10 THE FLORIST. 



house soft-wooded subshrub, of rather difficult management. It has grayish hairy- 

 pinnate leaves, and racemes of large rich crimson-scarlet Papilionaceous flowers, of 

 which the standard is bent back and the keel elongated ; the standard has a 

 large blackish purple boss on its face just above where it reflexes ; very showy. 

 Australia. Messrs. Veitch Sf Son, and others. 



Colletia cruciata. (Bot. Mag. t. 5033.) This is the plant known as 

 C. Bictonensis. It is a singular shrub, half hardy or hardy in the most favoured 

 localities, producing creamy-white bell-shaped flowers. The stems consist of 

 thick spine-pointed triangular lobes, in pairs, set alternately in opposite 

 directions. Bauda Oriental. 



Cosjianthus grandiflorus. (Bot. Mag. t. 5029.) A fine hardy annual 

 plant, belonging to the Hydrophyllacese. It has the habit and foliage of Eutoca 

 viscida, but much larger flowers, which are of a pale purple colour. Sometimes 

 called Eutoca grandiflora. California. Messrs. Veitch Sf Son. 



Cynoglossum nobile. (Gard. Chron. 1853, 240.) A very remarkable and 

 handsome dwarf greenhouse perennial herb, with very broad thick cordate 

 furrowed leaves, having 5-7 strong parallel nerves. The flowers, which are like 

 those of Forget-me-not, but larger, grow on scorpioid scapes, about a foot high, 

 and are blue edged with white. Chatham Island. Mr. Watson. 



Darlingtonia californica. A curious two-horned side-saddle flower, or 

 Sarracenia, one of the plants forming pitcher-like leaves. California. Messrs. 

 Jackson § Son. 



Dasylirium acrotrichum. (Bot. Mag. t. 5030.) An Asparagineous green- 

 house Yucca-like plant, forming a spreading crown of long slender thickish 

 leaves, and producing from the centre an erect flower-stem, about 16 feet high, 

 three or four feet of the upper part of which consists of a crowded series of 

 spikelets, bearing insignificant green flowers. The beauty of these plants lies 

 entirely in their habit. Mexico. Kew Botanic Garden. 



Dasylirion glaucophyllum. (Bot. Mag. t. 5041.) Another fine Aspa- 

 ragineous greenhouse plant, with a large spreading head of narrow glaucous rigid 

 leaves of Yucca-like habit. The flowers are in crowded spikelets, collected into 

 a long compound spike at the top of the tall central erect flower-stem, 10-12 

 feet high. Mexico. Kew Botanic Garden. 



Digitalis purpurea, var. gloxinioides. A fine variety of the common 

 Foxglove, the flowers white or flesh-colour, with deep blotches of crimson, 

 resembling a Gloxinia. 



Erica amabilis floribunda. A distinct variety of the retorta set ; flowers 

 large, profuse, delicate rose, produced in the late summer and autumn months. 

 A garden variety. Messrs. Rollisson. 



Erica Fairrieana. A striking variety, of free growth, raised between 

 ampullacea and aristata, partaking of the former in the size and of the latter in 

 the colour of the flowers. A garden variety. Messrs. Rollisson. 



Eugenia Luma. (Bot. Mag. t. 5040.) The Eugenia apiculata of gardens. 

 It is a line Myrtaceous and Myrtle-like hardy or half-hardy evergreen shrub, 

 with oval oblong sharp-pointed leaves, the branches loaded during summer with 

 its white blossoms. Chili. 31essrs. Veitch $ Son. 



Fieldia australis. (Bot. Mag. t. 5089.) A straggling greenhouse shrub, 

 with opposite ovate-lanceolate acuminate leaves, and pendulous pale greenish- 

 yellow tubular flowers for their axils. Australia. Kew Botanic Garden. 



Fritillaria gr^ca. (Bot. Mag. t. 5052.) A neat, hardy, bulbous per- 

 ennial, with short, slender, erect stems, linear-lanceolate leaves, and nodding 

 flowers, borne singly or two together, pale reddish brown, with a green border. 

 Mount Hymettus. Kew Botanic Garden. 



Gardenia citriodora. (Ulust. Bouq., t. 17-) A fine representation of 

 this profuse-blooming fragrant warm greenhouse shrub is given in the above 

 plate. 



Gardenia radicans, var. major. (Illust. Bouq. t. 24.) A most desirable 

 variety of a highly popular plant. It is distinguished by its more robust growth, 

 its more oval and less lanceolate deep green leaves, and its larger blossoms, 

 which, like the parent, are pure white and fragrant. A garden variety. 



Gaultheria discolor. (Bot. Mag. t. 5034.) A small hardy Ericaccous 

 shrub, with obovate-Ianceolate leaves, longitudinally ribbed and silvery beneath, 



