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It cannot fail to remind of our own well-known Gomphrena globosa; but the 
heads of flowers are much larger, and of a brighter though paler hue; and 
whereas the colour of the common Globe Everlasting is due to the floral 
bracteas, which are longer than the pale green flowers, here the coloured 
flowers are much longer than the bracteas, and give to the heads altogether 
a different character. It is an annual, and will probably be found to succeed 
in the open flower borders. — Bot. Mag. 
ConvolvulacEuSE. — Pentandria Monogynia. 
Convolvulus ocellatus. A very neat Evolvulus-like species of Bindweed, 
discovered by Mr. Burke at Macaliberg in the interior of Southern Africa, 
and raised from seeds in the greenhouse of the Right Hon. the Earl of 
Derby at Knowsley, where it produced its pretty white flowers with a purple 
eye in the month of August. The plant is shrubby, the lower part especially ; 
procumbent at the base, there bearing many nearly erect silky branches 
rather thickly beset with leaves, the largest of which are scarcely an inch 
long; the flowers too are small, being scarcely an inch in diameter, but are 
abundantly produced. — Bot. Mag. 
Leguminos^e. — Diadelphia Dccandria. 
Lupinus arvensis. A gay little plant, forming one more addition to the 
large genus Lupinus. The flowers are large, bright lilac, enlivened by a 
yellow spot on the white centre of the vexillum. In number the leaflets 
vary from 5 to 9. The seeds, by which Lupines may be distinguished more 
accurately than by the ordinary marks employed by botanists, are oblong, 
smooth, and mottled with grey of different tints. It is a half-hardy biennial, 
growing from one to two feet high, and flowering a great part of summer 
and autumn. Like other Lupines it requires a strong rich soil, and although 
a half shrubby biennial is best treated as an annual. It was found growing 
in corn fields near Loxa in Peru by Mr. Hartweg, and flowered in the 
garden of the Horticultural Society in the course of last autumn. — Bot. 
Reg. 
CALENDAR FOR FEBRUARY. 
Plant Stove. Towards the end of the month many plants 
will be likely to betray symptoms of excitability, if the weather 
is at all favourable. The success of culture depends much on 
taking advantage of these appearances, and then, nor till then, 
applying the natural stimulants, of an increased degree of heat 
and moisture, and a proper renovation of the soil. This is, per¬ 
haps, specially important to plants having bulbous or tuberous 
roots containing a supply of food ; for when chemical action, 
combining with vitality, has once set this in motion^it cannot be 
checked in its action without material injury. Before new 
growth commences every exertion should be made towards 
eradicating both diseases and insects from that which already 
exists. Orchidaceous plants especially should be encouraged to 
make a rapid growth as the days lengthen and the sun gains 
power. No better time can be taken for the sowing of seeds 
