acute, the sides more or less turned back, much fringed : 

 inner ones narrower, ovate, concave, taper- pointed, the 

 margins scariose or membranaceous. Flowers rather 

 cupped, of a paper white. Petals 5, obcordate, very 

 much imbricate, more or less crumpled, with a light 

 yellow spot at the base. Stamens about 80, spreading, 

 the inner ones longest : filaments smooth, slender, of 

 a pale yellow : pollen bright yellow, inclining to orange. 

 Germen densely clothed with close pressed hairs. Style 

 very short. Stigma large, capitate, slightly 5-lobed, 

 tuberculate. 



Our drawing and description of this fine species 

 were taken from plants kindly communicated to us from 

 the Nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, 

 at Fulham, in June last ; we have no doubt but it is the 

 C. laxus of M. Decandolle, although it belongs to the 

 same division of the section as C. populifolius and lon- 

 gifolius, bearing small deciduous bractes at the base of 

 the peduncles ; we believe the present plant, from the 

 description, to be what is meant by Professor Spren- 

 gel, for C. longifolius, in his Systema Vegetabilium, 

 but very different from Decandolle's C. longifolius, of 

 which we also have a drawing in our possession : the 

 present plant is quite hardy, or only requires slight 

 protection in very severe frost, thriving well in the 

 common garden soil, but prefers rather a dryish situa- 

 tion ; it may also be grown in pots, which can be pro- 

 tected in a frame in severe frost, and may then be 

 planted into the borders in spring ; if grown in pots, 

 the best soil is an equal mixture of light turfy loam, 

 and peat. Young cuttings taken off at a joint, and 

 planted under hand-glasses in autumn, will strike root 

 readily; it may also be increased by layers or seeds. 



