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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



5-lobed limb ; the segments lanceolate, downy at the throat, unequal, the three uppermost rather the 

 smallest, and less deeply divided, spotted with crimson at the base, standing up like a hood, the two 

 lower very much spreading and spotless. The stamens, which arise from the bottom of the flower, 

 are ten, curved downwards, the upper shortest, the lower twice as long as the others, not so long as 

 the corolla, with ovate, double, deep-purple anthers. Fl. Rossica, vol. i., p. 40. 



To the locality given by Gmelin and Pallas, Ledebour adds the following : Mount Marekan, 

 according to Turczaninoff; the country of the Tschuktskes in the Bay of St. Lawrence; Kamtchatka 

 and Unalashka. Sir W. Hooker gives Banks's Island and Port Edgcombe, on the north-west coast 

 of N. America. It is, therefore, clear that it belongs to climates far more rigorous than our own, 

 and with much worse summers. And this is the key to its cultivation. Like the B. Chamacistus, it is 

 unable to endure the drier air and brighter summer sky of England ; but shrinks from our heats, and 

 withers beneath such evaporation as leaves undergo in this climate. Hence the wisdom of the treat- 

 ment which consists in keeping such plants in a cold pit closed up all day, and uncovered all night. 

 Mr. Loddiges's cultivators made nothing of it till they put it under a north wall where Liverworts 

 and such soft flabby plants delight to dwell. 



We do not believe that any botanist would have thought of calling this a Ehododendron, had not 

 Linnseus set the example by including the Cha?n(zcistus in that genus. Its great leafy calyx, flat 

 corolla divided almost to the base, and nearly equally spreading although very unequal stamens, are 

 quite at variance with Ehododendron. Neither has it the scurfs or stellate hairs observable, we 

 believe, in all the genuine species in which hairs are ever found. On the contrary, the hairs are 

 always simple, in which respect it agrees with the Chinese Azaleas, to which it is more nearly related 

 than to Ehododendrons, but from which its corolla, almost divided into separate petals, sufficiently 

 divides it. To this may be added, the singular gland at the end of the leaves, a nearer approach to 

 which is to be found in the scaly Azalea [A. squamosa) than in any Ehododendron we have examined. 



In the accompanying figure, 1, represents an anther previous to its bursting by two pores at the 

 end ; and 2, the underside of a leaf with the terminal gland. 



