1 6 FloricuUural and Botanical JVotices. 



Solandccce. 



50LA'NUM 

 macrantli^ruin Soland, Large anthered bittersweet, A green-house plant; grow- 

 ing about four feet high; with purple flowers; appearing all summer; a native of 

 Mexico; increased by cuttings. Eot. Reg., 1841, t. 7. 



"A fine half shrubby green-house plant, with large clusters 

 of deep purple flowers, whose centre is occupied by a knot 

 of large bright yellow anthers. It is nearly allied to the bit- 

 ter-siveet of the hedgerows, but its flowers are very much larg- 

 er and handsomer." The plate represents a very showy 

 plant, with the flowers in a terminal panicled raceme, the 

 deep yellow of the anthers contrasting finely with the rich 

 purple of the petals. It must prove a desirable acquisition to 

 the green-house. [Bot. Reg., Feb.) 



Tedalidcece. 



MARTYN/.4 

 fttsnns Lindl. Fragrant Martynia. A half hardy annual; growing three feet high; 

 with rich purplish crimson iinwers; appearing all summer; a native of Jlexico; in- 

 creased by seeds. Bot. Reg., 1841, t. C. 



"A half hardy annual, of great beauty and delicious fra- 

 grance." The plant grows about three feet high, with large 

 cordate dentate leaves, and long petioles. The flowers are as 

 large as the common martynia, of a very rich crimson purple, 

 and appear in racemes of four to six blooms each. It may 

 be classed with the balsams, being equally showy and brilliant. 



The specimen from which the drawing was taken was grown 

 in a pot, and produced a spike of flowers when a foot high: 

 "two lateral branches were then produced, and these also 

 bloomed from the extremity, sending forth lateral opposite 

 branches. In this way the plant continued to grow, and in a 

 pot of light rich earth attained the height of three feet, and 

 about the same extent in diameter." In our climate, we pre- 

 sume that if the seeds were sown in April, in a hot-bed, and 

 plants put out into the border in June, they would flower as 

 freely as the balsam. [Bot. Reg., Jan.) 



'Boragindcece. 



CYNOGT.O'.SSU.VI 

 glochidiiUiim i(<!HfA. Eurry hound's tongue. A hardy biennial; growing a foot high; 

 with blue flowers; ap[)earing in July; a native of India. Bot. Reg., t. 15. 



Only pretty when its flowers are placed in water, or a bou- 

 quet, where its dull green coarse herbage "may not oflend 

 the eye." It is in most respects similar to the European for- 

 get-me-not, forming a straggling plant, throwing up short 

 branched stems "whose bright and joyous looking flowers are 

 exceedingly gay." The seeds should be sown in May, in a 



