586 NOTES ON SOME ORNAMENTAL PLANTS. [July, 



such as are remarkable for their beauty, neatness of foliage, good 

 habit, etc. It is also the writer's aim to avoid all repetitions, 

 viz. not to enter such plants as are already well known and de- 

 servedly popular. 



As a beginning must be made somewhere, the Boraginece are 

 put foremost, not because they have any peculiarities entitling 

 them to the distinction of leading the van, but because they hap- 

 pened to be at hand, and because the matter of the remarks was 

 wanted to fill up a few pages of the magazine. 



The first part of this paper will contain the plants which have 

 their genera represented in our own small native flora; and the 

 second will be devoted to those species which are foreign and be- 

 long to exotic genera. 



The following foreign species, belonging to British genera, are 

 recommended to the attention of cultivators of all classes, viz. 



1st. Lithospermum incrassatum, Guss., a species which ap- 

 proaches L. purpureo-C(Sruleum in habit and general appearance. 

 This grows in Spain, Naples, Sicily, Dalmatia, Turkey, etc. The 

 specimen in our herbarium was collected about St. Givors, Central 

 Pyrenees, and is expected to be sufficiently hardy to bear the 

 cold of the winter in these islands. 



Lithospermum fruticosum, L.,^ is a dwarf, half-shrubby plant, 

 apparently suitable for what is called a rockwork. The flowers 

 are large, deep pink, the foliage linear and hoary. 



Our specimen is from Montpellier ; and its capabilities to en- 

 dure the rigour of a British winter may be questioned. 



Lithospermum Sibthoyyianum, Griseb., L. tenuiflorum fl. graeca, 

 but not of Linnseus, is a somewhat hassocky but very dwarf 

 species, only three or four inches high. Our specimen is from 

 the Bay of Phalerum, in Greece. It flowers in March. 



Note. — This species and L. apulum are stated to be annuals. 

 Their cultivation, notwithstanding, may be worth a trial in col- 



* " Of the LiiTios'perma, the handsomest is L. fruticosum, a plant of the South 

 of France and South of Europe generally. It is shrubby, and has not much 

 foliage, but fine blue flowers. 



" L. apulum is a stiffish plant with small yellow flowers. It is also general in 

 the south of Eui-ope, though I have not found it here (Avignon), nor nearer than 

 Montpellier. 



" L. incrassatum I have only seen in a valley of the Pyrenees (St. Girons) . 

 Some doubt hangs to the last-nsjmed species, a doubt which will be removed before 

 long." — From a Corres^pondent. 



