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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/17979-8.txt b/17979-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3f6fb13 --- /dev/null +++ b/17979-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2385 @@ +Project Gutenberg's The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 4, 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, Vol. 4 + Or, Flower-Garden Displayed + +Author: William Curtis + +Release Date: March 14, 2006 [EBook #17979] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, VOL. 4 *** + + + + +Produced by University of Georgia Libraries, 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. IV.~ + + Observe the rising Lily's snowy grace, + Observe the various vegetable race; + They neither toil nor spin, but careless grow, + Yet see how warm they blush! how bright they glow! + What regal vestments can with them compare! + What king so shining, or what queen so fair. + THOMSON. + + + LONDON: + + Printed by COUCHMAN and FRY, Throgmorton-Street. For + + W. CURTIS, No 3, _St. George's-Crescent_, Black-Friars-Road; And Sold by + + the principal Booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland. + + M DCC XCI. + + + * * * * * + + + + +[109] + +LAVATERA TRIMESTRIS. ANNUAL LAVATERA. + +_Class and Order_. + +MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ duplex: exterior 3-fidus. _Arilli_ plurimi, monospermi. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + +LAVATERA _trimestris_ caule scabro herbaceo, foliis glabris, pedunculis + unifloris, fructibus orbiculo tectis. _Linn. Sp. Pl. 974._ _Hort. + Kew. v. 2. p. 452._ + +LAVATERA _(althææfolia)_ foliis infimis cordato-orbiculatis, caulinis + trilobis acuminatis glabris, pedunculis unifloris, caule herbaceo. + _Miller's Gard. Dict. ed. 6. 4to._ + +MALVA folio vario. _Bauh. Pin. 315._ + +MALVA Hispanica flore carneo amplo. + +The Spanish blush Mallow. _Park. Parad. p. 366._ + +[Illustration: No 109] + +Our plant is undoubtedly the _Spanish blush Mallow_ of +PARKINSON, and the _Lavatera althææfolia_ of MILLER +according to the former, it is a native of Spain, according to the +latter, of Syria. + +Mr. MILLER considers it as distinct from the _trimestris_; Mr. +AITON has no _althææfolia_ in his _Hort. Kew._ we are therefore +to conclude that the _althææfolia_ of MILLER, and the _trimestris_ +of LINNÆUS are one and the same species. + +Of the annuals commonly raised in our gardens, this is one of the most +shewy, as well as the most easily cultivated; its seeds are to be sown +in March, on the borders where they are to remain, the plants, thinned +as they come up, and kept clear of weeds. + +It varies with white blossoms, and flowers from July to September. + + + + +[110] + +MIMOSA VERTICILLATA. WHORL'D-LEAV'D MIMOSA. + +_Class and Order._ + +POLYGAMIA MONOECIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +HERMAPHROD. _Cal._ 5-dentatus. _Cor._ 5-fida. _Stam._ 5. f. plura. + _Pist._ 1. _Legumen._ + +MASC. _Cal._ 5-dentatus. _Cor._ 5-fida. _Stam._ 5. 10. plura. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +MIMOSA _verticillata_ intermis, foliis verticillatis linearibus + pungentibus. _L'Herit. fert. angl. t. 41._ _Hort. Kew. p. 438._ + +[Illustration: No 110] + +The radical leaves of plants usually differ in shape from those of the +stalk, in some plants remarkably so; the _Lepidium perfoliatum_ figured +in the _Flora Austriaca_ of Professor JACQUIN is a striking +instance of this dissimilarity: the _Lathyrus Aphaca_, a British plant, +figured in the _Flora Lond._ is still more such, as large entire +leaf-like stipulæ grow in pairs on the stalk, instead of leaves, while +the true leaves next the root, visible when the plant first comes up +from seed, are few in number, and those pinnated. The present plant no +less admirably illustrates the above remark, the leaves which first +appear on the seedling plants being pinnated, as is represented in the +small figure on the plate, while those which afterwards come forth grow +in whorls. We have observed the same disposition to produce dissimilar +leaves in several other species of _Mimosa_, which have arisen from +Botany-Bay seeds, lately introduced. + +This singular species, on the authority of Mr. DAVID NELSON, is +a native of New South Wales, and was introduced to the royal garden at +Kew by Sir JOSEPH BANKS, Bart. + +We first saw it in flower, and have since seen it with ripe seed-pods, +at Mr. MALCOLM's, Kennington. + +It is properly a green-house plant, and propagated only by seeds, which +are to be sown on a gentle hot-bed. + +It is some years in arriving at its flowering state. + + + + +[111] + +LATHYRUS TUBEROSUS. TUBEROUS LATHYRUS, or PEASE +EARTH-NUT. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Stylus_ planus, supra villosus, superne latior. _Cal._ laciniæ + superiores 2 breviores. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +LATHYRUS _tuberosus_ pedunculis multifloris, cirrhis diphyllis: foliolis + ovalibus, internodiis nudis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. + p. 663._ + +LATHYRUS arvensis repens tuberosus. _Bauh. Pin. 344._ + +LATHYRUS arvensis sive terræ glandes. Pease Earth-Nuts. _Parkins. Theat. + p. 1061._ + +[Illustration: No 111] + +Grows spontaneously in various parts of France and Germany; Mr. +PHILIP HURLOCK lately shewed me some dried specimens of this +plant, which he gathered in the corn fields, on the _Luneburgh Heide_, +in _Upper Lusatia_, where it grew plentifully, and afforded a pleasing +appearance to the curious traveller:--not so to the husbandman, to whom +it is as noxious as the _Convolvulus arvensis_ (_small Bindweed_) is +with us, and equally difficult to extirpate, having powerfully creeping +roots, which somewhat like the _Helianthus tuberosus_ (commonly called +_Jerusalem Artichoke_) produce large tubera, and which like those of +that plant, are in high esteem with some as an article of food, and as +such even cultivated abroad. + +It flowers from June to the end of August. It is certainly a beautiful +hardy perennial, similar to (but of more humble growth) than the +everlasting pea, yet must be cautiously introduced on account of its +creeping roots, by which it is most readily propagated, rarely ripening +its seeds with us. + +It is, perhaps, better suited to decorate the unclip'd hedge of the +pleasure-ground, than the border of the flower-garden. + + + + +[112] + +CISTUS LADANIFERUS. GUM CISTUS. + +_Class and Order._ + +POLYANDRIA MONOGNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ 5-petala. _Calyx_ 5-phyllus: foliolis duobus minoribus. + _Capsula_. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +CISTUS _ladaniferus_ arborescens ex stipulatus, foliis lanceolatis supra + lævibus, petiolis basi coalitis vaginantibus. _Linn. Syst. + Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 497._ + +CISTUS ladanifera Hispanica incana. _Bauh. Pin. 467._ + +CISTUS Ledon. The Gum Cistus or Sweete Holly Rose. _Park. Parad. p. + 422._ + +[Illustration: No 112] + +One of the most ornamental hardy shrubs we possess; at once pleasing to +the eye, and grateful to the smell; for, as MILLER observes, +the whole plant in warm weather exudes a sweet glutinous substance, +which has a very strong balsamic scent, so as to perfume the +circumambient air to a great distance. + +Its blossoms, which appear in June and July in great profusion, exhibit +a remarkable instance of quickly-fading beauty, opening and expanding to +the morning sun, and before night strewing the ground with their elegant +remains: as each succeeding day produces new blossoms, this deciduous +disposition of the petals, common to the genus, is the less to be +regretted. + +Is a native of Spain and Portugal, prefers a dry soil and warm sheltered +situation, and in very severe seasons requires some kind of covering. + +Cultivated 1656, by Mr. JOHN TRADESCANT, jun. _Ait. Hort. Kew._ + +Is readily increased from cuttings; but MILLER remarks, that +the best plants are raised from seeds. + +Varies with waved leaves, and in having petals without a spot at the +base. + +Is not the plant from whence the Ladanum of the shops is produced, +though affording in warmer countries than ours a similar gum, hence its +name of _ladanifera_ is not strictly proper. + + + + +[113] + +CONVOLVULUS PURPUREUS. PURPLE BINDWEED, or CONVOLVULUS +MAJOR. + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ campanulata, plicata. _Stigmata_ 2. _Capsula_ 2-locularis; + loculis dispermis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +CONVOLVULUS _purpureus_ foliis cordatis indivisis, fructibus cernuis, + pedicellis incrassatis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. + 200._ + +CONVOLVULUS purpureus folio subrotundo. _Bauh. Pin. 295._ + +CONVOLVULUS cæruleus major rotundifolius. The greater blew Bindweede or + Bell-flower with round leaves. _Park. Parad. p. 358._ + +[Illustration: No 113] + +"Is an annual plant which grows naturally in Asia and America, but has +been long cultivated for ornament in the English gardens, and is +generally known by the title of Convolvulus major. Of this there are +three or four lasting varieties; the most common hath a purple flower, +but there is one with a white, another with a red, and one with a +whitish-blue flower, which hath white seeds. All these varieties I have +cultivated many years, without observing them to change. If the seeds of +these sorts are sown in the spring, upon a warm border where the plants +are designed to remain, they will require no other culture but to keep +them clear from weeds, and place some tall stakes down by them, for +their stalks to twine about, otherwise they will spread on the ground +and make a bad appearance. These plants, if they are properly supported, +will rise ten or twelve feet high in warm Summers: they flower in June, +July, and August, and will continue till the frost kills them. Their +seeds ripen in Autumn." _Miller's Gard. Dict. ed. 4to. 1771._ + + + + +[114] + +SILENE PENDULA. PENDULOUS CATCHFLY. + +_Class and Order._ + +DECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +Calyx ventricosus. Petala 5, unguiculata coronata ad faucem, Capsula + 3-locularis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +SILENE _pendula_ calycibus fructiferis pendulis inflatis: angulis decem + scabris. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 421._ + +VISCAGO hirsuta sicula, lychnidis aquaticæ facie, supina. _Dill. Hort. + Elth. 421. t. 312. f. 404._ + +[Illustration: No 114] + +Grows spontaneously in Sicily and Crete; is an annual of humble growth, +and hence a suitable plant for the borders of the flower garden, or the +decoration of Rock-work, as its blossoms are shewy, and not of very +short duration. + +It flowers in June and July, and if once permitted to scatter its seeds, +will come up yearly without any trouble. + + + + +[115] + +LATHYRUS SATIVUS. BLUE-FLOWER'D LATHYRUS, or +CHICHLING-VETCH. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Stylus_ planus, supra villosus, superne latior. _Calycis_ laciniæ + superiores 2 breviores. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +LATHYRUS _sativus_ pedunculis unifloris, cirrhis diphyllis + tetraphyllisque, leguminibus ovatis compressis dorso bimarginatis. + _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 662._ + +LATHYRUS sativus, flore fructusque albo. _Bauh. Pin. 343._ + +[Illustration: No 115] + +A native of France, Spain, and Italy, and distinguishable when in flower +by the blue colour of its blossoms, which are sometimes, however, +milk-white; but its seed-pods afford a more certain mark of distinction, +being unusually short, broad, and winged on the back. + +This species grows to the height of about two feet, and is usually sown +in the spring with other annuals; though not so beautiful, it forms a +contrast to the sweet and Tangier Pea, and may be introduced where there +is plenty of room, or a desire of possessing and knowing most of the +plants of a genus. + +It flowers in June and July. + +Cultivated 1739, by Mr. PHILIP MILLER. _Ait. Hort. Kew._ + + + + +[116] + +LIMODORUM TUBEROSUM. TUBEROUS-ROOTED LIMODORUM. + +_Class and Order._ + +GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +Nectarium monophyllum, concavum, pedicellatum, intra petalum infimum. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +LIMODORUM _tuberosum_ floribus subspicatis barbatis. _Ait. Hort. Kew. p. + 301._ + +[Illustration: No 116] + +For this rare plant I am indebted to the very laudable exertions of a +late Gardener of mine, JAMES SMITH, who, in the spring of the +year 1788, examining attentively the bog earth which had been brought +over with some plants of the _Dionæa Muscipula_, found several small +tooth-like knobby roots, which being placed in pots of the same earth, +and plunged into a tan-pit having a gentle heat, produced plants the +ensuing summer, two of which flowered, and from the strongest of those +our figure was taken. + +From this circumstance we learn, that this species is a native of South +Carolina, and properly a bog plant, growing spontaneously with the +_Dionæa Muscipula_. + +Both Mr. DRYANDER and Dr. J. E. SMITH assure me, that +it is the true _Limodorum tuberosum_ of LINNÆUS; the one +usually called by that name is a native of the West-Indies, and treated +as a stove plant. + +From the little experience we have had of the management of this +species, it appears to us to be scarcely hardy enough for the open +border, yet not tender enough to require a stove. We have succeeded best +by treating it in the manner above mentioned; we may observe, that the +tan-pit spoken of was built in the open garden, not in a stove, and was +for the purpose of raising plants or seeds by a gentle heat, as well as +for striking cuttings and securing plants from cold in the winter. + +Our figure will make a description of the plant unnecessary, its +flowering stem with us has arisen to the height of a foot and a half, +the number of flowers has not exceeded five. In its most luxuriant state +it will probably be found much larger, and to produce more flowers. + + + + +[117] + +CAMPANULA CARPATICA. CARPATIAN BELL-FLOWER. + +_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 _carpatica_ foliis glabris cordatis serratis petiolatis, + pedunculis elongatis, calyce reflexo glutinoso. _Linn. Syst. + Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 207. Suppl. p. 140._ _Jacq. Hort. v. + i. t. 57._ + +[Illustration: No 117] + +This species of Bell-flower, which takes its name from its place of +growth, is a native of the Carpatian Alps, and was introduced into the +Royal Garden at Kew, by _Professor_ JACQUIN, of _Vienna_, in +the year 1774. + +It flowers in June and July. + +As yet it is scarce in our gardens, but deserves to be more generally +known and cultivated; its flowers, in proportion to the plant, are large +and shewy: like many other Alpine plants, it is well suited to decorate +certain parts of rock-work, or such borders of the flower garden, as are +not adapted for large plants. + +It is a hardy perennial, and propagated by parting its roots in autumn. + +Our figure, from a deficiency in the colouring art, gives a very +inadequate idea of its beauty. + + + + +[118] + +SEDUM ANACAMPSEROS. EVERGREEN ORPINE. + +_Class and Order._ + +DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 5-fidus. _Cor._ 5-petala. _Squamæ_ nectariferæ 5, ad basin + germinis. _Caps._ 5. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +SEDUM _Anacampseros_ foliis cuneiformibus basi attenuatis subsessilibus, + caulibus decumbentibus, floribus corymbosis. _Ait. Hort. Kew. p. + 108._ + +SEDUM _Anacampseros_ foliis cuneiformibus integerrimis caulibus + decumbemtibus, floribus corymbosis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. + Murr. p. 430._ + +TELEPHIUM repens folio deciduo. _Bauh. Pin. 287._ + +TELEPHIUM tertium. _Dodon. Pempt. p. 130._ + +[Illustration: No 118] + +Grows spontaneously out of the crevices of the rocks in the South of +France; flowers in our gardens in July and August; is a very hardy +perennial, and in sheltered situations retains its leaves all the year. + +The singular manner in which the leaves are attached to the flowering +stem, deserves to be noticed. + +As many of the succulent plants are tender, and require a Green-house in +the winter, cultivators of plants are apt indiscriminately to extend the +same kind of care to the whole tribe, hence it is not uncommon to find +this and many other similar hardy plants, nursed up in the Green-house +or stove, when they would thrive much better on a wall or piece of +rock-work, for the decoration of which this plant in particular is +admirably adapted. + +Like most of the Sedum tribe it may readily be propagated by cuttings, +or parting its roots in autumn. + +DODONÆUS' figure admirably represents its habit. + +According to the _Hort. Kew._ it was cultivated in this country by +GERARD, in 1596. + + ++------------------------------------------------------+ +|Transcriber's Note: | +|There is a departure from the usual format here with | +|STRELITZIA REGINÆ having two illustrations, No 119 and| +|No 120, thus creating a gap in the sequence. | ++------------------------------------------------------+ + + + + +[119] + +STRELITZIA REGINÆ. CANNA-LEAVED STRELITZIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Spathæ. Cal._ 0. _Cor._ 3-petala. _Nectarium_ triphyllum, genitalia + involvens. _Peric._ 3-loculare, polyspermum. + +STRELITZIA _Reginæ Ait. Hort. Kew. v. i. p. 285. Tab. 2._ + +HELICONIA _Bibai J. Mill. ic. tab. 5, 6._ + +[Illustration: No 119] + +In order that we may give our readers an opportunity of seeing a +coloured representation of one of the most scarce and magnificent plants +introduced into this country, we have this number deviated from our +usual plan, with respect to the plates, and though in so doing we shall +have the pleasure of gratifying the warm wishes of many of our readers, +we are not without our apprehensions least others may not feel perfectly +well satisfied; should it prove so, we wish such to rest assured that +this is a deviation in which we shall very rarely indulge and never but +when something uncommonly beautiful or interesting presents itself: to +avoid the imputation of interested motives, we wish our readers to be +apprized that the expences attendant on the present number, in +consequence of such deviation, have been considerably _augmented_, not +lowered. + +It is well known to many Botanists, and others, who have experienced Sir +JOSEPH BANKS's well known liberality, that previous to the publication +of the _Hortus Kewensis_ he made a new genus of this plant, which had +before been considered as a species of _Heliconia_, and named it +_Strelitzia_ in honour of our most gracious Queen CHARLOTTE; coloured +engravings of which, executed under his direction, he presented to his +particular friends; impressions of the same plate have been given in the +aforesaid work, in which we are informed that this plant was introduced +to the royal garden at Kew, by Sir JOSEPH BANKS, Bart. in the year 1773, +where it lately flowered--of some other plants introduced after that +period from the Cape, of which it is a native, one flowered in the Pine +stove of BAMBER GASCOYNE, Esq. several years ago, from whence Mr. MILLAR +drew his figure, and the plant from which our drawing was made flowered +this spring, in the bark stove of the garden belonging to the +Apothecaries Company, at Chelsea, where it will also soon flower again. + +This plant has usually been confined to the stove, where it has been +placed in a pot, and plunged into the tan, as the plants in such +situations usually are; it has been found that when the roots have been +confined to the narrow limits of a pot, the plant has rarely or never +flowered, but that when the roots have by accident extended into the +rotten tan, it has readily thrown up flowering stems, the best practice +therefore, not only with this, but many other plants, is to let the +roots have plenty of earth to strike into. As it is a Cape plant it may +perhaps be found to succeed best in the conservatory. + +It has not, that we know of, as yet ripened its seeds in this country; +till it does, or good seeds of it shall be imported, it must remain a +very scarce and dear plant, as it is found to increase very slowly by +its roots: plants are said to be sold at the Cape for Three Guineas +each. + +_General Description of the STRELITZIA REGINÆ._ + +[Illustration: No 120] + +From a perennial stringy root shoot forth a considerable number of +leaves, standing upright on long footstalks, front a sheath of some one +of which, near its base, springs the flowering stem, arising somewhat +higher than the leaves, and terminating in an almost horizontal +long-pointed spatha, containing about six or eight flowers, which +becoming vertical as they spring forth, form a kind of crest, which the +glowing orange of the Corolla, and fine azure of the Nectary, renders +truly superb. The outline in the third plate of this number, is intended +to give our readers an idea of its general habit and mode of growth. + +_Particular Description of the same._ + +ROOT perennial, stringy, somewhat like that of the tawny Day-lily + (Hemerocallis fulva); strings the thickness of the little finger, + blunt at the extremity, extending horizontally, if not confined, + to the distance of many feet. + +LEAVES numerous, standing upright on their footstalks, about a foot in + length, and four inches in breadth, ovato-oblong, coriaceous, + somewhat fleshy, rigid, smooth, concave, entire on the edges, + except on one side towards the base, where they are more or less + curled, on the upper side of a deep green colour, on the under + side covered with a fine glaucous meal, midrib hollow above and + yellowish, veins unbranched, prominent on the inside, and + impressed on the outside of the leaf, young leaves rolled up. + +LEAF-STALKS about thrice the length of the leaves, upright, somewhat + flattened, at bottom furnished with a sheath, and received into + each other, all radical. + +SCAPUS or flowering stem unbranched, somewhat taller than the leaves, + proceeding from the sheath of one of them, upright, round, not + perfectly straight, nearly of an equal thickness throughout, of a + glaucous hue, covered with four or five sheaths which closely + embrace it. Two or more flowering stems spring from the same root, + according to the age of the plant. + +SPATHA terminal, about six inches in length, of a glaucous hue, with a + fine bright purple at its base, running out to a long point, + opening above from the base to within about an inch of the apex, + where the edges roll over to one side, forming an angle of about + forty-five degrees, and containing about six flowers. + +FLOWERS of a bright orange colour, becoming upright, when perfectly + detached from the spatha, which each flower is a considerable time + in accomplishing. In the plant at Chelsea, the two back petals, + or, more properly segments of the first flower, sprang forth with + the nectary, and while the former became immediately vertical, the + latter formed nearly the same angle as the spatha; four days + afterwards the remaining segment of the first flower, with the two + segments and nectary of the second came forth, and in the same + manner at similar intervals all the flowers, which were six in + number, continued to make their appearance. + +COROLLA deeply divided into three segments, which are ovato-lanceolate, + slightly keeled, and somewhat concave, at the base white, fleshy, + and covered with a glutinous substance flowing in great quantities + from the nectary. + +NECTARY of a fine azure blue and most singular form, composed of two + petals, the upper petal very short and broad, with a whitish mucro + or point, the sides of which lap over the base of the other petal; + inferior petal about two inches and a half in length, the lower + half somewhat triangular, grooved on the two lowermost sides, and + keeled at bottom, the keel running straight to its extremity, the + upper half gradually dilating towards the base, runs out into two + lobes more or less obtuse, which give it an arrow-shaped form, + bifid at the apex, hollow, and containing the antheræ, the edges + of the duplicature crisped and forming a kind of frill from the + top to the bottom. + +STAMINA five Filaments arising from the base of the nectary, short and + distinct; Antheræ long and linear, attached to and cohering by + their tips to the apex of the nectary. + +STYLE filiform, white, length of the nectary. + +STIGMA three quarters of an inch long, attached to, and hitched on as it + were to the tip of the nectary, roundish, white, awl-shaped, very + viscid, becoming as the flower decays of a deep purple brown + colour, and usually splitting into three pieces, continuing + attached to the nectary till the nectary decays. + +Mr. FAIRBAIRN, to whose abilities and industry the Companies +Garden at Chelsea is indebted for its present flourishing state, being +desirous of obtaining ripe seeds, I had no opportunity of examining the +germen. + +Such were the appearances which presented themselves to us in the plant +which flowered at the Chelsea Garden; that they are liable to +considerable variation is apparent from the figure of Mr. +MILLAR, which appears to have been drawn from a very luxuriant +specimen, as two spathæ grow from one flowering stem, the stigma is also +remarkably convoluted, many other appearances are likewise represented, +which our plant did not exhibit: in the figure given in the _Hortus +Kewensis_, the stigma appears to have separated from the nectary on the +first opening of the flower, and to be split into three parts, neither +of which circumstances took place in our plant till they were both in a +decaying state. + + + + +[121] + +NARCISSUS INCOMPARABILIS. PEERLESS DAFFODIL. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Petala_ 6 æqualia: _Nectario_ infundibuliformi, 1-phyllo: _Stamina_ + intra nectarium. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +NARCISSUS _incomparabilis_ spatha uniflora, nectario campanulato plicato + crispo petalis dimidio breviore, foliis planis. + +NARCISSUS latifolius omnium maximus amplo calice flavo sive Nompareille. + The great Nonesuch Daffodil, or incomparable Daffodil. _Park. Par. + p. 68._ + +[Illustration: No 121] + +This species of Narcissus, though well described and figured by the old +Botanists, especially PARKINSON; has been overlooked by +LINNÆUS. + +It is undoubtedly the _incomparable Daffodil_ of +PARKINSON, figured in his Garden of Pleasant Flowers; and the +_incomparabilis_ of MILLER's _Dict. ed. 6. 4to._ the latter +informs us, that he received roots of it from Spain and Portugal, which +fixes its place of growth. + +It is a very hardy bulbous plant, and flowers in April; in its single +state it is very ornamental, the petals are usually pale yellow, and the +nectary inclined to orange, which towards the brim is more brilliant in +some than in others; in its double state, it is well known to Gardeners, +by the name of Butter and Egg Narcissus, and of this there are two +varieties, both of which produce large shewy flowers, the one with +colours similar to what we have above described, which is the most +common, the other with petals of a pale sulphur colour, almost white, +and the nectary bright orange; this, which is one of the most ornamental +of the whole tribe, is named in the Dutch catalogues, the _Orange +Phoenix_; its blossoms are so large as frequently to require +supporting; its bulbs may be had of many of the Nurseries about London, +and of those who, profiting by the supineness of our English Gardeners, +import bulbs from abroad. + +Like most of the tribe, this species will grow well without any care, +the bulbs of the double sort should be taken up yearly, otherwise they +are apt to degenerate. + + + + +[122] + +HYACINTHUS RACEMOSUS. STARCH HYACINTH. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +Corolla campanulata: pori 3 melliferi germinis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +HYACINTHUS _racemosus_ corollis ovatis, summis sessilibus, foliis laxis. + _Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 336._ _Sp. Pl. 455._ + +HYACINTHUS racemosus cæruleus minor juncifolius. _Bauh. Pin. p. 43._ + +HYACINTHUS botryodes 1. _Car Clus. Hist. p. 181._ + +HYACINTHUS racemosus. _Dodon. Pempt. p. 217._ + +HYACINTHUS botroides minor cæruleus obscurus. The darke blew + Grape-flower. _Park. Par. p. 114._ + +[Illustration: No 122] + +The _Hyacinthus racemosus_ and _botryoides_ are both cultivated in +gardens, but the former here figured is by far the most common; +_racemosus_ and _botryoides_, though different words, are expressive of +the same meaning, the former being derived from the Latin term +_racemus_, the latter from the Greek one [Greek: votrus], both of which +signify a bunch of grapes, the form of which the inflorescence of these +plants somewhat resembles, and hence they have both been called Grape +Hyacinths, but as confusion thereby arises, we have thought it better to +call this species the Starch Hyacinth, the smell of the flower in the +general opinion resembling that substance, and leave the name of Grape +Hyacinth for the _botryoides_. + +The _Hyacinthus racemosus_ grows wild in the corn fields of Germany, in +which it increases so fast by offsets from the root as to prove a very +troublesome weed, and on this account it must be cautiously introduced +into gardens. + +It flowers in April and May. + +We have found the Nurserymen very apt to mistake it for the +_botryoides_, a figure of which it is our intention to give in some +future number. + + + + +[123] + +ANEMONE HORTENSIS. STAR ANEMONE, or BROAD-LEAV'D GARDEN +ANEMONE. + +_Class and Order._ + +POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +Cal. 0. Petala 5-9. Semina plura. