GASTROLOBIUM CUNEATUM.—LINARIA RETICULATA. 
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GASTROLOBIUM CUNEATUM* 
fE are glad of the opportunity of presenting a figure of this fine greenhouse shrub, which was 
exhibited by the Messrs. Henderson of Pine Apple Place, at one of the Royal Botanic Society’s 
exhibitions last summer, and is worthy to rank among the best of this class of plants, being a com¬ 
pact grower and an abundant bloomer. It was raised from seeds sent by Mr. Drummond, collected 
in Australia. It forms a dwarf-branching shrub, with the leaves growing in whorls of four; the shoots 
and lower surfaces of the leaves covered with minute silky hairs. The leaves are narrowly wedge- 
shaped, very obtuse at the summit, sometimes slightly emarginate, mucronate. The inflorescence 
consists of racemes terminal to the branches, with the flowers arranged in leafless whorls of about 
four. The calyx is distinctly two-lipped; the upper being very obtuse, and the division into two 
sepals only indicated by a shallow notch. The flowers are bright yellow ; the standard with a deep 
purple marking on the disk, the wings and keel tinged with brownish red.—A. H. 
For Culture, see Dillwynia, p. 26. 
LINARIA RETICHLATA. 
IHIHE Reticulated Toad-flax is, in cultivation, a pretty perennial herbaceous plant, with the stems 
A erect and glabrous, except about the flowers. The leaves are flat, linear or subulate, in whorls of 
four below, somewhat glaucous. The racemes are pubescent, with flower-stalks shorter than, or nearly 
equalling, the calyx; segments of the calyx unequal, broadly linear, with the margins usually some¬ 
what membranous. The flowers are very handsome, large, and variable in colour, from rose, blue, and 
purple-veined, to rather deep purple; the inside of the throat is whitish, perhaps sometimes yellow; the 
spur is straight, or slightly incurved and conical, about equalling the tube of the corolla. 
It is the Linaria reticulata of Desfontaines ; the Antirrhinum reticulatum of Smith; the Antirr¬ 
hinum pinifolium of Poiret; and the Linaria arabicla of gardens. Our specimen was raised by Mr. R. 
M. Stark, nurseryman of Edinburgh, from seeds brought from Portugal by Dr. W elwitsch, and was 
sent us under the name of “ Linaria arabida .” This name appears to have been given to it through a 
misconception. Probably Dr. Welwitsch’s label ran “ Einaria ?-. Arrabida,” the latter word referring 
to the Sierra d’Arrabida, the locality in which the Linaria, then undetermined, was found. 
We have identified our specimen with the Antirrhinum reticulatum of Smith, which is well 
figured in his “Illustrations of Rare Plants,” from a specimen which flowered in the Botanic Garden, 
at Chelsea. We presume that it has been lost for many years, since it is represented as an annual; 
and hence the plant now figured was considered a new species. Linaria reticulata is a native of both 
Portugal and Algeria.—A. H. 
To this, we can only add, that it is certainly a very pretty plant, suitable for warm rock-work, 
flowering freely in the summer, and propagating by cuttings. It will probably require the protection 
of a frame in winter. At present it is only in the hands of Mr. Stark, who favoured us with the spe¬ 
cimen from which our drawing was made. We believe, however, it is to be let out this spring. M. 
SCHLEIDEN’S YIEWS ON THE DISEASES OF CULTIVATED PLANTS. 
Y?N an appendix to his newly published work on “ Vegetable Physiology and Agriculture, Professor 
A Schleiden puts forth some views respecting the diseases of plants, which are deserving of great 
attention, since, though they may not be regarded as conclusive, they are calculated to direct inquiry 
into a profitable field. It may, therefore, prove of interest to English readers, if we give a biief 
summary of that celebrated botanist’s opinions. 
In the first place, we must separate really wild plants from the cultivated and the weeds (which 
* G. cuneatum, n. sp.—Leaves in whorls of four, shortly stalked, and furnished with setiform stipules, minutely silky below, 
narrow wedge-shaped, obtuse, sometimes sub-emarginate, mucronate ; racemes terminal, many-flowered, the flowei s disposed in 
distant leafless whorls of four; calyx minutely silky, its teeth subequal, the two upper coherent, and forming a blunt uppei 
lip.—A. H. H 
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