ARNE1UA ECniOIDES. 



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The Order, CaprifoKacece, comprises some of our most desirable hardy shrubs. 

 Not to speak of the various species of Honeysuckle, with their charming poetical 

 associations, it will be enough to name the beautiful Weigela rosea, the Leijcesteria 

 formosa, the Laurestinus, and other species of Viburnum. Of the Weigela we need 

 say but little, as it is now well known as one of our handsomest deciduous shrubs ; 

 a new species or variety, the TV. Middendorffiana, with yellow flowers, has been 

 recently introduced, but it has not yet blossomed in this country, and its merits 

 are therefore unproved. 



The genus, Viburnum, has recently received several highly interesting additions 

 from China, but they are of sufficient importance to merit a notice by themselves, 

 which we hope soon to afford them. 



AUNEBIA ECHTOIDES. 



Echium-lilie Arnebia. 

 Linnean Class— Pentandria. Order— Moxogyma. Natural Order— Boraginace.e. 



The flowers of many plants of the Borage tribe are so ornamental, that it cannot 

 but be regretted that the general coarseness of their foliage opposes itself to their 

 extensive adoption in our mixed flower borders. This objection must not, however, 

 be exaggerated, for in many of the species .the characteristic in question is by no 

 means so obtrusive as to justify their exclusion, and in proof of this, we need only 

 cite the the beautiful Pulmonarias ; the yellow Onosmas ; the Alkanets, so valuable 

 from the abundance of their large blue flowers ; the neat little Omphalodes verna, 

 and Myosotis azorica ; and last, but not least, the very pretty plant whose name 

 stands at the head of the present article. 



The perfectly hardy character of nearly all the plants composing the Order will 

 be a powerful recommendation to some cultivators ; and although they will, like 

 most other plants, vary in their luxuriance, according to the nature of the soil, the 

 majority of them will flourish in earth of only ordinary quality. 



In speaking of the Arnebia, it will be necessary to point out the features which 

 distinguish it from the other plants of the Order, and it may therefore be advisable 

 Jirst to note the leading peculiarities of the Boraginacea. If a flowering specimen 

 of any plant of the Order be examined, for example, one of the Alkanets (Anchusa), 

 though almost any other will do equally well, it will be seen that the corolla is 

 monopetalous, or composed of only one piece, the limb or edge being divided into 

 five equal lobes; that the stamens arc five in number, placed in the tube of the 



