supplementary to Enc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 703 



cave; its flowers and their odour are those of the common variety. R. odo- 

 rata crassifolia, from its robust habit, is peculiarly eligible for cultivating into 

 what are called trees of mignonette ; and so ornamental as these are, it is 

 strange that so few possess them. To obtain them, I choose, in the begin- 

 ning of August, those of the plants growing in the borders, which I think 

 fittest for forming them, and divest each of them of all the stems but one 

 leading one, which I tie to a stake; I then cut, with a trowel, at about 

 2i in. from the stem, through all the plant's roots. I leave the plant 

 standing for about ten days; by the end of which time it will have emitted 

 fresh roots, and then transplant it into a 24-sized pot, in a mixture of 

 rotted dung and sandy loam, and shade it from the sun for a few days. 

 Subsequently I pinch oft" the spikes of flowers as they appear, until I 

 have formed the plants as 1 desire ; usually I do not permit them to flower 

 until the following spring. I prefer to have the plants bushy from the 

 bottom to the top, and no't the stem bare in its lower part, as is the case 

 with some trees of mignonette which I have in other places seen. A tree 

 will, if it be prevented seeding, at least from ripening a considerable quantity 

 of seeds, continue flowering for years. (G. M. Elliott. Coul, Sept. 18. 

 1833.) 



For a notice of a bush of mignonette of the remarkable height, for a 

 species usually so dwarf, of 10 ft. under Mr. J. EUes's culture, see p. 232. 



The plot of ground apportioned to the collection of grasses in the Cam- 

 bridge Botanic Garden used to abound in mignonette, which came up 

 spontaneously every spring, and was allowed to grow between the plants of 

 grass. In the years 1816 to 1818, 1 saw there several plants of mignonette 

 very distinct from the rest, in their larger leaves, laxer racemes of flowers, 

 smaller paler-coloured flowers, and larger germens or incipient seed-vessels. 

 ~J.D. 



CXXIII. Oxalidece. 



1414. O'XALIS. 



div^rgens Benth. diverging tf _AJ or J jn.s W Mexico 1829? O p.l Bot. reg. 1620 



A very pleasing species, figured with five scapes, each bearing an umbel 

 of from three to five white flowers ; its leaves are figured with four leaflets 

 each, and described as possessing but three. It is easily cultivated under a 

 frame which excludes all wet and very severe cold, and, hke all the American 

 species of the same habit, prefers the open soil to the confinement of a 

 pot. Mr. Graham sent from Mexico bulbs of 0. divergens to the Horticul- 

 tural Society. {Bot. Reg., figured in October ; text in November.) 



CXXIX. Volt^gdlecB. 



2063. POLYGALA \ CUncUnia. 

 182,'50a ifhesioides /K Thesium-like ru I or f jl B Valparaiso 1832. C p.s.l Sw. fl. gar. 2.s. 215 



A pretty suffi-uticose species, raised by Mr. Knight, from seeds bought 

 of Mr. Hugh Cuming. The plant appears to delight in a sandy soil. The 

 upright stems are many; each is covered with heathlike leaves, and bears, 

 at its tip only, a raceme of small but lovely blue flowers, 



MONOPETALOUS DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



CLXX. Y^ricecB. 



1173. iiRrCA. \ Flowers lona and cylindrical {TuhiflhriB). 



sordida B. C. unbeautiful « i_| or 3 jn.jl R C. G. H." 1810. C .s.p Bot. cab. 19/3 



Cannot be No. 9459. of Hortus Briiannicus, as its flowers are figured as perfectly smooth. 



Why this is named sordida is not very evident : it is, it is true, not very 

 fully or richly coloured; but its long tubular red blossoms, which are 

 represented as numerously produced, render it, one would say, an orna- 

 mental species, although it may be less so than many others are. No 

 information on it, additional to that exhibited in our line above, is supplied 



