258 EXTRACTS. 



Sweet's British Flower Garden. Edited by David Don, Esq., 

 Librarian to the Linnrcan Society. Coloured, 3s. ; plain, 2s. 3d. 



1. Lvpinus nanus, Dwarf Lupine. Diadelphia, Decandria. Legumiuosnp. 

 This pretty little Lupine was gathered in California by Mr. Douglas, and 

 by him introduced to the garden of the Horticultural Society. Seeds have 

 been distributed to various places. It is to be obtained of most nurserymen 

 and seedsmen. The plant is a hardy annual, and grows about nine inches 

 high. The tlowers are in distant whorls, of about rive together, and altoge- 

 ther form a spike about five inches long. The corolla is a fine sky-blue, 

 with white and purple intermixed. It is a very handsome species, and would 

 make a fine, show if sown in masses, or a bed of it. The plant seeds very 

 freely, and blooms from June to September. Lupinus, from lupus, a wolf; 

 in allusion to the exhausting habit of the plant. 



2. Rhododendron feiTuyineum, var. album, White-flowered Rusty-leaved 

 Rosebay. Decandria, Monogynia. Eriaceie. Synonyms, Azalea maeulis 



ferruyineus, Ledum alpimtm, Euoiiymus Theophrastii, Chamterhudcndros moli- 

 lalia, var. alba. A very dwarf shrub, scarcely more than a foot high. The 

 flowers are pure white. The plant has probably been originally obtained 

 from the Pyrenees, where it is frequent. It is cultivated in the excellent 

 collection of plants of Mrs. Maurvat, Wimbledon. It blooms from June to 

 the end of August. Rhododendron, from rliodo, rose, and dendron, a tree. 



3. Pentstemon speciosus, Showy Pentstemon. Didynamia, Angiospermia. 

 Cheljoneai. This is by far the most beautiful of this showy genus. It was 

 discovered by Mr. Douglas on the banks of Spoken River, in North-wesl 

 America, and introduced by him to the garden of the Horticultural Society, 

 in 1827. The plant is still rare in collections, from the sparing manner in 

 which it affords slips, and from its seeds being * ddpni matured, except under 

 favourable circumstances. The flowers are disposed in a long, terminal, 

 loose, racemose panicle, with the branches in distant pairs, and bearing from 

 seven to eleven blossoms of a beautiful pale blue colour. It is found to sue 

 ceed best in a mixture of peat and loam, and continues in ilower the greater 

 part of the summer. Pentstemon is derived from the Greek penle, five, and 

 .■demon, stamen ; from the presence of ihe rudiments of a fifth stamen. 



4. Ebenus crelica, Cretan Ebony. Diadelphia, Decandria. Leguminos;e. 

 This is a very elegant little bushy oven-Teen shrub, growing from a foot tin 

 eighteen inches high. It has much the habit of an Onobrychis, and well 

 suited to ornament rock work, being found to be perfectly hardy. The 

 flowers are of a beautiful rose colour. It will grow in almost any kind of 

 light earth. It is increased by seeds and cuttings. The plant is abundant 

 on the Spacbian mountains, in C'andia, and was sent to Prosper Alpinus by 

 a correspondent in that island, as the Ebeuns frulicosa of Throphrastus, 

 which most probably meant the i\Iedicago arborea. The Ebony of commerce 

 is well known to be the wood of Diospyros F.benum. 



The Number for September (omitted in our last) contains — 



1. Clematis molilalia, Mountain Virgin's Bower. Polyandria, Polygynia. 

 Ranunculaceie. The species was originally collected by Dr. F. Hamilton, 

 at Chitlong, in the Valley of Nepal, flowering in April, and it appears to be 

 a pretty general plant on the mountains, at an elevation of from 5,000 to 

 7,000 feet above the level of the sea. The plant proves to be quite hardy, 

 and seems to flourish as well in the climate of England as on its native 

 mountains. The flowers are very like those of the Anemone sylvcslris (Wood 

 Anemone). It loves a loamy soil, and is readily multiplied by layers. 



2. Iris Swcrlii, Swf.rt's Iris. Triandria, Monogynia. Iridca\ A very 

 elegant Iris, long cultivated in the gardens, but of its origin aud native 

 country nothing certain is known. It is very nearly related to /. i/ermanica, 

 from which it is chiefly distinguished by the smaller si/.e of all its parts, 

 and by the narrow aud wavy segments of its perianthium. We have not 

 remarked whether the flowers are fragrant. 



'■}. Nieremberijia arislalu, Pristle pointed Nieretnbergia. IVnlandriu, Mo 



