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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OE NEW PLANTS. 
should be disturbed. It requires the same treatment as Hoya 
carnosa , and its flowers are of a similar colour.— Bot. Beg . 
54-47. 
Grossulariace_e. —Pentandria Monogynia. 
Biles Menziesii (Pursh). This little-known plant is a hardy 
shrub, inhabiting various parts of California. In gardens it grows 
from four to six feet high in any common soil, strikes freely 
from cuttings of the ripe wood in autumn or spring, and flowers 
in May. It has not fruited in this country, as far as we know. 
Sir James Smith, who published it under the name of R. ferox , 
without remembering that Pursh had already given it the name 
it bears, described it thus : “ A very remarkable species, whose 
branches are thickly covered with tawny, setaceous, prominent 
prickles, about a quarter of an inch in length, and armed under 
each bud with three very strong and pungent ones, an inch long, 
having sometimes lesser reflexed prickles at their base. The leaves 
are not unlike those of our common gooseberries, but more rugose, 
and densely downy at the back; flower-stalks solitary ; flowers 
drooping, large, and handsome ; calyx three quarters of an inch 
long, funnel-shaped, downy, and bristly, a fine crimson; its seg¬ 
ments lanceolate, ribbed, erect, full twice as long as the tube; 
petals half the length of these .segments, erect, pale, obtuse; 
stamens the length of the calyx; anthers large, pointed; germen 
covered with prominent glandular bristles, which harden as the 
fruit advances into stiff sharp spines, so that whatever its flaYOur 
may be, it seems perfectly inaccessible in the common way of 
eating gooseberries.” 
Crasselaceje. —Becondria Pentagynia. 
Echeveria retusa (Lindley). Me learn from the ‘Journal of 
the Horticultural Society’ that this species was “raised from seeds 
received from Mr. Hartweg in February, 1846, and said to have 
been collected on rocks near Anganguco, in Mexico. 
“ This is a dwarf species, not unlike a contracted form of JE. 
Scheerii. Its leaves are originally closely imbricated, but are never 
truly roseolate, and by degrees separate as the stem lengthens ; 
they are broad at the point, but acute when young, but when old 
are extremely blunt and irregularly crenated, as well as bordered 
with purple. The flower-stem is from nine inches to a foot high, 
