106 FlorlcuUural and Botanical Notices, 



golden flowers, the size of a sixpenny piece. The Hon. and Rev. W. 

 Herbert, who raised it from seeds, introduced to England by Mr. Cuming, 

 thus speaks of it : — " The appearance of the little pot, containing four and 

 five seedlings, which produced a constant succession of blossoms, expanding 

 without sunshine, and on the wettest days, was very pleasing." {Bot. 

 Reg., Dec.) Mr. Herbert considers the plant likely to prove a perfectly 

 hardy annual, but in a frame it will possibly be perennial. 



CXXIV. TropcEolecB. Tropae^olum pentaphyllum is figured in the Bot. 

 Mag. for Oct., t. 3190., and in the Bot. Reg. for Dec, t. 1347. It is a 

 tuberous root-stocked green-house or pit perennial, with wreathlike stems, 

 gracefully climbing by means of the long tendrilly footstalks of its pretty, 

 somewhat starlike, leaves. The peduncles of the numerous, and not un- 

 handsome, flowers, are gracefully long and drooping. The plant is dormant 

 during the winter, and should then have plenty of air. Mr. Neill, 

 Edinburgh, and Mr. Knight, Chels6a, possess the plant. 



CXL. CaryophyllecB. § SilenecB. 



1386. DIA'NTHUS. 

 11469fl iibanbtis iaft. of Lebanon £ A or 4 au W.spot Mt.Leb. 1830. C l.p Bot. reg. 1548 



" We incline to think this most lovely species the very finest of the 

 genus. Mr. Lambert is its fortunate possessor. We presume, from its 

 native country, the highest points of Mount Lebanon, that it will require 

 a warm and dry situation; it will then thrive in the open air." The 

 flowers are borne in pairs on the tips of the peduncles, their tube is long, 

 and the five white petals are spotted in their middle part, and end in a cut 

 fringe, somewhat in the manner of D. superbus. (^Bot. Reg., Dec.) 



Dianthus aggregatus is figured, from Mrs. Marryat's garden, in Sv/eet's 

 Flower-Garden for Nov., t. 166. " It is closely related to D. barbatus, of 

 which species it may be, perhaps, only a variety ; but it is a highly 

 ornamental plant, and, therefore, deserving of a place in every flower- 

 garden. The plant is perennial, delighting in a light soil, and is increased 

 by cuttings, or by seeds, which it perfects in abundance." 



Dicotyledonous Monopetalous Plants. 

 CLXXV. Lobelikcedi. 



609. LOBE'L/.^. 

 5102a mucronita Caw. mucronatejyrf :^ lAl or 3 au Bt.C Chile 1831. D l.p Bot. mag. 3207 



This beautiful species is nearly related to the splendid L. Tiipa, and is 

 expected to prove, like that, compai-atively hardy. " It is a much smaller 

 plant than that, in all its parts, bearing a much shorter and more lax 

 raceme of [12 to 14] flowers, but which are equally brilliant in point of 

 colour." Introduced to the Glasgow botanic garden by Alexander Cruick- 

 shanks, Esq. {Bot. Mag., Jan, 1833.) 



Lobeh'a speciosa is figured in Sweet's British Flowers-Garden for Jan. 

 1833, t. 174., and stated to be an Irish, not a Scottish, hybrid, as I had 

 before registered it. This plant finely grown in pots ; and several plants 

 of it, placed among potted plants of the scarlet-flowered kinds, L. fulgens, 

 splendens, and cardinalis, give to the group a lively contrastedness of 

 colour. I saw a group of this kind in Messrs. Dennis and Co.'s nursery, 

 on the 20th of August last. At the same nursery I saw, on Sept. 30., 

 two very interesting species of Lobeh'a blooming, which had been im- 

 ported, in 1832, from North America, by Mr. Alexander Gordon : whether 

 they have ever been described or not, I do not know : one is called L. 

 glandulosa, and has glands on the edges of its leaves, at the shallow ser- 

 ratures. Both species have blue flowers. — J. D. 



CLXXXVI. CompositcB. 



335. SENE^CIO. 



Tussilaginis XeM. ColtsfooWwrf. «. i | or IJ my P Tenerlffe 1829. C p.l Bot. reg. 1650 



CinerS.ria TussilSginis Herit. and Willd. 