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +ANEMONE _hortensis_ foliis digitalis, feminibus lanatis. _Linn. Syst. + Vegetab. ed Murr. p. 510._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. vol. 2. p. 256._ + +ANEMONE Geranii rotundo folio, purpurascens. _Bauh. Pin. 173._ + +ANEMONE prima. _Dodon. Pempt. 434._ + +ANEMONE latifolia purpurea stellata sive papaveracea. The purple + Star-Anemone or Windflower. _Park. Parad. p. 204._ + +[Illustration: No 123] + +We are more and more convinced, that in our eagerness, for novelties, we +daily lose plants by far more ornamental than the new ones we introduce; +the present, a most charming spring plant, with which the Gardens +abounded in the time of PARKINSON, is now a great rarity; its +blossoms, which are uncommonly brilliant, come forth in April, and, like +those of many other plants, appear to advantage only when the sun +shines. + +It may be propagated either by seeds, or by parting its roots in Autumn, +in the former way we may obtain many beautiful varieties. + +It prefers a light loamy soil and moderately exposed situation. + +Roots of a variety of this plant with scarlet double flowers are +imported from Holland, under the name, of _Anemonoides_, and sold at a +high price. + + + + +[124] + +IBERIS GIBRALTARICA. GIBRALTAR CANDY-TUFT. + +_Class and Order._ + +TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ irregularis: Petalis 2 exterioribus majoribus. _Silicula_ +polysperma, emarginata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +IBERIS _Gibraltarica_ frutescens foliis apice dentatis. _Linn. Syst. + Veg. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 589._ + +THLASPIDIUM Hispanicum, ampliore flore folio crasso dentato. _Dill. + Elth. 382. t. 287. f. 37._ + +[Illustration: No 124] + +The flowers of this plant, a native of Gibraltar, bear some resemblance +to those of the Common Candy-Tuft, but when they blow in perfection, +they are usually twice as large; hence they are highly ornamental in the +green-house, which early in the Spring, the time of their coming forth, +stands in need of some such shewy flowers. + +This plant is easily raised from cuttings, and easily preserved; it may +be kept through the Winter in a common hot-bed frame, and in mild +Winters will stand abroad, especially if sheltered amongst rock-work; +its greatest enemy is moisture in the Winter season, this often proves +fatal to it, as indeed a long continued damp atmosphere does to many +others; the Nurserymen about London complain of losing more plants the +last mild Winter, from this cause, than they generally do from severe +frosts. In a little green-house which I had in my late garden, +Lambeth-Marsh, most of the plants became absolutely mouldy; in such +seasons then, though in point of cold the plants may not require it, we +must dissipate the superfluous moisture by a gentle heat. + + + + +[125] + +ALSTROEMERIA LIGTU. STRIPED-FLOWER'D ALSTROEMERIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ 6-petala, sub-bilabiata: petalis 2 inferioribus basi +tubulosis. _Stamina_ declinata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +ALSTROEMERIA _Ligtu_ caule erecto, foliis spathulato-oblongis, + pedunculis umbellæ involucro longioribus, corolla bilabiata. + _Linn. Syst. Veget. ed. 14._ _Murr. Suppl. p. 207._ _Amoen. + Acad. V. 6. p. 247._ + +HEMEROCALLIS floribus purpurascentibus striatis. _Few. Peruv. 2. p. 710. + t. 4._ + +[Illustration: No 125] + +This plant receives its generic name from CLAUDIUS ALSTROEMER (son of +Sir JONAS ALSTROEMER, a most respectable Swedish Merchant) who first +found the other most beautiful species the _Pelegrina_ in Spain, whither +it had been transmitted from Peru; its trivial name _Ligtu_ is a +provincial one. + +According to FEWILLEE, who has written on the plants of Peru, this +species is found on the banks of the rivers in Chili: we treat it, +and successfully, as a stove plant; its flowers, which usually make +their appearance in February and March, emit a fragrance scarcely +inferior to Mignonet; its leaves, contrary to most others, grow +inverted, which is effected by a twist of the footstalk, and afford an +excellent example of LINNÆUS's _Folium resupinatum_; the filaments, +after the pollen is discharged, turn upwards, and the antheræ become +almost globular. + +It is usually propagated by parting its roots in Autumn. + +Our figure was drawn from a plant which flowered extremely well in the +stove of Messrs. GRIMWOOD and Co. Kensington. + + + + +[126] + +ALYSSUM DELTOIDEUM. PURPLE ALYSSUM. + +_Class and Order._ + +TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Filamenta_ quædam introrsum denticulo notata. _Silicula_ emarginata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +ALYSSUM _deltoideum_ caulibus suffrutescentibus prostratis, foliis + lanceolato-deltoidibus, siliculis hirtis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. p. + 591._ _Sp. Pl. 908._ + +LEUCOJUM saxatile thymifolio hirsutum cæruleo-purpureum. _Bauh. Pin. + 201._ + +[Illustration: No 126] + +Plants which flower early, and continue a long while in bloom, are +deservedly preferred, more especially by those who content themselves +with a partial collection; of that number is the present species of +Alyssum, which begins to flower in March, and continues to blossom +through April, May, and June, and, if favourably situated, during most +of the summer. + +It is properly a rock plant, being hardy, forming with very little care +a neat tuft of flowers, and not apt to encroach on its neighbours. + +May be propagated by parting its roots in Autumn, or by cuttings. + +Is a native of the Levant, according to Mr. AITON; and +cultivated by Mr. MILLER, in 1739, but omitted in the 6th 4to. +edition of his Dictionary: has usually been considered by the Nurserymen +about London as the _hyperboreum_. + + + + +[127] + +IXIA FLEXUOSA. BENDING-STALK'D IXIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cor._ 6-partita, campanulata, regularis. _Stigmata_ 3. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +IXIA _flexuosa_ foliis linearibus, racemo flexuoso multifloro. _Linn. + Sp. Pl. p. 51._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. p. 58._ + +[Illustration: No 127] + +The Ixias are a numerous tribe, chiefly natives of the Cape, and in +general remarkable either for their delicacy, or brilliant colours. + +The one here figured appears to be a variety of the _flexuosa_ with a +purple eye, its blossoms are fragrant, and come forth in April or May. + +"All the sorts multiply very fast by offsets, so that when once +obtained, there will be no occasion to raise them from seeds: for the +roots put out offsets in great plenty, most of which will flower the +following season, whereas those from seeds are three or four years +before they flower. These plants will not thrive through the winter in +the full ground in England, so must be planted in pots, and placed under +a frame in winter, where they may be protected from frost, but in mild +weather should enjoy the free air; but they must be guarded from mice, +who are very fond of these roots, and if not prevented will devour +them." _Millers Gard. Dict._ + + + + +[128] + +SCILLA CAMPANULATA. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cor._ 6-petala, patens, decidua. _Filamenta_ filiformia. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +SCILLA _campanulata_ bulbo folido, racemo multifloro oblongo-subconico, + corollis campanulatis erectis, bracteis bipartitis, pedunculo + longioribus, foliis lanceolatis. _Ait. Hort. Kew. p. 444._ + +HYACINTHUS Hispanicus major flore campanulæ instar. + +The greater Spanish bell-flowred Jacinth. _Park. Par. 123._ + +[Illustration: No 128] + +There are few old gardens which do not abound with this plant; it bears +great affinity to our Hare-bell, with which it appears to have been +confounded by most Botanists. _Parkinson_ thus discriminates it: "This +Spanish bell-flowred Jacinth is very like the former English or Spanish +Jacinth, but greater in all parts, as well of leaves as flowers, many +growing together at the toppe of the stalke; with many short greene +leaves among them, hanging doune their heads with larger, greater, and +wider open mouths, like unto bels of a darke blew colour, and no good +sent." _Park. Parad._ + +Though not remarkable for the fineness of its colours, or pleasing from +its fragrance, it contributes with other bulbous plants to decorate the +flower border or plantation in the spring, when flowers are most wanted. + +It is very hardy, and increases abundantly by offsets; its seeds also +ripen well. + + + + +[129] + +AMARYLLIS VITTATA. SUPERB AMARYLLIS. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ hexapetaloidea, irregularis. _Filamenta_ fauci tubi inserta, + declinata, inæqualia proportione vel directione, _Linn. fil._ + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +AMARYLLIS floribus pedicellatis, corollis + cuneiformi-infundibuliformibus, petalorum exteriorum rachibus + interiorum margini adnatis, scapo tereti, stigmatibus sulcatis. + _Linn. fil._ + +AMARYLLIS _vittata._ _L'Herit. Sert. Angl. t. 15._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. p. + 418._ + +[Illustration: No 129] + +LINNÆUS, the Son, took much pains in new modelling the generic +and specific characters of this genus; as may be seen in the _Hort. +Kew_: Mons. L'HERITIER, when in England a few years since, saw +this species, described and named it _Vittata_[1]. + +Of what country it is a native is not known with certainty, most +probably of the Cape, was first introduced into England by Mr. +MALCOLM. + +Our figure was drawn from a fine specimen which flowered this spring +with Messrs. GRIMWOOD and Co. Kensington. + +It usually flowers in April or May, but may be forwarded by artificial +heat. + +It rarely puts forth offsets from the root, but readily produces seeds, +by which it is propagated without difficulty. + +When it blossoms in perfection it truly deserves the name of superb, +which Mr. AITON has given it, the stem rising to the height of +three feet or more, and producing from two to five flowers. + + + + +[130] + +ALYSSUM UTRICULATUM. BLADDER-PODDED ALYSSUM. + +_Class and Order._ + +TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Filamenta_ quædam introrsum denticulo notata. _Silicula_ emarginata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +ALYSSUM _utriculatum_ caule herbaceo erecto, foliis lævibus lanceolatis + integerrimis, filiculis inflatis. _Linn. Syst. Veget. ed. 14. + Murr._ + +ALYSSOIDES fruticosum, leucoji folio viridi. _Tourn. inst. 218._ + +[Illustration: No 130] + +A native of the Levant, and cultivated by Mr. MILLER in the +year 1739. + +Is a hardy and beautiful perennial, flowering from April to June, at +which time it begins to form its curiously inflated pods. + +Like the _Alyssum deltoideum_, it is well adapted to the decorating of +walls, or rock-work, and is readily propagated either by seeds or +slips. + + + + +[131] + +CATESBÆA SPINOSA. THORNY CATESBÆA, or LILY-THORN. + +_Class and Order._ + +TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cor._ 1-petala, infundibuliformis, longissima, supera. Stamina intra +faucem. _Bacca_ polysperma. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +CATESBÆA _spinosa._ _Linn. Syst. Vegetab, ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 152._ _Sp. + Pl. p. 159._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. p. 159._ + +Frutex spinosus, buxi foliis plurimis simul nascentibus, flore + tetrapetaloide pendulo sordide flavo, tubo longissimo, fructu + ovali croceo semina parva continente. _Catesb. Carol. 2. p. 100. + t. 100._ + +[Illustration: No 131] + +Of this genus there is only one species described by authors, and which +LINNÆUS has named in honour of our countryman MARK CATESBY, Author of +the Natural History of Carolina. + +"This shrub was discovered by Mr. CATESBY, near Nassau-town, in +the Island of Providence, where he saw two of them growing, which were +all he ever saw; from these he gathered the seeds and brought them to +England. + +"It is propagated by seeds, which must be procured from the country +where it naturally grows. If the entire fruit are brought over in sand, +the seeds will be better preserved; the seeds must be sown in small pots +filled with light sandy earth, and plunged into a moderate hot-bed of +Tanner's-bark. If the seeds are good, the plants will appear in about +six weeks; these plants make little progress for four or five years. If +the nights should prove cold the glasses must be covered with mats every +evening. As these plants grow slowly, so they will not require to be +removed out of the seed-pots the first year, but in the Autumn the pots +should be removed into the stove, and plunged into the tan-bed; in +spring the plants should be carefully taken up, and each planted in a +separate small pot, filled with light sandy earth, and plunged into a +fresh hot-bed of Tanner's-bark. In Summer when the weather is warm, they +should have a good share of air admitted to them, but in Autumn must be +removed into the stove; where they should constantly remain, and must be +treated afterwards in the same manner as other tender exotic plants." +_Miller's Dict._ + +It is more usual with Nurserymen to increase this plant by cuttings. + +Our drawing was made from a plant which flowered this Spring, with Mr. +COLVILL, Nurseryman, King's-Road, Chelsea. + +It flowers most part of the Summer, but not so freely as many other +stove-plants. + + + + +[132] + +RUBUS ARCTICUS. DWARF BRAMBLE. + +_Class and Order._ + +ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 5-fidus. Petala 5. _Bacca_ composita acinis monospermis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +RUBUS _arcticus_ foliis ternatis, caule inermi unifloro. _Linn. Syst. + Vegetab. p. 476._ + +RUBUS humilis flore purpureo. _Buxb. Cent. 5. p. 13. t. 26._ + +RUBUS trifolius humilis non spinosus, sapore et odore fragariæ, fructu + rubro polycocco. _Amm. Ruth. 185._ + +[Illustration: No 132] + +The Rubus arcticus grows wild in the northern parts of Europe and +America, in moist, sandy, and gravelly places. LINNÆUS has +figured and minutely described it in his _Flora Lapponica_, out of +gratitude, as he expresses himself, for the benefits reaped from it in +his Lapland journey, by the nectareous wine of whose berries he was so +often recruited when sinking with hunger and fatigue; he observes that +the principal people in the north of Sweden make a syrup, a jelly, and a +wine, from the berries, which they partly consume themselves, and partly +transmit to Stockholm, as a dainty of the most delicious kind; and truly +he adds, of all the wild Swedish berries this holds the first place. + +Our figure does not correspond altogether with LINNÆUS's +description, but it is drawn as the plant grew; culture doubtless made +it produce more than its usual number of flowering stems and petals. + +It grows readily and increases rapidly in bog-earth, on a north border, +and flowers in May and June, but very rarely ripens its fruit in +Gardens. + + + + +[133] + +HYACINTHUS COMOSUS. TWO COLOURED, or, TASSEL +HYACINTH. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ campanulata: pori 3-melliferi germinis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +HYACINTHUS _comosus_ corollis angulato-cylindricis: summis sterilibus + longius pedicellatis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. 336._ + +HYACINTHUS comosus major purpureus. _Bauh. Pin. 42._ The purple faire + haired Jacinth; or Purse tassels. _Park. Parad. p. 117._ + +[Illustration: No 133] + +Most of the old Botanists arranged this plant, the _racemosus_, and +others having almost globular flowers with the Hyacinths. TOURNEFORT, +struck with the difference of their appearance, made a distinct genus of +them under the name of _Muscari_, in which he is followed by MILLER, and +should have been by LINNÆUS, for they differ so much that no student +would consider the present plant as belonging to the same genus with the +Hare-bell. + +This species grows wild in the corn-fields of Spain, Portugal, and some +parts of Germany, and flowers in May and June. + +It is distinguished more by its singularity than beauty, the flowers on +the summit of the stalk differing widely in colour from the others, and +being mostly barren: PARKINSON says, "the whole stalke with the +flowers upon it, doth somewhat resemble a long Purse tassell, and +thereupon divers Gentlewomen have so named it." + +It is a hardy bulbous plant, growing readily in most soils and +situations, and usually propagated by offsets. + + + + +[134] + +ADONIS VERNALIS. + +_Class and Order._ + +POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 5-phyllus. _Petala_ quinis plura absque nectario. _Sem._ nuda. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +ADONIS _vernalis_ flore dodecapetalo, fructu ovato. _Linn. Syst. + Vegetab. ed. Murr. p. 514._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. Vol. 2. p. 264._ + +HELLEBORUS niger tenuifolius, Buphthalmi flore. _Bauh. Pin. 186._ + +BUPHTHALMUM _Dodon. Pempt. 261._ + +HELLEBORUS niger ferulaceus sive Buphthalmum. The great Ox-eye, or the + great yellow Anemone. _Parkins. Parad. p. 291. f. 6._ + +[Illustration: No 134] + +Of this plant LINNÆUS makes two species, viz. the _vernalis_ +and _appennina_, differing in their specific character merely in the +number of their petals, which are found to vary from situation and +culture; as the first name taken from its time of flowering is the most +expressive, we have followed Mr. MILLER and Mr. AITON in adopting it. + +It is an old inhabitant of the English gardens, and a most desirable +one, as it flowers in the spring; produces fine shewy blossoms, which +expand wide when exposed to the sun, is hardy and readily cultivated. + +Grows wild on the mountainous pastures of some parts of Germany. + +It may be increased by parting its roots in Autumn or Spring, or by +seed. MILLER recommends the latter mode. + + + + +[135] + +GLADIOLUS CARDINALIS. SUPERB GLADIOLUS; or, CORN-FLAG. + +_Class and Order._ + +TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ 6-partita, irregularis, inæqualis, _Stigmata_ 3. + +_Specific Character._ + +GLADIOLUS _cardinalis_ corollæ erectæ limbo campanulato, floribus + secundis, scapo multifloro, foliis ensiformibus multinerviis. + +[Illustration: No 135] + +This new species of Gladiolus, of whose magnificence our figure can +exhibit but an imperfect idea, was introduced into this country from +Holland, a few years since, by Mr. GRAFFER, at present Gardener to the +King of Naples; and first flowered with Messrs. LEWIS and MACKIE, +Nurserymen, at Kingsland; a very strong plant of it flowered also this +summer at Messrs. GRIMWOODS and Co. which divided at top into three +branches, from one of which our figure was drawn. + +It obviously differs from the other more tender plants of this genus, in +the colour of its flowers, which are of a fine scarlet, with large white +somewhat rhomboidal spots, on several of the lowermost divisions of the +Corolla; strong plants will throw up a stem three or four feet high. + +It is most probably a native of the Cape, flowers with us in July and +August, and is increased by offsets from the bulbs; must be treated like +the Ixias and other similar Cape plants. + + + + +[136] + +PELARGONIUM TETRAGONUM. SQUARE STALKED GERANIUM. + +_Class and Order._ + +MONADELPHIA HEPTANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 5-partitus, lacinia suprema definente in tubulum capillarem, + nectariferum, secus pedunculum decurrentem. _Cor._ 5-petala, + irregularis. _Filamenta_ 10, inæqualia: quorum 3 (raro 5) + castrata. _Fructus_ 5-coccus, rostratus: _rostra_ spiralia, + introrsum barbata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +PELARGONIUM _tetragonum_ pedunculis bifloris, ramis tetragonis carnosis, + corollis tetrapetalis, _L'Herit. n. 72. t. 23._ + +GERANIUM _tetragonum_. _Linn. Suppl. p. 305._ + +[Illustration: No 136] + +A vein of singularity runs through the whole of this plant, its stalks +are unequally and obtusely quadrangular, sometimes more evidently +triangular; its leaves few, and remarkably small; its flowers, on the +contrary, are uncommonly large, and what is more extraordinary have only +four petals; previous to their expansion they exhibit also an appearance +somewhat outrè, the body of the filaments being bent so as to form a +kind of bow, in which state we have represented one of the blossoms in +our figure. + +When it flowers in perfection, which it is not apt to do in all places, +the largeness of its blossoms renders it one of the most ornamental of +the genus. + +There is a variety of it with beautifully coloured leaves, of which we +have availed ourselves in its representation. + +It flowers from June, to August, and September; requires the same +treatment as the more common Geraniums, and is readily propagated by +cuttings. + +Was first introduced to the Royal Garden at Kew, by Mr. MASSON, +in 1774, from the Cape, of which, it is a native. _Ait. Hort. Kew._ + + + + +[137] + +HYPERICUM BALEARICUM. WARTY ST. JOHN'S-WORT. + +_Class and Order._ + +POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ 5-phyllus. _Petala_ 5. _Nectarium_ 0. _Capsula_. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +HYPERICUM _balearicum_ floribus pentagynis, caule fruticoso foliis + ramisque cicatrizatis. _Linn. Syst. Veget. p. 102._ + +MYRTO-CISTUS pennæi _Clus. Hist. 1. p. 68._ + +[Illustration: No 137] + +Is according to LINNÆUS a native of _Majorca_; MILLER +says that it grows naturally in the Island of _Minorca,_ from whence the +seeds were sent to England by Mr. SALVADOR, an Apothecary at +Barcelona, in the year 1718. + +The stalks of this species are usually of a bright red colour, and +covered with little warts; the leaves are small with many depressions on +their upper sides like scars; the flowers are not always solitary, but +frequently form a kind of Corymbus. + +It is a hardy green-house plant, and readily propagated by cuttings. + +It flowers during most of the Summer. + +CLUSIUS informs us in his _Hist. pl. rar. p. 68._ that he +received from THOMAS PENNY, a Physician of London, in the year +1580, a figure of this elegant plant, and who the next year shewed a +dried specimen of the same in London, which had been gathered in the +Island of Majorca, and named by him [Greek: murto kison], or +Myrtle-Cistus[2] it appears therefore that this plant has long been +known, if not cultivated in this country. + +We may remark that CLUSIUS's figure of this plant is not +equally expressive with many of his others. + + + + +[138] + +KALMIA HIRSUTA. HAIRY KALMIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ 5-partitus. _Corolla_ hypocrateriformis: limbo subtus + quinquecorni _Caps._ 5-locularis. + +_Specific Character._ + +KALMIA _hirsuta_ foliis ovato-lanceolatis hirsutis sparsis, floribus + racemosis. + +[Illustration: No 138] + +This new species of Kalmia which we have called _hirsuta,_ the stalk, +leaves, and calyx, being covered with strong hairs, was imported from +Carolina in the Spring of 1790, by Mr. WATSON, Nurseryman at +Islington, with whom several plants of it flowered this present Autumn, +about the middle of September, from one of which our drawing was made. + +The plants were brought over with their roots enclosed in balls of the +earth in which they naturally grew, which on being examined appeared of +a blackish colour, and full of glittering particles of sand; similar +indeed to the bog-earth which we find on our moors and heaths; there is +therefore little doubt (for no account accompanied the plants) but this +Kalmia grows on moorish heaths, or in swamps. + +In its general appearance it bears some resemblance to the _Andromeda +Daboecii_; from the specimens we have seen its usual height would +appear to be from two to three feet; it grows upright; the flowers which +are about the size of those of the _Kalmia glauca_, are of a purple +colour, and contrary to all the other known Kalmia's grow in racemi. + +It is propagated by layers, and requires the same treatment as the rest +of the genus, that is, to be planted in bog-earth, on a north border: as +this however is a new, and of course a dear plant, it will be most +prudent till we know what degree of cold it will bear, to keep it in a +pot of the same earth, plunged in the same situation, which may be +removed in the Winter to a green-house or hot-bed frame. + + + + +[139] + +ALSTROEMERIA PELEGRINA. SPOTTED-FLOWER'D ALSTROEMERIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ 6-petala, supera, irregularis. _Stamina_ declinata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +ALSTROEMERIA _Pelegrina_ caule erecto, corollis campanulatis rectis, + foliis lineari-lanceolatis sessilibus. _Linn. Syst. Veg. p. 338. + ed. Murr._ _Amoen. Acad. 6. p. 247. cum icone._ + +HEMEROCALLIS floribus purpurascentibus maculatis vulgo Pelegrina. + _Feuill. Peruv. 2. p. 711. t. 5._ + +[Illustration: No 139] + +Father FEUILLEE[3] figures and describes three species of +_Alstroemeria_, viz. _Pelegrina_, _Ligtu_, and _Salsilla_, common +names by which they are severally distinguished in Peru: the present +species, which is much valued by the natives on account of its beauty, +he informs us is found wild on a mountain to the north of, and a mile +distant from Lima. + +From Peru, as might be expected, the present plant found its way into +Spain, from whence by the means of his beloved friend ALSTROEMER, +LINNÆUS first received seeds of it; the value he set on the acquisition +is evident from the great care he took of the seedling plants, +preserving them through the winter in his bed-chamber. + +According to Mr. AITON, this species was introduced to the Royal Garden +at Kew, by Messrs. KENNEDY and LEE, as long ago as the year 1753. + +Being a mountainous plant, it is found to be much more hardy than the +_Ligtu_ already figured, and is generally treated as a green-house +plant; it is found, however, to flower and ripen its seeds better under +the glass of a hot-bed frame, where air is freely admitted. + +It flowers from June to October, and, though a perennial, is generally +raised from seeds, yet may sometimes be increased by parting its roots, +which somewhat resemble those of the asparagus: the seeds should be sown +in the spring, in a pot of light earth, on a gentle hot-bed, either of +dung or tan. + + + + +[140] + +LUPINUS LUTEUS. YELLOW LUPINE. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ 2-labiatus. _Antheræ_ 5 oblongæ, 5 subrotundæ. _Legumen_ + coriaceum. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +LUPINUS _luteus_ calycibus verticillatis appendiculatis: labio superiore + bipartito; inferiore tridentato. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ + _Murr. p. 656._ + +LUPINUS sylvestris, flore luteo. _Bauh. Pin. 348._ + +The Yellow Lupine. _Park. Parad. p. 336._ + +[Illustration: No 140] + +The present, with many other species of Lupine, is very generally +cultivated in flower gardens, for the sake of variety, being usually +sown in the spring with other annuals; where the flower-borders are +spacious, they may with propriety be admitted, but as they take up much +room, and as their blossoms are of short duration, they are not so +desirable as many other plants. + +It is a native of Sicily, and flowers in June and July. + +We have often thought that the management of the kitchen garden, in +point of succession of crops, might be advantageously transplanted to +the flower garden; in the former, care is taken to have a regular +succession of the annual delicacies of the table, while in the latter, a +single sowing in the spring is thought to be all-sufficient; hence the +flower garden, which in August, September, and part of October, might be +covered with a profusion of bloom, exhibits little more than the decayed +stems of departed annuals. + + + + +[141] + +HELIOTROPIUM PERUVIANUM. PERUVIAN TURNSOLE. + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ hypocrateriformis, 5-fida, interjectis dentibus: fauce clausa + fornicibus. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +HELIOTROPIUM _peruvianum_ foliis lanceolato-ovatis, caule fruticoso, + spicis numerosis aggregato-corymbosis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. p. + 184._ + +HELIOTROPIUM foliis ovato-lanceolatis, spicis plurimis; confertis, caule + fruticoso. _Mill. Dict. ed. 6. 