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moment before me a specimen from an individual, which, during 

 the Ions:, late drought, has, with the sacrifice of a few of its lower 

 leaves, grown to its usual altitude, and produced several flower 

 spikes. Nor was its situation by any means congenial to its 

 habit, growing, as it does, in the shade of a Gleditsch?a, and 

 near which other plants have severely suffered. It is greatly to 

 be wished that an increased attention be manifested towards the 

 introduction and cultivation of some of our rarer native flowers. 

 The amateur florist, with a laudable zeal and an all-grasping am- 

 bition, introduces every thing new, be it ever so comparatively 

 worthless, and liable to be consigned to oblivion after one year's 

 trial; while, should his eye by chance rest on an unique or beau- 

 tiful specimen in a bouquet, or on a flower-stand of some lover 

 of native flowers, he is surprised to learn, that what might be- 

 come the pride or humble ornament of his border, could be pro- 

 cured at no great distance, and with little trouble. The cultiva- 

 tion of our native herbaceous perennials, and even of our native 

 shrubs, would be worthy the closer attention of our floral market 

 gardeners. A superbly grown cardinal flower, or a fimbriated 

 orchis in its proper soil, — a fine plant of ^hodora, iJhododen- 

 dron maximum, nudiflorum and viscosum, Lilium superbum, 

 canadense, philadelphicum, under the attentive cultivation of such 

 florists, would undoubtedly produce as much per pot or root as 

 an antique rose, a double gilliflower, some monstrous hybridized 

 foreign co-species, or far-brought sister species, not half so beau- 

 tiful nor gaudy. It would be pleasant to see the city gardens 

 vying in luxuriance and vividness with the sylvan glades and sun- 

 ny hills of the country, reminding many a pale, wan and business- 

 harassed citizen of other pursuits, and perhaps enticing him to 

 an occasional and salutary dismissal of care and incessant toil, by 

 a renewed acquaintance in the almost forgotten scenes of early 

 days. 



Dr. Lindley has separated a few plants which constitute, un- 

 der his authority, a new natural order, the Sanguisorbeae, from 

 the iJosaceae of Jussieu, of which it formed a section, or the 

 fifth tribe of the Roskcess of Richard. " This order, usually 

 combined with iJosaceae, appears to me to demand a distinct sec- 

 tion, on account of its constantly apetalous flowers, its indurated 

 calyx, and the reduction of carpella to one only," &c. (Introd. 

 JVat. Syst.) The apparent calyxes in Sanguisorba, between 

 which and the supposed corolla the germ is situated, and which 

 disappears after the expansion of the flower, must be regarded 

 as floral bractes. Elliott notices this peculiarity in his minute 

 description of the particular species at the head of this article. 

 In this case the flower is apetalous and the corolla superior. 

 One of the essential characters in the description of Jussieu's 

 section Sanguisorbieae, viz. "the stigma in the form of a pencil 

 or feather," is elegantly exhibited in this species. — J. L. R. 



