On the Culture of Rare Plants. 



the open border under any warm wall than in a pot ; for 

 it has lived one winter in my court, which is not a favourable 

 situation : and in a pot it requires a great deal of water, till 

 the leaves decay. 



xyrideLe. 



Xyris Operculata. Ker in Bot. Mag. n. 1158. cum Ic. 

 —Labill. Nov. Holl. v. 1. p. 14. 1. 10. 



A more curious than beautiful plant, introduced by Mr. 

 Conrad Loddiges in 1806. It grows wild in the Island 

 of Van Diemen, and might, perhaps, therefore, succeed here 

 in the open ground. Another species belonging to this 

 Natural Order, with a curved trilocular capsule, splitting 

 quite up to the top, was raised at Chapel-Allerton, from seeds 

 gathered in some of the South Sea Islands, by Captain Ed- 

 ward Edwards; but being absent in London when it 

 flowered, I could not describe it : and I have seen a third 

 species, with ensate leaves, in Mr. Woodford's collection, 

 from the Island of Trinidad. 



HiEMODOREiE. 

 Wachendorfia Brevifolia. Ker in Bot. Mag. n. 1116. 

 cum Ic. 



This species was introduced, in 1786, by Sir Brooke 

 Booth by, in whose collection, near Lichfield, it both flow- 

 ered and ripened seeds. It grows wild at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, and should be treated here like the Galaxias, for though 

 the root is not strictly bulbous, it will not bear much wet 

 after the leaves decay. 



Xiphidium Album. Willd. Sp. PL v.l.p. 248. Xiphidium 



