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1256 ARBORETUM AND FRU'TICETUM. PART III. 
$ 2. V.mi‘nor lL. The less Periwinkle. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 504.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 95.; Lodd. 
Cat., ed. 1836. 
Synonymes. Pervinca minor Scop. € a., No. 273.; Per- 
vinca vulgaris Park. Theatr., 311. t. 1.3 Clématis daph- 
niides Dodon. Pempt., 401. 
Engravings. Engl. Bot., t. 917.; Curt. Lond., 3. t. 16.; 
Plenck Icon., t. 183.; Blackw., t. 59.; Hayne Abbild., 
t. 26.; and our fig. 1084. 
Spec. Char., §c. Stems procumbent. Leaves 
elliptic-lanceolate, glabrous. Calycine seg- 
ments linear-lanceolate, bluntish. Segments 
of corolla broadish at top. Flowering stems 
usually erect. Flowers void of scent. Co- 
rolla blue, with white throat, varying to pur- 
ple and white; of a smaller size than that of 
V. major. This species varies much in the 
colour of the flowers; they are also some- 
times double; and the foliage is sometimes 
variegated, either with white or yellow stripes. 
(Don’s Mill. iv. p.95.) A creeping evergreen 
undershrub ; a native of Europe, and found 
abundantly in Germany, Switzerland, France, 
Italy, &c. In Britain, it has been found in 
many places, in hedges and woods, in rather 
damp situations, where it flowers from March 
till September. It is of the easiest culture, } f 
and, like the preceding species, may be usefully employed in covering naked 
surfaces, in shaded situations. 
Varieties, : 5 
t= V. m. 2 foliis argénteis Lodd. Cat. has leaves variegated with white. 
*& V.m. 3 foliis atreis Lodd. Cat. has the leaves variegated with yellow. 
t V.m. 4 flore albo Lodd. Cat. has white flowers. 
& V 
t V 

.m. 5 flore pleno Lodd. Cat. has double flowers. 
.m. 6 flore puniceo Lodd. Cat. has red flowers. 
App. l. Half-hardy ligneous Plants belonging 
to the Order Apocynacea. 
Gelsémium nétidum Michx. F 1. Bor. 
Amer., 1. p. 120.; Bigndonia semper- 
virens L., Pluk. Alm., 359. t.119. f. 5.5 
and our jig. 1085. ; is a climbing ever- 
green; a native of North America in 
the vicinity of rivers, from Virginia to 
Florida, where it flowers in June and 
July. It has been in British gardens 
since 1640; and, though it is generally . 
kept in green-houses or cold-pits, there / 
can be no doubt it would stand against |; 
a conservative wall with very little | 
protection. 
Nérium Olednder L. ( fig. 1086.) is a 
splendid flowering shrub, very gene- 
rally cultivated in Italy, and the south 
of France aud Spain, and common in 
LOSS English green-houses. It requires a 
rich soil, kept moist, and may be preserved against a conservative 
wall; though it does not flower freely, except when grown in warm 
situations, so as thoroughly to mature the wood. ‘There are several 
varieties and botanical species, for which we refer to the Hortus 
Britannicus. (See, also, the Gardener’s Magaxinc, vol. i, p. 402.) 

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