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diff --git a/17531.txt b/17531.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ec06d5d --- /dev/null +++ b/17531.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2340 @@ +Project Gutenberg's The Botanical Magazine v 2, by William Curtis + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Botanical Magazine v 2 + or Flower-Garden Displayed + +Author: William Curtis + +Release Date: January 16, 2006 [EBook #17531] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE V 2 *** + + + + +Produced by Jason Isbell, Janet Blenkinship and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file made using scans of public domain works at the +University of Georgia.) + + + + + + + + + + THE + + ~BOTANICAL MAGAZINE~; + + OR, + + + ~FLOWER-GARDEN DISPLAYED~: + + + IN WHICH + + + The most Ornamental FOREIGN PLANTS, cultivated in the Open + Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented in + their natural Colours. + + + TO WHICH ARE ADDED, + + + Their Names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according to + the celebrated LINNAEUS; their Places of Growth, and Times of + Flowering: + + + TOGETHER WITH + + THE MOST APPROVED METHODS OF CULTURE. + + + A WORK + + + Intended for the Use of such LADIES, GENTLEMEN, and + GARDENERS, as wish to become scientifically acquainted with the + Plants they cultivate. + + + ~By WILLIAM CURTIS~, + + Author of the FLORA LONDINENSIS. + + + + + ~VOL. II~ + + + + + "A Garden is the purest of human Pleasures." + VERULAM. + + + LONDON: + + Printed by COUCHMAN and FRY, Throgmorton-Street, + + For W. CURTIS, at his BOTANIC-GARDEN, Lambeth-Marsh; + + And Sold by the principal Booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland. + + M DCC XC. + + + + +[37] + +~Chironia Frutescens. Shrubby Chironia.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Pentandria Monogynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cor._ rotata. _Pistillum_ declinatum. _Stamina_ tubo corollae +infidentia. _Antherae_ demum spirales. _Peric._ 2-loculare. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +CHIRONIA _frutescens_, foliis lanceolatis subtomentosis, calycibus +campanulatis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 229._ + +CENTAURIUM foliis binis oppositis angustis linearibus, flore magno +rubente. _Burm. Afric. 205. t. 74. fig. 1._ + +[Illustration: No 37] + +Of the genus _Chironia_, ten species are enumerated in Prof. MURRAY's +last edition of the _Syst. Vegetab._ of LINNAEUS, exclusive of the +_Chironia Centaurium_ which we first added to this genus in the 42d +number of the _Flora Londinensis_. + +Of these, the _frutescens_ is the most shewy, and therefore the most +cultivated. + +It is a native of different parts of Africa. + +The flowers are produced from June to autumn, and the seeds ripen in +October. This plant should be placed in an airy glass case in winter, +where it may enjoy a dry air, and much sun, but will not thrive in a +warm stove, nor can it be well preserved in a common green-house, because +a damp moist air will soon cause it to rot. + +The seed of this plant should be sown in small pots filled with light +sandy earth, and plunged into a moderate hot-bed; sometimes the seeds +will lie a long time in the ground; so that if the plants do not appear +the same season, the pots should not be disturbed, but preserved in +shelter till the following spring, and then plunged into a fresh +hot-bed, which will bring up the plants in a short time if the seeds are +good. When the plants are fit to remove, they should be transplanted +into small pots, four or five in each pot, then plunged into a moderate +hot-bed, where they must have a large share of air in warm weather; when +they have obtained some strength, they must be gradually inured to the +open air; when exposed abroad, they should be mixed with such plants as +require little water, placed in a warm situation, and screened from +heavy rains, which are apt to rot them. The cuttings of this sort take +root if properly managed. _Miller's Gard. Dict._ + + + + +[38] + +~Viburnum Tinus. Common Laurustinus.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Pentandria Trigynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ 5-partitus, superus. _Cor._ 5-fida. _Bacca_ 1-sperma. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms_. + +VIBURNUM _Tinus_ foliis integerrimis ovatis: ramificationibus venarum +subtus villoso-glandulosis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 294._ + +LAURUS sylvestris, corni faeminae foliis subhirsutis. _Bauh. Pin. 461._ + +The wild Bay-tree. _Park. Parad. p. 400._ + +[Illustration: No 38] + +We scarcely recollect a plant whose blossoms are so hardy as those of +the Laurustinus, they brave the inclemency of our winters, and are not +destroyed but in very severe seasons. + +The beauties of this most charming shrub can be enjoyed by those only +who cultivate it at some little distance from town, the smoke of London +being highly detrimental to its growth. + +It is a native of Portugal, Spain, and Italy. + +Botanists enumerate many varieties of the Laurustinus, and so +considerably do some of these differ, that MILLER has been +induced to make two species of them, which he distinguishes by the names +of _Virburnum Tinus_ and _V. lucidum_; the last of these is the most +ornamental, and at the same time the most tender; there are some other +trifling varieties, besides those, with variegated leaves, or the gold +and silver-striped. + +It is only in very favourable situations that these shrubs ripen their +seeds in England, hence they are most commonly propagated by layers, +which readily strike root: MILLER says, that the plants raised +from seeds are hardier than those produced from layers. + +It thrives best in sheltered situations and a dry soil. + + + + +[39] + +~Franklin's Tartar.~ + + +_A Scarlet Bizarre Carnation._ + +[Illustration: No 39] + +The Carnation here exhibited is a seedling raised by Mr. +FRANKLIN, of Lambeth-Marsh, an ingenious cultivator of these +flowers, whose name it bears: we have not figured it as the most perfect +flower of the kind, either in form or size, but as being a very fine +specimen of the sort, and one whose form and colours it is in the power +of the artist pretty exactly to imitate. + +The _Dianthus Caryophyllus_ or _wild Clove_ is generally considered as +the parent of the Carnation, and may be found, if not in its wild state, +at least single, on the walls of Rochester Castle, where it has been +long known to flourish, and where it produces two varieties in point of +colour, the pale and deep red. + +Flowers which are cultivated from age to age are continually producing +new varieties, hence there is no standard as to _name_, _beauty_, or +_perfection_, amongst them, but what is perpetually fluctuating; thus +the _red Hulo_, the _blue Hulo_, the _greatest Granado_, with several +others celebrated in the time of PARKINSON, have long since +been consigned to oblivion; and it is probable, that the variety now +exhibited, may, in a few years, share a similar fate; for it would be +vanity in us to suppose, that the Carnation, by assiduous culture, may +not, in the eye of the Florist, be yet considerably improved. + +To succeed in the culture of the Carnation, we must advert to the +situation in which it is found wild, and this is observed to be dry and +elevated; hence excessive moisture is found to be one of the greatest +enemies this plant has to encounter; and, on this account, it is found +to succeed better, when planted in a pot, than in the open border; +because in the former, any superfluous moisture readily drains off; but, +in guarding against too much wet, we must be careful to avoid the +opposite extreme. + +To keep any plant in a state of great luxuriance, it is necessary that +the soil in which it grows be rich; hence a mixture of light-loam, and +perfectly rotten horse or cow dung, in equal proportions, is found to +be a proper compost for the Carnation. Care should be taken that no +worms, grubs, or other insects, be introduced with the dung; to prevent +this, the dung, when sifted fine, should be exposed to the rays of the +sun, on a hot summer's