4to. Icon. t. 143._ + +[Illustration: No 141] + +This plant recommends itself by its fragrance rather than its beauty, so +delicious indeed is the odour it diffuses, that it is considered as +essential to every green-house and stove. + +"It grows naturally in Peru, from whence the seeds were sent by the +younger Jussieu to the royal garden at Paris, where the plants produced +flowers and seeds; and from the curious garden of the Duke d'Ayen, at +St. Germain's, I was supplied with some of the seeds, which have +succeeded, in the Chelsea garden, where the plants have flowered and +perfected their seeds for some years." _Miller's Gard. Dict._ + +You may consider it either as a stove or a green-house plant, the former +is more congenial to it in the winter season. + +A pure atmosphere is essential to its existence, as I experienced at +Lambeth-Marsh, where I in vain endeavoured to cultivate it. + +It is propagated by cuttings as easily as any Geranium, and requires a +similar treatment; in hot weather it must be well supplied with water, +and in winter carefully guarded against frost, so fatal to most of the +natives of Peru. + + + + +[142] + +SCORZONERA TINGITANA. TANGIER SCORZONERA, or POPPY-LEAV'D +VIPERS GRASS. + +_Class and Order._ + +SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA ÆQUALIS. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Receptaculum_ nudum. _Pappus_ plumosus. _Calyx_ imbricatus, squamis + margine scariosis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +SCORZONERA _tingitana_ foliis omnibus runcinatis amplexicaulibus. _Linn. + Syst. Veg. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 711._ + +SONCHUS tingitanus papaveris folio _Raii Suppl. 137._ + +CHONDRILLA tingitana, floribus luteis papaveris hortensis folio. _Herm. + lugdb. 657. t. 659._ + +[Illustration: No 142] + +I am indebted for seeds of this plant to my very worthy and liberal +friend NICH. GWYN, M. D. of Ipswich, to whose penetrating +genius, and learned researches, Botany owes much. + +As its name implies, it is a native of the province of Tangier, on the +Barbary coast; appears to have been cultivated here, according to the +_Hort. Kew._ in 1713, but is not mentioned in the 6th 4to. edit. of +MILLER's Dictionary. + +It may be considered as forming a valuable addition to our stock of +annuals, being a beautiful plant, and easily cultivated: it thrives best +on a moderately dry soil, warmly situated: should be sown in the spring +with other annuals. + +I have observed, that in the middle of summer, a hot unclouded sun, +which is favourable to the expansion of most of the flowers of this +class, is too powerful for those of the present plant, which then appear +to the greatest advantage in warm hazy weather. + + + + +[143] + +PELARGONIUM GLUTINOSUM. CLAMMY CRANE'S BILL. + +_Class and Order._ + +MONADELPHIA HEPTANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ 5-partitus: lacinia suprema definente in tubulum capillare + nectariferum fecus pedunculum decurrentem. _Corolla_ pentapetala, + irregularis. _Filamenta_ 10 inæqualia, quorum 3 raro 5 castrata. + _Fructus_ pentacoccus, rostratus, rostra spiralia introrsum + barbata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +PELARGONIUM _glutinosum_ umbellis paucifloris foliis cordatis + hastato-quinquangulis viscosis. _L'Herit. Ger. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. + 2. p. 426._ + +GERANIUM _glutinosum_. _Jacq. ic. collect. 1. p. 85._ + +GERANIUM _viscosum_. _Cavanill. Diss. 4. p. 246. t. 108. f. 2._ + +[Illustration: No 143] + +The leaves of this species exhibit, on being touched, a manifest +viscidity, or clamminess, which, independent of their shape, serves to +characterize the species; the middle of the leaf is also in general +stained with purple, which adds considerably to its beauty; but this +must be regarded rather as the mark of a variety, than of the species. + +With most of its congeners, it is a native of the Cape, and of modern +date in this country, being introduced to the royal garden at Kew, by +Messrs. KENNEDY and LEE, in the year 1777. + +It flowers from May to September; is readily propagated by cuttings, and +sometimes raised from seeds, from whence several varieties have been +produced. + + + + +[144] + +FERRARIA UNDULATA. CURLED FERRARIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +GYNANDRIA TRIANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +Monogyna. _Spathtæ_ unifloræ. _Petala_ 6, undulato-crispata. _Stigmata_ + cucullata. _Caps._ 3-locularis, infera. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +FERRARIA _undulata_ caule multifloro. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. p. 820. ed. + 14._ _Murr. Ait. Kew. p. 305. v. 3._ + +FLOS INDICUS e violaceo fuscus radice tuberosa. _I. B. Ferrar. Flora, + ed. nov. p. 167. t. 171._ + +GLADIOLUS INDICUS e violaceo fuscus radice tuberosa nobis. _Moris. hist. + f. 4. t. 4. f. 7._ + +NARCISSUS INDICUS flore saturate purpureo. _Rudb. Elys. 2. t. 49. f. 9._ + +IRIS stellata cyclamine radice pullo flore. _Barrel. Icon. 1216._ + +[Illustration: No 144] + +The old Botanists appear to have been wonderfully at a loss to what +family they should refer this very singular plant, as will appear on +consulting the synonyms; BURMAN at length made a distinct genus of it, +naming it _Ferraria_ in honour of JOH. BAPTISTA FERRARIUS, by whom it +was described, and very well figured, in his _Flora feu de Florum +Cultura_, published at Amsterdam, in 1646. + +Mr. MILLER informs us, that he received roots of this plant +from Dr. JOB BASTER, F. R. S. of Zirkzee, who obtained it from +the Cape, of which it is a native. + +In the vegetable line, it is certainly one of the most singular and +beautiful of nature's productions; much it is to be regretted that its +flowers are of very short duration, opening in the morning and finally +closing in the afternoon of the same day; a strong plant will, however, +throw out many blossoms in succession. + +In its structure and oeconomy, it approaches very near to the +_Sisyrinchium_. + +It flowers very early in the spring, from February to May, and is +usually propagated by offsets, which its bulbs produce in tolerable +plenty. It requires a treatment similar to the Ixias and other Cape +bulbs. Our figure was drawn from a plant which flowered this spring, in +the possession of R. FORSTER, Esq. of Turnham-Green. + + + + INDEX. + + In which the Latin Names of + the Plants contained in the + _Fourth Volume_ are alphabetically + arranged. + + _Pl._ + + 134 Adonis vernalis. + 125 Alstroemeria Ligtu. + 139 ------------ Pelegrina. + 126 Alyssum deltoideum. + 130 ------- utriculatum. + 129 Amaryllis vittata. + 123 Anemone hortensis. + 117 Campanula carpatica. + 131 Catesbæa spinosa. + 112 Cistus ladaniferus. + 113 Convolvulus purpureus. + 144 Ferraria undulata. + 135 Gladiolus cardinalis. + 141 Heliotropium peruvianum. + 122 Hyacinthus racemosus. + 133 ---------- comosus. + 137 Hypericum balearicum. + 124 Iberis gibraltarica. + 127 Ixia flexuosa. + 138 Kalmia hirsuta. + 111 Lathyrus tuberosus. + 115 -------- sativus. + 109 Lavatera trimestris. + 116 Limodorum tuberosum. + 140 Lupinus luteus. + 110 Mimosa verticillata. + 121 Narcissus incomparabilis. + 136 Pelargonium tetragonum. + 143 ----------- glutinosum. + 132 Rubus arcticus. + 128 Scilla campanulata. + 142 Scorzonera tingitana. + 118 Sedum Anacampseros. + 114 Silene pendula. + 119 Strelitzia Reginæ. + + + + INDEX. + + In which the English Names + of the Plants contained in + the _Fourth Volume_ are alphabetically + arranged. + + _Pl._ + + 134 Adonis Spring. + 125 Alstroemeria striped-flowered. + 139 ------------ spotted-flowered. + 129 Amaryllis superb. + 130 Alyssum bladder-podded. + 126 ------- purple. + 123 Anemone star. + 117 Bell-flower Carpatian. + 113 Bindweed purple. + 132 Bramble dwarf. + 124 Candy-tuft Gibraltar. + 114 Catchfly pendulous. + 131 Catesbæa thorny. + 112 Cistus gum. + 143 Crane's-bill clammy. + 121 Daffodil peerless. + 144 Ferraria curled. + 136 Geranium square-stalked. + 135 Gladiolus superb. + 122 Hyacinth starch. + 133 -------- two-coloured. + 127 Ixia bending-stalked. + 138 Kalmia hairy. + 111 Lathyrus tuberous. + 115 -------- blue-flowered. + 109 Lavatera annual. + 116 Limodorum tuberous-rooted. + 140 Lupine yellow. + 110 Mimosa whorl'd-leaved. + 118 Orpine evergreen. + 142 Scorzonera Tangier. + 137 St. John's-wort warty. + 119 Strelitzia Canna-leaved. + 128 Squill bell-flowered. + 141 Turnsole peruvian. + + + +FOOTNOTES + +[1] From the gaiety of its flowers, which, from their stripes, appear +like an object decorated with ribbands.--_Vitta_, a ribband; _vittata_, +dressed with ribbands. _Ainsw._ + +[2] The leaves being somewhat like those of the Myrtle, and a gummy +substance exuding from the plant as in the Gum Cistus. + +[3] In his Journal des Observations Physiques, Mathematiques, et +Botaniques, faites sur les Côtes Orientales de l'Amerique meridionale, +&c. printed in 1714. + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 4, by William Curtis + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, VOL. 4 *** + +***** This file should be named 17979-8.txt or 17979-8.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/7/17979/ + +Produced by University of Georgia Libraries, 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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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. 4 + Or, Flower-Garden Displayed + +Author: William Curtis + +Release Date: March 14, 2006 [EBook #17979] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, VOL. 4 *** + + + + +Produced by University of Georgia Libraries, Jason Isbell, +Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreaders +Europe at http://dp.rastko.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> + + +<h3>THE</h3> + +<h2><span class="smcap">Botanical Magazine</span>;</h2> + +<h3>OR,</h3> + +<h2><span class="smcap">Flower-Garden Displayed:</span></h2> + +<h4>IN WHICH</h4> + +<p class='center'>The most Ornamental <span class="smcap">Foreign Plants</span>, cultivated in the Open +Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented in +their natural Colours.</p> + +<h4>TO WHICH ARE ADDED,</h4> + +<p class='center'>Their Names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according to +the celebrated <span class="smcap">Linnæus</span>; their Places of Growth, and Times of +Flowering:</p> + +<h4>TOGETHER WITH</h4> + +<h3>THE MOST APPROVED METHODS OF CULTURE.</h3> + +<h3>A WORK</h3> + +<p class='center'>Intended for the Use of such <span class="smcap">Ladies, Gentlemen</span>, and +<span class="smcap">Gardeners</span>, as wish to become scientifically acquainted with the +Plants they cultivate.</p> + +<h2>By <i>WILLIAM CURTIS</i>,</h2> + +<p class='center'>Author of the <span class="smcap">Flora Londinensis</span>.</p> + +<h3>VOL. IV.</h3> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Poem by Thomson"> +<tr><td align='left'>Observe the rising Lily's snowy grace,</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Observe the various vegetable race;</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>They neither toil nor spin, but careless grow,</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Yet see how warm they blush! how bright they glow!</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>What regal vestments can with them compare!</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>What king so shining, or what queen so fair.</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p class='author'><span class="smcap">Thomson</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>LONDON</i>:</p> + +<p class='center'>Printed by <span class="smcap">Couchman</span> and <span class="smcap">Fry</span>, Throgmorton-Street. For +W. CURTIS, No 3, <i>St. George's-Crescent</i>, Black-Friars-Road; And Sold by +the principal Booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland.</p> + +<p class='center'>M DCC XCI.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Table of Contents"> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Lavatera">[109]—<span class="smcap">Lavatera Trimestris.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Mimosa">[110]—<span class="smcap">Mimosa Verticillata.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Lathyrus">[111]—<span class="smcap">Lathyrus Tuberosus.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Cistus">[112]—<span class="smcap">Cistus Ladaniferus.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Convolvulus">[113]—<span class="smcap">Convolvulus Purpureus.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Silene">[114]—<span class="smcap">Silene Pendula.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Lathyrus2">[115]—<span class="smcap">Lathyrus Sativus.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Limodorum">[116]—<span class="smcap">Limodorum Tuberosum.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Campanula">[117]—<span class="smcap">Campanula Carpatica.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Sedum">[118]—<span class="smcap">Sedum Anacampseros.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Strelitzia">[119]—<span class="smcap">Strelitzia Reginæ.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Narcissus">[121]—<span class="smcap">Narcissus Incomparabilis.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Hyacinthus">[122]—<span class="smcap">Hyacinthus Racemosus.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Anemone">[123]—<span class="smcap">Anemone Hortensis.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Iberis">[124]—<span class="smcap">Iberis Gibraltarica.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Alstroemeria">[125]—<span class="smcap">Alstrœmeria Ligtu.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Alyssum">[126]—<span class="smcap">Alyssum Deltoideum.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Ixia">[127]—<span class="smcap">Ixia Flexuosa.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Scilla">[128]—<span class="smcap">Scilla Campanulata</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Amaryllis">[129]—<span class="smcap">Amaryllis Vittata.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Alyssum2">[130]—<span class="smcap">Alyssum Utriculatum.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Catesbaea">[131]—<span class="smcap">Catesbæa Spinosa.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Rubus">[132]—<span class="smcap">Rubus Arcticus.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Hyacinthus2">[133]—<span class="smcap">Hyacinthus Comosus</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Adonis">[134]—<span class="smcap">Adonis Vernalis.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Gladiolus">[135]—<span class="smcap">Gladiolus Cardinalis.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Pelargonium">[136]—<span class="smcap">Pelargonium Tetragonum.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Hypericum">[137]—<span class="smcap">Hypericum Balearicum.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Kalmia">[138]—<span class="smcap">Kalmia Hirsuta.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Alstroemeria2">[139]—<span class="smcap">Alstrœmeria Pelegrina.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Lupinus">[140]—<span class="smcap">Lupinus Luteus.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Heliotropium">[141]—<span class="smcap">Heliotropium Peruvianum.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Scorzonera">[142]—<span class="smcap">Scorzonera Tingitana.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Pelargonium2">[143]—<span class="smcap">Pelargonium Glutinosum.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Ferraria">[144]—<span class="smcap">Ferraria Undulata.</span>.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#INDEXA">INDEX.—Latin Names.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#INDEXB">INDEX.—English Names.</a></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<div class="trans-note"> + Transcriber's Note: There is a departure from the usual format here with <span class="smcap">Strelitzia Reginæ.</span> +having two illustrations, No 119 and No 120, thus creating a gap in the sequence. + </div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Lavatera" id="Lavatera"></a>[109]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Lavatera Trimestris. Annual Lavatera</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order</i>.</p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Monadelphia Polyandria</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Calyx</i> duplex: exterior 3-fidus. <i>Arilli</i> plurimi, monospermi.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + + +<div class="blockquot"><p>LAVATERA <i>trimestris</i> caule scabro herbaceo, foliis glabris, pedunculis +unifloris, fructibus orbiculo tectis. <i>Linn. Sp. Pl. 974.</i> <i>Hort. +Kew. v. 2. p. 452.</i></p> + +<p>LAVATERA <i>(althææfolia)</i> foliis infimis cordato-orbiculatis, caulinis +trilobis acuminatis glabris, pedunculis unifloris, caule herbaceo. +<i>Miller's Gard. Dict. ed. 6. 4to.</i></p> + +<p>MALVA folio vario. <i>Bauh. Pin. 315.</i></p> + +<p>MALVA Hispanica flore carneo amplo.</p> + +<p>The Spanish blush Mallow. <i>Park. Parad. p. 366.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img109.png"><img + src="images/img109-tb.png" + alt="No 109" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>109 + </div> + +<p>Our plant is undoubtedly the <i>Spanish blush Mallow</i> of +<span class="smcap">Parkinson</span>, and the <i>Lavatera althææfolia</i> of <span class="smcap">Miller</span> +according to the former, it is a native of Spain, according to the +latter, of Syria.</p> + +<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">Miller</span> considers it as distinct from the <i>trimestris</i>; Mr. +<span class="smcap">Aiton</span> has no <i>althææfolia</i> in his <i>Hort. Kew.</i> we are therefore +to conclude that the <i>althææfolia</i> of <span class="smcap">Miller</span>, and the +<i>trimestris</i> of <span class="smcap">Linneus</span> are one and the same species.</p> + +<p>Of the annuals commonly raised in our gardens, this is one of the most +shewy, as well as the most easily cultivated; its seeds are to be sown +in March, on the borders where they are to remain, the plants, thinned +as they come up, and kept clear of weeds.</p> + +<p>It varies with white blossoms, and flowers from July to September.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Mimosa" id="Mimosa"></a>[110]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Mimosa Verticillata. Whorl'd-Leav'd Mimosa</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Polygamia Monœcia</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>HERMAPHROD. <i>Cal.</i> 5-dentatus. <i>Cor.</i> 5-fida. <i>Stam.</i> 5. f. plura. +<i>Pist.</i> 1. <i>Legumen</i>.</p> + +<p>MASC. <i>Cal.</i> 5-dentatus. <i>Cor.</i> 5-fida. <i>Stam.</i> 5. 10. plura.</p></div> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>MIMOSA <i>verticillata</i> intermis, foliis verticillatis linearibus +pungentibus. <i>L'Herit. fert. angl. t. 41.</i> <i>Hort. Kew. p. 438.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img110.png"><img + src="images/img110-tb.png" + alt="No 110" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>110 + </div> + +<p>The radical leaves of plants usually differ in shape from those of the +stalk, in some plants remarkably so; the <i>Lepidium perfoliatum</i> figured +in the <i>Flora Austriaca</i> of Professor <span class="smcap">Jacquin</span> is a striking +instance of this dissimilarity: the <i>Lathyrus Aphaca</i>, a British plant, +figured in the <i>Flora Lond.</i> is still more such, as large entire +leaf-like stipulæ grow in pairs on the stalk, instead of leaves, while +the true leaves next the root, visible when the plant first comes up +from seed, are few in number, and those pinnated. The present plant no +less admirably illustrates the above remark, the leaves which first +appear on the seedling plants being pinnated, as is represented in the +small figure on the plate, while those which afterwards come forth grow +in whorls. We have observed the same disposition to produce dissimilar +leaves in several other species of <i>Mimosa</i>, which have arisen from +Botany-Bay seeds, lately introduced.</p> + +<p>This singular species, on the authority of Mr. <span class="smcap">David Nelson</span>, is +a native of New South Wales, and was introduced to the royal garden at +Kew by Sir <span class="smcap">Joseph Banks</span>, Bart.</p> + +<p>We first saw it in flower, and have since seen it with ripe seed-pods, +at Mr. <span class="smcap">Malcolm</span>'s, Kennington.</p> + +<p>It is properly a green-house plant, and propagated only by seeds, which +are to be sown on a gentle hot-bed.</p> + +<p>It is some years in arriving at its flowering state.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Lathyrus" id="Lathyrus"></a>[111]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Lathyrus Tuberosus. Tuberous Lathyrus</span>, or <span class="smcap">Pease +Earth-Nut.</span></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Diadelphia Decandria</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Stylus</i> planus, supra villosus, superne latior. <i>Cal.</i> laciniæ +superiores 2 breviores.</p></div> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>LATHYRUS <i>tuberosus</i> pedunculis multifloris, cirrhis diphyllis: foliolis +ovalibus, internodiis nudis. <i>Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. +p. 663.</i></p> + +<p>LATHYRUS arvensis repens tuberosus. <i>Bauh. Pin. 344.</i></p> + +<p>LATHYRUS arvensis sive terræ glandes. Pease Earth-Nuts. <i>Parkins. Theat. +p. 1061.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img111.png"><img + src="images/img111-tb.png" + alt="No 111" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>111 + </div> + +<p>Grows spontaneously in various parts of France and Germany; Mr. +<span class="smcap">Philip Hurlock</span> lately shewed me some dried specimens of this +plant, which he gathered in the corn fields, on the <i>Luneburgh Heide</i>, +in <i>Upper Lusatia</i>, where it grew plentifully, and afforded a pleasing +appearance to the curious traveller:—not so to the husbandman, to whom +it is as noxious as the <i>Convolvulus arvensis</i> (<i>small Bindweed</i>) is +with us, and equally difficult to extirpate, having powerfully creeping +roots, which somewhat like the <i>Helianthus tuberosus</i> (commonly called +<i>Jerusalem Artichoke</i>) produce large tubera, and which like those of +that plant, are in high esteem with some as an article of food, and as +such even cultivated abroad.</p> + +<p>It flowers from June to the end of August. It is certainly a beautiful +hardy perennial, similar to (but of more humble growth) than the +everlasting pea, yet must be cautiously introduced on account of its +creeping roots, by which it is most readily propagated, rarely ripening +its seeds with us.</p> + +<p>It is, perhaps, better suited to decorate the unclip'd hedge of the +pleasure-ground, than the border of the flower-garden.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Cistus" id="Cistus"></a>[112]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Cistus Ladaniferus. Gum Cistus.</span></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Polyandria Monognia</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Corolla</i> 5-petala. <i>Calyx</i> 5-phyllus: foliolis duobus minoribus. +<i>Capsula</i>.</p></div> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>CISTUS <i>ladaniferus</i> arborescens ex stipulatus, foliis lanceolatis supra +lævibus, petiolis basi coalitis vaginantibus. <i>Linn. Syst. +Vegetab. ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 497.</i></p> + +<p>CISTUS ladanifera Hispanica incana. <i>Bauh. Pin. 467.</i></p> + +<p>CISTUS Ledon. The Gum Cistus or Sweete Holly Rose. <i>Park. Parad. p. +422.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img112.png"><img + src="images/img112-tb.png" + alt="No 112" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>112 + </div> + +<p>One of the most ornamental hardy shrubs we possess; at once pleasing to +the eye, and grateful to the smell; for, as <span class="smcap">Miller</span> observes, +the whole plant in warm weather exudes a sweet glutinous substance, +which has a very strong balsamic scent, so as to perfume the +circumambient air to a great distance.</p> + +<p>Its blossoms, which appear in June and July in great profusion, exhibit +a remarkable instance of quickly-fading beauty, opening and expanding to +the morning sun, and before night strewing the ground with their elegant +remains: as each succeeding day produces new blossoms, this deciduous +disposition of the petals, common to the genus, is the less to be +regretted.</p> + +<p>Is a native of Spain and Portugal, prefers a dry soil and warm sheltered +situation, and in very severe seasons requires some kind of covering.</p> + +<p>Cultivated 1656, by Mr. <span class="smcap">John Tradescant</span>, jun. <i>Ait. Hort. Kew.</i></p> + +<p>Is readily increased from cuttings; but <span class="smcap">Miller</span> remarks, that +the best plants are raised from seeds.</p> + +<p>Varies with waved leaves, and in having petals without a spot at the +base.</p> + +<p>Is not the plant from whence the Ladanum of the shops is produced, +though affording in warmer countries than ours a similar gum, hence its +name of <i>ladanifera</i> is not strictly proper.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Convolvulus" id="Convolvulus"></a>[113]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Convolvulus Purpureus. Purple Bindweed</span>, or <span class="smcap">Convolvulus +Major</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Pentandria Monogynia.</span></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Corolla</i> campanulata, plicata. <i>Stigmata</i> 2. <i>Capsula</i> 2-locularis; +loculis dispermis.</p></div> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>CONVOLVULUS <i>purpureus</i> foliis cordatis indivisis, fructibus cernuis, +pedicellis incrassatis. <i>Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. p. +200.</i></p> + +<p>CONVOLVULUS purpureus folio subrotundo. <i>Bauh. Pin. 295.</i></p> + +<p>CONVOLVULUS cæruleus major rotundifolius. The greater blew Bindweede or +Bell-flower with round leaves. <i>Park. Parad. p. 358.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img113.png"><img + src="images/img113-tb.png" + alt="No 113" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>113 + </div> + +<p>"Is an annual plant which grows naturally in Asia and America, but has +been long cultivated for ornament in the English gardens, and is +generally known by the title of Convolvulus major. Of this there are +three or four lasting varieties; the most common hath a purple flower, +but there is one with a white, another with a red, and one with a +whitish-blue flower, which hath white seeds. All these varieties I have +cultivated many years, without observing them to change. If the seeds of +these sorts are sown in the spring, upon a warm border where the plants +are designed to remain, they will require no other culture but to keep +them clear from weeds, and place some tall stakes down by them, for +their stalks to twine about, otherwise they will spread on the ground +and make a bad appearance. These plants, if they are properly supported, +will rise ten or twelve feet high in warm Summers: they flower in June, +July, and August, and will continue till the frost kills them. Their +seeds ripen in Autumn." <i>Miller's Gard. Dict. ed. 4to. 1771.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Silene" id="Silene"></a>[114]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Silene Pendula. Pendulous Catchfly</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Decandria Trigynia</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Calyx ventricosus. Petala 5, unguiculata coronata ad faucem, Capsula +3-locularis.</p></div> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>SILENE <i>pendula</i> calycibus fructiferis pendulis inflatis: angulis decem +scabris. <i>Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 421.</i></p> + +<p>VISCAGO hirsuta sicula, lychnidis aquaticæ facie, supina. <i>Dill. Hort. +Elth. 421. t. 312. f. 404.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img114.png"><img + src="images/img114-tb.png" + alt="No 114" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>114 + </div> + +<p>Grows spontaneously in Sicily and Crete; is an annual of humble growth, +and hence a suitable plant for the borders of the flower garden, or the +decoration of Rock-work, as its blossoms are shewy, and not of very +short duration.</p> + +<p>It flowers in June and July, and if once permitted to scatter its seeds, +will come up yearly without any trouble.