72 Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



Leycesteria may become more ornamental as it grows older and 

 acquires a larger size. The best method of improving the ap- 

 pearance of the plant will be to station it where, without being 

 exposed to a very dry atmosphere, it is fully under the influence 

 of light. It becomes yellow and unhealthy in front of a south 

 wall ; but flourishes in an exposure to the east or west. It mul- 

 tiplies freely by cuttings or layers." (Bot. Reg,, Jan.) 

 Composite. 



2409. HELIA'NTHUS 21940 mollis Willd., Bot. mag. 3689.' 



The Helianthus mollis of Willdenow has been generally 

 supposed to be the same as the H. pubescens Vahl, which was 

 figured in the Botanical Register, t. 524. ; but, on comparing 

 them, that figure appears essentially different from the present 

 plant. H. pubescens was also figured in the Botanical Maga- 

 zine, t. 2778. : but Sir W. J. Hooker supposes this not to 

 be the species described by Vahl, but the H. tomentosus 

 of Michaux; and that, with H. mollis, there are three distinct 

 species. 



The H. mollis now described is a perennial, about 4 ft. high, 

 with the stems more or less scabrous, and deeply tinged with 

 dark purple. The leaves are ovate-lanceolate, mostly on very 

 short footstalks, slightly tapering at the base, and acuminate 

 at the point. They are generally glabrous, and dark green 

 above; and pale, glaucous, or dotted more or less copiously 

 with soft down, beneath. The margin of the adult leaves is 

 rather distantly, and not deeply, serrated. The petals are of a 

 bright yellow, and somewhat linear. [Bot. Mag., Nov.) 



2323. i7ELICHRY\SUM [s. 58., and Bot. no. 92. 



*macranthum Benth. large-flowered O or 2 au.s W Swan River 1838. S co Bot. reg. 2d 



A native of the Swan River, which, according to the Botanical 

 Register, appears to have first flowered in the garden of Robert 

 Mangles, Esq., Sunning Hill ; but, in the Botanist, it is stated that 

 it was first brought to Europe by the Baron VonHugel, who raised 

 plants of it in his garden at Hietzing, near Vienna ; from which 

 place plants were obtained by Messrs. Rollisson, at Tooting. It 

 is stated in the Botanist, that it requires to be kept in the green- 

 house ; but we saw it ourselves last summer flowering beautifully 

 in the open ground, in the nursery of Mr. Rogers, Eaton 

 Square, Pimlico. It somewhat resembles the common white 

 variety of the i^elichrysum bracteatum ; but the flowers are 

 much larger, and of a rich cream colour, rather than pure white ; 

 and the petals have beautiful rosy tips. (See Bot. Reg., Nov. ; 

 the Botanist, Nov. ; and Part. Mag. of Bot., Dec.) 



2273. STE'V/J 



*fascicularis Dec. close.headed ^ | I pr 1 or W Mexico 1837. C co Bot. reg. 2d ser. 59. 



" A pretty, sweet-scented green-house plant; ... a native of 

 Mexico, whence the seeds which produced the plant figured, 



