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NOTES AND GLEANINGS FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES. 



GiLiA (§ Leptosiphon) micrantha. — Under the name of Leptosiphon 

 rosens, plants of this very beautiful but seemingly most variable annual, were ex- 

 hibited last season before the Royal Horticultural Society, by Mr. Thompson, of 

 Ipswich. The same plant was figured in the Botanical Magazine as Leptosiphon 

 parvijlorusvar. rosacetis, while Dr. Gray, in a recent monograph of the group, has 

 classed the plant under the name above given. In truth, the plant varies so ex- 

 tremely, that it is difficult to assign its exact position and name. The plant is a 



GlLIA MICRANTHA. 



low-growing annual, more or less clothed with longish, weak hair ; the leaves 

 are 5-7-parted, with linear acute divisions. The flowers vary from a very 

 deep to a very pale rose red. They are produced in great abundance, as seen 

 in our illustration, and have a long, slender tube, about an inch and a half in 

 length, supporting a flat five-lobed limb, whose segments are not more than a 

 fifth of the length of the tube. The plant is a native of Cahfornia, and may be 

 grown in this country as an annual. Like its congeners, it will probably do best 

 in rather a damp climate. It is certainly one of the handsomest of its class. 



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