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which country it was first sent to Denmark, and thence to M. Otto, at the Botanic Garden, Berlin, from whom 
seeds were received by the London Horticultural Society in 1825. It flowered in the Horticultural Society’s 
Garden the following year, producing an uninterrupted succession of blossoms from July, till destroyed by frost. 
We do not know where seeds are to be procured, as it has been lost by the Horticultural Society; but seedsmen 
might easily obtain them from Berlin. It should be raised in pots on a hotbed, and planted out in May, without 
breaking the balls of earth that had formed round the roots while they were in the pots. 
4.—(ENOTHERA DRUMMONDII, Hook. MR. DRUMMOND’S EVENING PRIMROSE. 
Engravings. —Bot. Mag. t. 3361, and our fig. 9, in Plate 8. 
Specific Character. —Stem branched, succulent, soft with down, 
as is the whole foliage. Stamens rather declining. Leaves oblong, 
elliptic, somewhat obtuse, and slightly sinuately-toothed, attenuated 
towards the petiole. Flowers axillary, petals large and yellow. Capsule 
(immature) cylindrical, striped, and pubescent, with hairs.— (Hook.) 
Description, &c. —This very beautiful species has large yellow flowers, and bluish-green leaves. When the 
flowers fade, they assume a rich orange colour. It was found by Drummond in Texas, near the mouth of the 
River Brazos, in 1833 ; and was sent by him to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where it flowered abundantly in 
the open border. Sir W. J. Hooker calls it perennial, or suffruticose; but some seeds which we had from Mr. 
Charlwood, and which were sown in a warm border at Bayswater, in May 1838, produced their splendid large 
yellow flowers in the August and September following. The flowers, however, were not numerous, and the seeds 
did not ripen ; so the plant would probably succeed best if treated as a tender annual, and sown in pots on a hot¬ 
bed in March or April, and planted out, without breaking the balls, in May. Even in the way we grew the 
plants, they were well deserving of cultivation, from the size and rich colour of their flowers. 
.5.— (ENOTHERA SINUATA, Miclioe . THE SCALLOP-LEAVED EVENING PRIMROSE. 
Engravings. —Bot. Mag. t. 3392 ; and our fig. 2, in Plate 8. j Sepals unguiculate towards the apex. Capsules cylindrically tetragonal, 
Specific Character. —Plant decumbent, clothed with soft pubes- j somewhat incurved, pilose, length of the bracteas.—(G. Don.) 
cence. Leaves lanceolate, sinuately-toothed or cut. Flowers small. 1 
Description, &c.— A decumbent plant, with stems one foot or two feet long, and much branched ; they are 
round, covered with pubescence, and often tinged with purple. The leaves are large, and so deeply cut as to 
give rise to the name. The flowers are rather small and cup-sliaped; the capsules are long, four-sided, and 
hairy. This species is said, in the Hortus Keicensis , to have been introduced in 1770, by M. Richard. It 
appears, however, to have been neglected, and probably lost ; and it was re-introduced in 1833 by Drummond, 
who sent seeds of it from Texas to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where it flowered in the open border in 
September, 1834. QE. minima, Pursh , is a variety of this species. Seeds of both kinds are to be obtained at 
Charlwood’s; and should be sown in the open border, in March or April. 
