420 Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



garden ; and the plants continue to look very healthy, with a 

 profusion of blossoms " being forming " for next year." " Its 

 extraordinary beauty will render it one of the most valuable 

 species [of plants] that have been introduced of late years; and 

 even if it should prove no hardier than Sutherlandza frutescens, 

 it will still form one of the most important and welcome of all 

 the modern additions to our flower-gardens." [Bot. Reg., July.) 



2837. .4CA^CIA. [C s.l.p Bot. Mag. 3420 



Uistis Graham drooping branches and dull green colour it i 1 or 18 ? nir.ap Y N. HoU. 1828 



"In the arrangement of the species, it ought to stand between A. undul^ta QSee XI. 190.] and 

 A. armkta." — Dr. Graham. 



The picture shows a branch of two twigs which have a more 

 slender and lengthened character than is usual to those of A. 

 armata. The phyllodia, or semblances of leaves, are, it.is stated, 

 suberect, dark green, slightly falcate, curving upwards, slightly 

 pubescent, undulate. Heads of flowers on peduncles axillary to 

 the leaves and shorter than them, produced along the terminal 

 portion of the twigs; flowers, many in a head, yellow. {Bot. 

 ikfc^., July.) 



XCVI. 'Rhdmnece. 



67. C01AjF>TIA. [Bot. reg., 1776. 



hbrrida Brongniart YiortM-aspected « | cu my.jn Gsh.W.P Chili and Mendoza 1832? S.s.l 



C. ftrox Gill, and Hook, in Bot. Misc. i. 154. t. 44. f. B. 



It is so abundant in spines, which may be deemed its branch- 

 lets, that it seems, as it were, a thicket of spines. The leaves 

 produced are very few, and do not remain very long upon the 

 plant ; they are minute, ovate, serrate. Flowers numerous, 

 produced in pairs, or more, at the base of the spines about the 

 terminal part of the branches. They have not a corolla ; the 

 calyx is ovate-oblong with five shallow segments, which spread 

 a little ; in its colour " greenish white, stained with dull purple." 

 C. h6rrida is " hardy," and " evergreen " whether its leaves be 

 present or absent, from the full green colour of the bark. In 

 the plant's physiology, " the branches .... act," Dr. Lindley has 

 stated, " as leaves by the aid of their soft parenchyma with which 

 they are clothed in the form of bark." C. h6rrida " grows in 

 common garden soil, and prefers a hot, exposed, dry situation, 

 such as the foot of a south wall, without any kind of shade." 

 The plant from which the figure has been taken is in the Lon- 

 don Horticultural Society's Garden, and thus conditioned ; but 

 it is sheltered in winter and early in the spring by a covering, 

 which projects over it some feet above it. C. horrida " is often 

 raised from Chilian seeds, under the name of Retanilla." [Bot. 

 Reg., July.) 



CLVI. VolygonecB. 



1231. ERIO'GONUM. [Bot. mag. 1774 



compi'isitum Dow^/as compound-Mw6e^/ed 3t A pr 1^ my.jn Ysh.W New Albion ... C m.s 



Its leaves consist of woolly petioles from 2 in. to 4 in. long, 

 which bear disks or expansions 1 in. to 1^ in. long, ovate, 



