252 GARDEN FLOWERS. 



off from near the root, and treated like cuttings. Common 

 garden soil. 



M. chamojmlla grandiflora (double-flowered) ; hardy peren- 

 nial ; I foot ; flowers white, in July ; gardens. 



Maurandia. [Scrophularinae.] Ornamental greenhouse 

 climbers of slender habit, and also suitable for planting in 

 the open air during the summer, for the purpose of covering 

 wire-fences, and pillars. They are best raised from seeds, 

 which, to insure strong-blooming plants, should be sown 

 about June, and the young plants potted -singly, and kept in 

 small pots during winter in a greenhouse. These, if shifted 

 into larger pots in February or March, will be strong and 

 vigorous by the planting-out time, — May. For the green- 

 house, they require shifting into large pots of rich soil, of 

 which the basis is sandy loam, and training about pillars, 

 short rafters, or suitable trellises. They grow to a consider- 

 able size when their roots have free scope. They may be 

 increased from cuttings, which root readily in sand, in a hot- 

 bed. 



M. a7itirrhinifiora (snapdragon-flowered) ; greenhouse climb- 

 ing perennial ; lo feet ; flowers purple, all summer ; Mexico ; 

 1 8 14. M. Barclay ana (Barclay's) ; greenhouse climbing peren- 

 nial ; 12 feet ; flowers purple, rose-color, or white, all summer; 

 Mexico ; 1825, M. seinperflorens (ever-flowering) ; greenhouse 

 climbing perennial; 12 feet; flowers pale rose-color, all sum- 

 mer; Mexico ; 1796. 



Mazus. [Scrophularinae.] Small-flowered half-hardy an- 

 nuals. Light sandy soil. Increased by seeds. 



M. puuiihis (dwarf) ; half-hardy annual ; 6 inches ; flowers 

 pale-purplish, in June ; Van Diemen's Land ; 1823. M. ru- 

 gosus (wrinkled) ; half-hardy annual ; 6 inches ; flowers while 

 and yellow, in July ; China ; 1780. 



Meadow-Rue. See Thalictrum. 