day, till perfectly dry, and then put by in a box +for use; still more to increase the luxuriance of the plants, water it +in the spring and summer with an infusion of sheep's dung. + +The Carnation is propagated by seeds, layers, and pipings; new varieties +can only be raised from seed, which, however, is sparingly produced from +good flowers, because the petals are so multiplied, as nearly to exclude +the parts of the fructification essential to their production. + +"The seed must be sown in April, in pots or boxes, very thin, and placed +upon an East border. + +"In July, transplant them upon a bed in an open situation, at about four +inches asunder; at the end of August transplant them again upon another +bed, at about ten inches asunder, and there let them remain till they +flower: shade them till they have taken root, and in very severe weather +in winter, cover the bed with mats over some hoops. + +"The following summer they will flower, when you must mark such as you +like, make layers from, and pot them." _Ellis's Gardener's Pocket +Calendar._ + +The means of increasing these plants by layers and pipings, are known to +every Gardener. + +Such as wish for more minute information concerning the culture, +properties, divisions, or varieties, of this flower, than the limits of +our Work will admit, may consult _Miller's Gard. Dict._ or the _Florists +Catalogues_. + + + + +[40] + +~Trillium Sessile. Sessile Trillium.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Hexandria Trigynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 3-phyllus. _Cor._ 3-petala. _Bacca_ 3-locularis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +TRILLIUM flore sessili erecto. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 349._ + +PARIS foliis ternatis, flore sessili erecto. _Gron. virg. 44._ + +SOLANUM triphyllum. _Pluk. alm. 352. t. 111. f. 6._ _Catesb. car. +t. 50._ + +[Illustration: 40] + +Of this genus there are three species, all of which are natives of +North-America, and described by MILLER, in his _Gardener's +Dictionary_, where the genus is called _American Herb Paris_; but as the +_Paris_ and _Trillium_, though somewhat similar in the style of their +foliage, are very different in their parts of fructification, we have +thought it most expedient to anglicise _Trillium_, it being to the full +as easily pronounced as _Geranium_, and many other Latin names now +familiar to the English ear. + +This species takes its' trivial name of _sessile_, from the flowers +having no foot-stalk, but sitting as it were immediately on the end of +the stalk. + +The figure here exhibited was taken from a plant which flowered in my +garden last spring, from roots sent me the preceding autumn, by Mr. +ROBERT SQUIBB, Gardener, of Charleston, South-Carolina, who is +not only well versed in plants, but indefatigable in discovering and +collecting the more rare species of that country, and with which the +gardens of this are likely soon to be enriched. + +It grows in shady situations, in a light soil, and requires the same +treatment as the _Dodecatheon_ and _round-leav'd Cyclamen_. We have not +yet had a fair opportunity of observing whether this species ripens its +seeds with us: though of as long standing in this country as the +_Dodecatheon_, it is far less common; hence one is led to conclude that +it is either not so readily propagated, or more easily destroyed. + + + + +[41] + +~Calceolaria pinnata. Pinnated Slipper-wort.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Diandria Monogynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cor._ ringens inflata. _Caps._ 2-locularis, 2-valvis. _Cal._ 4-partitus +aequalis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +CALCEOLARIA _pinnata_ foliis pinnatis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 64._ + +CALCEOLARIA foliis scabiosae vulgaris. _Fewill Peruv. 3, t. 12. fig. 7._ + +[Illustration: 41] + +There being no English name to this plant, we have adopted that of +_Slipper-wort_, in imitation of _Calceolaria_, which is derived from +_Calceolus_, a little shoe or slipper. + +This species of Calceolaria is one of the many plants introduced into +our gardens, since the time of MILLER: it is an annual, a +native of Peru, and, of course, tender: though by no means a common +plant in our gardens, it is as easily raised from seed as any plant +whatever. These are to be sown on a gentle hot-bed in the spring; the +seedlings, when of a proper size, are to be transplanted into the +borders of the flower-garden, where they will flower, ripen, and scatter +their seeds; but being a small delicate plant, whose beauties require a +close inspection, it appears to most advantage in a tan stove, in which, +as it will grow from cuttings, it may be had to flower all the year +through, by planting them in succession. + +This latter mode of treatment is used by Mr. HOY, Gardener to +his Grace of Northumberland, at Sion-House, where this plant may be seen +in great perfection. + + + + +[42] + +~Camellia Japonica. Rose Camellia.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Monadelphia Polyandria.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ imbricatus, polyphyllus: foliolis interioribus majoribus. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +CAMELLIA _japonica_ foliis acute serratis acuminatis. _Lin. Syst. +Vegetab. ed. 14. p. 632._ _Thunberg Fl. Japon. t. 273._ + +TSUBAKI _Kempfer Amoen. 850. t. 851._ + +ROSA chinensis. _Ed. av. 2. p. 67. t. 67._ + +THEA chinensis pimentae jamaicensis folio, flore roseo. _Pet. Gaz. t. +33. fig. 4._ + +[Illustration: 42] + +This most beautiful tree, though long since figured and described, as +may be seen by the above synonyms, was a stranger to our gardens in the +time of MILLER, or at least it is not noticed in the last +edition of his Dictionary. + +It is a native both of China and Japan. + +THUNBERG, in his _Flora Japonica_, describes it as growing +every where in the groves and gardens of Japan, where it becomes a +prodigiously large and tall tree, highly esteemed by the natives for the +elegance of its large and very variable blossoms, and its evergreen +leaves; it is there found with single and double flowers, which also are +white, red, and purple, and produced from April to October. + +Representations of this flower are frequently met with in Chinese +paintings. + +With us, the _Camellia_ is generally treated as a stove plant, and +propagated by layers; it is sometimes placed in the green-house; but it +appears to us to be one of the properest plants imaginable for the +conservatory. At some future time it may, perhaps, not be uncommon to +treat it as a _Laurustinus_ or _Magnolia_: the high price at which it +has hitherto been sold, may have prevented its being hazarded in this +way. + +The blossoms are of a firm texture, but apt to fall off long before they +have lost their brilliancy; it therefore is a practice with some to +stick such deciduous blossoms on some fresh bud, where they continue to +look well for a considerable time. + +PETIVER considered our plant as a species of Tea tree; future +observations will probably confirm his conjecture. + + + + +[43] + +~Cistus incanus. Hoary, or Rose Cistus.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Polyandria Monogynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ 5-petala. _Calyx_ 5-phyllus, foliolis duobus minoribus. +_Capsula_. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +CISTUS _incanus_ arborescens exstipulatus, foliis spatulatis tomentosis +rugosis inferioribus basi connatis vaginantibus. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. +p. 497._ + +CISTUS mas angustifolius. _Bauh. Pin. 464._ + +[Illustration: 43] + +Few plants are more admired than the Cistus tribe; they have indeed one +imperfection, their petals soon fall off: this however is the less to be +regretted, as they in general have a great profusion of flower-buds, +whence their loss is daily supplied. They are, for the most part, +inhabitants of warm climates, and affect dry, sheltered, though not +shady, situations. + +The present species is a native of Spain, and the south of France, and +being liable to be killed by the severity of our winters, is generally +kept with green-house plants. + +It may be propagated either by seeds, or cuttings; the former make the +best plants. + + + + +[44] + +~Cyclamen persicum. Persian Cyclamen.