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way.) The very aspect of this plant would convey some idea of its S^l 

 evanescent character. There are two sections of the genus — one em- cj^ 

 braces what are termed shrubby Calceolarias, or those which do not 

 die down after blooming, but renew their shoots every season by shoot- 

 out buds from the old stem and branches. These are from C. rugosa 

 and C. integrifolia. 



The shrubby species are not so showy as the Herbaceous ; they are 

 generally yellow or dark pink in color ; their leaves not so broad or 

 wooly, and more serrated ; their flowers smaller in size and different in 

 shape, although still very ornamental and more valuable to many than 

 the more transient though beautiful herbaceous varieties. Hitherto 

 their cultivation has not been much extended, as the seeds after ves:e- 

 tation require minute attention. Our specimen is from a seedling 

 raised by R. Buist, not chosen for any peculiar character or merit, but 

 being a seedling it was without any characteristic appellation. One 

 of our friends admired it, and suggested the name which it bears — 

 Anna Neal. The name is in honor of Mrs. Neal of this city, and her 

 friend Mrs. Anna Hill v of the School of Design — a lady who has taken 

 a gre'at interest in the success of the " Florist." Mr. Buist kind- 

 ly permitted us to name it as above. The drawing is true, and we 

 hope will please the fastidious, as far as they make up their minds to 

 be pleased. This is a small sketch ; Mr. Saunders has promised a his- 

 tory of this interesting tribe next month. 



New Plant. — At the Stated Meeting of the Pennsylvania Horti- 

 cultural Society of the 19th ult., a plant from California was exhibit- 

 ed by Wm. Hobson, raised by him from California seed obtained from 

 a friend. It flourished and at length flowered in May, and was depos- 

 ited on your table to be determined, on the last evening of meeting. 

 If the Botanical Committee have not already described and determin- 

 ed it, I beg to offer the following suggestions as to its identity. It 

 appears at first sight to resemble Echium, a genus of Boraginese or 

 rough Plants which are furnished with a circinate inflorescence. 

 But although having a circinate inflorescence it does not agree in 

 other important characteristics. We then refer it to Hydrophylla- 

 ce.e, a natural order also furnished with a circinate inflorescence and 

 not to detain the unscientific part of the audience state my idea that 

 the plant is a new form of Phacelia, at least new to all our friends 

 who have examined it. The grower put the specimen in my hands 

 to name. I therefore, subject of course to revision of Professional 

 Botanists, of whom I am not one, would call it Phacelia setosal 

 bristly Phacelia, or Caterpillar Plant. — R. R. Scott. 



To the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society — Stated Meeting June 

 15th, 1852. £ 



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