It flowers during the months of July and August, and ripens its seeds in September; is an annual of ready growth, and worthy of being more generally introduced to the flower-garden; its seeds should be sown in the spring, with other tender annuals, and the seedlings when of a proper age planted out singly in the open border, where they will acquire the height of two feet, and produce abundance of blossoms which, like those of the _rosea_, open during the day as well as in the evening. [353] MAHERNIA INCISA. CUT-LEAV'D MAHERNIA. _Class and Order._ PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. _Generic Character._ _Calix_ 5-dentatus. _Petala_ 5. _Nect._ 5 obcordata filamentis supposita. _Capsula_ 5-locularis. _Specific Character._ MAHERNIA _incisa_ caule hispidulo, foliis lanceolatis incisis, stipulis integerrimis. [Illustration: _N^o. 353_] In point of size and mode of growth, this beautiful species comes near to the _pinnata_ already figured in this work; but differs essentially in the singular hispidity of its stalks, the form of its leaves, and the colour of its flowers. The stalks to the naked eye discover a manifest roughness, a magnifying glass shews this roughness to be of a singular kind, that they are beset on every side with little protuberances, from whence issue tufts of pellucid hairs, and here and there a single hair is discoverable with a small red viscid globule at its extremity; a portion of the stalk, when highly magnified, somewhat resembles that of the creeping Cereus. The leaves, which are not so manifestly hairy as the stalk and calyces, are deeply jagged on the edges, and bear some little affinity in their appearance to those of the _Pelargonium tricolor_. The flowers, when in bud, are of the richest crimson imaginable; as they open they incline to a deep orange, and finally become of a yellowish hue. As this plant produces abundance of blossoms, they may be seen in all their states during most of the Summer and Autumnal months. The plant from whence our drawing was taken, flowered this Summer with Mr. COLVILL, Nurseryman, King's-Road, it requires the same treatment as the _pinnata_, is probably a native of the same country, and may be propagated by cuttings in the same manner. [354] MIMIMULUS AURANTIACUS. ORANGE MONKEY-FLOWER. _Class and Order._ DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. _Generic Character._ _Calyx_ 4-dentatus prismaticus. _Cor._ ringens: labio superiore lateribus replicato. _Caps._ 2-locularis polysperma. _Specific Character._ MIMULUS _aurantiacus_ caule erecto fruticoso tereti, foliis ovato-lanceolatis obtusiusculis. [Illustration: _N^o. 354_] The present species of _Mimulus_, equal in point of shew to most of the inhabitants of our greenhouses, to which situation it is adapted, flowered this Summer with Mr. COLVILL, Nurseryman, King's-Road.