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Pentandria Monogynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ rotata, reflexa, tubo brevissimo: fauce prominente. _Bacca_ +tecta capsula. + +_Specific Character._ + +CYCLAMEN _persicum_ foliis cordatis serratis. _Miller's Dict. 4to. +ed. 6._ + +[Illustration: 44] + +LINNAEUS in this, as in many other genera, certainly makes too +few species, having only two; MILLER, on the contrary, is +perhaps too profuse in his number, making eight. The ascertaining the +precise limits of species, and variety, in plants that have been for a +great length of time objects of culture, is often attended with +difficulties scarcely to be surmounted, is indeed a Gordian Knot to +Botanists. + +Our plant is the _Cyclamen persicum_ of MILLER, and has been +introduced into our gardens long since the European ones; being a native +of the East-Indies, it is of course more tender than the others, and +therefore requires to be treated more in the style of a green-house +plant. + +It is generally cultivated in pots, in light undunged earth, or in a +mixture of loam and lime rubbish, and kept in frames, or on the front +shelf of a green-house, where it may have plenty of air in the summer, +but guarded against too much moisture in the winter. + +May be raised from seeds in the same manner as the round-leaved Cyclamen +already figured in this work, p. n. 4. + +Flowers early in the spring, and is admirably well adapted to decorate +the parlour or study. + +Varies with fragrant flowers, and the eye more or less red. + + + + +[45] + +~Crocus vernus. Spring Crocus.~ + + +_Class and Order_ + +~Triandria Monogynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ 6-partita, aequalis. _Stigmata_ convoluta. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +CROCUS _vernus_ foliis latioribus margine patulo. _Jacq. Fl. Austr. +Vol. 5. app. t. 36._ _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 83. var. sativ._ + +CROCUS vernus latifolius. _Bauh. Pin. 65, 66._ + +The Yellow Crocus. _Parkins. Parad. p. 166._ + +[Illustration: 45] + +LINNAEUS considers the Crocus, or Saffron of the shops, which +blows invariably in the autumn, and the spring Crocus, with its numerous +varieties (of which PARKINSON, in his Garden of Pleasant +Flowers, enumerates no less than twenty-seven) as one and the same +species; other Botanists have considered them as distinct, particularly +PROF. JACQUIN, whose opinion on this subject we deem the most +decisive. + +We have figured the yellow variety, which is the one most commonly +cultivated in our gardens, though according to the description in the +_Flora Austriaca_, the _Crocus vernus_, in its wild state, is usually +purple or white. + +The cultivation of this plant is attended with no difficulty; in a light +sandy loam, and dry situation, the roots thrive, and multiply so much as +to require frequent reducing; they usually flower about the beginning of +March, and whether planted in rows, or patches, on the borders of the +flower-garden, or mixed indiscriminately with the herbage of the lawn, +when expanded by the warmth of the sun, they produce a most brilliant +and exhilirating effect. + +The most mischievous of all our common birds, the sparrow, is very apt +to commit great depredations amongst them when in flower, to the no +small mortification of those who delight in their culture; we have +succeeded in keeping these birds off, by placing near the object to be +preserved, the skin of a cat properly stuffed: a live cat, or some bird +of the hawk kind confined in a cage, might perhaps answer the purpose +more effectually, at least in point of duration. + + + + +[46] + +~Leucojum vernum. Spring Snow-Flake.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Hexandria Monogynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ campaniformis, 6-partita, apicibus incrassata, _Stigma_ +simplex. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +LEUCOJUM _vernum_ spatha uniflora, stylo clavato. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. +p. 316._ + +LEUCOJUM bulbosum vulgare. _Bauh. Pin. 55._ + +The great early bulbous Violet. _Park. Parad._ + +[Illustration: 46] + +The blossoms of the _Leucojum_ and _Galanthus_, or Snow-Drop, are very +similar at first sight, but differ very essentially when examined; the +Snow-Drop having, according to the Linnaean description, a three-leaved +nectary, which is wanting in the Leucojum; the two genera then being +very distinct, it becomes necessary to give them different names; we +have accordingly bestowed on the Leucojum the name of _Snow-Flake_, +which, while it denotes its affinity to the Snow-Drop, is not +inapplicable to the meaning of Leucojum. + +As the spring Snow-Flake does not increase so fast by its roots, as the +Snow-Drop, or even the summer Snow-Flake, so it is become much scarcer +in our gardens; it may, indeed, be almost considered as one of our +plantae rariores, though at the same time a very desirable one. + +It does not flower so soon by almost a month, as the Snow-Drop; but its +blossoms, which are usually one on each foot-stalk, sometimes two, are +much larger, and delightfully fragrant. + +It is found wild in shady places and moist woods in many parts of +Germany and Italy. The most proper situation for it is a north or east +border, soil a mixture of loam and bog earth; but by having it in +different aspects, this, as well as other plants, may have its flowering +forwarded or protracted, and, consequently, the pleasure of seeing them +in blossom, considerably lengthened. + +In a favourable soil and situation, it propagates tolerably fast by +offsets. + + + + +[47] + +~Amaryllis formosissima. Jacobaean Amaryllis.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Hexandria Monogynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ 6-petala, campanulata. _Stigma_ trifidum. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +AMARYLLIS _formosissima_ spatha uniflora, corolla inaequali petalis +tribus, staminibus pistilloque declinatis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 320._ + +LILIO-NARCISSUS jacobaeus, flore sanguineo nutante, _Dillen. elth. 195. +t. 162. f. 196._ + +The Indian Daffodil with a red flower. _Park. Par. 71. f. 3._ + +[Illustration: 47] + +A native of South-America: according to LINNAEUS, first known in +Europe in 1593, figured by PARKINSON in 1629, and placed by him +among the Daffodils; stoves and green-houses were then unknown, no +wonder therefore it did not thrive long. + +"Is now become pretty common in the curious gardens in England, and +known by the name of Jacobaea Lily; the roots send forth plenty of +offsets, especially when they are kept in a moderate warmth in winter; +for the roots of this kind will live in a good green-house, or may be +preserved through the winter under a common hot-bed frame; but then they +will not flower so often, nor send out so many offsets as when they are +placed in a moderate stove in winter. This sort will produce its flowers +two or three times in a year, and is not regular to any season; but from +March to the beginning of September, the flowers will be produced, when +the roots are in vigour. + +"It is propagated by offsets, which may be taken off every year; the +best time to shift and part these roots is in August, that they may take +good root before winter; in doing of this, there should be care taken +not to break off the fibres from their roots. They should be planted in +pots of a middling size, filled with light kitchen-garden earth; and, if +they are kept in a moderate degree of warmth, they will produce their +flowers in plenty, and the roots will make great increase." _Miller's +Gard. Dict._ + + + + +[48] + +~Narcissus triandrus. Reflexed Daffodil.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Hexandria Monogynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Petala_ sex, aequalia. _Nectario_ infundibuliformi, 1-phyllo, _Stamina_ +intra nectarium. