supplementary to Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 483 



Dr. Fischer, of the Petersburg Garden. " The plant has little 

 beauty to recommend it ; and, were it not that it constitutes a very 

 interesting addition to a small group of the Cichoraceae, we 

 should hardly have been justified in inserting a figure of it in 

 this work." {Brit. Fl.-Gard., Aug.) 

 ScrophularidcecE. 



JlSOSa. APTO'SIMUM Burch. {a, privative, and ptosimos, deciduous ; capsules remaining long after 



the seeds have fallen out. — Burchell. ) QBot. leg. 1882 



Jdepr^ssum .B«;c^. AepxesseA-postured JU i | or prostrate o.d B C.G.H 



A green-house undershrub, raised by Dr. Lehmann of Ham- 

 burg; and, though not yet introduced into Britain, it will doubt- 

 less be so in the course of the present or the next year. {Bof. 

 Beg., Aug.) 



Yerbendcece. 



17«. rERBE'NA erincjdcs 



15654 2 Sabini D. Don Sabine's flU Al <"■ J jn.o Chile 1834 C and L co Sw. fl..gard. 2. s. 347 

 This is identical with V. multilida var. contracta Lindl., noticed in our Vol. XI. p. 377. 



reversed hairs." It is known in gardens under the name of 

 Verbena Sabinz; and "differs from the normal variety of 

 erinbides only by its dwarfer, denser, and more glabrous habit, 

 and rich purple flowers." It is a very general plant throughout 

 Chile, in dry exposed situations, from 7000 ft. to 8000 ft. above 

 the level of the sea, where it is esteemed for its diuretic properties. 

 {Brit. Fl.-Gard., Aug.) 

 Acanthdcece. 



1734. THUNBE'RG/^ 15538 alMa 



*2 albifldra Hook, white-flowered $_ □ or 4 my.s W C p.l Bot. mag. 3512 



This variety having a white limb to the corolla, the flower 

 forms a more striking object than that of the species, from the 

 greater contrast of the dark stain in the centre with the lobes of 

 the corolla. It appears to have been raised accidentally from 

 seed, but in what garden we have not heard. {Bot. Mag., 

 Aug.) Though more striking, this variety is not nearly so hand- 

 some as the species. Both may be raised on heat, and planted 

 out in the open border during summer. 



Primiddcece. 



*450a. DOUGLA'SW Lindl. 



*nivaiis Lindl. snow A or J ap P Rocky Mountains 1827 S s.p Bot. reg. 1885 



This plant was named by Dr. Lindley, "some years ago 

 l^Brande's Journal, Jan. 1828, p. 383.], in compliment to Mr. 

 Douglas, whose zeal in the collection of seeds and dried speci- 

 mens of plants, and whose untimely end, have richly earned for 



him a niche in the long gallery of departed science Upon his 



journey acro.ss the Rocky Mountains, in April, 1827, in lat. 52° n.. 

 Ion. 118° w., at an estimated elevation of 12,000 ft. above the 

 level of the sea, the attention of Mr. Douglas was attracted by 

 a brilliant purple patch amidst the surrounding snow. On ap- 

 proaching it, he was surprised to find that the colour which had 

 arrested his eye was caused by the blossoms of a little plant, 

 from which the superincumbent snow had not yet melted away. 



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