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166. Impa^tiens corni'gera Hook. Horn bearing Balsam. 



(Balsamindcecc.) Ceylon. 



A tender annual ; growing three feet high ; with rose and crimson flowers ■, appearing all sum- 

 mer ; increased by seeds ; grown in a good rich soil. Bot. Mag., 1832, tab. 4623. 



A new and pretty Balsamine, raised from seeds received at 

 Kew gardens, where it flowered all last summer and au- 

 tumn, grown in the stove or hot house. In our climate it 

 would most likely require the same treatment as the common 

 balsam. The leaves are large and long, and the flowers 

 appear at the axils, and are of a pale rose, tinged with crim- 

 son. If it does not ripen seeds it may readily be increased 

 by cuttings. (Bot. Mag., Jan.^ 



167. MACHiERANTHE^RA TANACETIFO^LIA De Cand. TaNACE- 



TUM-LEAVED Mach.eranthera. {CowposHecB.) Ncw Mexico. 



A half hardy biennial ; growing two feet high ; with purplish flowers ; appearing all summer; 

 increased by seeds ; grown in any good soil. Bol. Mag., 1S52, tab. 4624. 



An aster-like looking plant, with showy purple flowers 

 nearly two inches in diameter, and a fine tansy-like foliage. 

 It has a procumbent, half shrubby habit, with branching 

 stems, and a slightly downy foliage. Originally seen by 

 Humboldt in cultivated gardens in Mexico, but found by Dr. 

 Wright, in New Mexico, who sent seeds to Kew. It flowers 

 all the summer months. {Bot. Mag., Jan.) 



168. Ranu'nculus cortus^fo^lius Willd. Cortusa-leaved 



Buttercup. {Ranunculacece.) Madeira. 



a half hardy perennial ; growing two to four feet high ; with yellow flowers, appearing in sum- 

 mer ; increased by division of the roots and seeds; grown in good rich soil. Bot. Mag., 1S52, 

 lab. 4625. 



"Unquestionably the handsomest of all buttercups yet 

 known to botanists. The flowers are not only large, more than 

 two inches across, but of a singularly glossy yellow color ; and 

 although a native, as it would seem, exclusively of the Ca- 

 nary Islands and of Madeira, it is quite hardy. " The leaves 

 are large, orbicular and reniform, three to five lobed, and the 

 stem, branches and leaves are hairy. Flowers in panicles. 

 At Kew it has been treated as a half-hardy plant, being kept 

 in a frame during winter. {Bot. Mag., Jan.) 



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