FloricuUural and Botanical JVotices, 15 



and autumn months. The flowers are about the size of a 

 coreopsis; the stem strong, erect, and branched, with broad 

 deep green fohage. It must be a valuable plant for turning out 

 into the border during summer, where its golden blossoms, pro- 

 duced so freely, would make a brilliant appearance. Grows 

 freely in any rich soil, and is increased readily from cuttings. 

 (Bot. Reg., Jan.) 



Aslerdcem. 



BRACH\''CO'JIE Cass. (From short and hair, in allusion fo the shortness of the pappup.) 

 iberidifulia Cra^A. Laree swan dnisy. An anriu;il plant; growing one foot high; with 

 prile and dark violet dowers; appearing all summer. Bot. Kfg., 1841, t. 9. 



Another of the elegant annuals of late introduction. The 

 genus Brachycome, Dr. Lindley remarks, consists mostly of 

 "little mean looking flowers, altogether unsuited to gardens;" 

 but that which is now figured "is evidently one of the hand- 

 somest hardy annuals in cultivation. Its large violet colored 

 flowers, varying in the depth of color, according to their age, 

 the youngest palest, have no rival among annuals of the same 

 dwarf habit, and it is not too much to say the large swan daisy 

 deserves to be placed in the same class as Nemophila insig- 

 nis." It is, in reality, a beautiful plant. 



It flowers freely in the open border, but is impatient of wet: 

 at the latter end of the season it may, however, be lifted, and 

 transferred to the green-house, where it will go on blooming 

 beautifully. The plants vary as much in the color of their 

 flowers as the Phlox Drummondii, and, like that lovely annual, 

 they must be in every good garden. (^Bot. Reg., Feb.) 



ConvolvuldcecB. 



IPOM^'A 

 /icif61ia LindJ. F'ts-ltaved Ipomaea. A hothonse clinfiber; growing ten feet high; with 

 purple flowers; appearing all summer; increased by cuttings. Bot. Reg , 1841, t. 13. 



A most free blooming plant, which produced, when only 

 twelve months old, nearly five hundred rich purple flowers, 

 upon a cylindrical wire trellis, two feet high. Its disposition 

 to blossom to this unusual degree more particularly recom- 

 mends it to the gardener's attention: the foliage is also cor- 

 respondingly small. The plant is slightly shrubby, and has 

 a tuberous root. 



It also succeeds well in the summer, against a south wall, 

 and "thrives under the commonest cultivation." On this ac- 

 count it will be a fine ornament for trellises or arbors. It is 

 a native of Buenos Ayres. {Bot. Reg., March.) 



