NIEREMBER'GIA INTERMEDIA. 
NARROW-LEAVED PURPLE N IEREMBERGI A. 
Class Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
SOLANE2E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
S. America. 
1 foot. 
June, Sept. 
Perennial. 
in 1832. 
No. 477. 
Nierembergia, is adopted after Nieremberg, a 
learned Spaniard. The specific name bears refer- 
ence to the plant holding a place, in its general 
character, between the Nierembergia phoenicea and 
other species which are smaller than itself. 
Notwithstanding the enterprising spirit of foreign 
botanical collectors, and the wonderfully increasing 
stimulus given to their exertions, by the rapidly im- 
proving taste of this country, so valuable an addi- 
tion to the flower garden as the Nierembergia phce- 
nicea, No. 416, cannot be anticipated every year. 
Our present subject, another species of the same 
genus, whose introduction has so quickly followed, 
is an eminently beautiful one — not less so than 
phoenicea; but it cannot be employed in like man- 
ner, to ornament walls, or trellises ; or to give a liv- 
ing carpet to a large compartment of a garden, al- 
most with the facility of a theatrical metamorphosis. 
Intermedia, is a cabinet picture of highest finish ; 
phoenicea, a broad landscape, also of delicate touch. 
Whilst the latter spreads widely, the former makes 
a close bush of fine herbage, but is equally admi- 
rable for its multitude of rich velvet-like blossoms. 
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