36 Floricullural and Botanical Notices^ 



plant, and well adapted for ornamenting rockvvork. It continues 

 in flower during almost the whole summer ; and the blossoms 

 are succeeded by the numerous, small, and exactly globose seed- 

 vessels." {Bot. Mag., Nov.) 

 CaryophylldcecE. 



1415n. AGROSTEMMA 



*suecica Maund Swedish £ A P' I Ji-S Pk Sweden 1824 D co Bot. gard. 144. 



" A pretty plant for a select spot, with other favourites," which 

 should be grown in peat. {Mawid's Bot. Gard., Dec.) 

 lUiamndcc(C. 



668. CEANO^THUS 



•coUina Doug, liill H. A or 1 mr.s L N. America 1827 C p.I Bir. bot. gard. 13. 



" T'his is a low decumbent shrub, its trunk scarcely rising 1 ft. 

 from the ground ; yet, being an evergreen, and perfectly hardy, 

 it is a plant well worthy of notice, and will make an interesting 

 addition to the shrubbery." It flowers freely ; sometimes twice 

 during one summer. [Birm. Bot. Gard., Dec.) See Ai-b. Brit., 

 p. 125. 



YahdcecE, or Leguminbsce. 



19G3. GENI'STA 17497 monosperma. 



" One of the most deliciously fragrant shrubs in the world. 

 It is difficult to imagine anything more delicate and grateful 

 than the sweet odour that its tender snow-white blossoms diffuse 

 in the conservatory, in the months of May and June. It is de- 

 scribed as being, when wild, a good deal taller than a man, 

 having a trunk 1 in. thick, and waving its green-grey, leafless, 

 thread-like branches in the wind in the most graceful manner. 

 All along the basin of the Mediterranean, as high as the latitude 

 of Sicily, it is abundant ; but it cannot bear the cold of the 

 French shore. At Gibraltar, in a hardy barren soil, and close 

 upon the sea-beaten rocks, it is loaded with blossoms in February ; 

 along the Barbary coast, in Sicily from Alicata to Spaccaforno, 

 and^in Greece, it occurs in similar situations; and, finally, it gains 

 its eastern limits in the deserts of Mount Sinai, where the Arabs 

 call it retain." {Bot. Reg., Dec.) 



Kosdceie § Pbmecc. 



1506. CRAT.EVUS 12933 mexicaiia Dec. Prod., 2. p. 629. ; Sweet's Fl.-Gard., 2, ser., t. 300. ; Lottdon's Arb. 

 Brit., p. 843., and fig. 617. p. 867. 



Si:)ec. Char. — Leaves oval, acute, serrated; in some instances, 

 cut at the tip ; tomentose on the under surface. Flowers in 

 corymbs. Lobes of the calyx acute, tomentose. Bracteas slender, 

 scale-like. Fruit spherical, containing 3 — 5 stones. 



A small tree, which, in mild climates, is quite evergreen; with 

 harsh rather shining leaves, which, in the more vigorous shoots, 

 are sometimes 3-lobed. Stipules linear-lanceolate, scaly, having 

 glands on their margins, longer than the petioles. Fruit yellow, 

 palatable. {Bot. Beg., 1910.) 



" The flowers are almost as large as those of some kinds of 

 pear; and, appearing as they do in abundance from the rich green 



