NEME'SIA CHAMiE'DRIFOLIA. 
GERMANDER-LEAVED NEMESIA. 
Class. Order. 
DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order. 
SCROPHDLARIACEAl. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Cape G. Hope 
2 feet. 
April, Sept. 
Perennial. 
in 1787. 
No. 698. 
Nemesia is a name which was used by Diosco- 
rides, the celebrated Greek physician and botanist, 
who lived nearly eighteen hundred years ago. He 
followed in the steps of Theophrastus, whilst Pliny 
copied from both; and from whom, through Galen 
and others, has been derived much of the know- 
ledge of medicinal plants which is still found in 
English Herbals. The genus Nemesia was estab- 
lished by Ventenat. In the Hortus Kewensis it is 
arranged with the Antirrhinums; whilst Sprengel 
has it amongst his Linarias. 
Although the flowers of this plant are not large, 
they become attractive in the borders from their ex- 
posed habit of growth. They tip the summit of 
the branches, or nearly so, and stand out in relief 
without rivalry from the foliage, which sometimes, 
in spite of all our persuasions, short of destruction, 
will persist in taking the foremost place, and hiding 
much of the flowers’ beauty which we desire to see. 
Its habit claims for it a place near to the front of 
the border, since it will not interfere with the view 
of neighbouring plants. It requires no particular 
culture, but a plant should be kept in the cold 