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Lathyrus2" id="Lathyrus2"></a>[115]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Lathyrus Sativus. Blue-Flower'd Lathyrus</span>, or +<span class="smcap">Chichling-Vetch</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Diadelphia Decandria.</span></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Stylus</i> planus, supra villosus, superne latior. <i>Calycis</i> laciniæ +superiores 2 breviores.</p></div> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>LATHYRUS <i>sativus</i> pedunculis unifloris, cirrhis diphyllis +tetraphyllisque, leguminibus ovatis compressis dorso bimarginatis. +<i>Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 662.</i></p> + +<p>LATHYRUS sativus, flore fructusque albo. <i>Bauh. Pin. 343.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img115.png"><img + src="images/img115-tb.png" + alt="No 115" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>115 + </div> + +<p>A native of France, Spain, and Italy, and distinguishable when in flower +by the blue colour of its blossoms, which are sometimes, however, +milk-white; but its seed-pods afford a more certain mark of distinction, +being unusually short, broad, and winged on the back.</p> + +<p>This species grows to the height of about two feet, and is usually sown +in the spring with other annuals; though not so beautiful, it forms a +contrast to the sweet and Tangier Pea, and may be introduced where there +is plenty of room, or a desire of possessing and knowing most of the +plants of a genus.</p> + +<p>It flowers in June and July.</p> + +<p>Cultivated 1739, by Mr. <span class="smcap">Philip Miller</span>. <i>Ait. Hort. Kew.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Limodorum" id="Limodorum"></a>[116]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Limodorum Tuberosum. Tuberous-Rooted Limodorum.</span></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Gynandria Diandria.</span></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Nectarium monophyllum, concavum, pedicellatum, intra petalum infimum.</p></div> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>LIMODORUM <i>tuberosum</i> floribus subspicatis barbatis. <i>Ait. Hort. Kew. p. +301.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img116.png"><img + src="images/img116-tb.png" + alt="No 116" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>116 + </div> + +<p>For this rare plant I am indebted to the very laudable exertions of a +late Gardener of mine, <span class="smcap">James Smith</span>, who, in the spring of the +year 1788, examining attentively the bog earth which had been brought +over with some plants of the <i>Dionæa Muscipula</i>, found several small +tooth-like knobby roots, which being placed in pots of the same earth, +and plunged into a tan-pit having a gentle heat, produced plants the +ensuing summer, two of which flowered, and from the strongest of those +our figure was taken.</p> + +<p>From this circumstance we learn, that this species is a native of South +Carolina, and properly a bog plant, growing spontaneously with the +<i>Dionæa Muscipula</i>.</p> + +<p>Both Mr. <span class="smcap">Dryander</span> and Dr. <span class="smcap">J. E. Smith</span> assure me, that +it is the true <i>Limodorum tuberosum</i> of <span class="smcap">Linnæus</span>; the one +usually called by that name is a native of the West-Indies, and treated +as a stove plant.</p> + +<p>From the little experience we have had of the management of this +species, it appears to us to be scarcely hardy enough for the open +border, yet not tender enough to require a stove. We have succeeded best +by treating it in the manner above mentioned; we may observe, that the +tan-pit spoken of was built in the open garden, not in a stove, and was +for the purpose of raising plants or seeds by a gentle heat, as well as +for striking cuttings and securing plants from cold in the winter.</p> + +<p>Our figure will make a description of the plant unnecessary, its +flowering stem with us has arisen to the height of a foot and a half, +the number of flowers has not exceeded five. In its most luxuriant state +it will probably be found much larger, and to produce more flowers.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Campanula" id="Campanula"></a>[117]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Campanula Carpatica. Carpatian Bell-Flower</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Pentandria Monogynia</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Corolla</i> campanulata fundo clauso valvis staminiferis. <i>Stigma</i> +trifidum. <i>Capsula</i> infera poris lateralibus dehiscens.</p></div> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>CAMPANULA <i>carpatica</i> foliis glabris cordatis serratis petiolatis, +pedunculis elongatis, calyce reflexo glutinoso. <i>Linn. Syst. +Vegetab. ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 207. Suppl. p. 140.</i> <i>Jacq. Hort. v. +i. t. 57.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img117.png"><img + src="images/img117-tb.png" + alt="No 117" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>117 + </div> + +<p>This species of Bell-flower, which takes its name from its place of +growth, is a native of the Carpatian Alps, and was introduced into the +Royal Garden at Kew, by <i>Professor</i> <span class="smcap">Jacquin</span>, of <i>Vienna</i>, in +the year 1774.</p> + +<p>It flowers in June and July.</p> + +<p>As yet it is scarce in our gardens, but deserves to be more generally +known and cultivated; its flowers, in proportion to the plant, are large +and shewy: like many other Alpine plants, it is well suited to decorate +certain parts of rock-work, or such borders of the flower garden, as are +not adapted for large plants.</p> + +<p>It is a hardy perennial, and propagated by parting its roots in autumn.</p> + +<p>Our figure, from a deficiency in the colouring art, gives a very +inadequate idea of its beauty.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Sedum" id="Sedum"></a>[118]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Sedum Anacampseros. Evergreen Orpine</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Decandria Pentagynia</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Cal.</i> 5-fidus. <i>Cor.</i> 5-petala. <i>Squamæ</i> nectariferæ 5, ad basin +germinis. <i>Caps.</i> 5.</p></div> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>SEDUM <i>Anacampseros</i> foliis cuneiformibus basi attenuatis subsessilibus, +caulibus decumbentibus, floribus corymbosis. <i>Ait. Hort. Kew. p. +108.</i></p> + +<p>SEDUM <i>Anacampseros</i> foliis cuneiformibus integerrimis caulibus +decumbemtibus, floribus corymbosis. <i>Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. +Murr. p. 430.</i></p> + +<p>TELEPHIUM repens folio deciduo. <i>Bauh. Pin. 287.</i></p> + +<p>TELEPHIUM tertium. <i>Dodon. Pempt. p. 130.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img118.png"><img + src="images/img118-tb.png" + alt="No 118" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>118 + </div> + +<p>Grows spontaneously out of the crevices of the rocks in the South of +France; flowers in our gardens in July and August; is a very hardy +perennial, and in sheltered situations retains its leaves all the year.</p> + +<p>The singular manner in which the leaves are attached to the flowering +stem, deserves to be noticed.</p> + +<p>As many of the succulent plants are tender, and require a Green-house in +the winter, cultivators of plants are apt indiscriminately to extend the +same kind of care to the whole<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> tribe, hence it is not uncommon to find +this and many other similar hardy plants, nursed up in the Green-house +or stove, when they would thrive much better on a wall or piece of +rock-work, for the decoration of which this plant in particular is +admirably adapted.</p> + +<p>Like most of the Sedum tribe it may readily be propagated by cuttings, +or parting its roots in autumn.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Dodonæus</span>' figure admirably represents its habit.</p> + +<p>According to the <i>Hort. Kew.</i> it was cultivated in this country by +<span class="smcap">Gerard</span>, in 1596.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Strelitzia" id="Strelitzia"></a>[119]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Strelitzia Reginæ. Canna-leaved Strelitzia</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Pentandria Monogynia.</span></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Spathæ. Cal.</i> 0. <i>Cor.</i> 3-petala. <i>Nectarium</i> triphyllum, genitalia +involvens. <i>Peric.</i> 3-loculare, polyspermum.</p> + +<p>STRELITZIA <i>Reginæ Ait. Hort. Kew. v. i. p. 285. Tab. 2.</i></p> + +<p>HELICONIA <i>Bibai J. Mill. ic. tab. 5, 6.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img119.png"><img + src="images/img119-tb.png" + alt="No 119" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>119 + </div> + +<p>In order that we may give our readers an opportunity of seeing a +coloured representation of one of the most scarce and magnificent plants +introduced into this country, we have this number deviated from our +usual plan, with respect to the plates, and though in so doing we shall +have the pleasure of gratifying the warm wishes of many of our readers, +we are not without our apprehensions least others may not feel perfectly +well satisfied; should it prove so, we wish such to rest assured that +this is a deviation in which we shall very rarely indulge and never but +when something uncommonly beautiful or interesting presents itself: to +avoid the imputation of interested motives, we wish our readers to be +apprized that the expences attendant on the present number, in +consequence of such deviation, have been considerably <i>augmented</i>, not +lowered.</p> + +<p>It is well known to many Botanists, and others, who have experienced Sir +<span class="smcap">Joseph Banks</span>'s well known liberality, that previous to the +publication of the <i>Hortus Kewensis</i> he made a new genus of this plant, +which had before been considered as a species of <i>Heliconia</i>, and named +it <i>Strelitzia</i> in honour of our<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> most gracious Queen +<span class="smcap">Charlotte</span>; coloured engravings of which, executed under his +direction, he presented to his particular friends; impressions of the +same plate have been given in the aforesaid work, in which we are +informed that this plant was introduced to the royal garden at Kew, by +Sir <span class="smcap">Joseph Banks</span>, Bart. in the year 1773, where it lately +flowered—of some other plants introduced after that period from the +Cape, of which it is a native, one flowered in the Pine stove of +<span class="smcap">Bamber Gascoyne</span>, Esq. several years ago, from whence Mr. +<span class="smcap">Millar</span> drew his figure, and the plant from which our drawing +was made flowered this spring, in the bark stove of the garden belonging +to the Apothecaries Company, at Chelsea, where it will also soon flower +again.</p> + +<p>This plant has usually been confined to the stove, where it has been +placed in a pot, and plunged into the tan, as the plants in such +situations usually are; it has been found that when the roots have been +confined to the narrow limits of a pot, the plant has rarely or never +flowered, but that when the roots have by accident extended into the +rotten tan, it has readily thrown up flowering stems, the best practice +therefore, not only with this, but many other plants, is to let the +roots have plenty of earth to strike into. As it is a Cape plant it may +perhaps be found to succeed best in the conservatory.</p> + +<p>It has not, that we know of, as yet ripened its seeds in this country; +till it does, or good seeds of it shall be imported, it must remain a +very scarce and dear plant, as it is found to increase very slowly by +its roots: plants are said to be sold at the Cape for Three Guineas +each.</p> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img120.png"><img + src="images/img120-tb.png" + alt="No 120" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>120 + </div> + +<p class='center'><i>General Description of the STRELITZIA REGINÆ.</i></p> + +<p>From a perennial stringy root shoot forth a considerable number of +leaves, standing upright on long footstalks, front a sheath of some one +of which, near its base, springs the flowering stem, arising somewhat +higher than the leaves, and terminating in an almost horizontal +long-pointed spatha, containing about six or eight flowers, which +becoming vertical as they spring forth, form a kind of crest, which the +glowing orange of the Corolla, and fine azure of the Nectary, renders<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> +truly superb. The outline in the third plate of this number, is intended +to give our readers an idea of its general habit and mode of growth.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Particular Description of the same.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>ROOT perennial, stringy, somewhat like that of the tawny Day-lily +(Hemerocallis fulva); strings the thickness of the little finger, +blunt at the extremity, extending horizontally, if not confined, +to the distance of many feet.</p> + +<p>LEAVES numerous, standing upright on their footstalks, about a foot in +length, and four inches in breadth, ovato-oblong, coriaceous, +somewhat fleshy, rigid, smooth, concave, entire on the edges, +except on one side towards the base, where they are more or less +curled, on the upper side of a deep green colour, on the under +side covered with a fine glaucous meal, midrib hollow above and +yellowish, veins unbranched, prominent on the inside, and +impressed on the outside of the leaf, young leaves rolled up.</p> + +<p>LEAF-STALKS about thrice the length of the leaves, upright, somewhat +flattened, at bottom furnished with a sheath, and received into +each other, all radical.</p> + +<p>SCAPUS or flowering stem unbranched, somewhat taller than the leaves, +proceeding from the sheath of one of them, upright, round, not +perfectly straight, nearly of an equal thickness throughout, of a +glaucous hue, covered with four or five sheaths which closely +embrace it. Two or more flowering stems spring from the same root, +according to the age of the plant.</p> + +<p>SPATHA terminal, about six inches in length, of a glaucous hue, with a +fine bright purple at its base, running out to a long point, +opening above from the base to within about an inch of the apex, +where the edges roll over to one side, forming an angle of about +forty-five degrees, and containing about six flowers.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p> + +<p>FLOWERS of a bright orange colour, becoming upright, when perfectly +detached from the spatha, which each flower is a considerable time +in accomplishing. In the plant at Chelsea, the two back petals, +or, more properly segments of the first flower, sprang forth with +the nectary, and while the former became immediately vertical, the +latter formed nearly the same angle as the spatha; four days +afterwards the remaining segment of the first flower, with the two +segments and nectary of the second came forth, and in the same +manner at similar intervals all the flowers, which were six in +number, continued to make their appearance.</p> + +<p>COROLLA deeply divided into three segments, which are ovato-lanceolate, +slightly keeled, and somewhat concave, at the base white, fleshy, +and covered with a glutinous substance flowing in great quantities +from the nectary.</p> + +<p>NECTARY of a fine azure blue and most singular form, composed of two +petals, the upper petal very short and broad, with a whitish mucro +or point, the sides of which lap over the base of the other petal; +inferior petal about two inches and a half in length, the lower +half somewhat triangular, grooved on the two lowermost sides, and +keeled at bottom, the keel running straight to its extremity, the +upper half gradually dilating towards the base, runs out into two +lobes more or less obtuse, which give it an arrow-shaped form, +bifid at the apex, hollow, and containing the antheræ, the edges +of the duplicature crisped and forming a kind of frill from the +top to the bottom.</p> + +<p>STAMINA five Filaments arising from the base of the nectary, short and +distinct; Antheræ long and linear, attached to and cohering by +their tips to the apex of the nectary.</p> + +<p>STYLE filiform, white, length of the nectary.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></p> + +<p>STIGMA three quarters of an inch long, attached to, and hitched on as it +were to the tip of the nectary, roundish, white, awl-shaped, very +viscid, becoming as the flower decays of a deep purple brown +colour, and usually splitting into three pieces, continuing +attached to the nectary till the nectary decays.</p></div> + +<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">Fairbairn</span>, to whose abilities and industry the Companies +Garden at Chelsea is indebted for its present flourishing state, being +desirous of obtaining ripe seeds, I had no opportunity of examining the +germen.</p> + +<p>Such were the appearances which presented themselves to us in the plant +which flowered at the Chelsea Garden; that they are liable to +considerable variation is apparent from the figure of Mr. +<span class="smcap">Millar</span>, which appears to have been drawn from a very luxuriant +specimen, as two spathæ grow from one flowering stem, the stigma is also +remarkably convoluted, many other appearances are likewise represented, +which our plant did not exhibit: in the figure given in the <i>Hortus +Kewensis</i>, the stigma appears to have separated from the nectary on the +first opening of the flower, and to be split into three parts, neither +of which circumstances took place in our plant till they were both in a +decaying state.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span></p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Narcissus" id="Narcissus"></a>[121]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Narcissus Incomparabilis. Peerless Daffodil.</span></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Hexandria Monogynia.</span></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Petala</i> 6 æqualia: <i>Nectario</i> infundibuliformi, 1-phyllo: <i>Stamina</i> +intra nectarium.</p></div> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>NARCISSUS <i>incomparabilis</i> spatha uniflora, nectario campanulato plicato +crispo petalis dimidio breviore, foliis planis.</p> + +<p>NARCISSUS latifolius omnium maximus amplo calice flavo sive Nompareille. +The great Nonesuch Daffodil, or incomparable Daffodil. <i>Park. Par. +p. 68.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img121.png"><img + src="images/img121-tb.png" + alt="No 121" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>121 + </div> + +<p>This species of Narcissus, though well described and figured by the old +Botanists, especially <span class="smcap">Parkinson</span>; has been overlooked by +<span class="smcap">Linnæus</span>.</p> + +<p>It is undoubtedly the <i>incomparable Daffodil</i> of +<span class="smcap">Parkinson</span>, figured in his Garden of Pleasant Flowers; and the +<i>incomparabilis</i> of <span class="smcap">Miller</span>'s <i>Dict. ed. 6. 4to.</i> the latter +informs us, that he received roots of it from Spain and Portugal, which +fixes its place of growth.</p> + +<p>It is a very hardy bulbous plant, and flowers in April; in its single +state it is very ornamental, the petals are usually pale yellow, and the +nectary inclined to orange, which towards the brim is more brilliant in +some than in others; in its double state, it is well known to Gardeners, +by the name of Butter and Egg Narcissus, and of this there are two +varieties, both of which produce large shewy flowers, the one with +colours similar to what we have above described, which is the most +common, the other with petals of a pale sulphur colour, almost white, +and the nectary bright orange; this, which is one of the most ornamental +of the whole tribe, is named in the Dutch catalogues, the <i>Orange +Phœnix</i>; its blossoms are so large as frequently to require +supporting; its bulbs may be had of many of the Nurseries about London, +and of those who, profiting by the supineness of our English Gardeners, +import bulbs from abroad.</p> + +<p>Like most of the tribe, this species will grow well without any care, +the bulbs of the double sort should be taken up yearly, otherwise they +are apt to degenerate.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Hyacinthus" id="Hyacinthus"></a>[122]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Hyacinthus Racemosus. Starch Hyacinth.</span></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Hexandria Monogynia.</span></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<p class='center'>Corolla campanulata: pori 3 melliferi germinis.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>HYACINTHUS <i>racemosus</i> corollis ovatis, summis sessilibus, foliis laxis. +<i>Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 336.</i> <i>Sp. Pl. 455.</i></p> + +<p>HYACINTHUS racemosus cæruleus minor juncifolius. <i>Bauh. Pin. p. 43.</i></p> + +<p>HYACINTHUS botryodes 1. <i>Car Clus. Hist. p. 181.</i></p> + +<p>HYACINTHUS racemosus. <i>Dodon. Pempt. p. 217.</i></p> + +<p>HYACINTHUS botroides minor cæruleus obscurus. The darke blew +Grape-flower. <i>Park. Par. p. 114.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img122.png"><img + src="images/img122-tb.png" + alt="No 122" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>122 + </div> + +<p>The <i>Hyacinthus racemosus</i> and <i>botryoides</i> are both cultivated in +gardens, but the former here figured is by far the most common; +<i>racemosus</i> and <i>botryoides</i>, though different words, are expressive of +the same meaning, the former being derived from the Latin term +<i>racemus</i>, the latter from the Greek one βοτρυϛ, both of which +signify a bunch of grapes, the form of which the inflorescence of these +plants somewhat resembles, and hence they have both been called Grape +Hyacinths, but as confusion thereby arises, we have thought it better to +call this species the Starch Hyacinth, the smell of the flower in the +general opinion resembling that substance, and leave the name of Grape +Hyacinth for the <i>botryoides</i>.</p> + +<p>The <i>Hyacinthus racemosus</i> grows wild in the corn fields of Germany, in +which it increases so fast by offsets from the root as to prove a very +troublesome weed, and on this account it must be cautiously introduced +into gardens.</p> + +<p>It flowers in April and May.</p> + +<p>We have found the Nurserymen very apt to mistake it for the +<i>botryoides</i>, a figure of which it is our intention to give in some +future number.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Anemone" id="Anemone"></a>[123]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Anemone Hortensis. Star Anemone</span>, or <span class="smcap">Broad-Leav'd Garden +Anemone</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Polyandria Polygynia</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<p class='center'>Cal. 0. Petala 5-9. Semina plura.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>ANEMONE <i>hortensis</i> foliis digitalis, feminibus lanatis. <i>Linn. Syst. +Vegetab. ed Murr. p. 510.</i> <i>Ait. Hort. Kew. vol. 2. p. 256.</i></p> + +<p>ANEMONE Geranii rotundo folio, purpurascens. <i>Bauh. Pin. 173.</i></p> + +<p>ANEMONE prima. <i>Dodon. Pempt. 434.</i></p> + +<p>ANEMONE latifolia purpurea stellata sive papaveracea. The purple +Star-Anemone or Windflower. <i>Park. Parad. p. 204.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img123.png"><img + src="images/img123-tb.png" + alt="No 123" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>123 + </div> + +<p>We are more and more convinced, that in our eagerness, for novelties, we +daily lose plants by far more ornamental than the new ones we introduce; +the present, a most charming spring plant, with which the Gardens +abounded in the time of <span class="smcap">Parkinson</span>, is now a great rarity; its +blossoms, which are uncommonly brilliant, come forth in April, and, like +those of many other plants, appear to advantage only when the sun +shines.</p> + +<p>It may be propagated either by seeds, or by parting its roots in Autumn, +in the former way we may obtain many beautiful varieties.</p> + +<p>It prefers a light loamy soil and moderately exposed situation.</p> + +<p>Roots of a variety of this plant with scarlet double flowers are +imported from Holland, under the name, of <i>Anemonoides</i>, and sold at a +high price.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Iberis" id="Iberis"></a>[124]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Iberis Gibraltarica. Gibraltar Candy-Tuft</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Tetradynamia Siliculosa</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Corolla</i> irregularis: Petalis 2 exterioribus majoribus. <i>Silicula</i> +polysperma, emarginata.</p></div> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>IBERIS <i>Gibraltarica</i> frutescens foliis apice dentatis. <i>Linn. Syst. +Veg. ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 589.</i></p> + +<p>THLASPIDIUM Hispanicum, ampliore flore folio crasso dentato. <i>Dill. +Elth. 382. t. 287. f. 37.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img124.png"><img + src="images/img124-tb.png" + alt="No 124" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>124 + </div> + +<p>The flowers of this plant, a native of Gibraltar, bear some resemblance +to those of the Common Candy-Tuft, but when they blow in perfection, +they are usually twice as large; hence they are highly ornamental in the +green-house, which early in the Spring, the time of their coming forth, +stands in need of some such shewy flowers.</p> + +<p>This plant is easily raised from cuttings, and easily preserved; it may +be kept through the Winter in a common hot-bed frame, and in mild +Winters will stand abroad, especially if sheltered amongst rock-work; +its greatest enemy is moisture in the Winter season, this often proves +fatal to it, as indeed a long continued damp atmosphere does to many +others; the Nurserymen about London complain of losing more plants the +last mild Winter, from this cause, than they generally do from severe +frosts. In a little green-house which I had in my late garden, +Lambeth-Marsh, most of the plants became absolutely mouldy; in such +seasons then, though in point of cold the plants may not require it, we +must dissipate the superfluous moisture by a gentle heat.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Alstroemeria" id="Alstroemeria"></a>[125]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Alstrœmeria Ligtu. Striped-Flower'd Alstrœmeria</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Hexandria Monogynia</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Corolla</i> 6-petala, sub-bilabiata: petalis 2 inferioribus basi +tubulosis. <i>Stamina</i> declinata.</p></div> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>ALSTRŒMERIA <i>Ligtu</i> caule erecto, foliis spathulato-oblongis, +pedunculis umbellæ involucro longioribus, corolla bilabiata. +<i>Linn. Syst. Veget. ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. Suppl. p. 207.</i> <i>Amœn. +Acad. V. 6. p. 247.</i></p> + +<p>HEMEROCALLIS floribus purpurascentibus striatis. <i>Few. Peruv. 2. p. 710. +t. 4.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img125.png"><img + src="images/img125-tb.png" + alt="No 125" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>125 + </div> + +<p>This plant receives its generic name from <span class="smcap">Claudius Alstrœmer</span> +(son of Sir <span class="smcap">Jonas Alstrœmer</span>, a most respectable Swedish +Merchant) who first found the other most beautiful species the +<i>Pelegrina</i> in Spain, whither it had been transmitted from Peru; its +trivial name <i>Ligtu</i> is a provincial one.</p> + +<p>According to <span class="smcap">Fewillee</span>, who has written on the plants of Peru, +this species is found on the banks of the rivers in Chili: we treat it, +and successfully, as a stove plant; its flowers, which usually make +their appearance in February and March, emit a fragrance scarcely +inferior to Mignonet; its leaves, contrary to most others, grow +inverted, which is effected by a twist of the footstalk, and afford an +excellent example of <span class="smcap">Linnæus</span>'s <i>Folium resupinatum</i>; the +filaments, after the pollen is discharged, turn upwards, and the antheræ +become almost globular.</p> + +<p>It is usually propagated by parting its roots in Autumn.</p> + +<p>Our figure was drawn from a plant which flowered extremely well in the +stove of Messrs. <span class="smcap">Grimwood</span> and Co. Kensington.