l'I6 Notes on New aiid Choice. Plants. 



inch across, of a sulphur-yellow, with large, bright, orange-colored 

 anthers, which produce a beautiful contrast. It is very ornamen- 

 tal during summer, and merits a place in every flower garden. It 

 is in the Eoyal Gardens at Kew. {Fig. in Bot. Mag, 4810.) 



Leptodactylon Califorxicum. — Nat. Ord. Polemoniacea. Syn. 

 Gilia Californica. — Mr. William Lobb sent seeds of this very 

 charming plant fron San Bernardino, in South California, to 

 Messrs. Veitch. It is a low much-branched shrub, having a copi- 

 ous, small, heath-like foliage. The flowers are produced on the 

 short lateral branches which adorn the principal ones, so as to 

 form long racemes of bloom. The tubular portion of the flower 

 is nearly an inch long, yellow, and the fine divided front, an inch 

 and a half across, of a beautiful rose color, with a white eye ; in 

 appearance much like a large peach blossom or Oxalis. The 

 branches are clothed with flowers so numerously as almost to 

 conceal the foliage. It blooms in summer, and merits a place in 

 every shrub-border or bed, and being quite hardy, is rendered still 

 more valuable. {Fig. in Bot. Mag., 4872.) 



Salvia Carduacea {Thistle-leaved). Nat. Ord. Lahiatce. — In De 

 Candolle's Prodovms, Mr. Bentham gives a descriptive list of 401 

 species of Salvias, and the one we now notice is the most distinct 

 and remarkable of that vast number. It is a native of California, 

 discovered about the same time by Mr. Douglas and Mr. Coulter, 

 and now first introduced to our gardens by Messrs. Yeitch, who 

 received it from Mr. Lobb. It is perfectly hardy, and merits a 

 place in every garden. The plant is perennial, and the floral 

 stem is from one foot to one and a half high, erect. The leaves 

 thistle-like, spiny, cobwebby, densely woolly beneath. The flowers 

 are produced in large whorls, each a few inches apart, tier above 

 tier up the main stem. Each blossom has a tube as long as the 

 calyx, white ; the limb (front of the flower) is gaping, one and a 

 half inch across, and of a pretty lavender-purple color. — {Fig. in 

 Bot. Mag., 48T4). 



Meyenia Erecta.- — -Messrs. Rollison received it in 1854, from 

 Sierra Leone. It was first discovered by Dr. Vogel, in the Niger 

 expedition, and has been described in the "Niger Flora" by Sir 

 William Hooker, who states it as the most beautiful plant of the 

 south-west coast of Africa. 



