. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. theends into three or five lobes ; the flowers are produced singly, almostsessile, large in proportion to the size of the plant, in fact, fully aninch across, of a very red colour. The limb of the corolla is deeplydivided into five segments; these, again, are further notched, thoughnot so deeply, and even the margins of these lobes are still moreirregularly notched. It is a native of the highest altitudes on theEuropean Alps, where it ia found just below the line of perpetualsnow. In cultivation it likes a well-drai
. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. theends into three or five lobes ; the flowers are produced singly, almostsessile, large in proportion to the size of the plant, in fact, fully aninch across, of a very red colour. The limb of the corolla is deeplydivided into five segments; these, again, are further notched, thoughnot so deeply, and even the margins of these lobes are still moreirregularly notched. It is a native of the highest altitudes on theEuropean Alps, where it ia found just below the line of perpetualsnow. In cultivation it likes a well-draiued gritty aoil, and perfectfirmness and solidity in the mechanical texture, and, above allthings, it requires a watchful eye to guaid it from slugs, which ina single night will gouge out the flowering core of each of therosettes in the most deliberate manner possible. Z^Z^.\- P. Palinuri, of Petagna.—In this species we have an extremecontrast to the preceding, as here we have the giant of the section, atree-like Auricula, and one which possesses at the same time a P Palinuri. lar resemblance in general contour to the arborescent forma of theSempervivums. In Naples, its native country—in fact, I believe ittakes ita name from a Neapolitan promontory known by the title ofPalinurus—it acquires the character of quite a diminutive tree ; itastem ia thick and fleshy, from 1 to IJ in. in diameter, coarselymarked in the lower portion by the scars of the former foliage,the upper portion being well clothed with fleshy and somewhatleathery leaves, broad towards the apex, and gradually tapering downinto a broadly spathulate foot-stalk. The flowers are produced fromthe apex of-a farinaceous peduncle, that is developed from the axil ofone of the lower leaves—not from the growing point, as might readilybe assumed from the accompanying figure—in considerable numbers,aad in varying stages of development, some being quite small buds,while others are fully expanded ; the calices
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