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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, Vol. 3 + Or, Flower-Garden Displayed + +Author: William Curtis + +Release Date: February 3, 2006 [EBook #17672] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, VOL. 3 *** + + + + +Produced by Jason Isbell, Janet Blenkinship and the Online +Distributed Proofreaders Europe at http://dp.rastko.net + + + + + + + + + + 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 Linnæus; 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. III.~ + + + "The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns; + The low'ring eye, the petulance, the frown, + And sullen sadness, that o'ershade, distort, + And mar the face of beauty, when no cause + For such immeasurable woe appears; + These Flora banishes, and gives the fair + Sweet smiles and bloom, less transient than her own." + COWPER. + + + 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. + + * * * * * + + + + +[73] + +MONSONIA SPECIOSA. LARGE-FLOWER'D MONSONIA. + + +_Class and Order._ + +POLYADELPHIA DODECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 5-phyllus. _Cor._ 5-petala. _Stam._ 15. connata in 5 filamenta. + _Stylus_ 5-fidus. _Caps._ 5-cocca. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +MONSONIA _speciosa_ foliis quinatis: foliolis bipinnatis, _Lin. Syst. + Vegetab. p. 697._ + +MONSONIA grandiflora. _Burm. prodr. 23._ + +[Illustration: No 73] + +The genus of which this charming plant is the most distinguished +species, has been named in honour of _Lady Anne Monson_. The whole +family are natives of the Cape, and in their habit and fructification +bear great affinity to the Geranium. The present species was introduced +into this country in 1774, by Mr. MASSON. + +We received this elegant plant just as it was coming into flower, from +Mr. COLVILL, Nurseryman, King's-Road, Chelsea, who was so +obliging as to inform me that he had succeeded best in propagating it by +planting cuttings of the root in pots of mould, and plunging them in a +tan-pit, watering them as occasion may require; in due time buds appear +on the tops of the cuttings left out of the ground. + +It rarely or never ripens its seed with us. + +Should be treated as a hardy greenhouse plant; may be sheltered even +under a frame, in the winter. + + + + +[74] + +ANTIRRHINUM TRISTE. MELANCHOLY OR BLACK-FLOWER'D TOAD-FLAX. + + +_Class and Order._ + +DIDYNAMIA ANGIOPSPERMIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 5-phyllus. _Cor._ basis deorsum prominens, nectarifera. _Caps._ + 2. locularis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +ANTIRRHINUM _triste_ foliis linearibus sparsis inferioribus oppositis + nectariis subulatis, floribus sub-sessilibus. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. + p. 555._ + +LINARIA tristis hispanica. _Dill. Elth. 201. t. 164. f. 199._ + +[Illustration: No 74] + +Receives its name of _triste_ from the sombre appearance of its flowers; +but this must be understood when placed at some little distance, for, on +a near view, the principal colour of the blossoms is a fine rich brown, +inclined to purple. + +Is a native of Spain, and of course a greenhouse plant with us, but it +must not be too tenderly treated, as it loses much of its beauty when +drawn up, it should therefore be kept out of doors when the season will +admit, as it only requires shelter from severe frost, and that a common +hot-bed frame will in general sufficiently afford it. + +It flowers during most of the summer months; as it rarely or never +ripens its seeds with us, the usual mode of propagating it, is by +cuttings, which strike readily enough in the common way. + +MILLER relates that it was first introduced into this country +by Sir CHARLES WAGER, from Gibraltar seeds. + + + + +[75] + +POTENTILLA GRANDIFLORA. LARGE-FLOWER'D POTENTILLA. + + +_Class and Order._ + +ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 10-fidus. _Petala_ 5. _Sem._ subrotunda, nuda, receptaculo parvo + exsucco affixa. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +POTENTILLA _grandiflora_ foliis ternatis dentatis utrinque subpilosis, + caule decumbente foliis longiore, _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 715._ + +FRAGARIA sterilis, amplissimo folio et flore petalis cordatis, _Vaill. + Paris. 55. t. 10. f. 1._ + +[Illustration: No 75] + + +Culture is well known to produce great alterations in the appearance of +most plants, but particularly in those which grow spontaneously on dry +mountainous situations, and this is strikingly exemplified in the +present instance, this species of _Potentilla_, becoming in every +respect much larger, as well as much smoother than in its natural state. +_Vid._ VAILL. above quoted. + +It is a hardy herbaceous plant, a native of Switzerland, Siberia, and +other parts of Europe, and flowers in July. + +LINNÆUS considers it as an annual; MILLER, as a +biennial; we suspect it to be, indeed have little doubt of its being a +perennial; having propagated it by parting its roots, but it may be +raised more successfully from seed. + + + + +[76] + +EPILOBIUM ANGUSTISSIMUM. NARROWEST LEAV'D WILLOW-HERB. + + +_Class and Order._ + +OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 4-fidus. _Petala_ 4. _Caps._ oblonga, infera. _Sem._ papposa. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +EPILOBIUM angustifolium, foliis sparsis linearibus obsolete denticulatis + aveniis, petalis æqualibus integerrimis, _Ait. Hort. Kew. 2. p. 5._ + +EPILOBIUM _angustifolium_, var. _Lin. Sp. Pl._ + +EPILOBIUM flore difformi, foliis linearibus. _Hall, Hist. Helv. p. 427. + n. 1001._ + +[Illustration: No 76] + +Though the _Epilobium_ here figured has not been many years introduced +into this country, it is a plant which has long been well known, and +described. + +LINNÆUS makes it a variety only of the _Epilobium +angustifolium_; HALLER, a distinct species, and in our opinion, +most justly. + +Those who have cultivated the _Epilobium angustifolium_ have cause to +know that it increases prodigiously by its creeping roots. The present +plant, so far as we have been able to determine from cultivating it +several years, in our Garden, Lambeth-Marsh, has not shewn the least +disposition to increase in the same way, nor have any seedlings arisen +from the seeds which it has spontaneously scattered: we have, indeed, +found it a plant rather difficult to propagate, yet it is highly +probable that at a greater distance from London, and in a more +favourable soil, its roots, though not of the creeping kind, may admit +of a greater increase, and its seeds be more prolific. + +It is a native of the Alps of Switzerland, from whence it is frequently +dislodged, and carried into the plains by the impetuosity of torrents. + +It flowers with us in July and August, and being a hardy perennial, and +perhaps the most elegant species of the genus, appears to us highly +deserving a place in the gardens of the curious. + + + + +[77] + +CENTAUREA MONTANA. GREATER BLUE-BOTTLE. + + +_Class and Order._ + +SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA FRUSTRANEA. + +_Generic Character._ + +Receptaculum setosum. Pappus simplex. Corollæ radii infundibuliformes, + longiores, irregulares. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +CENTAUREA montana calycibus serratis, foliis lanceolatis decurrentibus + caule simplicissimo. