; ; : U R T I S' S Botanical Magazine: C OR, FLOWER-GARDEN DISPLAYED: WHICH The most Ornamental Foreign Plants, IN cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented in their natural Colours TO WHICH ARE ADDED, Their Names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according; Linnaeus their Places of Growth, and Times of Flowering to the celebrated ; Together with the most approved Methods of Culture WORK A Intended for the Use of such Ladies, Gentlemen, and Gardeners, as wish to become scientifically acquainted By JOHN with the Plants they cultivate SIMS, M.D Fellow of the Royal and Linnean VOL Being XLVIII the Sixth of the The Flowers, which Societies New Series grace their native beds, Awhile put forth their blushing heads, Hnt, e'er the close of parting day, They wither, shrink, and die But these, which mimic Nor scorched by skill away hath made, by shade, suns, nor killed Shall blush with less inconstant hue, Which art at pleasure can renew Lloyd Ho Hon: it Printed by Published by And Sold W & S Couchman, Sherwood, Neely, by the Throgmorton-Street & Jones, 20, Paternoster- Row principal Booksellers in Great-Britain MDCCCXXI and Ireland, $Z19S> Fui.byJt lure ' Wm.V*r**K &«T W^AttJt ( 2189 ) Magnolia macrophylla Large-leaved Magnolia Class and Order POLYANDRIA PoLYGYNIA Generic Character Cal 3-phyllus Petala Caps 2-valves, imbricatae Sem baccata, pundula Specific Character Magnolia macrophylla ; and Synonyms ram is medullosis fragilibus, foliis ob- longe subcuneato-obovalibus basi sinuata subauriculatis, subtus glaucis Hort Kew ed alt p 331 Michaux Amer bor p 327 Michaux Arb v t Magnolia macrophylla ; ramis medullosis fragilibus, foliis amplissimis oblonge subcuneato-obovalibus basi sinuata subauriculatis subtus glaucis, petalis sex ovatis obtusis Pursh Amer p 381 Magnolia macrophylla Nuttall Amer p 18 Magnolia macrophylla; foliis amplissimis obovato-oblongis Poir basi subauriculatis subtus glauco-subtomentosis Encycl Sup p 572 : The Magnolia macrophylla a small pyramidal growing tree with leaves and flowers larger than those of any other tree in North-America ; the former growing from a foot to two feet and a half in length, and six or eight inches in breadth, smooth, bright green on the upper and glaucous on the under side; the latter larger than the blossoms of Magnolia grandijlora, and in our individual though probably much smaller than in its native soil, too large for the size of our plate It consists of six white petals, the three internal* is * Authors generally attribute this colour to the external hairing used the word inferiora, but we suspect that this petals, is Michaux a misprint for **teriora ones ones tinged with purple towards the base Its locality seems to be very limited, having been found only in Tenassee, west of the Cumberland River, and in a small district of North Carolina, about twelve miles south-east of Lincolnton Our drawing was made from a small tree growing in the open ground in the garden of James Vere, Esq where it blossomed in July last, perhaps for the first time in England Xma ( 2190 ) Chloranthus monostachys One-spiked Chloranthus, or Chu-lan and Order C'Zflss MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA * Plores apetali Generic Character Anthera lateri ovarii insidens triloba,, 4-locularis) Stigma capitatum bUocularis; (indivisa, Ovarium monospermum Drupa Brown : vel ovulo pendulo Character Specific Chloranthus monostachys ; antheris incurvis trilobis in- divisisve, spicis solitariis, floribus alternis Br In the natural system Jussieu considers Chloranthus as very nearly related to Viscum, and has placed it in his family ofLoranthece,as established 12 p 299 But in the Brown makes it Annates du Museum, vol new order, of which we may the type of a be called Chloranthece, the definition expect from him, perhaps in the next volume of the Transactions of the Linnean Society To this family belong Ascarina of Forster, and Hedyosmum of Swartz (the Tafalla of Ruiz and Pa von) Its place in the system will be near to Piperace& and Urticece, with both of which it agrees in having to a direction opposite to the umbilicus, and a one-seeded ovarium; but differs especially in its pendulous ovulum and in habit By the advice of Mr Brown we have placed Chloranthus in the first class of the