. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. gleflower, at most consisting of two or three distantly-flowered scorpioid recurving forks i—2 inches long ;lower flowers shortly pedicellate. Calyx \ inch long,deltoid teeth twice as long as the tube. Petals brightyellow, linear, twice as long as the calyx. Stamens alittle shorter than the petals. Carpels as long as thefilaments, narrowed gradually into a style half as long asthe ovary. Parts of the flower in sixes to eights, oreven tens. A strictly Mediterranean species, extending fromSpain and the
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. gleflower, at most consisting of two or three distantly-flowered scorpioid recurving forks i—2 inches long ;lower flowers shortly pedicellate. Calyx \ inch long,deltoid teeth twice as long as the tube. Petals brightyellow, linear, twice as long as the calyx. Stamens alittle shorter than the petals. Carpels as long as thefilaments, narrowed gradually into a style half as long asthe ovary. Parts of the flower in sixes to eights, oreven tens. A strictly Mediterranean species, extending fromSpain and the South of France eastward to Syria. Itflowers before any of the others, and is marked at aglance by its very distinctive leaves and very lax few-flowered cymes, which consist of only from six tofifteen flowers, whilst all the others have thirty, forty,or more. In Spain it ascends the mountains to aheight of 8000 feet, so that it is quite hardy inEngland. The specimen that stands as the type ofrupestre in the Linnean Herbarium is one of thisspecies sent from Spain by Loefling. f. G, Baka;. I AM tempted to send you an account which hasfrequently struck me as remarkable, and somewhatamusing as welL The gamekeeper (Mr. Drewett,Norton Manor) set a hen with the usual number ofegg?, and by accident a ducks egg happened to beamongst the batch, and in due course the chickensand the young duck grew up together in harmony tothe present time, when they are nearly their full are plenty of ducks close by, and, still moretempting one would think, there is a broad troutstream, where the other web-footed family are en-joying themselves most thoroughly, but this duckdoes not leave his chicken friends to take to thewater, but follows his companions wherever they go,and as they can travel faster than he, and he is leftbehind, it is amusing to see him stop, and with veryloud quacks call their attention to the short time since, while conversing with theabove gentleman, a ha
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