a long slender base, clothed with a short hoary pubescence, 3-nerved, the margin smooth but of a cartilaginous sub- stance: lower ones broadest, elliptically lanceolate, be- coming nearly smooth by age ; while young clothed with a short dense hoary pubescence. Stem from a span to a foot in height, according to the strength of the plant, the lower part cylindrical, paniculately branching : branches of the panicle alternate, numerous, many times divided, trique- trous, the angles slightly winged, clothed with a short close pressed pubescence : flowering spikes short, much crowded. Flowers all facing one way, varying on different plants from dark red to very light, on some plants nearly white. Brae- tes clasping the stem, ovate, keeled, taper-pointed. Glumes 3, surrounding the calyx, their margins membranaceous; inner one trifid, the points subulate : the others entire, cu- cullate and dilated at the base, tapering to a slender point. Calyx funnel>form, with a white scariose limb, not unlike paper: tube membranaceous, with 5 green angles, which terminate in the segments of the limb: limb spreading, 5- cleft, the segments fiat, lanceolate, acute. Petals 5, spathu- late, rounded at the point : the unguis white, about half the length of the calyx; the limb spreading. Stamens 5, insert- ed in the base of the petals: filaments smooth, slender, attached to the back of the anthers : anthers scarcely ex- serted. Ovarium smooth. Styles 5, distinct, thickly clo- thed with a glandular pubescence. Stigmas green, capitate. This very handsome species varies considerably in the colour of its flowers ; in some plants dark red, others light red or pale rose-colour, and some are nearly white ; it ap- pears doubtful to us, whether there are not two distinct spe- cies confused by diflerent authors, as the descriptions given do not all correspond with each other ; we have never seen but one plant of the dark colour represented in our figure, which was at the Nursery of Messrs. Charles, James, and Peter Young, at Epsom, and from specimens sent us from their extensive and interesting collection our drawing was made; the small branch, with the light red flowers at the bottom of the plate, was from a plant in the Apothecaries’ Company’s Garden at Chelsea, which variety we have seen at the Nursery of Mr. Lee, at Hammersmith, and also at Mr. Knight’s Nursery, in the King’s Road. The species is nearest related to T. tatarica., figured at t. 37 of this work ; the present is much less winged, the flowers closer to each other, and the leaves much less, and clothed with a canes- cent pubescence : it is sometimes increased by splitting down the main root in several parts, leaving a crown to each; this operation should be done in February or March, but a much better method is to raise it from seeds ; a rich loamy soil, rather sandy, suits it best. The generic name is derived from ra^ig^ arrangement or order, and avOefiog, flowery, from the flowery arrangement of the spikes. 1. The dark red variety. 2. A light red variety. 3. The 2 outer bractes. 4. Inner bracte, with a trifid point. 5. Calyx. C. The 5 Petals, with a Stamen inserted in the base of each. 7. Ovarium, terminated with 5 glandularly hairy Styles, each ending in a small capitate green Stigma. T:i>Jm,Ox2)d . KJ}. 'i^£ Jisve£- M,-v2£2l ifedde/Uo'. 273 CYCLOBOTHRA barbata. Bearded Cyclobothra, Natural Order. Tulipace^. Kth. synops. 1. p. 292. CYCLOBOTHRA. Perianthium petaloideum, hexaphyllo-par- tituni, imbricato-subcampanulatum : foliolis rectiusculis subpatenti- bus, intus supra basin fovea nectarifera rotunda barbata excavatis ; exterioribus duplo minoribus. Stamina 6, basi perianthio inserta : filamenta planiuscula. Ovarium trigonura, trisulcatum. Stigmata 3, introrsum canaliculata, apice reflexa. Capsula oblonga, obtuse tri- gona, polysperma.— Radix bulhosa. Caiilis herbaceus.foliatus. Flores terminaleSf subnutantes. C. barbata, caule paucifloro, foliis sparsis linearibus acuminatis supra canaliculatisglaucescentibus, perianthii foliolis barbatis : exteriori- bus duplo minoribus oblongo-lanceolatis cuspidatis : interioribus obovatis acuminatis crenulatis, foveo nectarifero rotundato dense barbato. Fritillaria barbata. Humh, Bonpl. et Kunthnov. pi. gen. etspec. amer. requin. 1 . p. 280. Kth. synops. 1. p. 292. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 64. Root bulbous, oblong, pointed upwards, clothed with a rigid fibrous shell or coat. Leaves very long, leek-like, linear, and tapering to a slender point, sometimes more or less twisted, \^diile others are straight, glaucous, and chan- nelled on the upper side, the lower side greener, keeled, and striate, sheathing the stem at the base. Stem slender, leafy, about a foot high, smooth but slightly glaucous, bearing bulbs in the axils of the leaves at the base of the peduncles. Flowers ^ on our plants, golden yellow, nodding. Pedun- cles cylindrical, smooth, bearing a leaf-like bracte at the base of each. Perianthium deeply 6-parted, the leaflets scarcely connected at the base; each furnished with around nectariferous pit above the base: outer ones about half the size of the inner ones, broadly lanceolate, sharp-pointed, greenish on the outside, the nectariferous pit some way above the base, nearly round and densely bearded inside, VOL. nr. u the beard extending a little way up the leaflet; inner leaf- lets obovate, tapering to a long sharp point, densely beard- ed with purple hairs, particularly in the nectariferous pit, the upper part naked, and notched a little at the margin. Stamens 6 ; filaments flattish, smooth, yellow, inserted in the base of the perianthium below the leaflets : anthers ob- long, attached to the filaments at their base : pollen yellow. Ovarium superior, oblong, bluntly 3-sided, 3 -furrowed, many-seeded. Stigmas 3, nearly sessile, spreading, slightly furrowed on the upper side, the points reflexed. The present genus is certainly very different from Fri- TiLLARiA and Imperialis ; from the former it differs in its nectariferous pit being circular and bearded, and from the latter, from its situation, which is nearly half way up the leaf- let of the perianthium, instead of being near the base, the habit is also entirely different ; it is much nearer related to Calochortus, particularly to C. elegans of Pursh ; but the species of that genus have no nectariferous pit on the leaflets of the perianthium : we have not seen any ripe cap- sule, or seeds, which would have been desirable ; the Fri- tillaria purpurea of Kunth is doubtless another species of the same genus. Our drawing was made from bulbs in flower, at the Nur- sery of Mr. J. C. Tate, of Sloane Street, in July last; the bulbs were given him by Mr. Peene, who received them from Mexico ; amongst them were bulbs of another species, that has not yet flowered, and is probably the purpurea ; like the other Mexican bulbs, it will succeed well in a warm border, planted from 4 to 6 inches deep in a light sandy soil ; or if grown in pots, an equal mixture of light turfy loam, peat, and sand, is the most proper soil for it, and it may be protected in frames through the Winter. The generic name is derived from KUKXa, a circle, and /3o0poc, a well or pit, from the circular pit in each leaflet of the flower. 1. One of the inner leaflets of the Perianthium, showing the nectariferous pit, and its bearded surface. 2. One of the outer leaflets. 3. The 6 Stamens inserted in the base of the Perianthium. 4. Ovarium, terminated by the 3 Stig- mas, that are slightly furrowed on the upper side. ■ \i^' .fc^' ... :• ,. h. '•H;;ii; jtr I,. . ' H Z"^' , ■^; f% . '4^’’ ■■: :■' ’ . # j-¥' ■ '■ ' • •'-■ ■ ■' r*:' .v" . . ,. . ik'. /'C’ :' ' ' •. .7 ‘ ■ ':' . 4'-' M' /• :r- J Jf O ■■ '■, , ■*?'' ■■■ ■p:.J^ ^v*i ;^'- ■- '"-i-i- > ■ - ' V 4'^' ' ‘•It"'- * -(;>:'.V. r..^.> - ' ■■-'■.? if. *Vu. Chh. .,* I;#- 4 '•' f^i- V. ' ' ■^' t ^ '"'- ! 4-v^' ; v - |:':> V t^\fr .-, 't ^ , Si^-i . • (HV.v ; K’^ ,,..y-:-- '-.'•■'■'%■* s I" I # S' H". -'4 i AS .'I -■M ^ ■ !)K"l:J' . ; ^ ■^' ■ ' l»L'‘ : ■ j v^A’ • ’ !. ■»■■• ---i' •• » r' JK--:- 274 IRIS tridentata. Three-toothed Iris, Natural Order, Iride^. Brown, prodr, 302. IRIS, Supra fol. 68. I. tridentata^ imberbis, foliis lineari-ensiformibus acuminatis, caule tereti subunifloro foliis longiore, perianthii laciniis interioribus brevissimis incequaliter tridentatis : denticulo medio acuminato, capsulis trigonis, stigmatibus basi utrinque unidentatis. Iris tridentata. Pursh Jl.amer. sept. 1. p. 30. Roem, et Schult, syst,\, p. 408. Spreng. syst. 1 . p. 161. Swt. hort, brit. p. 393. Iris tripetala. Walt. Jlor, car. p.CS. Vahl enum.2. p. Vo3, Nuttall gen. amer, 1. p, 23. Roem, et Schult, syst. 1. p. 480. Leaves linearly ensiform, growing in a fan-shaped man- ner, from a foot to 18 inches in length, and four lines broad, tapering to the point, smooth, of a dark green, longitudi- nally striate with numerous lines, the margins smooth and transparent: stem-leaves shorter, curved inwards at the point, sheathing the stem at the base. Flower-stem leafy, smooth, a little compressed, slightly angular, 1 or 2-flower- ed. Spatha of 2 bractes, in our specimens two-flowere'd : outer bracte short, keeled, sharp-pointed: inner one nearly three times the length, a little inflated, acute, rounded at the back, inclosing the peduncle and ovarium, and extend- ing to the end of the tube of the flower ; inside of the brac- tes, in our specimen, there arises another narrower bracte, that encloses a younger flower. Peduncle smooth, slightly angular, about half the length of the outer bracte. Ovarium smooth, below the flower, slightly 3-angular, a little swollen in the centre between the angles. Perianthium tubular, of 6 segments : tube a little inflated, smooth : segments of the limb very unequal ; outer ones broadly ovate, acute, not bearded, dark blue, veined with purple : 3 inner ones u 2 very short and small, ligulate, veined, 3-toothed at the point ; the teeth short, middle one rather longest and acuminate. Stamens 3, inserted in the tube ; filaments smooth, ra- ther succulent, a little flattened: anthers linear. Style smooth, triangular. Stigmas 3, sometimes increased to 4, petal-form, of a blue purple, hollow underneath, and 1 -tooth- ed on each side at the base, ribbed and furrowed on the upper side, through the centre, bifid at the point ; the seg- ments broadly lanceolate and tapering to a point. Our drawing of this handsome and singular species was made in July last, at the Nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, at Fulham, and we observed it still continued to produce flowers the beginning of October. It is readily distinguished from all the other species, by the three inner segments of the perianthium being very small, and three-toothed at the point. We have preferred the name of tridentata^ as much more appropriate and expressive than that of tripetala, which has otherwise the right of pri- ority. It is a native of North America, and has not been long introduced, so that at present it is rather a scarce plant ; and the greatest quantity that we have seen of it is at the Nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Co. It thrives well in the open border of the garden, and is pretty readily in- creased by dividing at the root. The genus is named from the rainbow, from the va- rious colours of the flowers in the genus. 1, Tube of the flower split open, showing the three small leaflets that are 3-toothed at the points, and the three Stamens between them. 2. Ovarium. 3. Style. 4. The three Stigmas, showing the cleft point, and the two teeth at the base of each. ■i- I J/NS '4Wr ^ i 4'^ i jM/ Jim li IJljTruthJ/d- P>J> b/ FJwg^^M^ov ZJ2:3 We4id0ZZjc>' 275 ECHEVERIA grandifolia. Largest-leaved Echeveria. Natural Order, Crassulaceje. DC. prodr. 3. p. 381, Tribus I. CRASSULEJE. Carpella inter se omninb libera, matura angulo interno dehiscentia. EC HE VERIA. Calyx 5-partitus, sepalis folia referentibus erec- tis ima basi concretis. Petala 5, infern^ coalita erecta crassa rigi- dula ad nervum medium crassiora et fere basi trigona acuta. Sta- mina 10 petalis breviora basi cum petalis concreta. Squamce 5 bre- ves obtusae. Carpella 5 in stylos subulatos abeuntia. — Frutices car- nosi Mexicani. Folia alterna caulina aut rosulata subopposita inte- yerrima enervia. Flores secus rachin aut secus cymce ramos sessiles, coccinei aut Jlavi. DC. prodr. 3. p. 401. E. grandifolia y suffruticosa, ramis tloriferis elongatis foliisque coe- ruleo-glaucescentibus, racemis ante antliesin incurvis ; post anthe- sin erectis axillaribus foliosis plurifloris; floribus pedicellatis, la- ciniis calycinis valde insequalibus, foliis pinguibus acute mucro- natis : inferioribus rosulato-confertis subpetiolatis obovatis basi canaliculatis : rameis sessilibus supra planis subtus convexis. Eclieveria grandifolia. Haworth in Taylor's Philosophical Maga- zine and Annals, Aug. 10, 1828. Siiffrutescent, succulent; the plant from which our draw- ing was made, about 6 inches in height, producing three flowering stems that were from four to five feet in length, and would be considerably longer before they have done blooming; the stems smooth, cylindrical, and as well as the leaves of a beautiful blue glaucous colour, producing flowers nearly their whole length. Leaves thick and succulent, smooth, terminated by a sharp horny spinous mucro : lower ones closely crowded, rosulate, or spreading round like an expanded rose, broadly obovate, attenuated at the base into a short petiole, channelled on the upper side at the base, and bluntly keeled underneath, obsoletely nerved, the mar- gins smooth and purple : the lowermost a foot long, and 6 inches broad in the broadest part : those on the flower stems alternate, becoming gradually narrower upwards, sessile, or the lower ones with a short footstalk, of a beautiful blue glaucous colour, the upper side flat, and slightly convex be- low : upper ones narrowly obovate, or ovate, some of them approaching to lanceolate. Racemes axillary, leafy, slightly angular, smooth, of a blue glaucous colour, the lower ones 2 to 3-flowered, the upper ones many flowered, nodding or incurved before the expansion of the flowers, afterwards be- coming erect. Pedicles about half an inch in length, slightly angular, of a glaucous blue colour. Calyx inferior, deeply 5- cleft, the segments leaf-like, succulent, straight, lanceolate, acute, mucronulate, very unequal in size, some three times larger than the others. Corolla of 5 petals, 5-angular, con- nected below, straight, taper-pointed, flesh-coloured and glaucous outside, the mouth rather contracted, inside yellow. Petals keeled, fleshy, swollen at the base, which is occa- sioned by the 5 protuberances at the base of the carpella. Stamens 10, five connected to the petals a little above the base, and 5 alternate with them : filaments smooth, slender, attached to the base of the anthers. Scales ox protuberances 5, fleshy and obtuse, flattened towards the petals. Carpella 5, conical, smooth, each terminated in a subulate Style, and capitate Stigma, the stigmas fimbriate, and all facing out- wards. Seeds very numerous. Our drawing of this new and magnificent plant was made from a fine specimen in the choice collection of rare exotics cultivated in the conservatory of the Colissseum in the Re- gent’s-park, in September last ; we have seen the plant again since, when it was much finer than when our drawing was taken, the upper part being lengthened out into pendulous racemes, that become erect as the flowers expand, and re- mains in full bloom for a long time ; of this collection we shall give a more particular account at some future oppor- tunity. The present subject is a native of Mexico, and was first raised from seed by Mr. Tate, of the Sloane Street* Nursery ; the seed was sent home by G. Ackerman, Esq. to his father in the Strand, who presented it to Mr. Tate. A singular character belonging to this genus is, that the leaves are slightly attached to the stems, though they appear firmly attached; but by moving them upwards at the back, it will be seen that they are quite loose, and come off easily, as if they were only stuck on ; those, if dried a little, and then planted, will soon root and produce young plants ; there are now five species of the genus known, all of which have lately been described by Mr. Haworth, in an account of the genus in the Philosophical Magazine and Annals. We find all the succulent plants from Mexico, and also from the Canary Islands, thrive well and flower abundantly by the side of a wall in a southern aspect, planted in light sandy soil, and covered by a mat or any other loose covering in frosty weather. The genus was named by M. Decandolle after Echeveria, Botanical painter, of Mexico; the name on the Mexican drawings was used for two other genera, Fouquiera and Bronnia of Kunth. 1. Calyx, showing the unequal segments. 2. Corolla spread open, showing the insertion of the 10 Stamens ; at the base of every other one is a fleshy obtuse scale or protuberance. 3. The 5 Carpella, each terminated by the smooth Style. and capitate Stigma. .V , vffiUP] V V • . .'J ‘ \ , > ;.' ■\' ,•’. , W-' 4,.. V-' ' ■' i.y.4 • vt- •«/• t". A’ s 4^ Iff . 'felt’rt-';’" j: , ^ "' ;' -,' . ■ . .-i*, . ■'.• ! / '■'■•>' it'?' *;f>Vs A'' " ' '-T ' ■ ' V-.;*, • - ■ . *k ■■ ' -' ■ , ■ 'v' •' ■'*■ ■ f ‘ ■■■' ' 'V- '*'•■ «-'' ■" * ^.^i,_^.‘ je ;.'|f'4ysir'Ac^ y ss' ‘ .'':i!i' ;. i ./v itot® : ;j^'.'. I'-' ■ ‘^ ■ r ’'■ :!' ' '1* V 4 v^^:V !.■. ;:. ' ,%-;/^. •X'<^'-\^ ,v. v\<' ..-'I ■■•yT* ’''‘At ’ '■ ’ tfi- * tt'* 1 , ■ i ; . ;CT . 'tl, ’'em**'-? .-' " ' **= •• ' ’^ ' . • , d^:iW4i lo ■■ K 1^ . ^ - - ••:*&■. <^‘?o ■ - .... ^^;.jr^i^1'!'V'0/^''- ■‘i" < '■'' i?S*'5' '^' ? ; ' 1^ i‘;»^-'«'l4;iii‘>» f* i -t-A i*i. '^Ur’ -■ ■ ■«j.>^?'ii''*.- f's* vf}' 'r. v lisjt-nsy?.* il-’- ^ * 'U'’^ ^ .,5-:'tas‘^'*i4i*‘'» "a i , ■ .-..'U.C'' <- f-v .■-'- ‘v ' > ■• , i ■> /: ' i,'\ I'"'? - ■ ‘'■f, « ‘ '^ . ■! ” . !■" ' . I, . .. I: % V.W/. • :■. • /. . f ; I'l - .f a^.s ,i fc: -if- ■ ' *. ■ - ^ ' ■' ■,Lc: ■ '^-■'' * •Vfi ^ \ r.t' ■1 : - 4' ' '• W '^rS- . ■5« ■ i' .v- • -t «' . v’. r'"'.: ',> V*-; H- ■hv ;' ^:'i ' ^'1 ■P^ - •:■ ■«"vW>'4*/,.V. « > I'flU'.v'Xj! 5Li''ju x\ 275 278 MORICANDIA arvensis. Ccyrn- field Moricandia, Natural Order, Crucifers. DC. syst. veg.2, p, 139. Subordo III. OrthoPLOCEM. Cotyledones incumbentes, con- diiplicatae, nempe longitudinaiiter medio plicatge et radiculam in pli- catura foventes, saepe apice emarginatae. Semina saepius giobosa. St3?lus saep^ vari^ ampliatus basi lociilatus et seminifer, loculo sty- lari semper indehiscente. Tribus 12. Brassicece sen Orthoplocece Siliquosce. Siliqua elon- gata valvis longitudinaiiter dehiscentibus, septo lineari. Semina gio- bosa. Cotyledones conduplicatae. DC. syst.2. p. MORICANDIA. Ca/ya; clausus, basi bisaccatus. Petala wn^m- culata, limbo obovato patente integro. Stamina libera, edentula. Glandula inter stamina lateralia et ovarium. Siliqua compressa aut compresso-tetragona, valvis nempe nunc planis nunc subcarinatis, elongata, linearis, bilocularis, bivalvis, septo membranaceo, stylo corapresso-conico aspermo aut raribs' 1-spermo. Semina ovata, par- va, biserialia. Cotyledones conduplicatae. — Herbae annuce aut bien- nes perennesve basi suffrutescentes , glabrce, scepius subglaucce, Caules teretes, albidi, erecti^ ramosi. Folia crassiuscula. liacemi termina- les, laxi. Pedicelli Jiliformes, ebracteati, etiam fructiferi erecti, Flores maguseuliy purpuraseentes. DC, syst. veg. 2. p. 620*. M. arvensiSy siliquis subtetragonis, foliis caulinis cordato-amplexi- caulibus integerrimis. DC. syst. veg. 2. p. 626. Prodr. 