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produced in terminal and lateral racemes. The glabrous lance-shaped leaves 

 are white beneath. (Bot. Mag., Dec.) 

 CLXXIV. Campannlacece. 



611a PETROMA'RULA Pers. 8; A. Dec. {Petra, a rock, maron.m herb; habitat.) 5. 1. Sp. 1.— 



5172 pinnata Pers. winged-//rf. £ .AJ or 3 au Pa.B Candia 1640. D r.l Sw.fl.gar.2.s.l24 

 Phyteuma pinnatum W. 'and others ; Hort. Brit. No. 5172. 



This very rare and very interesting species is figured from Messrs. Young's 

 nursery, Epsom ; where, under the judicious and skilful treatment of Mr. 

 Penny, " planted in the open ground in May, in rich loamy soil, it grew 

 vigorously, and threw up from 40 to 50 stems, which began to blossom 

 towards the end of August." P. pinnata " is frequent on the rocky shores 

 and mountainous parts of Candia, and also on Mount Baldo in Italy." A 

 consideration of the probable circumstances of these localities may explain 

 " the great difficulty attending the cultivation of the plant in this moist cli- 

 mate," and may suggest means to surmount the difficulty. " In Britain it 

 requires, in winter, the protection of a frame or green-house. It may be 

 increased slowly by division." (The British Flower-Garden, Jan.) 



CLXXV. Lobeliacese. 



609. LOBE^LT^ 5113. puberula. 



2 glabella Hook, smoothish-herbaged & A or 3 jl.au B.P Louisiana 1832. DJp.l Bot. mag. 3292 



" This is a highly interesting addition to our garden lobelias, and was intro- 

 duced last year by Mr. Drummond, who sent the seeds from Jacksonville in 

 Louisiana," we suppose to the Glasgow Botanic Garden. " Its nearest affinity 

 is perhaps with L. syphilitica, but its inflorescence is less dense and vastly 

 more elongated [1 ft. long], its flowers smaller, of a brighter colour. . . . 

 Corolla bright purplish blue." (Bot. Mag., Jan.) 



odorata Grah. fragrant-Jlwd. !U lAI fra I aut W Buenos Ayres ? 1832. D p.l 



It possesses but little beauty, beyond that of a lively green tuft of herbage : 

 its perfume, which resembles that of the blossoms of the hawthorn, is remark- 

 able in the genus. Mr. Neill of Canonmills has raised the plant from seeds 

 sent to him by Mr. Tweedie. (Dr. Graham, in Jameson's Phil. Journal, 

 January, 1834.) 



CLXXXVI. Composites. 



2337. ^'STER 21309 punlceus. 



2 demissus Lindl. dwarf ^ A or 2 au B English gardens 1820 ? D co Bot. reg. 1636 



" It is a very compact herbaceous plant, not exceeding 1J or 2 ft. in height, 

 with very pale green leaves, and a corymbose inflorescence comprehending 

 masses of bluish flowers, which appear in August, long before those of the 

 true A. puniceus. It is among the handsomest of the genus." It is in the 

 London Horticultural Society's Garden, and in the Liverpool Botanic Garden. 

 (Bot. Reg., the figure in December, the text in January.) 



2409. HELTA'NTHUS. Subgenus Leighza Cass. 



specibsus Hook, showy-inflor. O or 5 s.n R Jorullo ? 1833. S co Bot. mag. 3295 



Dr. Hooker, who has named the plant as above, is not certain of its affi- 

 nities ; he suspects that it may be a species of Tithdm'a. It is, apparently, 

 a very ornamental, and, therefore, very desirable plant. To Mr. Edward 

 Leeds of Manchester, who has lately commenced business there as a nursery- 

 man and florist, W. Higson, Esq., of Manchester, sent a packet of seeds from 

 the Botanic Garden, Mexico. From them have arisen, under Mr. Leeds's 

 care, several species of plants not known in the neighbourhood of Man- 

 chester. Among them, from seeds labelled " Composita speciosa," arose the 

 plant figured, and named by Dr. Hooker Helianthus speciosus. " Only one 

 seed vegetated ;" consequently, only one plant has flowered, and this " an unfor- 

 tunately early frost has cut completely off:" therefore the plant is, very pro- 

 bably, lost to the country. It appears that it is an annual, large, bushy, and 

 in outline conical, with large leaves, the earlier and lower undivided, the later 

 and upper deeply divided, and three-lobed. The head of florets (the flower) is, 

 by the picture, about 3 in. across, and the rays of a red or orange red colour 



