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On the Cultivation of Rare Plants. 



Sisyrinchium Bermudianum. MSS. Sisyrinchium Iri- 

 dioides. Curt, in Bot. Mag. n.94>. cum Ic. Sisyrinchium Ber- 

 mudiana. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2. p. 1353. Bermudiana Iridis 

 folio, &c. Dill. Hort. Elth. v. 1. p. 48. t. 41. f/ 48. 



This plant is often lost in our gardens by being treated too 

 hardily, though it will live through a mild winter in the 

 open air : if the seeds are sown in the first hot-bed for tender 

 annuals, plants from them will continue flowering all the 

 autumn, till the frost destroys them. 



Hydastylus Californicus. MSS. Marica Californica. 

 Ker in. Bot. Mag. n. 983. cum Ic. 



A perfectly hardy plant, I believe ; at least many seed- 

 lings lived through the winter of 1806 in the open air at Mill 

 Hill ; and if sheltered under a cucumber frame, it may cer- 

 tainly be preserved, flowering and ripening seeds all summer. 

 It comes nearer Sisyrinchium than any other genus, but dif- 

 fers too materially to be joined with it ; and the name I have 

 adopted was suggested by the late Mr. Dryander. 



Galatea Vespertina. MSS. Marica plicata. Ker in 

 Bot. Mag. n. 655. cum Ic. Moreca palmifolia. Jacq. Ic. v 2. 

 t. 227. —Collect, v. 3. p. 172. Sisyrinchium latifolium.-Sofa/jd. 

 in Hort. Kew. v. 3. p. 304. Bermudiana palmeefolio, &c. 

 Plum. Pl.Amer.p. 35. t.4>6.f. 2. 



In many of our collections, this yet passes for Sisyrinchium 

 Palmifolium of Linn^us, in which the peduncle is not cylin- 

 drical like that of our plant, but has two sharp edges. It 

 grows wild on the western mountains of Jamaica ; and is not 

 very tender, thriving very well on the flue, or shelf of the 

 stove. The flowers expand about sun-set, and are quite 

 rolled up the next morning. 