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +NARCISSUS _triandrus_ spatha sub-biflora, floribus cernuis, petalis +reflexis, staminibus tribus longioribus. + +NARCISSUS _triandrus_ spatha sub-uniflora, nectario campanulato crenato +dimidio petalis breviore, staminibus ternis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 317._ + +NARCISSUS juncifolius, albo flore reflexo. _Clus. app. alt._ + +The yellow turning Junquilia, or Rush Daffodil. _Parkins. Parad. 93. +fig. 2, 3._ + +[Illustration: 48] + +The present species of _Narcissus_ is considered by the Nursery-men near +London as the _triandrus_ of LINNAEUS, which it no doubt is, +though it does not accord in every particular with his description: his +_triandrus_ is white, ours is pale yellow, but colour is not in the +least to be depended on, for it is found to vary in this as in all the +other species; his _triandrus_ he describes as having in general only +three stamina, whence the name he has given it; ours, so far as we have +observed, has constantly six, three of which reach no further than the +mouth of the tube, a circumstance so unusual, that LINNAEUS +might overlook it without any great impeachment of his discernment; he +says, indeed, that it has sometimes six: perhaps, the three lowermost +ones may, in some instances, be elongated so as to equal the others; if +he had observed the great inequality of their length, he would certainly +have mentioned it. + +This species is found wild on the Pyrenean mountains; was an inhabitant +of our gardens in the time of PARKINSON (who has very accurately +described it, noticing even its three stamina) to which, however, it has +been a stranger for many years: it has lately been re-introduced, but is +as yet very scarce. Our figure was taken from a specimen which flowered +in Mr. LEE's Nursery at Hammersmith. + +It grows with as much readiness as any of the others of the genus, and +flowers in March and April. + + + + +[49] + +~Soldanella alpina. Alpine Soldanella.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Pentandria Monogynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ campanulata, lacero-multifida. _Caps._ 1-locularis, apice +multidentata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +SOLDANELLA _alpina._ _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 194._ + +SOLDANELLA alpina rotundifolia. _Bauh. Pin. 295._ + +[Illustration: 49] + +Of this genus there is at present only one known species, the _alpina_ +here figured, which is a native of Germany, and, as its name imports, an +alpine plant. + +Its blossoms are bell-shaped, of a delicate blue colour, sometimes +white, and strikingly fringed on the edge. + +It flowers usually in March, in the open ground; requires, as most +alpine plants do, shade and moisture in the summer, and the shelter of a +frame, in lieu of its more natural covering snow, in the winter; hence +it is found to succeed best in a northern aspect: will thrive in an open +border, but is more commonly kept in pots. + +May be increased by parting its roots early in autumn. + + + + + +[50] + +~Iris sibirica. Siberian Iris.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Triandria Monogynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cor._ 6-petala, inaequalis, petalis alternis geniculato-patentibus. +_Stigmata_ petaliformia, cucullato-bilabiata. _Thunb. Diss. de Iride._ + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +IRIS _sibirica_ imberbis foliis linearibus, scapo subtrifloro tereti, +germinibus trigonis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab._ _p._ 91. + +IRIS pratensis angustifolia, non foetida altior. _Bauh. Pin. 32._ + +IRIS _bicolor._ _Miller's Dict. ed. 6, 4to._ + +The greater blue Flower-de-luce with narrow leaves. _Parkins. Parad. p. +185. fig. 2._ + +[Illustration: 50] + +This species of Iris is a native of Germany and Siberia, and is +distinguished from those usually cultivated in our gardens by the +superior height of its stems, and the narrowness of its leaves; from +which last character it is often, by mistake, called _graminea_; but the +true _graminea_ is a very different plant. + +The _Iris sibirica_ is a hardy perennial, and will thrive in almost any +soil or situation; but grows most luxuriantly in a moist one, and +flowers in June. + +Is propagated most readily, by parting its roots in autumn. + + + + +[51] + +~Narcissus major. Great Daffodil.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Hexandria Monogynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Petala_ 6 aequalia: _Nectario_ infundibuliformi, 1-phyllo. _Stamina_ +intra nectarium. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +NARCISSUS _major_ foliis subtortuosis, spatha uniflora, nectario +campanulato patulo crispo aequante petala. + +NARCISSUS _major_ totus luteus calyce praelongo. _Bauhin Pin. 52._ + +NARCISSI sylvestris alia icon. _Dodon. Stirp. p. 227._ + +The great yellow Spanish Bastard Daffodil. _Parkins. Parad. t. 101. +fig. 1._ + +[Illustration: 51] + +The present species of Daffodil is the largest of the genus, and bears +the most magnificent flowers, but, though it has long been known in this +country, it is confined rather to the gardens of the curious. + +It is a native of Spain, and flowers with us in April. As its roots +produce plenty of offsets, it is readily propagated. + +It approaches in its general appearance very near to the _Narcissus +Pseudo-Narcissus_, but differs in being a much taller plant, having its +leaves more twisted, as well as more glaucous, its flowers (but +especially its Nectary) much larger, and its petals more spreading; and +these characters are not altered by culture. + +It answers to the _bicolor_ of LINNAEUS in every respect but +colour, and we should have adopted that name, had not the flowers with +us been always of a fine deep yellow; we have therefore taken +BAUHIN's name as the most expressive. + +It varies with double flowers. + + + + +[52] + +~Gentiana acaulis. Large-Flowered Gentian, or Gentianella.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Pentandria Digynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ monopetala. _Capsula_ bivalvis, 1-locularis. _Receptaculis_ +2-longitudinalibus. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +GENTIANA _acaulis_ corolla quinquefida campanulata caulem excedente. +_Linn. Syst. Vegetab. p. 267._ + +GENTIANA alpina latifolia magno flore. _Bauh. Pin. 187._ + +Small Gentian of the Spring. _Park. Par. p. 352. t. 351. f. 3._ + +[Illustration: 52] + +Plants growing in mountainous situations, where they are constantly +exposed to strong-blowing winds, are always dwarfish; in such +situations, the present plant has no stalk, whence its name _acaulis_, +but cultivated in gardens it acquires one. + +Most of the plants of this family are beautiful, and, cultivated in +gardens, in brilliancy of colour none exceed the present species. + +As most Alpine plants do, this loves a pure air, an elevated situation, +and a loamy soil, moderately moist; it is however somewhat capricious, +thriving without the least care in some gardens, and not succeeding in +others; at any rate it will not prosper very near London. + +It flowers usually in May, and sometimes in the autumn. + +Is propagated by parting its roots at the close of summer; but +MILLER says, the strongest and best plants are produced from +seed. + + + + +[53] + +~Cineraria lanata. Woolly Cineraria.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Syngenesia Polygamia Superflua.