1. p. 221. Moricandia arvensis. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 914. Swt, hort. brit. p. 29. Brassica arvensis. Linn, mant, 95. All. Jior, ped. n. 966. Lam, diet, 1. p, 798. Hoffm. germ. 241. Willd. sp. pi, 3. p. 546, Sibth, Flor, grcEC. t. 644. Gmel, fl, bad. 3. p. 93. urritis arvensis. Brown hort. kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p, 108. Brassica sylvestris fabariae foliis. Bocc. sic. p. 49. t, 25. f, 3. 4. Biennial, or sometimes lasting three years. Stem erect, much branched, cylindrical, sufFrutescent at the base : bran- ches slender, glaucous. Leaves glaucous, rather succulent ; lower ones a little repand or waved, obovate, attenuated towards the base ; upper ones cordate, tapering to the point, but scarcely acute, clasping the stem, entire. Racemes elongated, loose, several-flowered. Pedicles slender, a lit- tle flattened, glaucous, from 2 to 4 lines long, but scarcely X 2 so long as the calyx. Flowers elegant, of a purple lilac. Calyx of 4 sepals, the 2 inner ones narrowest, linear, the outer ones concave, both inflated at the base. Petals 4, spreading ; the unguis slender, about the length of the calyx ; the lamina obovate, flat, of a purple lilac, veined with nu- merous branching purple veins, that extend all over them. Stamens 6, inserted in the receptacle, 2 shorter than the others : filaments smooth : anthers a little exserted : pol- len pale yellow. Seed-pod slightly quadrangular, bearing the seeds in 2 rows. Style four-sided, the sides flat. Stig- ma thick, notched at the point, pubescent. This elegant plant is a native of the South of Europe, Barbary, and the Levant, and has been introduced to our gardens ever since the year 1739, though it is yet very rarely to be met with. For the opportunity afforded us of giving the present figure, we are obliged to Messrs. Charles, James, and Peter Young, Nurserymen, of Epsom, from whose extensive collection we received fine flowering specimens of it, in full bloom, in August last. It is well deserving a place in every collection, both from the beauty of its flowers, and its elegant growth, and glaucous leaves. It requires no particular care, except to be planted in a warm open bor- der of the flower-garden, in rich soil ; and should the Win- ter be very frosty, it will be best to shelter it a little with the covering of a pot placed over it, or a little straw or fern, while the weather is severe ; it will then flower abundantly and ripen its seeds, which should be sown early in Spring, and as soon as the plants have two or three leaves, they should be transplanted where they are to remain. The genus was named by M. Decandolle, in compliment to S. Moricand, an Italian Botanist, and author of the Flora Veneta. 1. Calyx. 2. One of the Petals, to show the slender unguis at the base. 3. The 6 Stamens, 2 of them shorter than the others. 4. Stamen detached, to show the gland at the base. 5. Style terminated by the Stigma. 0. Pod, open- ing, to show the seeds. 279 POTENTILLA Russelliana. RusselVs hylrid CinquefoiL Natural Order. RosACEiE. Juss. yen. 334. Tribus II. DRYADEM. Calyx 5-fidus (rarius 4-fidus aut pluri- divisus,) per sestivationem valvatus, saep^ extiis bracteolas lolulosve exteriores lobis alternos gerens. Petala tot quot cal. lobi veri et iis alterna. Stamina niimerosa, rariiis 5 et tunc lobis caljcis opposita, apice tubi calycini expansi inserta. Carpella numerosa, rarids pauca congesta, toro inserta, inter se et k calyce libera, et latere prope api- cem stylifera. Styli introrsiini sulco-notati in stigma obliquum expan- si. Akenia uniovulata omnino libera, exsucca aut baccata. Semen soli- tariuni erectum aut inversum, exalbuminosum. Embryo rectus, co- tyledonibus planiusculis. — Herbae aut frutices ; foliis scepius compo- sitis; stipulis 2 lateraliter petiolo adnatis. DC. prodr. 2. p. 549. POTENTILLA. Supra fol. 124. P. Russelliana^ villoso-pilosa, caule ramoso diffuse, foliis radicali- bus petiolatis ternatis quaternatis quinatisve ; caulinis ternatis : foliolis ovatis obovatisve obtusis inciso-serratis penninerviis sub- tus subsericeis, stipulis adnatis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, laci- niis calycinis lanceolatis acutis, petalis obcordatis. Root perennial, herbaceous. Stems spreading, much branched, thickly clothed with long shaggy hairs, from a foot to 18 inches in length. Leaves very variable, petio- late ; the lower ones bearing three, four, or five leaflets, all intermixed ; stem ones ternate, with shorter footstalks, near- ly sessile : leaflets ovate, or obovate, some of them unequal at the base, deeply serrate, the teeth bluntish, penninerved, the nerves branched, and reticulately veined, furrowed on the upper side, very hairy on both sides, and clothed with a thin white silky tomentum underneath, the teeth ter- minated with short tufts of woolly hairs. Petioles slightly furrowed on the upper side and rounded below, more or less tinged with purple, and densely clothed with long shaggy hairs. Stipules to the base of the footstalks, ovately lanceolate, taper-pointed, hairy and fringed ; those on the lower leaves scariose, but on the stem leaves much larger, green, and of the same substance as the leaves. Flower- stems branching, purple, thickly clothed with shaggy hairs, as are the peduncles and calyx. Flowers terminal, and in the forks of the branches, very large and handsome, bright scarlet. Peduncles variable in length, nearly cylindrical. Bractes 5, attached to the calyx, broadly lanceolate, acute, very hairy, and the points terminated in a tuft of hairs, lar- ger than the segments of the calyx, spreading when the flower is expanded. Calyx deeply 5 -parted ; the segments broadly lanceolate, acute, hairy, more or less of a reddish purple. Petals 5, spreading, broadly obcordate, imbricate, of a bright scarlet, with a dark base, and veined with dark veins. Stamens 20, inserted in the calyx, and surrounding the carpella, unequal in length : filaments smooth, purple : anthers generally sterile. Carpella numerous, smooth and glossy. Styles numerous, purple, each terminated by a small blunt stigma. The present splendid flowering plant is of hybrid origin, being intermediate between P. formosa^ and P. atropur- purea^ varying with leaves containing 3, 4, and 5 leaflets. It was raised from seed last year, by Mr. W. Russell, at his Nursery, at Battersea, who has employed a great deal of time with the plants of this genus, to try to obtain some- thing handsome from them ; and his labour has been so far crowned with success, in obtaining the present handsome plant, which may be considered one of the most splendid hardy perennial plants that need be cultivated in the open borders of the flower-garden, and is well deserving a place in every collection ; neither of its parents can come near it in brilliancy of colour, which is of a glossy scarlet. It is quite hardy, and thrives well in the open borders, in the common garden soil, and may be increased by dividing at the root, but is not likely to ripen seeds, as the anthers are mostly all without pollen, so that it is not likely soon to become common. Mr. Russell has already increased it; and in- forms us that he is now selling the plants at one guinea each. Our drawing was made from his original plant, in July last. Potentilla is derived from potens, puissant, from the powerful medicinal effects attributed to the common Cin- quefoil, P. reptans, as a vulnerary medicine. 1. Calyx, with the 5 bractes at the base of the segments. 2. The 20 Stamens of various lengths, the Anthers yellow, but mostly void of pollen. 3. The bunch of Carpella, each bearing a smooth purple Style, and small blunt Stigma. 280 Jiil 'hy^9m*t^Xie^m6 . ir,dMMJ8 280 CAMPANULA dichotoma. Forked Bell-Flower. Natural Order. Campanulace^. Brown prodr, 1. p. 559. CAMPANULA. Catya; 5-(rar6 4-) fidus, Coro//a campanulata, 5-fida. Filamenta basi dilatai^. Stigma 3-2-lobum. Capsula 3-2- locularis, saepius infera foraminibus lateralibus aperiens, nunc apice supero valvata. — Herbae rarb Suffrutices. Folia alierna, nunc oppo- sita. Inflorescentia Flores Brown prodr. 1. p. 560. Sect. II. Media. Calycis sinus rejiexi bast producti: receptacu- lum nectariferum : . capsula poris lateralibus dehiscens. C. dichotoma, foliis oblongis dentatis sessilibus cauleque angulato superne dichotomo hirsiitis, floribus cernuis, capsulis 5-loculari- bus. Spreng. syst. 1. p. 734. n. 124. Campanula dichotoma. Linn, amccn. acad. 4. p. 306. Spec. pi. p. 237. Lamarck enc. meth. 1. p. 586. Smith prodr. jlor. grace. 1. p. 141. Sibth. Jlor. grace, t. 211. Roem. et Schult. syst. 5. p. 141. Annual. Stem angular, from 6 inches to a foot in height, much branched, the branches angular, spreading, hispidly hairy, forked at the ends, which terminate in flowers. Leaves sessile, oblong, or ovate, scarcely acute, toothed with small short teeth, hispidly hairy on both sides, and fringed at the margins, underneath strongly nerved, the nerves nearly parallel. Flowers nodding in the forks of the branches, and terminal, of a purplish blue. Peduncles his- pidly hairy, the hairs long and spreading. Calyx 5 -cleft, hispidly hairy and fringed, the sinus between the segments lengthened out to a sharp point, concave, and bent back- wards ; the segments lanceolate, and tapering to a long slen- der point, as long as the tube of the corolla. Cm'olla cam- panulate, the tube rather slender, 5-ribbed and striate ; limb 5 -cleft, spreading; the segments broadly ovate, acute, fur- rowed on the upper side down the middle. Stamens 5, inserted in the calyx ; filaments dilated below and tapering upwards, fringed at the edges, and attached to the base of the anthers ; anthers long, linear, 2-lobed, bursting before the expansion of the flower. Style thickly clothed with spreading hairs. Stigma 3-cleft, the segments linear, at first erect, afterwards more or less spreading. This very pretty and distinct annual species, is a native of Sicily, Barbary, and Greece, and has been but lately in- troduced to our gardens. The only collection in which we have noticed it, is that of Robert Barclay, Esq., of Bury Hill, from whence we received fine flowering specimens in August last ; we also received it from the same collection last year, but the specimens did not then arrive in a proper state for drawing. It is certainly a great acquisition to our collection of hardy annuals, requiring nothing but to be sown in Spring, in the open borders, where they will thrive and ripen their seeds. A rich light soil suits them best, as they will then grow stronger and produce larger flowers than when sown in poorer soil. The generic name is derived from campana^ a bell, from the bell-shaped flowers of the genus. 1. Calyx. 2. The 5 Stamens. 3. Ovarium, terminated by the hairy Style, and 3-cleft Stigma. 281 HEIMIA salicifolia. Willow-leaved Heimia. Natural Order. Lythrarie^. DC. prodr. 3. p. 75. Tribus I. SALICARIEM, Calycis lobi per^jestivationem plus mi- niis distantes aut subvalvati. Petala plurima, calycibus lobis alterna et ad eorum divisiones apice tubi inserta, interdiim nulla. Stamina de- missids tubo inserta. Semina aptera. — Frutices aut herbae. DC. prodr. 3. p. 75. HEIMIA. Calyx basi bibracteolatus, hemisphaerico-campanulatus, lobis 6 erectis, sinubusO alternis patentibus corniformibus. Petala 6 lobis erectis calycinis alterna. Stamina 12 subaequalia. Ovarium ses- sile globosum 4-loculare. Capsula calyce obtecta. Semina minuta ap- tera.— Frutices Americani glabri. Pedunculi uniflori calyce breviores. Flores jiavi. DC. prodr. 3. p. 89. lA. salicifolia^ folds oppositis aut raro ternis : summis saep^ alternis brevissime petiolatis lanceolatis acutis basi angustatis, petalis ro- tundo-obovatis. Heimia salicifolia. Link enum. pi. hort. ber. 2.p. 3. Link et Otto abb. ber. 63. t. 28. DC. prodr. 3. p. 89. Nesaea salicifolia. Humb.Donpl. etKth, nov.pl. gen. etspec. amer. cequin. 6. p. 192. Kth. synops. 3. p. 452. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 455. Stvt. hort. brit. p.1^1. A handsome small bushy Shrub : branches spreading, angular, smooth. Leaves generally opposite, sometimes on strong shoots in threes, and on some of the branches mostly alternate, scarcely petiolate, lanceolate, acute, entire, attenuated to the base, smooth on both sides. Flowers yellow, axillary, on very short peduncles, that are shorter than the calyx. Calyx smooth, with two small bractes at the base, one on each side, hemispheri- cally campanulate, striated, terminated with 6 erect sharp-pointed lobes, the sinuses between the lobes acute, and spreading out like horns, about the length of the up- right lobes, and like them sharp-pointed. P eta Is 6 yhrodidlj VOL. TIT. Y and roundly obovate, somewhat wrinkled, inserted in the mouth of the calyx, and alternate with the upright lobes. Stamens 12, nearly equal: jilaments Nery slender, smooth, inserted in the base of the calyx, and exserted beyond the mouth : anthers two-labed, the lobes divari- cate. Ovarium sessile, globular, smooth, 4-celled, many- seeded. Style erect, smooth, longer than the stamens. Stigma capitate. Capsule enclosed tight in the calyx. Seeds small, and not winged. The present genus is readily distinguished from all to which it is related by its four-celled capsule ; the speci- mens from which our drawing was made, ‘were kindly communicated to us from the rich and extensive collec- tion of Robert Barclay, Esq. of Bury-hill, where it forms a handsome small bushy evergreen shrub, and continues to flower a great part of the Summer, and till late in Autumn : it is a native of Mexico, and has been cultivated several years in the Botanic garden at Berlin ; but the present plant was raised from seed received from Mr. F. Sello, who sent them from Brazil: Mr. Bar- clay has also since raised plants of it, from seeds re- ceived from Mexico, and others from seeds received from Germany. We find it succeeds well, and grows very fast in a warm border by the side of a wall, in a southern aspect, but will probably require the protec- tion of a mat, or some other slight covering, in very se- vere weather; we have seen plants of it now, the se- cond week of December, that have stood several sharp frosts without being in the least injured, and are thriving as well as if it was Summer, so that it cannot be very tender; it thrives well in the common garden soil ; and young cuttings, planted under hand-glasses, strike root readily ; it may also be raised from seeds. The genus was named by Dr. H. F. Link, in honour of Dr. Heim, a celebrated physician at Berlin, and a zealous collector of plants, especially mosses ; he was the first discoverer of Gynostomum Heimii, which is named after him. 1. Calyx. 2. The same spread open to show the insertion of the six petals. 3. The 12 Stamens. 4. Ovarium terminated by the Style and capitate Stigma. 5. Ovarium cut across to show the four cells. IJ)S>n it/i IieL' 282 GEORGINA crocata. Saffron-coloured Georgina. Natural Order. Composite. Adanson fam. 2. 103. Subordo VI. HELIANTHEM. Kth. synops. 2. p. 463. GEORGINA. InvolucrumAw^XQ^: exterius polyphyllum; iiiterius octopartituni. Receptaculuni planum, paleaceum. Flosculi disci tubu- losi, hermaphroditi ; ligulati feminei aut iieutri. Akeniacdilvdi. — Herb^eyb/^^s oppositis, pinnatipartitis; floribus terminalibus, lonyepe- dunculatis: radio purpureo, violaceo, lilacino, aurantiaco, coccineo, flavo et albo. Swt. in Florist’s Guide, fol. et t. (35. G. crocata, caule erecto crasso cavo superne ramoso : ramis glabris subglaucescentibus fistulosis, foliis inferioribus 2-3-pinnatis : radii foliorum nuda; foliolis ovatis acuminatis obtuse serratis glabris: nervis subtus pilosiusculis, involucri foliolis exterioribus ovatis sub- reflexis, akeniis linearibus. Dahlia crocata. Scssc. cx Lagasca clench, hort. rcg, mad, an. 1805. Nov. gen. et spec.p.'iM. Dahlia fulgens. Hortulanorum. Root perennial, producing numerous tubers, that are oblong, attenuated at both ends, unequal in size and form. Stems several from the same root when of a suf- ficient size, erect, from 6 to 10 feet high, branching only towards the point, of a thick swollen appearance, but quite hollow within, the outsides being very thin, so that they are easily broken down with the wind, or some- times even with their own weight, quite smooth, slightly glaucescent, and more or less tinged with purple : bran- ches erect, smooth, slightly glaucescent, purplish. Leaves opposite, petiolate, the rachis, not winged: lov/er ones 2-3-pinnate : stem ones less divided : upper ones near the flowers simply pinnate : leaflets ovate, taper-pointed, and slightly tapering to the base, bluntly serrated, the taper points entire ; teeth bent a little inwards, margins rough, occasioned by little rigid gland-like transparent hairs, the points of which bend inwards, underneath pen- nately or feather-nerved, and reticulately veined, the nerves and veins thinly hairy. Petioles naked, connected at the base, where they are widened or dilated, chan- nelled on the upper side and rounded below, smooth, and more or less tinged with purple. Flowers terminating the branches, of a brilliant saffron colour, or orangy scar- let. Peduncle long, cylindrical, striated, smooth, and glossy. Involucre of 2 series, the outer series consisting of 7 or 8 leaflets, that are ovate, attenuated to the base. scarcely acute, longitudinally striated, smooth and glossy, spreading, or a little reflexed: inner series 8 to 10-part- ed, the segments spreading, and supporting the rays, oblong, obtuse, membranaceous, with a fleshy base. Re~ ceptacle paleaceous, the chaff similar to the segments of the inner series of the involucrum. Rays 8 to 10, spread- ing, sterile, or producing no style or stigmas. Florets of the disk fertile, tubular, 5-toothed; teeth short, erect. Stamens 5 : filaments distinct, smooth : anthers connect- ed into a tube. Style smooth, exserted. Stigma 2 -parted, the segments fimbriate, spreading. Akenia or seed linear, flat, pubescent, in which it differs from G. CervUnthsii, which is spathulate. This very distinct species was pointed out to us this Autumn by Don Mariano Lagasca, at the Nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, at Fulham, as his Dahlia crocata; it is readily distinguished from all the other species by its hollow fistulous stem, which is scarcely branched, and by which it is readily distinguish- ed from G. coccinea and G. Cervanthsii, and is nearer re- lated to G. 7'dsea, (the Dahlia i^bsea of Cavanilles,) a spe- cies also with bipinnate leaves, and very different from the rosea of the gardens, which is nothing but a variety of G. varidhilis : we have already, in the ‘‘Florist’s Guide,” given our reason for adopting Willdenow’s name of Georgina in preference to Dahlia of Cavanilles, there being a genus from the Cape named Dahlia before by Thunberg, and Willdenow’s name is adopted by Decan- dolle, Kunth, and most of the continental Botanists, and it is most proper, as Thunberg’s genus has the right of priority. The present species was raised at Madrid, in the year 1804, from Mexican seeds sent by D. Sesse, according to Lagasca; it requires the same treatment as the more common sorts, to be planted in the open borders in April, to be taken up as soon as the frost sets in, and to be kept dry and out of the reach of frost through the Winter; a poor sandy soil suits it best, as in that it will grow dwarfer, and produce more flowers; it will require to be well secured by being tied up to a strong stake, as its stems are easily broken down by the wind; it is readily increased by dividing at the root, or by seeds. The genus was named by Willdenow, in compliment to J. G. Georgi, a Russian Botanist, and author of some valuable works on the botany of Russia. Dahlia was in compliment to A. Dahl, a Swedish Botanist. 