yellow : pollen golden yellow. Germen woolly. Style a 

 little bent at the base, about the length of the stamens. 

 Stigma a sort of club-shaped head. 



The present pretty species is a native of the South of 

 Europe, and the Levant, and therefore requires a little 

 protection in severe frosty weather; if planted ou-t in 

 rock-work, the covering of a mat or a little hay or straw, 

 or any other dry covering, will be sufficient to protect 

 it in the severe frost, giving it full admission to the air 

 when the weather is mild ; or if the plants are not too 

 large, a common garden pot placed close over them in 

 frosty weather will preserve them very well. It is also 

 a good plan to have some in small pots, to preserve in 

 frames all the Winter ; they can then be turned out 

 wherever they are wanted in Spring, as at that time 

 they will grow very fast, and will soon make fine plants : 

 a mixture of sandy loam and peat is a very proper soil 

 for them; and young cuttings, planted under hand- 

 glasses, in August or September, will strike root freely. 



Our drawing was made from a plant in the rock-work 

 at the Botanic Garden belonging to the Apothecaries' 

 Company, at Chelsea, in the Summer of 1828. 



