leman liberal in his communications,
and anxious to promote the cause of Botany.

This species of Lobelia is a stove plant, having a some-*what shrubby
stalk, growing to the height of several feet; its blossoms are very
large, of a pale red colour, and its Antherae, which might be mistaken
for the stigma, unusually hairy.

It begins to flower in January and February, and continues to blossom
during most of the summer.

Is increased by cuttings.

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ARABIS ALPINA. ALPINE WALL-CRESS.

_Class and Order._

TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA.

_Generic Character._

_Glandulae_ nectariferae 4, singulae intra calycis foliola, squamae instar
reflexae.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

ARABIS _alpina_ foliis amplexicaulibus dentatis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab.
ed. 14. Murr. p. 599._ _Ait. Kew. Vol. 2. p. 399._ _Mill. Dict. ed.
6. 4to._

DRABA alba siliquosa repens. _Bauh. Pin. p. 109._

An early-blowing plant, if it has no great pretensions to beauty, brings
with it a powerful recommendation, more especially if its flowers are
not of the more common hue; such are the claims which the present plant
has to a place in this work: it is perennial, hardy, herbaceous, of low
growth, rarely exceeding a foot in height, producing its white blossoms
in April and May: its size renders it a suitable plant for the border of
a small garden, or for the covering of rock-work.

It is readily increased by parting its roots in autumn.

Grows spontaneously on the Alps of Switzerland, Austria, and Lapland,
and was cultivated (_vid. Hort. Kew_) in the Botanic Garden at Oxford,
in 1658.

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HELIANTHUS MULTIFLORUS. MANY-FLOWERED or PERENNIAL SUN-FLOWER.

_Class and Order._

SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA FRUSTRANEA.

_Generic Character._

_Recept._ paleaceum, planum. _Pappus_ 2-phyllus. _Cal._ imbricatus,
subsquarrosus.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

HELIANTHUS _multiflorus_ foliis inferioribus cordatis trinervatis
superioribus ovatis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 781._

CHRYSANTHEMUM americanum majus perenne, floris folis foliis et floribus.
_Moris. Hist. 3. p. 23._

The Helianthus multiflorus, a native of North-America, is a hardy
perennial herbaceous plant, arising usually to the height of five or six
feet, and producing a great number of large yellow shewy blossoms, which
renders it a suitable plant to ornament the shrubbery or garden of large