The journal of the Horticultural Society of London . riginally gathered by Menzies on the north-westcoast of America. Douglas found it at Puget Sound. It formsan evergreen bush, with dense narrowly lanceolate, slightly ser-rated leaves, covered, especially on the under side, with transpa-rent, glossy, saucer-shaped sunken scales, of microscopical dimen-sions, consisting of a layer of wedge-shaped cells, placed obliquelyround a common centre. The flowers are green and inconspi-cuous, in short axillary spikes, which eventually bear from 1to 3 small globular fruits, whose surface is closely studd
The journal of the Horticultural Society of London . riginally gathered by Menzies on the north-westcoast of America. Douglas found it at Puget Sound. It formsan evergreen bush, with dense narrowly lanceolate, slightly ser-rated leaves, covered, especially on the under side, with transpa-rent, glossy, saucer-shaped sunken scales, of microscopical dimen-sions, consisting of a layer of wedge-shaped cells, placed obliquelyround a common centre. The flowers are green and inconspi-cuous, in short axillary spikes, which eventually bear from 1to 3 small globular fruits, whose surface is closely studded withfleshy, oblong, obtuse grains of a dull Ied colour, and astringentflavour. It is a hardy evergreen, growing freely in any good gardensoil, increased by seeds or by layers, in the usual way. It flowersin July, and produces in September an abundance of its littlegranular fruits. In gardens it is an acquisition, being a hardyshrub, with fragrant lea\ es. and well suited for rock-work or forthe front of a sluubbery. IKOM THE SOCIETIS GARDEN. 283. Myrica californica. 284 NEW PLANTS, ETC, 21. Campanula Vidalii. Watson, in Hooker, Ic. Plant., t. 684. Moore and Ayres, Gardener s Magazine ofBotany, vol. i. Raised from seeds received from Mr. W. P. Ayres, inFebruary, 1851. This species was first made known through Sir WilliamHookers Icones, by Mr. Hewitt Watson, to whom it was givenby Captain Vidal, , whose name it bears. It was found on an insulated rock off the east coast of Flores, between SantaCruz and Ponta Delgada. Seeds were received some time sincefrom Mr. Ayres, w ho was indebted for them to Mr. P. Wallace. The plant has a fine handsome deep green shining succulentfoliage, and forms a very good-looking decumbent shrub. Someof the shoots are merely terminated by long rosettes of leaves,others throw up an erect graceful, flowering stem, with a shinysurface, and a warm greenish-brown colour, terminated by severallarge white nodding flowers, each about H inch lon
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