supplementary to Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 47 



is <« from plants which blossomed in Dr. Neill's collection," 

 Canonmills, near Edinburgh. {Brit. Flower-Garden^ Dec.) 



CI. Exog., subcl. Compl. monopet., group Labldsae, alliance LabiSles, order Lablaceas. 

 345J. GARDOQUr^. 

 t28881 GillidszV Grab. GilUes's £ _AJ pr f jn to s Li Y Chile 1828 C p.s Bot. reg. 1812 



A neat little half-shrubby herbaceous plant, with divaricate 

 branches and oblong linear leaves, scarcely half an inch in length, 

 and, by the picture, numerous flowers. It is far less showy than 

 Hooker/, but is hardier ; it flowers from June to September in 

 the open border, but requires a little protection in winter. Cut- 

 tings in peat and sand root freely. The figure is from a plant in 

 the garden of the London Horticultural Society. [Bot. Beg., 

 Nov.) 



CI. Exog., subel. Compl. monopet, group Dicarpbsa, alliance ^chiales, order HydrophyllaceEe. 

 477. PHACEXIA. [veston Bay, Texas 1835 S co Bot. mag. 3452 



*3934a;congesta //oo/f. groupeA.racemed O or U? jnjin the green-house Bright purplish blue Gal- 

 " Its nearest affinity is with bipinnatilida of' Mich. Fl. Bor. Am., vol. i. p. 134. 1. 1&, a native of 

 the Alleghanies." 



It seems that most of the particulars which Dr. Hooker has 

 described of congesta are derived from plants of it cultivated in 

 the green-house in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. Some of the 

 particulars are these: — Annual; stem branched in the cultivated 

 specimens, simple and upright in the native ones. Leaves pinnate; 

 by the picture, less and more than 3 in. long; by the description, 

 slightly downy, the leaflets alternate, some stalked, some sessile, 

 some pinnatifid, some lobed, some cut, the terminal ones almost 

 bipinnatifid. Flowers disposed in racemes; of which racemes three 

 to five terminate each of the several peduncles; and are rather 

 densely disposed upon them in a corymbose manner : the situa- 

 tion of the peduncles is on the side and extremity of the stem. 

 Corolla, of a bright purplish-blue colour, broadly bell-shaped, 

 with a spreading limb. Its pretty blossoms were in perfection, 

 in the green-house, in June. It is beautiful ; " and, being an an- 

 nual . . . there is no doubt but it will soon become a great ornament 

 to our flower-borders." Phacelia congesta was first received in 

 Britain " among the many interesting " species of " plants col- 

 lected by Mr. Drummond in Texas, and sent home in his last 

 despatches from that interesting country." [Bot. Mag., Dec.) 



3292. EITTOCA. 



* viscida Benth. t^araray. haired O or 2 jl B Ro California 1834 ? S co Bot. reg. 1808 



Annual; perfectly hardy; stem branched, 2 ft. high. Leaves 

 2 in. broad, a little longer, gradually smaller towards the tips of 

 the stem and branches, the upper leaves coarsely toothed. Flow- 

 ers in racemes, many in a raceme ; this revolute, while the flowers 

 are unexpanded, becoming gradually straight as the flowers ex- 

 pand, in succession, from the base of the raceme to its tip. Co- 

 rolla, in its limb, of a pleasing blue ; in its tube, rosy. The 

 surface of the whole herbage is covered with hairs that are tipped 

 with little black heads; filled with a viscid secretion, and that 



