The _Coronilla valentina_ comes very near to the _glauca_ already figured in this work, but may be distinguished by a little attention; the _valentina_ has smaller leaves, which are more numerous, and more truly glaucous; the stipulae, which in the _glauca_ are small, narrow, and pointed, in the _valentina_ are large, and almost round, and in the young plant are strikingly conspicuous; as the plant comes into flower, they drop off; the _valentina_ is not so much disposed to flower the year through as the _glauca_, but produces its blossoms chiefly in May, June, and July; the flowers of the _glauca_ are observed to smell more strongly in the day-time, those of the _valentina_ at all times diffuse a very powerful odour, so as even to scent a small greenhouse; we have often been amused with hearing the different opinions entertained of this smell, some speaking of it in terms of rapture, others ready to faint when they approach it: the flowers of the _valentina_ are more disposed to produce seed-vessels than those of the _glauca_, the seeds of which usually ripen well, and afford the means of increasing the plant most readily. To have a succession of small handsome bushy plants for the greenhouse, the old ones must either be frequently cut down, or young ones raised from seed, or cuttings, the stems as they grow up becoming naked at bottom. It is a hardy greenhouse plant, and may be kept well enough through the winter in a common hot-bed frame, or planted against a south wall, and matted as myrtles usually are in such situations; we have known the _glauca_, treated in prove a charming ornament. It is a native of Spain, growing, as CLUSIUS informs us, by road-sides, in sandy places, and on the declivities of hills. Cultivated here in 1656, by J. TRADESCANT, jun. H. K. [Illustration] [Illustration] [186] SELAGO OVATA. OVAL-HEADED SELAGO. _Class and Order._ DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. _Generic Character._ _Cal._ 5-fidus. _Cor._ tubus capillaris; limbus subaequalis, _Sem._ 1. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ SELAGO _ovata_ spicis strobilinis ovatis terminalibus, foliis sparsis linearibus, caule fruticoso. _L'Herit. Stirp. nov. tom. 2. t. 33._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. V. 2. p. 355._ LIPPIA _ovata_ capitulis ovatis, foliis linearibus integerrimis. _Linn. Mant. p. 89._