must do botanists the justice to allow, is not wholly 
a fastidiousness about words, hut arising out of forms 
and characters, which oftentimes baffle man’s nicest 
acumen, we may now refer to the plant itself, as a 
garden ornament. 
It will be readily acknowledged, by every one 
who has seen the Nierembergia phoenicea in per- 
fection, that a more beautiful display of flowers is 
not afforded by any plant, of similar habit, in the 
open garden. Its growth resembles that of the Nie- 
rembergia nyctaginiflora, but it is somewhat more 
slender; and like that plant is seen to much the 
greatest advantage when trained against a wall. 
Our plant was raised, early in the spring, from a 
cutting, forwarded in a hotbed, till the beginning of 
May, when it was a foot high, and then turned out 
of the pot into a light soil, against a wall, of south- 
ern aspect. At the present moment, less than three 
months from its being placed there, it covers a space 
little less than twenty square feet ; displays more 
than one hundred expanded blossoms ; and we 
have not a doubt of its spreading over double that 
space before the close of summer, and showing 
at once treble its present number of beautiful purple 
flowers. 
We have had no opportunity of exposing this 
plant to an English winter, but there cannot be a 
doubt of its being quite as hardy as the nyctagini- 
flora, which stands well by being kept dry in a cold 
frame. Its flowers, generally, prove abortive, still 
here and there, on our plant, an ovarium appears to 
be swelling. From seeds, sown early, in spring, in 
a hotbed, it will flower in autumn. 
Bot. Mag. 3113. 
