The source of this uncorrected OCR text may be viewed in the DjVu format at: http://fax.libs.uga.edu/QK1xC981/cb156 or http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/ugafax/QK1xC981/cb156 ]'HE lIBRARIES The University of Geergia RAR  CURTIS'S BOT^sICa O R, Hower-Garden Difplayed: IN WHICH The molt Ornamental FORE,ON PL..STS, cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-Houfe, and the Stove, are accurately reprorented in their natural Colours. TO %VItICH .ARE ADDED, Their Names, -Cla, Order, Generic and Specific Chard&ors, according to the celebrated L ,us; their Places of Growth, and Times of Flowering: TOGETHER WITH .E MOST APPROVED MTHODS OF CULTURE. . umlto become fcmntifically acquainted with the Plants the c 'z   ß y ultxvate. CONTINU.ED BY 0HN SIMS, M.D. VOL. XV.-.( T,Ye va.l!ies low, 0 The glowing violet,- ,.,n_r.ow m,ther all yourrlua!nt enamell'deyes,  The mufk.-rofe and thewell-attired woodbine, a nat on me green turz lhcK the honied lhowers  With cowfips wan that hang the penfive head, And purple all the ground with vernal floweva. ^ And every flower t at fad embroidery wears '- Bring the rathe primrofe that fo 'lake  dies:  Bid Amarantus all his beuut¾ Ihed, - Th: tufted crow. toe, and pale jeffami e, 0 And daffadillies fill their cups with tears The white pink, and. the pnfy treakt with jet i 1 To firew the grave where CURTIS lies. h{ LTOI% LONDON: Printed by STEPE COUCnM.A;% Throgmorton-Street,' Publi&ed by T. CURTIS, N ø 8, St. George's-CreWcut, Black-Friars-Road; -nd Sold by the principal Bookfellers in Great-Britain and Ireland. M DCCC I. PREFACE. A Second volume of the BOTANICAL MAOAZE having been brought to a conclufion fince the death of Mr.. CutTis, it fcems proper that the very liberal encouragement this Work has continued to receive flould be gratefully ac- knowledged, the demand for it being by no means diminiflied, notwithltanding the irreparable 1ofs fultained by that melancholy event, and the increared price, which the preTure of the times has made neceffary. To a few readers it may not be totally uninterelting to learn how the Botanical Magazine came under the prefent dire&ion. Long before his death Mr. CurTis, perceiving his diffolution gradually approaching, naturally became anxious to tcure to his lhmily the pecuniary benefits arifing from the fale of the Vrork, their fole dependance. In order to leffcn the impediments to carrying it on, he laboured, as/nuch as his infirm {late of lealth ,ould permit, to arrange and increat the neceflry wrials. I-Ie applied to feveral of his melt eminent botm,ic. nd { brained their promire of affiRance. Finally, in th, con lqdeh,_, of friendfhip, he fubje&ed the future Inanagement to the controul of the prefent Editor, with whom he had many yars lived in habits'of intimacy. How far this confidence has been jultitled by the event, with refpe6't to his family, caImot be a ß x general concern, nor is it neceffary to fay any tl  ng the Vork itfelf as far as it has hitherto proceeded: it is before a dil cerning public and it's merit will be fairly appreciated. In the conltruœtion of there volumes, but' little ufe has lat- terly been made of the materials left by Mr. Ct ,,T  s for feveral realbns, principally from a &fire to prefcrve them a entire as polfible for the fervice of the proprietors, ' ' of emergency, and a wifh to indulge our botamcal reader with a reprefenta- tion and defcription of rome of the novel and curious plants which"are annually introduced, pttrticularly from the Cape of Good Hope. In one natural order (the Es.T. ofLinnus hs of Julfieu), fuch aIditions have been made to our former ^FT h:" TH II. PREFACE. for.eX ltock as to re. ude,r the nomencl.ot..ure a mars of car,. fuoo. NO' part of Europe contains fo copious a colle&ion of there plants as the neighbourhood of L'ondon} the botanical worm have therefore rome right to expeO an,elucidation of this fubje& in our Magazine, and the Editor thinks himfell particu- Iarl.y fortunate'ia 'h. av(n m :t with fo ableaiad liberal a coadju- tor m this difficult What rh. as beej alseady done MII fhew how much is duc the induftryandabili'y of lo"' BELLENDEN GAWLI:;R, El0. with whole affiftance we hgie in a few numbers to complete luid an arrangement of the princilSal part of this order, that Botanilt will hereafter find 'any .ditcul.ty in reducing the 'ind- ¾iduals to their proper gene?a. The fame Artiris are employed in every department of the ork as in Mr. Cums's t. ime. This will, it is hoped, i.nf;ure the-fame excellence of execution, which is fuch that the figures in the Botanical Magazine, for elegance as well a corre& hers, will in general Ihf/kr nothing by a comparilbn with the moft expenfive botanical works, a fa& loudly attoRed by the ci.rcumflance that a large proportion of tle ornaments of our moft expenfive porcelaiu and cabinet ware : copied œrom them. The Botanical Magazine will continue to be carried on as much as poffible on the fame plan as b.v Mr. Cuaris himlklf. If rome' avhat more of critical difcufficn' fho. uld have been introduced, our botanical friends will eafily perceive that the.fubje&s .manded it, and whilR the price is not .thereby increatkd, it is not apprehended that any one w. ill complain. For himfelf, .the Editor folicit the ind.ulgence of the learned J3otanift, an indulgence he feels to be more than 9rdinarily necef- fary; for bei_ngengaged in a laborious a. nd ju)p9rmttprofel.lion, :nd having ever made Botany his amufement, never a t,rious !tudy, he has ,greater dependance upon t. be cominued aftitt- once of his more learned friends than upon the exertion of his own abilities. But, with this aid, he flatters himfell that the Bo- tmfical Magazine will continue in every refpe& to de, ferve the p.ub.lic fayour as well as it ha heretofore done.' RARe. lh [so5] DIANELLA C2ERULEA. BLUE DIANELLA. Cla and Order. I-I1 X Alq DRI A ]VIo lq OGY lq I A. Generic Chara7er. Cal. nullis. Cot. 6-petala. Stare. receptaculo iriferta. Per. Bacca 8-1ocularis polyfperma. Specific Charaglcr. DIANELLA c,erulea; caule adfcendente geniculato foliis diftichis lineari-lanceolatis carinatis margine fpi- nuloris, pedunculis reEtis divaricatis, This plant is a native of New Holland, and we believe was firft railed in this country from feeds from Port Jackfon, about the year 783, by our much refpec'-'ted-friend, the late Mr. CUFF, of Teddington, a gentleman of great zeal and attiduity in cultivating plants and promoting the fcience of Botany, to whole liberality the Brompton Botanic Garden is indebted for this and many other fcarce and beautiful plants. It fucceeds well in the greenhoufe, begins flowering about the month of May, and continues in bloffom during fhe greateft .part of the rumruer. Is readily increared by parting its roots n the fpring, and fhould be planted in pots filled with loam and peat earth. The Chevalier de la M^Rclc has given the name of Dia- ella nemorofa to the Drac,ena enfifolia of Lxx.us, with which this plant has confiderable affinity, but is certainly a diftinc'-'t fpecies. The Dianella nemorofa of J^cQul, figured in his Hort. &boenb. t. 94. appears to be different from both. We have adopted the name by which it is known in thole colic&ions about town which poffefs it.