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BATSCHIA CANESCENS. 
On a dry sunny bank where few other plants will thrive, this pretty perennial 
will flourish, and in rockwork it makes a very good appearance. That from which 
Mr. Leeds took the specimen from which we made our drawing, sent up seventeen 
stems, and exhibited a fine show of flowers, and probably the next year it may far 
exceed even what it is at present. 
The generic name is given by Michaux in honour of J. G. Batsch, a German 
professor of Botany. 
