not strikingly beautiful, are extremely pretty when exa- 

 mined carefully. 



The plant has the same habit as the common Heuchera 

 americana, and requires the same kind of cultivation. 

 It loves a shady peat border, in which it is protected 

 from high w^inds, which are apt to injure its brittle stems 

 and leaves. Mr. Douglas has observed it producing young 

 plants from the base of the leaves ; an economy we have 

 not noticed in it in this country. With us it is propagated 



by seed and division of the roots. 



Our drawing was made in the Chiswick Garden, in 

 "April of the present year. ' 



Mr. Brown remarks of this genus, that it is near 

 Heuchera and Vahlia of Thunberg, of which Oldenlandia 

 pentandria of Retzius is an undoubted species. 



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