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 785._ + +CYANUS montanus latifolius S. Verbasculum cyanoides. _Bauh. Pin. 273._ + +CYANUS major. _Lobel. icon. 548._ + +[Illustration: No 77] + +It has been suggested by some of our readers, that too many common +plants, like the present, are figured in this work. We wish it to be +understood, that the professed design of the Botanical Magazine is to +exhibit representations of such. We are desirous of putting it in the +power of all who cultivate or amuse themselves with plants, to become +scientifically acquainted with them, as far as our labours extend; and +we deem it of more consequence, that they should be able to ascertain +such as are to be found in every garden, than such as they may never +have an opportunity of seeing. On viewing the representations of objects +of this sort, a desire of seeing the original is naturally excited, and +the pleasure is greatly enhanced by having it in our power to possess +it. But, while we are desirous of thus creating Botanists, we are no +less anxious to gratify the wishes of those already such; and we +believe, from a perusal of the Magazine, it will appear that one-third +of the plants figured, have some pretensions to novelty. + +The _Centaurea montana_ is a native of the German Alps, flowers during +the greatest part of the summer, is a hardy perennial, and will grow in +any soil or situation, some will think too readily. + + + + +[78] + +NARCISSUS ODORUS. SWEET-SCENTED, OR GREAT JONQUIL. + + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Petala_ 6-æqualia. _Nectario_ infundibuliformi, 1-phyllo. _Stamina_ + intra nectarium. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +NARCISSUS _odorus_ spatha sub-biflora, nectario campanulato sexfido lævi + dimidio petalis breviore, foliis semicylindricis. _Lin. Syst. + Vegetab. p. 317._ + +NARCISSUS angustifolius, five juncifolius maximus amplo calice. + +The Great Jonquilia with the large flower or cup. _Park Parad. p. 89. + fig. 5._ + +[Illustration: No 78] + +We shall be thought, perhaps, too partial to this tribe of plants, this +being the fifth species now figured; but it should be remembered, that +as the spring does not afford that variety of flowers which the summer +does, we are more limited in our choice; the flowers of this delightful +season have also greater claims to our notice, they present themselves +with double charms. + +This species, which, as its name implies, possesses more fragrance than +many of the others, is a native of the South of Europe, flowers in the +open border in April, is a hardy-perennial, thriving in almost any soil +or situation, but succeeds best in a loamy soil and eastern exposure. +Varies with double flowers, in which slate it is often used for forcing. + +No notice is taken of this species by MILLER, except as a +variety of the N. _Jonquilla_, from which it differs _toto calo_. + + + + +[79] + +LOTUS JACOBÆUS. BLACK-FLOWER'D LOTUS. + + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Legumen_ cylindricum strictum. _Alæ_ sursum longitudinaliter + conniventes. _Cal._ tubulosus. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +LOTUS _Jacobæus_ leguminibus subternatis, caule herbaceo erecto, + foliolis linearibus. _Lin. Syst. Veg. 601._ + +LOTUS angustifolia, flore luteo purpurascente, infulæ S. Jacobi. _Comm. + hort. 2. p. 165. t. 83._ + +[Illustration: No 79] + +This species of _Lotus_ has been called black-flower'd, not that the +flowers are absolutely black, for they are of a very rich brown inclined +to purple, but because they appear so at a little distance; the light +colour of the foliage contributes not a little to this appearance. + +"It grows naturally in the Island of St. James; is too tender to live +abroad in England, so the plants must be kept in pots, and in the winter +placed in a warm airy glass cafe, but in the summer they should be +placed abroad in a sheltered situation. It may be easily propagated by +cuttings during the summer season, and also by seeds, but the plants +which have been two or three times propagated by cuttings, seldom are +fruitful." _Miller's Gard. Dict._ + +It continues to flower during the whole of the summer; as it is very apt +to die off without any apparent cause, care should be taken to have a +succession of plants from seeds, if possible. + + + + +[80] + +SPIGELIA MARILANDICA. MARYLAND SPIGELIA, OR WORM-GRASS. + + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ infundibuliformis. _Capsula_ didyma. 2-locularis, + polysperma. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +SPIGELIA _Marilandica_ caule tetragono, foliis omnibus oppositis. _Lin. + Syst. Veg. p. 197._ _Mant. 2. p. 338._ + +LONICERA _Marilandica_, _Spec. Pl. ed. 3. p. 249._ + +PERICLYMENI virginiani flore coccineo planta marilandica spicata erecta + foliis conjugatis. _D. Sherard Raii Suppl. p. 32._ _Catesb. Carol. + 11. t. 78._ + +ANTHELMIA Indian pink. _Dr. Lining. Essays Physical and Literary, Vol. + 1. and Vol. 3._ + +[Illustration: No 80] + +This plant, not less celebrated for its superior efficacy in destroying +worms[A], than admired for its beauty, is a native of the warmer parts +of North America; the older Botanists, and even LINNÆUS, at one +time considered it as a _honeysuckle_, but he has now made a new genus +of it, which he has named in honour of SPIGELIUS, a Botanist of +considerable note, author of the _Ifagog. in yem herbar_. published at +_Leyden_ in 1633. + +"This plant is not easily propagated in England, for the roots make but +slow increase, so that the plant is not very common in the English +Gardens at present; for although it is so hardy as to endure the cold of +our ordinary winters in the open air, yet as it does not ripen seeds, +the only way of propagating it is by parting of the roots; and as these +do not make much increase by offsets, so the plants are scarce; it +delights in a moist soil, and must not be often transplanted." _Miller's +Dict._ + +The scarcity of this plant, even now, is a proof of the justness of Mr. +MILLER's observation; it is in fact a very shy plant, and +scarcely to be kept in this country but by frequent importation. + +It flowers in June and July. + +[Footnote A: _Vid. Lewis's Mater. Medica._] + + + + +[81] + +COLUTEA ARBORESCENS. TREE COLUTEA, OR BLADDER SENNA. + + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ 5-fidus. _Legumen_ inflatum, basi superiore dehiscens. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +COLUTEA _arborescens_ arborea foliolis obcordatis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. + p. 668._ + +COLUTEA vesicaria. _Bauh. Pin. 396._ + +The greater Bastard Senna with bladders. _Park. Par. 440._ + +[Illustration: No 81] + +The Bladder Senna, a native of the South of France and Italy, produces a +profusion of bloom from June to August, when its inflated pods please +from the singularity of their appearance; on these accounts, it is one +of the most common flowering shrubs cultivated in gardens and +plantations. + +"It is propagated by sowing its seeds any time in the spring in a bed of +common earth; and when the plants are come up, they must be kept clear +from weeds, and the Michaelmas following they should be transplanted +either into nursery-rows, or in the places where they are designed to +remain; for if they are let grow in the seed-bed too long, they are very +subject to have tap roots, which render them unfit for transplanting; +nor should these trees be suffered to remain too long in the nursery +before they are transplanted, for the same reason." _Miller's Gard. +Dict._ + +We have learned by experience, that a very wet soil will prove fatal to +these shrubs. + + + + +[82] + +LACHENALIA TRICOLOR. THREE-COLOURED LACHENALIA. + + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ subtriphyllus, inferus, coloratus. _Corolla_ 3-petala, + receptaculo inferta. _Jacquin jun. in act. helv. vol. 9._ + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +LACHENALIA _tricolor_. _Lin. Syst, Vegetab. ed. 14. p. 314._ _Jacq. + Icon. pl. rarior, t. 3._ + +PHORMIUM _Aloides_. