Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . hem possibly thatmysterious plant figured in September 1854. in the Botanical Magazine^ , with dense, globular corymbs of mazarine-blue flowers, under the nameof C. FLORIHUNOUS, Hooker. It was introduced by W. Lobb, but has never sinceapparently been found wild ; the only specimen in the Kew Herbarium is theone from Messrs Veiichs nursery at Exeter, from which the above-mentionedplate was made in 1854. Descendants of the original plant may be still incultivation, but it is doubtful. CEANOTHUS 319 C. RIGIDUS, Nlittall.(Bot. Mag., t. 4664.) An
Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . hem possibly thatmysterious plant figured in September 1854. in the Botanical Magazine^ , with dense, globular corymbs of mazarine-blue flowers, under the nameof C. FLORIHUNOUS, Hooker. It was introduced by W. Lobb, but has never sinceapparently been found wild ; the only specimen in the Kew Herbarium is theone from Messrs Veiichs nursery at Exeter, from which the above-mentionedplate was made in 1854. Descendants of the original plant may be still incultivation, but it is doubtful. CEANOTHUS 319 C. RIGIDUS, Nlittall.(Bot. Mag., t. 4664.) An evergreen shrub, 6 to 12 ft. high in this country, with numerous stiff,downy branchlets, and abundant, closely packed foliage. Leaves opposite, to i in. Ions wedge-shaped, coarsely toothed, and decurved at the apex ;dark glossy green above, greyish and downy between the veins deep purplish blue in short-stalked axillary umbels about \ in. across,but so plentiful as to transform the whole shoot into a stiff panicle of CEANOTIIUa RIOIDU8. Native of the coast ranges of Central and S. California, and of Monterey,where it was found by Hartweg, and introduced for the Horticutural Societyin 1847. One of the most beautiful of the Ceanothuses, this, unfortunately, isalso one of the tendcrest. Against a wall at Kew it grows and flowers wellevery season, but in very hard winters is injured or killed even with thatprotection. It has no chance at all in the open. Like some other species, it isnot long-lived, and tiie stock should be renewed occasionally by means ofcuttings. The plants arc better in pots until finally planted out. It flowersfrom April to June. Nutlalls type differs from the plant commonest incultivation in having scarcely toothed leaves and shorter flower-stalks. 320 CEANOTHUS C. TIIVRSIFLORUS, EscJlScJloltz. CaLIFORNIAN LILAC. An evergreen shrub or small tree, 15 lo 30 ft. high in this country, but halfas high again in a wild state. Young branchle
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