IGO BRITISH PLANTS. 



Sedum Anglicum, or English Stone-crop. A beautiful and showy 

 dwarf plant, suited for the front of a dry border, where it may have tlie 

 sun from sunrise to sunset all the year through. It is a very little 

 plant, oidy growing two or three inches in heiglit ; its leaves are of a 

 sea-green colour, often tinged with a rudtly hue, and the flowers are 

 white, with purple anthers, are very conspicuous, and seem starlike iu 

 appearance. It is an annual, and flowers in June and July. It grows 

 naturally on sandy and rocky places, especially near to the sea ; but is 

 not so conunon in England as it is in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. 

 The seeds sliould be gathered in the autumn, and sown in spring in a 

 dry, sunny border ; it may do in a shaded situation, but not so well. 



Saxifiiaga ofpositipolia, or Purple Mountain Saxifrage. This 

 is a very beautiful purple flowered plant, and veiy different from any 

 other of our British Saxifrage. It is deservedly cultivated a good 

 deal in our gardens now, being an early floweier, and very lovely. 

 AViien in flower the plant is wholly covered with tiie lively purple 

 blossoms. It will grow well in a moist, somewhat shaded situation ; 

 and plants may be got from a nurseryman. It grows wild on moist 

 alpine rocks, and is most frequent on the Highland mountains of 

 (Scotland. It is an excellent rock-work plant. 



Saxifraga hypnoides, or Mossy Saxifrage, is a beautiful species, 

 frequent in the alpine districts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. It 

 is often cultivated in tlie flower-garden, and does not setm to require 

 any lengthy notice here. 



LiNN.EA BOREALis, Or Two-Jioioered Linncea. This is a plant that 

 must be looked upon with pleasure by every lover of Flora, and by 

 every admirer of genius. In the words of Smith, it was tliis "little 

 nortiiern plant, long overlooked, depressed, abject, flowering early," 

 which Linnaeus liimself selected as, therefore, most appropriate to 

 transmit his name to posterity. It is a very graceful plant, with 

 lovely drooping flowers of a pale rose-colour, yellowish within ; and 

 these are fragrant. It really deserves to be cultivated, certainly not 

 less from its botanical interest and its associations, than from its own 

 intrinsic beauty. It grows in woods, and sometiUiCs in open moist 

 situations in Scotland ; but we have onlj'^ one station for it in England, 

 viz., in a plantation of Scotch firs at Catcherside, in the parish of 

 Hartburn, Northumberland, which is recorded on the authority of 

 Miss Enuna Trevelyan. There can be little doubt but it may be cul- 

 tivated in a somewhat shady situation, if well attended as to watering 

 in dry, sunny weather. Pei-haps it would be fully as well if altogether 

 shaded from the strong sun. 



EuPATORiuM CANNABiNUM, or Couunon Hemp Agrimony. This 

 is a very tall plant, growing to the height of several feet ; and its 

 flowers appear in dense coi'ynibs which are terminal, or on the top of 

 the plant ; they are of a pale reddish-purple colour, and it is in blossom 

 in July and August. It grows by the banks of rivers, &c., and will 

 prefer a moist, shady situation in the garden. 



Gnaphalium dioicum, or Mountain Cudweed. A beautiful little 

 plant a few inches high. The leaves are white and downy beneath, 

 but green above ; the flower-stalk is densely woolly, and tiie flowers 

 are wliitish, often rose-coloured, as we have frequently gathered it in 