--We hope to take another opportunity of laying romething more on this genus as diftinguilhed from Drac,ena. TI STA?ELA LF. NTGNOSA. RECKLED Clafi and Order. PENTANDRIA DIGyNIA. Generic CharacVer. Contorta. Netlat. duplici {ellula 5-phylla tegente genitalia. Specific Charac7br. STAPELlA lentiginofa, corollis decem-dentatis, laciniis al- terhis obfoletis, fundo concavo orbiculo elevato cin&o; caulibus fuperne ramoffs, ramis penta- gonis patentibus tuberculofis: tuberculis unci- natis. When the Hortus Kewnfis'of Mr. AYTON was publifhed, there were only five fpecies of Stapella known in this country, and of there two had been newly introduced by Mr. FR^Ncs M^ssbN. This laborious invefigator of nature has fince defcribed and figured forty-one new fpecies, the flowers of many of which are extremely beautiful as well as fingular in their appearance. On carefully examining all there fpecies, as well as thole before known, we cannot find that our plant in every refpe& exa&ly correfponds with any one of them. In the colour and fhape of the corolla, it agrees Very' well with tbe gutta'ta, but in this the flowers fit on longer pealuncles, which afire from the bale of the {alk, the {alks-are undivided, and the tubercles are not booked; on which account we deem ourfelves juRified in confidering it as a new fpecies. The fpecimen from which our figure was taken, flowered. in the colle&ion of E. D. Woonvov, D, Efq. at Vauxhall, laft fummer, who received it from the royal garden at Kew, into which this fpecies alfo was introduced by Mr. Ft^tcxs MASSON. For the proper mode of culture, fee our account of $tapelia variegata. [ 507 ] SMPEKV[VUM GLOBUle. RUM. HOUSLFK. GLOBULAR Clafi and'Order. ODECANDRIA DOECAGYNIA, Generk Charalero Cal. -partitus. Petal. xg. Capf. xz. polyfperm. Specific Charac7er and Synonyms, SEMPERVIVUM globiferum, foliisciliatis, propaginibus glo boris. Spec. Plant. 665. Edit. I47illdenow, 95g. acquin Aufl. 5' P. 5 ø. tab. app. 40- SEDUM rofulis ciliatis, petalis, fubulato-lanceolatis duodeniso Haller Hifl. n. 9So.- SEDUM rnajus vulgari rimile, globulis decidentibus. MoriOn, 3-œ- 47.f ß x. t. 7. f- 8. This plant being a native of Ruflia and Germany, i per felly hardy, eafily bearing our winters in any dry fituafion. Like mof fucculent plants, it grows bef in a dry light foil, fuch as loam nixed with lime rubbifl, &c. We are told by Mr. AYxo, that it was cultivated by Mr ]PHILIP MILLER in 73 , but was probably 1oR from our garden till it was again introd. uced. by the late Mr. CuRwXS. It flowered for the firR ume m the Brompton Botanic Garden laR fummer. Ill [ s o8 3 CHRYSANTHEMUM TRICOLOR. THREE'* COLOURED CHRYSANTHEMUM. ½lafs and Order. SYGENESlA POLYGAMIA SUPERrLUA. Generic CharaWer. Recept. nudum. Pappus marginatus. Cal. hemifphericus im- bricatus, fquamis marginalibus membranaceis. $ecific CharaCter and Synonym. CHRYSANTHEMUM tricolor, foliis duplicato-pinnatifidis, pinnulis linearibus diftantibus recurvis, caule ere&o ramofo. CHRYSANTHEMUM tricolor. Andrews's Botanical tory, œL xo 9. This beautiful Chryfanthemum was brought from Peter{burgh by Mr. Fv. AsEa, of King's-Road, Chelfea, in x798, by xhora. ve are informed, that it is an annual of eafy culture, growing readily from either feeds or cuttings; it has hitherto been confined to the greenhoufe, but perhaps is an hardy plant. It is probably a native of Barbary or Morocco, having been railed at the royal garden at Kew from feeds lent from that quarter by Mr. Bv. oussoxq,x, and has confidetable affinity ß ,vith the trifurcatum of M. D,st*oxqx.xs,s, figured in his Flora Atlantica, tom. x. tab. 335' f' ' A lefs pleating variety occurs with perfe&ly yellow flowera SOPHORA AVSTALS. BLV Cla and Order. DECANIRA MONOGyN A. Generic Charaer. Ca/. 5-tlentiatus, fi, perne gibbus. Cot. papilionacea; alis longi- tudine vexilli, Legumen. $zpecific CharaHer and Synonyms. SOPHORA au./lralis, foliis ternads fubfeffilibus glabrls,. putis enfiformibus. S.fl...Vegeia& 89*. ztit. Kew. 2. p. 45' PODALYRIA mralis, foliis ternaris petiolatis, foliolis ob- ovato-lanceolatis obtufis; ftipulis !anceolafi.s acutis petiolo duplo longioribus. Spec. Plant. Id/illdcnow, p. 803. This is an hardy herbaceous perennial, growing well in a light foil and open fituation, and flowering about the beginning of June. h. is a native of Carolina anti an old inhabitant of our gardens, having been cultivated by Mr. P, xxxv Mx.xR in 758. Its near refemblanee in habit to rome of the Lupins, has occafioned it to be rometimes reittaken for the Sophora lu- pioides of' Lx    u s, which has yellow flowers. r RAil III [ 5 ] CONVALLARIA SEAL. Clafs an Order. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Charac?er. Cor. fexfida. Bacca maculofa 3-1ocularis. Specific Charaer and Synonyms. CONVALLARIA bifolia foliis cordatis floribus tetrandris. . l/egetab. 335- Ait. Kcw. p. 456. LILIUM CONVALL1UM minus. J3auh. Pin. 304. UNIFOLIUM. Hall. ttclv. n. 24o. MONOPHYLLON. Ger. 33 o. f. 9.. emac. 409. There are few genera in which the parts of fru:tification LEAST So "- * LOMON S vary tb much, both in form and number, as in Convallaria; Lssi,vs makes three divifions of the fpecies, firtt, fich as have bell-fhaped flowers, as Lily of the Valley; fecond, fuch as have funnel-lhaped, as common Solomon's Seal; and third, fimh as have wheel-flaped, as the prefent plant; the unripe fpotted berry is laid to afford a mark of diltin&ion common to the whole; but how few are there who have an opportunity of feeing this in all the different fpecies? Molt of thefe plants are ornamental, and many of them have been long cultivated in our, gardens for their fragrance, and the beauty of their foliage or flowers; the prefent'fmalt and delicate fpecies was cultivated and figured by Mr. Mi z.ett in 1739- It reidore riles above the height of four or five inches; the flowering-ftem is ufually furniflmd with two, fometimes only one leaf, and is terminated by.a 1oofe fpile of white flowers, which appear in May, and with us are rarely fuc- ceeded by fruit. ' It.is a native of the North of Europe, Holland, Germany, ' Switzerland, and Carniola. Mr. MZLrU gathered it near "Haerlem and the Hague, where Mr. R^¾ had gathered it "before on the 28th of May' iu flower." Mart. Mill. DicY. Is a hardy perennial, increaring greatly by its creeping roots, on which and on other accounts, it is belt kept in pots with the fma!ler alpines; plants which are regarded by me as fo .many beautiful cabinet pi&ures, to others they will not appear m the fame light. "Non omnes arbufta juvant, hurailcfque raydca.". CHIRONIA LINOIDES. FLAX-LEAVED CHIRONIA.' Cl, and Order. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Charaer. Cor. rotata. Pitiillum declinatum. Slam. tubo corolla: infidem fla. _/in/here demum fpirales. Peric. .-1oculare. 'Specific Charac7er and O,,onyms. CHIRONIA linoides herbacea foliis linearibus. Linn. Fegetab. ed. 4. Mutt. p. 29. Air. Kew. v. 3. p..487 . RAPUNTIO affnis lini facie capiris b. fpei. Breyn. Cent.  75' t. 9 o. The Chironia baccifera already figured, afforded a fingular inftance of variation from the generic charaer in its feed veffel; in the prefent fpecies we have as remarkable a one in the anthera,, which do not finally affume the fpiral appearance fo peculiarly charaeriflic of the genus; yet in all other re- fpe&s it is a perfec'-t Chironia, and a very, neat pretty green- houfe plant it is, occupying but little room, and enlivening the colle&ion by its bloffoms, plentifully produced during off of the year, and efpecially at the clofe of fummer; it re- quires to be frequently renewed, which is eafily done, as it itrikes readily from cuttings; it requires alfo more warmth in the winter than molt greenhoufe plants, and as it is apt to go off in cold moiR feabns, it will be prudent to keep a pot or two of it on the front flelf of the ffove during fuch unfa- yourable weather. Leus defcribes it as having an herbaceous Ptem, and Mr. AYxo- marks it as an herbaceous plant; but illrely it is not herbaceous, in the firi& fenfe of the word, nor is it fo 'regarded by cultivators. It is a native of the Cape, and was introduced by Mr. Msso in 787. CAMPANULA PUMIL^. DWARF-CAMPANULA. Claj5 ad Order. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic CharaCTer. Cot. campanulata fundo claufo valvulis ftaminiferis. fidurn. Capf. inœera, poris lateralibus dehifcens. Stigma CAMPANULA C3MPANULA CAMPANULA .Specific Charagler an Synonyms. CAMPANULA pumila, foliis radicalibus ovatis crenatis, pe- tiolis .complanatis, floribus racemoils fecundis cernuls. rotundarolla var. . Spec. Plant. 