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14. p. 336. Suppl. 205._ + +[Illustration: No 82] + +To Mr. LEE, of the Vineyard, Hammersmith, the first, and as we +understand, the only Nurseryman as yet in possession of this plant, +which has but lately been introduced into this country from the Cape, we +are indebted for the present specimen. + +Mr. JACQUIN, jun. who has figured and described it in the _Acta +Helvetica_, gives it the name of _Lachenalia_, in honour of WARNERUS +de la CHENAL, a very eminent Swiss Botanist, and the particular +friend of the late illustrious HALLER. Our readers should be +informed, that it had before been called by two other different names, +viz. _Hyacinthus orchiodes_, and _Phormium aloides_, under the latter of +which it now stands in the 14th edition of the _Systema Vegetabilium_, +as well as that of _Lachenalia_. + +Its trivial name of _tricolor_ it receives from the three colours +observable in the flowers; but it must be noticed, that it is only at +the middle period of its flowering, that these three colours are highly +distinguishable; as it advances, the brilliant orange of the top flowers +dies away; the spots on the leaves also, which when the plant is young, +give it the appearance of an orchis, as it advances into bloom become +less and less conspicuous. + +Like most of the Cape plants, the _Lachenalia_ requires to be sheltered +in the winter; during that season it must therefore be kept in a +greenhouse, or hot-bed frame, well secured. + +It flowers in the spring, but its blowing may be accelerated by the +warmth of the stove, for it bears forcing well enough. + +It is increased by offsets from the bulbs. + + + + +[83] + +HIBISCUS SYRIACUS. SYRIAN HIBISCUS; commonly called ALTHÆA +FRUTEX. + + +_Class and Order._ + +MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ duplex, exterior polyphyllus. _Capsula_ 5-locularis, polysperma. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +HIBISCUS _syriacus_ foliis cuneiformi ovatis superne incise-serratis, + caule arboreo. _Lin. Syst. Veg. p. 630._ + +ALCEA arborescens syriaca. _Bauh. Pin. p. 316._ + +ALTHÆA frutex flore albo vel purpureo. _Park. Par. p. 369._ + +[Illustration: No 83] + +The _Hibiscus syriacus_, known generally by the name of _Althæa frutex_, +is a native of Syria, and forms one of the chief ornaments of our +gardens in autumn; we view it, however, with less delight, as it is a +sure indication of approaching winter. + +There are many varieties of it mentioned by authors, as the _purple, +red-flowered, white-flowered, variegated red and white flowered_, and +the _striped-flowered_, to which may be added, another variety, lately +introduced, with double flowers: it varies also in its foliage, which is +sometimes marked with white, sometimes with yellow. + +As from the lateness of its flowering, and the want of sufficient +warmth, it rarely ripens its seeds with us; the usual mode of increasing +it is by layers, and sometimes by cuttings; but the best plants are +raised from seeds. MILLER observes, that the scarce varieties +may be propagated by grafting them on each other, which is the common +method of propagating the sorts with striped leaves. + +In the time of PARKINSON it was not looked on as a hardy shrub: +he thus writes,--"they are somewhat tender, and would not be suffered to +be uncovered in the winter time, or yet abroad in the garden, but kept +in a large pot or tubbe, in the house or in a warme cellar, if you would +have them to thrive." _Park. Parad._ + + + + +[84] + +TUSSILAGO ALPINA. ALPINE COLTSFOOT. + + +_Class and Order._ + +SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Receptaculum_ nudum. _Pappus_ simplex. _Cal._ squamæ æquales, discum + æquantes, submembranaceæ. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +TUSSILAGO _alpina_ scapo unifloro subnudo, foliis cordato orbiculatis + crenatis utrinque virentibus. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 755._ + +TUSSILAGO alpina rotundifolia glabra. _Bauh. Pin. 197._ + +[Illustration: No 84] + +This species, a native of the Alps, of Switzerland, and Austria, is +frequently kept in gardens for the sake of variety; like the rest of the +genus, it flowers early in the spring, in March and April; is a very +hardy perennial, increases most readily in a moist shady situation, is +usually kept in pots for the convenience of sheltering it in very severe +seasons; but it will grow readily enough in the open border. All plants +that flower early, though ever so hardy, require some kind of shelter, +previous to, and during their flowering. + +Is propagated by parting its roots in autumn. + + + + +[85] + +SPARTIUM JUNGEUM. SPANISH BROOM. + + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Stigma_ longitudinale, supra villosum. _Filamenta_ germini adhærentia. + _Calyx_ deorsum productus. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +SPARTIUM _junceum_ ramis oppositis teretibus apice floriferis, foliis + lanceolatis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 643._ + +SPARTIUM arborescens, feminibus lenti similibus. _Bauh. Pin. 396._ + +Spanish Broom. _Park. Parad. p. 442. t. 443. fig. 4._ + +[Illustration: No 85] + +Grows naturally in France, Spain, Italy, and Turkey; bears our climate +extremely well; is a common shrub in our nurseries and plantations, +which it much enlivens by its yellow blossoms: flowers from June to +August, or longer in cool seasons. + +Is raised by seeds, which generally come up plentifully under the +shrubs. + +MILLER mentions a variety of it, which, as inferior to the +common sort, does not appear to be worth cultivating. + + + + +[86] + +GLADIOLUS COMMUNIS. COMMON CORN-FLAG. + + +_Class and Order._ + +TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ sexpartita, ringens. _Stamina_ adscendentia. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +GLADIOLUS _communis_ foliis ensiformibus, floribus distantibus. + +GLADIOLUS utrinque floridus? _Bauh. Pin. 41._ + +The French Corn-Flag. _Park. Parad. p. 189. t. 191. f. 1._ + +[Illustration: No 86] + +Grows wild in the corn fields of most of the warmer parts of Europe, +varies with white and flesh-coloured blossoms, increases so fast, both +by offsets and seeds, as to become troublesome to the cultivator; hence, +having been supplanted by the Greater Corn-Flag, the _Byzantinus_ of +MILLER, whose blossoms are larger, and more shewy, it is not so +generally found in gardens as formerly. + +It flowers in June. + + + + +[87] + +HYOSCYAMUS AUREUS. GOLDEN-FLOWER'D HENBANE. + + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ infundibuliformis, obtusa. _Stamina_ inclinata. _Capsula_ + operculata 2-locularis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +HYOSCYAMUS _aureus_ foliis petiolatis dentatis acutis floribus + pedunculatis, fructibus pendulis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 220._ + +HYOSCYAMUS creticus luteus major. _Bauh. Pin. 169._ + +[Illustration: No 87] + +A native of Crete, and other parts of the East. + +"Flowers most part of the summer, but seldom ripens seeds in England; +will continue for several years, if kept in pots and sheltered in +winter, for it will not live in the open air during that season; if +placed under a common hot-bed frame, where it may enjoy as much free air +as possible in mild weather, it will thrive better than when more +tenderly treated. + +"It may be easily propagated by cuttings, which if planted in a shady +border and covered with hand-glasses, in any of the summer months, they +will take root in a month or six weeks, and may be afterwards planted in +pots and treated like the old plants." MILLER's _Gard. Dict._ + +It is, however, a more common practice to keep this plant in the stove +in the winter; one advantage, at least, attends this method, we secure +it with certainty. + + + + +[88] + +NARCISSUS BULBOCODIUM. HOOP PETTICOAT NARCISSUS. + + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Petala_ 6, æqualia: _Nectario_ infundibuliformi, 1-phyllo. _Stamina_ + intra nectarium. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +NARCISSUS _Bulbocodium_ spatha uniflora, nectario turbinato petalis + majore, staminibus pistilloque declinatis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. + 317._ + +NARCISSUS montanus juncifolius, calyce aureo. _Bauhin. p. 53._ + +The greater yellow Junquilia, or bastard Daffodil. _Park. Parad. p. 106. + t. 107. fig. 6. var. min. fig. 7._ + +[Illustration: No 88] + +Grows spontaneously in Portugal; flowers in the open border about the +middle of May, is an old inhabitant of our gardens, but, like the +_triandrus_, is now become scarce, at least in the nurseries about +London; in some gardens in Hampshire we have seen it grow abundantly: +MILLER calls it the _Hoop Petticoat Narcissus_, the nectary, as +he observes, being formed like the ladies hoop petticoats. + +It certainly is one of the neatest and most elegant of the genus, is +propagated by offsets, and should be planted in a loamy soil, with an +Eastern exposure. + + + + +[89] + +VIOLA PEDATA CUT-LEAV'D VIOLET. + + +_Class and Order._ + +SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ 5-phyllus. _Cor._ 5-petala, irregularis, postice cornuta. + _Capsula_ supera, 3-valvis; 1-locularis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +VIOLA _pedata_ acaulis, foliis pedatis septempartitis. _Lin. Syst. + Veget. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 802. Spec. Pl. p. 1323._ _Gronov. Fl. + Virg. ed. 2. p. 135._ + +VIOLA _tricolor_ caule nudo, foliis tenuius dissectis. _Banist. Virg._ + +VIOLA inodora flore purpurascente specioso, foliis ad modum digitorum + incisis. _Clayt. n. 254._ + +[Illustration: No 89] + +This species of Violet, a native of Virginia, is very rarely met with in +our gardens; the figure we have given, was drawn from a plant which +flowered this spring in the garden of THOMAS SYKES, Esq. at +Hackney, who possesses a very fine collection of plants, and of American +ones in particular. + +It is more remarkable for the singularity of its foliage than the beauty +of its blossoms; the former exhibit a very good example of the _folium +pedatum_ of LINNÆUS, whence its name. + +MILLER, who calls it _multifida_ from a former edition of +LINNÆUS's _Species Plantarum_, says, that the flowers are not +succeeded by seeds here, hence it can only be propagated by parting its +roots. + +The best mode of treating it, will be to place the roots in a pot of +loam and bog earth mixed, and plunge the pot into a north border, where +it must be sheltered in the winter, or taken up and kept in a common +hot-bed frame. + + + + +[90] + +GORTERIA RIGENS. RIGID-LEAV'D GORTERIA. + + +_Class and Order._ + +SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA FRUSTRANEA. + + +_Generic Character._ + +_Receptaculum_ nudum. _Pappus_ lanatus. _Corollæ_ radii ligulatæ. + _Calyx_ imbricatus, squamis spinosis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +GORTERIA _rigens_ foliis lanceolatis pinnatifidis, caule depresso, + scapis unifloris. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. 783. Sp. + Pl. ed. 3. p. 1284._ + +ARCTOTIS ramis decumbentibus, foliis lineari-lanceolatis rigidis, subtus + argenteis. _Mill. Dict. et Icon. t. 49._ + +ARCTOTHECA foliis rigidis leniter dissectis. _Vaill. act. 1728. n. 9._ + +[Illustration: No 90] + +The GORTERIA, of which there are several species, and most of them, like +the present, natives of the Cape, has been named in honour of DAVID DE +GORTER, author of the _Flora Zutphanica_ and _Ingrica_; the trivial name +of _rigens_ is given to this species from the rigidity of its leaves, a +term which it is sometimes apt to exchange for the more common botanic +name of _ringens_; an instance of such mistake occurs in the 6th edition +of MILLER's _Gard. Dict._ + +The greenhouse, to which it properly belongs, can scarcely boast a more +shewy plant; its blossoms, when expanded by the heat of the sun, and it +is only when the sun shines on them that they are fully expanded, +exhibit an unrivalled brilliancy of appearance. + +It flowers in June, but rarely brings its seeds to perfection in this +country, which is of the less consequence, as the plant is readily +enough increased by cuttings. + +It requires the common treatment of a greenhouse plant. + + + + +[91] + +IRIS SURFING. CHALCEDONIAN IRIS. + + +_Class and Order._ + +TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cor._ 6-petala, inæqualis, petalis alternis geniculato-patentibus. + _Stigmata_ petaliformia, cucullato-bilabiata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +IRIS _Surfing_ barbata foliis ensiformibus glabris, scapo unifloro, + petalis rotundatis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14. p. 88._ + +IRIS Surfing flore maximo et albo nigricante. _Bauh. Pin. 31._ + +The great Turkey Flower-de-luce. _Park. Parad. 179._ + +[Illustration: No 91] + +This species, by far the most magnificent of the Iris tribe, is a native +of Persia, from a chief city of which it takes the name of Surfing; +LINNÆUS informs us, that it was imported into Holland from +Constantinople in 1573. + +Though an inhabitant of a much warmer climate than our own, it thrives +readily in the open borders of our gardens; and, in certain favourable +situations, flowers freely about the latter end of May or beginning of +June. It succeeds best in a loamy soil and sunny exposure, with a pure +air moisture, which favours the growth of most of the genus, is +injurious and sometimes even fatal to this species. + +As it rarely ripens its seeds with us, it is generally propagated by +parting its roots in autumn. These are also usually imported from +Holland, and may be had of the importers of bulbs at a reasonable rate. + +Being liable to be destroyed by seasons unusually severe, it will be +prudent to place a few roots of it in pots, either in the greenhouse or +in a hot-bed frame during the winter. + +It bears forcing well. + + + + +[92] + +SAXIFRAGA SARMENTOSA. STRAWBERRY SAXIFRAGE. + + +_Class and Order._ + +DECANDRIA DIGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ 5-partitus. _Cor._ 5-petala. _Caps._ 2-rostris, 1-locularis, + polysperma. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +SAXIFRAGA _sarmentosa_ foliis radicalibus subrotundis cordatis crenatis, + sarmentis axillaribus radicantibus, corolla irregulari, racemo + composito. _Lin. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. p. 412._ _Suppl. p. 240._ + +[Illustration: No 92] + +This species of Saxifrage differing so widely from the others, both in +its habit and fructification, as to create a doubt in the minds of some, +whether it ought not to be considered as a distinct genus, is a native +of China, and one of the many plants which have been introduced into our +gardens since the time of MILLER. + +Its round variegated leaves, and strawberry-like runners, the uncommon +magnitude of the two lowermost pendant petals, joined to the very +conspicuous glandular nectary in the centre of the flower, half +surrounding the germen, render this species strikingly distinct. + +It is properly a greenhouse plant; in mild winters indeed it will bear +the open air, especially if placed at the foot of a wall, or among +rock-work; but, in such situations, it is frequently killed in severe +seasons. + +It flowers in May and June, but does not produce its blossoms so freely +as some others. + +No difficulty attends the propagation of it, for it increases so fast by +its runners, as to be even troublesome. + + + + +[93] + +SEMPERVIVUM MONANTHES. DWARF HOUSELEEK. + + +_Class and Order._ + +DODECANDRIA DODECAGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ 12-partitus. _Petala_ 12. _Capsulæ_ 12. polyspermæ. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +SEMPERVIVUM _monanthes_ foliis teretibus clavatis confertis, pedunculis + nudis subunifloris, nectariis obcordatis. _Aiton. Hort. Kew._ + +[Illustration: No 93] + +It appears from the _Hortus Kewensis_, the publication of which is daily +expected, that the plant here figured was first brought to this country +from the Canary Islands, by Mr. FRANCIS MASSON, in the year +1777. + +It is highly deserving the notice of the Botanist, not only as being by +far the least species of the genus, but on account of its Nectaria; +these, though not mentioned by LINNÆUS in his character of the genus, +have been described by other authors, particularly JACQUIN and HALLER; +and though not present in most, and but faintly visible in a few species +of _Sempervivum_, in this plant form a principal part of the +fructification; they are usually seven in number, but vary from six to +eight. + +In the specimens we have examined, and which perhaps have been rendered +luxuriant by culture, the number of stamina has been from twelve to +sixteen; of styles, from six to eight; of flowers on the same stalk, +from one to eight. + +It flowers during most of the summer months, succeeds very well with the +common treatment of a greenhouse plant in the summer, but does best in a +dry stove in the winter. + +Is readily increased by parting its roots. + + + + +[94] + +SISYRINCHIUM IRIOIDES. IRIS-LEAV'D SISYRINCHIUM. + + +_Class and Order._ + +GYNANDRIA TRIANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +Monogyna. _Spatha_ diphylla. _Petala_ 6 plana. _Capsula_ tri-locularis, + infera. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +SISYRINCHIUM _iridioides_ foliis ensiformibus; petalis + oblongo-obcordatis, venosis; germinibus pyriformibus, subhirsutis. + +SISYRINCHIUM _Bermudiana._ _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 820. var. 2. + Spec. Pl. p. 1353._ + +BERMUDIANA iridis folio, radice fibrosa. _Dill. Elth. 48. t. 41. f. 48._ + +SISYRINCHIUM _Bermudiana_ foliis gladiolatis amplexicaulibus, pedunculis + brevioribus. _Miller's Dict. ed. 6. 4to._ + +[Illustration: No 94] + +On comparing the present plant with the _Bermudiana graminea flore +minore coeruleo_ of DILLENIUS, both of which I have growing, +and now in pots before me, the difference appears so striking, that I am +induced with him and MILLER to consider them as distinct +species; especially as, on a close examination, there appear characters +sufficient to justify me in the opinion, which characters are not +altered by culture. + +It is a native of the Bermudian Islands, and flowers in the open border +from May to the end of July; it is not uncommon to keep it in the +greenhouse, for which, from its size &c. it is very well adapted; but it +is not necessary to treat it tenderly, as it will bear a greater degree +of cold than many plants usually considered as hardy. + +It may be propagated most readily by seeds, or by parting its roots in +the autumn; should be planted on a border with an eastern aspect; soil +the same as for bulbs. + + + + +[95] + +GERANIUM RADULA. RASP-LEAV'D GERANIUM. + + +_Class and Order._ + +MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +Monogyna. _Stigmata_ 5. _Fructus_ rostratus, 5-coccus. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +GERANIUM _revolutum_ pedunculis subbifloris, foliis multifidis + linearibus scabris ad oras revolutis, caule arboreo. _Jacq. ic. + 133. collect. 1. p. 84._ + +GERANIUM _Radula._ _Cavanill. Diss. 4. p. 262. t. 101. f. 1._ + +[Illustration: No 95] + +This is one of the numerous tribe of _Geraniums_ introduced from the +Cape since the time of MILLER: it takes the name of _Radula_, +which is the Latin term for a rasp or file, from the rough rasp-like +surface of the leaves. + +There are two varieties of it, a _major_ and a _minor_, which keep +pretty constantly to their characters; and as this species is readily +raised from seeds, it affords also many seminal varieties. + +As a Botanist, desirous of seeing plants distinct in their characters, +we could almost wish it were impossible to raise these _foreign +Geraniums_ from seeds; for, without pretending to any extraordinary +discernment, we may venture to prophecy, that in a few years, from the +multiplication of seminal varieties, springing from seeds casually, or +perhaps purposely impregnated with the pollen of different sorts, such a +crop will be produced as will baffle all our attempts to reduce to +species, or even regular varieties. + +Such as are partial to this tribe, will no doubt wish to have this +species in their collection; the blossoms are pretty, and the foliage is +singular, but it remains but a short time in flower. + +It is readily propagated by cuttings. + + + + +[96] + +LANTANA ACULEATA. PRICKLY LANTANA. + + +_Class and Order._ + +DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ 4-dentatus obsolete. _Stigma_ uncinato-refractum. _Drupa_ nucleo + 2-loculari. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +LANTANA _aculeata_ foliis oppositis, caule aculeato ramoso spicis + hemisphæricis. _Lin. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. p. 566._ + +[Illustration: No 96] + +According to MILLER, this species grows naturally in _Jamaica_, +and most of the other Islands in the _West-Indies_, where it is called +_wild Sage_; the flowers, which are very brilliant, are succeeded by +roundish berries, which, when ripe, turn black, having a pulpy covering +over a single hard seed. + +It is readily propagated by cuttings. + +Different plants vary greatly in the colour of their blossoms, and the +prickliness of their stalks; the prickles are seldom found on the young +shoots. + +This plant will bear to be placed abroad in the warmest summer months, +the rest of the year it requires artificial heat. It is usually placed +in the dry stove, to which, as it is seldom without flowers, it imparts +great brilliancy. + + + + +[97] + +FUCHSIA COCCINEA. SCARLET FUCHSIA. + + +_Class and Order._ + +OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ 1-phyllus, coloratus, corollifer, maximus. _Petala_ 4, parva, + _Bacca_ infera, 4-locularis, polysperma. