Notes and Glcanins:s. 



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NOTES AND GLEANINGS FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES. 



Lychnis lagasc^e. — Rock-plants, which are very properly engaging more 

 and more of the attention of cultivators, will receive a choice accession in the 

 pretty species of which Mr. Fitch has given so good a representation in the ac- 

 compan3'ing wood-cut. It is a low, glaucous, tufted, perennial herb, witli 

 densely dichotomous stems two to four inches long, having the lower leaves 

 linear obtuse, the upper lanceolate, and the intermediate ones ovate-lanceolate ; 

 while every ramification is terminated by a showy, rose-colored flower, as large 

 as, and not unlike those of, Silene pendula. 



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LYCHNIS LAGASC-?!. 



Dr. Hooker well observes that " this is at once one of the most beautiful and 

 most rare of the rock-plants now under cultivation in England, its native local- 

 ity being confined to a very narrow belt of the sub-alpine region of the North- 

 west Pyrenees ; whilst for beauty it is difficult to conceive any thing more spar- 

 kling, and at the same time delicate, than the rose-colored, white-eyed blossoms. 

 The tendency of the plant is to form a hemispherical mass." The generic names 

 of Petrocoptis and Silenopsis have been applied to it. — M., in Florist and 

 PoinoloHst. 



