MIMOSA, with scattered erectish very narrow linear leaves. MIMOSA linifolia. _Ventenat Plantes Nouvelles_, tab. 2. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The empalement and blossom magnified. 2. The empalement detached and magnified. 3. A chive magnified. 4. The seed-bud and pointal magnified. The Mimosa linifolia is a native of New South Wales, from whence it was introduced to this country several years ago. It has been considered in the gardens as a new species, and is known under the name of pinifolia; but as it has been recently named linifolia, by M. Ventenat in his Plantes Nouvelles, from plants which we believe were sent to France from England, we have adopted the latter name. It is a very elegant greenhouse shrub; and arises with stiff erect slender branches to the height of several feet, and does not flower when young. The Flax-leaved Mimosa is propagated chiefly by seeds, and either not at all, or with great difficulty, from cuttings; and is usually cultivated in light rich earth. The individual here represented flowered very fine in the month of May at Mrs. Wright’s, Bayswater; where our drawing was made. [Illustration] PLATE CCCXCV. ANTHERICUM PANICULATUM. _Panicled Anthericum._ CLASS VI. ORDER I. _HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Six Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX patens aut connivens. Stamina filamentis filiformibus hirsutis. Stigma 1. Semina angulata. _Juss. Gen. Pl._ 52. EMPALEMENT expanding or converging. Chives thread-shaped hairy. Summit 1. Seeds angulated. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. ANTHERICUM, foliis canaliculato-ensiformibus gramineis, scapo paniculato diffuso, radice tuberosâ. ANTHERICUM, with channel-sword-shaped grassy leaves, diffuse panicled flower-stem, and a tuberous root. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A leaf. 2. The chives and pointal. 3. The pointal and seed-bud, the summit magnified. 4. The seed-bud magnified. The Anthericum paniculatum is a native of New Holland, and was lately introduced from that country to this. In its tuberous root and woolly filaments, it accords very well with the genus Anthericum, as defined by Jussieu, in his celebrated Genera Plantarum; yet recedes from it in wanting thick and fleshy leaves; which all the African species of that genus have: hence it approximates, in habit at least, the genus Phalangium of Jussieu, which Willdenow makes a division only of Anthericum. But there is nothing peculiarly remarkable in the present species differing a little from its African congeners, because most of the Australasian plants differ in some very striking particular or other from their nearest affinities in all other parts of the world; and very often constitute new genera. It succeeds with the treatment of the Cape species, loves water, when in active growth; continues in flower several of the summer months, and is propagated by parting its roots in autumn, and by seeds, which it sometimes perfects in this country. [Illustration]