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Report upon New or Rare Plants, 8>c. 



chance to grow, and in fine seasons rendering them brilliant 

 with its panicles of glowing scarlet blossoms. 



The foliage is finely cut, and resembles that of the Bignonia 

 radicans in miniature, to the flowers of which plant its own 

 blossoms bear much resemblance. A figure, and description 

 will be found in the Botanical Register, fol. 939. 



Propagated by seeds, which are produced in tolerable abun- 

 dance, but which sometimes do not vegetate till the second 

 season after they are sown, and also by cuttings of the year- 

 old wood. It should be raised in all respects like French 

 Marigolds, and flowers of that description. 



LVII. Mikania scandens. Willdenow. 



M. caule scandente glabro, foliis cordatis repando-dentatis acuminatis : lobis di- 

 Taricatis insequalib'us, floribus corymbosis. Willd. sp. pL 3, p. 1743. 



Eupatorium scandens. Linnaeus. 



This plant climbs to the height of about 6 feet, and has 

 the habit of some kind of Convolvulus. The leaves are cor- 

 date sagittate, quite smooth and membranous. The flowers 

 grow in bunches from the axillae of the leaves, are of a deli- 

 cate pink colour, and are produced in the greatest profusion. 



A very neat pretty perennial, flowering in September. 

 From its near relation to the famous M. Guaco which is very 

 like it, it may be presumed to possess some of the medicinal 

 properties of that species. The plant that flowered in the 

 Garden was brought from North America in 1824, by Mr. 

 Douglas. It grew freely in a peat border exposed to the 

 North. 



