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2.—FRANCOA SONCHIFOLIA, Cav. THE SOWTHISTLE-LEAVED FRANCOA. 
Engravings _Bot. Mag. t. 3309; Brit. Flow. Gard. 2nd Ser. t. loose, nodding ; calycine segments dilated; petals with involute mar- 
169 ; and our fig. 1, in Plate 7. gins ; stigmas elliptic, entire.—(G. Don.) 
Specific Character. —Plant caulescent; leaves sessile ; racemes 
Description, &c.— This plant rises with a stem covered with leaves about a foot high, and then sends up 
its flower-scape which throws out many branches. The flowers are small and of a dark purple. Altogether 
this kind of Francoa is not so handsome as the other ; and its large leaves hanging down from the stem give it 
an untidy appearance. It was raised from seeds collected near the city of Conception, in Chile, and brought 
home by Mr. Anderson in 1830. It flowered for the first time in England, in the Chelsea Botanic Garden. 
Dr. Bindley, and Sii W. J. Hooker, consider this kind as only a variety of F. appcndiculata. The culture is the 
same as of that plant; and seeds are to be procured at Charlwood’s. 
3.—FRANCOA RAMOSA, D. Don. THE BRANCHED, OR WHITE-FLOWERED FRANCOA. 
Engraving. —Brit. Flow. Gard. 2d Ser. t. 223. I spirate, erect; calycine segments lanceolate, obtuse, nerveless: lobes 
Specific Character. —Plant caulescent; leaves petiolate; racemes | of stigma curvated.— (D. Don.) 
Description, &c. —This species of Francoa is so different from the others, as scarcely to be recognised by a 
general observer as belonging to the same genus. The stem is erect and branched; the leaves are small and of a 
pale green. The flowers are white, with small round petals, and they form loosely-branched racemes rather than 
spikes. This plant was first discovered near San Jago in Chile, and described from dried specimens by Professor 
Don; but it was afterwards found on the hills near Valparaiso, where seeds were collected by Mr. Hugh 
Cumming, and brought to England by him in 1831. It flowered for the first time in England in Mr. Knight’s 
exotic nursery, King’s Road, Chelsea, having been grown in a mixture of sandy peat and loam. All the Francoas 
require light dry soil; and if grown in pots, to have abundant drainage. We suppose seeds may be obtained 
from Mr. Knight, but we have not seen the name of the plant in any seed catalogues. 
CHAPTER VI. 
ONAGRACEJS. 
Essential Character. —Calyx superior, tubular, 4-cleft; petals 2 or 4, convolute in estivation. Stamens 2, 4, or 8, perigynous. Fruit baccate 
or capsular.—( G. Don.) 
Description, &c.— All the species belonging to this order are ornamental, and the annual kinds are parti¬ 
cularly splendid. It may appear strange to those who are not acquainted with botany, to find that the evening 
primrose and the Clarlcia belong to the same natural order as the Fuchsia ; yet such is the case, as they all 
resemble each other in a botanical point of view. As some of the popular distinctive marks of this order, we 