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +FUCHSIA _coccinea_ foliis oppositis ovatis denticulatis; petalis + obovatis, obtusis. _Hort. Kew._ + +THILCO _Feuillée it. 3. p. 64. t. 47._ + +[Illustration: No 97] + +The present plant is a native of _Chili_, and was introduced to the +royal gardens at Kew, in the year 1788, by Capt. FIRTH; it +takes the name of _Fuchsia_ from _Fuchs_ a German Botanist of great +celebrity, author of the _Historia Stirpium_ in _folio_, published in +1542, containing five hundred and sixteen figures in wood; and which, +though mere outlines, express the objects they are intended to +represent, infinitely better than many laboured engravings of more +modern times. + +Every person who can boast a hot-house will be anxious to possess the +_Fuchsia_, as it is not only a plant of peculiar beauty, but produces +its rich pendant blossoms through most of the summer; the petals in the +centre of the flower are particularly deserving of notice; they somewhat +resemble a small roll of the richest purple-coloured ribband. + +Though this plant will not succeed well in the winter, nor be easily +propagated unless in a stove, it will flower very well during the summer +months, in a good greenhouse or hot-bed frame, and though at present +from its novelty it bears a high price, yet as it is readily propagated, +both by layers, cuttings, and seeds, it will soon be within the purchase +of every lover of plants. + +Mr. LEE, of Hammersmith, we understand first had this plant for +sale. + + + + +[98] + +TROPÆOLUM MINUS. SMALL TROPÆOLUM, OR INDIAN-CRESS. + + +_Class and Order._ + +OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 1-phyllus, calcaratus. _Petala_ 5, inæqualia. _Bacca_ tres, +siccæ. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +TROPÆOLUM _minus_ foliis peltatis repandis, petalis acuminato-setaceis. + _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 357._ + +Indian-Cresses, or yellow Larke's-heeles. _Park. Parad. p. 280._ + +[Illustration: No 98] + +This species of _Tropæolum_ (which like the _majus_ already figured in +this work, is a native of _Peru_) has long been an inhabitant of our +gardens; it was the only species we had in the time of PARKINSON, by +whom it is figured and described; it appears indeed to have been a great +favourite with that intelligent author, for he says this plant "is of so +great beauty and sweetnesse withall, that my garden of delight cannot +bee unfurnished of it, and again the whole flower hath a fine small +sent, very pleasing, which being placed in the middle of some Carnations +or Gilloflowers (for they are in flower at the same time) make a +delicate Tussimusie, as they call it, or Nosegay, both for sight and +sent." + +As the _Passiflora cærulea_, from its superior beauty and hardiness, has +in a great degree supplanted the _incarnata_, so has the _Tropæolum +majus_ the _minus_; we have been informed indeed that it was entirely +lost to our gardens till lately, when it was reintroduced by Dr. +J. E. SMITH, who by distributing it to his friends, and the +Nurserymen near London, has again rendered it tolerably plentiful. + +Like the _majus_ it is an annual, though by artificial heat it may be +kept in a pot through the winter, as usually is the variety of it with +double flowers; but as it will grow readily in the open air, in warm +sheltered situations, it should be raised on a hot-bed, like other +tender annuals, if we wish to have it flower early in the summer, +continue long in blossom, and produce perfect seeds. + + + + +[99] + +ANTIRRHINUM PURPUREUM. PURPLE TOAD-FLAX. + + +_Class and Order._ + +DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ 5-phyllus. _Corollæ_ basis deorsum prominens, nectarifera. + _Capsula_ 2-locularis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +ANTIRRHINUM purpureum foliis quaternis linearibus, caule erecto spicato. + _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 555._ + +LINARIA purpurea major odorata. _Bauh. Pin. 213._ + +LINARIA altera purpurea. _Dod. Pempt. 183._ + +[Illustration: No 99] + +Though not so beautiful as many of the genus, this species is a common +inhabitant of the flower-garden, in which it continues to blossom, +during most of the summer. + +It is a native of Italy, and delights in a dry soil and situation; it +will even flourish on walls, and hence will serve very well to decorate +the more elevated parts of rock-work. + +When once introduced it comes up spontaneously from seeds. + + + + +[100] + +LATHYRUS TINGITANUS. TANGIER PEA. + + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Stylus_ planus, supra villosus, superne latior, _Cal._ laciniæ + superiores 2-breviores. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +LATHYRUS _tingitanus_ pedunculis bifloris, cirrhis diphyllis, foliolis + alternis lanceolatis glabris, stipulis lunatis. _Lin. Syst. + Vegetab. p. 663._ + +LATHYRUS tingitanus, filiquis orobi, flore amplo ruberrimo. _Moris, + hist. 2. p. 55._ + +[Illustration: No 100] + +The Tangier Pea, a native of Morocco, cannot boast the agreeable scent, +or variety of colours of the sweet Pea; nor does it continue so long in +flower; nevertheless there is a richness in the colour of its blossoms, +which entitles it to a place in the gardens of the curious, in which it +is usually sown in the spring, with other hardy annuals. + +It flowers in June and July. + +The best mode of propagating it, is to, sow the seeds on the borders in +patches, where the plants are to remain; thinning them when they come +up, so as to leave only two or three together. + + + + +[101] + +ALYSSUM HALIMIFOLIUM. SWEET ALYSSUM. + + +_Class and Order._ + +TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Filamenta_ quædam introrsum denticulo notata. _Silicula_ emarginata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +ALYSSUM _halimifolium_ caulibus suffruticosis, diffusis, foliis + lineari-lanceolatis integerrimis, villosiusculis, staminibus + simplicibus, siliculis subrotundis integris. _Hort. Kew. V. 2. p. + 381._ + +ALYSSUM halimifolium caulibus procumbentibus, perennantibus, foliis + lanceolato-linearibus, acutis, integerrimis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. + p. 590._ + +Thlaspi halimi folio sempervirens. _Herm. lugd. 594. t. 595._ + +[Illustration: No 101] + +Grows spontaneously in dry situations, in the southernmost parts of +Europe, where it is shrubby; and in similar situations it is so in some +degree with us; but on our flower-borders, where it is usually sown, it +grows so luxuriantly, that the stalks becoming juicy and tender, are +generally destroyed by our frosts; hence it is an annual from +peculiarity of circumstance; as such, it is very generally cultivated; +the flowers exhibit a pretty, innocent appearance, and strongly diffuse +an agreeable honey-like smell. They continue to blow through most of the +summer months. + +It is a very proper plant for a wall or piece of rock-work; care must be +taken, however, not to sow too much of the seed in one pot, as it +spreads wide, but it may easily be reduced at any period of its growth, +as it does not creep at the root. + +The specific description in the _Hortus Kewensis_ above referred to, +admirably characterizes the plant, but surely at the expence of its +generic character. + + + + +[102] + +CAMPANULA SPECULUM. VENUS'S LOOKING-GLASS. + + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ campanulata, fundo clauso valvis staminiferis. _Stigma_ + trifidum. _Capsula_ infera, poris lateralibus dehiscens. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +CAMPANULA Speculum caule ramosissimo, diffuso; foliis oblongis + subcrenatis, floribus solitariis, capsulis prismaticis. _Linn. + Syst. Vegetab. p. 209._ + +ONOBRYCHIS arvensis f. Campanula arvensis erecta. _Bauh. Pin. 215._ + +[Illustration: No 102] + +Grows wild among the corn in the South of Europe, is an annual, and, +like the _Sweet Alyssum_, generally cultivated in our gardens, and most +deservedly so indeed, for when a large assemblage of its blossoms are +expanded by the rays of the sun, their brilliancy is such as almost to +dazzle the eyes of the beholder. + +Those annuals which bear our winter's frosts without injury, are +advantageously sown in the autumn; for by that means they flower more +early, and their seeds ripen with more certainty; the present plant is +one of those: it usually sows itself, and is therefore raised without +any trouble. + +It begins to flower in May and June, and continues to enliven the garden +till August or September. + + + + +[103] + +PELARGONIUM ACETOSUM. SORREL CRANE'S-BILL. + + +_Class and Order._ + +MONADELPHIA HEPTANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ 5-partitus: lacinia suprema definente in tubulum capillarem, + nectariferum, secus pedunculum decurrentem. _Cor._ 5-petala, + irregularis. _Filam._ 10. in æqualia: quorum 3 (raro 5) castrata. + _Fructus_, 5-coccus, rostratus: rostra spiralia, introrsum barbata. + _L'Herit. Geran._ + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +PELARGONIUM _acetosum_ umbellis paucifloris, foliis obovatis crenatis + glabris carnosis, petalis linearibus. _L'Herit. Monogr de Geran. n. + 97._ + +GERANIUM _acetosum_ calycibus monophyllis, foliis glabris obovatis + carnosis crenatis, caule fruticoso laxo. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. + 14._ _Murr. p. 613. Sp. Pl. p. 947._ + +GERANIUM Africanum frutescens, folio crasso et glauco acetosæ sapore. + _Comm. præl. 51. t. 1._ + +[Illustration: No 103] + +Mons. L'HERITIER, the celebrated French Botanist, who in the +number, elegance, and accuracy of his engravings, appears ambitious of +excelling all his contemporaries, in a work now executing on the family +of _Geranium_, has thought it necessary to divide that numerous genus +into three, viz. _Erodium_, _Pelargonium_, and _Geranium_. + +The _Erodium_ includes those which LINNÆUS (who noticing the +great difference in their appearance, had made three divisions of them) +describes with five fertile stamina, and calls Myrrhina; the +_Pelargonium_ those with seven fertile stamina, his _Africana_; the +_Geranium_, those with ten fertile stamina, his _Batrachia_. + +They are continued under the class _Monadelphia_, in which they now form +three different orders, according to the number of their stamina, viz. +_Pentandria_, _Heptandria_, and _Decandria_. If the principles of the +Linnæan system had been strictly adhered to, they should perhaps have +been separated into different classes; for though the _Pelargonium_ is +Monadelphous, the _Geranium_ is not so; in consequence of this +alteration, the _Geranium peltatum_ and _radula_, figured in a former +part of this work, must now be called _Pelargonium peltatum_, and +_radula_, and the _Geranium Reichardi_ be an _Erodium_. + +The leaves of this plant have somewhat the taste of sorrel, whence its +name, it flowers during most of the summer, and is readily propagated by +cuttings. MILLER mentions a variety of it with scarlet flowers. + +It is a native of the Cape, and known to have been cultivated in Chelsea +Garden, in the year 1724. + + + + +[104] + +LYSIMACHIA BULBIFERA. BULB-BEARING LOOSESTRIFE. + + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ rotata. _Capsula_ globosa, mucronata, 10-valvis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +LYSIMACHIA _stricta_ racemis terminalibus, petalis lanceolatis patulis, + foliis lanceolatis sessilibus. _Hort. Kew. p. 199._ + +[Illustration: No 104] + +In the spring of the year 1781, I received roots of this plant from Mr. +ROBERT SQUIBB, then at New-York, which produced flowers the +ensuing summer, since that time, I have had frequent opportunities of +observing a very peculiar circumstance in its oeconomy; after +flowering, instead of producing seeds, it throws out _gemmæ vivaces_, or +_bulbs_ of an unusual form, from the alæ of the leaves, which falling +off in the month of October, when the plant decays, produce young plants +the ensuing spring. + +As it is distinguished from all the known species of _Lysimachia_ by +this circumstance, we have named it _bulbifera_ instead of _stricta_, +under which it appears in the _Hortus Kewensis_. + +Some Botanists, whose abilities we revere, are of opinion that the +trivial names of plants, which are or should be a kind of abridgment of +the specific character, ought very rarely or never to be changed: we are +not for altering them capriciously on every trivial occasion, but in +such a case as the present, where the science is manifestly advanced by +the alteration, it would surely have been criminal to have preferred a +name, barely expressive, to one which immediately identifies the plant. + +The _Lysimachia bulbifera_ is a hardy perennial, grows spontaneously in +boggy or swampy ground, and hence requires a moist soil. It flowers in +August. + + + + +[105] + +TRADESCANTIA VIRGINICA. VIRGINIAN TRADESCANTIA, OR SPIDERWORT. + + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ triphyllus. _Petala_ 3. _Filamenta_ villis articulatis. + _Capsula_ 3-locularis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +TRADESCANTIA _Virginica_ erecta lævis, floribus congestis. _Linn. Syst. + Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 314. Sp. Pl. 411._ + +ALLIUM five moly Virginianum. _Bauh. Pin. 506._ + +PHALANGIUM Ephemerum Virginianum Joannis Tradescant. + +The soon-fading Spiderwort of Virginia, or Tradescant his Spiderwort. + _Park. Parad. 152. 