Notes and Gleanings. 



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NOTES AND GLEANINGS FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES. 



(ExoTHERA Whitneyi. — This splendid evening primrose was discovered at 

 Shelter Cove, Humboldt County, California, in 1867, and was named for Profes- 

 sor Whitney, the distinguished head of the California State Geological Survey, 





CEnothera Whitneyi. 



in the prosecution of which it was discovered. The plant is a foot or eighteen 

 inches high, with oblong-lanceolate leaves and very numerous flowers covering 

 the whole of the upper part of the plant. The flowers measure between three 

 and four inches across. The petals are oblong, obcordate, rose-red, with a dark 

 crimson blotch about the centre. The illustration, which is from the Gardener's 

 Chronicle, shows a flower of the natural size, and also an outline showing the 

 habit of the plant. The colored plate of this plant in the Botanical Magazine, 

 representing the plant of full size and covered with flowers, is truly magnificent, 

 and we wish we could present it to our readers. The plant was introduced into 

 England in 1842, but no seeds having been saved, it was unfortunately lost, 

 until its reintroduction in 1867. It is to be hoped that it may now be retained 

 in cultivation, as few, if any, annual plants exceed it in beauty. 



