94 NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
perennial, introduced some years since from Chili, but not frequently found in 
collections. It grows vigorously in a moist, partially shaded peat border, and 
increases without much difficulty by cuttings. Like the rest of the genus, it has 
an exceedingly acrid milky juice, which renders it dangerous to those who handle it 
incautiously. Bot. Reg.., 1842. 
THE WATER-LEAF TRIBE (hYDROPHYLLE^). 
Phacelia congesta, or tufted- flowered Phacelia. A very pretty and in- 
teresting hardy annual, with light-blue flowers, native of Texas, where it was gathered 
by the late Mr. Thomas Drummond, and, from seeds transmitted by him, plants were 
raised in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, and likewise in the garden of Dr. Neille at 
Canon Mills, near Edinburgh. It is of a very branching habit, and no doubt will 
make a good border plant. Brit. Flor. Gar.^ 327. 
THE FIG-WORT TRIBE (SCROPHUL ARINE^). 
Pentstemon Murrayanus. Mr. Murray's Scarlet Pentstemon. An ex- 
tremely beautiful scarlet-flowered species, a native of Texas, where it was dis- 
covered by Mr. Drummond, by whom seeds were transmitted to the Glasgow 
Botanic Garden in the spring of 1835. It is remarkable for its stately growth, its 
singularly glowing and large foliage, and for the number, and size, and rich colour- 
ing of the flowers. On one specimen were counted eleven pairs of floral leaves, 
from the axis of which sprang from two to four flower-buds ; and in one of the 
dried native specimens a single raceme had fifty-six blossoms. It will doubtless 
prove quite a hardy herbaceous perennial. Named after Mr. Murray, Curator of the 
Glasgow B otanic Garden. Bot, Mag., 3472. 
(composite.) 
Coreopsis diversifolia. Various-leaved Coreopsis. Another of the many 
valuable species sent to this country by the lamented Mr. Drummond. He 
gathered it not only upon the coast at Braganza, but in the interior of the country 
round San Felipe. It produces large bright orange-coloured flowers with a dark 
eye, in the open air, in the month of July. Probably a hardy annual. Bof. Mag., 3474. 
THE ROSE-TRIBE (ROSACE^). 
Rosa centifolia, muscosa, cristata. Crested var. of the moss-rose. 
This variety of the moss-rose, like many of the more novel sorts, was obtained from 
France. Independently of the curious mode in which the moss springs in tufts 
from the edges of its calyx, giving to the early buds a most remarkable appearance, 
this rose, when fully expanded, is large and of the loveliest hue, vying in beauty 
with any Provence rose. Bot. Mag., 3475. 
THE BORAGE TRIBE (BORAGINE^). 
Anchusa versicolor. Changeable flowered Alkanet. An exceedingly pretty 
little annual worthy of extensive cultivation. Remarkable for the striking change 
of colour the flowers undergo ; being almost red in the state of the bud, then, when 
expanded, reddish purple ; at length bright blue with a yellow eye, from which 
diverge several delicate rays of a pale yellowish white colour ; it flowers in July, 
and is a native of the Caucasian Alps, about Chinaburg and Kasbek. Bot. 
Mag., 3477. 