282. qit. Kew. 2. p. 2 9. minor rotundifolia alpina. Bauh. Prod. 84. purl#a, foliis omnibus ferratis, radicalibus cordato-ovatis, firmis nitidis: caulinis linearL bus alternis reinotis. ac. Collee7. 2. p. 79. ? Having feen this Campanula cultivated in the Botanic Garden, both at Lambeth-Marfh and Brompton, for many years, during which time it has always preferved its diftinguifhing features. We cannot befitate in confidering it as a diftinlSt fpecies from the rotundifolia, of which LINNLT$ has made it only a variety. It is a plant of much humbler growth, the radical leaves are never reniform, are frequently continued a confiderable way up the ftem, and grows. upon fhorter footftalks, which are flattened, not filiform; they' likewife continue during the flowering, forming a mat, whereas thofe of the rotundifolia for the molt part difappear at this feafon. The cefpitofa of Sco- volt is probably a variety of this. J-cqvIN having quoted Sc.vcza's Campanula, fi. 4. It. 4. as a fynonym of his purl#a, which appears very diffimilar to ours, makes it fomewhat uncertain whether his plant may be the fame, as he has not given us any figure; on which account we adopt the name of pumila, by which it has heen long known in the Botanic Garden. - There is a white variety; both forts bear a profu- fion of flowers, and are very ornamental, particularly fuited to adorn rock-work, being hardy perennials. FJAF T ALOE [ 5'3 -{ VARIEGATA. PARTRIDGE-BREAST ALOE. Cot. ere&a, inferta. ALOE ALOE ALOE Claj and Order. HœXANDRI_K MONOGYNIA. Generic Character. ore patulo fundo ne&arifero. -Filam. receptaculo Specific CharaYer and Synonyms. variegata fubacaulis, foliis trifariis Pi&is canaliculatis: angulis cartilagineis, floribus racemoils cylindricis. hunb. Aloe, n. t 2. Ait. Kew. v. L p. 47 o. varie. g.ata floribus-pedunculatis cernuis' racemoils prif- mauc, s: ore patulo equali. Linn. $p. P1. ed. 8' P- 459- africana humills, foliis ex albo viridi variegatls. Comm. pr,eL 79- I. 28. vat. 27. t. .27. So many defirable points unite in this Aloe, that we are not to wonder at its being held in fuch very high eReera by all that have the leaf[ tare for plants, efpecially thol of the fucculent kind; we frequently le it hurled up with great care by thofe who have only the convenience of a parlout window, and fucceed better with fuch than in the greenhoufes of many: it grows readily and blows freely but irregularly, during moil.. of the fiammer months; its foliage is beautiful both in its form and markings, and its flowers are no lefs handrome; it rarely exceeds a foot or a foot and a half in height, when in flower; is increald by oflkets, and requires the lhme treatment as the .kloe tribe in general. Is a native of the Cape, and was cultivated here by Mr. lAII.CItlLI) in i72o , Blair's Bot. JEff. Meuev informs us, that he railed a variety of it from Cape feeds with broader and more fpreading leaves antl a taller flowering Rein. T [ 5'4 ] LOBELIA ].ICOLOR. SPOTTED LOBELIA Clafs and Order. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Charafter. Cal. 5-fidus. Or. -petala irregularis. nther fubcoallt. Cap g--5-1ocularis infera. Oecific Charaer and Synonyms. LOBELlA bicolo% caulibus patulis foliis inferioribus oNongis .dentaris pubeientibus ihbilibus, carallis bila- biatis: labia ihperiori reflexo. In fo extenfive a genus as the Lobelia, fo few of which have been accurately figured, or even fiJlly delkribed, it is not to be wondered at if fame confufion {hould prevail. This is efpecially the Cal among the fmaller lpecies. The pretty lively little plant which is here figured, flowered laft Ibmruer in the Botanic Garden at Brompton, and in [0me other colic&ions about town; the brightblue corolladiRinguilhes it at firft fight from the pubefcens, which has white flowers; we were, however, inclined to conrider it only as a variety, but from a confideration of the defcription and figure, by Mr. SaLSnt¾, in his Icones plantarum rariorum, it'feems to differ in many material points, and poflibly it may be the very plant that he has diftingui0ned from his aly./]ifolia, the pubefcens of the Kew Catalogue, under the name of œobelia Erinaides; but cer- tainly is not the erinaides of L   m t s, a fmaller, more delicate, trailing plant with fiower-ftalks thorter than the leaves. It agree. s fo well with the Iecific chara&er of Lobella Erinus, as gven in the Mantiffa P!antarum, that we were once inclined fo to determine it; but upon a careful examination of the fpecimens in Sir Joss,x BAKS'S Herbarium, it appears to be certainly different from the one which is there marked, as having been compared with the Linnean Herbarium  nor does it appear perfe&ly to correfpond with any fpecimen in Sir Jos.e s extenfive colic&ion: we hope therefore to ftand excuikd for having applied a new name and fpecific chara&er. This we do always unwillingly, and never, when we can be tolerably fatisfied that our plant is the lime that has been pre- viouflv defcribed. It s an annual vhich readily perfe&s its feeds if broug ht forward by being fawn in a hot-bed in the Spring, and treated the fame as other tender annuals. LiTHOSPERMUM ORIENTALEo YELLO GROMW,LL Or BUGLOSS. ClaJ3 and Order. PEN'rANDRIA 1VION OG¾ N IAo Generic CharaCter. Cot. infundibuliformis, fauce perforat nuda. CaL 5-partitus. Specific CharaCter and Synonyms. LITHOSPERMUM orientale, ramis floriferis lateralibus braaeis cordatis amplexicaulibus. œinn. ß Syfl. Vegetab. p. 56. ANCHUSA orientalis. ,. PL z9t. BUGLOSSUM Orientale dore luteo. ff'ournef. cot. 6. Buxaum, Cent. 3. P' x7' t. a 9. Dill. Elth. 60. t. 52. f. 60. ASPERUGO divaricat. Muir. in Comment. Gott. 77 t. p. 2 5. t. 2. t,hThis is a hardy, perennial, herbaceous plant, a native of e Levant, of 10me value on account of its early flvwering and its long fucceflion ;'the firl may be lill forwarded by placing it under a frame. It is propagated by feeds, by cuttings, or by parting its roots in the Autumn, and will grow in almof any fituation Though cultivated in.the Botanic Garden at Chelfea, in the year 7t8, it is by no meas common. It flowers i he open ground in May and June, and con- tinues in bloffoni the greatef part of the Summer. J/7/Jld I- SrAgMANNIA ArRICANA, SPARMANNIA. AFRICAN C1,4J'3. and Order. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Charagter. 'Co; 4-petala, refiexa. lVegtaria plura torulol:a fiamina cin- gentia. Cal. 4-phyllus. Capri angulata, echinata, 5-1ocularis. Specific Charac7er and Synonyms. SPARMANNIA afiqcana. Linn. Suppl. PL p. 66. Retzii Objqrvationes Botanice, f. 5' t. 3' This beautiful flmb. is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was introduced by the celebrated traveller whole name it bears. It grows to the height of fix feet or more, is thickly divided into alternate branches, finely clothed with large cordate and lobed pendulous leaves upon ere& footpralks, making a very handrome appearance even in foliage, in which Prate it much refembles a fida; its fine umbels of flowers are produced plentifully along the young branches oppofite the leaves, in the fatne manner as ir the common fpecies of Pe- largonium, which it is very like in its inflorefcence, the flowers nodding before they are expanded, and becomingeregt as they approach maturity. The petals, which are of a fnowy white, remain but a fhort time expauded, being loon refletqed with the cah/x: this is .white like the petals, but covered as is the whole f the plant, the petals xcepted, with fine hairs. The fingular neSaries, the charaSeriftic of the genus, furround the filaments, which they fo nearly refemble, that a fiperficial ob- ß ferver tnight readily confound them; they are very numerous, are lhorter than the pro'pie filaments, of a yellow colour, to- rulofe, or nobbed, at the upper part :' they have no anthers, though-they have purple tips not unlike them. The whole plant abounds with a tafielefs mucilage. The The delcription oi e the $parmannla in the Supplementran lantarum, is in mof refpe&s very accurate; the petals are there laid to be yellow: whether the plant is fubjec to vary in colour, or that an error has arifen from the examination. of dried fpecimens, we gre not at prefent able to determine. It was firf introduced to the Royal Garden at Kew, from whence it has been diributed to feveral colleions about town, and though at prefent a fcarce plant, will not perhaps long re main fo, being readily propagated by cuttings, if treated in the' fame manner as rome of the more tender Pelargoniu.ns. Our figure was drawn from a fpecimen which flowered in great perle&ion the la month, at the Nurfery of Meffrs. 