1. Capitulum split through the middle to show the large chaffy scales. 2. One of the Rays, which is sterile and without the rudiment of a Style. 3. Floret of the disk spread open, showing the 5 nerves alternating with the teeth. 4. 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J-ii.f . 4i '”'f ' i; -^vb '■*- ’*i \ .•rvP-^ - ■,3j •»' ''ik;^:'J^!;- 3?:* .>'‘' i' vf4;,.',?.<^i:l’« .. „?^^Or- \) / 13; x' , '/ajA3 ’f‘.' ’.v-|>.*1 •^’.’' ic i:- ^ 3i:>^ ’ vvW5--v. '.' t • . ’ r\ . fiU? JvTBei- Jan^Jj^ZS Z83. Z^ZJhwfkTeL' 283 LUPINUS canaliculatus. Cliaiuielled-kaved Lupine. Natural Order. Leguminos^. Juss.gen.^^b. Subordol. PAPILIONACEM. — Tribus N . PHASEOLEiE. Supra fol. 142. LUPINUS. Supra fol. 130 et 261. L. canaliculatus, fruticosus totus sericeo-tomentosus, floribus alternis pedicellatis bracteolatis, calyce appendiculato labio superiore bifido : inferiore integro acumiiiato, foliolis 8-9 linearibus canaliculatis ob- tusis subtus sericeo-tomentosis, ovario hirsutissimo. Stem frutescent, erect, much branched ; the plant from which our drawing was taken, was between 3 and 4 feet high, though only raised from seed the latter end of May last; branches erect, densely clothed with a short silky close-pressed tomentum. Leaves alternate, digitate, con- sisting of 8 or 9 leaflets, which spread round horizon- tally, and are linear, ending in a blunt point, nearly equal in breadth from the base to the point, deeply channelled on the upper side, and keeled below, the upper side smooth or very slightly pubescent, of a pale green, ap- proaching to glaucous ; underneath clothed with a silky tomentum. Petioles rather slender, channelled on the upper side and convex below, widening at the base, which is slightly decurrent on each side down the stem, thickly clothed with rather a loose silky tomentum. Sti- pules linear, of the same shape as the leaflets, but smaller, narrower and not channelled, the points a little reflexed, also clothed with a silky tomentum, fringed at the mar- gins with longish weak hairs, and the points terminated with a small bunch of the same sort. Racemes terminal, the stem clothed with a short woolly pubescence. Flow- ers bright blue, alternate, bracteate. Bractes deciduous, longer than the bud before expansion, which they en- close, lanceolate, taper-pointed, concave inwards, clo- thed with a short tomentum, and fringed at the margins, tinged with blue. Pedicles short, downy. Calyx two-lip- ped, tinged with blue, and clothed with loose woolly hairs : upper lip short, deeply 2-cleft, the segments ovately lanceolate, oblique, acute : lower lip entire ; the segment very long, lanceolate, taper-pointed ; between the upper and lower lip are 2 small short appendages, attached to the calyx just below the opening, and resembling two small segments. Vexillum roundly oval, keeled at the back ; the sides a little reflexed, of a bright blue, with darker veins, that branch all over it. Wings scarcely so long as the vexillum, oval, oblique, bluntly rounded, hollow inwards, blue, marked with numerous darker veins, eared at the base on one side, with a short unguis on the other. Keel slender, sharply keeled, and ending in a sharp point, white below, the point of a blue black. Stamens 10, the filaments all connected into a tube, but distinct at the points, inserted in the base of the anthers : pollen golden yellow. Ovarium densely clothed with woolly hairs. Style smooth, ascending. Stigma capitate, slightly 2-lobed, bearded. Pod densely woolly, 6 to 8 seeded. The present handsome and stately plant, is another interesting addition to our frutescent Lupines ; it was raised from seed in May last, in the garden of Robert Barclay, Esq. of Bury-hill ; the seeds were given him by Mr. Borrer, who received them from Buenos Ayres, where they had been collected from a cultivated plant in a garden, so that it is probably not a native there ; we believe it to be an undescribed species, as we can find no description that agrees with it : we would re- commend its being planted in a warm sheltered situa- tion ; and then if the Winter should be severe enough ‘ to kill it back, it would throw up branches from the base, particularly if planted pretty deep. Mr. Came- ron informed us, the beginning of December, that the plant was still quite green in the open border, and a few flowers on it ; he observes that it strikes readily from cuttings, and when the plants become strong, they will flower all the Summer. Lupinus is a Latin name of doubtful origin, said to have been derived from lupus, a wolf, because it de- vours the ground ; it was also given to a kind of pulse, of a most bitter and harsh taste. 1. Calyx, showing the small appendage between the segments. 2. Vexillum. 3. The two Wings. 4. Keel. 5. The 10 Stamens spread open. 6. The woolly Ovarium terminated by the Style and Stigma. 7. One of the Bractes. m eft' Jlo'i.JjSZi' WfffletfUjc 284 LOBELIA Tupa. Mullein-leaved Lobelia, Natural Order, Lobeliace^. Juss.ann.mm.l^. p,l, LOBELIA. Calyx saepissime ovario adnatus ; limbo libero, quin- quepartito. Coro//a tubulosa; tubointegro aut dorso longitudinal iter fisso; limbo 5-partito, subbilabiato. Stamina 5. A/i/Zierte connatae. Stigma bilobum aut indivisum. Capsula semisupera, bi-rarius trilocu- laris, apice loculicido-bivalvis. Semina creberrima. — Herbae, frutices aut arbores, scepius lactescentia. Folia alterna, integra aut laciniata, rarissime Jistulosa. Flores terminales spicati, aut axillares solitariiy pedicellis bihracteatis aut nudis. Corollae albce, coerulece aut rubrce. Antherae scepius barbatce. Kth. synops. 2. p. 339. Sect. III. Herbacece, ereetce aut proeumbentes ; jioribus terminalibus spicatis, rarius axillaribus solitariis ; tuboeorollce dorso longitudinaliter Jisso. L. Tupa, caule erecto 5-angulato, folds oblongis acutis denticulatis subtus tomentoso-pubescentibus penninerviis reticulato-venosis ses- silibus decurrentibus, racemo terminal! elongate, pedicellis brac- teas subaequantibus, floribus pubescentibus. Lobelia Tupa. Linn. sp. pi. 1318. Willden. sp. pi. 1. p. 958. Pers. syn. 2. p. 211. Lanueneycl. bot. 3. p. 582. Roem. et Schult. syst. 5. p. 38. Spreng. syst. 1. p. 710. Botan. magaz. 2550. Rapuntium spicatum foliis acutis, vulgo Tupa. Feuill. peruv. 2. p. 739. t. 29. Perennial, somewhat frutescent at the base. Stems hollow, simple, erect, these from which our drawing was made, were 8 feet from the ground to the top, and would have been considerably higher, as they were still lengthening out ; well clothed with leaves ; 5-angular, the angles occasioned by the leaves being decurrent down the stem, so that it has five flat sides between the angles, thickly clothed with a short dense woolly pu- bescence. Leaves sessile, clasping the stem a little at the base, and decurrent down it on each side ; oblong, acute, denticulate or toothed at the edges with nume- rous very small short teeth, penninerved, and reticu- lately veined, clothed with a thin woolly pubescence on the under side, and the upper side with numerous very short hairs : lower ones ovately oblong, the upper ones oblongly lanceolate and more acute, sometimes shortly acuminate. Raceme very long, bearing a great number of flowers ; our specimens, from the top of the raceme to the lower flowers, were 3 feet 8 inches, and would have been much longer, if allowed to grow on. Bractes leaf-like, sessile, broadly lanceolate, taper- pointed, tomentosely pubescent, and toothed with longer and sharper teeth than those on the leaves. Pedicles cylindrical, densely tomentose, tinged with purple, about the length of the bractes, a little above the base of each are two small slender bractes, one on each side. Flowers scarlet, or tinged with orange. Calyx enclosing and connected to the ovarium, 10-angied, inflated, ru- gose, tomentosely pubescent; limb 5-cleft, the seg- ments erect, narrowly lanceolate, acute. Corolla about 2 inches long, densely clothed with a woolly pubes- cence, split longitudinally on the upper side, 5-angled : limb 5-cleft, recurved ; segments linear, often con- nected at the point, sometimes distinct, the two upper ones longest. Stamens 5 ; jilaments smooth, red, con- nected in a long 5-angular tube, surrounding the style : anthers densely bearded, also connected. Style longer than the stamens, smooth below, but hairy above the middle. bilamellate, papillose, the points revo- lute. Several fine specimens of this stately and fine species were sent to us in October last, by A. B. Lambert, Esq. who informs us, that in the borders of his garden, at Boy ton, it has attained the height of ten feet; he also sent specimens of it, procured from the Nursery of Mr. G. Wheeler, of Warminster, where the plants were shorter, but the spikes of flowers were closer, and consequently more beautiful, some of them being between three and four feet long ; it is a handsome and desirable plant for the Flower-garden, as it is an autumnal bloomer, beginning to flower in September, and continuing to bloom till stopped by the frost. Mr. Lambert informs us, that it is quite hardy, but being a native of Peru, we think it advisable to give it a little covering in severe frosty weather : young cuttings in Spring will strike root, but the best method of raising it is by seeds, which ripen in favourable seasons. The juice of the present plant is said to be very poisonous, which we believe is more or less the case with those of the whole genus. The genus was named in honour of Matthias Lobel, Physician to James the First of England, and a celebrated Botanist of his time. 1. Tube of the Corolla spread open. 2. Calyx, enclosing the Ovarium, which is terminated by the Style and bilamellate Stigma. 3. The five Stamens connected into a tube. V'. • : ■ rv: . ■ ■ ^ ■ ; r ^ '■ 4* 1' ,. t - 4 ,*,■' ' - '"'O'J'-’ fx ■rJi':' ' • . J -s 7 - . -■* . 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Tfcddellfc 285 PODOL^PIS giacilis. Branched Podolepis. Natural Order, CoMPOSiTiE. Adanson fam, 2. 103. Subordo III. CARDUACEM. — Div. 6. Asterece, Kth. syn. 2. p. 399. , PODOLEPIS. Involucrum polyphyllum imbricatum hemisphae- ricum: foliolis scariosis stipitatis. Receptaculum punctatum, nudum. Flosculi disci tubiilosi, hermaphroditi : ligulati foeminei. An- therce basi muticm. Pappus pilosus, sessilis. — Herbae, caule ramosOf vel subsimplici; ramis foliisque alternis, jloribus solitariis autpanicu- latis, luteis aut lilacinis. P. gracilis, foliolis involucri rhombeo-ovatis acutis, caule paniculato- ramoso, pedunculis apice squamosis, folds glabris integerrimis basi trinerviis : radicalibus oblongo-ovatis : caulinis lanceolatis amplexi- caulibus acuminatis. Podolepis gracilis. Graham in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journalfor October, 1828. p.ll. Stem of a hard woody texture at the base, two to three feet high, quite smooth and glossy, of a light brown co- lour, paniculately branched, the branches slender, smooth, producing a leaf at each joint. Leaves smooth, entire, three-nerved, rather succulent: lower ones ob- longly ovate, terminated in a short point: stem ones sessile, and clasping the stem at the base, where it is three-nerved, attenuated to a narrow point, midrib at the back very strong, so as to appear like a keel, the up- per side channelled. Flowers of a bright lilac, in a loose spreading panicle. Peduncle rather thickened at the base of the flower, clothed a little way down with stipitate scariose white scales, similar to the leaflets of the invo- lucrum. Livolucrum hemisphaerical, many-leaved, closely imbricate : the leaflets stipitate, or on long slender glan- dularly-pubescent green footstalks, glossy, whitish, sca- riose, rhomboidally ovate, acute, upper ones narrower, with broader footstalks, that are winged a little. Recep- tacle naked, but punctate and roughish. Rays bright li- lac, spreading, narrowly ligulate, two-lobed or notched at the point, bearing a purple style and bifid stigma, and producing a seed similar' to the tubular florets. Florets of the disk tubular, 5 -toothed, the nerves alternating with the teeth. Stametis 5: f laments smooth, distinct: VOL. III. z anthers connected into a tube, naked at the base. Style smooth, slender. Stigma deeply two-cleft, the segments spreading, obtuse, pale lilac. Akenia or seed slightly four- sided, flat on two sides, punctate, and rough like a rasp, terminated by a pappus of about 20 long, simple, white hairs, that are rough when viewed through a lens. We observed this very pretty plant for the first time in July last, when it was just coming into bloom in the open borders of the Flower Garden, in the rich collection of Robert Barclay, Esq., of Bury-hill; the seeds were sown in Spring by Mr. D. Cameron, who informs us that they were received from New South Wales the Autumn before, and were marked Scalea species, which was the name given to this genus by Dr. Sims. We have adopt- ed the specific name given by Dr. Graham, for the pre- sent plant, but we think ramosiim or paniculatum would have been much preferable, as that would have at once distinguished it from the other two scarcely branched species, which we believe are both quite as slender as the present, or more so ; the specimens from which our drawing was made, were sent to us in September last, when they were large branching plants, from two to three feet high, with from 30 to 40 flowers on each, which were of a light rose or bright lilac colour, and made a very handsome appearance: those described by Dr. Graham were grown in pots in the Greenhouse, which accounts for their slender growth and paler flow- ers, as we should judge by his description; for they are of a very lively colour when grown in the open borders. It is quite as hardy and of as easy culture as the com- mon annual yellow Everlasting, the Helichrysum bractc- atum, which is from the same country; the seeds may be sown in the open borders in April or the beginning of May, or they may be raised in pots in frames or in the Greenhouse, and from thence be planted in the borders. Podolepis is derived from ttoSoc, a foot, and Xett^c, a scale, from the footstalks to the scales of the involucrum. 1. Capitulum split through the middle to show the naked receptacle, and stipi- tate scales of the Involucrum. 2. One of the longer stipitate scales, showing its glandular pubescent stipe. 3. Two of the shorter lower ones. 4. One of the rays, with the seed at the base, showing its hairy pappus. 5. One of the florets of the disk spread open. C. The 5 Stamens. 7. Seed, terminated by the, Style and Stigma. 286 HIBISCUS moscheiitos. ATuskij Sivanip Hibiscus. Natural Order. Malvace^. DO. poc/r. 1. 429. HIBISCUS. Supra fol. 277. Sect. VI. ABELMOSCHUS. Carpella polysperma. Semina glabra aut in dorso line^ subvillosa. Corollee expansse. Involucella foliolis 8-15 integris constantia. §. 2. Caule inermi. ** Species perennes. H. moscheutos, caule erecto glabriusculo, foliis ovatis acuminatis supra medium serratis: jnferioribus subtrilobis 5-nervibus subtds cano- tomentosis, petiolis pedunculisque inter se coalitis, involucellis ca- lycibusque tomentosis, laciniis calycinis acuminatis, capsulis glabris. Hibiscus moscheutos. Linn. spec. 91^. Cavan, diss. 3. t. 65. f. 1. Pursh. ji. amer. sept. 2. p. 455. DC. Prodr. 1. p. 450. Sprerig. syst. 3. p. 104. Swt. hort. brit.p. 51. ^ purpureus. Hibiscus palustris. Botan. magaz.^^2. Root perennial, producing several stems from the ground. Stems erect, simple, 3 to 4 feet high, smooth and glossy, but thinly clothed with bunches of short hairs when young, nearly cylindrical, or slightly angu- lar on the upper part. Leaves alternate, ovate, tapering to a long slender point, toothed with short bluntish teeth from above the middle, from thence to the base entire, the point also entire, 5-nerved from the base, the upper side smooth, and of a light green on the old leaves, the young ones thinly clothed with little bunches of short hairs, underneath clothed with a short dense white tomentum: lower leaves broadest, and more or less 3-lobed, the side lobes short and acute: upper leaves not lobed, and becoming gradually narrower up- wards. Petioles nearly cylindrical, or but slightly flat- tened on the upper side, smooth and glossy, l3ut thinly clothed with the little bunches of short hairs. Peduncles 1 -flowered, cylindrical, also clothed with fascicles of short hairs : the lower ones longest and axillary, upper ones connected into one with the lower part of the pe- tioles, close to where they are jointed. Flowers large, V. 2 white, with a dark purple base. Involucre, or outer ca- lyx, of 12 to 13 leaflets, connected into a ring at the base, linearly subulate, acute, clothed with a short dense white tomentum. Calyx proper tubular, campanu- late, also clothed with a close hoary tomentum, and striated with several longitudinal lines or veins, deeply divided into 5 segments, that are ovate, and taper to a long slender point. Petals 5, slightly connected at the base,before expansion spirally twisted, afterwards spread- ing, obovate, rounded at the points, longitudinally vein- ed with 10 to 12 strong veins, that are pennately branch- ed. Stamens rmmexovi^, connected into along cylindrical column, that branches all the way up into short fila- ments : anthers kidney- shaped : pollen glandular, stravv- coloured. Ovarium MoheA, lO-furro wed, smooth. Style longer than the stamens, 5-cleft, smooth below, but hairy above the stamens, the segments spreading, or re- flexed at the points, clothed with spreading hairs, and each terminated with a flat, capitate, papillose Stigma. Fine specimens in full flower, of this beautiful plant, were obligingly sent to us in September last, along with H . roseus, that flowered at the same time, in the rich collection of A. B. Lambert, Esq. at Boyton-House, Wilts: it is seldom that the present plant, or M.palus- Iris, produce flowers in our gardens ; the reason is, with- out doubt, through their being planted in too dry a situ- ation, their native places of growth in America being in swamps and marshes. Pursh mentions the present species, as growing in swamps and salt-marshes, from New York to Carolina; and plentifully in the marshes round the Salt-lake, Onondago, New York, flowering from August to October.” It is most probably owing to the very wet Summer, that they flowered so freely this season, and by being planted in a moist situation ; and there can be no doubt but they would flower as rea- dily every season, if planted near a pond, or in any wet swampy ground ; they are quite hardy, and are readily increased by dividing at the root, or by seed. For the derivation of the generic name, see 277. 