602 Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



all other kinds of Calceolaria may be grown in the open air the year round, 

 if planted in a warm border, and covered with a flower-pot in severe 

 weather. (Floiuer-Garden, August.) 



CCXIII. Soldnecs. £olanum crispum R. $■ P. is figured in the 

 Botanical Register for August, t. 1516., where this remark is presented 

 respecting it : — " It appears likely to be a hardy plant, in which case it 

 will be very ornamental. If tied to a stake, and thus forced to grow erect, 

 it will throw out a great number of lateral branchlets, at the end of every 

 one of which is a bunch of flowers. In this state it was exhibited by Mr. 

 Low (of the Clapton Nursery), at a meeting of the London Horticultural 

 Society in April last, and was greatly admired. No doubt it will strike 

 root very freely in the state of cuttings. It will grow readily in any com- 

 mon soiL" It is a native of Chiloe, and, if not quite hardy, will, doubtless, 

 prove very eligible for the decoration of the hardy garden in summer. It 

 considerably resembles the English bitter-sweet (iSblanum Dulcamara L.), 

 but has larger and paler corollas. The specific term crispum " has refer- 

 ence to a very slight degree of undulation at the margin of the leaves." 



Salpiglossis atropurpurea is figured in the Botanical Register for August, 

 1. 1518., where this physiological speculation is offered, which merits from 

 our brother gardeners their attention at least. When plants of this 

 species are " grown in the open border, they are very apt to die suddenly, 

 so that only a few will sometimes remain out of a whole bed. This is 

 probably owing to the soil, in such instances, being too light, and there- 

 fore subject to sudden dryness ; a condition which their tender roots are 

 not formed by nature to endure. In Chiloe, where all the species of 

 Salpiglossis grow, they are found springing from the sides of dry clay 

 banks baked hard by the scorching sun of that climate ; a situation in which 

 the moisture that the earth contains is parted with with great difficulty, 

 and very slowly." The salpiglossises are not the only plants of free and 

 rapid growth prone to die suddenly off, while to all appearance in the ful- 

 ness of vigour ; and the above theory deserves to be compared with every 

 case which may transpire, until its sufficiency or insufficiency is proved. 



CCXXI. Labidtce § Ocynimdecs. 



3383. CCPLEUS. 



aromaticus Benth. aromatic a. □ fra If mr.my Pa.V India 1826. C p.l Bot. reg. 1520 

 Cbleus ambof nicus Lou. 



Cultivated generally in Indian gardens, chiefly on account of its great 

 fragrance of herbage. Its leaves are frequently eaten with bread and but- 

 ter, or bruised, and mixed with various articles of food, drink, or medicine. 

 The plant, though pretty in its spike of whorls of smallish pale violet 

 flowers, is not showy : in British gardens it is often called Gesneria odorata. 

 It is readily increased by cuttings. (Bot. Reg., Aug.) 



MoNOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



CCXXXVII1. Amaryllidese. 



979. ALSTRCEME V R7^. 

 8044a hamiantha R. $,- P. blood-col.-flwd. & [23 or2J jl. Dp.O.R. Chile 1830. O l.s.p Sw.fl.gar.2.s.l59 



Introduced by seeds by Lady Oakes, in whose interesting collection at 

 Mitcham,the plant flowered for the first time in July last. It is an elegant 

 and hitherto little known plant, which appears to require the same treat- 

 ment as Alstrcemen'a Sims», to which it is very nearly I'elated. (British 

 Flower-Garden, Sept.) 



CCXXXIX. IridecB. 



142 /*RIS. § The spreading segments of the perianth beardless. 



nertchinskia Fis. Nertchinsk ^t A or f my B Siberia 1831. D r Bot. cab. 1843 



Messrs. Loddiges received this pretty plant from their kind friend Dr. 

 Fischer. They state that it " grows pretty well in any good soil, and in- 

 creases without difficulty by division at the root." (Bot, Cab., Sept.) 



