Floricultural and Botanical JVotices. 69 



of August. A shrubby species of thrift, Dr. Lindley re- 

 marks, at first sight appears an anomaly, but if we examine 

 the common species, we shall find it equally shrubby with the 

 one now mentioned, only the branches are so very short as 

 not to be discernible. 



The plant thrives well in a light soil in the open air in sum- 

 mer; but in winter requires the protection of the frame or 

 green-house. Its heads of pink flowers, intermixed with its 

 tiny slender foliage, and the bushy habit of the plants, render 

 it a species well worth introduction. [Bot. Reg-t April.) 



Kf^terdcecB. 



TRIPTI'LION (from threi, and a feather, in allusion tn the f athery pappus.) 

 Bpinosuni De Cand. Spiny Tiiptilion. A frame perennial, growing two leet high; with 

 blue flowers; appearing in July; a native of Chili, increased by seed and division of 

 the roots. Bol Keg., Ifc-il, t. '/a. 



A most beautiful plant, growing two feet high, with an her- 

 baceous stem, delicate pinnate foliage, and elegant deep azure 

 flowers produced in large corymbs. This species has long 

 been known to botanists conversant with the Chilian flora, 

 and repeated attempts have been made to introduce it, but in 

 vain, until seeds came into the hands of ]\lr. Frost, gardener 

 to the Countess of Grenville, at Dropmore, who succeeded 

 in flowering it. Only two plants were raised from seed, as it 

 seeds sparingly. The root is fleshy, somewhat like that of a 

 dahlia in miniature. The radical leaves spring up in autumn, 

 as soon as the flower stems are cut off; but as they grow in 

 summer they will have died off. The plant has increased in 

 size every year, but Mr. Frost has been too choice of it to 

 make an attempt to divide the root. The plants have been 

 kept in the green-house, but he thinks a cold pit will suit it 

 best. Sandy loam and rotten leaves are used as a compost 

 for the plants, which, after v/intering in small pots, are shift- 

 ed into larger ones, as circumstances require. [Bot. Reg., 

 April.) 



Cinchondcece. 



POSOCIUERIJI Endlich. {Mymara posoqiicra is the native name, among the Caribs, of 

 the nrigi rial species.) 

 versicolor /.ini//. Chingeable Posoquery. A stove shrub; growing two feet high; wiih 

 changeable pink and red flowers; appearing In August; <i native of Cuba; introduced 

 in 1840; increased by cuttings; grown in loam, leaf mould, peat, and sand, Bot. 

 Reg., 1841, t. -26. 



A handsome stove shrub, "with long, pendulous, fragrant 

 flowers, changing from white to crimson through pink." The 

 leaves are ovate lanceolate, and the flowers are produced at 

 the ends of the branches, in clusters of four or five each, the 