1. The lower part of the petiole and peduncle, to show how they are connected. 2. The upper part terminated by the Calyx and Involucrum. 3. The bundle of Stamens. 4, Ovarium, terminated by the Style and Stigmas. , '■ ''.j i C-;s ’ ' - ' 'ry ' • ■ . • • ' ,. v. . ■ , ■ •■■ ' <■"■■■■■ - ., ''■■■•' ■;■ ' . .i. •A.y:. .■-;% ■;• .v'ny V '■!: y. ry'- .-:v‘ ; ' a*. 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A/^wwiewparcum. cotyledonibusbrevior. — Herbae ramosissimcB (Amer. calidior.) radice annua vel bienni. Folia alterna, profunde pinnatijida: segmentis longo-linearibus, integerrimis, rarius incisis. Flores numerosi, pedunculatiy subsolitarii aut rarius glomeratiy parviy purpurei aut ccerulei, in eleganti et aggregat'd magni, speciosi, coccinei. D. Don loc. cit. p. 5-6. G. capitata, folds profunde bipinnatifidis, floribus capitatis, limbi co- rollae laciniis linearibus obtusis. D. Don, Mss, Gilia capitata. Hooker Dotan, 2698. Lindl,Dotan,regist,W10, Herba (Amer. bor. occid.) laete-virens, sapore amarissimo, inde Campanulaceis analogae. Radix fibrosa, annua. Caulis erectus, ra- mosus, teres, villis articulatis, patulis, viscidis, vestitus, nunc saepe de nudatus, altitudine varius, palmaris v. saepe sesqui v. bipedalis. Folia alterna, petiolata, profunde bipinnatifida, sesqui v. tripollicaria : seg- mentis lineari-lanceolatis, canaliculatis, mucronulatis, integerrimis, V. inciso-dentatis. P/ores fasciculati, omninb pulchre cyanei: fasciculis globosis, longe pedunculatis. Calyx campanulatus, 5-fidus, basi obtusis, costis 5 prominulis ' exceptis, membranaceus : laciniis subulatis, conniventibus, margine scariosis. Corolla tubulosa: tubus cylindricus, vix calycem longitudine excedens: faux parfim dila- tata: limbo 5-partito, nervis lateralibus dichotomis, v. persaepe tricho- tomis, ramulosis; intermedio trichotonio, ramulis lateralibus utriusque nervi confluentibus : segmentis linearibus obtusis, trinerviis; truncis vasorum in tubo 15, simplicibus, rectis, parallelis, ad basin usque ma- nifestis, distinctis. Stamina 5, exserta, aequalia, sinubus limbi corollae quasi inserta, hinc cum laciniis alternantia: Jilamenta tubo omninb connata, sinubus corollae perpendicular! e limbo superne libera, subu- lata, glabra: antherce oblongae, tetragonae, obtusae, erectae, basi in- sertae, sulcis 4 depressae, biloculares, loculis explicatis, tandem com- planatae, suborbiculatae : loculis parallelis, longitudinaliter connatis, rima lateral! dehiscentibus. Pollen e granulis minutis pellucidis com- positum. Ovarium triloculare : ovulis indefinitis, pellucidis, intfis aquosis, embryoneque natante oculo armato manifesto ! Stylus capil- laris, glaber, fasciculis vasorum tribus instructus. Stigma trilobum : lobis brevibus, angustissimis, truncatis, facie convexis, pruinosis, nunc recurvis; persaepe tamen abortivum, tunc stylus apice simplici. Cap- sula subrotundo-trigona, trilocularis, trivalvis: loculis 6-spermis: val- vis septiferis, medio cartilagineo-membranaceis, margine longitudi- naliter solutis. Dissepimerita membranacea, angulis acutis placentae triquetrae inserta. Semina duplici ordine in uno quoque loculo ordinata. subtrig’oiia, aptera, hinc convexa, inde carinata: testa membrana- cea, cellularis, fuscescens, albumen arete investiens, superficie ut in ordine, (primo notanti D. Lindley), vasis spiralibus materie plexis g’lutinos^ vestita, et aqu^ madida expansionem subit voluminosam : albumen copiosum, cartilagineo-carnosum, album. Embryo erectus, axilis, lacteus : cotyledones oblongae, obtusae, complanatse : radicula teres, recta, obtusa, cotyledonibus brevier, centripeta. D. Don Mss. “ This is one of the interesting discoveries made by our indefati- gable friend, Mr. David Douglas, in the north-west regions of America. It is quite hardy, and forms a valuable addition to the flower border, which it adorns during the Summer months, with its numerous tufts of pretty blue flowers; the root is annual.’’ “ The Gilia laciniata, of which we have examined numerous au- thentic specimens in the extensive collections of Ruiz and Pavon, now forming part of the Lambertian Herbarium, has a funnel-shaped corolla, with broad rounded segments, and a tube longer than the calyx: the seeds are also more numerous in each cell, and the radicle longer than the cotyledons. Another of Mr. Douglas’s discoveries, the Collomia pinnatijida, has very much the habit of Gilia laciniata^ but it differs in having a capsule with trispermous cells, and the stamina unattached from the middle of the tube upwards, as in CoZ/o- mia^ from which it is distinguished by its orbicular cotyledons, with the radicle twice their length. This plant is precisely intermediate between Gilia and Collomia, aud future observations must determine whether it is to be regarded as a distinct genus, or as uniting Collomia to Gilia. In Collomia grandijlora and linearis the cotyledons are ob- long, and considerably longer than the radicle. Besides the plexus of spiral vessels, an interesting discovery, due to Mr. Lindley, the seeds of Polemoniace^ are invested by a cellular membrane, con- stituting the true testa or seed-covering; and it is an extension of this membrane which forms the alae, or winged border in the seeds of Can- tua, and some other genera of this family. In Gilia capitata each of the segments of the corolla is furnished with three nerves, the lateral branches of which become confluent from the middle upwards. The Phlox pinnata, of Cavanilles, must be referred to Gilia, as we have examined authentic specimens from the author, in the Lambertian Herbarium. The characters of Echeandia, given under Cumminyia, were derived from specimens also communicated by Cavanilles.” For the above account we are entirely indebted to Mr. David Don, who has paid great attention to this natural order; and as there is no figure published, that at all shows the beauty of the plant, we have availed ourselves of the present opportunity of giving one. It only requires to be sown in the open borders of the flower-garden; and if sown at different seasons, between March and August, a succession of flowers may be kept up all the Summer and Autumn ; we had plants of it in flower in our garden last June, and others as late as the last week of November; but the finest specimens we have seen were growing in the garden of Robert Henry Jenkinson, Esq., and at the Nurseries of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, at Fulham, and Mr. W. Russell’s, at Battersea. The genus was named in compliment to Philip Gil, a Spanish botanist, author of a work in conjunction with C. Xuarez, containing phytological observations on some exotic plants cultivated about Rome. 1. One of the flowers. 2. Calyx. 3. Corolla spread open, showing the 5 Sta- mens. 4. Ovarium, terminated by the Style and trifid Stigma. 4 If ill it i' r \i\\' ^ /m LU X < n I 1 JED /rnitT^i Del Dub DUDS 2^. 288 DIANTHUS giganteus. Gigantic Pink. Natural Order. Caryophylle^. Juss. yen. 299. Tribus I. SiLENEdE. Sepala coalita in tubum cylindraceum apice 4-5-dentatum. DIANTHUS. Calyx tubulosus 5-dentatus basi squamis 2-4 oppo- sitis imbricatis. Petala 5 longe unguiculata. StaminalO. Styli2. Capsula 1-locularis. Semina compressa hinc convexa inde concava, peltata. Embryo vix curvatus. DC. prodr. 1. p. 355. Sect. I. Armeriastrum. Flores capitati vel coryinbosi, sessiles vel pedunculati. §. 3. Dracteis ovatis vel lanceolatis, calycibus vix striatis glabris. D. giganteusy viridis, floribus sessilibus capitato-hemisphaericis nume- rosis basi sufFultis, bracteis foliaceis, squamis calycinis ovato-acu- minatis adpressis dimidium tubi aequantibus, foliis linearibus lon- gissimis,basi longe connatis, caule tereti. DC. prodr. 1. p. 356. n.ll. Dianthus giganteus. X)’ Urv. enum. pi. archip. p. 45. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 375. Perennial, a little sufFrutescent at the base. Stem erect, 3 to 4 feet high, smooth, cylindrical, much swollen at the joints, of a bright green colour. Leaves very long, broadly linear, acute, connected a great way up at the base, and sheathing the stem, three-nerved from the base, and striate, channelled on the upper side and keel- ed below, smooth on both sides and at the margins, of a bright green colour. Flowers numerous, sessile, very much crowded in a close hemispherical head, divided into 3 or more sets. Bractes that surround the head, fo- liaceous or leaf-like, broad at the base, and tapering to a slender point, the outer ones longer than the head : inner ones shorter, less leafy, tapering to a long slender point. Calyx long and tubular, striate with numerous longitudinal small lines, smooth, tinged with purple, 5- toothed : the teeth erect, narrowly lanceolate, tapering to a fine point. Scales 4, surrounding the calyx at the base, close-pressed, ovate, tapering to a slender point, outer ones shortest. Petals 5, of a dark red purple, jag- ged or toothed at the edges, veined between the teeth ; limb spreading, bearded on the upper side : unguis long and slender, flat, smooth. Stamens 10; jilaments smooth, attached to the back of the anthers, which are exserted : pale blue. Omrmw oval, smooth. 2, smooth at the base, stigmatose inward and papillose about half their length. Our drawing of this gigantic species of Pink, was made from fine specimens, kindly sent to us from the Nursery of Messrs. C. J. and P. Young, of Epsom, in August last, who inform us that they raised it from seed, sent by Philip Barker Webb, Esq., who gathered them in the neighbourhood of Malaga. D’Urville, in his enumeration of the plants of the Archipelago, mentions it as growing among rocks by the sea-side in Bulgaria; it is nearest related to D. Balbisii of S cringe in Decandolle’s Prodro- mus, the T) . glaucescens of Hornemann, but the flowers in that are larger, and the head not so large, its leaves are also glaucous, which in the present species are green ; it is certainly one of the most stately, and we believe the tallest growing species of the genus at present known, and will thrive well in a dryish situation, or in rock- work, but will probably require a little covering in Win- ter, to protect it from the severest frost; a light sandy soil will suit it best, and it may be increased by cuttings, planted under hand-glasses, or by seed; the best way is to have a few young plants in pots, protected under a frame in Winter, they will then be in readiness to turn out in Spring. The generic name is derived from Stoc, divine, and av0oc, a flower, divine flower ; or Jupiter’s flower, ac- cording to Linnaeus. 1. Calyx, showing the scales at the base. 2. The 10 Stamens, showing their various lengths. 3. Ovarium, terminated by the two Styles, that are stigmatose above the middle on the inner side. ■;v' ■tj DA V - |U,' . ' li! 1 ’* ' ■ ' j:.. -■ . y'/ " “ iL ; . rii, ■ ! h'-r ^ . ■.-,. -^hvi ■■■■■.■■ f j . .V- • ,* . ■ - V ■.■ ' -• , •. '.. ^ ■^v> •>■ .i‘{' y-.' '■ / • ' . * 5 ‘■- J - ' f-' v •■■'-■• ' _ V-^ , ! : tr7^7 ,; > t.: '- -■' ^ : ■ ..■‘; . vbiLT)* -fiTi'i i-' ':•■ ' ;‘ ^■’.• ■• ^ vin >i.i y:‘ 'V'3->o -riL ■ ' 77' I '• 1‘ V j .i ' * Viui Oi .fv' irv»fr ' r- .>5;ri74,t in.M' i .-f;f>7 V. = ' .'1;: ■ '\, \;- ' . '-*->*1 ' ■ ■■ ♦■ •^'- *!-■* ^ 4-:-# T .I*'- I- :v.,,>, ■ • rt ; ->' . * ■ „ ■ -i ^ ••'. ■■ h--. - w . . 289 289 OROBUS Fischeri. Fischer s Bitter^ Vetch. Natural Order. Leguminos^. DC. iirodr.l. Subordol. PAPILIONACEM. — rj’i^MsIV.VlClE^. Supra foLl^A. OROBUS. Calyx campanulatus, 5-fidus; lobis 2 superioribus brevioribus. Corolla papilionacea. Stamina diadelpha. Stylus gra- cilis linearis apice villosus. Legumen cylindraceum oblongum uni- loculare bivalve polyspermum. Semina hilo linear!. — Herbas erectce. Stipulae semisagittatce. Petioli in setam brevem simplieem desinentes. Folia ahrupte pinnata paucijuga. Racemi axillares pedunculati. DC. prodr. 2. p. 376. §. 1. Foliis unijug is, foliolis ovatis vel linearibus. O. Fiseheri, caule tetragono subsimplici glabriusculo, foliis unijugis; foliolis linearibus obtusiusculis mucronulatis longitudine venosis subtus subsericeis, stipulis linearibus acutis subdentatis sericeo-ci- liatis basi uniauriculatis, racemis pedunculatis multifloris secundis, leguminibus reticulato-venosis 6-7-spermis, seminibus subrotundis fuscis. Orobus atropurpureus. Fischer Mss. non Desf. flor. atl. Pei'cnnial. Stems erect, simple, or branching towards the base, 4-sided, slightly pubescent when young, but becoming smooth by age. Leaves on short footstalks, each bearing one pair of leaflets, that are linear, blunt- ish, but terminated by a short mucro, longitudinally veined with several small veins, underneath thinly clo- thed with a silky pubescence, the upper side smooth, or scarcely pubescent. Petioles short and broad, channel- led on the upper side and convex on the lower, termi- nated beyond the leaves in an acute linear point. Sti- pules linear, taper-pointed, silky, and fringed with silky hairs, bearing a sharp horizontal ear at the base on one side, and sometimes one or two sharp teeth besides. Peduncles about the length of the leaves, quadrangular, furrowed, slightly pubescent. Racemes many-flowered. Flowers crowded, facing all to one side, dark purple. Pedicles short, pubescent. Calyx short, campanulate, pu- bescent, 2-lipped'? segments of the upper lip very short and broad, bluntly rounded : those on the lower one longer and more pointed, but scarcely acute. Vexillum long and narrow, oblong, rounded at the end with a VOL. in. •2 a faint notch at the point, deep purple, lighter near the base. Wings spathulate, dark purple, shorter than the vexil- lum, eared on one side, with a very slender long unguis on the other. Keel bluntly rounded, rather shorter than the wings, dark purple at the point, and lighter down- wards, eared on each side, and slenderly unguiculate. Stamejis 10, one distinct its whole length, the other nine connected, and only distinct at the points. Ovarium many-seeded, slightly pubescent. Style slender, linear, densely bearded at the point. Pod convex, somewhat compressed, oblongly lanceolate, ending in a taper point, reticulately veined, very slightly pubescent. Seeds 6 to 8, nearly round, of a light brown colour. Our drawing of this handsome species was made the beginning of June last, from fine specimens sent to us from the collection of Robert Barclay, Esq. of Bury- hill, where it was raised from seed sent by Dr. Fischer, under the name oiO.atropurpureus, but it differs entirely from Desfontaines’ plant figured in the Flora Atlantica, which always produces from 2 to 4 pair of leaflets on each leaf, whereas the present only produces one pair, most of those are also longer and narrower than in Desfontaines’ plant, but the flowers are very similar, as is also the mode of flowering. The present species ap- pears to be nearly related to O. quadrangulus of Spren- gel, but we think can scarcely be the same. It is a very ornamental plant, beginning to bloom in May, and continuing to flower for a length of time ; it also ripens abundance of seeds. We are not certain of what country it is a native, but suppose it to be Siberia, or some part of the Russian empire; it succeeds well in the open bor- ders of the flower-garden in the common garden soil, and is readily increased by seeds. The generic name is derived from opw, to excite, and /3ouc, an ox, that is, food which excites and strengthens oxen; the Greeks applied the name to a plant that ap- pears to have been related to the tare ( Vicia saliva), and more modern botanists have applied it to a genus allied to the vetch. 1. Calyx. 2. Vexillum. 3. The two wings. 4. Keel. 5. The 9 Stamen^ con- nected. 6. The tenth distinct Stamen. 7. Ovarium, terminated by the Style and Stigma. 8. Ripe pod. 9. Seed. fv ' i ■ •••> .■ ' • ' 'f > . _y-< .* .: , . iXi ii' K : ^ 'Vr U'' ''Y^ ' '" ' ^u;^ - --S A-ii u -v.;-- -...f , ■• ., ■''* ; •r.*;"- v'J.' ■■' " V ', . ,■’7;’; .>i‘ ;->f. ■■' '• -'T?' ■ 4-v> - t'-i* ^ '■A’-' - ’.-Vi .;. ”., /• "*'• , . ^•''' ^ ■ ■”■ ■ ' - - ' ' !’. % .'h V .' '■:. •' ’-■ .■.• ■•.. '^ ■ \ . '"V,-- .. . , '. !. ,« ■ *' ' ;• i ■' ■- ' ■ • ^ *<• -fV-' ,. 4, ' ■ ‘■''^■, ' ■ cr„ 'i-f/.-;:. • .^ ’, ,-, ■^Xe X , -v/ '•' ■ ■-?•..■ ' '■' ' ' >■ \^..\.; -- . ■'. . .Vv; ‘ U.iE - i ' A' :<.r: hXMX: X'XXxirXi. f'X’'*:'}'' • ■ * ^■’"I ■ ''■"' XXX~~:-Xf^XX''X V • ' '. j. : '4;,, p.. ' ^■‘-‘■* i'.-V-*'-'',. --i'-,.'- '■ . v >■';■■' . >■’• A-V''’ ;' AiA ■'•X:XX-- X'- ::X, . :y XirAi/X #< /V ' ■ ■ -S'''' ■''-iji cXi-' ' X 'y > •- •■' '*ius -i-ii;:,. ■nXXxX X^viX- ■i- ^ .•■ ‘FA -.. :. v. .Ay.., i Xi F»:' ‘ip ^''' /'iiX.JX F'.y.X-J^' o’. -X 'iXXX' ^ ^ • .‘ ‘ 'i ■■> t I .-, 4r. /■' 'y ■ j; i>-j;kKiy y . ...V -. - - ■'■ ’ «•> ^ i';'* ‘V '« t ; • A '■* ' j.