296 FloricuUural and Botanical J^otices. 



our horticultural treasures, in this family, by the gardens at 

 Highclere. It was produced by fertilizing the flowers of Aza- 

 lea sinensis, with the pollen of the late flowering variety of 

 Azalea viscosa, called by tlie nurserymen Azalea rubescens 

 major. It bears the most decisive evidence of its double pa- 

 rentage, having the glaucous foliage and inflorescence of Aza- 

 lea sinensis, modified by the pale crimson tints of Azalea ru- 

 bescens major. It is most profuse of its odorous flowers, 

 which cover the whole bush, and is altogether a very striking 

 production." 



The individual flowers bear a similar resemblance to those 

 of A. variegata, with the exception that they have not the 

 delicate texture of the latter. We consider it a variety worth 

 a dozen of the common imported kinds. 



In connection with this subject. Dr. Lindley states, what 

 may be interesting to some, viz., when the branch now drawn 

 was sent him, he stripped off a twig or bud of the young wood, 

 inserted their ends in a phial of water, and placed them in a 

 Ward's case in a sitting room. They remained for nearly three 

 months healthy, but scarcely green; they, however, formed a 

 callosity at the lower end, and he has no doubt they would 

 have rooted had they been placed in a little bottom heat. He 

 thinks that in a Ward's case azaleas might easily be made to 

 root. (Bot. Reg., May.) 



Convolvuldcem. 



MPN^ Llave and Lex, (after Don Francisco Xavier Miua, a Mexican Minister.) 

 lobeita ia 7,/ai'c and Lex Lobe-leaved Mina. An annual climber; growing several feet 

 liigh; with yellow flowers; appearing in summer; a native of Mexico; increased by 

 seeds. Bot. Reg., 1842, t. 24. 



A beautiful annual, with so much of the habit of growth and 

 general appearance of the common Ipomoea, that if the flowers 

 were removed, no one would scarcely detect it; "but remove 

 the leaves, and it loses all appearance of the convolvulaceous or- 

 der, so unusual is it among such plants to have racemose flow- 

 ers, erect, and arrayed almost in the scorpeoid manner of a 

 borage, to say nothing of the uncommon form of the corolla, 

 and its peculiar color, at first rich crimson, but changing 

 through orange to pale yellow as the blossoms unfold." As 

 this plant is common with the Mexicans, and is used for the 

 purposes of decoration, it is somewhat singular that it was 

 never introduced to Europe until last year, when a packet of 

 seeds was presented to the Earl of Burlington, in whose gar- 

 den it flowered; the plant afterwards died, and only a few im- 



