. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. ns that would attach to it. But by placing them on thestage of a greenhouse, or in a frame, in such a manner that an abimdance of air canbo made to circulate around and below thcni, mildew will be avoided, and the plantswill not be subjected to the violent changes of weather wliich occur in our climate. Whether in houses or in the open air, however, they must not be so situatedthat the sun can strike freely and directly on their pots ; for no care in wateringwould suffice to save the roots from injury under such circumstances. To
. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. ns that would attach to it. But by placing them on thestage of a greenhouse, or in a frame, in such a manner that an abimdance of air canbo made to circulate around and below thcni, mildew will be avoided, and the plantswill not be subjected to the violent changes of weather wliich occur in our climate. Whether in houses or in the open air, however, they must not be so situatedthat the sun can strike freely and directly on their pots ; for no care in wateringwould suffice to save the roots from injury under such circumstances. To protectthem thoroughly in summer, they ought to be below the level of the wall of the pit,frame, or house in which they are kept; and, especially, they should be renderedso compact in their growth by the repeated removal of the points of the youngshoots, that the lower branches may themselves assist in shading the pots. Our figure was made in Mr. .Jacksons nursery, about the middle of July commences flowering in that mouth, and coutiuucs till y>/?//f /?//////>/ rf/r>frt 15] LECHENAULTIA BILOBA. (twO-LOBED LECHENAULTIA.)CLASS. ORDER. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. NATURAL ORDER. GOODENIACEiE. Generic Character.—Calyx superior. Tube of the corolla cleft on one side ; limb bilabiate. Antherscolierinf; at tlie time the flowers are expanded. Grains of Pollen compound. Stigma obsolete, inthe bottom of the indusium. Capsule prismatic, two-celled, foiir-valvcd, opposite valvesseptiferous in the middle. Seeds cubic or cylindrical, nucumcntuccous.—DorCs Gard. and Botany. Specific Character.—Plant an evergreen shrub, growing .about a foot in height. Stems erect, smooth,slightly branching. Leaves in imperfect wiiorls, or irregularly disposed, cylindrical, acute, sometimes alittle reflexcd. Flowers produced at the extremities of the branches, of diflcrcnt shades of five-parted, lower two segments smaller, all the lobes somewhat ovately-spatula
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