Linnean system, although, he observes, that only one known species (C monander Br.) is really and at the same time constantly monandrous; for in inconspicuus and elatior (Br.) the three-lobed four-celled anther, hitherto regarded as an antheriferous petal, is according to him composed the radicle of the embryo in posed of three confluent anthers, of which the middle one only is perfect or two-celled, corresponding with the anther of monander, the lateral being dimidiate or one-celled and in monostachys both simple and compound anthers are found : in the same spike Native of China Our drawing was taken in August last at the garden of the Horticultural society, by whom this hitherto undescribed species was introduced, through their correspondent John Reeves, Esq F.R.S and L.S, of Canton ',2m ( 2191 RULINGIA PANNOSA ) CLOTH-LEAVED RlJ- LINGIA Class and Order Pentandria Pentagynia (Inter Maherniam et Commersoniam) Generic Character Petala 5, e cucullata basi {Nectarium dispermis Capsula: indivisa, Lin.) septis Stamina ligulata Ovarium duplicatis sterilia 5, 5-loculare: demum loculis 5-partibihs Brown Specific Character Rulingia pannosa; capsulis echinatis exsertis, foliis dentato -serratis acutis planis supra scabris subtus tomentosis : in- ferioribus ovatis subcordatis passimque lobatis; superiori- bus oblongo-lanceolatis Br prodr.fi nov-holl 2,inedit Mr Brown, to whom we are indebted for the above generic and specific characters, places this genus in the natural system, in his order of Ruttneriacece, which he Our friend has defined in the appendix to Flinders' voyage, vol p 540 It is nearly related to Commersonia from which it differs, in the number of sterile filaments, or division of the nectarium, in the cells of the ovarium being two -seeded, and in the capsule Named in memory of John Philip Ruling, author of an essay on the Natural Orders, in which he has published the ideas of Professor Buttner upon this subject A green-house shrub, native of Port Jackson, in New Holland, where Mr Brown discovered Communicated by several other species of the same genus Mr Kent of Clapton, in May last Fig Pig represents a separate flower magnified, as are all the other figures The Calyx Petal, with its cucullated base embracing an anther The Germen and A which approximate so closely as to appear like one style The nectarium or five barren filaments, undivided, and wanting the filiform bodies, which are interposed between each in Commersonia styles latter 12268 Ti&.U.S.tiM;i yr±arr* Oit>i afi WtUtf: ( 2268 ) Melaleuca decussata Decussate Melaleuca Class and Order PoLYADELPHIA IcOSANDRIA Generic Character Staminum phalanges 5, petalis opposite elongate : An- incumbentes Caps 3-loeularis, polyspermaj connata et inclusa calycis tubo incrassato basi adnato (ramo) ther, MftdleU / ( 2270 Gazania uniflora ) Golden-flowered Gazania ****************** Class and Order Syngenesia Polygamia Frustranea Generic Character Uecept epaleatum (nudum alveola turn germinibus exsertis) Semina villosissima Pappus piloso-paleaceus Col monophyllus tubo foliolis imbricatis tecto v nudo ; v : Brown Specific Character Gazania uniflora caule fruticoso decumbente, foliis spathulato-lanceolatis subtus tomentosis, scapo unifloro calyceque glaberrimis, radio concolore Gorteria uniflora; herbacea, foliis obovato-oblongis obtusis subtus niveo-tomentosis, caule decumbente, pedunculis unifloris Thumb Prodr 162 Act Soc Nat Hqfn v pars p t / Gorteria uniflora; caulibus unifloris depressis, foliis lanceolatis indivisis subtus tomentosis Lin Suppl p 382 Si/st Veg ed 14 p 784 ; The habit of this plant is exactly that of Gazania rigens (Gorteria rigens not Mag t 90), and the leaves shew somewhat of the same tendency to become lobed But the calyx is smoother than that of the latter, which, though otherwise smooth, has ciliated segments ; the flower is much smaller, and wants the dark purple eye at the base of the ray, this part and the disk being of one uniform colour, except a slight increase of intensity towards the base of the ligulae Native of the Cape of Good Hope, on the sea coast, near the river Zecko Flowers in July and August Propagated by cuttings Communicated by Mr Joseph Knight, from his extensive collection at the Exotic Nursery, Kings-road I&211 h m l»ii-JCrh,jr ( 2271 ) PHYTEUMA SCORZONERIFOLIA ScORZONERA- LEAVED RAMPION ale A ilf, ah alt iffm A, A ^ i^ 'fr .