-'f r ' ' »'-,>■ ,i - fi { •t . ' X'K^ A'iy x* ••*-.;•■. ij-:' > '-»; H|-^y v • ;:.v' »Vi> • ■%- • c A ■ A’f 'T : '■t 290 RHODOD^:NDRON sinense j3 Jiavhctns. Pale yellow Chinese Rhododendron, Natural Order. Erice^. Don Jl. nepal. p. 148. Subordo III. RHODORACEM. D. Don loc cit. p. 152. RHODODENDRON. Supra fol. 250. Sect. II. Azalea. Corolla basi tubulosa, infundibuliformis. Sta- mina 5. — Frutices v. Arbores, plerique deciduis; ramis piloso-hispi- dis. Folia oblonga, ovata v. elliptica, pilosa. Flores corymbosi, speci- osi, colore varii. R. sinense, siibdeciduum, foliis ellipticis acutiusculis piloso-pubes- centibus penninerviis margine ciliatis; subtus canescentibus, co- rymbis multifloris, pedunculis corollisque pubescentibus, staminibus limbum subaequantibus. Azalea sinensis. Lodd. bot. cab. t. 885. Sict. hort. brit. p. 264. a jiammeiim. Lodd. loc. cit. t. 885. /S jlavescens. Supra. Stem in our plant between two and three feet in height, branched below, and clothed with a brown bark ; branches erect, or very slightly spreading, thickly cover- ed with rigid bristle-like hairs. Leaves somewhat deci- duous, alternate, elliptic, some of them above five inches long, and two broad, attenuated a little to the base, scarcely acute, but terminated in a yellow glandular point, regularly feather -nerved underneath, the nerves branched a little within the margin, reticulately veined, densely clothed with short soft hairs on both sides, par- ticularly underneath, where they are canescent, the margins thickly fringed with short stiff hairs ; of a brown- ish green on the upper side, and pale white underneath, very soft to the touch, the midrib underneath thinly clothed with stiff yellowish bristles : upper leaves crowded close together in a sort of fascicle. Petioles short, clothed with hispid hairs, channelled on the up- per side, and rounded below. Scales at the base of the buds before the leaves expand, subpersistent, lanceolate, taper-pointed, hollow on the inside and keeled at the back, pubescent. Flowers^dle yellow, in a terminal many- flowered corymb. Bractes variable, pubescent, decidu- ous, surrounding the flowers before they expand : outer ones roundly ovate, terminated in a sharp rigid point : inner ones spathulate, and more of a membranaceous texture, the points acute, but much less sharp ; inside of the large bractes are other very narrow, nearly subu- 2 A 2 late ones. Peduncles nearly an inch long, cylindrical, clothed with a short, soft, woolly down. Calyx short, 5-cleft, pubescent, the segments short, ovate, fringed and terminated with long white hairs, the two middle ones much shorter than the two upper, and the lower one. Corolla funnel-form, clothed with a short pubescence on the outside; tube 5-angular, widening upwards: limb 5-cleft, the segments ovate, mucronulate, imbricate at the base : upper one broadest, and undulate, or curled round the margins, and spotted down the throat with light greenish spots; the other four nearly equal in size, and flat. Stamens 5, nearly equal with the segments of the corolla, when overblown slightly exserted ; filaments unequal in length, clothed with short, rigid, spreading hairs, about half way up, the upper part smooth, attach- ed to the back of the anthers : anthers two-lobed, the lobes opening in a hole at the outside near the point, for the exclusion of the white stringy pollen. Ovarium deeply 5-angled, thickly clothed with woolly hairs. Style smooth, longer than the stamens. Stigma green, capitate, hollow in the centre, papillose. We have before stated that Rhododendron and Azalea cannot be kept apart as distinct genera ; we have there- fore now given the latter as a distinct section only of the former, the only essential difference in them being the number of stamens ; and this does not even hold good, as some of the supposed varieties of Azalea indica bear ten stamens, and are therefore not different in that respect from Rhododendron; they will most probably form another distinct section of the genus ; but as the whole mule together so readily, the produce will most likely bring all the sections together. The present handsome variety has been lately imported from China, and flowered for the first time last year, at the Nursery of Mr. Tate, in Sloane Street. The present plant from which our draw- ing was made, flowered at the Nursery of Mr. Dennis, Grosvenor Row, Chelsea, this Autumn ; the whole of the flowers had a more or less petaloid appendage at the back on the inside, as an attempt to be- come double, as most probably some of the young plants from the seed of it will be : we have no doubt but it will be as hardy as the common Azalea pontica, and requires the same treatment; to be planted in peat earth or very sandy loam, and maybe increased by layers, or seeds. For the generic derivation see fol. 263. Azalea is de- rived from a^aXtoc, dry or arid, from many of the species growing wild in dry, arid situations. 1. Two of the outer Bractes. 2. Calyx. 3. Tube of the corolla split open, to show the four appendages, which appears to be an attempt to become double. 4. One of the Stamens. 5. Ovarium, terminated by the Style and Stigma. . , V , ft y.}.i . ■ . . . 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Brown prodr. 1. p. Sect. I. Stamina 4 antlmifera. DIGITALIS. Calyx 5-partitus, laciniis subingequalibus. Co- rolla campanulata, basi tubulosa, supra dilatata patens : limbo 4-5- lobo inaequali. Stamina declinata. AnthercB 2-partitaB. Capsula ova- ta acuminata, 2-locularis, valvis introflexis dissepimentum forman- tibus. — Herb® raro frutices : folia alterna ; flores spicati terminates. D. lanata f spica pyramidata densa lanata, bracteis calyce longioribus laciniisque lanceolatis, corolla3 labio inferiore porrecto oblongo ob- tuso. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 788. Digitalis lanata. Willden. sp. pi. 3. p. 287. Botan. magaz. 1159. Waldst. et Kitaib. pi. hung. 1. p. 78. t. 74. Pers. syn. 2. p. 163. Hort. Kew, ed. 2. v. 4. p. 29. Lindl. digit. 15. Perennial. Stems erect, from 2 to 4 feet high, the lower part smooth and glossy, of a pale purple, acutely angular, the angles formed by the nerve of the leaf con- tinuing down the stem. Leaves sessile, oblong, or broad- ly lanceolate, acute, strongly nerved underneath, the nerves forming furrows on the upper side ; lower ones smooth on both sides : the upper ones villous on the up- per side, and fringed. Flowers in a compact terminal spike, that is more or less of a pyramidal form ; the stem between the flowers densely clothed with long shaggy wool, as are the bractes and calyx. Bractes lanceolately acute, longer than the calyx ; the lower ones longer than the flowers; imbricate before the flowers expansion, afterwards spreading. Pedicles very short, villous . Calyx deeply 5-parted, the segments lanceolate, their points bent a little inwards, nearly equal in length, but the lower ones broadest. Corolla campanulate, tubular at the base, inflated and campanulate upwards, of a pale yellow tinged with a rust colour, and netted or marked with interrupted lifies of a darker colour, outside and inside thickly clothed with short hairs : lower lip oblong, elongated, obtuse : the upper one of 4 short blunt lobes. Stamens 4, two rather longer than the others, inserted in the mouth of the tube, the two lower ones attached to the inflated part their whole length ; upper ones distinct at the points : filaments thinly clothed with glandular hairs: anthers 2-lobed, 2-parted, the lobes spreading. Ovarium conical, densely hairy. Style hairy, the point bent downwards. Stigma slightly notched. Our drawing of this handsome species was taken from fine specimens sent to us from the collection of Messrs. Young, Nurserymen, at Epsom, where we observed a great many fine plants of them in flower last Summer. It is a handsome perennial plant, a native of Hungary, and thrives well in the open borders of the flower-gar- den, but prefers a light loamy soil, and rather a dry situation, as too much moisture is apt to rot its leaves, and sometimes will make it damp off altogether ; in very severe frost it will also be better to give it a little covering, as it may otherwise be injured, particularly if in a moist situation ; it is also a good plan to raise it frequently from seeds, as the plants are not very long- lived, and will not generally survive many years ; it is readily increased by seeds, which ripen plentifully. Digitalis is a Latin name taken from the resemblance of the flower to a sheath for the finger, or the finger of a glove, which is very remarkable in D. purpurea, and some nearly related species. 1. Calyx. 2. Corolla spread open, to show the insertion of the 4 Stamens. 3. Sta- men detached, to show the glandularly haii-y filament. 4. Ovarium, terminated by the Style and slightly notched Stigma. *' ■■ ' i .1 ' , ■ ■ ' • .' •• • ; . .v • ' ■•' !H • . ^ -.v ■•; I i ’• ' .. ■ ■ • • ; : ■ 0 :■ ' • ' ■■ -' , ' ,■' ■ 'i ■■■','»■' ' ■ kI-- • . ■ t- .;= ■ • -^ ; • ■ V ■ . iV ^. .• . ^ ■ ■■,* '■ “ . '■ . 292 GEUM Quellyon. Chile Avens, Natural Order. Rosacea. DC. prodr. 2. p. 525. Tribus V. DRY AD EM. Calyx 5-fidus (rarius 4-fidus aut pluri- divisus), per aestivationem valvatus, sa'pe extus bracteolas lobulosve exteriores lobis alternos gerens. Petala tot quot cal. lobi veri et iis alterna. Stamina numerosa, rarids 5 et tunc lobis cal. opposita, apice tubi calycini expansi inserta. Carpella plurima, rarius pauca conges- ta, toro inserta, inter se et a calyce libera, et latere prope apicem sty- lifera. Styli introrsum sulco-notati in stigma obliquum expansi. Ake- nia uniovulata omnind libera, exsucca aut baccata. Semen solitarium erectum aut inversum, exalbuminosum. Embryo rectus, cotyledones planiusculis. — Herbae aut frutices ; foliis scepius compositis, stipulis 2 lateraliter petiolo adnatis. DC. prodr. 2. p. 549. GEUM. Calyx tubus concavus, limbus 5-fidus extds 5-bracteo- latus. Petala 5. Stamina plurima. Carpella exsucca caudata in capitulum disposita. Stylo post anthesin articulato. Semen adscen- dens. — Herbae, foliis varie pinnatisectis. DC. prodr. 2. p. 550. Sect. I. Caryophyllastrum. Flores adscendentes. Calyces reflexi. Styli defiexi geniculati. Appendices plerumque stylo bre- viores. G. Quellyon, foliis caulinis superioribus trilobis ; inferioribus lyratis; radicalibiis lyrato-interrupte-pinnatis ; foliolo terminali maximo bullato-rugoso cordato-reniformi crenato : lateralibus inaequalibus subrotundis dentatis, caule erecto, floribus erectis paniculato-ra- mosis. Caryophillata foliis alatis, flore amplo coccineo, vulgo Qnellgon. Fcuill. per. et chil. 1709-10-11. p. 736. t. 27. Geum chiloense. Balbis ex DC. prodr. 2. p. 551. Geum coccineum. Lindl. Dot. reg. 1088. excl. synoti. Flor. grcec. Peremiial, growing in a close crowded tuft, produc- ing many short branches from the base, that are thickly clothed with leaves. Leaves clothed with numerous stiff hairs on both sides, of a dark green colour on the up- per side, and lighter underneath ; lower ones about a foot in length, lyrate, and interruptedly pinnate : ter- minal leaflet very large, rugged, or blistered, cordate, or kidney-shaped, slightly 5 or 7-lobed, and notched round the edges with numerous broad shallow notches, strongly nerved with numerous nerves underneath, that branch all over the leaflet ; side leaflets numerous, very unequal in size, the different sorts intermixed, some of them on short footstalks, others sessile, generally un- equal sided or oblique near the base, more or less round- ed, some of the largest slightly lobed and toothed with bluntish teeth . Petioles very hairy, and clothed with short pubescence, channelled on the upper side, and rounded on the lower, widened a little at the base. Stipules on the stem-leaves joined to the base of the petioles, ovate, acute, sometimes toothed ; none on the radical leaves, which have only a thin membranaceous wing on each side at the base. Flower-stems several, erect, panicu- lately branching, from 18 inches to 2 feet in height, leafy, clothed with a short pubescence, and longer hairs intermixed ; lower leaves on the stem lyrate, upper ones 3 to 5-lobed, trifid or 3-parted; the lobes narrower, toothed, and acute , stipules on the upper leaves ovate, or oblong, generally bifid or 2-lobed. Peduncles cylin- drical, densely hairy. Flowers of a scarlet orange-co- lour. Bractes 5, small, lanceolate, acute, alternate with the segments of the calyx. Calyx 5-cleft, the segments ovate, or broadly lanceolate, acute, reflexed, very hairy. Petals 5, nearly round, slightly notched at the end, hairy at the back, and ciliate. Stamens numerous, in- serted in the tube of the calyx \ filaments smooth, orange- coloured : anthers 2-lobed, attached to the filaments by their back. Ovarium thickly clothed with long hairs. Style jointed, purple, hairy, the upper joint bending downwards. Stigma blunt, slightly emarginate. The present beautiful species has been confused with G. coccineum of the Flora Graeca by some authors, but that is a very different plant, and is doubtless a species of Sieversi A. The present species, according to Feuillee, is a native of the sides of mountains in Chile, and has not been introduced there from Greece, as has been supposed. We are obliged to A. B. Lambert, Esq. for pointing out to us Feuil- lee’s figure and description, where its medicinal qualities are also mentioned, and a decoction of it is stated to be aperient. It makes a valuable addition to the flower-borders, thriving well in the com- mon garden soil, and is also a desirable plant for ornamenting rock- work ; it is readily increased by seeds, which ripen plentifully, or by dividing at the root. Our drawing was made last Spring, at Mr. J. Knight’s Nursery, in the King’s Boad ; our description was from a plant in the collection of B. H. Jenkinson, Esq. The generic name is derived from yivu, to give an agreeable fla- vour ; the roots possess a pleasant scent, and have been supposed, on being chewed, to correct the disagreeable taste proceeding from a disordered state of the stomach. 1. Calyx. 2. Base of the same spread open, to show the insertion of the Stamens. 3. Ovarium densely hairy, terminated by a jointed Style, and small emarginate Stigma. ■'W w "f ■ • * r/‘- •' 7. ’j) . :' • . '^■ "idi .^r.: , >■ . .'V ,.r iS'jfVy ■: .*.•■ /W. ■ ' -Xr *^'"" ir ; : J - -.;4C«'‘ j:’- ' ■....i-x"-.^ ; » . ;• , V, ' vV ; ■ '^'r V',.' : ■■• 'V'-'.'llX, j*,< i '‘.'r ’'' j-t ;. L,.?', ■»''7 ‘ ♦•' I' ■- » \r • ; 4 ■ i vT?->' • f ^A: , fi . kik' t».s r, ' t-' i 293 CHELONE Ly6ni. Lyons Ch clone. Natural Order. Scrophularin^. Kth. synops. 2. p. 110. Tribus II. Stamina 4 antherifera. CHELONE. Supra fol. 120. Sect. I. Eriandra. t.’alyx basi tribracteatus ; filameiito sterili apice g'labro : antheris lanuginosus. Sect. II. Lasiandra. Calyx basi nudus; filamento sterili sub- glabro : antheris pubescentibus. Sect. III. Lissostemon. Calyx basi nudus ; filamento sterili glabro : antheris glabris. Sect. IV. Pentstemon. Filamento sterili superne barbato ; antheris glabris. C. Zi/owi, glabriuscula ; erecta ; ramosa; foliis petiolatis cordato-ova- tis acuminatis serratis rugosis utrinque glabriusculis margine sub- ciliatis, spicis axillaribus terminalibusque densifloris, filamento ste- rili brevissimo inferne piloso. Chelone Lyoni. Pursh flor. amer. sept. 2. siipp. p. 737. Spreng. syst. veg. 2. p. 812. Siet. hort. hrit. p. 305. Chelone major. Sims hotan. magaz. 1864. creeping a little. Stems several, erect, pubescent, from 2 to 3 feet in height, or more when grown in rich light earth, branched, angular on two sides and channel- led on the two alternate ones : branches opposite, slightly angular, or nearly eylindrical, clothed with a short rough pubescence, and terminated with close crowded spikes of flowers. Leaves opposite, petiolate, cordately ovate, shortly acuminate, serrate, the teeth bent a little in- wards, rugose, or sometimes blistered, smooth on both sides, but clothed with a few short hairs, that wear off by age, of a dark glossy green on the upper side, pale or whitish underneath, or sometimes tinged with purple. Petioles deeply channelled on the upper side and keeled on the lower, connected at the base, clothed with a short rough pubescence. Spikes terminal and axillary, some- times crowded several together. Floicers large, sessile, of a pale purplish red. Bractes 3, at the base of the calyx, which they surround, roundly ovate, obtuse, con- cave inwards, pubescent, and fringed. Calyx deeply 5-parted, the segments ovate, obtuse, concave inwards, pubescent, and thickly fringed at the margins. Corolla tubular, inflated upwards, 2-lipped, slightly pubescent VOL. III. 2 B outside ; upper Up slightly notched, straight, fringed with short hairs round the edges : lower Up 3-fid, densely bearded with a dense tuft of yellow hairs, that extend down to the parting on each side, the segments nearly equal, blunt. Stamens 5, four fertile and one barren, the barren filament about half the length of the fertile ones, attached to the tube a little above the base, pale red, smooth at the point, but clothed, with long white hairs from about half-way to the base, inserted between the two shortest fertile stamens at the back ; the two front ones rather longest, all slenderest at the base and widen- ing upwards, becoming slender again where attached to the anthers, thickly clothed more than half way up with yellow hairs : anthers kidney-shaped, densely clothed with thick white wool. Ovarium smooth. Style smooth, longer than the stamens. Stigma obtuse, but scarcely capitate. From the approximation of the above sections to each other, it will be at once perceived, that Chelone and Pentstemon cannot be kept apart as distinct genera, as they are completely joined by P. erian- thera of Nuttall, (the P. glabra of Dr. Sims,) by its pubescent an- thers ; and still more so, by C. nemorosa of Mr. D. Douglas, publish- ed in the Botanical Register, pi. 1211 ; this species has the woolly anthers of Chelone, with all the other characters of Pentstemon ; but as no notice is taken of its barren filament in the account of it, we are not certain whether it is referable to our first section, or will require a distinct one by itself. The genus is now become very extensive, by the number of new species discovered in the north-west part of North America, by Mr. Douglas, and by him sent home to the Horticultu- ral Society’s Garden. We have given a figure of the present fine plant, a native of Upper Carolina and Georgia, to show one of the true species of the genus, which now forms our first section with C. glabra, and C. obliqua ; to the second section belongs C. erianthera ; to the third, C. barbata ; and also C. imberbis, and C. gentianoides, of Kunth ; and to the fourth, all the species with the bearded sterile filament, that have been re- ferred to Pentstemon. In the Botanical Magazine, it is stated, that the sterile filament is perfectly smooth ; in our specimens it is hairy about half its length. The present species succeeds well in the open borders of the flower-garden, in a rich light soil, and increases freely by dividing the root, or by seeds. Our drawing was made from a plant at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, King’s Road, Chelsea. The generic name is from ^ tortoise, the flowers of the origi- nal species bearing a strong resemblance to that animal. 1. Calyx surrounded by the. 3 bractes at the base, the Ovariurn inclosed in the calyx, and terminated by the Style, and blunt Stigma. 2. Lower lip of the Corolla, showing the 4 fertile Stamina. 3. Upper lip, showing the barren filament, hairy at the base. 4. Stamen detached, to show the woolly anther. Z94 RH AjT'Jj32J 294 CENOTHERA taraxacifolia. Danddion^leaved (Enothera. Natural Order. Onagrari^. BC. prodr. 3. p. 35. (ENOTHERA. Supra fol. 5 et 133. Sect. III. OEnotherium. Stigma quadrifidum. Antherw ob- longte. Fructus obovato-clavatus saepe octo-costatus ; valvis obova- tus. DC. prodr. 3. p. 49. Q^. taraxacifolia, caule ramoso elongate procumbente, folds alternis interrupte pinnatifidis sinuato-dentatis apice integerrimis pubescen- tibus, tube floreque longissimo, petalis maximis obovatis integris 5-nerviis, antheris stigmatibusque corolla brevioribus, capsulis ses- silibus obovatis tetragono-alatis basi cylindrico-attenuatis pubes- ceiitibus. (Enothera taraxacifolia. Hortulanorum. (Enothera grandiflora. Ruiz et Pav.Jl. per. 5. t. 318./. 0. nec alio- rum. (Enothera acaulis major. Scringe in DC. prodr. 