202 ON THE CULTURE OF PANSIES. 



making a slight incision in the joint in cither of the above-named 

 months. The cuttings may be placed singly in thumb-pots, in a 

 little light sandy mould and well-rotten dung, and set in a cucum- 

 ber frame, which is at work, to be kept moderately moist and 

 shaded ; or they may be stuck in the ground under a common 

 hand-glass, with coal-ashes under, to jjrevent the wonns casting 

 them up ; biit if placed on gentle bottom heat, the glass ought by 

 no means to be shut down close, or they will be very liable to 

 damp off. Propagation by dividing the roots may be done in 

 moist weather, any time from July to September. The plants 

 thrive best in well-manured loam, in a shady situation, and pre- 

 serve their flowers longer ; though they will grow and flower 

 abundantly in almost any situation. 



Collections of Pansies liave been exhibited this summer in most 

 of the Horticultural Meetings, which have taken place in diflfereat 

 parts of the country. Their cultivation is at present a favourite 

 pursuit with many of the fair sex, who seem to find pleasure in 

 raising new varieties. Conductor. 



PART 11. 



EXTRACTS. 



Plants figured in the following Periodicals for October : — 



Curtis s Botanical Magazine, 3s. 6d. coloured, 3s. plain. Edited 

 by Dr. Hooker, King's Professor of Botany in the Univer- 

 sity of Glasgow. 



1. Lychnis Pyrcnaica,'? jreneAD Catch Ay. Class, Decaudria; order, Peii- 

 tajiyiiia; natural order, Carophyllea;. An highly interesting plant, well 

 suited to ornament an alpine border or lock work. It succeeds well likewise 

 when grown in a |)0t. The plant is an inhabitant of rocky places in the Bas- 

 ses Pyi'enecs. It is perfectly hardy, and grown in the Glasgow Botanic Gar- 

 den. Flowers: grows in forked panicles of from three to six flowers in each 

 panicle. The flowers arc small, delicate, and of a pale-rose colour. Lychnis, 

 from lychnis, a lamp ; the down of the leaves appearing as wicks. 



y. Fimelea arcnaria, sand Piuielea. Diandria, Monogynia. ThymcUic. 

 A small erect shrub, branched in a forked manner, the branches hairy. Mr. 

 Allan Cunningham states," This interesting Pimelca I found growing on the 

 bare, exposed sandy ridges at the entrance of the river llokiauga, on the wes- 

 teru coast of the northern island of New Zealand, where it was observed iu 



