Refugium Botanicum.} [ September, 1869. 
TAB. 159. 
Natural Order LABIATA. 
Tribe OcIMoIDER. 
Genus LavanpuLa, Linn. 
Sect. Psrupostacuas (Ging. Hist. Lav. p. 158). Folia floralia uniflora, 
opposita, in spica laxa disposita, superioria non comosa. Calyx 13- 
nervius, subbilabiatus, labio superiore tridentato, dente medio 
latiore non appendiculato, inferiore bidentato. Herbs perennes vel 
basi sublignose. Folia dentata vel inciso-multifida, rarius integer- 
rima. 
LL. aprotanoiwes (Lam. Dict. ii. p. 429). Pallide viridis, pilosiuscula, 
foliis bipinnatisectis lobis secundariis brevibus anguste ligulatis 
parallelis, floralibus ovato-lanceolatis acutissimis, spicis elongatis laxe 
paniculatis. — Benth. in D.C. Prodr. xii. p. 146. DL. canariensis, 
Mill. Dict. No. 4. L. elegans, Desf. Hort. Par. p. 71. 
A native of the Canary Islands. 
A low copiously-branched bush, the main stems quite woody, 
a quarter of an inch thick. Leaves densely crowded upon the 
lower part of the flowering branches, subsessile, ovate, deeply 
bipinnatifid, the largest fifteen to eighteen lines long by an inch 
broad, with six or eight pairs of spreading pinne, the upper ones 
simple, the lower with two or three pairs of short ligulate lobes, 
the texture herbaceous, the upper surface pale green, both sides 
thinly clothed, especially towards the midrib, with gray cottony 
hairs. Flowers in dense spikes half an inch to two inches long, 
generally one or two stalked lateral pairs beside the terminal 
one, on a naked rigid peduncle sometimes a foot long. Bracts 
scarlose, ovate, rigid, acute, clasping and just equalling the 
sessile cylindrical purplish calyx, three teeth of which are linear, 
reaching not more than a sixth of the way down, and the two 
upper ones shorter and deltoid. Corolla a quarter of an inch 
long, bright purple, the upper lip deeply emarginate, the lower 
with three equal rounded entire lobes. 
Tab. 159.—1, side view of flower with bract; 2, front view of flower ; 
3, corolla cut open; 4, flower with corolla taken away; 5, pistil sepa- 
rated: all magnified.—J. G. B. 
I find this pretty and interesting species of Lavender grows 
well in a cool greenhouse during the winter, and should have 
