CHAP. LXXXIX,

GLOBULARIA CE7E.

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CHAP. LXXXVIII.

OF THE HALE-HARDY PLANTS OF THE ORDER MYOPO'RINffi.

My6porum parvifblium R. Br., Bot. Mag., t. 1691., is a native of New Holland, with trailing stemsand small white flowers, which are produced in great profusion nearly all the year. A plantagainst our conservative wall at Bayswater lived four years, producing shoots of 5 ft. or 6 ft. inlength in one season, which were most beautifully covered with flowers. The plant growsso rapidly, that we have no doubt it would cover many square yards of wall in a very short period.There are other species of the genus having the same habit of growth, more particularly M.oppositifblium R. Br., M. difftisum R. Br., and M. adscdndens R. Br.

CHAP. LXXXIX.

OE THE HALF-HARDY PLANTS BELONGING TO THE ORDERGLOBULARIA'CEjE.

Globularia longifolia L.; G. salicina Lam., Bot. Reg.,t. 659 .; and our fig. 1155.; is a native of Madeira, withlong, dark green, shining leaves, and white flowers,which are produced in July and August. It was in-troduced in 1775; and grows to the height of 3 ft. or4 ft. in pots, and, doubtless, twice that height, or more,against a conservative wall.

G. Alypum L., Gar. Aix, fig. 42., the alypo globularia,is a native of the south of Europe , which has been incultivation in British gardens since 1640. It is a prettylittle evergreen shrub, growing to the height of 2 ft.,about Aix and Montpelier; and producing its palebluish flowers in August and September. Like all theplants from that part of Europe , it is easily protectedin British gardens in a cold frame, surrounded by turfwalls or litter, and covered with mats during severefrosts. It might, therefore, be readily protected on dryrockwork in a warm situation, or at the base of a con-servative wall. There is a variety, G. A. integrifolium,a native of the same climate, which is distinguishedfrom the species by having entire leaves.

CHAP. XC.

OF THE HALF-HARDY PLANTS OF THE ORDER i>LUMBAGINA'CE.3E.

S tdtice monopHala L., Boc. Sic., 1.16., is a native of Sicily , where it grows to the height of 3 ft., andproduces its fine bluish purple flowers in July and August. S. suffrutiebsa L. is a native of Siberia ,which seldom exceeds 1 ft. in height. Both these species are very suitable for conservative rockwork.

P lumbago capdnsis Thunb., Bot. Reg., t.417., is a native of the Cape of Good Hope , with lightblue flowers, which it produces in great profusion throughout the summer j and, though it is seldomseen above 5 ft. in height in green-houses, yet we have seen it reach the top of a wall 10 ft. or 12 ft.high, at Bishopstoke Vicarage, in Hampshire . (See Gard. Mag., vol. x. p. 130.)

CHAP. XCI.

OF THE HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER CHENOPODIA'CEiE.

The hardy ligneous species of this order have whitish or glaucous foliage,and small flowers of nearly the same colour: the latter have not a corolla,and are not showy. They are included in three genera; the names and cha-racteristics of which are as follows: —