'Wxxx and Co. at Old Brompton. Except at Kew, we have not heard. o['its having flowered elœewhere. J FLOWERE D' LAVATERA. Cla and Order. MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA,, Generic Charagler. Calyx duplex, exterior 3-fidus. .4rilli plurimi monofpermi. Specific Charagler nd Synods,ms. LAVATERA thurivgiaca caule herbaceo, fruE'tibus denudatis calycibus inciris. Linn. 5yfl. I&getab. ed. Murr. p. 626.. ]cf. Fl..4ufir. v. 4. t. 3 tt. LAVATER A thuringiaca foliis inferioribus cordatis crenati fubrotundo-lobatis fummis halfaris, pedunculi longis, folitariis, unifloris. Linn. $yfi. ]Vat. ed.  3. Gruel. to 57. ALTHAA thurinœiaca grandiflora. Dill. Hort. Elth. 9' t. f. 8. ALTHAA flore majore. œau& Pin. We have already figured in this work a fpecies of Lavatera, the tri,eflris, the two varieties of which, the white and red, may vie with any of our annuals in contributing to the gaiet;' of the flower borders; the prefent fpecies is a hardy perennial, and 'when it grows in perle&ion, produces flowers equall)- large. Though cultivated by Mr. SzAuuin the year 732, it is 'rarely met with in any of our colleE'tions; yet. as an orna- mental plant, itis certainly deferving of culture, efpecially by thole who have large gardens, and who aim at great variety. It is a native of Thuringia, as its name imports, and various parts of the North of Europe; flowers from July to September, .and ripens its feeds in Autumn, by which the plant is eafily railed, or it may be increafed by parting its roots. In the Hortus Kewenfis it is by miRake marked as a fhrub.. The bale of the divifion of each petal is fingularly puckered, a character which authors do not .appear to have fufficiently noticed. I E 7PF. L.RGONUM TOMENTOSUMo PENNY- ROx^. l md Order. ON ADELPHIA DC^NDRI^. Generic Chandler. Cal. 5-partitus: lacinia fuprema definente in tubulum capil- iarem neOariferum focus pedunculum decurrentem. Con petala, irregularis. Fi/. o inqualia, quorum 3 (taros) car- trata. Fru& B-coccus, roflratus: rora fpiralia introrfum barbata. 8perifir Charaer and Synods, ms. - PELARGONIUM tonntum, umbellis multifloris fubpanL culatis folfis cordads, haato quinque- lobis villofis mollimis. Spec. PL edit. tFilldenow, 677. PELARGONIUM tomentrain, umbellis muhifloris fimplici- bus compofitifque, foliis cordaris fubquin- quelobis, ferratis, tomentofis, mollimis, caule carnolo. Jacq. ]con. rat. 3' 537- Colle?t. 5' P' o. This fp½cies, although introduced fince the publication ote' AlToN's Hortus Kewenfis, is now very common, being a quick grower, and very eafily propagated by cuttings. It is generally known in the gardens by the trivial name ofpiperitum, and our gardeners u[ually underftand by tomentofum a very different and amore rare and tender kind, the blattarium of.J^c(luxN, figured under the name of Geranium tomentofim, by Mr. An rRwws, in his Botanift's Repofitory, pl.  5; but as our plant has been long ago defcribed and figured by J^cQu I N, in his Icones plantarum ratiorum, who has called it PL^RgO  U tomentofim, and the fame has been adopted by WxœLrw4ow, in his new edition of  the Species Plantarran; it is become necef[hry to torre& the vulgar appellation, in order to adhere to a name under which it has been already publifhed. It forms a large bulhy fhrub, but the branches being brittle and the. tops heavy, is very apt to be broken and disfigured by the wind. It is not remarkable for the beauty of its flowers, and the odour is too ftrong to be plearant to many. lerfons, though to others it is very agreeable, much refembling Penny-Royalø Illln'"'q{{1111{{ LILIUM PHILADELPHICUM. LILY. PHILADELPHIAN Clafs and Order. /' I[iX AN DI I A MONOGYNIA. Generic Chara7er. Cot. 6-petala, campanulata: linea 1ongitudinali neC2arifera. Capri valvulis pilo cancellato connexis. Specific Charac7er and Synonyms. LILIUM philadelphicum foliis verticillatis floribus ereOis, co- rolla campanulata: petalis unguiculatis. ,S>ec. PL 435- ./tit. Hort. Kew. . p. 43 '. 13filler Icon. Plant. t. 65. f.x. The Philadelphian Lily was firft cuhivated in this country by Mr. Pixx.v Mx.x. ER, in the year 757, who received roots of it from Mr. joi4 B.aTv.^,t of Philadelphia, its firft difcoverer. Its bulbs are froall, white, and fcaly, and pro- duce each a tingle item, romewhat more than a foot high, bearing at the rummir two fibwers, and clothed with a few horls of entire lanceolate leaves, which in our]'pecimen were longer and more reflexed than as defcribed and figured by Mr. It flowers in July, but- produces no ripe feed- in this country. T. he fame treatment is proper for this L!ly as for the Jr.ilium Catej3,ei, figtired in the Botanical Magazine, pl. 59' Mxx. x. sa fays, that both thefe are lefs hardy than rome of the other forts, and ought therefore to be proreded in very revere winters by covering the beds with old tan or coal- athes, to preferve them from the froR, and in the fpring this covering may be removed' before the bulbs thoot tip. '1 Generic CharaCTer. flor. fubmonopetala 6-partita ina:qualis: laciniis ere6'tis. $tigmata 3 petaliformia. Specific Charac?er and S. yno9,ms. IdORAgAfpiralis caule compreffo articulato mnltifloro, tbliis enfiformibus ereOis, 'floribus axillaribus. Linn. $uppl. 99' MORAGA fpiralis fcapo compreffo articulato, foliis ere6"tis, flo- ribus alterhis fubtcundis. $p. PL edit. ld/illdenow, . 4 o. ghunberg'. Dff. No. . Prod. p. As this is undoubtedly the fame plant which THUNBtRG has :alled Moa.A Spiralis, we rather continue the name than attempt any innovation, which is at leaf[ much better deferred till the xhole family thall undergo a revifion. It certainly ha.q but little affinity with feveral of the other fpecies of Ivlorea, and Wx,.ow has quef[ioned whether it thould not be referred to/trtflea: it feems however to diflbr in too many effential points from the AaxsxA cyanea to admit of their being united. The root is 1tringy, the leaves enfiform and ere; the fcape fimple, ere oCt, near a foot high, two-edged, jointed, flightly twilted; the fpatha two-valved, entire; the flowers alternate, with fhort peduncles, and moltl 7 direfled.one way; the corolla confills of fix equal petals, which expand evenly, are white within 'ith a purple bale and become tranfparent between the veins as tley decline; when they clofe they twift round one another in a curious manner; the 'ttyle is longer than the flamens, and terminates in three fringed f[igmas of a bright purple colour. THuBRg probably defcribed the fiigma as .fimple and villous, from examining it at too early a ttage before t was expanded. Our figure was drawn from a fpecimen which flOWered in April laf[ at Mr. WoodwoRk's, at Belmont-Houfe, ¾auxhall. It is a native of the Cape, and requires the' fame treatment as the ARISTA O,anea. Ill OROBUS VERNUS. EARLY-FLOWERING OROBUS or BITTER-VETCHø . Cla and Order. DIAl) ELl'IliA DlgCANI)RIAo Generic Charac7cr. Stylus linearis. Cal. bari obtufus: laciniis fuperioribus pro. fundioribus brevioribus. Specific Charac7er and Synonyms. OROBUS vernus foliis pinnatis ovatis, ftipulis femifagittati integerrimis, caule fimplici. Linn. $yfl. Feget. ed. 14. Murr. p. 66, lit. Kew. v. 8' P' 38' OROBUS fylvaticus purpureus