MENZIE'SIA GLOBULA'RIS. 



GLOBE-FLOWERED MENZIESIA. 

 Class. Order. 



OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 



Natural Order. 



RHODORACEJB. 



No. 89. 



This genus was named by Sir J. E. Smith, in ho- 

 nour of his friend Archibald Menzies ; who made a 

 voyage round the world with Vancouver, and col- 

 lected many rare and unknown plants, particularly 

 cryptogamic subjects. Globularis from its globose 

 corolla. 



This deciduous little shrub cannot, for splendour, 

 be ranked with the specious and imposing specimens 

 of flowering subjects which generally constitute the 

 natural order Rhodoracese, many of which have 

 emanated from the same source as our present plant, 

 North America, that rich fountain of vegetable 

 beauty. It is a compact growing shrub, of rather 

 slow growth, and frequently not exceeding twelve 

 or eighteen inches in height. It should be planted 

 in the foreground of the shrubbery, or American 

 compartment, and its foliage forms a pleasing con- 

 trast with the deep glossy verdure of the Rhododen- 

 dron, and evergreens of taller growth, which com- 

 monly give depth of shadow to the boundaries of 

 cultivated grounds. 



It should be planted in a mixture of peat and 

 loam ; and may be propagated by layers. 



23 Hort. Kew. 2, v. 2, 360. 



