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LOASA PENTLANDICA. 
and accordingly we learn, from a communication to " The Gardeners' Chronicle" I 
the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, that such a hybrid has been raised, and that tl 
name of L. Herbertii has been applied to it. From the description given, it would 
seem to realize every expectation that could have 
been entertained concerning it, and will most 
likely supersede, in time, both its parents. 
L. Pentlcmdica first became familiar to us in 
the nursery of Messrs. Henderson, Pine-apple 
Place, where it was grown in a pot and kept in 
the greenhouse. About the month of June last, 
however, some plants were placed out in the open 
border, and, being left to nature, trailed along 
the ground, matted together, and composed a 
very beautiful bed. This appears to us decidedly 
the most congenial way of treating it. We 
cannot with confidence state whether it is an 
annual, a biennial, or a perennial. It certainly 
seems to be at least a biennial, and may pos- 
sibly prove an evergreen perennial or subshrubby 
plant. No doubt it can be managed as L. 
lateritia, which is commonly regarded as a 
biennial, and seeds are saved each summer, to be 
sown in autumn, and retained in pits through the 
winter. 
We are obliged for our figure to Messrs. 
Whitley and Osborne, of Fulham ; in whose 
nursery it was taken last August. 
It is hardly necessary to add that the 
species is clothed with strong hairs, which 
have the stinging property peculiar to the 
genus. Subjoined is a wood-cut representing 
its habit as a potted plant. 