vernus. Baub. Pin. 35 t. OROBUS venetus. Blue upright everlafting Peafe. Parad. p. 337' .f' 13' The O a o  u s remus is a hardy perennial, a native of Switzer land and Germany, growing to about the height of a foot, 0 a foot and a half, and producing numerous lhewy flowers i fpikes, at firft of a bright purple colour, afterwards blue, fre- quently, but not in all fituations, fucceeded by feed-veffel fparingly produ6tive of feeds; the fertility of the plant in th refpe6t depends as much on the favourablenefs of the fear as on foil and fituation; for the cold EaPterly winds whic frequently prevail in April, when this plant is in bloffom, only mar its beauty, but render it unfruitful; hence it is neceffary on there occafions, to cover it with a hand-glafs growing in the open border, or to remove it into the greel houfe if kept in a pot; but by gentle forcing we gual, againft all accidents of weather, and may thus poffefs it in the greateft perfc6tion. It is uœually propagated by parting its roots in Autumn, early in the Spring; may alfo be railed from feeds, ,e fhould be careful to gather in time;' prefers a foil ra0d rarely gift and moift, and a lheltered fituation. \ T IxIA PATENS. SPREADING-FLOWERED or CRIMSON IxIA. ½!a/s and Order. TabANkara MONOGYNIA. Generic Charager. Cor. 6-partita campanulata regularis. $tigmata 3. 8perifir Chara7er and Synonyms. IXIA patens  tubo filiformi, limbo' campanulato-patente: laciniis oblongis, filamentis coarOatis ere&is, l'tigmatis laciniis antheras fubequantibus. Gawler Efat. African. inedit. IXIA patens foliis fubenfiformibus glabris, racemo terminali), corollis campanulatis patulis: laciniis ahernis anguff- Joribus, filamentis ere&is. liton Hort. Kew. t. x. p. 59. IXIA ariflata. Schnev. Icon. ta& 82. IXIA flaccida. Sali.[b. prodrom. 35- IXIA concoler. Ibid. 36. } hujus varietates ? IXIA conica. ]bid. 8t5. an In this very numerous family, in which even the limits of the genus are as yet far from leing well afcertained, there is often great difficulty in tracing out the fynonyms of preceding authors. In this ihftance we acknowledge ourfelves entirely indebted to JotiN BrrsN G,wr, Efq. from whof½ labours we may foon expe to fee this difficult fubje elu- cidated, as he is about to publith a new arrangement of the natural order of Enfata.  I? I,, i,,, IIIIIIIIIIII This very Paewy Ixia, the brilliancy of whole flowers it {' impofiible to imitate by art, is a native of the Cape, ad h. been of late years frequently imported from Holland by th name oK I x i A kerm½ta; but vas, as we are informed b Mr. Ax:oN firft introduced into this country by the latt Dr. WxLLx.M P:c.tN in the year 779- It varies much in the breadth and length of the fegments 0 the limb, and in colour from a deep crim{bn to a light vet. million; in the length and breadth of-thc leaves, which 'arl rometimes nearly lanceolate, at others linear-enfiform, {brae times nearly equal to the ftem, fometimes not half the legth Some varieties have, as in our figure, a {hall greenilh at the bale, in others the colour is uniform. All are fcentl and flower nearly at the fame time. It varies alfo muct in the number of [lowers, and the fcape is !braetimes timpie at others a little branched. Ix[^ FSULOSA. HO.Low-L^vED Ix^. Clafs and Order. TRIANDRIA MONOOYNIA. (;eneqc CharaZler. for 6-partira campanulata regularis. Sligmata 3' $p¾c Ch,v;ac7er an,t SynoD. ms. IXIA tflulqfi7; foliis teretibu's fiftulotis obtufit]imls '  . . 11111OCUC mucronat-}] -lapt 41exuofoi' floribus ii,cat%- diRichis. IXIA teret(/b/ia. Herbar. Banks. GLADIOLUS fiJults fpica diftich. foliis terctibus fiffu10fis.- a?g. tJorl. '$eoenSg lorn.  ta. 6.' The Ixt: flut of the Botanift's repotory having been already figured by .j^co_v,, and called radiala, ought to reain thnt name: we therefbre feel ourfelves at liberty to adopt this, ahhough for a very different plant. We have raffler ranked it with lxia than Gladiolus, becaufe .of the near affinity it bears to the lxt^ fpicata and plantaginea of .Wix-rorow, which is fo great as to require lkeing them all in a living flare to determine whether the three are really dirtinter or merely varieties of each other. It agrees too wit} the characqer of this genus in the regularity of the corolla,. and in not having the filaments and ffyle bent down as in Gladiolus. It grows from a froall round bulb, which is covered with a brown fibrous coat; the leaves are perfke[ly linooth, round,  Vide Recenfio Plant. Repofit. Botanic. No. 4. inflated, inflated, larger towards the end, very obtufe, with a froall fort point, or mucro; the'fcape is a great way enclofed in the /heathing leaves, the flowering part only being protruded, hich generally bends down and then riles as in the figure. The flowers form an imbricated diItich fpike, are without fcent, and arise from a fpathe of three valves. In the lower part of the fpike, and fometimes for the whole length, no flowers are produced, but a froall bulb is contained in the outer valve of the fpathe, of the fize and form of a grain of oat, which J.cQtrN confidered as an abortlent flower enciofed in the internal valves of the fpathe; but Mr. G^wLER having planted thefe bodies they all grew, which proves them to be real bulbs. The Ix^fifltdqfa is a native of the Cape of Good-Hope, and that from which our figure was drawn was imported from thence by Eu. WoouoRu, Efq. in whole colle&ion it flowered in June 8oo. It has been alfo imported by Mr. Gtawoon, Nurferyman, at Brompton; and the fpecimen preferved in the Herbarium of Sir Jose,u BANKS, marked IXlA teretiJolia, flowered at Mr. MALCOLM'S, at Stockwall, in t79t. It feems to be rather {by of flowering, being apt to produce bulbs in{lead of flowers; by there, however, as the experiment of Mr. GawLv. e. flews, it may be readily propagated. ,p[,bq.O.,N!U..M. PULC. HE},LUM. '.NONESUCH P. EIARGONU,M, or CRANE'$:--B.IL[, Generic Char. acTe#. PELARGONIUM pulchellum; fubacaule, l'capo divifo, œoliis oblongis 1obato-pinnatifidis, petiolis alati. For this hitherto undefcribed fpecies of Pelargonium we are indebted to Mr. Alderman HiEw, in whole garden at Clapham-Common the choicef[ gifts Of Flora are cultivated on a molt magnificent fcale. Not lefs with a view to the promotion of the fcience of Botany, than the gratification his own ta{ie and the infurmg a fupply of rare plants, this gentleman was induced, at his own expence, tO fend a colle&or to the Cape of Good Hope, who, among many others, lent home this beautiful one, which flowered in the ove at Clapham in April laft. It is particularly difdnguifhed from all its con- geners by the winged footflalks; there wings are of a more firm and rigid texture than the re{[ of the leaf, and as this perilhes they change to a brown colour, become more ere&, and, like a bunch of finall holly leaves, prote the Crown of the root from being browfed, a circum{ance we learned from the examination of a dried fpecimen lent by Mr. M^sox% and preferred in the Herbarium of Sir Josav The The whole plant is hairy and froells f/ightly of Tartly. It has only five fertile flamens, as is, we believe, omrnon to molt, if not all, the turnip and tuberousrooted _fpecies. There likewife differ from the caulefcent fpecies, in that the flower-buds do not nod, but rife out of the involucrum ere before they open. Its feed-veffels are defleed. It is a ufual circumftance with moR of the genus to have a joint at the bafe of the proper flowet-Ralk more remarkable in fome fpecies than in others. We were at firft much Rruck with obferving this joint in- our plant to be fituated from one-third to nearly half the fpace between the bale and the flower; but in the native fpecimen we find. this is not the care, and are therefore inclined to impute it to the heat of the Rove. In the fame co!leion we perceived anothe. v; Pelargonium, .many rfpes rfembling this, with. white flowers but whether t be a difiin. fpecies. or merely a variety we cannot-at prefent determine, . It is to be treated as one of the tenderer forts l N T! RrR II,I_.N UM TRORNITHOp-IORUM. THREE- ClaJ3 and Order. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOS.PERMIAo ß Generic Cbraiger. Cal. 5-phyllus. Coroll, e bails deor. fnm Br43mira;ens, :ne&arifera, Capf. o-locularis. Specific CharaHer and Synonyms. ANTIRRHINUM triornithophorum, i%liisquaternis ternifque] lanceolatis, caule erefid ramold, floribus [ternis-I pedunculatis. Spec. PL 853. LINARIA Americana maxima, purpureo fidre. Herman, Lugdb. 377- LINARIA fidre purpureo Americana. Riv. mort. t. 84. fig. bona. It is rather furprifing that this ANTIRRHINUM, the moil: thewy perhaps of the whole genus, though apparently neither particularly tender nor difficult of propagation, thould be al- tooft unknown in this country*; notwithftanding it was cultivated by Profeffor H:g^N, in the Botanic Garden at Leyden, more than a century fince. The Pro[eft'or remarks, that it has a creeping root, by ,hich it diffufis it{klf widely, and puts forth freth thoots every year, by which we may underltand, that it is fufficiently hardy to bear the Dutch winters; he tells us alfo, that it grows to the height oœ a man. Kept .in a pot and treated * It is not mentioned in the'Kew Catalogne; we find, however, that it was in Dr. FOTHERGILL'S Garden at Upton, in the year x779. $ as as a greenhoufe plant, it riles with feveral Rems, three or lout feet in length, and continues to flower during great. part of the Summer, but produces no feed. The leaves grow m whorls o three, four, (xr five, but generally three at the upper part. The flowers conftanfiy grow by threes upon ere peduncles, to xhich they are attached nearly horizontally with their mouths turned towards one another, fo as to form a ftriking refemblance to three birds, from whence the name of triornithopborum, or three-bird-bearing. It has been for fov0e years cultivated m the Royal Garden at Kew, but we do not know of its having yet found its way into a. ny other colle&ion except that of X¾ooxvov. D, Efq. at Vauxhall, from whence our drawing vas made. It is a native of North-America, and of Portugal, and from what is remarked above, might probably be better treated as a hardy herbaceous perennial. It may be inc. reafed by cuttings or parting the roots. CORNUS FLORIDA. GREAT-FLOWERED CORNEL Or DOGV½0OD. Clafs and Order: TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Charaer. Ivoleru 4-phyllum [pius. Peta(a [upera 4. Drua nucleo biloculari. Xpecc Charaer and Snonms. CORNUS forida, arbarea, involucro maximo: [oliolis cordads (pouus apice indentads.] & hmidt. rb. CORNUS mas Virginiana. C2tb. Czrolim t. . In the temperate regions of North-America this tree is much fpoken of for its beauty, tiring from ten to twenty' feet in height, agreeable in its foliage, and covered in the SPring and early part of the Summer with a profufion of white or ibmetimes rofe- coloured flowers; nor does it want beauty kven in the gloomy months of V½inter, from the quantity of red berries which it bears, and which at that feafon afbrd fuftenance to the finer warbler of the woods of America, the celebrated mocking bird (Turdus Orpheus) emphatically called in the Indian language, the Hundred-Tongued Bird. 'The flowers, which are not really fuch, but are in fa& an involucrum, in the bofom of which lie the fmall and, in appear- ance, inflgnificant flowers, begin to come out before the leaves; but, as they expand or rather increafe flowly (for C^TaSa¾ .tells us, that they are fully formed when they firit come out not larger than a fixpence, but increafe gradkxally in fize to the breadth of the hand) the tree is in perfeEt foliage before they arrive at their full growth. The leaves of the involucrum would hardly have been called obcordate had L3zvs had an opportunity of feeing them in a living flare; they'ap- proach to this fhape by an indentation at the very point of the leaf, as if the four points had been nipped together whilft in the bud, a form which the fkill of our draughtfman has enabled him to exprefs far better than has been done by any preceding artiff. - It "t-on prnnotes its .growth $Plidt Ofie' atmzucbt. It is a tree of flow growth, and in Europe has, we believ rarely arrived to any very confiderable fize. That which fonded -the -fu, bje of our p'efent figure iso perhaps., aimoff th only one in this country that can be faid neady to rival thole of its native foil. 'It govs in the fi)uk, e o garden at Sion-H. ill, is about fixteen feet high, aud fpreads leaff eighteen, has a firnight trunk about fix 'feet in lengt, before it branches, meafurng two feet in circumference yard from the ground; the bark much refemble an elm o the fame fize. This beautiful tree has flowered freely for many years pafi, but ufortunaely produces no fruit. Its ag is unknown, but as we have evidence .of its being cultivated at Chelfea by Mtw, in 739, it is probable that its ori. g may not be of much later date. We are much. obl-iged -, Mr. W.x:rx^t% his Geaee's Gardener, -fo.r 'f.nding us notice .Of.this tree, and-favouring us with fpecimens and with th above dimenfions. "It is moff certai!y propagated by feeds lent from Vi ginia, which fhould..be fown immediately tfter their a:rivv in boxes or pans of fandy garden mould, and covered wit wet moœ% to prevent the earth from drying, and place[ where theymay be.proeed fvorn 'fr. Ta-efe precami0ns .me the a-note ,eceffary, as the 'feed ,wi.[l :lie il. the grou I fill the fec(3nd or hird year before they :gerrafinate; as-the .young plants ,gonerally come up ,the iater-en.o ,0 Summer, they are ,then in :too tender a .frame to ,r-etift .the frOff xeithout fme .coveri.ng. A /hady anx:l flqeltered fitu and. fetmxes fi,ts :prefvadon ZINNIA ELEGCa. NS. 'VIOLET-CoLoURED ZINNIA. Ch and Order. SYNGENESIA POLYG^IVIIA SL Generic Chaic?e: Recept. paleaceum. Pappus arifiis z ereOtis. GIL ovat'o. cylindricus, imbricatus. Flo'i'uh' 5-to radii perfil{entc', integri. apecific CharaZe and Syno,o,ms. ZINNIA eleg'ans, foliis amplexicaulibus, floribus pedunculati, hermaphroditorum tkmitfibus brevitlime mucronati, ]acq. Icon. far. 589 . Call. 5'  5 . ZINNIA vialacea tbliis ovat&acutis tklfilibus fibconnati', palearum aplcibus fimbriato-fi:rratis. G,van. Hi. ' 57' t. 8x. dnd. Bat. Rep. t. 55' j.cv .r having defcribed this Zx44 ^ in his Collecqane5 and publifled a figure of it in his Icones before that of C^ v.4LLv. s, his name of Zrr.,, .elegans has the right priority, and we of courfe.adopt it. It is a native of Mexico. and. being a tender.annual. c  only be railed kom leds. which thould be lbwn in the Sprirl on a hot-bed. and by the latter-end of May thould be fa abroad in large pots. or may be planted out in the open border. where from its fize and the beauty of its flowers. ,'ill continue to make a conlpicuous figure till deft rayed the froit. ? pHLox OVATA. OVATE-LEAVED PHLOX or LYCHNIDEA. CI.' ad Order. PENTAN DllIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Changer. C*, hypocrateriFormis. Filaenta inmqualia. Stigna 3-fidurn, Gal. prifinatlcus. Gp 3-1ocularis, x-therma. Specific Charaer ad ynonyms. pHLOX ovata, rymbis fubfalligiads, corollm laciniis undulatis remfis. PHLOX ovata, foliis ovails, fl.oribus lblitariis. Linm Sper. As this fpecies has been rome years known in the Englifl gardens under the name of P Lox ovata, and corretbonds with the fpecimen preferred under the fame appellation in Sir ]OSEPH BAKs's Herbarium, we do not hefitate to continue at Ical[ till we all be certain that the Linnean ovata is ..'