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on each side. Scales or bractes many, scariosely membranaceous,
persistent, oblongly lanceolate, broad at the base,
tapering to a point, and hardening to a brown glume. Racemes
numerous, crowded, short, terminal, ere c t; others axillary,
simple, or in threes, longer than the upper ones, many
flowered ; smooth, bracteate. Bractes short, ovate, sessile,
concave on the upper side, smooth: lower ones alternate,
rather distant, acute : upper ones crowded, obtuse. Flowers
more or less crowded, of a bright yellow. Pedicles smooth,
slender, more than double the length of the bractes. Calyx
of 6 blunt sepals : the three outer ones smallest: three inner
ones ovate, obtuse, tapering to the base. Petals 6, oblong,
bifid at the ends, smaller than the inner sepals. Stamens 6,
opposite to the petals : Jilaments flat, producing a tooth on
each side : anthers with 2 distinct, spreading cells. Ovarium
oblongly ovate, smooth. Stigma sessile, fleshy, flattened,
orbicular.
Mr. Anderson, the Collector, in a late voyage to the Straits o f Magellan,
and to various other parts o f South America, informs us that he collected
the seeds ot the present interesting plant in the neighbourhood of Monte
Video; he IS now returned from his toilsome expedition, and has brought
with him a hne collection o f specimens and seeds: many of the seeds are
now coming up at the Clapton Nursery; amongst them a Tacsonia, a y e ry
hne species ot Alstrmneria, and a stately species of Calceolaria, besides
numerous other rare and valuable plants, and a great number of bulbs that
have not yet flowered.
An alteration has lately taken place in the management o f the above
N ursery. Mr. Low, through the assistance of his friends, has been enabled
to obtain a small share of the business, and the entire superintendence of the
whole concern, after having lived there as foreman for the last eight years.
1 he sweet-fruited Barberry has also flowered lately at the Clapton
Nursery, and w ill be published in our next Number ; this will be a valuable
addition to our gardens, as it makes a handsome bush, with large yellow
hanging flowers, and the fruit is very good when ripe, and is famous for pyes
and tarts, as well as making a fine appearance on the shrub. The present
plant thrives well in a pot, or in the border, requiring but a slight protection
in Winter, and increases by the suckers from its roots.
Two leaflets of certainly the same species as ours, are preserved in Pursh’s
Herbarium, now in the collection of A . B . Lambert, Esq. pasted on the
same paper with the true M. aquifolmm, figured by Pursh in his Florm
Americm Septentrionalis; and one o f those is added by the side o f his figure.
Mr. Lindleys observations on Pursh’s B . aquifolium are wrong; the very
specimen figured by Pursh is now in liis Herbarium in Mr. Lambert’s col-
ection ; the name o f B . repens, published in the Botanical Register, must
therefore be disused.
M name was given by Mr. Nuttall, in memory o f Mr. Bernard
M ‘Mahon, “ whose ardent attachment to Botany, and successful introduction
of useful and ornamental horticulture into the United States,” entitles
him to that honour.
„ 3 ■ 2. The 3 inner petalifoim ones. 3. The C Petals,
r O v ln n f ‘‘i 6 Stamens, with a tooth on each side of tlie filament.
5. Ovaiuini, terminated by the sessile, fleshy, orbicular Stigma.