3. p. 40. Root perennial. Stems numerous, branching from the base, trailing on the ground, and extended to a great length, sometimes above 2 feet long, of a reddish purple colour, thickly clothed with a short woolly pubescence, and longer hairs intermixed. Leaves alternate, the lower ones about a foot in length, becoming shorter and small- er upwards, interruptedly pinnatifid, undulate, pubes- cent, but much less so than in (E. acaulis ; the segments very unequal in size, large and small irregularly inter- mixed, lanceolate, or linear, some slightly toothed with small teeth, others entire ; terminal one large and elon- gated, more or less sinuate, or toothed downwards, then becoming denticulate and ending in an entire acute point. Petioles flattened on the upper side and rounded below, pubescent, more or less tinged with purple . Floiv- ers axillary, sessile, very large, white when first expand- ed, afterwards changing to a delicate pink, or blush. Calyx superior, tubular, the tube the longest in the ge- nus, those from the flowers at the bottom of the stem being nearly a foot in length, the upper ones becoming gradually shorter, 4-sided, pubescent, of a red purple, the angles green, inflated a little below the limb, and of a lighter colour : limb 4-cleft, the segments lanceolate, tapering to a subulate point, generally connected above the middle, but sometimes distinct, thickly clothed with 2 B 2 a white hairy pubescence. Petals 4, very broad, obo- vate, entire, strongly 5-nerved, and veined with smaller veins, inserted in the mouth of the tube, spreading. Sta- mens 8, every other one alternate with the petals, the others opposite, shorter than the petals : Jilaments smooth, attached to the back of the linear anthers : pollen straw- coloured, stringy. Ovarium sessile, obovate, 4-winged, cylindrical downwards, clothed with a rough pubescence, purple. Style very long, smooth, but not extending to the end of the petals. Stigma 4-cleft, the segments su- bulate, spreading. Capsule obovate, 4-winged, crowned with 4 ovate spreading fleshy segments, 4-celled, 4-val- ved, many seeded. obovate, winged. The present very handsome species is a native of Chile, and is figured and described in the Flora Peruviana of Ruiz and Pavon, under the name of CE. grandijlora, but the true (E. grandijlora is a very different plant, with yellow flowers, and belongs to a different section of the genus. Seringe, in Decandolle’s Prodromus, considers this as only a variety of (E. acaulis, of Cavanilles, from which, however, we conceive nothing need be more dis- tinct ; we have adopted the name by which it is gene- rally known in the collections about London, and which is a very characteristic one ; it may be considered as one. of the finest species of the genus, and deserves a pla:ce in every collection, as it continues to bloom from June to November, if the weather prove mild ; the last season we observed it in bloom till near Christmas, thriving well in the open borders of the flower-garden, in the common garden soil, and, in mild Winters, will require no protection ; but, in severe frost, it will need a little covering ; a flower-pot turned over it secures it very well. It may be increased by cuttings, which root readily by planting in a shady border without any covering, or by seeds, which ripen plentifully ; the best time for sowing them, is any time in April. Our drawing was made from fine specimens sent us from the collec- tion of Robert Barclay, Esq. of Bury-hill ; we also received it from Messrs. Young’s Nursery, of Epsom ; and from that of Messrs. Whit- ley, Brames, and Milne, at Fulham. For the explanation of the generic name, see fol. 268. 1. Ctilyx. 2. The 8 Stamens inserted in the mouth of the tube, the anthers at- tached by their back to the filaments. 3. Upper part of the Style terminated by a four-cleft spreading Stigma. 4. Capsule. I -■ ^ b:\^^ ^,h .'».vj., . T’ > .vt;VM .. •i‘;im^ti^it:i;-ki ■„: if^ ••r.ti ;h?i'^ /■A:xa Vi " ^ i^r^vbb ^ u-'" ^ V*'‘ i'\ 'Silo- - - ■ .-k. ^-thc: 4-- ’>"4-"*. z ..T.- (■ ' ^■• >-„. ■■>,-Ak''f'= u*7-4^i ';:b y- V.: •, z.yy . <*, i %■> ■‘'b >0,^ A-i ■kbb v'- -b ^ *■■ •'' -0 ■_,k4 *k ''.‘ 't,' * -i > ■: i 14 ptVk.,, ■?:: :'x >■ 'jff^'f'yxyyy .a -4 .v'. 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V. pulchella^ caule adscendente ramoso : ramis erectis hirsuto-pubes- centibus, foliis 3-partito-pinnatifidis hirsutis; segmentis pinnati- fido-iiicisis iiitegerrimisve lineari-lanceolatis obtusiusculis, corymbo terminali : ante anthesin capitate ; post anthesin spicato, calycibus elongatis. Stem herbaceous, or sufFruticose at the base, spread- ing, very much branched opposite, erect, slightly quadrangular, pubescent, with a few longish spreading hairs scattered amongst the short pubescence. Leaves opposite, attenuated at the base into a sort of footstalk, trifid or pinnatifid, some of the lower ones bipinnatifid, spreading, hairy, the hairs decumbent, of a dark glossy green : segments more or less divided, or the upper ones entire, linearly lanceolate, bluntish, furrowed on the upper side : bottom ones on the lower leaves pinnatifid. Flowers of a bright lilac, terminating the branches in a close, spreading corymb when in bloom ; before flowering forming a close head ; and lengthening out to a long spike after bloom. Bract es broadly lanceolate, taper-pointed, hollow at the base. Caly.v very long, tubular, bluntly 5-angular, and mem- branaceous between the angles, 5-toothed, clothed with a close short hoary pubescence : teeth subulate, un- equal, upper ones shortest. Corolla funnel-form, tubu- lar : limb 5-cleft, the segments unequal ; the two upper ones narrowest and longest, joined a good way up, ligu- late, notched at the end ; 3 lower ones nearly obcor- date, with a deep notch in their ends : tube slender, bearded in the mouth, where the stamens are inserted. Stamens 4 : two inserted about the middle of the tube : the other two just within the mouth, the filaments ex- tending beyond the anthers, and terminated in a dark club-shaped point, the anthers attached by their back. Ovarium smooth and^ glossy. Style smooth, slender. Stigma top-shaped, beaked on one side. Our drawing of this pretty species, was taken from specimens kindly sent to us by Messrs. C. J. and P. Young, from their choice collection of hardy plants at the Epsom Nursery ; they inform us that the plant was sent to them by a friend, who raised it from seed that he had received from Buenos Ayres. It appears from Sprengel’s description of V. dissecta to be nearly related to that species, a native of Chile ; but that is described as an upright plant, besides other slight differences, and from his short description it is not easy to determine the plant he means ; and as we have been informed that there are numerous species of this tribe, natives of the same country. We are inclined to believe the present to be distinct from his ; it belongs to the same division of the genus as V. Auhletia and V. Lamberti, and several others of the most beautiful species, and will prove a very ornamental plant, as its flowers are produced in succession all the Summer and till late in Autumn, thriving well in a rich light soil of the flower-borders, but will require a little covering in severe frost ; or some young plants may be grown in pots in the frames or greenhouse, and be planted into the borders in Spring; young cuttings, planted in a shady situation, will root readily ; and it may also be increased by seeds, which should be sown in April or May. Verbena was a name applied by the ancients to all sacred leaves, and other sweet herbs used to adorn the altars, and was also used for the herb vervain (Verbena officinalis), a plant formerly, and very deservedly, much noted in medicine. According to De Theis, it is an alteration of ferfaen, the Celtic name of the plant. 1. The long tubular Calyx. 2. Tube of the Corolla split open, showing the inser- tion of the four Stamens. 3 Ovarium terminated by the Style and top-shaped Stigma. / '-J. s ’ * If V ,-x< h ' a* j' * 'X f 4- 1£ Jx i 'K??: '■ 'ft. ■ Jik } , >.V ■:^^ (-. 1 ' } : i ' y. }* \ ■%f: ' '=*’ ; . •''^yy.r ■ ii ' : > J, . , . ... ; ^ =• • - ' *^'i.rv . • ■ ' t • ' . ' tr'^ . ■- -. .. , r,- v,;.' »t^- ' i '■- - r t'\ - .. ... i'^iA W »** *1 *• ., ',■ .,<■ ' V.. .,X ' ! ^ ■ iLi Mlf I n rj^ 1 V jm ® ffl \ 296 PSORALEA glandulosa Stripe-flowered Psoralen. Natural Order. Leguminos^. DC. prodr. 2. p. 293. Subordol. PAPILIONACEM.— TrihuslJ. CoTEM. fliprafol.1^9. SubtribusIII. CLITORIM. uniloculare. saepiiis diadelpha. Canles herbacei aut suffrutescentes saepe volubiles. Folia varia, priinordialia opposita inter se similia. DC. prodr. 2. p. 216. PSORALEA. Sepala 5 ad medium concreta in calycem 5-fidum persistentem, tubo saepiits glanduloso, lobis acuminatis infimo paulb productiore. Stamina 10 saepius diadelpha, decimo interdum basi cum caeteris connexa. Legumen calycis longitudine evalve mono- spermum interdum in rostrum desinens. — Frutices aut Flerbae tuher- cidis glandulosis scepius verrucosce. Folia varia, stipulis petiolo basi adnatis. Flores dispositione varii ccerulei, albidi purpurascentesve. DC. prodr. 2. p. 216. **** Peduncidis axillaribus flores laxe spicatos racemosve gererdi- bus. — Poikadeniae. Ell. P. glandulosa, glabra, foliis pinnatim trifoliolatis, foliolis ovato-lan- ceolatis acuminatis, petiolis glanduloso-scabris, racemis axillaribus pedunculatis folio longioribus. DC. prodr. 2. p. 220. Psoralea glandulosa. Linn. spec. 1075. Willden. sp. pi. 3. p. 1349. Botan. magaz. 990. Hort. Keiv. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 377. Pers. syn. 2. p. 347. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 198. Culen. Feuil. peruv. 7. t. 3. Ard. spec. 1. p. 24. 11. Molin. chil. V. 1. p. 133. Stem shrubby, erect, branching: branches erect, an- gular, striate, clothed with small glands and short r^lack hairs. Leaves pinnately ternate ; leaflets petiolatc. the terminal one at a distance from the others, ovately ceolate, taper-pointed, pennately nerved, reticu.: ly veined, smooth and glossy on the upper side, wpr. neath dotted with numerous rough dots. Petioles rowed on the upper side and rounded on the lower, c] • - thed with small glands and close-pressed black ha)i - . Flowers blue, variegated with white. Rue-scented, m axillary spike-like racemes, longer than the leaves. Pe- duncles striate, hairy and glandular. Pedicles short, ge- nerally in threes. Bractes short, ovate, acute, densely hairy, deciduous. Calyx 5-cleft, persistent, thickly clo- thed with close-pressed hairs : the lacini8e lanceolate, acute. Fej’z/toz ovately oblong, rounded, slightly emar- ginate, hollow in the middle, very much striated under- neath, sides a little reflexed, bright blue in the centre. the margins white. Wings spathulate, concave, un- equal sided, eared on one side at the base, and pro- ducing a very slender unguis on the other. Keel very short and flat, about half the length of the wings, dark blue at the point and white at the base, scarcely eared, but producing a long slender unguis. Stamens 10, nine joined in a tube, but distinct at the points, the other "“1 ' ' 1 base. Ovarium densely to- slightly hairy at the base. ascending, thickened in the bend. Stigma capitate. Our drawing was made from fine specimens commu- nicated to us by A. B. Lambert, Esq. who informs us that he has several fine shrubs of it growing in the open borders of his garden at Boyton, where they attain the height of ten or twelve feet, and produce an abundance of flowers a great part of the Summer and Autumn, and ripen their seeds ; he has also native specimens of it from Mexico and Chile, which, as well as the cultivated plants, vary considerably in the number and size of the glands, with which they are more or less covered. The following account of it is given in the English translation of Molina’s Chili. “ A great number of shrubs, from time immemorial, have been employed as efficacious medicines, by the physicians of the country. Among these is the cullen (psoralea glandulosa) well known in Europe; it is considered as a powerful vermifuge, and one of the best stomachics ; the leaves are used in infusion, and, from their aromatic taste, are by many preferred to tea, and occasionally serve as a substitute for it. This shrub is indigenous to Chili, where it grows spontaneously, and frequently attains the height of a common sized tree.” “ There is another variety, which is called the yelloiv cullen, ixom. the colour of its leaves, which, like those of the other, are disposed by threes. — Its flowers, like those of the other species, are legumi- nous, the seed solitary, and the leaves of both are vulnerary and very balsamic.” The present subject forms a very handsome shrub, when covered with its numerous racemes of flowers ; in severe winters, the upper parts of it are apt to be killed down some way by the frost, if not protected a little by a mat, or some other covering, but even then it throws up numerous flowering shoots, which soon attain a good size ; it thrives well in the common garden soil, and is readily increased by seeds. The generic name is derived from scabby, from the scaly appearance of the branches of some of the species, where the leaves are dropped off, as in P. odoratissima. 1. Calyx spread open. 2. Vexillum. 3. The two Wings. 4. Keel. 5. The distinct Stamen. 6. The 9 united Stamens. 7. Ovarium, terminated by the bent Style, and capitate Stigma. m-, ■" ■■■ 'liiv;-- ' sr.-l*:!? " I*' '.rifU atfi‘ ,*}vvb5’* ' f(fb 'i'. vl'>'rri5:.<^* ;>di ?'i':- ‘rif-'.-j ^.jf»'^' K'^- n'aVl ,oi ar.jr^\%>'\l. ^ ^n(\ i>/it ^i5 'nbifi ^^:f'f/f\'d^ vi M mr-^^ -.: ..' ... . .^, .. ■ -—Me Hmr m v>l:jfjrj'J: I’ 'ic nJj'^: ifd r^xihs^>m QJIn lnwj 1i»'h ^‘W?i| %«5Ai ••z :-Ji J. '^. flL..,^ _ .'■ j . i. . ^ •jF JL.k, ^ ... 1' , V /...‘.YA. . , *. -.4 <:./:{» 4*1. iJ\. UiUt. f d^jsi '}^ k>t^&iil . .^4%!^.’ K':M «•« ,iou»4».r i>it.r 4'cm-;>iA: 4^v*.,^«'\V‘ , it^e f.,; f ^tfl' .rt ‘'vifeibii iif&JiW ' wf 54t'f iff f *i'r. ,1 !>S,'.,.,-i.iiaL,:^4?j£l\l:.,:. 297^ -Pub % 297 ACIS rosea. Rose-coloured Acis. Natural Or del' . AMARYLLiDEiE. Brown prodr, 1. p.29Q. ACIS. Penaw/Aiw»isuperum, petaloideum, campanulatum : limbo 6-partito, regular!, apice incrassato. Stamina 6, basi laciniarum glan- dulosum inserta. Antherce 2-loculares apice dehiscentes. Stylus fili- formis. Stigma simplex, obsolete triloba. Capsula trilocularis. Se- mina carnosa, angulata. Spatha bivalvis compressa 1 aut multijlora. Foliis linearibus carnosulis. Radix bulboso. A. rosea, spatha uniflora, foliolis perianthii oblongis obtusiusculis integris margine membranaceis, foliis angusto-linearibus obtusis subglaucescentibus patulis. Acis. Salisb. in Parad. londin. 74. in obs. Leucojum roseum. Mart, ex Spreng. syst. 2. p. 48. Deslong. ex Steud. nomenc. 1. p. 476. Bulb nearly round ; from the bulb proceeds a tubular membranaceous sheath, ending in an acute point; by this the leaf and flowers are inclosed. Leaf one only, in each of our plants when in flower, erect, narrowly linear, blunt at the point, bright green, becoming some- what giaucescent afterwards, purplish at the base, ra- ther succulent, slightly hollow on the upper side and convex below, striated on the lower side, and punctate or dotted with innumerable very small white dots, that oan be scarcely seen without the aid of a lens : after flowering, several leaves are produced from each bulb, they are then flatly spreading, and remain all the Winter. Scapes from 1 to 3, flowering in succession, all single-flowered, longer than the leaves at the time of blooming, slightly angular, and longitudinally lined with numerous prominent lines, of a pale glaucous co- lour. Spathe two-valved, one-flowered, the segments filiformly linear, acute, membranaceous, more than twice the length of the pedicle. Pedicle short, smooth, striate, slightly angular, pale green. Floivers nodding, pale rose-coloured. Ovarium below the flower, three-sided, dark green. Perianthium campanulate, deeply 6-parted, but joined at the base : leaflets imbricate, oblong, entire, bluntish, and terminated in a thickened point. Stamens VOL. in. 2 c G, inserted in the base of the perianthium, on a sort of green gland ; filaments very short and slender : anthers linear, opening at the point for the exclusion of the yel- low pollen. Style filiform, slightly 3-sided, smooth. Stigma small, scarcely 3-lobed. Capsule 3-celled, seve- ral seeded. Seeds green and fleshy, angular. Our drawing of this delicate and elegant little spe- cies, was taken on the 23d of August last, at the Nur- sery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, at Fulham, when the plants were in full bloom ; the bulbs were presented to Mr. Milne by Lord Sandon, who brought them from the South of Europe, with many other rare and curious bulbs, which are now thriving in the above Nursery, and several have flowered. Our drawing of the bulb in full foliage was taken last March, there being only one leaf on the plant when in bloom, the others being produced after flowering, and continue to grow till the Summer ; three or four flowers are produced in succession, so that they continue in bloom for a consi- derable time ; in our opinion it is the prettiest species of the genus. Mr. Salisbury, in the Paradisus Londinensis, removes those species with a filiform style, and fleshy angular seeds, from Leucojum, and distinguishes them by the poetical title of Acis ; to this genus our plant belongs, as does all the autumnal flowering narrow-leaved spe- cies ; to it must be referred L. autumnale, L. hyemale, L. grandifiorum, and L. trichophyllum : the true species of Leucojum are readily distinguished by their club- shaped style, and shelly seeds ; to it belongs L. vernum, L. cEstivum, and L. pulchellum. The present plant thrives well in a light sandy soil, and appears to be of stronger growth than A. autumnalis, and its bulbs are larger, so that it is not in such danger of being lost. It must be increased by offsets from the bulbs, or by seeds, if they should ripen. Mr. Salisbury proposed for the present genus, the poetical name of Acis, a handsome Sicilian shepherd, ' the son of Faunus and the nymph Simaethis. 1. Tlie six leaflets of the Perianthium spread open, showing the green gland to which the Stamens are attached. 2. The six Stamens. 3. Ovarium, terminated by the three-sided, filiform Style, and small, slightly 3-lobed Stigma. 4. Plant after flowering, showing its spreading leaves. ■ Wv, '■> > S, t. ’-. * i. t.- ■ /'A ' 'ftk* V 298 RHEXIA ciliosa. Ciliated Rhe.via. Natural Order, Melastomace^. DC. prodr. 3. p. 99. Subordo I. MELASTOMEM. Antherae apice 1-2-porosae. Tribus 11. Rhexie^. AwMerce apice 1-porosae. Omriwm liberum apice nec squamosum nec setosum. Capsula sicca. Semina cochleata, hilo orbiculato basilari. — Species omnes (1 excepta) Americana;. DC. 1. c.p. 114. RHEXIA. Calycis tubus basi ovato-ventricosus apice in collum angustatus, limbo 4-fido persistente. Petala 4 obovata. Antherce 8 connective non perspicuo nec auriculato. Capsula in ventre calycis libera 4-locularis, placentis lunatis pedicellatis. Semina cochleata. — Herbae (Boreali-Americanae) Iceves. Caules erecti A-goni. Folia ses- silia integerrima linearia lanceolata vel ovata S-nei'via. Flores in cy~ mam corymbosam dispositi ternati purpurei aut lutei, DC. prodr. 3. p. 121. R. ciliosa, caule subquadrangulo laevi, folds subpetiolatis ovalibus subtiis glabris; supra rariter hirtellis margine ciliatis, floribus ter- nato-conglomeratis sessilibus involucratis. DC. prodr. S.p. 122. Rhexia ciliosa. Michx.Ji. bor. amer. l.p. 221. Pursh ji. amer. sept. 1. p. 258. 1. 10. Spreng. syst. 2./). 