8 ETBES ALBIDT7M. 



The plant will occasionally produce seeds, which may be sown in a pot of light soil as 

 soon as ripe ; in which case, it will be advisable to protect the young plants during the 

 first winter, or the sowing may be deferred until the following spring, when the plants 

 would, if raised early in the year, acquire sufficient strength to bear exposure in the open 

 air in the ensuing winter. 



The genus Dielytra (Gr. Bis, two, and elytron, a pouch or purse) is so named, in allusion 

 to the inflation of the two outer petals at their base. Four other species are known in 

 addition to that now figured — B. formosa, previously referred to ; cueullaria ; cximia, a 

 handsome species still rather rare ; and canadensis, all natives of North America. 



Few gardens are without some species of Fumaria or Corydalis, two genera closely 

 allied to that to which our illustration belongs ; and it may, therefore, not be altogether 

 uninteresting if we notice the principal points of difference between them and the 

 present genus. Both differ from Dielytra, in having but one petal spurred ; and the three 

 genera are further distinguished from each other by the seed vessel ; this in Fumaria 

 is a owe-seeded indehiscent nut, and in Corydalis and Dielytra, a wwwy-seeded pod 

 opening by two valves, which in Corydalis is more compressed than in the last 

 mentioned genus. 



Our plant appears to have been known to Linnaeus under the name of Fumaria 

 spectabilis, but it is only since its reintroduction into England in 1846, from the North 

 of China, by the London Horticultural Society, through the medium of their collector, 

 Mr. Fortune, that it has come into general cultivation in this country. 



RIBES ALBIDUM. 



Tfliite-flowered Currant. 

 Class — Pentandria. Order — Monocvnia. Natural Order — Grossulaceje. 



This plant is a variety of the red-flowered currant, Ribes sanguineum, a shrub now 

 found in every garden of the smallest pretensions, and was raised from seed, about nine 

 years since, in the gardens of Admiral Sir David Milne, Inveresk, near Musselburgh. 



From the perfectly hardy character of the parent species and all its varieties, the 

 ease with which they are propagated, and the beauty of their pendant flowers, which 

 enliven the garden at a period when but few shrubs are in blossom, they are well 

 deserving the place they occupy in the public esteem. The variety albidum, as well n=i 

 sanguineum, varies in the colour of its flowers according to the soil in which it is 

 grown being palest in sandy soils; but it is probable that much of the difference 



