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POPULAR GARDEN BOTANY. 



intermedia has orange flowers. Celsia is a genus very similar 

 to Alonzoa, the chief distinction being that the filaments 

 are bearded : the species orientalis is a hardy annual, with 

 yellow flowers. Arctwrus, viscosa, Cretica, and lanceolata, 

 with yellow flowers, are greenhouse or half hardy plants. 



NEMESIA. 



Gen. Char. (Didynamia Angiosperrnia.} Calyx five-parted ; co- 

 rolla spurred, with a prominent palate ; capsule compressed, 

 truncate, opening lengthwise in the middle, two-celled, two-valved. 



This genus greatly resembles Antirrhinun y and Nemesia 

 was an old name for those plants. A few species are intro- 

 duced into the greenhouse from the Cape, as chamadryfolia 

 and bicome, with whitish blue flowers, linearis, with brown- 

 ish rose-coloured, and frutescens with yellow flowers; the 

 best is floribunda> with light yellow flowers, an annual 

 hardy enough to bear being placed in the garden. 



MAUEANDIA. 



Gen. Char. (JDidynamia Angiospermia.) Calyx five-parted ; 

 corolla bell-shaped, unequal ; filaments callous at the base ; cap- 

 sules two, united. 