.ly a different plant, although it hardly kerns probable that cmmre ould make fimh a change as to convert a naturally folitary flower into fo large a panicle. The leaves of the fialk vary very much in breadth, and are f0medmes lanceolate rather than oYate, but the radical leaves, e{bccially thole of the young timors which are puIhed out tkom the root after the plant has done flowering, always pretrve their charaer. Tbe flowers nod on their fid[ coming out. The whole plant is perFefily fmooth. h is a native of North-America, and, though generally confidered as a greenhoufe plant, appears to be a hardy herbaceous perennial, and we o'bfcrved, that when treated as fuch at MeltYs. /HITLEY'8 and Co. where it is planted in the open border in a foil conrifling chiefly of a randy loam, it thrives better than under any other management, the roots [2nding tbrth very vigorous fimots at a 'confidetable diance from the parent plant. Our drawing was made rome years ago from a fpecimen which flowered in the Botanic Garden at Brompton, fince which time it is become much more common. It may be eriecreed one of the handlbme of dm genus; is eafily pro- pagated by parting the roots, thrives belt in a randy loam, and allhough thfficiently hardy to reftIt the cold of our ordinary Wmters it may be fakfi to give lbme pots of i't the elter of a greenhoulb or of a melon frame. MELASTOMAMALABATHRICA- CINNAMON-LEAVED or B.,cK STRAWB.RR¾-TR.E. / 7 1 , ./ .Y ? / .f ./ Claj and Order. DECANDRIA MON OGY-NIAt Generic CharaCTer. Cal. 5-fidus campanulatus. Petal. 5-calyci inferta. I3acc. 5.1ocularis, calyce obvoluta. Specific Charaler and Synonyms,' MELASTOMA malabatbrica; foliis integerrimis 5-nerviis lanceolato-ovatis fcabris. Spec. Plant. ed. H/illdenow, 9.. 599.. Martin Miller's DieT. n. o. Flor. Zeylan.  7 ' œurm. Zeyl.  55. t. 73- Ind. ' o4. KEDALI. Rheed Malabar. 4- 87- t. 4" FRAGARIUS niger. Rumph. .dmboyn. 4. P. $7' t. 7 . It is fingular, that of this very numerous enus, of which eighty-five fpecies are enumerated by'Wzzffow, not one !hould be found in the Kew Catalogue Several of them have been introduced of late years; but, of all that we have feen, this is the handfomeR, and is otherwife interefting, as being the one from which the name of the genus was framed by Profeffor Bu?a^. This fignifies black mouth, a name given to it b, the vulgar, from its effe& on the mouths of the chil- dren ,ho ate of the fruit, which is filled with a black pulp. .Bring a native of Ceylon and other parts of the EaR-Indies, n mull ,ith us, always require to be kept in a Rove, where it forms a handrome fhrub. Our figure was taken from a fine plant which flowered thi:s Sun, met .at Mr,/ldcrmn Hx   x', at Clapham-Common. ATRAGENE ALPINA )a'. AUSTRIACA. Order. POLYANDRIA OLYGYNIA. Generic Chara7er. œ ....  Cor. duplex petalis numerofis exterioribus majoribus. Specific Chara7er and Synonyms. ATRAGENE alpina; fcandens, foliis biternatis ferfatis acu- minatis, petalis exterioribus quaternis interiori_ bus fpathulatis. 3)vec. ]L edit. Pk71ldenow, 2. 8 5. ATRAGENE alpia foliis duplicato-ternatis ferratis, petalis exterioribus quaternis. 3)vet. tL 764. ]acq. Z/r. t. 4. ATRAGENE clematdes. Crantz. Fafc. 4' t. 5. ATRAGENE aufiriaca lbliis duplicato-ternatis trratis.; caule fi-uticofo fcandente. Stop. Cam. . 387. CLEMATIS alpina geranifolia. tluk. thyt. t. 84.f..7. Morif. H. 3,f. 5. t. . f. ul/. CLEMATIS cruciata alpina. 1Ponce tald. 335. ir from Siberia and that from Auftria. -ut. Olttln:[ tpecies, are certainly nermanent vari ' ' plant s undoubtedly. the Autlrian kid, and was firRe; ' Our oduced to this Countr V by Mr. Locs, Nurferyman at Hackney, vho raifed it rom feeds fent fi'om Crane above fourteen years ago, and in his garden it has flowered fi'eely for feveral years pail, as alfo in rome others to which it has been extended. Our figure was taken this Summer from a plant in the poffcon of Mrs. Wc. The above fnongms a car t alth ,, :. ß . _ . pp o us to belone to this variety, me -.t . r racy maF remr to more [han one fort, a.s -umor o not in every rfifpea agree. It It branches from the very bottom into tveral flender ftalks feveral fcet in length, which entwine round one another and whatever tupport comes in their way, where'they are held fa{t by the f0odtalks of the leaves, which, after their decay, become woody, anti continue to perform the office of clafpers. The {talks are truly farmentous, the internodes being perfeEtly naked. At eqal diftances of about four inches, the leaves and flowers {ring from the {:ame bud. There gemma are gene- rally oppofite, confiR of feveral imbricated perfiftent {iuamm, the centre ones larger, membranous, aud of a brown colour. It may be confidered as an iuvolucrum, from the bofom which grow ufually two petioles anti a pealuncle bearing a fo- litary nodding flower. The petioles are an inch and half 1ong fmooth, or, if examined with a lens, flightly pubefcent, and' livide into three branches, of which the centre one is the longeft, each bearing a ternate leaf. The leaflets, as iu of he genus, are fubjc to vary confiderably in thape, but general the three terminal ones are diltinEt, ovate, actate, and more or lefs deeply ferrated, he lateral leaflets frequently run all three into. one; all are timloth, but veiny on the under fide. ' The peduncle is longer than the leaves and {traight, bearing the flower nodding anti the feeds ereEt. In the axillw of the petioles the new gemma are formed. By this arrange- ment, and the per{tRent petioles, the old knots become very large and intricate. The outer corolla conrifts of four large petals of a fine blue colour with a white edge, are ovat% acute, anti covered on the outfide, efpeciallv at the margins, with- fine down. The inner petals are it( faEt nothing more th:n enlarged barren filaments; and therefore the {paration 0f this genus from Ct^ms, appears to us, in this inftance- leaft] to be neither natural nor necefitry. The plume of the ted is a buthy tail of long white hairs, but is neither fecund, as reprefented in j^cui's .fi.gure, nor diftich, as defcribed by Wxxnqow.  _ , , , ._ exeriencd ß It is propagated by leeds omv, at mat inc la . ß cultivator wht introduced it, has riot yet been able to fucce. by any other mode. Is perfeCCtly hardy, bearing the fevere. fro['ts of our climate without iQury. -%. Isis Twsos. IRIS, or ClaJ3 and Order. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Charac7er. Cor. 6-partita: laciniis alternis reflexis. $tigmata petali- formia. Specific Charac7er and Synonyms.. IRIS tuberofa; imberbis foliis tetragonis. qhunb. Diff. n. 43- Spec. ]lant. edit. I/illdenow, x. 4o. Martin Miller's Digl. n. 47- $wert Floril. I. 36. IRIS tuberof a, folio angulofo. Bauh. Pin. 40. Motif. Ifl. 2. 2- 348. f 4. t. 5-f- - Lobel. Hifl. 5x.figtramelior. Dod. $tirp. 249. fig. eadem. Gerard. emac. x o 3. eadem. tark. tarad. p. x88. t. 85. f. 6. HERMODACTYLUS folio quadrangulo. ourn. Cog 50. This fpecies of IRs, readily diRinguilhed from every other by its quadrangular leaves, is more remarkable for the fingu- larity than for the beauty of its flowers; yet, to rome minds not apt to be caught by gaudy atire, there fombre tints have their charms. In this refpe& it ftrongly contraRs with our next figure. It is a native of the Levant, and with refpe to the cold of our. climate is perfe&ly hardy, flowers be/t, according to Mn.LR, in an eaf[ern arpel, and if the foil be light it will be proper to put fome rubbifh at the bottom to prevent the roots defcending too deep, in which care they feldom produce flowers. ' It bloffoms in April or May, rarely produces feed with us, but is eafily propagated by offsets from the roots, which may be taken up when the leaves decay, but fhould not be kept long out of the groun&. * Ma:ri MLL's Dirt. q.l[,. '!."I,Jltlllllll[ 4 lafs and Order. .O'N AbE L TRIANDRIA; Generic Chara7er g..phylla; Cal. o. Petala 6. 3-,e.ternis latioribus. œapf 3Aoeulari infera. Specific Charaœ?er ,,,t Syno9'mSo RkRIk %''ridia; foliis plicatis, cornIlls ]:ato-urceolati: lac,niis interiofibus deprefib-intErfe62is. FERRARIA pavonœ; caule fimplici flcxuo{b, {bliis equi- tantibus enliformibus nervofis, petalis. plahis": h,terioribu)'duplo brevioribus pmduriformibt/s. ß ,gpec. PL edit. 144'!ldi,=w, v. g. P; 58. œRRARA 'paonia. Lim, Suppl. 