310. Phik. amalth.p. 138. t. 425.f.4. Perennial. Stems erect, from 6 to 18 inches in height, smooth and glossy, pale red, slightly quadrangular, the angles slightly winged. Leaves opposite, nearly sessile, or with very short footstalks, ovate, acute, strongly 3- nerved from the base, underneath smooth, except on the nerves, which are slightly hairy; upper side thinly hairy, the margins fringed, or slightly serrulate, with the serratures sharply and slenderly mucronate. Flow- ers terminal and solitary, or axillary in threes, accord- ing to the strength of the plant, bright purple. Flower- stems quadrangular and winged. Bractes small, ovate, acute, ciliate. Pedicles short, sometimes nearly want- ing. Calyx tubular, nearly globular at the base, thinly clothed with rigid hairs, tipped with small glands, as 2 c 2 are the petals also at the back : limb 4-cleft, the seg- ments lanceolate, acute, or sometimes bluntish, spread- ing, about half the length of the tube. Petals^, spread- ing, inserted on the border of the calyx, ovate, bright reddish purple. Stamens 8, also inserted in the mouth of the calyx: filaments smooth, yellow, tapering upwards, inserted in the back of the anthers, a little above the base : anthers bent, declining, nearly as long as the filaments, one-lobed, bursting at the point for the ex- clusion of the pollen, and bearing a small subulate spur at the base. Ovarium smooth. Style smooth, a little longer than the filaments. Stigma a small head. For the opportunity afforded us of giving a figure of this rare and beautiful species, we are obliged to Ro- bert Barclay, Esq. of Bury-hill, from whom we re- ceived it in flower in September last ; the plants were sent from America by Mr. T. Nuttall, and we are in- formed by Mr. D. Cameron, that they are more difficult to flower than R. mariana and R. virginica, and will not expand well, except covered up by glass, either a frame or hand-glasses ; from the figure in Pursh’s Flora of North America, we were at first doubtful whether ours was the same species; but by the kindness of A. B. Lambert, Esq. we were allowed to examine his specimens, some of which were precisely like ours ; the figure in Pursh’s work having been made from a very weak imperfect specimen, as stated by Nuttall in his genera of North American plants. Like the other species of the genus, the present re- quires to be planted in a sandy peat soil, and is in- creased by dividing at the root. The generic name is derived from the Greek rupture, and was used by Pliny, for a Boraginous plant, said to be good for the cure of rupture ; the present ge- nus to which it is applied, is not possessed of any such virtue. 1. Calyx. 2. The same spread open, showing the insertion of the eight Stamens, the anthers each bearing a small subulate spur at the base. 3. Ovarium, termi- nated by the Style and small capitate Stigma. I !' ^ ! ■ ■ ^ ' _” v» ' ■ ’■:-* •f y } ( . . . M'. * ’I y va- Iv i < . ■>-•:. ■'> •’■►v/ I'M, (W. -D'H y// -* .^'' ■' • ■. '■.. l!:// f {. i-: V ■ ' . ' ',*>f • -• . ''v - I . .-" '■ ‘A ■ ,?=- :-.a .T'H '- ■ -V^v ‘ -r, - • ■_ ..i'-:" „• •;'r .-'■ <--:t ‘ ■ '''■„•. y ‘ ' •<■/ ' ' . ' ' ' ;. > ■ T'i- ■ it- IV 'J 'K J ‘ ■■:■ ''J '■ ' y‘‘''-‘ ■' y '' .\i ,, i' :> i-i . 5 *) ■ ’ 'P f '• M V ^'t- t = i ‘ I > y :■ • ...•n^r> ' ..-« 'iO. .7,H‘ cri ji i^-'i*:-* '* y ■ '''•*;■? ;■»— .•■ '-'• ♦i' ■'■ '‘'- r . , , . f»r, . .1* . . ... .. - S - r , i: , Z99. JnTj,ZhJ)e2^ IPk&Z^ZZ-Jc^ \ \ V 299 ORCHIS sambucina. Elder- scented Orchis, Natural Order, OrchidEjE. Brown prodr, J). ^09. Sect. I. MONANDRJE. Anthera adnata subterminalis persistens. Pollinis massce e lobulis angulatis elastice cohaerentibus : basiaffixae. Brown Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. p, 188. ORCHIS. Supra fol. 65. * Radice tuherosa palmata, — ff Lahello diviso. O. sambucina f labello leviter trilobo crenato : lobo medio angustiori, foliolis perianthii patulis obtusiusculis, ovarium cornu conicum sub- aequante, bracteis lanceolatis flore paulo longioribus. Orchis sambucina. Willden. sp, pi. 4. p. 31. Jacq. aust. 2. t, 108. Flor. dan. 1. 1232. Pers. syn. 2. p. 505. Spreng. syst, 3. p, 688. Swt, hort, brit, p. 382. n, 21. Root fleshy, flattish, forked at the bottom, each fork slightly cloven in our plant ; above the root are several long fleshy fibres, which nourish the plant for the pre- sent year. Leaves several, broadly lanceolate, bluntish, channelled on the upper side and keeled underneath, longitudinally lined, smooth and glossy, those on the stem narrower and more acute. Scape erect, leafy, an- gular, smooth. Spike terminal, several-flowered. Brac- tes lanceolate, scarcely acute, a little longer than the flowers, smooth, channelled on the upper side and keel- ed underneath, of a pale green colour. Flowers pale yellow. Ovarium angular, twisted, about the length of the spur. Perianthium leaflets straw-coloured, bluntish ; two outer side ones rather narrowest and spreading or slight- ly reflexed, the others broader and connivent, a little arched over. Lahellum broadish, slightly 3-lobed, and crenulate, side lobes rounded, the middle one small and narrow, entire, not emarginate. Spur conical, a little inflated, about the length of the ovarium, pale yellow. Pollen-masses pedicled, brown, the pedicles seated on a gland, and inclosed within a membranaceous hood. Our drawing of this pretty plant was made last May at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, who imported several roots of it from Switzerland, sent by Mr. Schleicher, of Bex, with several other species of Orchidese ; the present species thrives well in a rich loamy soil, rather moist, and would doubtless succeed well in the same situation as the common British O. latifolia, to which it is nearly related, and might, we think, be naturalized, by being planted in a meadow where that species abounds. It will also thrive well in a border of the gar- den, in a rich loamy soil ; but there it will not be so likely to increase, as the seeds of Orchideous plants seldom vegetate in the gardens ; or if they do, they soon die off again, most probably from want of the grass, or other vegetalDles, either living or in a decomposed state, for the young roots to feed on, as the whole tribe is more or less inclined to be parasitical. The generic name is derived from opx^c, in allusion to the oval fleshy roots, of the greater part of the species. 1. The twisted Ovarium, terminated by the three outer leaflets of the Perian- thium. 2. The two inner leaflets. 3. Spur. 4. The 3-lobed Labellum. 5. The two Pollen masses pedicled, and seated on a little gland at the base; the hood in which they were inclosed open, to show from whence they have escaped. . '>v. X,:'i^..',^ -i «/ ■‘ M .’■f- »f . ' U. • ' ^’ •'W'^ ' V %■ '■ '■'■ ;•*.*■' •"**■ ■■■, ,-. ’ ft ,/ . ‘^'riJ ■ '■i> 1'V\ • '• ■%■'" - ■ ■'*; «»^<^ ' m- ' t -’ifp'i ■ •^‘'- */ ' '.1 '' '»■'“■ fe' :.: - /M*''':<«>+!*«'i''v^'''y»!'.s ■: •"' :^ tN' ■ /r '". i ■ / , -iit _ i't" ■ 1 :■ ■■ w ../i!-\-^ W: ;m^ K'^' ^ ‘ - ’Ji . ^4. .. <-^ >.v •'P ' skL*' C*. ■f'ii^^nBH i;i ' ** SSS^ r^ .. I- ' ‘V 'w- IBriW\» ' VH p I'feJji^'' Vi .-!:<.„> »-■:■■ ■ ■ i^;./v v'j ■; rW;:'-' '- ‘«5i 'l^V ■' u. 0 ;'4^.5k y:'-i./‘^V'.5.Sy'-- wSaT- C.14lil>U. - - V ., ;- , r.^'4.. J■.4•■ <' . I-*.'' ', vv,, 4' ^--i- , ./- y, ■■ 'Zit' • ‘ ' JOO. 300 SPATALANTHUS speciosus. Beautiful Ribbon Flower, Natural Order. Iride^. J5row/i joroc?r. 1. p. 302. SPA TALANTHUS. Spatlia rigida, terminalis, uniflora, bivalvis : valvis convoluto-lanceolatis, conduplicato-oppositis integris. Peri- anthium patens: tuhus brevissimus : limbus sexpartitus, regularis ; laciniis subaequalibiis. Stamina 3. Filamenta brevia, in tubum con- nata. Antherce oblongo-sagittatae. Ovarium subrotundum, apice ver- rucosum. Stigmata 3, plana, apice bifurcata. — Radix hulbo-tuber sub- rotundo-ovatum, basi oblique depressum, tunicis crustaceo-coriaceis at fere putamineis vestitum, Jibram principalem crassam subfusiforruem demittens. Folia plura^ subjiliformi-clavata acuta, basi dilatata va~ ginantia. Scapi unijlori, foliis breviori. Flores rubri, striati, stellato- variegati. Spatalantlius speciosus. Supra fol. 100. Trichonema monadelphum. Swt. hort. brit.p. 399. Root a bulb-tuber, of a roundish oval, clothed with a shelly fibrous net- work, somewhat obliquely depressed at the base, where it produces numerous fibrous roots. Leaves several, erect, from 4 to 6 inches in length, di- lated and sheathing each other at the base, where they are longitudinally striated with numerous small lines, becoming slender and nearly filiform above the sheath, slightly thickening upwards, till they appear somewhat club-shaped a little below the point, which then be- comes abruptly acute; the outer ones only producing the sheathy part, and have more the appearance of bractes. Scapes or flower-stalks much shorter than the leaves, erect, flowering in succession, smooth and slen- der. terminal, rigid, 2-valved, 1 -flowered; the valves opposite, lanceolate, acute, green, with whitish margins, folded inwards before the flowers expand, one a little longer and more acute than the other. Flower very handsome, spreading open like a star when fully expanded, of a bright coppery red, marked from the base with a handsome star of yellow and black : tube very short, or scarcely any : limb deeply 6-cleft, regu- larly-spreading: the segments ovately lanceolate or elliptical, acute, every other one broadest, marked at the back with from 3 to 5 longitudinal straw-colour stripes, that are pennately veined, and all connected at the point ; those show faintly through to the inside, which is of a bright red, tinged with copper, each iharked at the base with a yellow patch, in which is a broken black spear-shaped mark. Stamens 3, erect ; filaments black, connected all their length into a short tube : anthers oblongly linear, somewhat bluntly sagit- tate at the base. Ovarium 6-lined, warted on the angles near the top. Style filiform, smooth, terminated by three flat ligulate Stigmas, that are forked at the points. The present splendid subject is the production of one of the bulbs that was brought from, the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. Synnot, and flowered at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, where our drawing was made. Mr. Synnot observed that it was a very rare bulb, and that he had very few of them ; two of them flowered at Mr. Colvilks soon after they were planted, but did not perfect any seed, which would have been desirable ; we have there- fore waited till the present time before we published it, in hopes of seeing it flov^er again, and hoping it might ripen its seed ; but it has not flowered since : we have no doubt but it will form a distinct genus from any al- ready published, differing from Tridionema, to which it is nearest in habit, by its monadelphous stamens, and very different stigmas, and probably also by its seeds ; and we know no other genus with which we need com- pare it. The best soil to grow it in is a mixture of light turfy loam, peat, and sand ; and it may be grown in pots and kept in a frame or pit, or in the greenhouse, or be planted in a warm border with other Cape bulbs, and covered with mats or any other light covering in frosty weather. The generic name is derived from aTraraXoc, adorned with ribbons, and av0oc, a flower. 1. Spatha, showing the two valves that inclose the flower. 2. The three Stamens, the filaments connected all their length. 3. Ovarium, terminated by the Style, and three Stigmas. 1 SYSTEMATICAL INDEX TO VOLUME III. F. 1 Pulsatilla vernalis 205 2 Aquilegia alpina 218 3 Magnolia Soulangeana 260 4 Papaver alpinum 247 5 Argemone ochroleuca 242 6 Argemone grandiflora 226 7 Hunnemannia fumariaefolia 276 8 Esclischoltzia californica 265 9 Hypecoum prociimbens 217 10 Aubrietia purpurea 207 11 Moricandia arvensis 278 12 Viola pubescens 223 13 Dianthus giganteus 288 14 Dianthus Fischeri 245 15 Hibiscus moscheutos 286 16 Hibiscus roseus 277 17 Tropaeolum tricolorum 270 18 Piptanthus nepalensis 264 19 Psoredea gland ulosa 296 20 Galega persica 244 21 Amorpha fragrans 241 22 Caragana frutescens 227 23 Latbyrus ampliicarpos 236 24 Platystylis cyanea 239 25 Orobus Fischeri 289 26 Wisteria chinensis 211 27 Lupinus canaliculatus 283 28 Lupinus tomentosus 261 29 Erythrina crista-galli 214 30 Geum Quellyon 292 31 Potentilla Russelliana 279 32 (Enothera roseo-alba 268 33 CEnothera taraxacifolia 294 34 CEnothera speciosa 253 35 Heimia salicifolia 281 I 36 Rhexia ciliosa 298 37 Scyphanthus clegans 238 38 Claytonia caroliniana 208 39 Claytonia grandiflora 216 40 Echeveria grandifolia 275 41 Gastrocarpha runcinata 229 42 Nocca latifolia . . 215 43 Ampherephis intermedia 225 44 Aster patens 234 45 Podolepis gracilis 285 46 Diplocoma villosa 246 47 Cineraria aurantiaca 256 48 Siegesbeckia droseroides 203 49 Georgina crocata 282 50 Bidens striata s . 237 F. 5 1 Lobelia Tupa 284 52 Campanula dichotorna 280 53 Rhododendron arboreum 250 54 Rhododendron Gowenianum .... 263 55 Rhododendron sinense B Jiavescens 290 56 Polemonium villosum 266 57 Phlox odorata 224 58 Phlox scabra 248 59 Phlox pyramidalis 233 60 Phlox reflexa 232 61 Phlox canadensis 221 62 Gilia capitata 287 63 Nicotiana noctiflora 262 64 Salpiglossis straminea 231 65 Salpiglossis picta 258 66 Salpiglossis atropurpurea 271 67 Digitalis lanata 291 68 Chelone Lyoni 293 69 Chelone atropurpurea 235 70 Chelone rosea 230 71 Collinsia verna 220 72 Cunila mariana 243 73 Horminum pyrenaicum 252 74 Leonurus sibiricus 204 75 Verbena pulchella 295 76 Verbena sororia 202 77 Primula glaucescens 254 78 Taxanthema incana 272 79 Rheum australe 269 80 Orchis longicornu 249 81 Orchis coriophora 219 82 Orchis sambucina 299 83 Ophiys iutea 205 84 Cypripedium spectabile. a et /3. 240 85 Cypripedium arietinum 213 86 Iris tridentata 274 87 Iris caucasica 255 88 Herbertia pulchella 222 89 Spatalanthus speciosus 300 90 Streptanthera elegans 209 91 Acis rosea 297 92 Alstroemeria Simsii 267 93 Alstroemeria hirtella 228 94 Trillium erythrocarpum 212 95 Muscari macrocarpum 210 96 Muscari pallens 259 97 Allium neapolitanum 201 98 Cummingia campanulata 2o7 99 Yucca puberula 251 100 Cyclobothra barbata 273 2 D 2 ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO VOLUME III. F. Acis rosea 297 Allium neapolitanum 201 Alstroemeria hiitella 228 Alstreemeria Simsii 267 Amorpha fragrans 241 Ampherepbis intermedia 225 Aquilegia alpina 218 Argemone grandiflora 226 Argemoiie ocliroleuca 242 Aster patens 234 Aubrietia purpurea 207 Bidens striata 237 Campanula dichotoma 280 Caragana frutescens 227 Chelone atropurpurea 235 Chelone Lyoni 293 Chelone rosea 230 Cineraria aurantiaca 256 Claytonia caroUniana 208 Claytonia grandiflora 216 Collinsia verna 220 Cummingia campanulata 257 Cunila mariana 243 Cyclobotlira bavbata 273 Cypripedium arietinum 213 Cypripedium spectabile 240 Dianthus Fischeri 245 Dianthus giganteus 288 Digitalis lanata 291 Diplocoma villosa 246 Echeveria grandifolia 275 Erytlirina crista-galli 214 Eschscholtzia californica 265 Galega persica 244 Gastrocarpha runcinata 229 Georgina crocata 282 Geum Quellyon 292 Gilia capitata 287 Heimia salicifolia 281 Herbertia pulchella 222 Hibiscus moscheutos 286 Hibiscus roseus 277 Horminum pyrenaicum 252 Hunnemannia fumarizefolia 276 Hypecoum procumbcns 217 Iris caucasica 255 Iris tridentata 274 Lathyrus amphicarpos 236 Leonurus sibiricus 204 Lobelia Tupa 284 F. Lupinus canaliculatus 283 Lupinus tomentosus 261 Magnolia Soulangeana 260 Moricandia arvensis 278 Muscari macrocarpum 210 Muscari pallens 259 Nicotiana noctlflora 262 Nocca latifolia 215 Oenothera roseo-alba 268 (Enothera speciosa 253 (Enothera taraxacifolia 294 Ophi-ys lutea 206 Orchis coriophora 219 Orchis longicornu 249 Orchis sambucina 299 Orobus Fischeri : 289 Papaver alpinum 247 Phlox canadensis 221 Phlox odorata 224 Phlox pyramidalis 233 Phlox reflexd 232 Phlox scabra 248 Piptanthus nepalensis 264 Platystylis cyanea 239 Podolepis gracilis 285 Polemonium villosum 266 Potentilla Russelliana 279 Primula glaucescens 254 Psoralea glandnlosa 296 Pulsatilla vernalis 205 Rheum australe 269 Rhexia ciliosa 298 Rhododendron arboreum 250 Rhododendron Gowenianum 263 Rhododendron sinense (3 Jlavescens. . 290 Salpiglossis atropurpurea 271 Salpiglossis picta 258 Salpiglossis straminea 231 Scyphanthus elegans 238 Siegesbeckia droseroides 203 Spatalanthus speciosus 300 Streptanthera elegans 209 Taxanthema incana 272 Trillium erythrocarpum 212 Tropaeolum tricolorum 270 Verbena pulchella 295 Verbena sororia 202 Viola pubescens 223 Wisteria chinensis 211 Yucca puberula 251 ALPHABETICAL ENGLISH INDEX TO VOLUME III. F. Acis, rose-coloured 297 Adam’s-needle, pubescent- stemmed 251 Alstroemeria, li airy-leaved 228 Alstroemeria, Sims’s baity 2G7 Ampherephis, intermediate 225 Argemone, large-flowered 226 Argemone, straw-coloured 242 Aubrietia, purple-flowered 207 Avens, Chile 292 Bastard Indigo, fragrant 241 Bell-flower, forked 280 Bidens, striped-flowered 237 Bitter- Vetch, Fischer’s 289 Caragana, shrubby 227 Chelone, dark purple 235 Chelone, Lyon’s 293 Chelone, rose-coloured 230 Cineraria, orange-coloured 256 Cinquefoil, Russell’s hybrid 279 Claytonia, large-flowered 216 Claytonia, spatula-leaved 208 Collinsia, vernal 220 Columbine, alpine « . 218 Coral-tree, cock’s-comb 214 Cummingia, Hyacinth-flowered . . 257 Cup-flower, elegant 238 Cyclobothra, bearded 273 Diplocoma, villous 246 Echeveria, largest-leaved 275 Eschscholtzia, Mr. Menzies’ 265 Foxglove, woolly 291 Gastrocarpha, Turnep-leaved 229 Georgina, saffi on-coloured 282 Gilia, tufted-flowered 287 Goat’s- Rue, Persian 244 Heimia, Willow-leaved 281 Herbertia, plaited-leaved 222 Hibiscus, musky swamp 286 Hibiscus, rose-coloured 277 Horminum, Pyrenean 252 Hunnemannia, Fumitoiy-leaved .. 276 Hypecoum, procumbent 217 Indian Cress, three-coloured 270 Iris, Caucasean 255 Iris, three-toothed 274 Ladies-slipper, ram’s-head 213 Ladies-slipper, showy 240 Lathyrus, subterranean, or Earth Pea 236 Lobelia, Mullein-leaved 284 Lupine, channelled-leaved 283 F. Lupine, woolly, various-coloured . . 261 Lychnidea, blue Canadian 221 Lychnidea, pyramidal 233 Lychnidea, reflexed-leaved .... 232 Lychnidea, rough-leaved 248 Lychnidea, sweet-scented 224 Magnolia, Soulange-Bodin’s 260 Moly, Neapolitan 201 Moricandia, corn-field 278 Mothemort, Siberian 204 Mountain Dittany, mint-leaved . . 243 Muscari, large-capsuled 210 Muscari, pale 259 Nocca, broad-leaved 215 QLnothera, Dandelion-leaved 294 QLnothera, handsome white 253 (Enothera, rose and white 268 Ophrys, yellow-flowered 206 Orchis, bug-scented 219 Orchis, Elder-scented 299 Orchis, long flat-spurred 249 Pasque-flower, spring 205 Pink, Fischer’s 245 Pink, gigantic 288 Piptanthus, Nepaul 264 Platystylis, blue -flowered 239 Podolepis, branched 285 Pol emonlum, dwarf hairy 266 Poppy, alpine 247 Primrose, glaucescent-leaved 254 Psoralea, striped-flowered 296 Rhexia, ciliated 298 Rhododendron, Mr. Gowen’s 263 Rhododendron, pale yellow Chinese 290 Rhododendron, scarlet-flowered tree 250 Rhubarb, officinal 269 Ribbon-flower, beautiful 300 Salpiglossis, deep-purple-flowered . . 271 Salpiglossis, painted 258 Salpiglossis, straw-coloured 231 Sea Lavender, hoary 272 Siegesbeckia, Sundew-like 203 Starwort, spreading haiiy-stalked . . 234 Streptanthera, elegant 209 Tobacco, night-flowering 262 Trillium, red-fruited 212 Vervain, Nepaul 202 Vervain, pretty 295 Violet, downy 223 Wisteria, Chinese 211 4 GENERAL SYSTEMATICAL INDEXES TO VOLUMES I. II. AND III. F. 1 Pulsatilla vernalis. v. 3 205 2 Anemone stellata /3 V. 2. 112 3 Ranunculus monspeliacus. V. 1. . . 94 4 Helleborus duinetorum. v. 2. . . . . 109 5 Aquilegia alpina. v. 3 218 6 Delphinium pictum. V. 2 123 7 Aconitum barbatum. v. 2 164 8 Paeonia lobata. V. 1 70 9 Paeonia Russi. v. 2 122 10 Paeonia paradoxa )S^m6nata. V. 1. 