100 Floricultural and Botanical J^'otices 



cemes of much beauty. The plants are grown sinnilar to the 

 diosma, erica, and such plants, requiring a rather light sandy 

 soil, the pots to be well drained, and the soil never allowed 

 to get dry. Indeed, the same treatment as recommended 

 under the head of Mirbelta above, will suit this plant. In- 

 creased freely from cuttings. [Bot. Reg., Oct.) 



DIPLOL.'E'NA {{torn double and cloak, in allusion to the two coverings to the flowers.) 

 H. Brown. 

 Dampiuij Des. Dampier's double Cap. A green-house shrub; growing two feet high; 

 wih greenish flowers; appearing in spring; a native of Swan River. Bot. Reg., 1641, 

 t.U4. 



"A botanical curiosity," possessing little or no beauty as 

 a flowering plant, but extremely interesting. It is botanically 

 allied to Corrffi^a and Boronut, without any external resem- 

 blance to those plants; and it has the arrangement of jiarts 

 found in composite genera, without any sort of affinity to 

 them: finally, it is an "apelatous genus among polypetalous 

 ones." The plant forms a bushy shrub, with obovate oblong 

 leaves, and flowers in dense heads, composed of a great num- 

 ber of long stamens, which project to some distance. It can- 

 not be considered as an acquisition, only to the botanical 

 world. {Bot. Reg., Nov.) 



Crassuldcea;. 



JEO'NIUU Wehh 

 cru6tituni Wrhb deeding Stone-wort, A green-house plant; growing two feet high; 

 with yellow flowers; appearing in May. a native of the Canary Isles; increased by 

 cuttings. Bot. Reg., 1841, t. CI. 



The old genera of /Sempervivum and /Sedum have been 

 remodeled by Mr. Webb, in his work describing the plants 

 of the Canaries. iEonium is one of them, to which has been 

 assigned the old (Sempervivum arboreum, and about twelve 

 other species. The plant now mentioned is a pretty species, 

 with an erect branched stem, small leaves, and panicled clus- 

 ters of yellow flowers. It requires the same treatment as the 

 mesembiyanthemums and similar plants, that is, light sandy 

 soil, well drained, a dry situation in summer, and a cool situ- 

 ation in winter. {Bot. Reg., Nov.) 



Vlumbagindcecz. 



5TATICE 

 moiiopetnla L. IMonopetaloiis Sea Lavender. A green-house shrnb; growing two feet 

 high; with red flowers; appearing from July to September; a native of the south of 

 Europe; incteastd by cuttings. Bot. Reg., 1841, t. 54. 



Many of the statices are pretty plants, well deserving cul- 

 tivation, though they are rarely seen in collections. S. ar- 

 borea, lately introduced, is said to be a splendid plant. The 