407 . 6hv. D/fl. p. t.'z89. Larmarck Eno'clop. v..g, p. 453' TIgRiDIA luffcu. G. P"57- " ' ,OR'AK Pa,onia. Ëhun& Mra, a, 4, 0. . UOL. OXO.CH1 [L. feu flore tgns. Horn. nov. PL "H/fl.' tab. 'u76. Girard. emac. 'x=. .z. œnqclop. Brit..t. 350. , . rlt3R!D.iS iqds' an D'racun6uli fpecies ? Lob, Obf. 59. Icon.  .i - Dotl. pemp't. 3. P. 4  . 8werlii bloril. t.' ..8. fig; g. Y. Bauh. . p. 684. . Rail Hifl,  i 65. 3Y. ?heod 'de Bry, Florileg, nov. t.  x t. Of all the ' above authors, no-one had fee.n the living plat , :ep[  HstaT]z, who .was lent to Mexico as a Phyfician,  P'.nxV IIi Kin of $nain; and his fizure, though only a ,m annden. cu; is more' botanically co.rre& than any of the Others, not excepting that of C.va ]z.'. We are. informed by by him that it grew wild.atmt laxco, and was much ctil vacd for its .exceflive beag. t.¾ and for the meflficinhl virtue -/s- 'oot  being, ao  he ter t, "" a tfrgefacent'm 'f4v4rs, "alfo. a promoter f fec9jy in O,m". oth H a  . and M. D Baahxo, otn who' Eo.L derived his ]edge of the plant, obferve that the root is elulent. Allt ofi.er old authors appear t0 hav' bo';fi: ß hat they h Ihid from thefe two fources, except perhaps DE By,. fays he received it (probabl meaning the drawing) Csv. Bus. The auth6r of this figure, though publiihed befbre the Rome edi.fion of the Mican hil{ory, pears to  ,, I'ad accel to the drawing'o'f'Hsv the form ct tle Eo,..r is the fame, only ibur roots are cros t6gether. The more 6deft. .d.or {em to ha;e made t deicripti ns ,  figures frot. no other authority except ß id 'e cnen  ffen cf jvs,.xu ofM cited by the yo gcr' L e o, 'we have n0t'feen;.n not, we believe, been publifled. For the poffeffion fuperb [ow. er, his country, ld perhaps Europe, i i,uebted o ELs Hoogso, Efq. .verton, near Iiverpool, wi v'hom it. flowered and rpe leeo - v, ,o tom gefifffinhn ano by th.em it ha been difpb, among 'ier i li/tle'fea, ,, d, ,il loon h  very corninc s t flowes freely, .pr, cds in abunaafice , and may ;ikewife vcreared 'by om the rd0i, It as aa but in'fplendid beaut), t a , tdus at leaft ;he6 by rarity and fingularity, t, lurpafs' .eer  lament that ths too affords Our fair countrymomenran . .2 I .' .'   .. l't-l' ß - lefton, how extremeIf fdgac!ous s this loveh, 'born to difplay its gl"ff but' for 'd few 'melts 'a,ay. By he alteratlon.made .by W t'ow in the name of pa?da, 'ijoicioufly adopted' from a fuppofed 'feblfice t the IRis pavo' 4'., figu.ed;,by [geeui (not Iago pavonia of'he Botanical Magazine)' is'totally inadmib the colours being in no refpefi .timilar to. thofe of e.peac we have, therefore, as nearly as could be done in one w0 veftored .the ofigjvl name. We have,?x .tdStiopal 'o fo from the confiderafi0n,-.that'fimuld it. bs-beveftev :nffary to make it a dn.fgsnus iom' -doubtealy c_giyen it, Dsc. Root, a tunicated bulb, producing from one to four fiems about a foot and half high, fomewhat flexuofe, rotrod, finted, fmooth, bearing at each joint a plicated oblong-lanceo- fate leaf {Yore a rheathing petiole the length of the internode, and at the fummit an involucrum, apparently conrifting of two !anceolate, ancipital, conduplicate, nearly equal valves, of which the exterior is in fa& the common fpathe or involucre, and embraces the interior with its contents; the interior valve, which is exa&ly oppofed to the outer one, is the proper fpathe of the firit flowerand embraces it, together with the fpathes and flowers that are to come in fucceffion; the fpathe of the fecond ]lower is oppofed to that of the firit, and placed between it and the pedicel of the fid[ flower; and fo of the reft, every fpathe being oppofed to the one of the preceding flower and embraced by it. There fpathes are Jimilar in fiape, but diminifl pt0 b eflively and become more membranaceous. Lrolla, broad urceolate (but this could not be expreffed by the drawing in a front-view of the flower) divided into fix fegments, of' which the' three outer are urceolate at the bale, expanded abovc, and reftcried at the point; the three inner ones finallet by half, bifor, 2, fi, gularly divided into a lower haftate and an upper ot( ifion by a deprefld interfeion; the upper divifion i ,)l 'cheft fcarlet imaginable, vat egateo by a bright golden Ak .... t, ...nent, a cuniculated or piped triquetral column. .nt.K'rs, feffile, ere&, bearing their pollen on the outfide, con- the ¾oint, diverging below to admit the exit of the i Germen, obtufely trigonal, three-celled. Style, the !  of the iliamental column, thrøugb the hollow of which it [ .... etig, :s, three, filiform, bifid. Ca,rule, oblong, obtnfely tri-, three-celled. Seeds, in double rows in each cell and rand. It-is a native of Mexico nd Peru, is properly a greenhoufe plant, and fucceeds belt in.light mould. feedlings will flower the fecond year. It is belt to take up the bulbs the latter. end of September or O&ober, and to keep them out of the ground alii the Spring% ß In every part of this paper, we have been very much alii/ted by the liberal g0mmnications of Jolla Bbtz GAWIR, Eft I. ' '"'1211,llllllllllll 'l '.. Ciafs and Order. -TRI,N DRIA MONOtYN IA. Generic Charalter. $path adpreffa. ' Corolle tubus gracilis: faux cyathiformi- eylindrica: limbus fexpartitus fubaqualis vel aqualis. Filamentrt tuho adnata . t:auce hbera. $tigm. 3- gracilia bifida. rigid?.coriacea. Sero. oblongiufcula plurima. Gawh'r inedit. .Specific Charatler and Synonyms. WATSONIA a!etroides t coroilis' fubcernuis: tubo fpathim: fubaquante: fauce limbi !aciniis brevibus ovati'  -  ß ' aqualibugfere quadruplo longlore. Gi ". " .hNTHOLYZA alethroides[ Burman. Flor Cap; œrod. t. 'Hutt.  Linrt. Pfl. S).  . 77' GLADIOLUS tubulofits. acq. Ic. rar. . 9 Coll. .'53' . G'EADIOLUS merianus. hunb. Diff. de Glad.' p. 4. ni Prod. 7' 'NTHOLYZA merianella. tit. Kew. . p. 67. Curtis's Bot Mag'. 44. .,NTHOLYzA tubulofa, ,3arietas flore variegato. tndrews's... Bot. Repof.  7 4' 'The name of Watfonia was firl gi3en by Mlzi., in ho- nour of our friend, the late Si'r Wxxx. Wxso, an-/t was adopted by Jussu in that invaluable work his Genera plat- targin, and will be found to lbrm a very natural genus, tifffici.eniy diftin& from Antholyza. This very elegantl)ecies which does not appear to have been noticed by Wztow, is readily diftinguifned from every other by the diftin& form of the corol- la, which Itrongly refembles rome fpecies of' Aietris, Lachenalia, and Aloe. The alternate fegments are interior; the bulb is com- prettied and tunicated. It is very fubje& to vary, having in one )nltance a tingle fcape fix or eight inches high, with three or four diflant, rometimes one-ranked, flowers; in another, a three or four-branched Item two feet high, with a terminal fpike of fro m twenty to thirty clofely imbricated dittich flowers, and adpreffed fpikelets in proportion. The fame bulb will one .fear produce pale pink, the next deep crimfon, and the foliow. mg eariegated or ftriped corollas, as in the figure, always lcentlefs. One of thefe varieties has heen already figured in the the Botanical Magazine, ted%t.e ?ame of AN :I4 o rYz rianella vid. pl. 44t,. but"he "re'al Azorvza merianella different plant, having phefc½t. [.ves, fewer in number ' %' ; - .}', ' !'. ' ß nearly eathing h wlol Item, owers dffeyently {brmed, with larger and roundfeg", - s 'ffgag:t{tg'' Cemplicate; and is in fa& a Gladiolus nearl'v'allied:ta GL,XDIOLUS hittus by leaf, and to GLap.9,/4du.,by tbq. tbular throat. As there is a fpecimen ofooy plant preferved in Sir Jossxt ae$' Herbarium f;0m Kew-Garden, un&er the name of .,..} - . . . - .   . , . . .. . .. fi'OL'Za mertan&l . xt 'i* not xmnrobabe Chat ths-or-   .... , .]: ß ! . . *- .:, ,, . - . .'. t6'ance led ; Cu-wxs into' 'an errol; :,ch xs no dl p''aemeht io";hi;"jgent, 'for fuch';is-'th& cgn;fion 're. BotaniRs ackno%.dge', their inbility..t. :determine many of hfqba it.fIf, o3ingio;t!gr