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Raised from seeds received from Van Diemen's Land by Mr. 

 William Shenton of Winchester. Mr. Veitch, of the Mount 

 Radford Nursery, near Exeter, states, that " the plant had been 

 hung up in the stove for more than a month, without the least 

 soil, and without ceasing to flower ; " a very singular fact, and 

 quite new in plants of this description. It is much the hand- 

 somest of the herbaceous lobelias. The flowers are of a par- 

 ticularly clear rich blue, and so large as to produce a very rich 

 and gay appearance, either when the plant is grown singly or in 

 beds. The property of continuing to grow and flower after 

 being gathered, renders it invaluable to those who grow flowers 

 to decorate their sitting-rooms. [Bot. Reg., Dec.) 



Campanuldcea;. 



607. CAMPA'NULA 5019 barbata 



var. 2 *cyanea H. Don dark-blue ^ A or 1 jl B ... 1836 R p.l Swt. Br. fl.-gard. 409. 



The whole plant is clothed with short rough spreading hairs, 

 but is not hoary. Leaves green, rough, and entire at the margins; 

 radical ones numerous, spreading, oblong-spathulate, obtuse, 

 even, 2 — 4 in. long ; cauline ones sessile, lanceolate, erect, much 

 smaller. Raised by Mr. Anderson of the Chelsea Botanic Gar- 

 den, having come up accidentally in a pot of young plants of C. 

 barbata, from seeds received from the Imperial Botanic Garden 

 at Vienna. It is distinguished from the ordinary shape of C. 

 barbata by its dark blue flowers ; the usual colour of the species 

 being a pale blue, and more rarely milk-white. The plant varies 

 likewise in bearing one or more flowers on a stem. All the 

 varieties of C. barbata love a dry soil and sunny situation, and 

 are especially adapted for the rockwork ; but, as they are apt to 

 suffer from the cold damps of winter, care should be taken to 

 keep some of the plants in a pit or frame during that season. 

 {Swt. Brit. Fl.-Gard., Dec.) 



Gesneracese. 



1698. GE'SNER^ 15330 DouglSsw Lindl. fp.I Bot. mag. 3612. 



var. f2-verticillata Hook. iK\\ox\eA-flou<ered i^, 23 or 2 ap R. and B Ilio Janeiro 1826 R 

 Synonyme : G. verticillata Hook. Bot. Mag., t. 2776. 



VhiladelphdcecE. 



1479. PHILADE'LPHUS. 



*speci6sus Schrad. showy Si or 8 jn.jl W N. America ... L co Bot. reg. 2003. 



" This beautiful genus, common as it is in our gardens, is but 

 imperfectly known even to botanists ; and to cultivators so little, 

 that it is hardly possible to procure the species, as defined by 

 Professor Schrader, with certainty from the nurseries, unless 

 from Messrs. Loddiges. In one case, indeed, I have reason to be- 

 lieve that an American species has been palmed upon the public 

 as Deutzm grandiflora." P. speciosus is a hardy shrub, 8 ft. 

 or 10 ft. high, and by no means stiff" or formal, but with gently 

 bending branches, loaded with snow-white flowers of the largest 

 size, and scentless. It is among the least common of the genus, 

 although much the handsomest. P. grandiflorus Bot. Reg., 570., 



