Hooker and Arnott in Beeckey's Voyage, p. 369 t. 89 ; alias Gilia californica, Bentham in De Cand. Prodr. ix. 316.

When this beautiful plant was shown by Messrs. Veitch, under the name of Leptodac-tylon californicum, we supposed that some change of tickets had occurred, so entirely did it wear the appearance of the prickly Phloxes of Siberia and North America. Since that time we have been enabled to examine its structure, and it really is what it has been called. The genus Leptodactylon was founded upon two North American plants, one of which Sir Wm. Hooker had previously called Phlox Hoodii, but which have been found to differ from Phlox in the ovary containing a great many ovules instead of only one or two; to which must be be added the division of the leaves into linear digitate segments, instead of being entire ; a circumstance easily overlooked in consequence of the division being carried to the very base of the leaves.

Since Leptodactylon was founded by Messrs. Hooker and Arnott, the whole order to which it belongs has been re-examined by Mr. Bentham, who reduces the genus to Gilia, calling the plant before us Gilia californica. We own to a great difficulty in believing that the alteration will be permanent, and therefore retain the name first given, which is now beginning to be known in gardens. Into the botanical question of what is to be done with Leptodactylon we cannot enter.

The plant before us is one of the most charming acquisitions of Mr. Lobb, who found it on the mountains of St. Barnardino, in California, and who describes it as an evergreen shrub from 2 to 4 feet high. We have before us some of his wild specimens, which entirely bear out the statement. The wood is hard, the branches closely covered with bright, green, stiff, finely cut leaves, and loaded with rose colored flowers as large as those of our common Phlox. It may be compared not inaptly to a bush of Irish Furze loaded with the blossoms of Plox maculata, only pale and delicate rose colour instead of deep purple. We presume the species will be a hardy greenhouse or frame plant, requiring more air and dryness than heat in winter. It has all the appearance of being well suited for summer bedding out. - Gardeners' Chronicle.

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