figured in the London Flor. and Bat. Magazines. 225 

 Solandce(B. 



PF.TUWM LiR<i\. 

 intermedia GraAajn syn : Niercmbergm linearis GrnAani Salpiglossis linearis //ooier Inter- 

 mediate Petunia. A lialf hardy green-house plant ; growing two feet or more high ; with 

 violet and purple tlowers ; appearing all summer ; propagated by cuttings and seeds ; a 

 native of Buenos Ayres. Bot. Reg., 1931. 



Like the P. phoenicea, extremely showy and delicate, but in 

 a much less degree; the leaves are linear and small, and the plant 

 is not so well adapted to out-door culture in the summer as the 

 others. It was first published as a Nierembergi«, by Dr. Gra- 

 ham, in the Ed. JYew Phil. Journal, in 1832, and afterwards 

 by the same name in Sweet's Brit. Flower Garden^ 237, and by 

 Dr. Hooker as Salpiglossis, in the Bot. Magazine, 3256. But 

 to neither of these genera, Dr. Lindley thinks, can it be uni- 

 ted, certainly not to the latter, from its pentandrous corolla. 

 {Bot. Reg., Feb.) 



P. phoenicea, in the stove at Mr. Sweetser's, trained to a 

 trellis, has presented one mass of bloom from December to the 

 present moment, (May 20th.) It is one of the showiest plants we 

 possess. 



VerbendcecB. 



rERBEVNTA 



Tweedi«Hff Niven Mr. Tweedie's scarlet Vervain. A perennial green-house (.') plant ; 

 growing about two feet high ; with rosy crimson flowers ; appearing in tlie autumn ; propa- 

 gated by layers or cuttings; cultivated in a rich sandy loam. Pax. Mag. Bot. 



Registered at p. 139, but without much information respect- 

 ing its habit, &c. It is said to surpass the V. chamaedrifolia 

 " both in beauty of flowers and elegance of growth, growing 

 more erect, and being covered with a dense mass of conical 

 shaped rosy crimson flowers." From the figure, this does not 

 appear an exaggeration: the corymbs, or cones of flowers, show 

 to much more advantage than the flattish ones of the chamfedri- 

 folia; its erect growth will give it an additional value. The 

 seeds were sent by Mr. Tweedie to the Dublin Botanic Garden, 

 who found the plants growing plentifully in boggy places at La- 

 guna de la Molina, in the Banda Oriental. It is freely propa- 

 gated by layers or cuttings, and, we presume, will ripen seeds, 

 and soon become as generally grown and as great a favorite as 

 the V. chamaedrifolia. Messrs. Cunningham, at Liverpool, have 

 the stock to dispose of. [Pax. Mag. Bot., Feb.) 



HydrophylldcecB. 



NEMO'PHILA 

 atoniaria Fischer Speckled Nemophila. A hardy annual ; growing six inches high ; with 

 white flowers ; appearing during the summer ; supposed to be a native of California. 

 Bot. Reg., 1940. 



Inferior in every respect to N. insignis, and hardly worth 

 growing. The flowers are quite small, and destitute of the bril- 

 liant blue in the corollas of the former. The seeds were 

 received from Dr. Fischer, of the Imperial Garden at St. Pe- 

 tersburgh; but there can be but little doubt it is a native of Cali- 

 fornia. (Bot. Reg., March.) 



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