20 Notices of new and interesting Plants, 



of these remarks is possibly familiar to every grower of georginas, a record of actual cases is valuable, 

 as furnishing data for subsequent and ultimate inferences. 



In Composite, only the following have, within the writer's recent observation, been observed in 

 blossom: — Cineraria cruenta (for able directions for cultivating this beautiful plant with success see 

 Vol. II. p. 153.) ; Neja gracilis, which is really an interesting plant; Agathaa'a amelloides, but which 

 seems scarcely in season ; and Pyrethrum grandiflbrum. Calendula graminifolia, at Young's, will be in 

 bloom in a week or so ; its blossoms are very showy. Phamucoma prolifera here and there displays a 

 ruby head. In the open air, in sheltered spots, one beneath a house wall in a town garden, Tussilago 

 fragrans, displays its flowers in numerous racemes : these are not conspicuous, but elegant on close 

 inspection, and for their fragrance past all praise. 



CXCI. Caprifolictcece. 

 621. CAPRI FO'LIUM. 

 28106a occidentkle Lindl. western _$ or 20 jn.au O Ft.Vancouv.1824. C co Bot. reg. 1457 



Resembles the common honeysuckle, but is not so hardy. It has very ornamental orange-coloured 

 flowers, but not good foliage ; is near akin to C. cilibsum, Douglas«, and parviflbrum. {Bot. Reg.) 



fhirsutum Dens. hairy-leaved J, . or 20 my.jn Y Canada 1822 C co Bot. mag. 3103 

 Lonicem hirsilta Eaton in his Manual of Botany, Hooker in Curt. Bot. Mag., 3103. Caprifblium 

 pubescens of Loudon's Hort. Brit., No. 5213., and of Hooker's Exotic Flora, 27. ; but Dr. Hooker hav. 

 ing since learned that Mr. Eaton, an American botanist, was the first to publish this species, and by 

 the name of Loniceni hirsuta, in his Manual of Botany, now thinks it right to reinstate Eaton's name. 

 Perhaps Dr. Hooker, by retaining the plant under Lonicera, does not acknowledge the genus Capri- 

 fblium. 



Pibiimum Tinus is now partially in blossom every where. V. rugbsum is trained to the front of a 

 green-house, outside, at ColvilPs, and retains its foliage well, but the leaves are not the prettiest. Ivy, 

 " green and shining," looks every where refreshingly. 



CC. Yolemoniacece. 

 472. PHLO'X. 

 3922a aristata B. C. awned £~ _AJ pr g ap W Carolina ... C p.l Bot. cab. 1731 



A species with almost the foliage and habit of P. setacea, and with blossoms apparently white, and 

 resembling somewhat those of P. nivalis. If this be the P. aristata of Michaux, it proves the latter to 

 be distinct enough from P. pilbsa Bot Mag., with which P. aristata has been thought identical. 



CCVII. PrimuBcea: 



PRI'MULA ciliata. Corollas pale flesh-coloured. A light loam suits it well, and the plant is readily 

 increased by parting. It is admirably adapted for rockwork, where its showy and early blossoms, it being 

 one of the earliest of the auricula tribe, cannot fail to attract notice in the spring. Drawn from Col- 

 vill's. (Smt. Ft. Gar. 2. s. 123.) 



Primula prs'nitens, lilac and white, is in bloom wherever kept. This comparatively hardy (it will 

 thrive thoroughly in a well-aspected frame), freely growing, abundantly blooming species is an important 

 importation, far more so than those unique plants which are with difficulty kept alive, and still more diffi- 

 cultly cultivated : hence the value of the Horticultural Society's introductions, through the agency of 

 Mr. Douglas. Primula Palinurz' is (Jan. 15.) in bloom in a green-house at Colvill's. Cyclamen cbum 

 and verniira are in bloom about in pits and frames ; and of C. persicum fragrans saw a plant in blossom 

 at Dennis's, and one at Young's. 



CCXI. ScrophularincB. 

 65. CALCEOLARIA. 

 578a [Yoiing?Y Hort] Young's hybrid £ lAI spl 3 my.o OchSpotEng. hybrid 1830. D r.m Bot, reg. 1448 

 On this remarkably splendid hybrid, and on other hybrid calceolarias, some remarks are offered, 

 p. 48. 



C. plantagi'nea. " Flourishes in a strong red loam and cool situation, and yields a plentiful increase 

 by offsets." Bot. Gard. 328., Oct. 1831.) 



C. arachnoidea. This has been proved nearly hardy in various gardens, and is a native of high eleva- 

 tions in Chile. There " many people are employed in digging up the roots, which they dry and collect 

 in bundles for sale, the plant being in great use there, for dyeing woollen cloths of a deep crimson colour. 

 • The alum earth employed as a mordant in the process is obtained in abundance from a mountain in the 

 neighbourhood." (Bot. Reg. 1454, Nov. 1831.) 



*1783a. LEUCOCA'RPUS D. Don. Leucocaupus. (Leukos, white, and karpos, fruit.) 14. 2. Scrophuldrince . 

 alatus D. Don. winged-stalked O ? cu 2 o Y Vera Cruz 1830. S p.l Sw.fl.gar.2.s.l24 



Conbbea alata Graham, Mimulus perfoliate Bot. Mag. 3076. 



Agrees so entirely with Mimulus, both in general appearance and in the form and structure of its 

 flowers, that, without the fruit, no one can doubt the propriety of referring it to that genus ; but its 

 white berries being once seen, it will be evident that the plant can neither be referred to Mimulus nor 

 " to any other'genus hitherto established among the Scrophularinse." Expected to prove hardy. Pub- 

 lished from Whitley and Co.'s, Fulham. 



1787. TORE'NiX 



scabra Grah. xowgh.leaved '.Qjpr 1 ... P Moreton Bay 1830. S p Bot. mag. 3104 



It has opposite, lanceolate, green, serrate leaves, and its blue blossoms are funnel-shaped, and an inch 

 in length. 



PENSTE^MON pulchellus. It was asserted in the Botanical Register, t. 1309., that seeds of the rare 

 pentstemons cannot be raised in heat. Part of the remark is in these words: — " It is indispensable 

 that the seeds should be sown in a cold frame, or all endeavour to raise them will prove fruitless " 

 Mr. Maund, in figuring P. pulchellus, remarks, that, to prove or disprove this assertion, he sowed seeds 

 in a pot, and placed them " in a rather warm hotbed," where many seeds vegetated freely • and the 

 plants so raised flowered well in the autumn. [Sowing them in a cold frame is, notwithstanding, doubt- 

 less preferable, as being more congenial to the natural mode. In natural dissemination, seeds are sown 

 as soon as ripe ; in gardening, they are often kept out of the soil until their vital energy is considerably 

 weakened, and then artificial stimuli may be necessary to rouse it into action. J 



