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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



many-flowered, terminal, all the parts 

 powdery. Bracteas none. Calyx short, 

 5-toothed. Corolla middle-sized, of a 

 bluish lead-colour. Anthers equal, yel- 

 low. (LindL] A native of Chiloe, in waste 

 places and hedges. Introduced by Mr. 

 Anderson, collector to Mr. Lowe of the 

 Clapton Nursery, in 1830. It is a hardy 

 vigorous-growing plant, of a much more 

 ligneous character than S. Dulcamara, 

 subevergreen, and covered with flowers 

 nearly the whole summer. A plant in the 

 Horticultural Society's Garden attained 

 the height of 10 ft., against a wall, in 3 

 vears ; and its stem is between 3 in. and 

 4 in. in diameter: one in the Clapton 

 Nursery is still larger. As this species 

 will grow in any soil, and is readily pro- 

 pagated by cuttings, it promises to be 

 of great value as an ornamental climber, for rapidly covering naked 

 walls. Dr. Lindley observes that, " if tied to a stake, and thus forced 

 to grow erect, it will throw out a great number of lateral branchlets, at the 

 end of every one of which is a bunch of flowers. It this state it was ex- 

 hibited by Mr. Lowe of Clapton, at a meeting of the Horticultural Society, 

 in April, 1832, and was greatly admired." (Sot. Reg., 1. 1516.) It is readily- 

 propagated by cuttings, and promises to be a most valuable shrub for 

 covering naked walls, or varying ruins or rockwork. The smooth shining 

 green of its leaves, which are seldom eaten by insects, and the profusion of 

 its flowers, which are bluish, render it highly ornamental. 



4. S. BONAPIE'NSE L. 



The Buenos Ayres Nightshade. 



Dun. Sol., 198., Syn , p. 34. ; Dill . 



Identification. Lin. Sp., No. 2fi4., exclusive of the syn. of Plum 



Eltli., p. 2fi4. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 429. 

 Kiiffruvin^s. Dill Elth., p. 264. t. 272. f. 351. ; and our Jig. 1 106. 



Spec. Char., $c. Shrubby, almost un- 

 armed. Leaves ovate-oblong sinu- 

 ately repanded, smoothish. Racemes c 

 corymbose, lateral, or extrafoliaceous. \ 

 Stem green, prickly at the base ; adult 

 stems unarmed. Leaves sometimes 

 entire, rarely prickly. Corymbs large. 

 Calyx 4 5-cleft. Segments subu- 

 late. Corolla large, white, downy 

 outside. Berry globose, ? yellow, 

 4-celled, size of a small pea. Root 

 creeping. (Don's Mil/., iv. p. 429.) 

 A shrub, a native of Buenos Ayres, 

 where it grows from 6 ft. to 10 ft. in 

 height, flowering from June to Sep- 

 tember. It was introduced in 1727; and a plant in the Chelsea Garden 

 has stood against the wall for 50 years, and is now 8ft. high. 



App. i. Half-hardy ligneous orfruticose Species ofSdldmt-ni. 



Soldnum Balbisn Dunal, Sot. Reg., t. 140., is a native of South America, with blue flowers, 

 which are produced from April to September. It was introduced in ISlii, and, at first, treated as a 

 green house plant ; but a specimen planted against the wall in the Horticultural Society's Garden, 

 in 18:3,3, grows vigorously, and flowers freely every year. It belongs to the section Dulcamara, of which 

 there area number of species or varieties indigenous to-almost every part of the world, which are, 

 in all probability, half-hardy or hardy. There are several shrubby s-irts, unnamed, from Valparaiso, 

 which have stood out several years in the Chelsea Botanic Garden ; and a nuiuluT of nan.i* in U.c 

 enumeration in our Hurtits Kritanmcus seem to indicate that thv plants might be tried in the open 

 air in favourable situations. 



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