552 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
1. M.uatiro't1a D. Don. The broad-leaved Mutisia. 
Identification. D. Don in Lin. Trans., 16. p. 270.5 Brit 
Fl. Gard., 2d.series, t. 288. 
Engravings. Swt. Brit. Fl. Gard., 1, c. 3 and our fig. 1026. 
Spec. Char, &c. Stem winged. Wings broad, 
leafy. Leaves cordate-oblong, dentate- 
spinose, woolly beneath. Involucre scaly, 
appendiculate. Pappus arranged in a double 
series, feathery, equal, truncate at the apex. 
(D. Don.) A climbing evergreen shrub. 
Valparaiso in Chili, on hills, among bushes. 
Stem 10 ft. to 15ft. Introduced in 1832. 
Flowers pink, or rosy, and yellow ; Septem- 
ber and October. 
A very singular and at the same time beau- & 
tiful shrub, which no collection ought to be 
without, where there are a wall and a dry soil. 
Other Species. — M. ilicifolia, M._infléxa, 
M. linearifolia, M. runcinata, and M. sub- 
spindsa, are figured and described in Hooker’s 
Botanical Miscellany, vol.i.; and M. arach- 
noidea Mart. is figured in Bot. Mag.,t. 2705. yee 
Most of these species would probably live against a wall in a warm situation, 
ona dry soil. . At all events M. latifolia is tolerably hardy, having stood out 
several years in the climate of London, without the slightest protection ; and 
as it represents a family of climbers so very different from every other hitherto 
cultivated in British gardens, we cannot but strongly recommend it to every 
one who is curious in plants. 
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1026. Mutisia latifolia. 
Orver XLIII. ERICA‘CE.. 
OnD. Cuar. Calyx and Corolla each with 4—5 segments. Stamens 4—5— 
8—10, inserted variously, but alternately with the segments of the corolla, 
where not more numerous than they. Anthers, in most, with 2 cells. 
Ovary with its cells, in most, agreeing in number with the segments of the 
calyx or corolla. Style and stigma undivided. Seeds many. Albumen 
fleshy. Embryo erect, slender. 
Leaves simple, opposite or whorled, stipulate or exstipulate, deciduous or 
evergreen; entire or serrated. Inflorescence variable, the pedicels generally 
bracteate. —Shrubs, deciduous and evergreen, and some of them low trees ; 
natives of most parts of the world; and containing many of our finest and 
most ornamental harpy shrubs in British gardens. 
All the species have hair-like roots, and require a peat soil, or a soil of a 
close cohesive nature, but which is yet susceptible of being readily pene- 
trated by the finest fibrils which belong to any kind of plants. - Peat, 
thoroughly rotted leaf mould, or very fine loamy sand, are soils of this 
description, and are accordingly required, more or less, for all the plants of 
this order. The hair-like roots of the Ericdcex soon suffer, either from a 
deficiency or a superfluity of moisture; and hence an important part of their 
culture in gardens consists in keeping the svil in which they grow equally 
moist. In transplanting hair-rooted plants, they are very apt to suffer from 
their slender fibrils coming in contact with the air: but, fortunately, these 
fibrils are so numerous, and so interlaced with each other, as to form a kind 
of network, which encloses and supports a portion of the soil in which they 
grow ; and the plants are, consequently, almost always sent from the nurseries 
