crowded with other plants. The soil in which it grows best 

 is a sandy-peat, mixed with a little fresh loam and decayed 

 dung. It is easily propagated by cuttings, at any season, 

 particularly in spring, or early in summer. 



The young plants should be shifted frequently, and must 

 have always plenty of pot room ; otherwise they will become 

 stunted and unhealthy. The finest specimens of Pimeleas 

 are generally seen in conservatories, where they are planted 

 out in the border of the house ; there they become bushy 

 plants and bloom profusely. 



There is a good figure of this in the Floral Cabinet, tab. 7, 

 under the name of P. nivea, a species with which this must 

 necessarily be confounded, if the short characters in Dr. 

 Brown's Prodromus are alone consulted. P. nivea is how- 

 ever a very different plant, w T ith imbricated leaves, the under- 

 side of which is not woolly, but shaggy with long parallel 

 hairs ; its branches are short and stiff, its flower-heads very 

 close and compact, and the anthers are nearly or quite sessile 

 in the orifice of the tube of the calyx. I have never seen it 

 in gardens. 