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Receptaculum_ nudum. _Pappus_ simplex. _Calyx_ simplex, polyphyllus, +aequalis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +CINERARIA _lanata_ caule suffruticoso, foliis subquinquelobis, subtus +tomentosis; foliolis ad pedunculos lanatis. + +[Illustration: 53] + +In the beauty of its blossoms, this species of _Cineraria_, lately +introduced from Africa, by far eclipses all the others cultivated in our +gardens; its petals exteriorly are of a most vivid purple, interiorly +white; this change of colour adds much to the brilliancy of the flower. + +What renders this plant a more valuable acquisition to the green-house, +is its hardiness, its readiness to flower, and the facility with which +it may be propagated. + +It flowers early in the spring, and, by proper management, may be made +to flower the whole year through; it is sometimes kept in the stove, and +may be made to flower earlier by that means; but it succeeds better in a +common green-house, with no more heat than is just necessary to keep out +the frost, indeed it may be preserved in a common hot-bed frame through +the winter, unless the weather prove very severe. + +Certain plants are particularly liable to be infested with _Aphides_, +or, in the vulgar phrase, to become lousy, this is one: the only way to +have handsome, healthy, strong-flowering plants, is to procure a +constant succession by cuttings, for there is no plant strikes more +readily; these should be placed in a pot, and plunged into a bed of tan. + + + + +[54] + +~Anemone sylvestris, Snowdrop Anemony.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Polyandria Polygynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ nullus. _Petala_ 6-9. _Semina_ plura. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +ANEMONE _sylvestris_ pedunculo nudo, feminibus subrotundis, hirsutis, +muticis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. p. 510._ + +ANEMONE sylvestris alba major. _Bauh. Pin. p. 176._ + +The white wild broad-leafed Wind-Flower. _Park. Par. 202._ + +[Illustration: 54] + +PARKINSON very accurately notices the striking characters of +this species of Anemone, which are its creeping roots, its large white +flowers standing on the tops of the flower-stalks, which sometimes grow +two together, but most commonly singly; the leaves on the stalk, he +observes, are more finely divided than those of the root, and its seeds +are woolly. + +MILLER describes it as having little beauty, and therefore but +seldom planted in gardens; it is true, it does not recommend itself by +the gaudiness of its colours, but there is in the flowers, especially +before they expand, a simple elegance, somewhat like that of the +Snowdrop, and which affords a pleasing contrast to the more shewy +flowers of the garden. + +It flowers in May, and ripens its seeds in June. + +It will grow in almost any soil or situation, is propagated by offsets +from the root, which it puts out most plentifully, so as indeed +sometimes to be troublesome. Is a native of Germany. + + + + +[55] + +~Geranium striatum. Striped Geranium.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Monadelphia Decandria.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +Monogynia. _Stigmata_ 5. _Fructus_ rostratus 5-coccus. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +GERANIUM _striatum_ pedunculis bifloris, foliis quinquelobis: lobis +medio dilatatis, petalis bilobis venosoreticulatus. _Linn. Syst. +Vegetab. p. 616._ + +GERANIUM _striatum_ pedunculis bifloris, foliis caulinis trilobis, +obtuse crenatis. _Miller's Dict._ + +GERANIUM Romanum versicolor sive striatum. + +The variable striped Cranesbill. _Park. Parad. p. 229._ + +[Illustration: 55] + +This species is distinguished by having white petals, finely reticulated +with red veins, and the corners of the divisions of the leaves marked +with a spot of a purplish brown colour, which PARKINSON has +long since noticed. + +Is said by LINNAEUS to be a native of Italy, is a very hardy +plant, flowers in May and June, and may be propagated by parting its +roots in Autumn, or by seed; prefers a loamy soil and shady situation. + + + + +[56] + +~Geranium lanceolatum. Spear-Leaved Geranium.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Monadelphia Decandria.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +Monogyna. _Stigmata_ 5. _Fructus_ rostratus 5-coccus. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +GERANIUM _glaucum_ calycibus monophyllis, foliis lanceolatis +integerrimis glaucis, caule erecto suffruticoso. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. +p. 614. Supp. Pl. p. 306._ + +[Illustration: 56] + +This elegant and very singular species of _Geranium_ appears to have +been first cultivated in this country; its introduction was attended +with circumstances rather unusual. Mr. LEE, Nurseryman of the +Vineyard, Hammersmith, in looking over some dried specimens in the +Possession of Sir JOSEPH BANKS, which he had recently received +from the Cape of Good Hope, was struck with the singular appearance of +this Geranium, no species having before been seen in this country with +spear-shaped leaves; on examining the specimens attentively, he +perceived a few ripe seeds in one of them, those he solicited, and +obtained; and to his success in making them vegetate, we are indebted +for the present species. + +The shape of the leaf readily suggested the name of _lanceolatum_, an +epithet by which it has been generally distinguished in this country, +and which, from its extreme fitness, we have continued, notwithstanding +young Professor LINNAEUS has given it that of _glaucum_, though, +at the same time, his illustrious father had distinguished another +species by the synonymous term of _glaucophyllum_. + +This species rarely ripens its seeds with us, and is therefore to be +raised from cuttings, which however are not very free to strike. + +It has been usual to keep it in the stove, but we have found by +experience, that it succeeds much better in a common green-house, in +which it will flower during the whole of the summer. Small young plants +of this, as well as most other Geraniums, make the best appearance, and +are therefore to be frequently obtained by cuttings. + + + + +[57] + +~Papaver orientale. Eastern Poppy.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Polyandria Monogynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cor._ 4-petala. _Cal._ 2-phyllus. _Capsula,_ 1-locularis sub stigmate +persistente poris dehiscens. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +PAPAVER _orientale_ capsulis glabris, caulibus unifloris scabris +foliosis pinnatis serratis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. p. 490._ + +Papaver orientale hirsutissimum, magno flore. _Tournes. cor. 17. +itin. 3. p. 127. t. 127._ + +[Illustration: 57] + +Most of the plants of this tribe are distinguished by the splendour of +their colours, most of them also are annuals, in gaiety of colour none +exceed the present species; but it differs in the latter character, in +having not only a perennial root, but one of the creeping kind, whereby +it increases very much, and by which it is most readily propagated. + +Though a native of the East, as its name imports, it bears the severity +of our climate without injury, flowers in May, and as its blossoms are +extremely shewy, it gives great brilliancy to the flower-garden or +plantation; prefers a dry soil. + + + + +[58] + +~Iris spuria. Spurious Iris.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Triandria Monogynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ 6-petala, inaequalis, petalis alternis geniculato-patentibus. +_Stigmata_ petaliformia, cucullato-bilabiata. _Conf. Thunb._ _Diss. de +Iride._ + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +IRIS _spuria_ imberbis foliis linearibus, scapo subtrifloro tereti, +germinibus hexagonis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. p. 91._ _Jacq. Fl. austr. +tab. 4._ + +IRIS pratensis angustifolia, folio foetido. _Bauh. Pin. 32._ + +The greater blue Flower-de-luce with narrow leaves. _Park. Parad. p. +184._ + +[Illustration: 58] + +Some plants afford so little diversity of character, that an expressive +name can scarcely be assigned them; such is the present plant, or +LINNAEUS would not have given it the inexpressive name of +_spuria_, nor we have adopted it. + +This species is distinguished by the narrowness of its leaves, which +emit a disagreeable smell when bruised, by the colour of its flowers, +which are of a fine rich purple inclining to blue, and by its hexangular +germen. + +It is a native of Germany, where, as Professor JACQUIN informs +us, it grows in wet meadows; is a hardy perennial, thrives in our +gardens in almost any soil or situation, flowers in June, and is +propagated by parting its roots in Autumn. + + + + +[59] + +~Mesembryanthemum bicolorum. Two-Coloured Fig-Marigold.