NOTICES OF NEW OR RAKE PLANTS. 13 



Ceanothus verrucosus, (Rhamnacece.) — This species proves to be a hardy evergreen of the best 

 kind. It forms already (i. e. the specimen in the Chiswick Garden) a large bush, and will probably 

 become a tree, with long stiff rod-like branches, covered in winter with midtitudes of large oblong or 

 roundish brown buds. The leaves arc opposite, roundish oblong, either slightly notched or entire at 

 the end, scarcely an inch long, flat, deep green, shilling, with grey hairy pits distributed over the 

 under surface. Occasionally, when the plant is young they are coarsely toothed, but that is an 

 exceptional state. At the base of each leaf is a pair of stipules, which gradually lose their thin 

 extremities and change into soft fleshy conical prickles. The flowers are very pale blue, produced in 

 great abundance in dense corymbs at the end of very short stiff lateral branches. This shrub is 

 among the most easy of plants to grow, and seems indifferent to climate or soil. It may be increased 

 by cuttings of the half-ripened wood, placed in sand under a hand-glass in a north aspect about the 

 end of August, but is best propagated by layers in autumn. It flowers in June. 



Gaura lixdheimeri. ( Onagracece . J — We noticed this new herbaceous perennial at page 167 of our 

 last volume, and we now recur to it for the purpose of stating that it is a native of Texas, which will 

 account for its being only half-hardy. It has been advised in one or two of our contemporaries that 

 it should be treated as a half-hardy biennial, as seedlings do not flower the first year. We have 

 grown it two seasons, and therefore venture to repeat our recommendation, that it should be increased 

 by cuttings off the side shoots, taken off in August or September, and struck under a glass in a pot of 

 sandy soil. In the spring they may be potted off, and turned into the borders in April or May. We 

 doubt if the plant will ripen seed in this country, those sold by the trade being imported from France- 



Lysimachia Candida. ( Primulacea;.)—K pretty, hardy herbaceous perennial with white flowers, 

 growing about a foot high, and therefore likely to be very useful for bedding, or clumping in the 

 borders. It blossoms profusely, succeeds in any soil, and as it ripens plenty of seed will, wc hope, 

 soon be common. Unfortunately, this class of plants receives but little attention from nurserymen ; at 

 present we believe the plant is only to be met with in the gardens of the London Horticultural 

 Society. It is a native of China, having been raised from the soil contained in a box in which other 

 plants had been forwarded to England. 



Linum gkaxdiflorum. ( Linacece.J—K very beautiful hardy annual from Algeria, with brilliant 

 crimson flowers. It grows about a foot high, and produces an abundance of flowers in succession, 

 They are rather more than an inch across, bright crimson, with five white wedge-shaped spots at the 

 base of the petals. We think it likely that seeds of this handsome annual will be in the hands of 

 sonic of the London Seedsmen this season, but if it should not be yet procurable of them, those of 

 our readers who may feci disposed to take the trouble of sending to Paris can obtain it of Messrs. 

 Vilmoriu, Andrieux and Co., 30, Quai de la Megisserie, Paris. We hope to be able to give a figure 

 in a lew months, as these gentlemen have forwarded us a pinch of seed. It is necessary to state that 

 there is also a perennial species with large blue flowers, sold as grandiflorum. 



M \ i;n \ Cai.ii iiHNKA. ( Myricacetc.) — An interesting hardy evergreen, raised from seeds collected by 

 Bartweg, near Monterey in California, where it grows twelve feet high. It was originally discovered 

 by Menziee mi the North-west of America, and was also found by Douglass at Paget Sound. It forms 

 an evergreen bush, with dense narrowly lanceolate, slightly serrated leaves, covered, especially on the 

 under side, with transparent glossy saucer-shaped sunken scales, of microscopical dimensions, 

 c ons i sting of a layer of wedge-shaped cells, placed obliquely round a common centre. The flowers are 

 green and inconspicuous, in short axillary spikes which eventually bear from one to three small 

 globular fruits, « hose surface is closely studded w ith fleshy, oblong obtuse grains of a dull red colour, 

 and astringent flavour, it flowers in July, and ripens its fruit ill September. Its leaves are fragrant 

 like those of the Sued dale ( Myrica gale) of our English moors. It grows freely in any good 

 ■ a soil, and is increased by seed or layers. (Journal of Hurt. Soc, vol. 1.) 



