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rently with little reason ; and Endlicher says of it, “ Hricaceis 
affinis.” Dr. Lindley places it between Loganiacee and Stil- 
bacee.—If it should prove easy of cultivation Pyexidanthera 
_ would make a charming rock-plant : the rose-coloured buds are 
_ as pretty, nestling among the copious foliage, as the fully ex- 
panded white flowers.: 
Descr. A small, tufted, procumbent, creeping, and wide- 
spreading shrub, having a long fap-root in the centre of the 
tuft: dranches terete, slender, younger ones woolly. Leaves 
alternate, cuneato-oblong, very acute, almost aristate, the young — 
ones woolly at their base within, and hence the specific name of 
“ barbulata.” That character disappears in the older portions of 
the plant. Flowers solitary sessile, from little branches with ro- 
_ Sulate leaves. Calyx of five, concave, reddish sepals, as long as 
the tube of the corolla., “Corolla monopetalous, white : ¢wbe short : | 
_ limb of five, rounded-cuneate, spreading, slightly crenated Jobes. 
Stamens in the sinuses of the corolla. — Filaments broad, white, 
“almost petaloid, bearing a drooping yellow anther of, two almost 
globose lobes, opening transversely, and bearing an awn on the 
lower valve. Ovary ovate, with’ a thickened ring at the base, 
three-celled, few-seeded (four or five in each cell) attached to a cen- 
tral placenta. Style as long as the tube of the corolla, Stigma 
of three small spreading rays. 7. J. H.. 
___ Cuur. We have several times received from the United States 
_ flowering tufts of this very small shrub ; but although they have 
been placed under different kinds of treatment, both in the open — 
_ air and under protection, we have not yet succeeded in keeping 
them long alive. Dr. Asa Gray informs us that the shrub 
_ grows in the warm “ pine-barrens ” of New Jersey, in low but 
hot wet places, generally on little Knolls, fully exposed to the 
Sun, in a soil of pure sand mixed with vegetable mould. We 
, either from cuttings or from seeds. /. 8. 
Fig. 1. Portion of a branch with old 
corolla with a stamen. 4. Pistil, 5 
’ 
leaves. : Woes. 3. Portion of the 
- Transverse section of the ovary, with 
