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yellow : pollen orange-coloured. Style bent at the base,
smooth. Stigma capitate, papillose.
Our drawing of this pretty species was made from a
plant at the Nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and
Milne, at Fulham, who raised it from seeds several years
since, that had been given them by A. P. Hove, Esq.
as the H. tauricum of Dr. Fischer; it has most probably
been confused with H. grandijlorum by many authors, as
that species is said to be a native of Tauria, as well as of
the South of Europe ; but when the plants are seen growing
together, no two species had need appear more distinct,
the present spreading flat on the ground, and extending
its branches round to a great distance, and these
are only slightly suffrutescent at the base, whereas H.
grandijlorum grows upright, or its branches spreading
and ascendent, forming a neat little bushy shrub.
The present plant is well adapted for the ornamenting
of rock-work, as its spreading branches will cover a
good space in a short time, and it is easily kept within
bounds, by cutting in the longest branches occasionally,
the young branches that then shoot out will all be terminated
by racemes of flowers, so that by that means a
succession of bloom may be kept up from the latter end
of May till October; it succeeds well in a light sandy
soil, or a mixture of loam and peat will suit it very
well; young cuttings, planted under hand-glasses the
latter end of Summer, will strike root in a few days.
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