FROM XIIK SOCIKTY'S GARDEN. '221 



Raised from seeds received from Hartweg in Juno, 1848, 

 marlied Ceanothus sp., with -white flowers, a shrub 

 6 or 8 feet high, from the Sacramento mountains. It 

 is tender, and will not live in the open border. It 

 flowers in May. 



This shrub is described as follows by Mr. Nuttall : — " A shrub 

 6 to 10 feet high, with somewliat thorny greyish terete branches, 

 very closely interwoven, sometimes forming thickets. Leaves 

 i an inch or more in length, and about 2 lines wide ; very rarely 

 with 1 or 2 teeth near the extremity ; the numerous regular, 

 simple, and oblique veins rather conspicuous on the lower surface. 

 Flowers in small axillary umbels : the peduncles and pedicels 

 increasing in length as the fruit ripens. Calyx and corolla 

 white : petals cucullate, unguienlate. Styles united above the 

 midtile, and then spreading. Fruit as large as an ordinary pea, 

 sub-globose; the exocarp somewhat pulpy, with 3 rather soft 

 horn-like projections from the summit of the angles: the co- 

 herent base of the calyx unusually large. Seeds even on both 

 sides, black, polished. The whole plant (like several succeeding 

 species) exhales a balsamic odour, and the mature fruit is covered 

 with a bitter varnish." 



It is said to grow as far north as " the dry gravelly islands 

 and bars of the Wahlamut river above the falls," in Oregon ; but 

 it is best known from more southern regions, Hartweg's discovery 

 of it in California having been anticipated by the naturalists with 

 Captain Beechey, and by Dr. Coulter, of whose dried plants it is 

 No. 110. In our Gardens it betrays a tender climate, for it is 

 far more impatient of cold than the other Californian species, 

 than which it is much less attractive, for its scanty white flowers 

 produce a shabby appearauce, for which the leaves and scrubby 

 aspect of the species do not compensate. 



14. Eo'CALYPTUS cocciFERA, J. Hookei', in Lo7idon Jouriuil of 

 Botany, vi. 477. 



This plant was exhibited in flower at the June meeting of the 

 Society by Messrs. Veitch, under the name of Eucalyptus mon- 

 tana. It has lived for many years in the Garden against a south 

 wall without being injured, but the plants in the open borders 

 dwindled away and died. 



According to Messrs. Veitch it is perfectly hardy at Exeter, 

 where it already forms a fine open spreading tree, 20 feet high, 

 and from 15 to 18 feet through. It has grown there for eleven 

 years, and when in flower in June looks like an apple-tree or 

 pear-tree loaded with blossoms. According to Dr. Hooker it is 



