320 NEW PLANTS, ETC., 



chased of Mr. Carter, as a species from California, which country, 

 in common with a large part of the American Continent, it 

 inhabits. It is a weak glabrous plant, with long trailing stems, 

 and cordate amplexicaul sharp-pointed crenato-dentate leaves. 

 The flowers are axillary, sessile, deep violet, but small, fugitive, 

 and unattractive. It has no importance in Horticulture. 



14. Schizanthus viOLACEUs of the French Gardens. 



A handsome hardy annual, seeds of which were received in 

 1853, from Messrs. Vilmorin. It is a stout branching pale-green 

 downy plant, from 2 to 3 feet high, with leaves like those of S. 

 pinnatus, and a great abundance of violet-coloured flowers. They 

 are deeply divided into irregular lobes, as is usual in the genus, 

 and are only different from those of S. pinnatus in the upper lip 

 being oblong-lanceolate and bifid, not oblong and entire, and in 

 wholly wanting the yellow stain which is so characteristic of both 

 S. pinnatus and Hookeri. Although apparently not distinct from 

 S. pinnatus, it is quite sufficiently different to form a good 

 addition to our hardy annuals. 



15. Moxardella candicans. Bentham in Plant. Hartxveg. 

 p. 330. 



Seeds of two varieties of this were purchased of Mr. Carter in 

 1853. The one is rather hoary, with pale stems and white 

 flowers ; the other is much greener with purple flowers. Botli 

 are erect branching annuals, leather more than a foot high, with a 

 very powerful and not disagreeable smell resembling that of 

 peppermint. Their leaves are oblong, obtuse, with long slender 

 stalks and no teeth ; the under side is closely covered with 

 glandular pits. The flowers grow in heads surrounded by ovate 

 ribbed involucral leaves, the veins of which are bright deep green, 

 while the interspaces are much paler. The slender lobes of the 

 little labiate corollas are very remarkable for a tendency to bear 

 anthers at their points, in which it is not uncommon even to find 

 pollen. The calyxes have very short triangular teeth, in which 

 respect the species is distinct from M. Douglasii. The two 

 vai'ieties are of little moment, except for their powerful odour. 

 It appears from Hartweg's collection that the white form is that 

 on which Mr. Bentham founded the species. 