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Alyssum" id="Alyssum"></a>[126]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Alyssum Deltoideum. Purple Alyssum</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Tetradynamia Siliculosa</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Filamenta</i> quædam introrsum denticulo notata. <i>Silicula</i> emarginata.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>ALYSSUM <i>deltoideum</i> caulibus suffrutescentibus prostratis, foliis +lanceolato-deltoidibus, siliculis hirtis. <i>Linn. Syst. Vegetab. p. +591.</i> <i>Sp. Pl. 908.</i></p> + +<p>LEUCOJUM saxatile thymifolio hirsutum cæruleo-purpureum. <i>Bauh. Pin. +201.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img126.png"><img + src="images/img126-tb.png" + alt="No 126" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>126 + </div> + +<p>Plants which flower early, and continue a long while in bloom, are +deservedly preferred, more especially by those who content themselves +with a partial collection; of that number is the present species of +Alyssum, which begins to flower in March, and continues to blossom +through April, May, and June, and, if favourably situated, during most +of the summer.</p> + +<p>It is properly a rock plant, being hardy, forming with very little care +a neat tuft of flowers, and not apt to encroach on its neighbours.</p> + +<p>May be propagated by parting its roots in Autumn, or by cuttings.</p> + +<p>Is a native of the Levant, according to Mr. <span class="smcap">Aiton</span>; and +cultivated by Mr. <span class="smcap">Miller</span>, in 1739, but omitted in the 6th 4to. +edition of his Dictionary: has usually been considered by the Nurserymen +about London as the <i>hyperboreum</i>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Ixia" id="Ixia"></a>[127]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Ixia Flexuosa. Bending-Stalk'd Ixia</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Triandria Monogynia</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Cor.</i> 6-partita, campanulata, regularis. <i>Stigmata</i> 3.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>IXIA <i>flexuosa</i> foliis linearibus, racemo flexuoso multifloro. <i>Linn. +Sp. Pl. p. 51.</i> <i>Ait. Hort. Kew. p. 58.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img127.png"><img + src="images/img127-tb.png" + alt="No 127" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>127 + </div> + +<p>The Ixias are a numerous tribe, chiefly natives of the Cape, and in +general remarkable either for their delicacy, or brilliant colours.</p> + +<p>The one here figured appears to be a variety of the <i>flexuosa</i> with a +purple eye, its blossoms are fragrant, and come forth in April or May.</p> + +<p>"All the sorts multiply very fast by offsets, so that when once +obtained, there will be no occasion to raise them from seeds: for the +roots put out offsets in great plenty, most of which will flower the +following season, whereas those from seeds are three or four years +before they flower. These plants will not thrive through the winter in +the full ground in England, so must be planted in pots, and placed under +a frame in winter, where they may be protected from frost, but in mild +weather should enjoy the free air; but they must be guarded from mice, +who are very fond of these roots, and if not prevented will devour +them." <i>Millers Gard. Dict.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Scilla" id="Scilla"></a>[128]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Scilla Campanulata</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Hexandria Monogynia</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Cor.</i> 6-petala, patens, decidua. <i>Filamenta</i> filiformia.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>SCILLA <i>campanulata</i> bulbo folido, racemo multifloro oblongo-subconico, +corollis campanulatis erectis, bracteis bipartitis, pedunculo +longioribus, foliis lanceolatis. <i>Ait. Hort. Kew. p. 444.</i></p> + +<p>HYACINTHUS Hispanicus major flore campanulæ instar.</p> + +<p>The greater Spanish bell-flowred Jacinth. <i>Park. Par. 123.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img128.png"><img + src="images/img128-tb.png" + alt="No 128" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>128 + </div> + +<p>There are few old gardens which do not abound with this plant; it bears +great affinity to our Hare-bell, with which it appears to have been +confounded by most Botanists. <i>Parkinson</i> thus discriminates it: "This +Spanish bell-flowred Jacinth is very like the former English or Spanish +Jacinth, but greater in all parts, as well of leaves as flowers, many +growing together at the toppe of the stalke; with many short greene +leaves among them, hanging doune their heads with larger, greater, and +wider open mouths, like unto bels of a darke blew colour, and no good +sent." <i>Park. Parad.</i></p> + +<p>Though not remarkable for the fineness of its colours, or pleasing from +its fragrance, it contributes with other bulbous plants to decorate the +flower border or plantation in the spring, when flowers are most wanted.</p> + +<p>It is very hardy, and increases abundantly by offsets; its seeds also +ripen well.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Amaryllis" id="Amaryllis"></a>[129]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Amaryllis Vittata. Superb Amaryllis.</span></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Hexandria Monogynia.</span></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Corolla</i> hexapetaloidea, irregularis. <i>Filamenta</i> fauci tubi inserta, +declinata, inæqualia proportione vel directione, <i>Linn. fil.</i></p></div> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>AMARYLLIS floribus pedicellatis, corollis +cuneiformi-infundibuliformibus, petalorum exteriorum rachibus +interiorum margini adnatis, scapo tereti, stigmatibus sulcatis. +<i>Linn. fil.</i></p> + +<p>AMARYLLIS <i>vittata.</i> <i>L'Herit. Sert. Angl. t. 15.</i> <i>Ait. Hort. Kew. p. +418.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img129.png"><img + src="images/img129-tb.png" + alt="No 129" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>129 + </div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Linnæus</span>, the Son, took much pains in new modelling the generic +and specific characters of this genus; as may be seen in the <i>Hort. +Kew</i>: Mons. <span class="smcap">L'Heritier</span>, when in England a few years since, saw +this species, described and named it <i>Vittata</i><a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a>.</p> + +<p>Of what country it is a native is not known with certainty, most +probably of the Cape, was first introduced into England by Mr. +<span class="smcap">Malcolm</span>.</p> + +<p>Our figure was drawn from a fine specimen which flowered this spring +with Messrs. <span class="smcap">Grimwood</span> and Co. Kensington.</p> + +<p>It usually flowers in April or May, but may be forwarded by artificial +heat.</p> + +<p>It rarely puts forth offsets from the root, but readily produces seeds, +by which it is propagated without difficulty.</p> + +<p>When it blossoms in perfection it truly deserves the name of superb, +which Mr. <span class="smcap">Aiton</span> has given it, the stem rising to the height of +three feet or more, and producing from two to five flowers.</p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span></p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Alyssum2" id="Alyssum2"></a>[130]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Alyssum Utriculatum. Bladder-Podded Alyssum</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Tetradynamia Siliculosa.</span></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Filamenta</i> quædam introrsum denticulo notata. <i>Silicula</i> emarginata.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>ALYSSUM <i>utriculatum</i> caule herbaceo erecto, foliis lævibus lanceolatis +integerrimis, filiculis inflatis. <i>Linn. Syst. Veget. ed. 14.</i> +<i>Murr.</i></p> + +<p>ALYSSOIDES fruticosum, leucoji folio viridi. <i>Tourn. inst. 218.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img130.png"><img + src="images/img130-tb.png" + alt="No 130" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>130 + </div> + +<p>A native of the Levant, and cultivated by Mr. <span class="smcap">Miller</span> in the +year 1739.</p> + +<p>Is a hardy and beautiful perennial, flowering from April to June, at +which time it begins to form its curiously inflated pods.</p> + +<p>Like the <i>Alyssum deltoideum</i>, it is well adapted to the decorating of +walls, or rock-work, and is readily propagated either by seeds or +slips.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Catesbaea" id="Catesbaea"></a>[131]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Catesbæa Spinosa. Thorny Catesbæa</span>, or <span class="smcap">Lily-Thorn</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Tetrandria Monogynia.</span></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Cor.</i> 1-petala, infundibuliformis, longissima, supera. Stamina intra +faucem. <i>Bacca</i> polysperma.</p></div> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>CATESBÆA <i>spinosa.</i> <i>Linn. Syst. Vegetab, ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 152.</i> <i>Sp. +Pl. p. 159.</i> <i>Ait. Hort. Kew. p. 159.</i></p> + +<p>Frutex spinosus, buxi foliis plurimis simul nascentibus, flore +tetrapetaloide pendulo sordide flavo, tubo longissimo, fructu +ovali croceo semina parva continente. <i>Catesb. Carol. 2. p. 100. +t. 100.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img131.png"><img + src="images/img131-tb.png" + alt="No 131" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>131 + </div> + +<p>Of this genus there is only one species described by authors, and which +<span class="smcap">Linnæus</span> has named in honour of our countryman <span class="smcap">Mark +Catesby</span>, Author of the Natural History of Carolina.</p> + +<p>"This shrub was discovered by Mr. <span class="smcap">Catesby</span>, near Nassau-town, in +the Island of Providence, where he saw two of them growing, which were +all he ever saw; from these he gathered the seeds and brought them to +England.</p> + +<p>"It is propagated by seeds, which must be procured from the country +where it naturally grows. If the entire fruit are brought over in sand, +the seeds will be better preserved; the seeds must be sown in small pots +filled with light sandy earth, and plunged into a moderate hot-bed of +Tanner's-bark. If the seeds are good, the plants will appear in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span> about +six weeks; these plants make little progress for four or five years. If +the nights should prove cold the glasses must be covered with mats every +evening. As these plants grow slowly, so they will not require to be +removed out of the seed-pots the first year, but in the Autumn the pots +should be removed into the stove, and plunged into the tan-bed; in +spring the plants should be carefully taken up, and each planted in a +separate small pot, filled with light sandy earth, and plunged into a +fresh hot-bed of Tanner's-bark. In Summer when the weather is warm, they +should have a good share of air admitted to them, but in Autumn must be +removed into the stove; where they should constantly remain, and must be +treated afterwards in the same manner as other tender exotic plants." +<i>Miller's Dict.</i></p> + +<p>It is more usual with Nurserymen to increase this plant by cuttings.</p> + +<p>Our drawing was made from a plant which flowered this Spring, with Mr. +<span class="smcap">Colvill</span>, Nurseryman, King's-Road, Chelsea.</p> + +<p>It flowers most part of the Summer, but not so freely as many other +stove-plants.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Rubus" id="Rubus"></a>[132]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Rubus Arcticus. Dwarf Bramble</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Icosandria Polygynia</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Cal.</i> 5-fidus. Petala 5. <i>Bacca</i> composita acinis monospermis.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>RUBUS <i>arcticus</i> foliis ternatis, caule inermi unifloro. <i>Linn. Syst. +Vegetab. p. 476.</i></p> + +<p>RUBUS humilis flore purpureo. <i>Buxb. Cent. 5. p. 13. t. 26.</i></p> + +<p>RUBUS trifolius humilis non spinosus, sapore et odore fragariæ, fructu +rubro polycocco. <i>Amm. Ruth. 185.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img132.png"><img + src="images/img132-tb.png" + alt="No 132" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>132 + </div> + +<p>The Rubus arcticus grows wild in the northern parts of Europe and +America, in moist, sandy, and gravelly places. <span class="smcap">Linnæus</span> has +figured and minutely described it in his <i>Flora Lapponica</i>, out of +gratitude, as he expresses himself, for the benefits reaped from it in +his Lapland journey, by the nectareous wine of whose berries he was so +often recruited when sinking with hunger and fatigue; he observes that +the principal people in the north of Sweden make a syrup, a jelly, and a +wine, from the berries, which they partly consume themselves, and partly +transmit to Stockholm, as a dainty of the most delicious kind; and truly +he adds, of all the wild Swedish berries this holds the first place.</p> + +<p>Our figure does not correspond altogether with <span class="smcap">Linnæus</span>'s +description, but it is drawn as the plant grew; culture doubtless made +it produce more than its usual number of flowering stems and petals.</p> + +<p>It grows readily and increases rapidly in bog-earth, on a north border, +and flowers in May and June, but very rarely ripens its fruit in +Gardens.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Hyacinthus2" id="Hyacinthus2"></a>[133]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Hyacinthus Comosus</span>. <span class="smcap">Two Coloured</span>, or, <span class="smcap">Tassel +Hyacinth</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Hexandria Monogynia.</span></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Corolla</i> campanulata: pori 3-melliferi germinis.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>HYACINTHUS <i>comosus</i> corollis angulato-cylindricis: summis sterilibus +longius pedicellatis. <i>Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. 336.</i></p> + +<p>HYACINTHUS comosus major purpureus. <i>Bauh. Pin. 42.</i> The purple faire +haired Jacinth; or Purse tassels. <i>Park. Parad. p. 117.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img133.png"><img + src="images/img133-tb.png" + alt="No 133" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>133 + </div> + +<p>Most of the old Botanists arranged this plant, the <i>racemosus</i>, and +others having almost globular flowers with the Hyacinths. +<span class="smcap">Tournefort</span>, struck with the difference of their appearance, +made a distinct genus of them under the name of <i>Muscari</i>, in which he +is followed by <span class="smcap">Miller</span>, and should have been by +<span class="smcap">Linnæus</span>, for they differ so much that no student would consider +the present plant as belonging to the same genus with the Hare-bell.</p> + +<p>This species grows wild in the corn-fields of Spain, Portugal, and some +parts of Germany, and flowers in May and June.</p> + +<p>It is distinguished more by its singularity than beauty, the flowers on +the summit of the stalk differing widely in colour from the others, and +being mostly barren: <span class="smcap">Parkinson</span> says, "the whole stalke with the +flowers upon it, doth somewhat resemble a long Purse tassell, and +thereupon divers Gentlewomen have so named it."</p> + +<p>It is a hardy bulbous plant, growing readily in most soils and +situations, and usually propagated by offsets.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Adonis" id="Adonis"></a>[134]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Adonis Vernalis.</span></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Polyandria Polygynia</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Cal.</i> 5-phyllus. <i>Petala</i> quinis plura absque nectario. <i>Sem.</i> nuda.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>ADONIS <i>vernalis</i> flore dodecapetalo, fructu ovato. <i>Linn. Syst. +Vegetab. ed. Murr. p. 514.</i> <i>Ait. Hort. Kew. Vol. 2. p. 264.</i></p> + +<p>HELLEBORUS niger tenuifolius, Buphthalmi flore. <i>Bauh. Pin. 186.</i></p> + +<p>BUPHTHALMUM <i>Dodon. Pempt. 261.</i></p> + +<p>HELLEBORUS niger ferulaceus sive Buphthalmum. The great Ox-eye, or the +great yellow Anemone. <i>Parkins. Parad. p. 291. f. 6.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img134.png"><img + src="images/img134-tb.png" + alt="No 134" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>134 + </div> + +<p>Of this plant <span class="smcap">Linnæus</span> makes two species, viz. the <i>vernalis</i> +and <i>appennina</i>, differing in their specific character merely in the +number of their petals, which are found to vary from situation and +culture; as the first name taken from its time of flowering is the most +expressive, we have followed Mr. <span class="smcap">Miller</span> and Mr. <span class="smcap">Aiton</span> +in adopting it.</p> + +<p>It is an old inhabitant of the English gardens, and a most desirable +one, as it flowers in the spring; produces fine shewy blossoms, which +expand wide when exposed to the sun, is hardy and readily cultivated.</p> + +<p>Grows wild on the mountainous pastures of some parts of Germany.</p> + +<p>It may be increased by parting its roots in Autumn or Spring, or by +seed. <span class="smcap">Miller</span> recommends the latter mode.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Gladiolus" id="Gladiolus"></a>[135]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Gladiolus Cardinalis. Superb Gladiolus</span>; or, <span class="smcap">Corn-Flag.</span></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Triandria Monogynia</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Corolla</i> 6-partita, irregularis, inæqualis, <i>Stigmata</i> 3.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>GLADIOLUS <i>cardinalis</i> corollæ erectæ limbo campanulato, floribus +secundis, scapo multifloro, foliis ensiformibus multinerviis.</p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img135.png"><img + src="images/img135-tb.png" + alt="No 135" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>135 + </div> + +<p>This new species of Gladiolus, of whose magnificence our figure can +exhibit but an imperfect idea, was introduced into this country from +Holland, a few years since, by Mr. <span class="smcap">Graffer</span>, at present +Gardener to the King of Naples; and first flowered with Messrs. +<span class="smcap">Lewis</span> and <span class="smcap">Mackie</span>, Nurserymen, at Kingsland; a very +strong plant of it flowered also this summer at Messrs. +<span class="smcap">Grimwoods</span> and Co. which divided at top into three branches, +from one of which our figure was drawn.</p> + +<p>It obviously differs from the other more tender plants of this genus, in +the colour of its flowers, which are of a fine scarlet, with large white +somewhat rhomboidal spots, on several of the lowermost divisions of the +Corolla; strong plants will throw up a stem three or four feet high.</p> + +<p>It is most probably a native of the Cape, flowers with us in July and +August, and is increased by offsets from the bulbs; must be treated like +the Ixias and other similar Cape plants.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Pelargonium" id="Pelargonium"></a>[136]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Pelargonium Tetragonum. Square Stalked Geranium.</span></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Monadelphia Heptandria.</span></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Cal.</i> 5-partitus, lacinia suprema definente in tubulum capillarem, +nectariferum, secus pedunculum decurrentem. <i>Cor.</i> 5-petala, +irregularis. <i>Filamenta</i> 10, inæqualia: quorum 3 (raro 5) +castrata. <i>Fructus</i> 5-coccus, rostratus: <i>rostra</i> spiralia, +introrsum barbata.</p></div> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>PELARGONIUM <i>tetragonum</i> pedunculis bifloris, ramis tetragonis carnosis, +corollis tetrapetalis, <i>L'Herit. n. 72. t. 23.</i></p> + +<p>GERANIUM <i>tetragonum</i>. <i>Linn. Suppl. p. 305.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img136.png"><img + src="images/img136-tb.png" + alt="No 136" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>136 + </div> + +<p>A vein of singularity runs through the whole of this plant, its stalks +are unequally and obtusely quadrangular, sometimes more evidently +triangular; its leaves few, and remarkably small; its flowers, on the +contrary, are uncommonly large, and what is more extraordinary have only +four petals; previous to their expansion they exhibit also an appearance +somewhat outrè, the body of the filaments being bent so as to form a +kind of bow, in which state we have represented one of the blossoms in +our figure.</p> + +<p>When it flowers in perfection, which it is not apt to do in all places, +the largeness of its blossoms renders it one of the most ornamental of +the genus.</p> + +<p>There is a variety of it with beautifully coloured leaves, of which we +have availed ourselves in its representation.</p> + +<p>It flowers from June, to August, and September; requires the same +treatment as the more common Geraniums, and is readily propagated by +cuttings.</p> + +<p>Was first introduced to the Royal Garden at Kew, by Mr. <span class="smcap">Masson</span>, +in 1774, from the Cape, of which, it is a native. <i>Ait. Hort. Kew.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Hypericum" id="Hypericum"></a>[137]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Hypericum Balearicum. Warty St. John's-Wort</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Polyadelphia Polyandria</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Calyx</i> 5-phyllus. <i>Petala</i> 5. <i>Nectarium</i> 0. <i>Capsula</i>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>HYPERICUM <i>balearicum</i> floribus pentagynis, caule fruticoso foliis +ramisque cicatrizatis. <i>Linn. Syst. Veget. p. 102.</i></p> + +<p>MYRTO-CISTUS pennæi <i>Clus. Hist. 1. p. 68.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img137.png"><img + src="images/img137-tb.png" + alt="No 137" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>137 + </div> + +<p>Is according to <span class="smcap">Linnæus</span> a native of <i>Majorca</i>; <span class="smcap">Miller</span> +says that it grows naturally in the Island of <i>Minorca,</i> from whence the +seeds were sent to England by Mr. <span class="smcap">Salvador</span>, an Apothecary at +Barcelona, in the year 1718.</p> + +<p>The stalks of this species are usually of a bright red colour, and +covered with little warts; the leaves are small with many depressions on +their upper sides like scars; the flowers are not always solitary, but +frequently form a kind of Corymbus.</p> + +<p>It is a hardy green-house plant, and readily propagated by cuttings.</p> + +<p>It flowers during most of the Summer.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Clusius</span> informs us in his <i>Hist. pl. rar. p. 68.</i> that he +received from <span class="smcap">Thomas Penny</span>, a Physician of London, in the year +1580, a figure of this elegant plant, and who the next year shewed a +dried specimen of the same in London, which had been gathered in the +Island of Majorca, and named by him μυρτο κἱσον, or +Myrtle-Cistus<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> it appears therefore that this plant has long been +known, if not cultivated in this country.</p> + +<p>We may remark that <span class="smcap">Clusius</span>'s figure of this plant is not +equally expressive with many of his others.</p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span></p><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span></p><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span></p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Kalmia" id="Kalmia"></a>[138]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Kalmia Hirsuta. Hairy Kalmia</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Decandria Monogynia</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Calyx</i> 5-partitus. <i>Corolla</i> hypocrateriformis: limbo subtus +quinquecorni <i>Caps.</i> 5-locularis.</p></div> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>KALMIA <i>hirsuta</i> foliis ovato-lanceolatis hirsutis sparsis, floribus +racemosis.</p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img138.png"><img + src="images/img138-tb.png" + alt="No 138" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>138 + </div> + +<p>This new species of Kalmia which we have called <i>hirsuta,</i> the stalk, +leaves, and calyx, being covered with strong hairs, was imported from +Carolina in the Spring of 1790, by Mr. <span class="smcap">Watson</span>, Nurseryman at +Islington, with whom several plants of it flowered this present Autumn, +about the middle of September, from one of which our drawing was made.</p> + +<p>The plants were brought over with their roots enclosed in balls of the +earth in which they naturally grew, which on being examined appeared of +a blackish colour, and full of glittering particles of sand; similar +indeed to the bog-earth which we find on our moors and heaths; there is +therefore little doubt (for no account accompanied the plants) but this +Kalmia grows on moorish heaths, or in swamps.</p> + +<p>In its general appearance it bears some resemblance to the <i>Andromeda +Dabœcii</i>; from the specimens we have seen its usual height would +appear to be from two to three feet; it grows upright; the flowers which +are about the size of those of the <i>Kalmia glauca</i>, are of a purple +colour, and contrary to all the other known Kalmia's grow in racemi.</p> + +<p>It is propagated by layers, and requires the same treatment as the rest +of the genus, that is, to be planted in bog-earth, on a north border: as +this however is a new, and of course a dear plant, it will be most +prudent till we know what degree of cold it will bear, to keep it in a +pot of the same earth, plunged in the same situation, which may be +removed in the Winter to a green-house or hot-bed frame.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Alstroemeria2" id="Alstroemeria2"></a>[139]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Alstrœmeria Pelegrina. Spotted-Flower'd Alstrœmeria</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Hexandria Monogynia</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Corolla</i> 6-petala, supera, irregularis. <i>Stamina</i> declinata.</p></div> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>ALSTRŒMERIA <i>Pelegrina</i> caule erecto, corollis campanulatis rectis, +foliis lineari-lanceolatis sessilibus. <i>Linn. Syst. Veg. p. 338. +ed. Murr.</i> <i>Amœn. Acad. 6. p. 247. cum icone.</i></p> + +<p>HEMEROCALLIS floribus purpurascentibus maculatis vulgo Pelegrina. +<i>Feuill. Peruv. 2. p. 711. t. 5.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img139.png"><img + src="images/img139-tb.png" + alt="No 139" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>139 + </div> + +<p>Father <span class="smcap">Feuillee</span><a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> figures and describes three species of +<i>Alstrœmeria</i>, viz. <i>Pelegrina</i>, <i>Ligtu</i>, and <i>Salsilla</i>, common +names by which they are severally distinguished in Peru: the present +species, which is much valued by the natives on account of its beauty, +he informs us is found wild on a mountain to the north of, and a mile +distant from Lima.</p> + +<p>From Peru, as might be expected, the present plant found its way into +Spain, from whence by the means of his beloved friend +<span class="smcap">Alstrœmer</span>, <span class="smcap">Linnæus</span> first received seeds of it; the +value he set on the acquisition is evident from the great care he took +of the seedling plants, preserving them through the winter in his +bed-chamber.</p> + +<p>According to Mr. <span class="smcap">Aiton</span>, this species was introduced to the +Royal Garden at Kew, by Messrs. <span class="smcap">Kennedy</span> and <span class="smcap">Lee</span>, as +long ago as the year 1753.</p> + +<p>Being a mountainous plant, it is found to be much more hardy than the +<i>Ligtu</i> already figured, and is generally treated as a green-house +plant; it is found, however, to flower and ripen its seeds better under +the glass of a hot-bed frame, where air is freely admitted.</p> + +<p>It flowers from June to October, and, though a perennial, is generally +raised from seeds, yet may sometimes be increased by parting its roots, +which somewhat resemble those of the asparagus: the seeds should be sown +in the spring, in a pot of light earth, on a gentle hot-bed, either of +dung or tan.