476 FloricuUural and Botanical Notices, 



^ in. broad at the base, whence they are acuminated to the tip : 

 some leaves are entire, some are toothed. Head of flowers en- 

 vironed by a top-shaped (turbinate) involucre of one leaf, not 

 accompanied by bracteas ; in its margin many-toothed. Corollas, 

 of all the flowers in the head, yellow. The flowers in the margin 

 of the head have ligulate corollas, which spread and form a border 

 of rays; 13 are shown, to the head ; they touch, or even overlap 

 each other at the base, and each is oblong and, at the tip, two- 

 toothed : the width of the head and its surrounding border of 

 rays is shown to be an inch or more : The flowers of the centre 

 are funnel-shaped. Receptacle conical. Fruit (seed) devoid 

 of pappus. "... Introduced by the [London] Horticultural 

 Society in 1834. It flowers in May and June, if sown very early 

 in the spring, or in the previous autumn, and forms a pretty gay 

 mass of yellow in the beds of the flower-garden. It seeds pro- 

 fusely." 



L. calif urnica. — This " is also in our gardens." See, in 

 p. 326, 327. 381., mentions of its being exhibited at meetings of 

 the London Horticultural Society. It " is rather less ornamental 

 than the " glabrata ; its heads of flowers are smaller, and its 

 corollas of a paler yellow ; its surface is slightly pubescent ; its 

 leaves entire ; and the base of the heads of flowers shaped like 

 a boss or umbo. i^Bot. Reg., August.) 



CCXI. Scrop/mlaririece. 



65. CALCEOLA^RIA, a shrubby kind of, with corolla white. 



" A seedling 'shrubby calceolaria, with pure white blossom, 

 has been raised by Mr. Barratt, nurseryman, Wakefield. From 

 the size of the blossoms, their purity of colour, and the pro- 

 fusion in which they are produced, the plant is a very valuable 

 acquisition to this . . . much admired genus of plants." [The Flo- 

 ricuUural Cabinet, August.) 



CCXXVI. Hydrophyllea;. 



3292. EITTOCA. [Bot. reg. 1784 



divariciita Benth. stnLgglmg-habi'ted O pr decumbent my.jn L V California 1833 ? S It 



The light violet corollas render it " pretty in bouquets ;" but 

 it is " hardly of more than botanical interest. Its seeds should 

 be sown in August, in a situation neither overshaded, nor too 

 much exposed to the sun." (Bot. Beg., August.) 



Embryo Monocotyledonous. 

 CCXXXIV. Bromeliaceaa. 



954a. TJY'CKIA Schultes fils (" The Prince of Salm.Reifferscheid-Dyck, a great lover of gardening, 



and one of the most liberal and intelligent of the noble patron.s of science of the present 

 day."— I^ndlei/. See Gard. Mag., ix. 46'J, 461. We presume that the name of the genus 

 Salmm Dec. has been applied in honour of the same person.) 6. 3. sp. 3. 



[OS Bot. reg. 1782 

 rariRura Schultes Jils scattered-flowered £ Zvl or 2 jn O Serra of Villa Rica in Brazil 1832 



" Agrees in many of its habits " with an aloe. Leaves fleshy, 

 prickled at the edge, 7 in. long, by 4 to 6 lines broad at the base, 

 linear-awl-shaped, spreading, recurved, surface dark green, sub- 



