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Douglas, in 1824. Its dark green, elegantly divided leaves, 

 and heads of pale yellow flowers tinged with red, and appear- 

 ing in the first days of April, render it a beautiful ornament 

 to the flower garden. It is figured in the Botanical Maga- 

 zine, tab. 2506, from a plant in the possession of the Society. 



XLIX. Dracocephalum nutans. Linnceus. 

 This, although an old Linnean plant, and introduced so 

 long since as the early part of the last century, is seldom 

 seen in gardens. It is a beautiful perennial, expanding its 

 blossoms in the last days of April, and continuing in beauty 

 till the end of August. The stem is square, from nine 

 inches to a foot in height ; the angles rough with reflexed 

 hairs. Leaves oblong o rob ovate, obtuse, stalked, wavy, three- 

 nerved. Flowers bright dark blue in many-flowered whorls. 

 Seeds, collected among the Mountains of Altai, were sent to 

 the Society by Dr. Fisher, in 1823. A figure of it is in the 

 Botanical Register, tab. 841. 



L. Nolana paradoxa. Lindley. 

 This is a very valuable introduction to our gardens, for 

 which we have again to thank Mr. Place, to whom it was 

 sent from Chile, by Mr. Miers. It may be either treated as 

 a tender annual, being raised in the spring in an hot-bed, 

 and planted in the open border in June, or as a frame peren- 

 nial, taking the plants out of the border in the autumn, potting 

 them, and keeping them in a cold frame over the winter ; 

 they may be replanted in May, and the trouble of sowing 

 the seeds avoided. The leaves are small, fleshy, ovate and 

 stalked. The flowers of a bright and clear violet, with a 



