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yellow anthers, and rising above them is the cluster of dark-blue green styles. 
The stem is five-angled, as the name above imports, and furnished with rather strong 
prickles in clusters of six and seven. Bot. Mag. 3651. 
THE FIGWORT TRIBE (Scrophularineas). 
Rehmannia Chinensis. Chinese Rehmannia. This is a pretty plant, and 
worthy of being extensively cultivated. It grows a foot high ; the stem is weak 
and slightly tinged with purple, and somewhat inclined to branch at the base. 
The flowers are produced solitary at the axilla of the obovate leaves, and are rather 
handsome, large, and of a yellowish-buff colour, deeply tinged at the mouth and 
upper part of the tube both within and without. The whole plant, as well as 
the flowers, is covered with hairs. It is a native of waste and mountainous 
places about Pekin, where it was collected by Dr. Burge, now Professor of 
Botany at Kasan. Treated as a hardy greenhouse plant, it flowers well in the 
early summer, but the blossoms are liable to vary both in size and colour. Bot. 
Mag. 3653. 
THE MEZEREUM TRIBE (Thymelaceas). 
Pimelia inc an a. Hoary Pimelia. A very neat shrub, growing about five feet 
high, with long slender branches, and producing clusters of pink and white flowers 
from the base to the extremity of the shoots. It is a native of Van Diemen's Land, 
and was raised by M. A. Kinnock, the gardener to Miss Copeland of Leyton, in 1834, 
from seeds presented by Mr. Turnbull. Succeeds, like the rest of the genus, on the 
front shelf of a greenhouse not too much crowded with other plants. The best soil 
is sandy peat, mixed with fresh loam and decayed dung. It is easily propagated 
in sand, or sandy soil, in spring, or early in summer. Bot. Reg. 24. 
THE ASTER TRIBE (Asteracece) . 
Echinacea Dicksoni. Mr. Dickson's Echinacea. This is a fine showy 
perennial, with large bold flesh-coloured flowers ; it grows about a foot high, and 
has dark-brown spindle-shaped roots, and is probably hardy enough to bear the 
winter in an open border ; but it is best to take up the roots after flowering in the 
autumn, and preserve them in dry sand or mould during winter, secure from frost 
or damp. It flowers from the middle of August to the end of September, in any 
good soil mixed with a little sand and peat. A few plants require to be kept in the 
greenhouse, as the seeds do not ripen in the open ground. The seed should be 
sown in March on a nearly exhausted hotbed, and kept in pots the first season, as 
the plants do not flower before the second year. Seedlings should not be planted 
out before the middle of May. Seeds of it were imported from Mexico by G. F. 
Dickson, Esq. Bot. Reg. 27- 
