482 Floricultural and Botanical Notices. 



Like other buckwheats, bees are extremely fond of it, and to 

 bee amateurs, it will be an ornamental as well as useful plant. 

 {Bot. Reg. May.) 

 Lamiacem. 



CEDRONELLA 



pdllida Lindl. The Pale Cedronel. A greenhouse plant -, growing two feet high ; with pale red 

 flowers ; appearing in summer ; a native of Mexico ; increased by seeds and cuttings ; cultivated in 

 any light rich soil. Bot. Reg. 1S46, pi. 29. 



A very pretty plant, with the habit and general appearance 

 of a salvia, but with more slender and delicate flowers, pro- 

 duced in spikes in great profusion on the laterals and main 

 branches. There is another species called C. mexicana, of 

 which we have not seen the figure, but we suspect that the 

 plant which we have noticed (p. 448,) as /Salvia Rhodenwaldw 

 is a Cedronella, and the mexicana, as this was introduced 

 from the north of Mexico, and figured in the Bot. Mag. t. 

 3860. C. pallida is less beautiful than mexicana, but is suf- 

 ficiently handsome to merit a place in a collection. In our cli- 

 mate, it may be treated as an annual. {Bot. Reg. May.) 



DRACOCE'PHALUM 



grandiflormn Great-flowered Dragon's Head. A hardy herbaceous plant ; growing a foot high; 

 with blue flowers ; appearing in summer ; a native of Silesia ; increased by division of the roots ; 

 cultivated in any good soil. Pax. Mag. Bot. 1846, p. 52. 



An old and beautiful herbaceous plant rarely seen in our 

 collections, though first introduced to England as long ago as 

 1769. It is a hardy plant, although sometimes likely to be 

 killed from the succulent nature of its roots. It is a splendid 

 object when grown in pots, and well repays the care bestowed 

 upon it. Its treatment in pots is similar to that of campan- 

 ula and other herbaceous plants ; wintering in a cold frame, 

 and repotting once or twice in the spring into good sized pots. 

 Any good soil will suit it. (Pax. Mag. Bot. April.) 

 ^remnndracecB . 



TETRATHE'CA 



hirsiita Hairy Tetratheca. A greenhouse plant ; growing one foot high; with purple flowers ; 

 appearing in spring; a native of Swan River; increased by cuttings; cultivated in sandy loam and 

 peat. Pax. Mag. Bot. 184G, p. 54. 



"A pretty greenhouse plant, producing profusely, for along 

 period, its light purple, somewhat star-like flowers, on rather 

 long peduncles at the axils of the leaves." It is of a slender 

 habit, and should be managed similar to other New Holland 

 plants, giving it an airy, half-shaded place in summer, and a 

 cool greenhouse in the winter. It is propagated from cuttings. 

 {Pax. Mag. Bot., April.) 