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Icosandria Pentagynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 5-fidus. _Petala_ numerosa, linearia. _Caps._ carnosa, infera, +polysperma. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +MESEMBRYANTHEMUM _bicolorum_ foliis subulatis punctatis laevibus +distinctis, caule frutescente, corollis bicoloribus. _Linn. Syst. +Vegetab. p. 470._ + +MESEMBRYANTHEMUM tenuifolium fruticescens, flore croceo. _Dill. Elth. +267. t. 202. f. 258._ + +[Illustration: 59] + +Contrary to the _Mesembryanthemum dolabriforme_, lately figured in this +work, this species expands its flowers in the day-time, and that only +when the sun shines powerfully on them; on such occasions, the blossoms +on the top of the branches being very numerous, exhibit a most splendid +appearance. + +It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, flowers in July, and is most +readily propagated by cuttings. + +Like most of the Cape plants, it requires the shelter of a green-house +during the winter. + + + + +[60] + +~Lathyrus odoratus. Sweet Pea, or Vetchling.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Diadelphia Decandria.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Stylus_ planus, supra villosus, superne latior. _Cal._ laciniae +superiores 2-breviores. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +LATHYRUS _odoratus_ pedunculis bifloris, cirrhis diphyllis, foliolis +ovato-oblongis, leguminibus hirsutis, _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. p. 663._ + +LATHYRUS distoplatyphyllos hirsutus mollis, magno et peramaeno flore +odoro. _Comm. hort. 2. p. 219. t. 80._ + +[Illustration: 60] + +There is scarcely a plant more generally cultivated than the _Sweet +Pea_, and no wonder, since with the most delicate blossoms it unites an +agreeable fragrance. + +Several varieties of this plant are enumerated by authors, but general +cultivation extends to two only, the one with blossoms perfectly white, +the other white and rose-coloured, commonly called the _Painted Lady +Pea_. + +The Sweet Pea is described as a native of Sicily, the Painted Lady +Variety as an inhabitant of Ceylon; they have both been introduced since +the time of PARKINSON and EVELYN. + +It is an annual, and not a very tender one; seedling plants sown in +Autumn frequently surviving our winters. + +As it is desirable to have this plant in flower for as great a length of +time as possible, to have them early, we must sow them in the Autumn, +either in pots or in the open border; if sown in pots, they can the more +readily be secured from any severe weather, by placing them in a hot-bed +frame, a common practice with gardeners who raise them for the London +markets, in which they are in great request: others again should be sown +early in the spring, and the sowings repeated every month; they grow +readily in almost any soil or situation, and by this means may be had to +flower most of the year through. + +If sown in pots, care must be taken to water them frequently. + + + + +[61] + +~Iris ochroleuca. Tall Iris.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Triandria Monogynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ 6-petala, inaequalis, petalis alternis geniculato-patentibus. +_Stigmata_ petaliformia, cucullato-bilabiata. _Thunb. Diss. de Iride._ + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +IRIS _ochroleuca_ imberbis foliis ensiformibus, scapo subtereti +germinibus hexagonis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 90._ + +[Illustration: 61] + +Of the several species of Iris cultivated in our gardens, this excels in +point of height; we have taken our English name therefore from this +character, and not from the term _ochroleuca_, which, if translated, +would be too expressive of the colour of the blossoms of the _Iris +Pseudacorus_, with which the _ochroleuca_ has some affinity in point of +size as well as colour. + +Notwithstanding Mr. MILLER's description of his _orientalis_ +accords very badly with that of LINNAEUS's _ochroleuca_, they +have been generally considered in this country as one and the same +plant, distinguished by the name of POCOCKE's Iris, Dr. +POCOCKE being the person who, according to MILLER, in +his time first introduced it from _Carniola_ (by inadvertence spelt +_Carolina_, in the 6th 4to edition of the Dictionary). There are +grounds, however, for suspecting some error in the habitat of this +plant, for had it grown spontaneously in Carniola, it is not probable +that SCOPOLI would have omitted it in his _Flora Carniolica_. + +Leaving its place of growth to be more accurately ascertained hereafter, +we shall observe, that it appears perfectly naturalized to this country, +growing luxuriantly in a moist rich soil, and increasing, like most of +the genus, very fast by its roots. It flowers later than most of the +others. + + + + +[62] + +~Centaurea glastifolia. Woad-Leaved Centaurea.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~SyngenesiA Polygamia Superflua.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Receptaculum_ setosum. _Pappus_ simplex. _Corollae_ radii +infundibuliformes, longiores, irregulares. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +CENTAUREA _glastifolia_ calycibus scariosis, foliis indivisis +integerrimis decurrentibus. _Lin. Syst. Veg. p. 787._ _Gmelin Sib. 2. +p. 83._ + +CENTAURIUM majus orientale erectum, glasti folio, flore luteo. _Comm. +rar. 39. t. 39._ + +[Illustration: 62] + +Assumes the name of _glastifolia_ from the similitude which the leaves +bear to those of the _Isatis tinctoria_, or _Woad_, _Glastum_ of the old +Botanists. + +In this plant we have an excellent example of the _Folium decurrens_ and +_Calyx scariosus_ of LINNAEUS, the leaves also exhibit a curious +phenomenon, having veins prominent on both their sides; the scales of +the calyx are moreover distinguished by a beautiful silvery appearance, +which it is difficult to represent in colours. + +It is a native of the East, as well as of Siberia; flowers with us in +July, in the open border, and is readily propagated by parting its roots +in autumn, which are of the creeping kind: requires no particular +treatment. + +MILLER, in the last 4to edition of his Dictionary, enumerates a +_Cent. glastifolia_; but his description in detail, by no means accords +with the plant. + + + + +[63] + +~Fragaria monophylla. One-Leaved Strawberry, or Strawberry of +Versailles.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Icosandria Polygynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ 10-fidus. _Petala_ 5. _Receptaculum_ feminum ovatum, baccatum, +deciduum. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +FRAGARIA _monophylla_ foliis simplicibus. _Lin. Syst. Veg. p. 476._ +_Le Fraisier de Versailles. Duchesne Hist. nat. des Frais, p. 124._ + +[Illustration: 63] + +The first mention made of this Strawberry, we find in +DUCHESNE'S _Histoire naturelle des Fraisiers_, where we have +its complete history, and from which we learn, that it was originally +raised by him at Versailles, in the Year 1761, from seeds of the Wood +Strawberry. + +From France this plant has been conveyed to most parts of Europe; how it +has happened we know not, but it is certainly very little known in this +country: in the 14th edit of the _Syst. Veg._ of LINNAEUS, it appears as +a species under the name of _monophylla_, originally imposed on it by +DUCHESNE; LINNAEUS, however, has his doubts as to its being a species +distinct from the _vesca_, and, in our humble opinion, not without +reason; for it can certainly be regarded as a very singular variety +only; its origin indeed is a proof of this; in addition to which we may +observe, that plants raised from the runners will sometimes, though very +rarely indeed, have three leaves instead of one: and it is observed by +the very intelligent author of the _Hist. nat._ abovementioned, that +seedling plants sometimes produced leaves with three divisions, like +those of the Wood Strawberry. Besides the remarkable difference in the +number of the leaves in this plant, the leaves themselves are observed +to be much smaller in the winter season, and their ribs less branched; +the runners also are slenderer and more productive, and the fruit in +general more oblong or pyramidal. As an object of curiosity, this plant +is deserving a place in every garden of any extent; nor is its +singularity its only recommendation, its fruit being equal to that of +the finest Wood Strawberry, with which it agrees in the time of its +flowering, fruiting, and mode of treatment. + + + + +[64] + +~Hemerocallis fulva. Tawny Day-Lily.