^T' A "fr ifr A A^ - fr- Gfas* a«rf Order Pentandria Monogynia Generic CJiaracter Cal 5-partitus Stigma 2- bus Cor rotata, 5-partita, laciniis linearis 3-fidum Caps %~ s 3-locularis, infera Specific Character and Synonyms Phyteuma scorzanerifolia ; spica elongata cylindrica, foliis lineari-lanceolatis canaliculatis dentato-serratis, stig- mate bifido Phyteuma scorzonerifolium ; spica elongata cylindrica, floribus inferioribus remotis, foliis lanceolatis crenatis ; Willd Enum p 215 superioribus linearibus Phyteuma scorzonerifolia ; foliis omnibus oblongis leviter crenatis ; supremis linearibus, spica elongata ViUars Excluso synonymo Dauph p 519 t 12 De Cand.fi franc p 713 Allioni / Stem erect, simple, smooth Leaves linear-lanDescr ceolate, decurrent down the footstalk, dentate-serrate, sides Flowers crowded Spike oblong folded inwards, smooth Bractes shorter than the small, camtogether, subsessile panulate, five-toothed Calyx with linear distant segments lacinice linear, united at the point and Corolla 5-cleft bulging open downwards ; but after flowering distinct the whole length and twisted about irregularly Stamens Anthers oblong, red, quickly shedding their purple five Pollen ; with which the style is entirely covered when first projected and appears club-shaped, but afterwards the Stigma : : and recurved, by which, as well as by the length of the spike and want of the long bractes, it is distinguished from Phyteuma Scheuchzeri (Supra t 1797J which has a trifid stigma Varies with a white flower Native of the Alps of Dauphiny A hardy perennial Flowers in July and August Communicated by Mr Anderson from the Chelsea Garden Is not recorded in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis Stigma becomes bifid Hi v1 * T%^v^v i ^H mSlff If ^^8 'ffiiUHP v II : ( 2272 Aloe Microcantha! ) Small-spined Aloe Class and Order, Hexandria Monogynia Generic Character Cor erecta, ore patulo, fundo nectarifero Filamenta receptaculo inserta Specific Character Sect.* and Synonyms Corollis cylindricis reflexis Aloe microcantha ; foliis lineari-loratis canaliculatis mar- gine spinulosis,, racemo umbellato laxo, pedunculis corolla longioribus Aloe microcantha; anguste ensiformibus inferne albomaculatis, maculis ssepe tuberculiformibus oblongis sparsis numerosis, spinis marginalibus rectis albis minutissimis foliis Haworth Suppl PI succul p 105 Descr Leaves linear-lanceolate, scarcely a foot and a half long, half an inch wide at the base, and gradually tapering to the point deeply channelled, margins armed with very minute white spines somewhat recurved, palish green with white oval distinct spots, not very fleshy, and of a supple consistence Scape nearly a foot long, semicylindrical at the lower part and rounded above, clothed with distinct, ovate, acuminate, streaked, scariose Bractes, half embracing the stem Flowers in a terminal, subumbellate, lax raceme, at first erect, then nodding Peduncles white, erect, longer than the corolla, which is cylindrical, an inch and a half long, with rose coloured petals tipped with green, a little recurved at the point the three exterior ones somewhat the shortest Filaments unequal Anthers oval, orange coloured Style the length of the corolla ; : : : Stigma capitate For For this very rare species, which is supposed not to exist in any of our other collections except in that of Kew, where it was introduced about two years since from the Cape of Good Hope, we are indebted to Thomas Kitchin, Esq of Norwich, in whose garden, rich in succulent plants, it flowered in July last N D E I In which the English Eighth Names Volume X of the Plants contained in the Forty- are alphabetically arranged PI PI 2222 Adam's-needle,Lyon's narrow- 2263 2266 2213 2269 2226 2214 2223 2238 Heath, Dark-flowered Gem-bearing 2251 Long-stalked Magnolia, Large-leaved Marigold, Large-flowered Meadow-rue, Alpine Meadow-Saxifrage, Gummy Melaleuca, Decussate leaved 2236 2272 2227 2204 2220 2233 2225 2205 Narrow-leaved Aloe, Small-spined Aiuaranthus, Shewy Arethusa, Bulbous Arum, Spiral-flowered Aspalathus, Ciliated Goosefoot Bindweed, Two-coloured 2-261 Bitter-Vetch, Black 2265 2260 2197 2255 2257 2190 2262 2243 2208 Broom, Long-twigged 2231 2217 2240 2267 2229 2252 