226 Notices of new and beautiful Plants. 



stand the winters, even of Boston [and vicinity], without protection, if they do 

 not grow too large by Autumn. 3Iine were out tlie past winter, and are 

 doing well, though the mercury was 10 or 12° below 0." 



We shall try to make this species attain the height, and consequently the 

 beauty above named. G. tricolor and achilUtfolia, are splendid annuals, as 

 before stated by us. 



CCVIir. Pnirnddceca. 



A new seedling variety of the Cyclamen we saw a few days since, raised 

 by Mr. Carter of the Botanic (iarden : it is similar to the C. persicuin. We 

 could not perceive any fragrance ; Dodecatheon medea we also observed in 

 bloom ; it should oftener be found in gardens, 



CCIX. Gcsnh-c(n. 



SiNNiNGiA GUTTATA. Spotted flowered sinningia. An elegant stove plant, 

 we should infer irom the plate ; introduced into England from Brazil in 

 1826. Proj)agated similar to the gloxinias, by cuttiiigsor leaves, in sandy 

 peat and light loam, [Paxtonh Mag. Bol. Feb.) 



CCXI. Sclirophularinea;. 

 CHELO^NE. 



centrandiifolia. Bcntli. Valerian-leaved Chelone. A perennial hardy plant; 

 about 3 ft. high ; flowers from June to Nov. ; propagated by seeds ; introduced 

 from California in 1834. Bot. lleg. t. 1737. 



A beautiful new liardy species, which much resembles the C. 

 barbata ; it differs in having a larger and very graceful panicle, and 

 more slender flowers ; it is easily cultivated, " growing well in any 

 soil or situation, if exposed to the sun, but best adapted to planting 

 among American plants, from the midst of whose bushy masses its 

 long panicles may rise like slender scarlet plumes. — ^ (Bot. Reg., 

 February.) 



CALCEOLA^RIA. 



augustifolia. Narrow-leaved Calceolaria. A half-hardy perennial ; of dwarf 

 habit ; flowers yellow ; a native of Peru ; propagated by seeds and cuttings. 

 Bot. Reg. t. 1743. 



The following remarks by Dr. Lindley, in relation to the hybrid 

 varieties, accompany this figure. " It is a species of no great attrac- 

 tion, but deserves to be recorded in this work, as one of the genuine 

 wild forms of a genus, which, however beautiful and interesting, has 

 already begun to sink in estimation, in consequence of the ruin that 

 has been brought upon it by the unskillfulness of gardeners. In 

 their haste to improve the works of nature, these gentlemen have 

 converted some of the fairest races in the vegetable world, into forms 

 in no case more beautiful than the original, and in a majority of in- 

 stances unhealthy, mongrel, and debased. We strongly recommend 

 all those who value this really beautiful and most singular genus, to 

 abandon a pursuit which has as yet led to few results of which good 

 taste can approve, and to apply the same skill which they have used 

 in spoiling Calceolarias, to recovering the pure original races, to pre- 



