ANTHOCERCIS LITTOREA.— YELLOW -FLOWERED ANTHOCERCIS. 
Class XIV. DIDYNAMIA. Order II. ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order, SOLANEJ1. THE NIGHTSHADE TRIBE. 
1. Outli of one of the toothed leaves. 2. Calyx spread open, to show the 5 segments. 3. Corolla spread open, to show the stripes on 
” e inside of the tube. 4. The 4 fertile Stamens, inserted on the contracted part of the tube, with the rudiment of a fifth 
between the two longest. 5. Ovarium, terminated by the Style and capitate Stigma 
Stem suffruticose, erect, branched, from 1 to 2 feet high: branches smooth, furrowed from one leaf to the 
next, and terminated in a panicle of flowers. Leaves obovate, scarcely acute, smooth on both sides, slightly 
viscous, some entire, others more or less toothed, attenuated at the base. Flowers yellow. Bractes small, 
sharp -pointed, deciduous. Pedicles slender, smooth, three times the length of the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, 
the laciniee subulate, about half the length of the tube of the corolla. Corolla campanulate, tube contracted 
at the base: limb equally 5-parted, the laciniee spreading, linear, acute, with revolute margins, nearly double 
the length of the tube. Stamens 4, inserted in the base of the tube, two long and two short, with a rudiment 
of a fifth between the two longest: filaments flat and fringed at the base, and tapering upwards, the points 
recurved, inserted in the back of the anthers, which are two-lobed; pollen cream-coloured. Ovarium 
pyramidal, smooth. Style smooth, longer than the stamens. Stigma capitate, fimbriate. 
It is a soft wooded small Shrub, and is deserving a place in every Greenhouse or Conservatory, as -it 
makes a grand appearance when covered, with its elegant striped yellow flowers. It is a hardy Greenhouse 
plant, and we believe would succeed well in the open ground, by the side of a wall facing the south, so as 
to be protected with a mat or some other covering in severe frosty weather, thriving well in a light sandy 
soil, or an equal mixture of light turfy loam, peat, and sand, will suit it extremely well ; the pots in which 
it is planted to be well drained, that the wet may pass off readily, as it is apt to become sodden with too 
much moisture in Winter. It strikes readily from cuttings, planted under bell-glasses, either in sand or 
mould ; or if planted under hand-glasses, in the open air, in Spring, they will root readily. 
When the command was issued for the Vegetable Kingdom to arise, the whole of its numerous races 
either appeared simultaneously in every part of the globe, in immediate diffusion and completion ; or they 
emerged on such particular portions only of the surface, as sufficed for the production of every species; and 
from these primitive localities were disseminated gradually and successively over the rest of the Earth. The 
Sacred Record does not decide or elucidate this point. It has preserved the mandate for their general 
creation, and declared its fulfilment, but has not described the manner or the extent of the first formation. 
Satisfied with asserting that all plants were the special and appointed creation of the same God, who made 
the rest of our globe and the starry orbs which surround us, it leaves the chronology of every local Vege- 
tation, to be investigated and ascertained by human inquiry and patient consideration. 
If we consult our historical and geographical communications on this subject, we find that the Vegeta- 
tion of many countries which have been examined, and of all newly formed islands that have lately arisen, has 
been, and still continues to be, a progressive process ; and we may trace it ourselves on many places near our 
domestic residence. We see the lichen class arise as their minute seeds descend; and decay and re-appear 