19 11 Paeonia villosa. v. 2 113 12 Magnolia Soulangeana. V. 3 260 13 Papaver alpinum. v. 3 247 14 Papaver horridum. v. 2 173 15 Papaver setigerum. v. 2 172 16 Argemone ocliroleuca. V. 3 242 17 Argemone grandifiora. v. 3 226 18 Glaucium tulvum. v. 1 35 19 Hunnemannia fumariaefolia. v. 3. 276 20 Eschscholtzia californica. v. 3. . . 265 21 Hypecoum procumbens. v. 3 217 22 Adlumia cirrhosa. V. 2 189 23 Mathiola tricuspidata. v. 1 46 24 Aubrietia purpurea, v. 3 207 25 Schivereckia podolica. v. 1 77 26 Iberis Tenoreana. v. 1 88 27 Iberis odorata. v. 1 50 28 Malcomia Chia. v. 1 40 29 Malcomia littorea. v. 1 54 30 Hesperis fragrans. v. 1 61 31 Moricandia arvensis. v. 3 278 32 Viola pedata. v. 1 69 33 Viola lanceolata. V. 2 174 34 Viola pubescens. v. 3 223 35 Viola eriocarpa. v. 2 102 36 Erpetion reniforme. v. 2 170 37 Dianthus latifoliiis. V. 1 2 38 Dianthus giganteus. v. 3 288 39 Dianthus Fischeri. v. 3 245 40 Silene vespertina. v. 1 58 41 Silene alpestris v. 2 Ill 42 Silene picta. v. 1 92 43 Linum alpinum. v. 1 17 44 Malope trilida. v. 2 153 45 Malva mauritiana. V. 1 81 46 Hibiscus moscheutos. v. 3 286 47 Hibiscus roseus. v. 3 277 48 Nuttallia digitata. V. 2 129 49 Tropaeolum tricolorum. v. 3 270 50 Impatiens biflora, v. 1 43 F. 51 Piptanthus nepalensis. v. 3 264 52 Baptisia exaltata. v. 1 97 53 Psoralea glandulosa. v. 3 296 54 Anthyllis montana. v. 1 79 55 Galega persica. v. 3 244 56 Galega biloba. v. 2 159 57 Amorpha fragrans. v. 3 241 58 Caragana frutescens. v. 3 227 59 Astragalus tenuifolius. v. 1 73 60 Coronilla iberica. v. 1 25 61 Lathyrus mutabilis. V. 2 194 62 Lathyrus amphicarpos v. 3 236 63 Platystylis cyanea. v. 3 239 64 Orobus Fischeri. v. 3 289 65 Orobus albus. v. 1 22 66 Wisteria chinensis. V. 3 211 67 Lupinus canaliculatus. v. 3 283 68 Lupinus mutabilis. v. 2 130 69 Lupinus tomentosus. v. 3 261 70 Erythrina crista-galli. V. 3 214 71 Erythrina laurifolia. v. 2 142 72 Geum Quellyon. v. 3 292 73 Potentilla atrosanguinea. v. 2. . . 124 74 Potentilla Russelliana. V. 8 279 75 Potentilla formosa. v. 2 136 76 Potentilla splendens. v. 2 191 77 CEnothera serotina. v. 2 184 78 CEnothera tenella. v. 2 167 79 CEnothera serrulata. V. 2 133 80 CEnothera roseo-alba. v. 3 268 81 CEnothera taraxacifolia. v. 3. . . 294 82 CEnothera speciosa. v. 3 253 83 CEnothera macrocarpa. V. 1 5 84 Lopezia coronata. v. 2 108 85 Lythrum diffusum. v. 2 149 86 Cuphea viscosissima. v. 1. 60 87 Heimia salicifolia. V. 3 281 88 Rhexia mariana /3 nffeciia. v. 1. 41 89 Rhexia ciliosa. v. 3 298 90 Passiflora Colvillii. v. 2 126 91 Blumenbachia insignis. v. 2 171 92 Scyphanthus elegans. v. 3 238 93 Claytonia sibirica. V. 1 16 94 Claytonia caroliniana. v. 3 208 95 Claytonia grandifiora. v. 3 216 96 Echeveria grandifolia. v. 3 275 97 Saxifraga ligulata. V. 1 59 98 Luculia gratissima. v. 2 145 99 Richardsonia scabra. v. 1 91 100 Patrinia scabiosaefolia. V. 2 154 5 GENERAL SYSTEMATICAL INDEXES TO VOLUMES I. II. and III. 101 Gastrocarplia runcinata. v. 3. . . 102 Carduus ^atus. v. 2 103 Erythrolaena conspicua. v. 2. . • 104 Centaurea suaveolens. V. 1 105 Nocca latifolia. v. 3 106 Ampherephis intermedia, v. 3. . . 107 Liatris spicata. v. 1 108 Liatris sphaeroidea. v. 1 109 Liatris squarrosa. v. 1 110 Ammobium ala turn. v. 1 111 Aster patens, v. 3 112 Podolepis gracilis, v. 3 113 Diplocoma villosa. v. 3 114 Ageratum mexicanum. v. 1 115 Cineraria aurantiaca. v. 3 116 Tagetes corymbosa. v. 2 117 Tagetes tenuifolia. v. 2 118 Siegesbeckia droseroides. v. 3. . . 119 Riidbeckia pinnata. v. 2 120 Rudbeckia liirta. v. 1 121 Rudbeckia serotina. v. 1 122 Georgina crocata. v. 3 123 Coreopsis grandiflora. v. 2 124 Coreopsis lanceolata. v. 1 125 Coreopsis tinctoria. v. 1 126 Bidens striata, v. 3 127 Galinsogea trilobata. v. 1., 128 Calendula hybrida. v. 1 1 29 Chrysanthemum tripartitum.v. 2. 130 Chrysanthemum sinense. v.invo- lutum, V. 1 131 Chrysanthemum sinense. v.fasci- culatum. V. 1 132 Lobelia Tupa. v. 3 133 Lobelia inflata. v. 1 134 Adenophora coronopifolia. v. 2. 135 Adenophora denticulata. v. 2. . . 136 Campanula dichotoma. v. 3 137 Rhododendron arboreum. v. 3. . . 138 Rhododendron Gowenianum.v.3. 139 Rhododendron sinense. /3 Jiaves- cens. V. 3 140 Gonolobus hirsutus. v. 1 141 Asclepias verticillata. v. 2 142 Gentiana crinita. v. 2 143 Erythraea aggregata. v. 2 144 Polemonium villosum. v. 3 145 Polemonium sibiricum. v. 2 146 Phlox odorata. V. 3 147 Phlox scabra. v. 3 148 Phlox Carolina, v. 2 149 Phlox triflora. V. 1 150 Phlox pyramidalis. v. 3 151 Phlox reflexa. v. 3 152 Phlox canadensis, v. 3 153 Phlox nivalis, v. 2 154 Gilia capitata. v. 3 155 Calystegia renifbrmis. v. 2 F. 229 103 134 51 215 225 49 87 44 48 234 285 246 89 256 151 141 203 146 82 4 282 175 10 72 237 56 39 193 7 14 284 99 104 116 280 250 263 290 1 144 139 137 266 182 224 248 190 29 233 232 221 185 287 181 156 Ipomoea barbigera. V. 1 157 Dinetus racemosus. v. 2 158 Cuscuta verrucosa, v. 1 159 Lithospermum davuricum. v. 2. 160 Echium australe. v. 2 161 Nemophila phacelioides. V. 1. .. 162 Verbascum pyramidatum. v.l.. . 163 Hyoscyamus agrestis. v. 1 164 Hyoscyamus physaloides. v. 1. . . 165 Hyoscyamus orientalis. v. 1 166 Nicotiana glutinosa. v. 2 167 Nicotiana noctiflora. v. 3 168 Petunia nyctaginiflora. v. 2. 169 Salpiglossis straminea. v. 3 170 Salpiglossis picta. V. 3 171 Salpiglossis atropurpurea. v. 3.. . 172 Datura Tatula. V. 1 173 Whitleya stramonifolia. V. 2 174 Saracha umbellata. V. 1 175 Mandragora preecox. V. 2 176 Dodartia orientalis. v. 2 177 Linaria bipartita, v. 1 178 Digitalis lanata. v. 3 179 Chelone Lyoni. v. 3 180 Chelone digitalis, v. 2 181 Chelone atropurpurea. v. 3 182 Chelone rosea, v. 3 183 Collinsia verna. v. 3 184 Mazus rugosus. v. 1 185 Pedicularis canadensis, v. 1 186 Schizanthus pinnatus. v. 1 187 Schizanthus porrigens. v. 1 188 Wulfeniacarinthiaca. v. 1 189 Veronica neglecta. v. 1 190 Veronica latifolia. v. 1 191 Cunila mariana. v. 3 192 Monarda media, v. 1 193 Monarda Russelliana. v. 2 194 Salvia interrupta. V. 2 195 Salvia nubicola. v. 2 196 Salvia Tenorii. v. 1 197 Horminum pyrenaicum. v. 3. . . 198 Dracocephalum speciosum. v. 1. 199 Dracocephalum argunense. v. 1. 200 Dracocephalum canescens. v. 1. 201 Scutellaria altaica. v. 1 202 Scutellaria alpina. v. 1 203 Scutellaria Columnae. V. 1 204 Stachys angustifolia. v. 2 205 Stachys sibirica. v. 1 206 Leonurus sibiricus. v. 3 207 Leonurus heterophyllus. v. 2. . . 208 Phlomis pungens. v. 1 209 Phlomis laciniata. V. 1 210 Verbena pulchella. v. 3 211 Verbena sororia. v. 3 212 Cyclamen vemum. v. 1 213 Cyclamen europaeum, v. 2 86 127 6 121 101 32 31 27 13 12 107 262 119 231 258 271 83 125 85 198 147 30 291 293 120 235 230 22Q 3& 67 63 76. 66, 55 23 243 98 166 169 140 26 252 93 47 38 45 90 52 180 100 204 197 33 24 295 202 9 176 6 GENERAL SYSTEMATICAL INDEXES TO VOLUMES I. II. and III. 214 Cyclamen repandum. v. 2 215 Soldanella montana. V. 1 216 Primula praenitens7aZ6i^ora.v.2. 217 Primula Palinuri. v. 1 218 Primula glaucescens. v. 3 219 Lysimachia verticillata. v. 1 220 Anagallis indica. v. 2 221 Globularia vulgaris, v. 1 222 Globularia cordifolia. v. 1 223 Taxanthema speciosa. v. 2 224 Taxanthema tatarica. V. 1 225 Taxanthema incana. v. 3 226 Oxybaphus Cervantesii. v. 1. . . 227 Rheum australe. v. 3 228 Daphne hybrida. v. 2 229 Asarum canadense. v. 1 230 Asarum virginicum. v. 1 231 Orchis longicornu. v. 3 232 Orchis militaris. v. 2 233 Orchis Rivini. v. 2 234 Orchis coriophora. v. 3 235 Orchis sambucina. v. 3 236 Orchis Schleicheri. v. 2 237 Orchis spectabilis. v. 1 238 Aceras anthropophora. v. 2 239 Habenaria bracteata. v. 1 240 Ophrys lutea. v. 3 241 Neottiacernua. v. 1 242 Calopogon pulchellus. v. 2 243 Cypripedium parviflorum. v. 1. 244 Cypripedium pubescens. v. 1. . . 245 Cypridedium spectabile. a et /3 v. 3 246 Cypripedium arietinum. v. 3. . . 247 Iris hungarica. V. 1 248 Iris tridentata. v. 3 249 Iris verna. v. 1 250 Iris haematophylla. v. 2 251 Iris dichotoma. v. 1 252 Iris caucasica. v. 3 253 Moraea Tenoreana. v. 2 254 Herbertia pulchella. v. 3 255 Homeria lineata. v. 2 256 Homeriai miniata. v. 2 F. 117 11 196 8 254 21 132 20 34 105 37 272 84 269 200 95 18 249 163 162 219 299 199 65 168 62 206 42 115 80 71 240 213 74 274 68 118 96 255 110 222 178 152 F. 257 Spatalanthus speciosus. v. 3. . . 300 258 Ren ealmia gran diflora. V. 1 64 259 Ferraria uncinata. v. 2 161 260 Ferraria divaricata. v. 2 192 261 Ferraria obtusifolia. v. 2 148 262 Tigridia concbiiflora. v. 2 128 263 Lapeyrousia anceps. v. 2 14§ 264 Gladiolus viperatus. v. 2 156 265 Gladiolus alatus, v. 2 187 266 Gladiolus Colvillii. v. 2 155 267 Synnotia variegata. v. 2 150 268 Sparaxis versicolor, v. 2 160 269 Streptanthera elegans. v. 3 209 270 G eissorhiza vaginata. V. 2 138 271 Crocus pusillus. v. 2 106 272 Narcissus tenuifolius. v. 2 114 273 Acis rosea, v. 3 297 274 Alstrcemeria Simsii. v. 3 267 275 Alstrcemeria hirtella. v. 3 228 276 Hemerocallis disticha. V. 1 28 277 Trillium erythrocarpum. v. 3. . . 212 278 Eremurus spectabilis. v. 2 188 279 Gagea bracteolaris. v. 2 158 280 Gagea glauca. v. 2 177 281 Hyacinthus amethystinus. v. 2. 135 282 Muscari macrocarpum. v. 3. . . 210 283 Muscari pallens. v. 3 259 284 Muscari botiyoides. a. (3. y. v. 1. 15 285 Lachenalia anguinea. v. 2 179 286 Allium neapoUtanum. v. 3 201 287 Cummingia campanulata. v. 3. . . 257 288 Yucca acuminata, v. 2 195 289 Yucca puberula. v. 3 251 290 Yucca glaucescens. v. 1 53 291 Tulipa turcica, v. 2 186 292 Tulipa praecox. v. 2 157 293 Tulipa pubescens. v. 1 78 294 Cyclobothra barbata. v. 3 273 295 Lilium spectabile. V. 1 75 296 Ornithoglossum undulatum. v. 2. 131 297 Androcymbium eucomoides. V.2. 165 298 Tradescantia rosea, v. 2 183 299 Commelina coelestis. v. 1 3 300 Symplocarpus foetidus. v. 1 57 7 GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEXES TO VOLUMES I. II. AND III. F. F. Aceras anthropophora. v. 2 168 Acis rosea, v. 3 297 Aconitum barbatum. v. 2 164 Adenophora coronopifolia. v. 2 104 Adenophora denticulata. v. 2 116 Adlumia cirrhosa. v. 2 189 Ageratum mexicanum. v. 1 69 Allium neapolitanum. v. 3 201 Alstrcemeria hirtella. v. 3 228 Alstroemeria Sinisii. v. 3 267 Ammobium alatum. v. 1 48 Amorpha fragrans. v. 3 241 Ampherephis intermedia, v. 3 225 Anagallis indica. v. 2 132 Androcymbium eucomoides. v. 2. . . 165 Anemone stellata (3 purpurea, v. 2. . . 112 Anthyllis montana. v. 1 79 Aquilegia alpina. v. 3 218 Argemone grandiflora. v. 3 226 Argemone ocliroleuca. v. 3 242 Asarum canadense. v. 1 95 Asarum virginicum. v. 1 18 Asclepias verticillata. v. 2 144 Aster patens, v. 3 234 Astragalus tenuifolius. v. 1 73 Aubrietia purpurea, v. 3 207 Baptisia exaltata. v. 1 97 Bidens striata, v. 3 237 Blumenbachia insignis. v. 2 171 Calendula hybrida. v. 1 39 Calopogon pulchellus. v. 2 115 Calystegia reniformis. v. 2 181 Campanula dicliotoma. v. 3 280 Caragana frutescens. v. 3 227 Carduus alatus. v. 2 103 Centaurea suaveolens. v. 1 51 Chelone atropurpurea. v. 3 235 Chelone digitzilis. v. 2 120 Chelone Lyoni. v. 3 293 Chelone rosea, v. 3 230 Chrysanthemum sinense. y.fascicula- tum. V. 1 14 Chrysanthemum sinense. w.involutum. v.l 7 Chrysanthemum tripartitum. v. 2. . . 193 Cineraria aurantiaca. v. 3 256 Claytonia caroliniana. v. 3 208 Claytonia grandiflora. v. 3 216 Claytonia sibirica. v. 1 16 Collinsia verna. v. 3 220 Commelina ccelestis. v. 1 3 Coreopsis grandiflora. v. 2 175 Coreopsis lanceolata. v. 1 10 Coreopsis tinctoria. v. 1 72 Coronilla iberica. v. 1 25 Crocus pusillus. v. 2 106 Cumrningia campanulata. v. 3 257 Cunila mariana. v. 3 243 Cuphea viscosissima. V. 1 60 Cuscuta verrucosa, v. 1 6 Cyclamen europaeum. v. 2 176 Cyclamen repandum. v. 2 117 Cyclamen vernum. v. 1 9 Cyclobothra barbata. v. 3 273 Cypripedium arietinum. v. 3 213 Cypripedium parviflorum. v. 1 80 Cypripedium pubescens. v. 1 71 Cypripedium spectabile. v. 3 240 Daphne hybrida. v. 2 200 Datura Tatula. v. 1 83 Delphinium pictum. v. 2 123 Dianthus Fischeri. v. 3 245 Dianthus giganteus. v. 3 288 Dianthus latifolius. v. 1 2 Digitalis lanata. v. 3 291 Dinetus racemosus. v. 2 127 Diplocoma villosa. v. 3 246 Dodartia orientalis. v. 2 147 Dracocephalum argunense. V. 1 47 Dracocephalum canescens. v. 1 38 Dracocephalum speciosum. v. 1 93 Echeveria grandifolia. v. 3 275 Echium australe. v. 2 101 Eremurus spectabilis. v. 2 188 Erpetion reniforme. v. 2 170 Erythraea aggregata. v. 2 137 Erythrina crista-galli. v. 3 214 - Erythrina laurifolia. v. 2 142 Erythrolaena conspicua. v. 2 134 Eschscholtzia californica. V. 3 265 Ferraria divaricata. v. 2 192 Ferraria obtusifolia. v. 2 148 Ferraria uncinata. v. 2 161 Gagea bracteolaris. v. 2 158 Gagea glauca. v. 2 177 Galega biloba. v. 2 159 Galega persica. V. 3 244 Galinsogea trilobata, v. 1 56 Gastrocai-pha runcinata. v. 3 229 I Geissorhiza vaginata. v. 2 138 GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEXES TO VOLUMES I. II. and III. Gentiana crinita. v. 2 Georgina crocata. v. 3 Geum Quellyon. v. 3 Gilia capitata. v. 3 Gladiolus alatus. v. 2 Gladiolus Colvillii. v. 2 Gladiolus viperatus. v. 2 Glaucium fulvum. v. 1. Globularia cordifolia. v. 1 Globularia vulgaris, v. 1 Gonolobus hirsutus. v. 1 Habenaria bracteata. V. I Heimiasalicifolia. V. 3. Helleborus dumetorum. v. 2, . . Hemerocallis disticha. v. 1. Herbertia pulchella. v. 3. Hesperis fragrans. v. 1 Hibiscus moscheutos. v. 3 Hibiscus roseus. v. 3 Homerialineata. v. 2 Homeria miniata. v. 2. Horminum pyrenaicum. v. 3. . . Hunnemannia fumariaefolia. v. 3 Hyacinthus amethystinus. v. 2. Hyoscyamus agrestis. v. 1 Hyoscyamus orientalis. v. 1. . . Hyoscyamus physaloides. v. 1. . . Hypecoum procumbens. v. 3. Iberis odorata. v. 1 Iberis Tenoreana. v. 1. .... Impatiens biflora, v. 1 Ipomcea barbigera. v. 1 Iris caucasica. v. 3 Iris dichotorna. v. 1 Iris haematophylla. v. 2. Iris hungarica. V. 1. Iris tridentata. v. 3. .... Iris verna. v. 1. Lachenalia anguinea. v. 2 Lapeyrousia anceps. v. 2 Lathy rus amphicarpos. v. 3 Lathyrus mutabilis. v. 2. Leonurus heterophyllus. v. 2. . . Leonurus sibiricus. v. 3. Liatris sphaeroidea. v. 1 Liatris spicata. v. 1 . .... Liatris squarrosa. v. 1. .... Lilium spectabile. v. 1. Linaria bipartita, v. 1. Linum alpinum. v. 1 Lithospermum davuricum. v. 2. Lobelia inflata. v. 1. Lobelia Tupa. v. 3. Lopezia coronata. v. 2 Luculia gratissima. v. 2 Lupinus canaliculatus. v. 3 Lupinus mutabilis. v. 2. Lupinus tomentosus. v. 3 F. Lysimachia verticillata. v. 1 21 Lythrum diffusum. v. 2 149 Magnolia Soulangeana. v. 3 260 Malcomia Chia. V. 1 40 Malcomia littorea. v. 1. 54 Malope trifida. V. 2. 153 Malva mauritiana. v. 1. 81 Mandragora praecox. v. 2 198 Mathiola tricuspidata. v. 1 46 Mazus rugosus. V. 1. 36 Monarda media. V. 1. 98 Monarda Russelliana. v. 2. .... 166 Moraea Tenoreana. v. 2. 110 Moricandia arvensis. v. 3 278 Muscari botryoides. V. 1. 15 Muscari macrocarpum. V. 3 210 Muscari pallens. v. 3. 259 Narcissus tenuifolius. v. 2 114 Nemopbilaphacelioides.v. 1 32 Neottia cernua. v. 1. 42 Nicotiana glutinosa. V. 2. 107 Nicotiana noctiflora. v. 3. 262 Nocca latifolia. v. 3. 215 Nuttallia digitata. v. 2 129 CEnothera macrocarpa. v. 1 5 CEnothera roseo-alba. v. 3. .... 268 CEnothera serotina. v. 2 184 CEnothera serrulata. v. 2. 133 CEnothera speciosa. v. 3. 253 CEnothera taraxacifolia. v. 3 294 CEnothera tenella. v. 2 167 Ophrys lutea. v. 3. 206 Orchis coriophora. v. 3. .... 219 Orchis longicornu. v. 3. 249 Orchis militaris. v. 2. 163 Orchis Rivini. v. 2. 162 Orchis sambucina. v. 3 299 Orchis Schleicheri. v. 2. 199 Orchis spectabilis. v. 1. 65 Ornithoglossum undulatum. V. 2. .. 131 Orobus albus. v. 1. 22 Orobus Fischeri. v. 3. . . . . 289 Oxybaphus Cervantesii. v. 1 84 Paeonia lobata. v. 1. 70 Paeoniaparadoxa/3^m6nafa. V. 1. .. 19 Paeonia Russi. v. 2. 122 Paeonia villosa. v. 2. 113 Papaver alpinum. v. 3. 247 Papaver horridum. v. 2. 173 Papaver setigerum. v. 2. 172 Passiflora Colvillii. v. 2 126 Patrinia scabiosaefolia. v. 2. .... 154 Pedicularis canadensis, v. 1 67 Petunia nyctaginiflora. V. 2 119 Phlomislaciniata. V. 1. 24. Phlomis puugens. V. 1 . 33 Phlox canadensis, v. 3 221 Phlox Carolina, v. 2, 190 F. 139 282 292 287 187 155 156 35 34 20 1 62 281 109 28 222 61 286 277 178 152 252 276 135 27 12 13 217 50 88 43 86 255 96 118 74 274 68 179 143 236 194 197 204 87 49 44 75 30 17 121 99 284 108 145 283 130 261 9 GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEXES TO VOLUMES I. II. and III. F. Phlox nivalis, v. 2 185 Phlox triflora. V. I . 29 Phlox odorata. v. 3 224 Phlox pyramidalis. v. 3. 233 Phlox reflexa. v. 3. 232 Phlox scabra. V. 3. 248 Piptanthus nepalensis. v. 3 264 Platystylis cyanea. v. 3 239 Podolepis gracilis, v. 3. 285 Polemonium sibiricum. v. 2 182 Polemonium villosum. v. 3 266 Potentilla atrosanguinea. v. 2 124 Potentilla formosa. v. 2. 136 Potentilla Russelliana. v. 3 279 Potentilla splendens. v. 2 191 Primula glaucescens. v. 3 254 Primula Palinuri. v. 1 8 Primula praenitens y albijlora. v. 2. . . 196 Psoralea gland ulosa. v. 3 296 Pulsatilla vernalis. V. 3. 205 Ranuticulus monspeliacus. v. 1 94 Renealmia grandiflora. v. 1 64 Rheum australe. v. 3 269 Rhexia ciliosa. v. 3. 298 Rhexia mariana /3 rubella, v. 1 41 Rhododendron arboreum. v. 3 250 Rhododendron Gowenianum. v. 3. . . 263 Rhododendron sinense (3 Jiavescens. 3. 290 Richardsonia scabra. V. 1 91 Rudbeckia hirta. v. 1. 82 Rudbeckia pinnata. v. 2 146 Rudbeckia serotina. v. 1 4 Salpiglossis atropurpurea. v. 3 271 Salpiglossis picta. v. 3 258 Salpiglossis straminea. v. 3 231 Salvia interrupta. v. 2 169 Salvia nubicola. v. 2. 140 Salvia Tenorii. v. 1. 26 Saracha umbellata. v. 1 85 Saxifraga ligulata. v. 1 59 Schivereckia podolica. v. 1 77 Schizanthus pinnatus. v. 1 63 Scliizanthus porrigens. v. 1 76 F. Scutellaria alpina^ v. 1 90 Scutellaria Columnae. v. 1 52 Scutellaria altaica. v. 1 45 Scyphanthus elegans. v. 3 238 Siegesbeckia droseroides. v. 3 203 Silene alpestris. v. 2 Ill Silene picta. v. 1. 92 Silene vespertina. v. 1 58 Soldanella montana. V. 1 ll Sparaxis versicolor, v. 2 160 Spatalanthus speciosus. v. 3 300 Stachys angustifolia. v. 2 180 Stachys sibirica. v. 1 100 Streptanthera elegans. v. 3 209 Symplocarpus fcetidus. v. 1 57 Synnotia variegata. v. 2 150 Tagetes corymbosa. v. 2 151 Tagetes tenuifolia. v. 2 141 Taxanthema incana. v. 3 272 Taxanthema speciosa. v. 2 105 Taxanthema tatarica. v. 1 37 Tigridia conchiiflora. v. 2 128 Tradescantia rosea, v. 2 183 Trillium erythrocarpum. v. 3 212 Tropaeolum tricolorum. v. 3 270 Tulipa pubescens. v. 1. 78 Tulipa praecox. v. 2. 157 Tulipa turcica, v. 2. 186 Verbascum pyramidatum. v. 1 31 Verbena pulchella. v. 3 295 Verbena sororia. V. 3. 202 Veronica latifolia. V. 1. 23 Veronica neglecta. v. 1 55 Viola eriocarpa. v. 2. 102 Viola lanceolata. v. 2 174 Viola pedata. v. 1 69 Viola pubescens. v. 3. 223 Whitleya stramoniifolia. v. 2 125 Wisteria chinensis. v. 3 211 Wulfenia carinthiaca. v. 1. .... 66 Yucca acuminata, v. 2. 195 Yucca glaucescens. v. 1 53 Yucca puberula. v. 3 251 Note. — To Whitleya stramoniifolia, vol. 2. t. 125., add the following syno- nyms. Nicandra anomala. Link. Anisodus luridus. Link in Spreng. syst. 1. p. 699. Since the above figure was published, we have seen plants in flower, raised from seeds, sent from the Berlin garden, under the above names. Tilling, Printer, Gfosveaor Row, Clielsca. . i «■ k' •f nCTTV rCMTCD I lDt_ V