Starry Bugloss, Italian Catch-fly, Jagged-flowered Chaptalia, Woolly-leaved Chloranthus, One-spiked Cineraria, Orange-coloured Claytonia, Siberian Crinum, Deep-rooted Sloping-flowered Specious-flowered Crocus, Largest purple spring Crowfoot, Cassubiau • Cut-leaved Cryptostennna, Mary goldflowered 2201 Cuphea, Enchanter's Night- shade-like 2242 2247 2199 2232 2216 2230 2228 2253 2194 2250 2212 2270 2195 2256 Dendrobium, Hooded Dillwynia, Grey Dodartia, Oriental Dolichos, Chinese Drypis, Prickly Eugenia, Myrtle-leaved Falkia, Creeping Foxglove, Levant — Wooly-leaved Furcroea, Gigantic Gastrolobium, Two-lobed Gazania, Golden-flowered — Geodorum, Lemon-coloured Globularia, Daisy Common ; 2192 Goafs-Rue, Oriental 2246 Ilakea, Shining-leaved or Blue 2189 2218 2237 2259 2268 2235 2241 2203 2248 2209 Hedysarum, Alpine Lavatera, Mallow-like Three-Lobed Lebeckia, Naked Liparia, Concave-leaved Lobelia, Kalm's Melastoma, Osbeckia-like — Red-veined Oncidium, Zig-zag Onosma, Siberian simple Palma-Christi; or Castor-Oil plant 2264 2244 2271 2254 Peony, Downy Puschkinia, Squil-like Bampion, Scorzonera-leaved Rue, Large-flowered, flax- leaved 2191 Rulingia, Cloth-leaved 2207 Saxifrage, Fountain 2198 Sheeps-bit, Perennial 2193 Sida, Smooth Virginian 2211 2210 2258 2224 2234 2249 2221 2202 2245 2200 2206 2219 2239 2196 2215 Snow-Berry Speedwell, Orchis-flowered Spurge, Broad-leaved Stonecrop, Blue-flowered Storks-bill, Dioecious blackflowered Stylidium, Fine-leaved Tobacco, Langsdorflf's Tocth-wort, Five-leaved Vanda, Chequer-flowered Vervain, Lambert's Vetch, Saint-foin Wall-cress, Nodding Water-Iris, Pale-yellow Wolfs-bane, Carpathian Wood-sorrel, Violet-coloured INDEX In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the Forty- Eighth Volume are alphabetically arranged, -^^^fe^r^;PL PI 2190 Aeonitum septentriouale, 2198 2239 (3 carpaticnin 2272 2227 2197 2219 2204 2220 2225 2233 2218 2257 2190 2202 2243 2205 2231 2208 2217 2240 2232 2201 2242 2202 2253 2194 2247 Aloe microcantha spirale Aspalathus cbenopoda ciliaris Calendula chrysaullieniifolia Cliaptalia tomentosa Chloranthus monostacbys Cineraria aurantiaca Clavtonia sibirica Convolvulus bicolor declinatutn — defixum speciosum Crocus vernus, y obovatus Cryptostemma calendulacea Cuphea circaeoides Denbrobium cucullatum Dentaria pentapbylla Digitalis orientalis tomentosa Dillwynia ciueraseens 2191 Dodartia orientalis 2232 Dolicbos sinensis 2210 2280 2203 2230 2258 2228 2250 2192 2212 2270 2195 2250 2248 2213 2209 2220 2214 2223 2238 2251 2189 Arabia nutans Arethusa bulbosa Crinum Drypis spinosa Erica gemruifera sanguiuolenta Eugenia rayrtifolia Euphorbia epitbymoides Falkia repens Furcroea gigantea Galega orientalis Gastrolobium bilobum Gazania uniflora Geodorum citrinum Globularia vulgaris Hakea nitida Iledysaium alpiuum Iris perendis Pseudacosus, pallido- rlava Amaranthus speciosus Auchusa italica Arum Ja.-iioue a Lavatera plebeia triloba Lebeckia nuda Liparia vestita Lobelia Kalmii pedunculafa Magnolia macrophylla 22(58 Melaleuca decussata 2235 Melastoma osbeckioides 2241 2221 2203 2248 2201 2215 2204 2234 2244 2271 2207 2229 2209 2191 2254 2207 2224 2259 2193 2255 2200 2205 2249 2211 2237 2245 2200 2210 2200 2230 sangmnea Nicotiana Langsdorffii Oncidium flexuosum Onosma Orobus simplicisiima niger Oxalis violacea Paeonia pubens Pelargonium dioicum Puschkiuia seilloides Phyteuma scorzonerifolia Ranunculus cassubicus pedatus Ricinus communis Rulingia pannosa Ruta linifolia, j3 grandiflora Saxifraga irrigua Sedum caeruleum Seseli gummiferum Sida Napaea Silene lacera Spartium radiatum Spartium virgatum Stylidium tenuifolium Symphoria racemosa Thalictrum alpinum Vanda Roxburghii Verbena Lamberti Veronica orcludea Vicia onobrythioides Yucca angusrifoha stricta ... Banks, Bart, whose death will be long la- mented, as an irreparable loss, particularly to the whole Botanical world In our nurseries it has often gone by the name of Galega montana, under which it... Brown in Hort Kezo ed alt p 207 integerrimo Poir Encj/cl Suppl p 689 Geodorum citrinum Bot Repos 626 Descr Leaves all radical, lanceolate, many-nerved, upon long sheathing- footstalks Scape lateral,... distinct Native of the South of Prance Flowers in July and August Communicated by Mr Jenkins from his Botanical garden in the New Road It is also •