5. t. 151. f. 4._ + +[Illustration: No 105] + +Under the name of _Spiderwort_, the old Botanists arranged many plants +of very different genera: the name is said to have arisen from the +supposed efficacy of some of these plants, in curing the bite of a kind +of spider, called _Phalangium_; not the _Phalangium_ of +LINNÆUS, which is known to be perfectly harmless: under this +name, PARKINSON minutely describes it; he mentions also, how he +first obtained it. + +"This Spiderwort," says our venerable author, "is of late knowledge, and +for it the Christian world is indebted unto that painful, industrious +searcher, John Tradescant, who first received it of a friend that +brought it out of Virginia, and hath imparted hereof, as of many other +things, both to me and others." + +TOURNEFORT afterwards gave it the name of _Ephemerum_, +expressive of the short duration of its flowers, which LINNÆUS +changed to _Tradescantia_. + +Though a native of Virginia, it bears the severity of our climate +uninjured, and being a beautiful, as well as hardy perennial, is found +in almost every garden. + +Though each blossom lasts but a day, it has such a profusion in store, +that it is seldom found without flowers through the whole of the summer. +There are two varieties of it, the one with white the other with pale +purple flowers. The most usual way of propagating it is by parting its +roots in autumn to obtain varieties, we must sow its seeds. + + + + +[106] + +IBERIS UMBELLATA. PURPLE CANDY-TUFT. + + +_Class and Order._ + +TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ irregularis: _Petalis_ 2 exterioribus majoribus: _Silicula_ + polysperma, emarginata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +IBERIS _umbellata_ herbacea, foliis lanceolatis, acuminatis, + inferioribus serratis; superioribus integerrimis. _Linn. Syst. Veg. + ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 589. Sp. Pl. p. 906._ + +THLASPI umbellatum creticum, iberidis folio. _Bauh. Pin. 106._ + +DRABA S. Arabis S. Thlaspi Candiæ. _Dod. pempt. 713._ + +THLASPI creticum umbellatum flore albo et purpureo. Candy-Tufts, white + and purple. _Park. Parad. p. 390._ + +[Illustration: No 106] + +The Candy-Tuft is one of those annuals which contribute generally to +enliven the borders of the flower-garden: its usual colour is a pale +purple, there is also a white variety of it, and another with deep but +very bright purple flowers, the most desirable of the three, but where a +garden is large enough to admit of it, all the varieties may be sown. + +For want of due discrimination, as MILLER has before observed, +Nurserymen are apt to collect and mix with this species the seeds of +another, viz. the _amara_, and which persons not much skilled in plants +consider as the white variety; but a slight attention will discover it +to be a very different plant, having smaller and longer heads, differing +also in the shape of its leaves and seed vessels, too trifling a plant +indeed to appear in the flower-garden. + +Purple Candy-Tuft is a native of the South of Europe, and flowers in +June and July: it should be sown in the spring, on the borders of the +flower-garden in patches; when the plants come up, a few only should be +left, as they will thereby become stronger, produce more flowers, and be +of longer duration. + + + + +[107] + +CASSIA CHAMÆCRISTA. DWARF CASSIA. + + +_Class and Order._ + +DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ 5-phyllus. _Petala_ 5. _Antheræ_ superne 3 steriles; infimæ 3 + rostratæ. _Legumen._ + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +CASSIA _Chamæcrista_ foliis multijugis, glandula petiolari pedicellata, + stipulis ensiformibus. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. + 394._ _Hort. Kew. p. 54._ + +CHAMÆCRISTA pavonis major. _Comm. Hort. 1. p. 53. t. 37._ + +[Illustration: No 107] + +A native of the West-Indies, and of Virginia according to +LINNÆUS; not common in our gardens, though cultivated as long +ago as 1699, by the DUCHESS OF BEAUFORT; (_vid. Hort. Kew._) +unnoticed by MILLER. + +This species, superior in beauty to many of the genus, is an annual, and +consequently raised only from seeds, these must be sown in the spring, +on a hot-bed, and when large enough to transplant, placed separately in +pots of light loamy earth, then replunged into a moderate hot-bed to +bring them forward, and in the month of June removed into a warm border, +where, if the season prove favourable, they will flower very well +towards August; but, as such seldom ripen their seeds, it will be proper +to keep a few plants in the stove or greenhouse for that purpose, +otherwise the species may be lost. + + + + +[108] + +ANTHYLLIS TETRAPHYLLA. FOUR-LEAV'D LADIES-FINGER. + + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ ventricosus. _Legumen_ subrotundum, tectum. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +ANTHYLLIS _tetraphylla_ herbacea, foliis quaterno-pinnatis. _Linn. Syst. + Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 25._ _Hort. Kew. vol. 3. p. 25._ + +LOTUS pentaphyllos vesicaria. _Bauh. Pin. 332._ + +TRIFOLIUM halicacabum. _Cam. Hort. 171. t. 47._ + +[Illustration: No 108] + +An annual; the spontaneous growth of Spain, Italy, and Sicily, flowers +in the open border in July, and ripens its seeds, in September. + +Long since cultivated in our gardens, but more as a rare, or curious, +than a beautiful plant. + +Its seeds are to be sown in April, on a bed of light earth, where they +are to remain; no other care is necessary than thinning them, and +keeping them clear of weeds. + + + + + INDEX. + + In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the _Third + Volume_ are alphabetically arranged. + + _Pl._ + + 101 Alyssum halimifolium. + 108 Anthyllis tetraphylla. + 74 Antirrhinum triste. + 99 " purpureum. + 102 Campanula speculum. + 107 Cassia Chamæcrista. + 77 Centaurea montana. + 81 Colutea arborescens. + 76 Epilobium angustissimum. + 97 Fuchsia coccinea. + 95 Geranium Radula. + 86 Gladiolus communis. + 90 Gorteria rigens. + 83 Hibiscus syriacus. + 87 Hyoscyamus aureus. + 106 Iberis umbellata. + 91 Iris susiana. + 82 Lachenalia tricolor. + 96 Lantana aculeata. + 100 Lathyrus tingitanus. + 79 Lotus jacobæus. + 104 Lysimachia bulbifera. + 73 Monsonia speciosa. + 88 Narcissus Bulbocodium. + 78 " odorus. + 103 Pelargonium acetosum. + 75 Potentilla grandiflora. + 92 Saxifraga sarmentosa. + 93 Sempervivum monanthes. + 94 Sisyrinchium iridioides. + 85 Spartium junceum. + 80 Spigelia marilandica. + 105 Tradescantia virginica. + 98 Tropæolum minus. + 84 Tussilago alpina. + 89 Viola pedata. + + + INDEX. + + In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the _Third + Volume_ are alphabetically arranged. + + _Pl._ + + 101 Alyssum sweet. + 77 Blue-bottle greater. + 85 Broom Spanish. + 106 Candy-tuft purple. + 107 Cassia dwarf. + 84 Coltsfoot alpine. + 81 Colutea, or Bladder-Senna tree. + 86 Corn-flag common. + 103 Crane's-bill sorrel. + 97 Fuchsia scarlet. + 95 Geranium rasp-leav'd. + 90 Gorteria rigid-leav'd. + 87 Henbane golden-flower'd. + 83 Hibiscus Syrian. + 93 Houseleek dwarf. + 91 Iris chalcedonian. + 78 Jonquil great. + 82 Lachenalia three-colour'd. + 108 Ladies finger four-leav'd. + 96 Lantana prickly. + 102 Looking-glass Venus's. + 104 Loosestrife bulb-bearing. + 79 Lotus black-flower'd. + 73 Monsonica large-flower'd. + 88 Narcissus hoop-petticoat. + 100 Pea Tangier. + 75 Potentilla large-flower'd, + 92 Saxifrage Strawberry. + 94 Sisyrinchium Iris-leav'd. + 80 Spigelia, or Worm-grass Maryland. + 74 Toad-flax black-flower'd. + 99 " purple. + 105 Tradescantia Virginian. + 98 Tropæolum, or Indian cress, small. + 89 Violet cut-leav'd. + 76 Willow-herb narrowest-leav'd. + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 3, by William Curtis + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, VOL. 3 *** + +***** This file should be named 17672-8.txt or 17672-8.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/6/7/17672/ + +Produced by Jason Isbell, Janet Blenkinship and the Online +Distributed Proofreaders Europe at http://dp.rastko.net + + +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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