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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART HI. 



App. I. Half-hardy Genera hclonging to the Order Comjjdsitce. 



Though there are few plants belonging to the order Comp6sitJe, whether hardy or half-hardy, 

 which are truly ligneous, yet there are a number which are suffruticose ; and which, though usually 

 kept in the frame, green-house, or even stove, may be tried, with every prospect of success, at the base 

 of a conservative wall, or on rockwork which is capable of being protected during winter. We shall 

 notice the genera to which these belong in the order in whicli they are given in Lessing's Stftiopsis, 

 and chiefly refer for the species to our Hortus Biitannicus. 



Carlowizin salicifblia Moench, Ouobroma ialicifblia Link, is a native of Madeira, growing to the 

 height of 2ft. It is an erect shrub, with hoary leaves, resembling those of a willow. 



Arctotis L. This is a very interesting family consisting of undershrubs, all natives of the Cape of 

 Good Hope, and very splendid when in flower. The colour of the rays is yellow, orange, purple, or 

 wliite. Several, or perhaps all, of them might partly be preserved at the base of a conservative wall. 



A. dspcra L. (Bot. Beg., t 34.) has yellow rays, and grows to the height of 3 ft., flowering from June 

 to September. 



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Didi-lla camnsmn and D. sprnusuntH. K. are Ca|>c shrubs, growing to the licight of 3 ft, and flow- 

 ering in June and July. 



Bcrckhiya Khrli. is a Cape penus, of which there are 7 suflf'ruticosc species introduced, which 

 prow to the height of .'3 ft., and produce their yellow flowers from June to August 

 B. arandifldra W. {But. Mag., t. 1.S44.) is often in collections. 



Cvl/fitnia R. Br. is a Cai>e genus of evergreen undershrubs, of which 3 species 

 have been inlroduced,;which grow to the height of 2 ft., and pro<iuce their bright 

 yellow flowers from May to August. 



Otkdnna is a Cape genus, of which there are numerous low undershrubs, 

 evergreen^ some of them rising as high as 3 ft. O. flabcllifulia lAot. Cab., t. 

 728. O. virginea L. and our fig. 847.; O. pinnata Bot. Mag.,t. 768. ; O. pec. 

 tinata Bot Mag., t. 306. ; and O. coronopt/olia ; are species frequent in col- 

 lections. 



Oslcosp^rmum is a Cape genus of low evergreen shrubs, growing to the 

 height of 8 ft. or 10 ft, and producing their yellow flowers from April to August. 

 Several of them are figured in our Enciiclopwdia of Plants ; and O. pisfferum 

 L. (But. Cab., t. 470. ; and our fgs. 848, 8-B, and KM.) will give a some idea of 

 the general appearance of the genus. 



Calendula is a genus of which several species are natives of the Cape, and 

 are evergreens, rising as high as 2 ft. or 3 ft., producing yellow flowers from 

 April to August All the species are beautiful. C. I'hri/santhcmifulia Ven. (Bot 

 Keg., t. 40. ; and our fig. 851.), may serve to exemplify" the genus. 



Mulm^. Cav. This is an e.icceedingly interesting genus of shrubby climl) 

 crs, with leaves terminating in tendrils, by the o-y 



prehension of whidi the stems arc supported. ^ 



The species are natives of South America, and 

 only three of them, as far as we know, have 

 yet been introduced. M. latifoUa D. Don in 

 'Brit. FL-Gard., 2d ser., t. 288., and our/i,'.8o2,, 

 is a native of Valparaiso, which has flowered in 

 a frame at Kilmington Rectory, Wilts. The 

 flowers are pale pink and yellow, and the leaves 

 cordate-oblong, ending in a scollop, or notch, 

 the midrib of the leaf being extended up the 

 blade of the leaf, through the centre of the 

 notch, and being continued into a tendril 3 in, 

 long. M. aracknmdea Mart. {Bot. Mag., t. 

 2705.) is a native of Brazil, with red flowers, 

 produced in July and August. A plant, ap- 

 parently of the former species has stood out 

 three winters in the Clapton Nursery, without 

 the slightest protection, and appears perfectly 

 hardy. Mutisia. latifdlia represents a family of 

 climbers so very different from every other hitherto propagated in British 



