nerved, the nerves warted with purple warts, and fasci- 

 culately hairy. Petals 5, nearly orbicular, very broad, 

 more or less crumpled, very much imbricate, of a 

 bright crimson inclining to orange, and a yellow spot 

 at the base. Stamens about 70, half the length of the 

 style : filaments slender, straw-coloured : pollen yellow. 

 Germen densely tomentose. Style long, slender, and 

 crooked at the base, and thickening upwards. Stigma 

 capitate, papillose. 



This very pretty plant is now very common in the 

 collections about London, but we cannot find any de- 

 scription agree with it in any of the works that we have 

 examined ; it is readily distinguished from H. rhodan- 

 thum by its warted stalks and calyces, and by its 

 smooth and shining stems ; its habit is also very differ- 

 ent ; it is one of the most ornamental plants of the 

 genus for adorning rock- work, as it is quite hardy, and 

 continues to flower all the summer, and till late in 

 autumn ; it will also succeed well on a dry bank, or in 

 any common border of the flower garden where it does 

 not get too much moisture ; in some of our collections 

 it is considered as a variety of H. vulgar e, but it has 

 certainly nothing to do with that species, from which 

 it differs more than from any other species in the sec- 

 tion ; we believe many species have been confused 

 together by the short descriptions that have been given 

 of them, and those chiefly from dry specimens that 

 have dropt their petals. Specimens of this natural 

 order of plants should always be gathered in the morn- 

 ing, as soon as the flowers expand, and before their 

 anthers are burst, for as soon as that takes place, the 

 stigma becomes fertilized by the pollen, and the petals 

 will not remain long after. 



Our drawing was taken from a plant, at the Nursery 

 of Mr. Colvill, where it is cultivated in pots of light 

 sandy soil, and makes a splendid appearance all the 

 summer; young cuttings root freely under hand- 

 glasses in the open ground, if planted in autumn. 



