leaves being small, and pale, and dying away at an early 
period of the summer ; but to Botanists it is highly inter- 
esting, not only as a distinctly marked new species of an 
old and well-known genus, but also for the singular anomaly 
it presents of a narcotic plant in the midst of an order, or 
rather group of orders, all the species of which are emi- 
nently wholesome. 
Propagated readily by cuttings. J. L. 
