704 . Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



ill the Cabinet, except that it " is of free growth." The leaves, by the 

 figure, are small, rather dense, and arranged in four or more rows. {Bot. 

 Cab., October.) 



£IirCA ^ Ovatiflbra. 

 hispida B. C. hairy-lvd. * l_| or U ? jn.jl Pk C. G. H. 1792. C s.p Bot. cab. 1982 



" It is a slender quick-growing kind, making many loose branches, 

 upon which flowers are produced near their tops in June and July : it re- 

 quires an airy green-house." (Bot. Cab., November.) 



CLXXXVI. CompositcB. 



2349 CH.S;TANTHE^RA. {Chaite, a bristle, anthcra, an anther; bristles at base of anthers.) 



t2154P serr^ta R. Sj P. snwed-lvd. ^ Jsl or i jl.au Y Chile 1827. D p.l Sw. fi.gar. 2.s. 214 

 C. serr^ita K. Sf P., D. Don ; C. chiKnsis Dec. ; Perdi'cium chik'nse IV. ; Prosfelia serrJlta D. Don ; 

 No. 21549. of Bort. Brit., where Dcsv. is probably an error for Dec. 



A dwarf perennial herbaceous plant, with a woody caudex and many de- 

 cumbent slender leafy stems, 3 in. or 4 in. long, each of which bears, and at 

 its tip, a rayed head of blossoms ; the rays in colour a brilliant yellow. The 

 plant is impatient of wet. Mr. Knight possesses it. (Brit. Flower-Gard.) 



2373. Zl'NN/^ 21630 ^lagans 



2 coccinea J.inrf/. scarlet-raj/Cf/ OsplSau.o S Mexico 1829. S co Bot. reg. 1294 



3 ra.diis ^Ibidis white-rayed O or 2 au.o W Brit Gard. 1832. S co 



The scarlet-flowered variety was figured, in 1830, in the Bot. Beg., where 

 it was stated that only a plant or two were known to be in British collec- 

 tions, which did not promise to seed freely. The variety has, however, 

 .survived, or been again introduced. Several plants of it were in bloom in 

 the Horticultural Society's Garden on August 13. 1833. 



The white-rayed variety is possessed by T. Rivers and Son, nurserymen, 

 Sawbridgeworth, Herts, and doubtless is in other collections. 



CC. Volemo7iidcece. 



473. COLLO^MIA. _^„ 



coccfnea Leh. scarlet-^wri. O or 1 jl U Chile 1832. S co Bot reg. 1622 



. C. lateritia D. Don in Sw. Fl. Gar. 2. s. 20G. {Gard. Mag., vol. ix. p. 620.) 



A notice of this species is quoted into p. 620, ; which see. In the Bot. 

 Beg. for October, t. 1622., a figure and description of it are published with 

 the name of C. coccinea; which name is there shown to have been pub- 

 lished for it at Hamburgh, previously to Mr. Don's application of the name 

 C lateritia. The flowers of coUomias expand more fully under a cloudy 

 sky than in bright sunshine : the plants, nevertheless, like warm weather. 

 Consistently with this their habit. Dr. Lindley advises two sowings of their 

 seeds ; one in early spring, the other a month or two afterwards. If the 

 summer prove hot and dry, the plants from the latter sowing will flower 

 more satisfactorily in autumn, than those from the former one will in the 

 dog-days. 



Of pretty and re markable Species of Plants of the Order VolemonidcecB, 

 the London Horticultural Society has, in the spring of the present year 

 (1833), received, by seeds, a considerable number, from Mr. David Douglas, 

 who had collected them in California; few or none of them had been pre- 

 viously introduced to Britain. Plants of several of the species have been, this 

 year, raised in the Society's Garden, and have there flowered this autumn, 

 although, possibly, too late to favour the hope of a plenteous crop of ripe 

 seeds being this year derived from them. Some of the species belong 

 to genera of which certain species are already in British gardens ; as the 

 genera Gilia and CoUomia. Mr. Bentham has described the generic and 

 specific characters of all of them, in a communication appended, in the 

 Botanical Begister for October, to the description of Collomia coccinea of 

 Lehmann, t. 1622.; and in doing this has also revised the characters of the 

 genera and species previously known and cultivated. The names of the 

 genera and species are : — 



