Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants . ion; but these are also very strong-growing kinds, and generally attain thesize of trees. The plant under notice belongs to the class of comparatively feeble 222 ACACIA BIFLORA. low shrubs, liaving by no means so many nor such vigorous roots. It should bepotted in the common mixture of sandy loam and heath-soil, leaving the main rootsa little elevated in the centre of the pot. During the first stages of its growth, itmay be desirable, in order to render it bushy, to give it a little pruning; but ifproperly managed as regards light
Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants . ion; but these are also very strong-growing kinds, and generally attain thesize of trees. The plant under notice belongs to the class of comparatively feeble 222 ACACIA BIFLORA. low shrubs, liaving by no means so many nor such vigorous roots. It should bepotted in the common mixture of sandy loam and heath-soil, leaving the main rootsa little elevated in the centre of the pot. During the first stages of its growth, itmay be desirable, in order to render it bushy, to give it a little pruning; but ifproperly managed as regards light and air, it will not need much of this afterwards. Our subject should be placed in a part of the greenhouse where it will not beeither shaded or crowded, and its stems should be prevented, by timely pruning,fiom becoming long and bare. This is one of the chief defects of Acacias ; and itis the more displeasing because it may be so easily obviated. Cuttings taken from the tops of the shoots will form roots, though but slowly,if treated in the ordinary ildden. isi Sc Lith. r/i^C^Uf/rf /J U/^ ^^/^oecpyv//a < SIPHOCAMPYLUS BETULiEFOLIA. (Bireh-leaved Siphocamiiyliis. Class. Order. PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Natural Order, LOBELIACE^. Generic Character—Calyx five-lobed, tube turbi- [ Specific Character.—Plant an evergreen shrub, twonate or hemispherical. CoroWa with the tube generally | feet or more in height. iS<e)«branching, round, glabrous,ventricose towards the top, and considerably recurved, I Leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate-acuminate, subcor- entire, or very rarely cleft to the base, and seldom en-tire at the summit; limb five-lobed, shorter than ; upper two lobes often larger, reflexed,lower three generally shorter. Stamens connate. An-thers in the lower part of the flower bearded at thesummit, or rarely all hairy. dately triangular, doubly serrated, nearly with the segments subulate, serrulate, slightly curved,
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