supplementary to Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 41 



nicle about the upper part of short stems ; the corollas are white, 

 and not small ; and, as the flowers are not few, the kind is, when 

 in flower, ornamental. Mr. G. Don has deemed it elegant. 

 Plants of it may be obtained by planting portions of plants pre- 

 viously extant. 



1385. SAPONA'^RIA. 



*I1371« cerastioides Fis. Mouse-ear-chickweed-like f^ ^? cu \ Pk Russia ? 1833 

 These details may not be correct 



Stems prostrate. Leaf glaucous to a degree of whiteness. 

 Plants of a species thus named have been cultivated in the Chelsea 

 Botanic Garden, and in the Cambridge Botanic Garden. 



Cl. Ex6g., subcl. Compl. polypet., group Gynobase6sae, alliance Geraniales, order Oxalidaceas. 

 1414. O'XALIS. 

 f 11984 Pi6tt<E Col. Piotta's ? ji) or i jl.au salmon-coloured C. G. H 1816 O s.p Bot. reg.1817 

 Seems nearly allied to compressa. {Lindley.) 



"A truly beautiful little half-hardy or frame perennial, flowering 

 most copiously during the months of July and August. A little 

 tuft does not, indeed, produce much appearance; but a pot filled 

 with its dense green leaves, and covered with the large salmon- 

 coloured flowers, is a lovely object .... We believe that the 

 plant is at present in the possession of no one in this country ex- 

 cept Mrs. Marryat, Wimbledon, Surrey, and those of her friends 

 to whom she has given it." [JEtot. Reg., Dec.) 



O'XALIS t DarwalliaHO, described in Vol. XI. p. 526, 527., corrective and additional information on. 



The authority is Westcott : see under Zathyrus Armitage- 

 dnus, below, p. 42. O'xalis Darwalh'awfit has its leaflets nearly 

 thrice as broad as those of O. tenuifolia Jacq., to which it is allied, 

 and should be placed next. 



Cl. Exog., subcl. Compl. polypet., group ApocarpbsEB, alliance itosales, order .SosSceae, suborder 



Pomeai 



1506. CRAT^'GUS. fBot. reg. 1810 



? 12898a * Douglas?? Lindl. Douglases ^^or^,^? my W North-west Americs. 1830? SO co 



Synonymy : C. punctata /3 brevisplna Douglas, in Hook. FL 

 Bor. Am., 1. 201. "We believe this [Douglas/z] to be essen- 

 tially different from all the published species of this genus ; but 

 ... we are by no means certain. ... It is possible that what is called 

 C. macracantha in the gardens may not be specifically distinct; 

 but, as its fruit is red, it requires further examination." [Lindlei/.) 



A small tree. Branches ascending; spines, rigid, straightish, 

 now short, now very long ; leaves, some obovate, some oval, 

 gashedly serrate, acute, at the base wedge-shaped, glabrous, in 

 the autumn remarkably leathery, and they then acquire a pur- 

 plish cast and are shining : they fall off* at about the same time 

 as those of punctata and^jyrifolia. Flowers produced in May : 

 they are of a middling size. Fruit small, dark purple. The 

 figure is from a plant in the London Horticultural Society's ar- 

 boretum. [Bot. Reg., Nov.) 



Cl. Exog., subcl. Compl. polypet., group Apocarpbsje, alliance Resales, order Leguminace^. 

 1274. POINCI^W/J. [grounds about Mendoza in South America 1829 C r.m Sw. fi.gar.2. s.311 

 * GilliesK Hook. Gillies's ? jf ? Sis j spl 10 jl Y Abundant on banks of rivers and irrigated 



"An erect, slender, branched tree, rising to the height of 8 ft. 



