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455. GrAELLSIA SAXTFRA- 
G^roLiA. JSoissier, 
Coclilearia 
saxifragsefolia 
(alias 
De 
Cand.) A liardy herbaceous 
plant, witli "wlnte flouers. 
Belongs to Crncifers. Native 
of the mountains of Persia. 
This is a little plant, with 
long, kidney-shaped or roundish 
leaves, very coarsely notched, and 
smelling strongly of garlic. Tiie 
flower-stems are about nine inches 
high, and hear a compound corymb 
of small white flowers resembling 
those of the common scurvy -grass. 
It has not produced any fruit. It 
is a hardy perennial, growing 
freely in any good rich garden soil, 
and well suited for planting on 
rock work. It flowers in July and 
August, and is easily increased hy 
dividing the old plants in autumn 
or spring, or by seeds : the plants 
raised from seed will not flower 
before the second season. It must 
be considered a good hardy plant 
for rockwork, and rather showy, as 
it flowers abundantly. — Jom^al of 
IlavL Soc, vol. L 
456. Allium caspium. 
Bieherstehu [alias Amaryllis 
caspia Willdemtc ; alias Crinum 
caspium Pfl/^^5.) A green-flowered 
ugly bulb^ from the deserts of 
^Yestern Asia ; floAvering in May. 
Native of the deserts of Astrachan and 
Tezzier. Dr. Stocks finds it in Scinde, 
and obligingly sent bulbs to the Royal 
Gardens, which flowered in May 1851. 
It has so little of the ordinary appearance 
of an Onion, that Willdenow called it an 
Amai-yUis, and Pallas a Crinum. It has, 
however, all the characters of AUimn 
and the same savoury odour.— i?o^ Maf/,y 
ACTYLA 
t. 4598. 
457. TUCHSIA TETRAl 
Zindlej/, A small scarlet-flowered 
species^ from Guatemala. 
A slender downy plant about two feet 
high, with very soft branohes of a dull crim- 
son colour. The leaves are opposite, about 
twenty-seven inches long, half of which be- 
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