602 Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



all other kinds of Calceolaria may be grown in the open air the year round, 

 if planted in a warm border, and covered with a flower-pot in severe 



weather. (F/ou'tr-Gardoi, Aujjust.) 



CCXIil. Su/(nirre. 6blanuni crfspum 7?. Sf P. is figured in the 

 Botanical lici^istcr for August, t. Ijlfi., where this remark is presented 

 respecting it : — " It appears likely to be a hartiy [)lant, in which case it 

 will he very ornamental. It' tied to a stake, and tluis forced to grow erect, 

 it will throw out a great numl)er of lateral branchlets, at the end of every 

 one of wiiich is a bunch of flowers. In this state it was exhibited by Mr. 

 Low (of the Clapton Nursery), at a meeting of the London Horticultural 

 Society in April last, and was greatly admired. No doubt it will strike 

 root very freely in the state of cuttings. It will grow readily in any com- 

 mon soil." It is a native of Chiloe, and, if not quite hardy, will, doubtless, 

 prove very eligible for the decoration of the hardy ganlen in sunnner. It 

 considerably reseml)les the English bitter-sweet (A'olanum Didcamara L.), 

 but has larger and paleu. corollas. The specific term crispum " has refer- 

 ence to a very slight degree of undulation at the margin of the leaves." 



ISaljjiglossis atropurpurea is figured in the Botanical Jicnistcr for August, 

 1. 1518., where this ph}Hiological speculation is offered, which merits from 

 our brother gardeners their attention at least. When plants of this 

 species are " grown in the o\)cn border, they are very apt to die suddenly, 

 so that only a few will sometimes remain out of a whole bed. This is 

 probably owing to the soil, in such instances, being too light, and there- 

 fore subject to sudden dryness ; a condition which their tender roots are 

 not formed by nature to endure. In Chiloo, where all the species of 

 Salpiglossis grow, they are found springing from the siiles of dry clay 

 banks baked hard by the scorching sun of tiiat climate ; a situation in which 

 the moisture that the earth contains is parted with with great difficulty, 

 and very slowly." The salpiglossises are not the only plants of free and 

 rapid growth prone to die suddenly off", while to all aj)|)earance in the ful- 

 ness of vigour; and the above theory deserves to be compared with every 

 case which may transpire, until its sufficiency or insufficiency is proved. 



CCXXI. Lahidla' jj Ocj/wuiclccc. 



3383. CO'LEUS. 



aromaticus Ben///, aromatic «. □ fra IJ mr.my Pa.V India 182fi. C p.l Bot. rcg. 1520 

 Cblcus ambodiicus Luii. 



Cultivated generally in Indian gardens, chiefly on account of its great 

 fragrance of herbage. Its leaves are frequently eaten with bread and but- 

 ter, or bruised, and n)ixed with various articles of (bod, drink, or medicine. 

 The plant, though pretty in its spike of whorls of smallish pale violet 

 flowers, is not showy: in British ganlens it is often called GesncnV/ oilorata. 

 It is readily increaseil by cuttings, (L'ot. Heg., Aug.) 



MoNOCOTVI.EDONOUS Pl.ANTS. 



CCXXXVIII. Amari/l/tikx. 



•)79. AlJiTIUKMEM{//l. 

 e044a lircnianUia yf. >V ^'- blood-col.-flwil. A CZ3 or CJ jl. llp.O.H. Chile ISjO. O l.s.p Sw.tl.gar 'J.s.159 



Introduced by seeds by Lady Oakes, in whose interesting collection at 

 Mitcham,the plant flowered lor the first time in July last. It is an elegant 

 and hitherto little known jilant, which a|)pears to recjuire the same treat- 

 ment as Alstroemer/V/ Sims/V, to which it is very nearly related. {British 

 Floircr-dardo), Si'|)t.) 



CCXXXIX. hidcce. 



142 /"UIS. \ The .tprcailin/; scfinwnts qf the prrianlli h'ard/css. 



ncrtchinskia Fis. Nertchiiisk ^ A t i my l^ Siberia 1831. I) r Hot. cab. 184;3 



Messrs. Loddiges received this pretty plant from their kind friend Dr. 

 Fischer. They state that it " grows pretty well in any good soil, and in- 

 creases without diflicultv bv division at the root." (Bot. Cab., Sept.) 