</p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span></p><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span></p><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span></p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Lupinus" id="Lupinus"></a>[140]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Lupinus Luteus. Yellow Lupine</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Diadelphia Decandria</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Calyx</i> 2-labiatus. <i>Antheræ</i> 5 oblongæ, 5 subrotundæ. <i>Legumen</i> +coriaceum.</p></div> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>LUPINUS <i>luteus</i> calycibus verticillatis appendiculatis: labio superiore +bipartito; inferiore tridentato. <i>Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14.</i> +<i>Murr. p. 656.</i></p> + +<p>LUPINUS sylvestris, flore luteo. <i>Bauh. Pin. 348.</i></p> + +<p>The Yellow Lupine. <i>Park. Parad. p. 336.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img140.png"><img + src="images/img140-tb.png" + alt="No 140" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>140 + </div> + +<p>The present, with many other species of Lupine, is very generally +cultivated in flower gardens, for the sake of variety, being usually +sown in the spring with other annuals; where the flower-borders are +spacious, they may with propriety be admitted, but as they take up much +room, and as their blossoms are of short duration, they are not so +desirable as many other plants.</p> + +<p>It is a native of Sicily, and flowers in June and July.</p> + +<p>We have often thought that the management of the kitchen garden, in +point of succession of crops, might be advantageously transplanted to +the flower garden; in the former, care is taken to have a regular +succession of the annual delicacies of the table, while in the latter, a +single sowing in the spring is thought to be all-sufficient; hence the +flower garden, which in August, September, and part of October, might be +covered with a profusion of bloom, exhibits little more than the decayed +stems of departed annuals.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Heliotropium" id="Heliotropium"></a>[141]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Heliotropium Peruvianum. Peruvian Turnsole</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Pentandria Monogynia</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Corolla</i> hypocrateriformis, 5-fida, interjectis dentibus: fauce clausa +fornicibus.</p></div> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>HELIOTROPIUM <i>peruvianum</i> foliis lanceolato-ovatis, caule fruticoso, +spicis numerosis aggregato-corymbosis. <i>Linn. Syst. Vegetab. p. +184.</i></p> + +<p>HELIOTROPIUM foliis ovato-lanceolatis, spicis plurimis; confertis, caule +fruticoso. <i>Mill. Dict. ed. 6. 4to. Icon. t. 143.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img141.png"><img + src="images/img141-tb.png" + alt="No 141" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>141 + </div> + +<p>This plant recommends itself by its fragrance rather than its beauty, so +delicious indeed is the odour it diffuses, that it is considered as +essential to every green-house and stove.</p> + +<p>"It grows naturally in Peru, from whence the seeds were sent by the +younger Jussieu to the royal garden at Paris, where the plants produced +flowers and seeds; and from the curious garden of the Duke d'Ayen, at +St. Germain's, I was supplied with some of the seeds, which have +succeeded, in the Chelsea garden, where the plants have flowered and +perfected their seeds for some years." <i>Miller's Gard. Dict.</i></p> + +<p>You may consider it either as a stove or a green-house plant, the former +is more congenial to it in the winter season.</p> + +<p>A pure atmosphere is essential to its existence, as I experienced at +Lambeth-Marsh, where I in vain endeavoured to cultivate it.</p> + +<p>It is propagated by cuttings as easily as any Geranium, and requires a +similar treatment; in hot weather it must be well supplied with water, +and in winter carefully guarded against frost, so fatal to most of the +natives of Peru.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Scorzonera" id="Scorzonera"></a>[142]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Scorzonera Tingitana. Tangier Scorzonera</span>, or <span class="smcap">Poppy-Leav'd +Vipers Grass</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Syngenesia Polygamia Æqualis</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Receptaculum</i> nudum. <i>Pappus</i> plumosus. <i>Calyx</i> imbricatus, squamis +margine scariosis.</p></div> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>SCORZONERA <i>tingitana</i> foliis omnibus runcinatis amplexicaulibus. <i>Linn. +Syst. Veg. ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 711.</i></p> + +<p>SONCHUS tingitanus papaveris folio <i>Raii Suppl. 137.</i></p> + +<p>CHONDRILLA tingitana, floribus luteis papaveris hortensis folio. <i>Herm. +lugdb. 657. t. 659.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img142.png"><img + src="images/img142-tb.png" + alt="No 142" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>142 + </div> + +<p>I am indebted for seeds of this plant to my very worthy and liberal +friend <span class="smcap">Nich. Gwyn</span>, M. D. of Ipswich, to whose penetrating +genius, and learned researches, Botany owes much.</p> + +<p>As its name implies, it is a native of the province of Tangier, on the +Barbary coast; appears to have been cultivated here, according to the +<i>Hort. Kew.</i> in 1713, but is not mentioned in the 6th 4to. edit. of +<span class="smcap">Miller</span>'s Dictionary.</p> + +<p>It may be considered as forming a valuable addition to our stock of +annuals, being a beautiful plant, and easily cultivated: it thrives best +on a moderately dry soil, warmly situated: should be sown in the spring +with other annuals.</p> + +<p>I have observed, that in the middle of summer, a hot unclouded sun, +which is favourable to the expansion of most of the flowers of this +class, is too powerful for those of the present plant, which then appear +to the greatest advantage in warm hazy weather.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Pelargonium2" id="Pelargonium2"></a>[143]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Pelargonium Glutinosum. Clammy Crane's Bill</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Monadelphia Heptandria.</span></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Calyx</i> 5-partitus: lacinia suprema definente in tubulum capillare +nectariferum fecus pedunculum decurrentem. <i>Corolla</i> pentapetala, +irregularis. <i>Filamenta</i> 10 inæqualia, quorum 3 raro 5 castrata. +<i>Fructus</i> pentacoccus, rostratus, rostra spiralia introrsum +barbata.</p></div> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>PELARGONIUM <i>glutinosum</i> umbellis paucifloris foliis cordatis +hastato-quinquangulis viscosis. <i>L'Herit. Ger. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. +2. p. 426.</i></p> + +<p>GERANIUM <i>glutinosum</i>. <i>Jacq. ic. collect. 1. p. 85.</i></p> + +<p>GERANIUM <i>viscosum</i>. <i>Cavanill. Diss. 4. p. 246. t. 108. f. 2.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img143.png"><img + src="images/img143-tb.png" + alt="No 143" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>143 + </div> + +<p>The leaves of this species exhibit, on being touched, a manifest +viscidity, or clamminess, which, independent of their shape, serves to +characterize the species; the middle of the leaf is also in general +stained with purple, which adds considerably to its beauty; but this +must be regarded rather as the mark of a variety, than of the species.</p> + +<p>With most of its congeners, it is a native of the Cape, and of modern +date in this country, being introduced to the royal garden at Kew, by +Messrs. <span class="smcap">Kennedy</span> and <span class="smcap">Lee</span>, in the year 1777.</p> + +<p>It flowers from May to September; is readily propagated by cuttings, and +sometimes raised from seeds, from whence several varieties have been +produced.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Ferraria" id="Ferraria"></a>[144]</h2> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Ferraria Undulata. Curled Ferraria</span>.</p> + +<p class='center'><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Gynandria Triandria.</span></p> + +<p class='center'><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Monogyna. <i>Spathtæ</i> unifloræ. <i>Petala</i> 6, undulato-crispata. <i>Stigmata</i> +cucullata. <i>Caps.</i> 3-locularis, infera.</p></div> + +<p class='center'><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>FERRARIA <i>undulata</i> caule multifloro. <i>Linn. Syst. Vegetab. p. 820. ed. +14.</i> <i>Murr. Ait. Kew. p. 305. v. 3.</i></p> + +<p>FLOS INDICUS e violaceo fuscus radice tuberosa. <i>I. B. Ferrar. Flora, +ed. nov. p. 167. t. 171.</i></p> + +<p>GLADIOLUS INDICUS e violaceo fuscus radice tuberosa nobis. <i>Moris. hist. +f. 4. t. 4. f. 7.</i></p> + +<p>NARCISSUS INDICUS flore saturate purpureo. <i>Rudb. Elys. 2. t. 49. f. 9.</i></p> + +<p>IRIS stellata cyclamine radice pullo flore. <i>Barrel. Icon. 1216.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <a href="images/img144.png"><img + src="images/img144-tb.png" + alt="No 144" /></a><br /> + N<sup>o</sup>144 + </div> + +<p>The old Botanists appear to have been wonderfully at a loss to what +family they should refer this very singular plant, as will appear on +consulting the synonyms; <span class="smcap">Burman</span> at length made a distinct genus +of it, naming it <i>Ferraria</i> in honour of <span class="smcap">Joh. +Baptista Ferrarius</span>, by whom it was described, and very well +figured, in his <i>Flora feu de Florum Cultura</i>, published at Amsterdam, +in 1646.</p> + +<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">Miller</span> informs us, that he received roots of this plant +from Dr. <span class="smcap">Job Baster</span>, F. R. S. of Zirkzee, who obtained it from +the Cape, of which it is a native.</p> + +<p>In the vegetable line, it is certainly one of the most singular and +beautiful of nature's productions; much it is to be regretted that its +flowers are of very short duration, opening in the morning and finally +closing in the afternoon of the same day; a strong plant will, however, +throw out many blossoms in succession.</p> + +<p>In its structure and œconomy, it approaches very near to the +<i>Sisyrinchium</i>.</p> + +<p>It flowers very early in the spring, from February to May, and is +usually propagated by offsets, which its bulbs produce in tolerable +plenty. It requires a treatment similar to the Ixias and other Cape +bulbs. Our figure was drawn from a plant which flowered this spring, in +the possession of <span class="smcap">R. Forster</span>, Esq. of Turnham-Green.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span></p> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="INDEXA" id="INDEXA"></a>INDEX.</h2> + +<blockquote><p>In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the <i>Third Volume</i> +are alphabetically arranged.</p></blockquote> + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="Index of Latin Names"> +<tr><td><i>Pl.</i></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Adonis">134</a></td><td align='left'>Adonis vernalis.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Alstroemeria">125</a></td><td align='left'>Alstrœmeria Ligtu.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Alstroemeria2">139</a></td><td align='left'>———Pelegrina.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Alyssum">126</a></td><td align='left'>Alyssum deltoideum.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Alyssum2">130</a></td><td align='left'>——— utriculatum.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Amaryllis">129</a></td><td align='left'>Amaryllis vittata.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Anemone">123</a></td><td align='left'>Anemone hortensis.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Campanula">117</a></td><td align='left'>Campanula carpatica.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Catesbaea">131</a></td><td align='left'>Catesbæa spinosa.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Cistus">112</a></td><td align='left'>Cistus ladaniferus.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Convolvulus">113</a></td><td align='left'>Convolvulus purpureus.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Ferraria">144</a></td><td align='left'>Ferraria undulata.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Gladiolus">135</a></td><td align='left'>Gladiolus cardinalis.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Heliotropium">141</a></td><td align='left'>Heliotropium peruvianum.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Hyacinthus">122</a></td><td align='left'>Hyacinthus racemosus.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Hyacinthus2">133</a></td><td align='left'>————— comosus.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Hypericum">137</a></td><td align='left'>Hypericum balearicum.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Iberis">124</a></td><td align='left'>Iberis gibraltarica.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Ixia">127</a></td><td align='left'>Ixia flexuosa.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Kalmia">138</a></td><td align='left'>Kalmia hirsuta.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Lathyrus">111</a></td><td align='left'>Lathyrus tuberosus.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Lathyrus2">115</a></td><td align='left'>———— sativus.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Lavatera">109</a></td><td align='left'>Lavatera trimestris.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Limodorum">116</a></td><td align='left'>Limodorum tuberosum.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Lupinus">140</a></td><td align='left'>Lupinus luteus.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Mimosa">110</a></td><td align='left'>Mimosa verticillata.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Narcissus">121</a></td><td align='left'>Narcissus incomparabilis.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Pelargonium">136</a></td><td align='left'>Pelargonium tetragonum.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Pelargonium2">143</a></td><td align='left'>————— glutinosum.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Rubus">132</a></td><td align='left'>Rubus arcticus.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Scilla">128</a></td><td align='left'>Scilla campanulata.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Scorzonera">142</a></td><td align='left'>Scorzonera tingitana.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Sedum">118</a></td><td align='left'>Sedum Anacampseros.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Silene">114</a></td><td align='left'>Silene pendula.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Strelitzia">119</a></td><td align='left'>Strelitzia Reginæ.</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<h2><a name="INDEXB" id="INDEXB"></a>INDEX.</h2> + +<blockquote><p>In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the <i>Third Volume</i> +are alphabetically arranged.</p></blockquote> + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="Index of English Names"> +<tr><td><i>Pl.</i></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Adonis">134</a></td><td align='left'>Adonis Spring.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Alstroemeria">125</a></td><td align='left'>Alstrœmeria striped-flowered.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Alstroemeria2">139</a></td><td align='left'>———— spotted-flowered.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Amaryllis">129</a></td><td align='left'>Amaryllis superb.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Alyssum">130</a></td><td align='left'>Alyssum bladder-podded.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Alyssum2">126</a></td><td align='left'>——— purple.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Anemone">123</a></td><td align='left'>Anemone star.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Campanula">117</a></td><td align='left'>Bell-flower Carpatian.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Convolvulus">113</a></td><td align='left'>Bindweed purple.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Rubus">132</a></td><td align='left'>Bramble dwarf.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Iberis">124</a></td><td align='left'>Candy-tuft Gibraltar.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Silene">114</a></td><td align='left'>Catchfly pendulous.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Catesbaea">131</a></td><td align='left'>Catesbæa thorny.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Cistus">112</a></td><td align='left'>Cistus gum.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Pelargonium2">143</a></td><td align='left'>Crane's-bill clammy.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Narcissus">121</a></td><td align='left'>Daffodil peerless.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Ferraria">144</a></td><td align='left'>Ferraria curled.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Pelargonium">136</a></td><td align='left'>Geranium square-stalked.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Gladiolus">135</a></td><td align='left'>Gladiolus superb.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Hyacinthus">122</a></td><td align='left'>Hyacinth starch.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Hyacinthus2">133</a></td><td align='left'>——— two-coloured.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Ixia">127</a></td><td align='left'>Ixia bending-stalked.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Kalmia">138</a></td><td align='left'>Kalmia hairy.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Lathyrus">111</a></td><td align='left'>Lathyrus tuberous.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Lathyrus2">115</a></td><td align='left'>——— blue-flowered.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Lavatera">109</a></td><td align='left'>Lavatera annual.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Limodorum">116</a></td><td align='left'>Limodorum tuberous-rooted.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Mimosa">140</a></td><td align='left'>Mimosa whorl'd-leaved.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Sedum">118</a></td><td align='left'>Orpine evergreen.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Scorzonera">142</a></td><td align='left'>Scorzonera Tangier.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Hypericum">137</a></td><td align='left'>St. John's-wort warty.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Strelitzia">119</a></td><td align='left'>Strelitzia Canna-leaved.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Scilla">128</a></td><td align='left'>Squill bell-flowered.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Heliotropium">141</a></td><td align='left'>Turnsole peruvian.</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p><br /><br /></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> From the gaiety of its flowers, which, from their stripes, +appear like an object decorated with ribbands.—<i>Vitta</i>, a ribband; +<i>vittata</i>, dressed with ribbands. <i>Ainsw.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> The leaves being somewhat like those of the Myrtle, and a +gummy substance exuding from the plant as in the Gum Cistus.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> In his Journal des Observations Physiques, Mathematiques, +et Botaniques, faites sur les Côtes Orientales de l'Amerique +meridionale, &c. printed in 1714.</p></div></div> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 4, by William 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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. 4 + Or, Flower-Garden Displayed + +Author: William Curtis + +Release Date: March 14, 2006 [EBook #17979] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, VOL. 4 *** + + + + +Produced by University of Georgia Libraries, 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 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. IV.~ + + Observe the rising Lily's snowy grace, + Observe the various vegetable race; + They neither toil nor spin, but careless grow, + Yet see how warm they blush! how bright they glow! + What regal vestments can with them compare! + What king so shining, or what queen so fair. + THOMSON. + + + LONDON: + + Printed by COUCHMAN and FRY, Throgmorton-Street. For + + W. CURTIS, No 3, _St. George's-Crescent_, Black-Friars-Road; And Sold by + + the principal Booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland. + + M DCC XCI. + + + * * * * * + + + + +[109] + +LAVATERA TRIMESTRIS. ANNUAL LAVATERA. + +_Class and Order_. + +MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ duplex: exterior 3-fidus. _Arilli_ plurimi, monospermi. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + +LAVATERA _trimestris_ caule scabro herbaceo, foliis glabris, pedunculis + unifloris, fructibus orbiculo tectis. _Linn. Sp. Pl. 974._ _Hort. + Kew. v. 2. p. 452._ + +LAVATERA _(althaeaefolia)_ foliis infimis cordato-orbiculatis, caulinis + trilobis acuminatis glabris, pedunculis unifloris, caule herbaceo. + _Miller's Gard. Dict. ed. 6. 4to._ + +MALVA folio vario. _Bauh. Pin. 315._ + +MALVA Hispanica flore carneo amplo. + +The Spanish blush Mallow. _Park. Parad. p. 366._ + +[Illustration: No 109] + +Our plant is undoubtedly the _Spanish blush Mallow_ of +PARKINSON, and the _Lavatera althaeaefolia_ of MILLER +according to the former, it is a native of Spain, according to the +latter, of Syria. + +Mr. MILLER considers it as distinct from the _trimestris_; Mr. +AITON has no _althaeaefolia_ in his _Hort. Kew._ we are therefore +to conclude that the _althaeaefolia_ of MILLER, and the _trimestris_ +of LINNAEUS are one and the same species. + +Of the annuals commonly raised in our gardens, this is one of the most +shewy, as well as the most easily cultivated; its seeds are to be sown +in March, on the borders where they are to remain, the plants, thinned +as they come up, and kept clear of weeds. + +It varies with white blossoms, and flowers from July to September. + + + + +[110] + +MIMOSA VERTICILLATA. WHORL'D-LEAV'D MIMOSA. + +_Class and Order._ + +POLYGAMIA MONOECIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +HERMAPHROD. _Cal._ 5-dentatus. _Cor._ 5-fida. _Stam._ 5. f. plura. + _Pist._ 1. _Legumen._ + +MASC. _Cal._ 5-dentatus. _Cor._ 5-fida. _Stam._ 5. 10. plura. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +MIMOSA _verticillata_ intermis, foliis verticillatis linearibus + pungentibus. _L'Herit. fert. angl. t. 41._ _Hort. Kew. p. 438._ + +[Illustration: No 110] + +The radical leaves of plants usually differ in shape from those of the +stalk, in some plants remarkably so; the _Lepidium perfoliatum_ figured +in the _Flora Austriaca_ of Professor JACQUIN is a striking +instance of this dissimilarity: the _Lathyrus Aphaca_, a British plant, +figured in the _Flora Lond._ is still more such, as large entire +leaf-like stipulae grow in pairs on the stalk, instead of leaves, while +the true leaves next the root, visible when the plant first comes up +from seed, are few in number, and those pinnated. The present plant no +less admirably illustrates the above remark, the leaves which first +appear on the seedling plants being pinnated, as is represented in the +small figure on the plate, while those which afterwards come forth grow +in whorls. We have observed the same disposition to produce dissimilar +leaves in several other species of _Mimosa_, which have arisen from +Botany-Bay seeds, lately introduced. + +This singular species, on the authority of Mr. DAVID NELSON, is +a native of New South Wales, and was introduced to the royal garden at +Kew by Sir JOSEPH BANKS, Bart. + +We first saw it in flower, and have since seen it with ripe seed-pods, +at Mr. MALCOLM's, Kennington. + +It is properly a green-house plant, and propagated only by seeds, which +are to be sown on a gentle hot-bed. + +It is some years in arriving at its flowering state. + + + + +[111] + +LATHYRUS TUBEROSUS. TUBEROUS LATHYRUS, or PEASE +EARTH-NUT. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Stylus_ planus, supra villosus, superne latior. _Cal._ laciniae + superiores 2 breviores. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +LATHYRUS _tuberosus_ pedunculis multifloris, cirrhis diphyllis: foliolis + ovalibus, internodiis nudis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. + p. 663._ + +LATHYRUS arvensis repens tuberosus. _Bauh. Pin. 344._ + +LATHYRUS arvensis sive terrae glandes. Pease Earth-Nuts. _Parkins. Theat. + p. 1061._ + +[Illustration: No 111] + +Grows spontaneously in various parts of France and Germany; Mr. +PHILIP HURLOCK lately shewed me some dried specimens of this +plant, which he gathered in the corn fields, on the _Luneburgh Heide_, +in _Upper Lusatia_, where it grew plentifully, and afforded a pleasing +appearance to the curious traveller:--not so to the husbandman, to whom +it is as noxious as the _Convolvulus arvensis_ (_small Bindweed_) is +with us, and equally difficult to extirpate, having powerfully creeping +roots, which somewhat like the _Helianthus tuberosus_ (commonly called +_Jerusalem Artichoke_) produce large tubera, and which like those of +that plant, are in high esteem with some as an article of food, and as +such even cultivated abroad. + +It flowers from June to the end of August. It is certainly a beautiful +hardy perennial, similar to (but of more humble growth) than the +everlasting pea, yet must be cautiously introduced on account of its +creeping roots, by which it is most readily propagated, rarely ripening +its seeds with us. + +It is, perhaps, better suited to decorate the unclip'd hedge of the +pleasure-ground, than the border of the flower-garden. + + + + +[112] + +CISTUS LADANIFERUS. GUM CISTUS. + +_Class and Order._ + +POLYANDRIA MONOGNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ 5-petala. _Calyx_ 5-phyllus: foliolis duobus minoribus. + _Capsula_. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +CISTUS _ladaniferus_ arborescens ex stipulatus, foliis lanceolatis supra + laevibus, petiolis basi coalitis vaginantibus. _Linn. Syst. + Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 497._ + +CISTUS ladanifera Hispanica incana. _Bauh. Pin. 467._ + +CISTUS Ledon. The Gum Cistus or Sweete Holly Rose. _Park. Parad. p. + 422._ + +[Illustration: No 112] + +One of the most ornamental hardy shrubs we possess; at once pleasing to +the eye, and grateful to the smell; for, as MILLER observes, +the whole plant in warm weather exudes a sweet glutinous substance, +which has a very strong balsamic scent, so as to perfume the +circumambient air to a great distance. + +Its blossoms, which appear in June and July in great profusion, exhibit +a remarkable instance of quickly-fading beauty, opening and expanding to +the morning sun, and before night strewing the ground with their elegant +remains: as each succeeding day produces new blossoms, this deciduous +disposition of the petals, common to the genus, is the less to be +regretted. + +Is a native of Spain and Portugal, prefers a dry soil and warm sheltered +situation, and in very severe seasons requires some kind of covering. + +Cultivated 1656, by Mr. JOHN TRADESCANT, jun. _Ait. Hort. Kew._ + +Is readily increased from cuttings; but MILLER remarks, that +the best plants are raised from seeds. + +Varies with waved leaves, and in having petals without a spot at the +base. + +Is not the plant from whence the Ladanum of the shops is produced, +though affording in warmer countries than ours a similar gum, hence its +name of _ladanifera_ is not strictly proper. + + + + +[113] + +CONVOLVULUS PURPUREUS. PURPLE BINDWEED, or CONVOLVULUS +MAJOR. + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ campanulata, plicata. _Stigmata_ 2. _Capsula_ 2-locularis; + loculis dispermis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +CONVOLVULUS _purpureus_ foliis cordatis indivisis, fructibus cernuis, + pedicellis incrassatis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. + 200._ + +CONVOLVULUS purpureus folio subrotundo. _Bauh. Pin. 295._ + +CONVOLVULUS caeruleus major rotundifolius. The greater blew Bindweede or + Bell-flower with round leaves. _Park. Parad. p. 358._ + +[Illustration: No 113] + +"Is an annual plant which grows naturally in Asia and America, but has +been long cultivated for ornament in the English gardens, and is +generally known by the title of Convolvulus major. Of this there are +three or four lasting varieties; the most common hath a purple flower, +but there is one with a white, another with a red, and one with a +whitish-blue flower, which hath white seeds. All these varieties I have +cultivated many years, without observing them to change. If the seeds of +these sorts are sown in the spring, upon a warm border where the plants +are designed to remain, they will require no other culture but to keep +them clear from weeds, and place some tall stakes down by them, for +their stalks to twine about, otherwise they will spread on the ground +and make a bad appearance. These plants, if they are properly supported, +will rise ten or twelve feet high in warm Summers: they flower in June, +July, and August, and will continue till the frost kills them. Their +seeds ripen in Autumn." _Miller's Gard. Dict. ed. 4to. 1771._ + + + + +[114] + +SILENE PENDULA. PENDULOUS CATCHFLY. + +_Class and Order._ + +DECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +Calyx ventricosus. Petala 5, unguiculata coronata ad faucem, Capsula + 3-locularis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +SILENE _pendula_ calycibus fructiferis pendulis inflatis: angulis decem + scabris. