This fruitful species of Calycanthus has not yet been figured by any
author we know of, but has been described by two: first by Walter, in
his Flora Caroliniana, under the title of C. fertilis; and afterwards by
Michaux, in his Flora Boreali-Americana, under the appellation of C.
ferax, synonymous appellations equally good: and we see no reason why it
should have been altered from fertilis, if even for the better, unless
that had been a very bad specific title. It is a native of the high
mountains of Carolina, in North America, and was introduced by Mr. Lyons
in 1807. Our figure is from a plant in the collection of the Marquis of
Blandford.
_Erratum._--In our last Number, Pl. DXXXVII, the description of
Origanum Tournefortii (in the hurry too often attendant upon
periodical publications) was left unfinished. The most necessary
information omitted, is, that it is a hardy green-house shrub; and
fine living specimens of it were communicated to us by A. B.
Lambert, esq. who received it from the Royal Gardens at Kew, to
which it was introduced by the late Dr. Sibthorpe in 1788.
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PLATE DXL.
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM HETEROPHYLLUM.
_Various-leaved Mesembryanthemum._
CLASS XII. ORDER V.
_ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA._ Twenty Chives. Five Pointals.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX 4-5-fidus. Petala numerosa, linearia, basi cohærentia.
Capsula carnosa, infera, polysperma.
EMPALEMENT 4-5-cleft. Petals numerous, linear, and united at the
base. Fruit fleshy, below, many-seeded.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM octogynum, caulescens: foliis sub-semiteretibus,
elongatis, obliquis, nitidis, basi connatis: apicibus vel
aduncorostratis vel ancipitibus, integris, obtusis.
Habitat in Promontorio Bonæ Spei.
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM eight-styled, with a stem, and leaves nearly
half-round, elongated, oblique, shining, and united at the base,
with the points either like a hooked bill, or two-edged, entire,
and blunt.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A flower divested of the petals cut open.
2. Seed-buds and pointals, a summit magnified.
3. A dry capsule.
4. The capsule as it appears when half expanded in water.
5. The same when fully expanded.
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