176 Floricultural and Botanical JVbtices 



over the plant. The seeds were received from the Columbia 

 River, and presented to the London Horticultural Society, by 

 the late Mr. Moreton Dyer. This species belongs to the 

 section which coniprehends G. viminea, in Torrey and Gray's 

 Flora. It requires the same treatment as the other species. 

 The plants flower best if the seeds are sown late in the fall, 

 so that the plants may come up early and become strong be- 

 fore warm weather sets in; but they do very well, sown with 

 other annuals in May, in any good soil. [Bot. Reg., Feb.) 



Godel\a vinosa, Willdendvu, viminea, concinna, quadrivul- 

 nera and blfrons, are all pretty annuals, well deserving a place 

 in every garden. They may be sown immediately if not 

 planted before, selecting a cool and half shady situation, when 

 they will grow and flower abundantly all summer. 

 Myrtdcecc. 



BABINGTO'NM (In honor of Ohrirles Babington, Esq., F. L. S., of St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, a zealous and skilful botanist.) Lindley. 

 campliorosma:; Endlich. Caniplior-wort Babingtonia. A green-house shrub, growing sis 

 feet high; with pink flowers; appearing in spring; a native of Swan River; increased 

 by cuttings. Bot. Reg., 1842, t. 10. 



"A green-house shrub, very graceful in its habit, rendering 

 the green-house gay in autumn and winter." To the botanist, 

 this plant presents some most remarkable features. The pe- 

 culiar structure of the flower oversets the theory which has 

 hitherto obtained, that the style is an extension and attenua- 

 tion and convolution of the carpellary leaf: that it is often of 

 that nature is certain; that it is not always so is proved by 

 this species. In this plant, "//le style itself is a direct pro- 

 longation of the placenta, and docs not even touch the carpels, 

 but is protruded through a hole in the vertex of the ovary. 

 This fact was suggested some time since by Dr. Lindley, and 

 it is now fully confirmed. 



Endlicher called this a Bae^ckia, but Dr. Lindley gives his 

 reasons for separating it from that genus, and forming a new 

 one. The plant throws up numerous flower stems, several 

 inches long, pendant, clothed with delicate pink blossoms 

 which resemble a leptospermum. The foliage is delicate and 

 fine, somewhat like the heath. The cultivation is simple: 

 cuttings root freely in sand, and if potted ofl:' into peat and 

 leaf mould, with but a small quantity of loam, they will flow- 

 er abundantly during the summer. [Bot. Reg., Feb.) 

 Slyliddcecc. 



STYLI'DIUM 

 Bruiioiiidnum Bentli. Brown's Ptylewort. A green-house plant; growing a foot high; 

 witi) pink flowers; appearing in May; a native of Swan River; increased by seeds. 

 Bot. Reg., 1843, t. 15, 



