38 Flor'icultural and Botanical Notices, 



9 ill. or 10 in. The stem is slender; and, unless supported, it is 

 inclined to trail. It is covered throughout with whitish lines. 

 The leaves are alternate, solitary; the radical ones heart-shaped, 

 entire, on longish slender footstalks. Those on the stem are 

 entire, mostly ovate and obtuse, with strongish footstalks, about 

 their own length. The flowers are produced from the axils of 

 the leaves on a pendulous leafy stalk, or in clusters of three or 

 four flowers at the extremity of the stem. The calyx is parted 

 into five deep segments; the corolla is also parted into five re- 

 curved segments. It can be kept with certainty in a cold frame 

 during winter. It is one of the handsomest plants that we have 

 seen for a long time. It will propagate by division at the root, 

 by seeds, cuttings, &c." {Flor. Mag., Dec.) 

 Lobel'iacese. 



3390. CLINTO^N/^ 



*pulchella Lindl. pretty iQJ el i jy.au B W Y Colombia ? 1831 S co Bot. reg. 1909. 



Dr. Lindley figures " this little plant more for the sake of 

 recording its existence, than from any expectation that it will 

 ever become an object of horticultural interest ; for, since C. 

 elegans, a far hardier and more cultivable plant, has disappeared, 

 there can be little hope that this, beautiful as it is, will be pre- 

 served! It only exists, at present, in the garden of the London 

 Horticultural Society, whither it was sent from California by Mr. 

 Douglas. It is there treated as a tender annual ; and every year 

 a small number of tiny plants have been raised from the very 

 few seeds ripened the previous year. It has been usually grown 

 in a flower-pot." (Bot. Beg., Nov.) 



HydrophylldcecB, 



3292. EU^TOCA 



* WrangelzViwfl Fiscli. Wrangel's O el 1 au B California 1835 S s.l Swt. fl.-gard. 2. s. 362. 



" A hardy annual, with procumbent stems, and large pale blue 

 flovv'ers ; a native of the Russian colony of Ross in New Cali- 

 fornia, on the north-west coast of the American Continent ; 

 whence it was introduced by seeds to the Imperial Botanic 

 Garden at St. Petersburg last year." It flowered for the first 

 time " in Mr. Lambert's collection at Boyton House, Wilts, 

 where the plant had been raised from seeds communicated by 

 Dr. Fischer." {Sweefs FL-Gard., Dec.) 



Scfop/i ularidcea;. 



1717. PENTSTEWION W. [reg. 1899. 



* heterophyllus iinrf/. various-leaved £ A or !§ to 2 jn.o R California 183- C co Bot. 



A hardy herbaceous plant, propagated by cuttings, as well as 

 seeds. The stems are somewhat woody and recumbent, and 

 they throw out a number of lateral shoots. " The upper part of 

 the plant is sometimes furnished with leaves so narrow as to be 

 almost linear ; the lower has them of an oblong lanceolate form ; 

 so that a person, unaware of the circumstance, would be apt to 

 mistake portions of the same individual for different species." 



