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. 



