360 Floricultural and Botatiical Notices, 



voyage for the purpose of surveying the southern extremity of 

 South America, Terra del Fuego, and the Strait of Magelhaens) 

 at Port Famine, in full flower, within a very short distance of 

 the base of a mountain, covered for two thirds down with snow, 

 and with the temperature at 36° P^ahr. 



" The Fuchsza, certainly, was rarely found but in sheltered spots ; but not 

 so the veronicas ; for the beaches of the bays on the west side of St. John's 

 Island, at Port San Antonio, are lined with trees of the latter, growing even 

 in the very wash of the sea. There is no part of the strait more exposed 

 to the wind than this ; for it faces the reach to the west of Cape Froward, 

 down which the wind constantly blows, and brings with it a succession of rain, 

 sleet, or snow; and in the winter months, from April to August, the ground 

 is covered with a layer of snow from 6 in. to 2 ft. or 3 ft. in depth. There 

 must be, therefore, some peculiar quality in the atmosphere of this otherwise 

 rigorous climate which favours vegetation ; for, if not, these comparatively 

 delicate plants could not live and flourish through the long and severe winters 

 of this region." (^Journal of the Geographical Society, as quoted in the Bot. 

 Mag., June.) 



Mr. Low of Clapton was the first who raised this kind of 

 Fuchsm in England. 



Gi'ossuldcece . 



719. ItrBES [California ? 1832 C co Sw. fl.-gar. 2. s. 340 



590Sa innlvkcexxm Benth. [? Smith, in Rees's OycZop.] MaWow-leafed Sfe or 5 my PaP 



There in an account of this kind in our p. 38, 39. Pro- 

 fessor Don and Mr. Bentham seem to consider it as a distinct 

 species. We may be mistaken ; but, from having observed R. 

 ;/^alvaceum, R. glutinosum, and R, sanguineum, in the London 

 Horticultural Society's garden, and in various nurseries ; and 

 having, besides, a healthy vigorous-growing plant of each in our 

 garden, we have not the slightest doubt of the three sorts being 

 only varieties of one species. Professor Don recommends a 

 soil composed of peat and loam ; but we have seen it, in several 

 places, growing in common garden soil as vigorously as the 

 black currant. 



" The leaves emit, on being passed through the hand, an agreeable balsamic 

 odour." (^Brit. Fl.-Gard., June.) 



Gnz^/anaceae. 



794. GENTI^W.4 

 6363a quinqueflbra Pers. 5-flowered O or li o Li New York ? 1834 S s.l Bot. mag. 3496 



This very pretty annual, which was raised at the Botanic 

 Garden, Edinburgh, from seeds sent, without a name, by Mr. 

 Thomas Churnside, nurseryman, New York, is considered 

 by Sir W. J. Hooker to differ from the G. quinquefolia of 

 Linnaeus, Willdenow, Lamarck, and Sprengel ; because these 

 authors all refer to the figure given of a plant under this name 

 in the Flora Danica, which differs from the plant figured in the 

 Bot. Mag., in having the leaves ovate, instead of acuminated, 

 and the flowers axillary as well as terminal. [Bot. Mag., 

 June.) 