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Hexandria Monogynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ campanulata: tubo cylindrico. _Stamina_ declinata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +HEMEROCALLIS _fulva_ foliis lineari-subulatis carinatis, corollis +fulvis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 339._ + +LILIUM rubrum asphodeli radice. _Bauh. Pin. 80._ + +The gold red Day-Lily. _Park. Parad. p. 148. t. 149. f. 5._ + +[Illustration: 64] + +According to LINNAEUS, this species is a native of China. + +It has long been inured to our climate, and few plants thrive better in +any soil or situation, but a moist soil suits it best; its leaves on +their first emerging from the ground, and for a considerable time +afterwards, are of the most delicate green imaginable; the appearance +which the plant assumes at this period of its growth is, indeed, so +pleasing, that it may be said to constitute one half of its beauty; its +blossoms which appear in July and August, are twice the size of those of +the _flava_, of a tawny orange colour, without gloss or smell, the +Petals waved on the edge, the flowers are rarely or never succeeded by +ripe Capsules as in the _flava_, which is a circumstance that has been +noticed by PARKINSON; when these several characters, in which +the _fulva_ differs so essentially from the _flava_, are attentively +considered, we shall wonder that LINNAEUS could entertain an +idea of their being varieties of each other. + +The _Hemerocallis fulva_, from its size, and from the great +multiplication of its roots, is best adapted to large gardens and +plantations. + +May be propagated by parting its roots in Autumn. + + + + +[65] + +~Clematis integrifolia. Entire-Leaved Clematis, or +Virgins-Bower.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Polyandria Polygynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 0. _Petala_ 4. rarius 5.--vel 6. _Sem._ caudata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +CLEMATIS _integrifolia_ foliis simplicibus ovato-lanceolatis, floribus +cernuis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 512._ + +CLEMATITIS coerulea erecta. _Bauh. Pin. 300._ + +CLEMATIS coerulea Pannonica. The Hungarian Climer. _Park. Parad. p. 393._ + +[Illustration: 65] + +The _Clematis integrifolia_ is not an uncommon plant in the nurseries +about London, and is deserving a place in gardens, if not for the beauty +of its flowers, at least for their singularity. + +It is a native of Germany, flowers in July, and is one of those hardy +perennials which suit most people, requiring little more than an +introduction. + +Is propagated by parting its roots in Autumn. + + + + +[66] + +~Passiflora alata. Winged Passion-Flower.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Gynandria Pentandria.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +Trigyna. _Cal._ 5-phyllus. _Petala_ 5. _Nectarium_ corona. _Bacca_ +pedicellata. + +_Specific Character._ + +PASSIFLORA _alata_ foliis indivisis cordatis integerrimis, petiolis +quadriglandulosis, cauli membranaceo tetragono. + +[Illustration: 66] + +This species of Passion-flower is one of those which have been +introduced into the English gardens since the time of MILLER; +if it does not equal the _coerulea_ in elegance, it excels it in +magnificence, in brilliancy of colour, and in fragrance, the blossoms +being highly odoriferous: as yet, it is by no means so general in this +country, as its extraordinary beauty merits, we have seen it flower this +year, both summer and autumn, in great perfection in the stove of our +very worthy friend JAMES VERE, Esq. Kensington-Gore; at the +Physic Garden, Chelsea; and at Mr. MALCOM's, Kennington; at +Chelsea, in particular, it afforded the richest assemblage of foliage +and flowers we ever saw. + +It appears to the greatest advantage, when trained up an upright pole, +nearly to the height of the back of the stove, and then suffered to run +along horizontally. + +By some it has been considered as a variety only of the _Passiflora +quadrangularis_, others, with whom we agree in opinion, have no doubt of +its being a very distinct species; it differs from the _quadrangularis_, +in having leaves more perfectly heart-shaped, and less veiny; in having +four glands on the foot-stalks of the leaves, instead of six; and in not +producing fruit with us, which the _quadrangularis_ has been known +frequently to do. + +The Nursery-men report, that this species was first raised in this +country, by a gentleman in Hertfordshire, from West-India seeds. + +The usual mode of propogating it here, is by cuttings. + + + + +[67] + +~Mesembryanthemum pinnatifidum. Jagged-Leaved Fig-Marigold.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Icosandria Pentagynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 5-fidus. _Petala_ numerosa linearia. _Caps._ carnosa infera +polysperma. + +_Specific Character._ + +MESEMBRYANTHEMUM _pinnatifidum_ foliis pinnatifidis. _Linn. Syst. +Vegetab. p. 470. Suppl. p. 260._ + +[Illustration: 67] + +This species of _Mesembryanthemum_, so different in the shape of its +foliage from all the others hitherto introduced into this country, is +first described in the _Supplementum Plantarum_ of the younger +LINNAEUS, from which we learn that it grew in the Upsal Garden, +into which it was most probably introduced by professor +THUNBERG, as on his authority it is mentioned as a native of +the Cape of Good Hope. + +Mr. ZIER, Apothecary, of Castle-Street, was so obliging as to +present me this summer with the seeds of this curious plant, I sowed +them in a pot of earth, plunged in a tan pit, whose heat was nearly +exhausted; they quickly vegetated, and though the summer was far +advanced, they proceeded rapidly into flower, and bid fair to produce +ripe seeds, as the Capsules have long since been formed. + +The whole plant is sprinkled over with glittering particles like the ice +plant, to which it bears some affinity in its duration, being an annual +and requiring the same treatment. + +The blossoms are small and yellow, and if the weather be fine, open +about two or three o'clock in the afternoon, the stalks are of a bright +red colour, and the foliage yellowish green. + + + + +[68] + +~Sempervivum arachnoideum. Cobweb Houseleek.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Dodecandria Dodecagynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 12-partitus. _Petala_ 12. _Caps._ 12. polyspermae. + +_Specific Character._ + +SEMPERVIVUM _arachnoideum_ foliis pilis intertextis, propaginibus +globosis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. p. 456._ + +SEDUM montanum tomentosum. _Bauh. Pin. 284._ + +[Illustration: 68] + +By the old Botanists, this plant was considered as a _Sedum_; and to +this day it is generally known in the gardens by the name of the _Cobweb +Sedum_, though its habit or general appearance, independent of its +fructification, loudly proclaims it a _Houseleek_. + +In this species the tops of the leaves are woolly; as they expand they +carry this woolly substance with them, which being thus extended, +assumes the appearance of a cobweb, whence the name of the plant. + +Like most of the Houseleeks it is best kept in a pot, or it will grow +well and appear to great advantage on a wall or piece of rock-work; the +more it is exposed to the sun, the more colour will enliven its stalks +and foliage, and the more brilliant will be its flowers; the latter make +their appearance in July. + +It is propagated by offsets which it sends forth in abundance. + +It is no uncommon practice to treat this beautiful species of Houseleek, +as a native of a warm climate; under such an idea we have seen it nursed +up in stoves, while the plant spontaneously braves the cold of the +Switzerland Alps. + + + + +[69] + +~Rosa muscosa. Moss Rose.