Floricultural and Botanical Mtices. 341 



ored flowers, which appear in profusion in the months of 

 winter." Each raceme contains from ten to thirteen flowers. 



It is a pretty pot plant to train to a neat trellis, or it may be 

 put out into a light border, when it grows and flowers in great 

 beauty. Care should be taken to guard against the red spider, 

 which is apt to infest its leaves. [Bot. Reg., Aug.) 



A very showy bean has been raised from seed received from 

 the Exploring Expedition. We saw it in flower at Baltimore 

 and Washington, and deem it a very fine acquisition to our 

 climbing plants. It will be further noticed when speaking of 

 the places where we saw it. 



Oxaliddccce. 



O'XALIS 



fructiccisa ^iiir, St. Hiliare The shrubby wood sorrel. A green-house shrub, growing 

 three or four (?) feet higli, witli yellow flowers, appearing in April or May, (?); a na- 

 tive of Rio Janeiro; propagated by cuttings and seeds; cultivated in peat, leaf mould, 

 and loam. Bot. Reg., 1841. 41. 



"Nothing," says Dr. Lindley, "in the vegetable kingdom, 

 is more curious than the way in which plants are enabled to 

 alter one organ, so as to perform the office of another, when 

 that other is from any cause destroyed, or undeveloped." Of 

 this the cactus tribe, where the stem performs the office of 

 leaves, is an instance. The species of sorrel now named, is 

 another illustration of this singular property. It is a shrub, 

 with apparent lanceolate leaves! entirely unlike the trefoil 

 foliage of the pretty little plants which characterize the oxalis 

 family. " Upon looking, however, with care among the 

 branches, the triple leaf of the wood sorrel is detected at the 

 ends of some of those blades, and so we learn that they too 

 are flattened leaf-stalks, made into substitutes for the leaves 

 which drop ofl\" 



The plate represents a terminal branch, thickly clothed with 

 the flattened leaves, with numerous axillary clusters of flow- 

 ers of a bright yellow. The plants should be grown in sand, 

 leaf mould, and loam, in the green-house. (Bot. Reg., Aug.) 



Now is the season to plant oxalises for early flowering; and 

 a second planting may take place in October. O. B6wie^, 

 versicolor, ccrnua, and 7'osac£ea, are each fine sorts. 



Yioldceos. 



SCHWEIGGE'R/.^ (after Prof. Sclweigger, one of the authors of a Flora of Erlangen,) 

 Sprciig. 



l^aueittora. Mfirti us Few-flowered Prong Violet. A hot-house shrub, growing three or 

 four feet high, with while flowers; appearing in (?); a native of Bxazil. 13ot. Reg., 

 1841. 40. 



