SCHIZOPET'ALON WALKE'RI 
walker’s schizopetalon. 
Class. Order. 
TETRADYNAJIIA. SILIQUOSA. 
Natural Order. 
CRUCIFERiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration 
Introduced 
Chile. 
2 feet. 
May, .luly. 
Annual. | 
in 1822. 
No. 618. 
The name, Schizopetalon, is a suitable one for 
the flower under consideration. It is compounded 
from the Greek schizo, to cut; and petalon, a 
petal ; the application of which term, need not be 
further explained. The species is named after the 
gentleman who first raised it in this country. 
It is probable that the plant was soon lost, after 
its first introduction — a circumstance not uncom- 
mon with annuals, whose habits happen to be un- 
known. Its clear white flowers are rather curious 
than showy, their incised petals being somewhat 
anomalous in the natural order to which this plant 
belongs. 
This Chilian plant will grow and blossom freely 
in the open ground, in England; but to secure 
the ripening of seeds, it will be requisite to for- 
ward it by the assistance of artificial heat in the 
spring. It should be sown early in March, in pots 
of light earth, and placed in a greenhouse or hotbed, 
of moderate temperature. When the plants are an 
inch high, they should be put singly into small 
pots, from which they may be turned into the bor- 
ders, in May. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. 2, 268. 
