Tab. 6929. 

 HEUCHERA sanguinea. 



Native of New Mexico and Arizona. 



Nat. Ord. Saxifragace;e. — Tribe Saxifrages. 

 Genus Heucheea, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. vol. i. p. 638.) 



Heuchera sanguinea ; gracilis, paree patentim piloea, f'oliis longe petiolatis 

 orbicularibus profunde cordatis margine 5-7-lobatis lobis late crenato-dentatis, 

 scapo elongato gracillimo, panicula laxiflora glanduloso-pubeseente, floribus 

 breviter pedicellatis sanguineis. 



H. sanguinea, Engelmann But. Wislizenits's Expedition, p. 23 ; Gray Plant. 

 Wright, pt. ii. p. 63 ; Walp. Ann. vol. iii. p. 897. 



This, as Gray observes, is by far the handsomest species 

 of the genus, which is itself, I may add, a very unpretending 

 one, and in which so really pretty a plant as this was not 

 to have been expected, especially as, except in Escallonia, 

 the bright reds are rare in the Order to which it belongs. 

 It is curious, and a further instance of the unattractive 

 features of the Ileacheras, that though no fewer than fifteen 

 species, all North American, and all presumably hardy, 

 are enumerated in Watson's '* Index of North American 

 Botany," and though several have been cultivated in this 

 country, one only had been, previous to this, figured in a 

 horticultural work; this one is II. cylindrica, Dougl. 

 (Botanical Register, t. 1924). The original species, how- 

 ever, the Linna?an H. americana, appears in a plate of 

 Hill's " Vegetable System," vol. xiii. t. 43, f. 1, as the 

 Dingy Wellwood, published so long ago as 1761. 



There is another species which from its specific name 

 may be supposed to deserve the attention of horticulturists; 

 it is the II. rubescens, Torrey, a native of California; its 

 flowers are described as pale pink. H. sanguinea is a native 

 of rocky places on the Pacific slope of the South -Western 

 United States of America, Arizona, and New Mexico. It 

 was introduced into Europe by Mr. Ware, of Tottenham, 

 and the specimen here figured flowered in the Rock 

 Garden at Kcw in June, 1886. 



ArRiL 1st, 1887. 