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 421._ + +VISCAGO hirsuta sicula, lychnidis aquaticae facie, supina. _Dill. Hort. + Elth. 421. t. 312. f. 404._ + +[Illustration: No 114] + +Grows spontaneously in Sicily and Crete; is an annual of humble growth, +and hence a suitable plant for the borders of the flower garden, or the +decoration of Rock-work, as its blossoms are shewy, and not of very +short duration. + +It flowers in June and July, and if once permitted to scatter its seeds, +will come up yearly without any trouble. + + + + +[115] + +LATHYRUS SATIVUS. BLUE-FLOWER'D LATHYRUS, or +CHICHLING-VETCH. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Stylus_ planus, supra villosus, superne latior. _Calycis_ laciniae + superiores 2 breviores. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +LATHYRUS _sativus_ pedunculis unifloris, cirrhis diphyllis + tetraphyllisque, leguminibus ovatis compressis dorso bimarginatis. + _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 662._ + +LATHYRUS sativus, flore fructusque albo. _Bauh. Pin. 343._ + +[Illustration: No 115] + +A native of France, Spain, and Italy, and distinguishable when in flower +by the blue colour of its blossoms, which are sometimes, however, +milk-white; but its seed-pods afford a more certain mark of distinction, +being unusually short, broad, and winged on the back. + +This species grows to the height of about two feet, and is usually sown +in the spring with other annuals; though not so beautiful, it forms a +contrast to the sweet and Tangier Pea, and may be introduced where there +is plenty of room, or a desire of possessing and knowing most of the +plants of a genus. + +It flowers in June and July. + +Cultivated 1739, by Mr. PHILIP MILLER. _Ait. Hort. Kew._ + + + + +[116] + +LIMODORUM TUBEROSUM. TUBEROUS-ROOTED LIMODORUM. + +_Class and Order._ + +GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +Nectarium monophyllum, concavum, pedicellatum, intra petalum infimum. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +LIMODORUM _tuberosum_ floribus subspicatis barbatis. _Ait. Hort. Kew. p. + 301._ + +[Illustration: No 116] + +For this rare plant I am indebted to the very laudable exertions of a +late Gardener of mine, JAMES SMITH, who, in the spring of the +year 1788, examining attentively the bog earth which had been brought +over with some plants of the _Dionaea Muscipula_, found several small +tooth-like knobby roots, which being placed in pots of the same earth, +and plunged into a tan-pit having a gentle heat, produced plants the +ensuing summer, two of which flowered, and from the strongest of those +our figure was taken. + +From this circumstance we learn, that this species is a native of South +Carolina, and properly a bog plant, growing spontaneously with the +_Dionaea Muscipula_. + +Both Mr. DRYANDER and Dr. J. E. SMITH assure me, that +it is the true _Limodorum tuberosum_ of LINNAEUS; the one +usually called by that name is a native of the West-Indies, and treated +as a stove plant. + +From the little experience we have had of the management of this +species, it appears to us to be scarcely hardy enough for the open +border, yet not tender enough to require a stove. We have succeeded best +by treating it in the manner above mentioned; we may observe, that the +tan-pit spoken of was built in the open garden, not in a stove, and was +for the purpose of raising plants or seeds by a gentle heat, as well as +for striking cuttings and securing plants from cold in the winter. + +Our figure will make a description of the plant unnecessary, its +flowering stem with us has arisen to the height of a foot and a half, +the number of flowers has not exceeded five. In its most luxuriant state +it will probably be found much larger, and to produce more flowers. + + + + +[117] + +CAMPANULA CARPATICA. CARPATIAN BELL-FLOWER. + +_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 _carpatica_ foliis glabris cordatis serratis petiolatis, + pedunculis elongatis, calyce reflexo glutinoso. _Linn. Syst. + Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 207. Suppl. p. 140._ _Jacq. Hort. v. + i. t. 57._ + +[Illustration: No 117] + +This species of Bell-flower, which takes its name from its place of +growth, is a native of the Carpatian Alps, and was introduced into the +Royal Garden at Kew, by _Professor_ JACQUIN, of _Vienna_, in +the year 1774. + +It flowers in June and July. + +As yet it is scarce in our gardens, but deserves to be more generally +known and cultivated; its flowers, in proportion to the plant, are large +and shewy: like many other Alpine plants, it is well suited to decorate +certain parts of rock-work, or such borders of the flower garden, as are +not adapted for large plants. + +It is a hardy perennial, and propagated by parting its roots in autumn. + +Our figure, from a deficiency in the colouring art, gives a very +inadequate idea of its beauty. + + + + +[118] + +SEDUM ANACAMPSEROS. EVERGREEN ORPINE. + +_Class and Order._ + +DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 5-fidus. _Cor._ 5-petala. _Squamae_ nectariferae 5, ad basin + germinis. _Caps._ 5. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +SEDUM _Anacampseros_ foliis cuneiformibus basi attenuatis subsessilibus, + caulibus decumbentibus, floribus corymbosis. _Ait. Hort. Kew. p. + 108._ + +SEDUM _Anacampseros_ foliis cuneiformibus integerrimis caulibus + decumbemtibus, floribus corymbosis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. + Murr. p. 430._ + +TELEPHIUM repens folio deciduo. _Bauh. Pin. 287._ + +TELEPHIUM tertium. _Dodon. Pempt. p. 130._ + +[Illustration: No 118] + +Grows spontaneously out of the crevices of the rocks in the South of +France; flowers in our gardens in July and August; is a very hardy +perennial, and in sheltered situations retains its leaves all the year. + +The singular manner in which the leaves are attached to the flowering +stem, deserves to be noticed. + +As many of the succulent plants are tender, and require a Green-house in +the winter, cultivators of plants are apt indiscriminately to extend the +same kind of care to the whole tribe, hence it is not uncommon to find +this and many other similar hardy plants, nursed up in the Green-house +or stove, when they would thrive much better on a wall or piece of +rock-work, for the decoration of which this plant in particular is +admirably adapted. + +Like most of the Sedum tribe it may readily be propagated by cuttings, +or parting its roots in autumn. + +DODONAEUS' figure admirably represents its habit. + +According to the _Hort. Kew._ it was cultivated in this country by +GERARD, in 1596. + + ++------------------------------------------------------+ +|Transcriber's Note: | +|There is a departure from the usual format here with | +|STRELITZIA REGINAE having two illustrations, No 119 and| +|No 120, thus creating a gap in the sequence. | ++------------------------------------------------------+ + + + + +[119] + +STRELITZIA REGINAE. CANNA-LEAVED STRELITZIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Spathae. Cal._ 0. _Cor._ 3-petala. _Nectarium_ triphyllum, genitalia + involvens. _Peric._ 3-loculare, polyspermum. + +STRELITZIA _Reginae Ait. Hort. Kew. v. i. p. 285. Tab. 2._ + +HELICONIA _Bibai J. Mill. ic. tab. 5, 6._ + +[Illustration: No 119] + +In order that we may give our readers an opportunity of seeing a +coloured representation of one of the most scarce and magnificent plants +introduced into this country, we have this number deviated from our +usual plan, with respect to the plates, and though in so doing we shall +have the pleasure of gratifying the warm wishes of many of our readers, +we are not without our apprehensions least others may not feel perfectly +well satisfied; should it prove so, we wish such to rest assured that +this is a deviation in which we shall very rarely indulge and never but +when something uncommonly beautiful or interesting presents itself: to +avoid the imputation of interested motives, we wish our readers to be +apprized that the expences attendant on the present number, in +consequence of such deviation, have been considerably _augmented_, not +lowered. + +It is well known to many Botanists, and others, who have experienced Sir +JOSEPH BANKS's well known liberality, that previous to the publication +of the _Hortus Kewensis_ he made a new genus of this plant, which had +before been considered as a species of _Heliconia_, and named it +_Strelitzia_ in honour of our most gracious Queen CHARLOTTE; coloured +engravings of which, executed under his direction, he presented to his +particular friends; impressions of the same plate have been given in the +aforesaid work, in which we are informed that this plant was introduced +to the royal garden at Kew, by Sir JOSEPH BANKS, Bart. in the year 1773, +where it lately flowered--of some other plants introduced after that +period from the Cape, of which it is a native, one flowered in the Pine +stove of BAMBER GASCOYNE, Esq. several years ago, from whence Mr. MILLAR +drew his figure, and the plant from which our drawing was made flowered +this spring, in the bark stove of the garden belonging to the +Apothecaries Company, at Chelsea, where it will also soon flower again. + +This plant has usually been confined to the stove, where it has been +placed in a pot, and plunged into the tan, as the plants in such +situations usually are; it has been found that when the roots have been +confined to the narrow limits of a pot, the plant has rarely or never +flowered, but that when the roots have by accident extended into the +rotten tan, it has readily thrown up flowering stems, the best practice +therefore, not only with this, but many other plants, is to let the +roots have plenty of earth to strike into. As it is a Cape plant it may +perhaps be found to succeed best in the conservatory. + +It has not, that we know of, as yet ripened its seeds in this country; +till it does, or good seeds of it shall be imported, it must remain a +very scarce and dear plant, as it is found to increase very slowly by +its roots: plants are said to be sold at the Cape for Three Guineas +each. + +_General Description of the STRELITZIA REGINAE._ + +[Illustration: No 120] + +From a perennial stringy root shoot forth a considerable number of +leaves, standing upright on long footstalks, front a sheath of some one +of which, near its base, springs the flowering stem, arising somewhat +higher than the leaves, and terminating in an almost horizontal +long-pointed spatha, containing about six or eight flowers, which +becoming vertical as they spring forth, form a kind of crest, which the +glowing orange of the Corolla, and fine azure of the Nectary, renders +truly superb. The outline in the third plate of this number, is intended +to give our readers an idea of its general habit and mode of growth. + +_Particular Description of the same._ + +ROOT perennial, stringy, somewhat like that of the tawny Day-lily + (Hemerocallis fulva); strings the thickness of the little finger, + blunt at the extremity, extending horizontally, if not confined, + to the distance of many feet. + +LEAVES numerous, standing upright on their footstalks, about a foot in + length, and four inches in breadth, ovato-oblong, coriaceous, + somewhat fleshy, rigid, smooth, concave, entire on the edges, + except on one side towards the base, where they are more or less + curled, on the upper side of a deep green colour, on the under + side covered with a fine glaucous meal, midrib hollow above and + yellowish, veins unbranched, prominent on the inside, and + impressed on the outside of the leaf, young leaves rolled up. + +LEAF-STALKS about thrice the length of the leaves, upright, somewhat + flattened, at bottom furnished with a sheath, and received into + each other, all radical. + +SCAPUS or flowering stem unbranched, somewhat taller than the leaves, + proceeding from the sheath of one of them, upright, round, not + perfectly straight, nearly of an equal thickness throughout, of a + glaucous hue, covered with four or five sheaths which closely + embrace it. Two or more flowering stems spring from the same root, + according to the age of the plant. + +SPATHA terminal, about six inches in length, of a glaucous hue, with a + fine bright purple at its base, running out to a long point, + opening above from the base to within about an inch of the apex, + where the edges roll over to one side, forming an angle of about + forty-five degrees, and containing about six flowers. + +FLOWERS of a bright orange colour, becoming upright, when perfectly + detached from the spatha, which each flower is a considerable time + in accomplishing. In the plant at Chelsea, the two back petals, + or, more properly segments of the first flower, sprang forth with + the nectary, and while the former became immediately vertical, the + latter formed nearly the same angle as the spatha; four days + afterwards the remaining segment of the first flower, with the two + segments and nectary of the second came forth, and in the same + manner at similar intervals all the flowers, which were six in + number, continued to make their appearance. + +COROLLA deeply divided into three segments, which are ovato-lanceolate, + slightly keeled, and somewhat concave, at the base white, fleshy, + and covered with a glutinous substance flowing in great quantities + from the nectary. + +NECTARY of a fine azure blue and most singular form, composed of two + petals, the upper petal very short and broad, with a whitish mucro + or point, the sides of which lap over the base of the other petal; + inferior petal about two inches and a half in length, the lower + half somewhat triangular, grooved on the two lowermost sides, and + keeled at bottom, the keel running straight to its extremity, the + upper half gradually dilating towards the base, runs out into two + lobes more or less obtuse, which give it an arrow-shaped form, + bifid at the apex, hollow, and containing the antherae, the edges + of the duplicature crisped and forming a kind of frill from the + top to the bottom. + +STAMINA five Filaments arising from the base of the nectary, short and + distinct; Antherae long and linear, attached to and cohering by + their tips to the apex of the nectary. + +STYLE filiform, white, length of the nectary. + +STIGMA three quarters of an inch long, attached to, and hitched on as it + were to the tip of the nectary, roundish, white, awl-shaped, very + viscid, becoming as the flower decays of a deep purple brown + colour, and usually splitting into three pieces, continuing + attached to the nectary till the nectary decays. + +Mr. FAIRBAIRN, to whose abilities and industry the Companies +Garden at Chelsea is indebted for its present flourishing state, being +desirous of obtaining ripe seeds, I had no opportunity of examining the +germen. + +Such were the appearances which presented themselves to us in the plant +which flowered at the Chelsea Garden; that they are liable to +considerable variation is apparent from the figure of Mr. +MILLAR, which appears to have been drawn from a very luxuriant +specimen, as two spathae grow from one flowering stem, the stigma is also +remarkably convoluted, many other appearances are likewise represented, +which our plant did not exhibit: in the figure given in the _Hortus +Kewensis_, the stigma appears to have separated from the nectary on the +first opening of the flower, and to be split into three parts, neither +of which circumstances took place in our plant till they were both in a +decaying state. + + + + +[121] + +NARCISSUS INCOMPARABILIS. PEERLESS DAFFODIL. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Petala_ 6 aequalia: _Nectario_ infundibuliformi, 1-phyllo: _Stamina_ + intra nectarium. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +NARCISSUS _incomparabilis_ spatha uniflora, nectario campanulato plicato + crispo petalis dimidio breviore, foliis planis. + +NARCISSUS latifolius omnium maximus amplo calice flavo sive Nompareille. + The great Nonesuch Daffodil, or incomparable Daffodil. _Park. Par. + p. 68._ + +[Illustration: No 121] + +This species of Narcissus, though well described and figured by the old +Botanists, especially PARKINSON; has been overlooked by +LINNAEUS. + +It is undoubtedly the _incomparable Daffodil_ of +PARKINSON, figured in his Garden of Pleasant Flowers; and the +_incomparabilis_ of MILLER's _Dict. ed. 6. 4to._ the latter +informs us, that he received roots of it from Spain and Portugal, which +fixes its place of growth. + +It is a very hardy bulbous plant, and flowers in April; in its single +state it is very ornamental, the petals are usually pale yellow, and the +nectary inclined to orange, which towards the brim is more brilliant in +some than in others; in its double state, it is well known to Gardeners, +by the name of Butter and Egg Narcissus, and of this there are two +varieties, both of which produce large shewy flowers, the one with +colours similar to what we have above described, which is the most +common, the other with petals of a pale sulphur colour, almost white, +and the nectary bright orange; this, which is one of the most ornamental +of the whole tribe, is named in the Dutch catalogues, the _Orange +Phoenix_; its blossoms are so large as frequently to require +supporting; its bulbs may be had of many of the Nurseries about London, +and of those who, profiting by the supineness of our English Gardeners, +import bulbs from abroad. + +Like most of the tribe, this species will grow well without any care, +the bulbs of the double sort should be taken up yearly, otherwise they +are apt to degenerate. + + + + +[122] + +HYACINTHUS RACEMOSUS. STARCH HYACINTH. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +Corolla campanulata: pori 3 melliferi germinis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +HYACINTHUS _racemosus_ corollis ovatis, summis sessilibus, foliis laxis. + _Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 336._ _Sp. Pl. 455._ + +HYACINTHUS racemosus caeruleus minor juncifolius. _Bauh. Pin. p. 43._ + +HYACINTHUS botryodes 1. _Car Clus. Hist. p. 181._ + +HYACINTHUS racemosus. _Dodon. Pempt. p. 217._ + +HYACINTHUS botroides minor caeruleus obscurus. The darke blew + Grape-flower. _Park. Par. p. 114._ + +[Illustration: No 122] + +The _Hyacinthus racemosus_ and _botryoides_ are both cultivated in +gardens, but the former here figured is by far the most common; +_racemosus_ and _botryoides_, though different words, are expressive of +the same meaning, the former being derived from the Latin term +_racemus_, the latter from the Greek one [Greek: votrus], both of which +signify a bunch of grapes, the form of which the inflorescence of these +plants somewhat resembles, and hence they have both been called Grape +Hyacinths, but as confusion thereby arises, we have thought it better to +call this species the Starch Hyacinth, the smell of the flower in the +general opinion resembling that substance, and leave the name of Grape +Hyacinth for the _botryoides_. + +The _Hyacinthus racemosus_ grows wild in the corn fields of Germany, in +which it increases so fast by offsets from the root as to prove a very +troublesome weed, and on this account it must be cautiously introduced +into gardens. + +It flowers in April and May. + +We have found the Nurserymen very apt to mistake it for the +_botryoides_, a figure of which it is our intention to give in some +future number. + + + + +[123] + +ANEMONE HORTENSIS. STAR ANEMONE, or BROAD-LEAV'D GARDEN +ANEMONE. + +_Class and Order._ + +POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +Cal. 0. Petala 5-9. Semina plura. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +ANEMONE _hortensis_ foliis digitalis, feminibus lanatis. _Linn. Syst. + Vegetab. ed Murr. p. 510._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. vol. 2. p. 256._ + +ANEMONE Geranii rotundo folio, purpurascens. _Bauh. Pin. 173._ + +ANEMONE prima. _Dodon. Pempt. 434._ + +ANEMONE latifolia purpurea stellata sive papaveracea. The purple + Star-Anemone or Windflower. _Park. Parad. p. 204._ + +[Illustration: No 123] + +We are more and more convinced, that in our eagerness, for novelties, we +daily lose plants by far more ornamental than the new ones we introduce; +the present, a most charming spring plant, with which the Gardens +abounded in the time of PARKINSON, is now a great rarity; its +blossoms, which are uncommonly brilliant, come forth in April, and, like +those of many other plants, appear to advantage only when the sun +shines. + +It may be propagated either by seeds, or by parting its roots in Autumn, +in the former way we may obtain many beautiful varieties. + +It prefers a light loamy soil and moderately exposed situation. + +Roots of a variety of this plant with scarlet double flowers are +imported from Holland, under the name, of _Anemonoides_, and sold at a +high price. + + + + +[124] + +IBERIS GIBRALTARICA. GIBRALTAR CANDY-TUFT. + +_Class and Order._ + +TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ irregularis: Petalis 2 exterioribus majoribus. _Silicula_ +polysperma, emarginata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +IBERIS _Gibraltarica_ frutescens foliis apice dentatis. _Linn. Syst. + Veg. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 589._ + +THLASPIDIUM Hispanicum, ampliore flore folio crasso dentato. _Dill. + Elth. 382. t. 287. f. 37._ + +[Illustration: No 124] + +The flowers of this plant, a native of Gibraltar, bear some resemblance +to those of the Common Candy-Tuft, but when they blow in perfection, +they are usually twice as large; hence they are highly ornamental in the +green-house, which early in the Spring, the time of their coming forth, +stands in need of some such shewy flowers. + +This plant is easily raised from cuttings, and easily preserved; it may +be kept through the Winter in a common hot-bed frame, and in mild +Winters will stand abroad, especially if sheltered amongst rock-work; +its greatest enemy is moisture in the Winter season, this often proves +fatal to it, as indeed a long continued damp atmosphere does to many +others; the Nurserymen about London complain of losing more plants the +last mild Winter, from this cause, than they generally do from severe +frosts. In a little green-house which I had in my late garden, +Lambeth-Marsh, most of the plants became absolutely mouldy; in such +seasons then, though in point of cold the plants may not require it, we +must dissipate the superfluous moisture by a gentle heat. + + + + +[125] + +ALSTROEMERIA LIGTU. STRIPED-FLOWER'D ALSTROEMERIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ 6-petala, sub-bilabiata: petalis 2 inferioribus basi +tubulosis. _Stamina_ declinata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +ALSTROEMERIA _Ligtu_ caule erecto, foliis spathulato-oblongis, + pedunculis umbellae involucro longioribus, corolla bilabiata. + _Linn. Syst. Veget. ed. 14._ _Murr. Suppl. p. 207._ _Amoen. + Acad. V. 6. p. 247._ + +HEMEROCALLIS floribus purpurascentibus striatis. _Few. Peruv. 2. p. 710. + t. 4._ + +[Illustration: No 125] + +This plant receives its generic name from CLAUDIUS ALSTROEMER (son of +Sir JONAS ALSTROEMER, a most respectable Swedish Merchant) who first +found the other most beautiful species the _Pelegrina_ in Spain, whither +it had been transmitted from Peru; its trivial name _Ligtu_ is a +provincial one. + +According to FEWILLEE, who has written on the plants of Peru, this +species is found on the banks of the rivers in Chili: we treat it, +and successfully, as a stove plant; its flowers, which usually make +their appearance in February and March, emit a fragrance scarcely +inferior to Mignonet; its leaves, contrary to most others, grow +inverted, which is effected by a twist of the footstalk, and afford an +excellent example of LINNAEUS's _Folium resupinatum_; the filaments, +after the pollen is discharged, turn upwards, and the antherae become +almost globular. + +It is usually propagated by parting its roots in Autumn. + +Our figure was drawn from a plant which flowered extremely well in the +stove of Messrs. GRIMWOOD and Co. Kensington. + + + + +[126] + +ALYSSUM DELTOIDEUM. PURPLE ALYSSUM. + +_Class and Order._ + +TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Filamenta_ quaedam introrsum denticulo notata. _Silicula_ emarginata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +ALYSSUM _deltoideum_ caulibus suffrutescentibus prostratis, foliis + lanceolato-deltoidibus, siliculis hirtis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. p. + 591._ _Sp. Pl. 908._ + +LEUCOJUM saxatile thymifolio hirsutum caeruleo-purpureum. _Bauh. Pin. + 201._ + +[Illustration: No 126] + +Plants which flower early, and continue a long while in bloom, are +deservedly preferred, more especially by those who content themselves +with a partial collection; of that number is the present species of +Alyssum, which begins to flower in March, and continues to blossom +through April, May, and June, and, if favourably situated, during most +of the summer. + +It is properly a rock plant, being hardy, forming with very little care +a neat tuft of flowers, and not apt to encroach on its neighbours. + +May be propagated by parting its roots in Autumn, or by cuttings. + +Is a native of the Levant, according to Mr. AITON; and +cultivated by Mr. MILLER, in 1739, but omitted in the 6th 4to. +edition of his Dictionary: has usually been considered by the Nurserymen +about London as the _hyperboreum_. + + + + +[127] + +IXIA FLEXUOSA. BENDING-STALK'D IXIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cor._ 6-partita, campanulata, regularis. _Stigmata_ 3. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +IXIA _flexuosa_ foliis linearibus, racemo flexuoso multifloro. _Linn. + Sp. Pl. p. 51._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. p. 58._ + +[Illustration: No 127] + +The Ixias are a numerous tribe, chiefly natives of the Cape, and in +general remarkable either for their delicacy, or brilliant colours. + +The one here figured appears to be a variety of the _flexuosa_ with a +purple eye, its blossoms are fragrant, and come forth in April or May. + +"All the sorts multiply very fast by offsets, so that when once +obtained, there will be no occasion to raise them from seeds: for the +roots put out offsets in great plenty, most of which will flower the +following season, whereas those from seeds are three or four years +before they flower. These plants will not thrive through the winter in +the full ground in England, so must be planted in pots, and placed under +a frame in winter, where they may be protected from frost, but in mild +weather should enjoy the free air; but they must be guarded from mice, +who are very fond of these roots, and if not prevented will devour +them." _Millers Gard. Dict._ + + + + +[128] + +SCILLA CAMPANULATA. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cor._ 6-petala, patens, decidua. _Filamenta_ filiformia. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +SCILLA _campanulata_ bulbo folido, racemo multifloro oblongo-subconico, + corollis campanulatis erectis, bracteis bipartitis, pedunculo + longioribus, foliis lanceolatis. _Ait. Hort. Kew. p. 444._ + +HYACINTHUS Hispanicus major flore campanulae instar. + +The greater Spanish bell-flowred Jacinth. _Park. Par. 123._ + +[Illustration: No 128] + +There are few old gardens which do not abound with this plant; it bears +great affinity to our Hare-bell, with which it appears to have been +confounded by most Botanists. _Parkinson_ thus discriminates it: "This +Spanish bell-flowred Jacinth is very like the former English or Spanish +Jacinth, but greater in all parts, as well of leaves as flowers, many +growing together at the toppe of the stalke; with many short greene +leaves among them, hanging doune their heads with larger, greater, and +wider open mouths, like unto bels of a darke blew colour, and no good +sent." _Park. Parad._ + +Though not remarkable for the fineness of its colours, or pleasing from +its fragrance, it contributes with other bulbous plants to decorate the +flower border or plantation in the spring, when flowers are most wanted. + +It is very hardy, and increases abundantly by offsets; its seeds also +ripen well. + + + + +[129] + +AMARYLLIS VITTATA. SUPERB AMARYLLIS. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ hexapetaloidea, irregularis. _Filamenta_ fauci tubi inserta, + declinata, inaequalia proportione vel directione, _Linn. fil._ + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +AMARYLLIS floribus pedicellatis, corollis + cuneiformi-infundibuliformibus, petalorum exteriorum rachibus + interiorum margini adnatis, scapo tereti, stigmatibus sulcatis. + _Linn. fil._ + +AMARYLLIS _vittata._ _L'Herit. Sert. Angl. t. 15._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. p. + 418._ + +[Illustration: No 129] + +LINNAEUS, the Son, took much pains in new modelling the generic +and specific characters of this genus; as may be seen in the _Hort. +Kew_: Mons. L'HERITIER, when in England a few years since, saw +this species, described and named it _Vittata_[1]. + +Of what country it is a native is not known with certainty, most +probably of the Cape, was first introduced into England by Mr. +MALCOLM. + +Our figure was drawn from a fine specimen which flowered this spring +with Messrs. GRIMWOOD and Co. Kensington. + +It usually flowers in April or May, but may be forwarded by artificial +heat. + +It rarely puts forth offsets from the root, but readily produces seeds, +by which it is propagated without difficulty. + +When it blossoms in perfection it truly deserves the name of superb, +which Mr. AITON has given it, the stem rising to the height of +three feet or more, and producing from two to five flowers. + + + + +[130] + +ALYSSUM UTRICULATUM. BLADDER-PODDED ALYSSUM. + +_Class and Order._ + +TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Filamenta_ quaedam introrsum denticulo notata. _Silicula_ emarginata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +ALYSSUM _utriculatum_ caule herbaceo erecto, foliis laevibus lanceolatis + integerrimis, filiculis inflatis. _Linn. Syst. Veget. ed. 14. + Murr._ + +ALYSSOIDES fruticosum, leucoji folio viridi. _Tourn. inst. 218._ + +[Illustration: No 130] + +A native of the Levant, and cultivated by Mr. MILLER in the +year 1739. + +Is a hardy and beautiful perennial, flowering from April to June, at +which time it begins to form its curiously inflated pods. + +Like the _Alyssum deltoideum_, it is well adapted to the decorating of +walls, or rock-work, and is readily propagated either by seeds or +slips. + + + + +[131] + +CATESBAEA SPINOSA. THORNY CATESBAEA, or LILY-THORN. + +_Class and Order._ + +TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cor._ 1-petala, infundibuliformis, longissima, supera. Stamina intra +faucem. _Bacca_ polysperma. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +CATESBAEA _spinosa._ _Linn. Syst. Vegetab, ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 152._ _Sp. + Pl. p. 159._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. p. 159._ + +Frutex spinosus, buxi foliis plurimis simul nascentibus, flore + tetrapetaloide pendulo sordide flavo, tubo longissimo, fructu + ovali croceo semina parva continente. _Catesb. Carol. 2. p. 100. + t. 100._ + +[Illustration: No 131] + +Of this genus there is only one species described by authors, and which +LINNAEUS has named in honour of our countryman MARK CATESBY, Author of +the Natural History of Carolina. + +"This shrub was discovered by Mr. CATESBY, near Nassau-town, in +the Island of Providence, where he saw two of them growing, which were +all he ever saw; from these he gathered the seeds and brought them to +England. + +"It is propagated by seeds, which must be procured from the country +where it naturally grows. If the entire fruit are brought over in sand, +the seeds will be better preserved; the seeds must be sown in small pots +filled with light sandy earth, and plunged into a moderate hot-bed of +Tanner's-bark. If the seeds are good, the plants will appear in about +six weeks; these plants make little progress for four or five years. If +the nights should prove cold the glasses must be covered with mats every +evening. As these plants grow slowly, so they will not require to be +removed out of the seed-pots the first year, but in the Autumn the pots +should be removed into the stove, and plunged into the tan-bed; in +spring the plants should be carefully taken up, and each planted in a +separate small pot, filled with light sandy earth, and plunged into a +fresh hot-bed of Tanner's-bark. In Summer when the weather is warm, they +should have a good share of air admitted to them, but in Autumn must be +removed into the stove; where they should constantly remain, and must be +treated afterwards in the same manner as other tender exotic plants." +_Miller's Dict._ + +It is more usual with Nurserymen to increase this plant by cuttings. + +Our drawing was made from a plant which flowered this Spring, with Mr. +COLVILL, Nurseryman, King's-Road, Chelsea. + +It flowers most part of the Summer, but not so freely as many other +stove-plants. + + + + +[132] + +RUBUS ARCTICUS. DWARF BRAMBLE. + +_Class and Order._ + +ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 5-fidus. Petala 5. _Bacca_ composita acinis monospermis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +RUBUS _arcticus_ foliis ternatis, caule inermi unifloro. _Linn. Syst. + Vegetab. p. 476._ + +RUBUS humilis flore purpureo. _Buxb. Cent. 5. p. 13. t. 26._ + +RUBUS trifolius humilis non spinosus, sapore et odore fragariae, fructu + rubro polycocco. _Amm. Ruth. 185._ + +[Illustration: No 132] + +The Rubus arcticus grows wild in the northern parts of Europe and +America, in moist, sandy, and gravelly places. LINNAEUS has +figured and minutely described it in his _Flora Lapponica_, out of +gratitude, as he expresses himself, for the benefits reaped from it in +his Lapland journey, by the nectareous wine of whose berries he was so +often recruited when sinking with hunger and fatigue; he observes that +the principal people in the north of Sweden make a syrup, a jelly, and a +wine, from the berries, which they partly consume themselves, and partly +transmit to Stockholm, as a dainty of the most delicious kind; and truly +he adds, of all the wild Swedish berries this holds the first place. + +Our figure does not correspond altogether with LINNAEUS's +description, but it is drawn as the plant grew; culture doubtless made +it produce more than its usual number of flowering stems and petals. + +It grows readily and increases rapidly in bog-earth, on a north border, +and flowers in May and June, but very rarely ripens its fruit in +Gardens. + + + + +[133] + +HYACINTHUS COMOSUS. TWO COLOURED, or, TASSEL +HYACINTH. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ campanulata: pori 3-melliferi germinis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +HYACINTHUS _comosus_ corollis angulato-cylindricis: summis sterilibus + longius pedicellatis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. 336._ + +HYACINTHUS comosus major purpureus. _Bauh. Pin. 42._ The purple faire + haired Jacinth; or Purse tassels. _Park. Parad. p. 117._ + +[Illustration: No 133] + +Most of the old Botanists arranged this plant, the _racemosus_, and +others having almost globular flowers with the Hyacinths. TOURNEFORT, +struck with the difference of their appearance, made a distinct genus of +them under the name of _Muscari_, in which he is followed by MILLER, and +should have been by LINNAEUS, for they differ so much that no student +would consider the present plant as belonging to the same genus with the +Hare-bell. + +This species grows wild in the corn-fields of Spain, Portugal, and some +parts of Germany, and flowers in May and June. + +It is distinguished more by its singularity than beauty, the flowers on +the summit of the stalk differing widely in colour from the others, and +being mostly barren: PARKINSON says, "the whole stalke with the +flowers upon it, doth somewhat resemble a long Purse tassell, and +thereupon divers Gentlewomen have so named it." + +It is a hardy bulbous plant, growing readily in most soils and +situations, and usually propagated by offsets. + + + + +[134] + +ADONIS VERNALIS. + +_Class and Order._ + +POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 5-phyllus. _Petala_ quinis plura absque nectario. _Sem._ nuda. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +ADONIS _vernalis_ flore dodecapetalo, fructu ovato. _Linn. Syst. + Vegetab. ed. Murr. p. 514._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. Vol. 2. p. 264._ + +HELLEBORUS niger tenuifolius, Buphthalmi flore. _Bauh. Pin. 186._ + +BUPHTHALMUM _Dodon. Pempt. 261._ + +HELLEBORUS niger ferulaceus sive Buphthalmum. The great Ox-eye, or the + great yellow Anemone. _Parkins. Parad. p. 291. f. 6._ + +[Illustration: No 134] + +Of this plant LINNAEUS makes two species, viz. the _vernalis_ +and _appennina_, differing in their specific character merely in the +number of their petals, which are found to vary from situation and +culture; as the first name taken from its time of flowering is the most +expressive, we have followed Mr. MILLER and Mr. AITON in adopting it. + +It is an old inhabitant of the English gardens, and a most desirable +one, as it flowers in the spring; produces fine shewy blossoms, which +expand wide when exposed to the sun, is hardy and readily cultivated. + +Grows wild on the mountainous pastures of some parts of Germany. + +It may be increased by parting its roots in Autumn or Spring, or by +seed. MILLER recommends the latter mode. + + + + +[135] + +GLADIOLUS CARDINALIS. SUPERB GLADIOLUS; or, CORN-FLAG. + +_Class and Order._ + +TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ 6-partita, irregularis, inaequalis, _Stigmata_ 3. + +_Specific Character._ + +GLADIOLUS _cardinalis_ corollae erectae limbo campanulato, floribus + secundis, scapo multifloro, foliis ensiformibus multinerviis. + +[Illustration: No 135] + +This new species of Gladiolus, of whose magnificence our figure can +exhibit but an imperfect idea, was introduced into this country from +Holland, a few years since, by Mr. GRAFFER, at present Gardener to the +King of Naples; and first flowered with Messrs. LEWIS and MACKIE, +Nurserymen, at Kingsland; a very strong plant of it flowered also this +summer at Messrs. GRIMWOODS and Co. which divided at top into three +branches, from one of which our figure was drawn. + +It obviously differs from the other more tender plants of this genus, in +the colour of its flowers, which are of a fine scarlet, with large white +somewhat rhomboidal spots, on several of the lowermost divisions of the +Corolla; strong plants will throw up a stem three or four feet high. + +It is most probably a native of the Cape, flowers with us in July and +August, and is increased by offsets from the bulbs; must be treated like +the Ixias and other similar Cape plants. + + + + +[136] + +PELARGONIUM TETRAGONUM. SQUARE STALKED GERANIUM. + +_Class and Order._ + +MONADELPHIA HEPTANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 5-partitus, lacinia suprema definente in tubulum capillarem, + nectariferum, secus pedunculum decurrentem. _Cor._ 5-petala, + irregularis. _Filamenta_ 10, inaequalia: quorum 3 (raro 5) + castrata. _Fructus_ 5-coccus, rostratus: _rostra_ spiralia, + introrsum barbata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +PELARGONIUM _tetragonum_ pedunculis bifloris, ramis tetragonis carnosis, + corollis tetrapetalis, _L'Herit. n. 72. t. 23._ + +GERANIUM _tetragonum_. _Linn. Suppl. p. 305._ + +[Illustration: No 136] + +A vein of singularity runs through the whole of this plant, its stalks +are unequally and obtusely quadrangular, sometimes more evidently +triangular; its leaves few, and remarkably small; its flowers, on the +contrary, are uncommonly large, and what is more extraordinary have only +four petals; previous to their expansion they exhibit also an appearance +somewhat outre, the body of the filaments being bent so as to form a +kind of bow, in which state we have represented one of the blossoms in +our figure. + +When it flowers in perfection, which it is not apt to do in all places, +the largeness of its blossoms renders it one of the most ornamental of +the genus. + +There is a variety of it with beautifully coloured leaves, of which we +have availed ourselves in its representation. + +It flowers from June, to August, and September; requires the same +treatment as the more common Geraniums, and is readily propagated by +cuttings. + +Was first introduced to the Royal Garden at Kew, by Mr. MASSON, +in 1774, from the Cape, of which, it is a native. _Ait. Hort. Kew._ + + + + +[137] + +HYPERICUM BALEARICUM. WARTY ST. JOHN'S-WORT. + +_Class and Order._ + +POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ 5-phyllus. _Petala_ 5. _Nectarium_ 0. _Capsula_. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +HYPERICUM _balearicum_ floribus pentagynis, caule fruticoso foliis + ramisque cicatrizatis. _Linn. Syst. Veget. p. 102._ + +MYRTO-CISTUS pennaei _Clus. Hist. 1. p. 68._ + +[Illustration: No 137] + +Is according to LINNAEUS a native of _Majorca_; MILLER +says that it grows naturally in the Island of _Minorca,_ from whence the +seeds were sent to England by Mr. SALVADOR, an Apothecary at +Barcelona, in the year 1718. + +The stalks of this species are usually of a bright red colour, and +covered with little warts; the leaves are small with many depressions on +their upper sides like scars; the flowers are not always solitary, but +frequently form a kind of Corymbus. + +It is a hardy green-house plant, and readily propagated by cuttings. + +It flowers during most of the Summer. + +CLUSIUS informs us in his _Hist. pl. rar. p. 68._ that he +received from THOMAS PENNY, a Physician of London, in the year +1580, a figure of this elegant plant, and who the next year shewed a +dried specimen of the same in London, which had been gathered in the +Island of Majorca, and named by him [Greek: murto kison], or +Myrtle-Cistus[2] it appears therefore that this plant has long been +known, if not cultivated in this country. + +We may remark that CLUSIUS's figure of this plant is not +equally expressive with many of his others. + + + + +[138] + +KALMIA HIRSUTA. HAIRY KALMIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ 5-partitus. _Corolla_ hypocrateriformis: limbo subtus + quinquecorni _Caps._ 5-locularis. + +_Specific Character._ + +KALMIA _hirsuta_ foliis ovato-lanceolatis hirsutis sparsis, floribus + racemosis. + +[Illustration: No 138] + +This new species of Kalmia which we have called _hirsuta,_ the stalk, +leaves, and calyx, being covered with strong hairs, was imported from +Carolina in the Spring of 1790, by Mr. WATSON, Nurseryman at +Islington, with whom several plants of it flowered this present Autumn, +about the middle of September, from one of which our drawing was made. + +The plants were brought over with their roots enclosed in balls of the +earth in which they naturally grew, which on being examined appeared of +a blackish colour, and full of glittering particles of sand; similar +indeed to the bog-earth which we find on our moors and heaths; there is +therefore little doubt (for no account accompanied the plants) but this +Kalmia grows on moorish heaths, or in swamps. + +In its general appearance it bears some resemblance to the _Andromeda +Daboecii_; from the specimens we have seen its usual height would +appear to be from two to three feet; it grows upright; the flowers which +are about the size of those of the _Kalmia glauca_, are of a purple +colour, and contrary to all the other known Kalmia's grow in racemi. + +It is propagated by layers, and requires the same treatment as the rest +of the genus, that is, to be planted in bog-earth, on a north border: as +this however is a new, and of course a dear plant, it will be most +prudent till we know what degree of cold it will bear, to keep it in a +pot of the same earth, plunged in the same situation, which may be +removed in the Winter to a green-house or hot-bed frame. + + + + +[139] + +ALSTROEMERIA PELEGRINA. SPOTTED-FLOWER'D ALSTROEMERIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ 6-petala, supera, irregularis. _Stamina_ declinata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +ALSTROEMERIA _Pelegrina_ caule erecto, corollis campanulatis rectis, + foliis lineari-lanceolatis sessilibus. _Linn. Syst. Veg. p. 338. + ed. Murr._ _Amoen. Acad. 6. p. 247. cum icone._ + +HEMEROCALLIS floribus purpurascentibus maculatis vulgo Pelegrina. + _Feuill. Peruv. 2. p. 711. t. 5._ + +[Illustration: No 139] + +Father FEUILLEE[3] figures and describes three species of +_Alstroemeria_, viz. _Pelegrina_, _Ligtu_, and _Salsilla_, common +names by which they are severally distinguished in Peru: the present +species, which is much valued by the natives on account of its beauty, +he informs us is found wild on a mountain to the north of, and a mile +distant from Lima. + +From Peru, as might be expected, the present plant found its way into +Spain, from whence by the means of his beloved friend ALSTROEMER, +LINNAEUS first received seeds of it; the value he set on the acquisition +is evident from the great care he took of the seedling plants, +preserving them through the winter in his bed-chamber. + +According to Mr. AITON, this species was introduced to the Royal Garden +at Kew, by Messrs. KENNEDY and LEE, as long ago as the year 1753. + +Being a mountainous plant, it is found to be much more hardy than the +_Ligtu_ already figured, and is generally treated as a green-house +plant; it is found, however, to flower and ripen its seeds better under +the glass of a hot-bed frame, where air is freely admitted. + +It flowers from June to October, and, though a perennial, is generally +raised from seeds, yet may sometimes be increased by parting its roots, +which somewhat resemble those of the asparagus: the seeds should be sown +in the spring, in a pot of light earth, on a gentle hot-bed, either of +dung or tan. + + + + +[140] + +LUPINUS LUTEUS. YELLOW LUPINE. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ 2-labiatus. _Antherae_ 5 oblongae, 5 subrotundae. _Legumen_ + coriaceum. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +LUPINUS _luteus_ calycibus verticillatis appendiculatis: labio superiore + bipartito; inferiore tridentato. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ + _Murr. p. 656._ + +LUPINUS sylvestris, flore luteo. _Bauh. Pin. 348._ + +The Yellow Lupine. _Park. Parad. p. 336._ + +[Illustration: No 140] + +The present, with many other species of Lupine, is very generally +cultivated in flower gardens, for the sake of variety, being usually +sown in the spring with other annuals; where the flower-borders are +spacious, they may with propriety be admitted, but as they take up much +room, and as their blossoms are of short duration, they are not so +desirable as many other plants. + +It is a native of Sicily, and flowers in June and July. + +We have often thought that the management of the kitchen garden, in +point of succession of crops, might be advantageously transplanted to +the flower garden; in the former, care is taken to have a regular +succession of the annual delicacies of the table, while in the latter, a +single sowing in the spring is thought to be all-sufficient; hence the +flower garden, which in August, September, and part of October, might be +covered with a profusion of bloom, exhibits little more than the decayed +stems of departed annuals. + + + + +[141] + +HELIOTROPIUM PERUVIANUM. PERUVIAN TURNSOLE. + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ hypocrateriformis, 5-fida, interjectis dentibus: fauce clausa + fornicibus. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +HELIOTROPIUM _peruvianum_ foliis lanceolato-ovatis, caule fruticoso, + spicis numerosis aggregato-corymbosis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. p. + 184._ + +HELIOTROPIUM foliis ovato-lanceolatis, spicis plurimis; confertis, caule + fruticoso. _Mill. Dict. ed. 6. 4to. Icon. t. 143._ + +[Illustration: No 141] + +This plant recommends itself by its fragrance rather than its beauty, so +delicious indeed is the odour it diffuses, that it is considered as +essential to every green-house and stove. + +"It grows naturally in Peru, from whence the seeds were sent by the +younger Jussieu to the royal garden at Paris, where the plants produced +flowers and seeds; and from the curious garden of the Duke d'Ayen, at +St. Germain's, I was supplied with some of the seeds, which have +succeeded, in the Chelsea garden, where the plants have flowered and +perfected their seeds for some years." _Miller's Gard. Dict._ + +You may consider it either as a stove or a green-house plant, the former +is more congenial to it in the winter season. + +A pure atmosphere is essential to its existence, as I experienced at +Lambeth-Marsh, where I in vain endeavoured to cultivate it. + +It is propagated by cuttings as easily as any Geranium, and requires a +similar treatment; in hot weather it must be well supplied with water, +and in winter carefully guarded against frost, so fatal to most of the +natives of Peru. + + + + +[142] + +SCORZONERA TINGITANA. TANGIER SCORZONERA, or POPPY-LEAV'D +VIPERS GRASS. + +_Class and Order._ + +SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA AEQUALIS. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Receptaculum_ nudum. _Pappus_ plumosus. _Calyx_ imbricatus, squamis + margine scariosis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +SCORZONERA _tingitana_ foliis omnibus runcinatis amplexicaulibus. _Linn. + Syst. Veg. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 711._ + +SONCHUS tingitanus papaveris folio _Raii Suppl. 137._ + +CHONDRILLA tingitana, floribus luteis papaveris hortensis folio. _Herm. + lugdb. 657. t. 659._ + +[Illustration: No 142] + +I am indebted for seeds of this plant to my very worthy and liberal +friend NICH. GWYN, M. D. of Ipswich, to whose penetrating +genius, and learned researches, Botany owes much. + +As its name implies, it is a native of the province of Tangier, on the +Barbary coast; appears to have been cultivated here, according to the +_Hort. Kew._ in 1713, but is not mentioned in the 6th 4to. edit. of +MILLER's Dictionary. + +It may be considered as forming a valuable addition to our stock of +annuals, being a beautiful plant, and easily cultivated: it thrives best +on a moderately dry soil, warmly situated: should be sown in the spring +with other annuals. + +I have observed, that in the middle of summer, a hot unclouded sun, +which is favourable to the expansion of most of the flowers of this +class, is too powerful for those of the present plant, which then appear +to the greatest advantage in warm hazy weather. + + + + +[143] + +PELARGONIUM GLUTINOSUM. CLAMMY CRANE'S BILL. + +_Class and Order._ + +MONADELPHIA HEPTANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ 5-partitus: lacinia suprema definente in tubulum capillare + nectariferum fecus pedunculum decurrentem. _Corolla_ pentapetala, + irregularis. _Filamenta_ 10 inaequalia, quorum 3 raro 5 castrata. + _Fructus_ pentacoccus, rostratus, rostra spiralia introrsum + barbata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +PELARGONIUM _glutinosum_ umbellis paucifloris foliis cordatis + hastato-quinquangulis viscosis. _L'Herit. Ger. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. + 2. p. 426._ + +GERANIUM _glutinosum_. _Jacq. ic. collect. 1. p. 85._ + +GERANIUM _viscosum_. _Cavanill. Diss. 4. p. 246. t. 108. f. 2._ + +[Illustration: No 143] + +The leaves of this species exhibit, on being touched, a manifest +viscidity, or clamminess, which, independent of their shape, serves to +characterize the species; the middle of the leaf is also in general +stained with purple, which adds considerably to its beauty; but this +must be regarded rather as the mark of a variety, than of the species. + +With most of its congeners, it is a native of the Cape, and of modern +date in this country, being introduced to the royal garden at Kew, by +Messrs. KENNEDY and LEE, in the year 1777. + +It flowers from May to September; is readily propagated by cuttings, and +sometimes raised from seeds, from whence several varieties have been +produced. + + + + +[144] + +FERRARIA UNDULATA. CURLED FERRARIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +GYNANDRIA TRIANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +Monogyna. _Spathtae_ uniflorae. _Petala_ 6, undulato-crispata. _Stigmata_ + cucullata. _Caps._ 3-locularis, infera. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +FERRARIA _undulata_ caule multifloro. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. p. 820. ed. + 14._ _Murr. Ait. Kew. p. 305. v. 3._ + +FLOS INDICUS e violaceo fuscus radice tuberosa. _I. B. Ferrar. Flora, + ed. nov. p. 167. t. 171._ + +GLADIOLUS INDICUS e violaceo fuscus radice tuberosa nobis. _Moris. hist. + f. 4. t. 4. f. 7._ + +NARCISSUS INDICUS flore saturate purpureo. _Rudb. Elys. 2. t. 49. f. 9._ + +IRIS stellata cyclamine radice pullo flore. _Barrel. Icon. 1216._ + +[Illustration: No 144] + +The old Botanists appear to have been wonderfully at a loss to what +family they should refer this very singular plant, as will appear on +consulting the synonyms; BURMAN at length made a distinct genus of it, +naming it _Ferraria_ in honour of JOH. BAPTISTA FERRARIUS, by whom it +was described, and very well figured, in his _Flora feu de Florum +Cultura_, published at Amsterdam, in 1646. + +Mr. MILLER informs us, that he received roots of this plant +from Dr. JOB BASTER, F. R. S. of Zirkzee, who obtained it from +the Cape, of which it is a native. + +In the vegetable line, it is certainly one of the most singular and +beautiful of nature's productions; much it is to be regretted that its +flowers are of very short duration, opening in the morning and finally +closing in the afternoon of the same day; a strong plant will, however, +throw out many blossoms in succession. + +In its structure and oeconomy, it approaches very near to the +_Sisyrinchium_. + +It flowers very early in the spring, from February to May, and is +usually propagated by offsets, which its bulbs produce in tolerable +plenty. It requires a treatment similar to the Ixias and other Cape +bulbs. Our figure was drawn from a plant which flowered this spring, in +the possession of R. FORSTER, Esq. of Turnham-Green. + + + + INDEX. + + In which the Latin Names of + the Plants contained in the + _Fourth Volume_ are alphabetically + arranged. + + _Pl._ + + 134 Adonis vernalis. + 125 Alstroemeria Ligtu. + 139 ------------ Pelegrina. + 126 Alyssum deltoideum. + 130 ------- utriculatum. + 129 Amaryllis vittata. + 123 Anemone hortensis. + 117 Campanula carpatica. + 131 Catesbaea spinosa. + 112 Cistus ladaniferus. + 113 Convolvulus purpureus. + 144 Ferraria undulata. + 135 Gladiolus cardinalis. + 141 Heliotropium peruvianum. + 122 Hyacinthus racemosus. + 133 ---------- comosus. + 137 Hypericum balearicum. + 124 Iberis gibraltarica. + 127 Ixia flexuosa. + 138 Kalmia hirsuta. + 111 Lathyrus tuberosus. + 115 -------- sativus. + 109 Lavatera trimestris. + 116 Limodorum tuberosum. + 140 Lupinus luteus. + 110 Mimosa verticillata. + 121 Narcissus incomparabilis. + 136 Pelargonium tetragonum. + 143 ----------- glutinosum. + 132 Rubus arcticus. + 128 Scilla campanulata. + 142 Scorzonera tingitana. + 118 Sedum Anacampseros. + 114 Silene pendula. + 119 Strelitzia Reginae. + + + + INDEX. + + In which the English Names + of the Plants contained in + the _Fourth Volume_ are alphabetically + arranged. + + _Pl._ + + 134 Adonis Spring. + 125 Alstroemeria striped-flowered. + 139 ------------ spotted-flowered. + 129 Amaryllis superb. + 130 Alyssum bladder-podded. + 126 ------- purple. + 123 Anemone star. + 117 Bell-flower Carpatian. + 113 Bindweed purple. + 132 Bramble dwarf. + 124 Candy-tuft Gibraltar. + 114 Catchfly pendulous. + 131 Catesbaea thorny. + 112 Cistus gum. + 143 Crane's-bill clammy. + 121 Daffodil peerless. + 144 Ferraria curled. + 136 Geranium square-stalked. + 135 Gladiolus superb. + 122 Hyacinth starch. + 133 -------- two-coloured. + 127 Ixia bending-stalked. + 138 Kalmia hairy. + 111 Lathyrus tuberous. + 115 -------- blue-flowered. + 109 Lavatera annual. + 116 Limodorum tuberous-rooted. + 140 Lupine yellow. + 110 Mimosa whorl'd-leaved. + 118 Orpine evergreen. + 142 Scorzonera Tangier. + 137 St. John's-wort warty. + 119 Strelitzia Canna-leaved. + 128 Squill bell-flowered. + 141 Turnsole peruvian. + + + +FOOTNOTES + +[1] From the gaiety of its flowers, which, from their stripes, appear +like an object decorated with ribbands.--_Vitta_, a ribband; _vittata_, +dressed with ribbands. _Ainsw._ + +[2] The leaves being somewhat like those of the Myrtle, and a gummy +substance exuding from the plant as in the Gum Cistus. + +[3] In his Journal des Observations Physiques, Mathematiques, et +Botaniques, faites sur les Cotes Orientales de l'Amerique meridionale, +&c. printed in 1714. + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 4, by William Curtis + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, VOL. 4 *** + +***** This file should be named 17979.txt or 17979.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/9/7/17979/ + +Produced by University of Georgia Libraries, 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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