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Icosandria Polygynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Petala_ 5. _Cal._ urceolatus, 5-fidus, carnosus, collo coarctatus. +_Sem._ plurima, hispida, calycis interiori lateri affixa. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +ROSA _muscosa_ caule petiolisque aculeatis, pedunculis calycibusque +pilosissimis. _Miller's Dict._ + +[Illustration: 69] + +If there be any one genus of plants more universally admired than the +others, it is that of the Rose--where is the Poet that has not +celebrated it? where the Painter that has not made it an object of his +imitative art? + +In the opinion of MILLER, the Moss Rose, or Moss Province, as +it is frequently called, is a perfectly distinct species; +LINNAEUS considers it as a variety only of the _centifolia_: as +it is found in our Nurseries in a double state only, and as we are +ignorant of what country it is the produce, the decision of this matter +must be left to future observation and inquiry. + +Though it may not increase so fast by suckers, nor be increased so +readily by layers, as the _centifolia_, there is no difficulty in +propagating it either way; the latter mode is usually adopted. + + + + +[70] + +~Mesembryanthemum barbatum. Bearded Fig-Marigold.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Icosandria Pentagynia~. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 5-fidus. Petala numerosa, linearia. _Caps._ carnosa, infera, +polysperma. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +MESEMBRYANTHEMUM _barbatum_, foliis subovatis papulosis distinctis, +apice barbatis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 469._ + +MESEMBRYANTHEMUM radiatum, ramulis prolixis recumbentibus. _Dillen. +Hort. Elth. 245. t. 190. f. 234._ + +[Illustration: 70] + +The leaves of this species have small hairs, issuing like rays from +their points, whence its name of _barbatum_; there are two others +figured by DILLENIUS, whose leaves have a great similarity of +structure, and which are considered by LINNAEUS as varieties of +this species; our plant is the _Stellatum_ of MILLER's _Dict._ +_ed._ 6. 4_to_. + +Like most of this tribe it inhabits the Cape, flowers in July, and is +readily propagated by cuttings. + + + + +[71] + +~Statice sinuata. Purple-cup't Statice, or Thrift.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Pentandria Pentagynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 1-phyllus, integer, plicatus, scariosus. _Petala_ 5. _Sem._ 1. +superum. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +STATICE _sinuata_ caule herbaceo, foliis radicalibus alternatim pinnato +sinuatis: caulinis ternis triquetris subulatis decurrentibus. _Lin. +Syst. Vegetab._ _p._ 301. + +LIMONIUM peregrinum foliis asplenii. _Bauh. Pin. 192._ + +LIMONIUM Rauwolfii Marsh Buglosse. _Parkins. Parad. p. 250._ + +[Illustration: 71] + +That this singular species of _Statice_ was long since an inhabitant of +our gardens, appears from PARKINSON, who in his _Garden of +Pleasant Flowers_, gives an accurate description of it, accompanied with +an expressive figure; since his time it appears to have been confined to +few gardens: the nurserymen have lately considered it as a +newly-introduced species, and sold it accordingly. + +It is one of those few plants whose calyx is of a more beautiful colour +than the corolla (and which it does not lose in drying); it therefore +affords an excellent example of the _calyx coloratus_, as also of +_scariosus_, it being sonorous to the touch. + +Being a native of Sicily, Palestine, and Africa, it is of course liable +to be killed with us in severe seasons, the common practice is therefore +to treat it as a green-house plant, and indeed it appears to the +greatest advantage in a pot; it is much disposed to throw up new +flowering stems; hence, by having several pots of it, some plants will +be in blossom throughout the summer; the dried flowers are a pretty +ornament for the mantle-piece in winter. + +Though a kind of biennial, it is often increased by parting its roots, +but more advantageously by seed; the latter, however, are but sparingly +produced with us, probably for the want, as PARKINSON expresses +it, "of sufficient heate of the Sunne." + + + + +[72] + +~Helleborus lividus. Livid or Purple Hellebore.~ + + +_Class and Order._ + +~Polyandria Polygynia.~ + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ nullus. _Petala_-5. sive plura. _Nectaria_ bilabiata, tubulata. +_Caps._ polyspermae, erectiusculae. + +_Specific Character._ + +HELLEBORUS _lividus_ caule multifloro folioso, foliis ternatis. _Ait. +Hort. Kew. ined. 2. p. 272._ + +[Illustration: 72] + +It is not a little extraordinary that this plant which has for many +years been cultivated in this country, should have escaped the notice of +LINNAEUS; it is equally wonderful that we should at this moment +be strangers to its place of growth. + +Having three leaves growing together, it has been considered by many as +the _trifoliatus_ of LINNAEUS but his _trifoliatus_ is a very +different plant, a native of Canada, producing small yellow flowers. + +It has been usual to treat this species as a green-house plant, or at +least to shelter it under a frame in the winter; probably it is more +hardy than we imagine. + +It is propagated by parting its roots in autumn, and by seeds, though +few of the latter in general ripen, nor do the roots make much +increase--to these causes we must doubtless attribute its present +comparative scarcity. + +It flowers as early as February; on which account, as well as that of +its singularity, it is a very desirable plant in collections. + + + + +INDEX. + +In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the _Second Volume_ +are alphabetically arranged. + + + _Pl._ + + 47 Amaryllis formosissima. + 54 Anemone sylvestris. + 41 Calceolaria pinnata. + 42 Camellia japonica. + 62 Centaurea glastifolia. + 37 Chironia frutescens. + 53 Cineraria lanata. + 43 Cistus incanus. + 65 Clematis integrifolia. + 45 Crocus vernus. + 44 Cyclamen persicum. + 39 Dianthus Caryophyllus, var. + 63 Fragaria monophylla. + 52 Gentiana acaulis. + 55 Geranium striatum. + 56 ---- lanceolatum. + 72 Helleborus lividus. + 64 Hemerocallis fulva. + 61 Iris ochroleuca. + 50 ---- sibirica. + 58 ---- spuria. + 60 Lathyrus odoratus. + 46 Leucojum vernum. + 70 Mesembryanthemum barbatum. + 59 ---- bicolorum. + 67 ---- pinnatifidum. + 51 Narcissus major. + 48 ---- triandrus. + 57 Papaver orientale. + 66 Passiflora alata. + 69 Rosa muscosa. + 49 Soldanella alpina. + 68 Sempervivum arachnoideum. + 71 Statice sinuata. + 40 Trillium sessile. + 38 Viburnum Tinus. + + + + +INDEX. + +In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the _Second +Volume_ are alphabetically arranged. + + + _Pl._ + + + 47 Amaryllis Jacobean. + 54 Anemony Snowdrop. + 42 Camellia Rose. + 43 Centaurea woad-leaved. + 37 Chironia shrubby. + 53 Cineraria woolly. + 43 Cistus, hoary or rose. + 65 Clematis, or Virgin's-bower entire-leaved. + 45 Crocus spring. + 44 Cyclamen Persian. + 51 Daffodil great. + 48 ---- reflexed. + 64 Day-lily tawny. + 39 Franklin's Tartar. + 70 Fig-marigold bearded. + 67 ---- jagged-leaved. + 59 ---- two-coloured. + 52 Gentian large-flowered, or Gentianella. + 56 Geranium spear-leaved. + 55 ---- striped. + 68 Houseleek cobweb. + 72 Hellebore, livid or purple. + 50 Iris Siberian. + 58 ---- spurious. + 61 ---- tall. + 38 Laurustinus common. + 66 Passion-flower winged. + 60 Pea, or Vetchling sweet. + 57 Poppy eastern. + 69 Rose moss. + 41 Slipper-wort pinnated. + 46 Snow-flake spring. + 49 Soldanella alpine. + 63 Strawberry one-leav'd. + 40 Trillium sessile. + 71 Thrift purple-cup't. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Botanical Magazine v 2, by +William Curtis + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE V 2 *** + +***** This file should be named 17531.txt or 17531.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/3/17531/ + +Produced by Jason Isbell, Janet Blenkinship and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file made using scans of public domain works at the +University of Georgia.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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