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production will be a great acquisition to the ornair.ental plants of the 

 country. — Combretum comosum {fg. 104.) ; Combretacese. A fine climb- 

 ing stove plant, from Sierra Leone, by Mr. G. Don, to the Horticultural 

 Society, in 1821. It is of easy culture, and has been extensively distri- 

 buted, 'but has produced flowers only in the garden of the Comte de 

 Vandes, at Bayswater. Its effect there was most splendid, forming a dense 

 mass of carmine, several yards in surface, close under the glass. It was 

 made to flower by a bandage of wire, tied round the stem, close to the root. 



No. VI. for August, contains 

 1166 to 1172. — Collomia (/to//e, glue ; sticky mucilaginous coat of the 

 seeds) linearis ; Polemoniacese. " A neat little hardy annual, more re- 

 markable as a botanical curiosity." From North America, by Mr. Douglas, 

 to the Chiswick garden, where it has now almost become naturalised. 

 C. grandiflora is another very fine species of this genus. Sown at different 

 seasons, it will continue to flower the whole year, — Eriophyllum (mow, 

 wool, pht/llon, a leaf; woolly foliage) csespitosum ; Compositae. A hand- 

 some, herbaceous, decumbent, spreading perennial, with yellow flowers in 

 May and June, a season when there are few yellow border flowers. From 

 North America, by Mr. Douglas, to the Horticultural Society. — Escholtzia 

 californica ; Papaveraceae. (/g. 105.) From the north-west coast of Ame- 

 rica, by Mr. Douglas, who transmitted seeds to the 

 Horticultural Society in 1826. Each plant forms 

 a wide patch of decumbent stems, covered with 

 a fine, healthy, glaucous foliage, " upon which re- 

 pose hundreds of rich yellow flowers, unfolding 

 their interior, of a dazzling brightness, under the 

 influence of the sun, but closing at the approach 

 of rain." The flowers appear in the early part of 

 June, and are produced during the remainder of j 

 the season. " The species is perfectly hardy, and 

 is propagated readily by seeds, which are produced ; 

 in abundance. It is requisite to observe the fol- 

 lowing precautions in its management : — The seeds 

 should be sown in March, in small pots, and placed 

 in a frame, with a little heat. When the young 

 plants have acquired ten or twelve leaves each, 

 and not before, they should be turned out of their pots in the open border, 

 in the place in which it is intended they should remain. Afterwards they 

 cannot be readily transplanted, as their roots become very fleshy and brittle, 

 and bleed copiously if broken, which must necessarily happen in removing 

 a larger plant." On the coast of Cahfornia it is confined to open, dry, light, 

 or sandy soils, where it flowers from June until it is destroyed by frost. 

 Perfectly hardy, and readilj' propagated by seeds ; flowering in the early 

 part of June, and continuing during the greater part of the year. — Dra- 

 cse'na (drakcsna, a she-dragon ; juice resembles dragon's blood) surculosa ; 

 .^sparagese. This very handsome, shrubby, stove, monocot3'ledonous 

 ^lant is a native of Sierra Leone, whence it was sent to the Horticultural 

 Society, by Mr. G. Don, in 1821. It produces yearly slender suckers, 

 about 2ft, long, resembling asparagus; the leaves are oblong-acumi- 

 nate ; flowers white. Rarely blooms, and has not yet produced fruit. — 

 GiUa capitata; Polemoniaceae. This pretty, hardy annual, with lively blue 

 flowers, is common all over the north-west country of North America, where 

 it was discovered by Mr. Douglas. Flowers about the middle of June, and 

 remains in perfection nearly three months ; the easiest culture, — Ameldn- 

 chier (a Piedmontese word) sanguinea ; ^osaceae § Pomaceae. A hand- 

 some shrub, hardy, and resembling in appearance the Snowy iliiSspilus, but 

 distinguished from that, and all the genus, by its young leaves being desti- 



