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extensive family are grown in our collections ; but they form 

 beautiful flowering plants, and, with their large single blos- 

 soms, are exceedingly showy and deserving of attention ; the 

 present is a very fine species, with bright yellow flowers, 

 produced in large panicles, on erect stems a foot or more high. 

 {Bot. Mag., Oct.) 



303. Sa'lvia cardua^cea Benth. Thistle-leaved Sage. 



(Labiateae.) California. 



a half hardy plfiiit; growing two I'eet hinh; with pale-purple flowers; appearing in summer; 

 increased by cuttings; grown in light rich soil. Hot. JIag., Ibao, pi. 4S74. 



One of the most remarkable and distinct of the 407 species 

 of sage already known, originally found by Douglas in Cali- 

 fornia, but now first introduced to England by Mr. liObb. It 

 is a perennial, growing from one to two feet high, erect, with 

 a four-angled stem, very woolly, and branching at the base, 

 with terminal heads of flowers which are beautifully fringed, 

 of a pale-purple color, with deep orange-colored anthers, and 

 each flower is subtended by bracts and floral leaves. It proves 

 hardy in England ; with us it would probably need the same 

 treatment as the S. patens, and should find a place in every 

 collection. {Bot. Mag., Oct.) 



304. Sa'lvia aspera^ta Falconer. Rough-leaved Sage. 



(LabiateaB.) Cashmere. 



a hardy or hnirhardy plant; growing two feet hiih; with white flowers; appearing in summer; 

 increased by cuttings; grown in rich soil. Bot. Mag., 1655, pi. 4884. 



A rather coarse but interesting species of Salvia, with large, 

 villous foliage, and stems two feet high, four-sided, hairy, 

 and pubescent, terminated in very long spikes of nearly ses- 

 sile, greenish white flowers. It was raised from seeds received 

 from Cashmere, and the plant flowered in the open border at 

 Kew, last summer. {Bot. Mag., Nov.) 



305. Rhodode'ndron Ke'ysii Nuttall. Mr. Keys's Rho- 



dodendron. (Ericaceae.) Bootan. 



A half hardy shrub; growing four feet high; with pink flowers ; appoiring in spring; increased 

 by layers; grown in healh soil. Bot. Mag., 1855, pi. 4S'/5. 



"A very remarkable Rhododendron, found in Bootan, at 

 an-elevation of 9000 to 10,000 feet, amid snows two to three 



