By Mr. John Lindley. 



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both in the Chelsea Garden, and in Mr. Kent's garden at 

 Clapton, whence the figure for the Botanical Register was 

 obtained, and I have no difficulty in declaring that it was 

 scarcely distinguishable even as a variety frAn CE. purpurea. 



LIII. Ammobium alatum. R. Brown. 

 This plant was raised in 1822, from seeds transmitted from 

 New South Wales, and presented to the Society by Edward 

 Barnard, Esq. It is a handsome plant, with many nar- 

 row white leaves, lying flat upon the ground, and an up- 

 right, winged, branched stem, bearing many white heads of 

 flowers. It is a good addition to the class of flowers popu- 

 larly called " Everlastings:' The plants grew and flourished 

 vigorously in the open border, and, as they are evidently of a 

 perennial nature, it was hoped that they would have been 

 capable of surviving the winter. Slight, however, as the frost 

 proved, the plant was not able to resist it, although protected 

 by a hand-glass. It is, therefore, here considered only as a 

 hardy annual. A figure of it may be found in the Botanical 

 Magazine, tab. 2459. 



LIV. Loasa nitida. Lamarck. 



L. tricolor. Bot. Reg. tab. 667. 

 LV. Loasa Placei. 



L. acanthifolia. Bot. Reg. tab. 985. not of Lamarck. 

 Owing to the very vascular and watery structure of the 

 species of Loasa, it happens that specimens of them are pre- 

 served with great difficulty, and that, in the herbarium, the 

 more delicate, and even essential characters of the species are 

 wholly lost. It has unfortunately occurred that, with the 

 exception of the unpublished species of the Flora Peruviana, 

 nearly all the kinds described by botanists have been taken 



