30 Floricultural and Botanical Notices. 



LamidcecB. 



EREMOST.VCHYS 



lasc'unatu. Betith. Jn?-leaved Desert rod. A hardy herbaceous plant; growing six feet high, 

 with yellow (lowers ; appearing in May and June ; a native of Caucasus ; increased by division of 

 the root; growing in auy light rich soil. Bot. Reg., IS45, pi. 52. 



A rather showy herbaceous plant, from the dry hills of the 

 Caucasus, and hardy in England, but perhaps requiring the 

 protection of a frame in our climate, as the roots are said to 

 suffer from an excess of moisture in winter. The roots are 

 large and fleshy, and throw up a stem four to six feet high, 

 with a succession of axillary whorls of bright yellow and 

 orange flowers, which resist the hottest sun. It flowered in 

 the garden of the London Horticultural Society, last April, 

 where it was raised from seeds received from the Imperial 

 Botanic Garden of Petersburgh. It succeeds well if grown 

 in pots, during winter, and kept dry, and in summer turned 

 out into the border, where its gay flowers are very showy. 

 The fleshy roots should be planted partly above ground. 

 Increased by seeds and the plants bloom the second or third 

 year. {Bot. Reg., September.) 



OrchiddcefB. 



CHLOR.5;'A 



virescens Lindl. Green veined chlorsea. A greenhouse plant ; growing two feet high ; with 

 oranije (lowers; appearing in May; a native of Chih; increased by ofisets; callivated in rough 

 sandy peat. Bot. Re?., 1845, pi. 49. 



This is one of the few terrestrial orchids, which have been 

 introduced into cultivation. Formerly, it was thought very 

 difiicult to make them succeed ; but the difficulties have 

 been overcome, and they may be as easily grown as the 

 other division. The present subject throws up a spike of 

 deep orange colored flowers, similar to a hyacinth and ex- 

 ceedingly beautiful, the ground color being delicately veined 

 with green, from whence its specific name. It is a native of 

 the subalpine country between Conception and Valparaiso, 

 where it is as plentiful as our meadow orchids. The plants 

 require simply a warm greenhouse, and a rough sandy peaty 

 soil; and, when in flower, an abundant supply of water. 

 When done blooming, they should be kept dry until the grow- 

 ing season again arrives. {Bot. Reg., September.) 



