500 Floricultural and Botanical Notices. 



39. DiPLADE^NiA ro^sa-campe'stris Nob. The Rose-colored 

 Field Dipladenia. {Apocynacece.^ 



A stove plant ; growing four to six feel high ; -with rose-colored flowers ; appearing in spring ; 

 a native off?) increased by oflscts or tubers : cultivated iu leaf mould, peal, and sand. Flore dea 

 Serres, 1647. pi 256. 



The Dipladenias are beautiful climbing plants, adapted to 

 stove culture, the greenhouse being scarcely \varm enough to 

 keep them in good health, growing a few feet high, and pro- 

 ducing numerous bell-shaped flowers of various shades. The 

 present species is especially beautiful, and has received the 

 poetical name of the Rose des Champs. " Nothing can be 

 more beautiful or more elegant in color, than the large flowers 

 of this species, with their ample petals, of a soft rose, satiny 

 beneath, and spotted in the centre with deep rose." The 

 leaves are opposite, oval, distinctly russeted, and velvety, and 

 the flowers appear in clusters on the ends of the shoots. It is 

 a very fine plant, and merits a place wherever there is a suit- 

 able one to bloom it well. {Flore des Serres, Aug.) 



40. Dice'ntra specta'bilis Nob. Elegant Dicentra. (Fw- 



mariacecB.) 



A hardy perennial ; wilh purple flovyers ; appearing in summer ; a native of China ; increased 

 by division of the root ; cultivated in any good soil. Flore des Serres, 1847, pi. 258. 



" Beyond all comparison the handsomest of all the Fume- 

 worts which have been introduced. It was introduced to Eng- 

 land by Mr. Fortune, who brought it home with him from 

 China. In good health, its stems grow nearly two feet high, 

 and have three or four axillary racemes of beautiful flowers, 

 each raceme from four to six inches long. The flowers are 

 full an inch long, and nearly three quarters of an inch wide. 

 J\lr. Fortune states that it is one of those plants of which the 

 Chinese mandarins are passionately fond, and cultivate ex- 

 tensively in their small gardens. He found it in the Garden of 

 the Grotto, (in Chusan,) growing on artificial rockwork with 

 the beautiful Weigelia rosea. Its great resemblance is to the 

 old jPumaria formosa, (now Dicentra,) but is far finer iu 

 every way. It is a very great acquisition, and, with the 

 Anemone japonica, and other of Mr. Fortune's plants, will 

 probably prove quite hardy. {Flore des Serres, Aug.) 



