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V *** + + + + +Produced by University of Georgia Libraries, Jason Isbell, +Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreaders +Europe at http://dp.rastko.net + + + + + ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +|Transcriber's note: Older spellings of place names have been left as in| +|the original. | ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ + + + + + 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. V.~ + + + ----"the garden yields + A soft amusement, an humane delight. + To raise th' insipid nature of the ground, + Or tame its savage genius to the grace + Of careless sweet rusticity, that seems + The amiable result of happy chance, + Is to create, and give a god-like joy, + Which ev'ry year improves." + + ARMSTRONG. + + 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. + + + * * * * * + + + + +[145] + +MONARDA FISTULOSA, _var._ CRIMSON MONARDA. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIANDRA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ inæqualis: labio superiore lineari filamenta involvente. + _Semina_ 4. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +MONARDA _fistulosa_ capitulis terminalibus, caule obtusangulo. _Linn. + Syst. Vegetab. p. 68. ed. 14. Murr._ _Hort. Kew. v. 1. p. 36._ + +ORIGANUM fistulosum Canadense. _Corn. Canad. 13. t. 14._ + +[Illustration: No 145] + +The _Monarda fistulosa_, a hardy herbaceous plant, growing spontaneously +in Canada, and other parts of North-America, has long been cultivated in +the English gardens, to which it recommends itself as much by the +fragrance of its foliage, as the beauty of its flowers; of this species +the plant here figured is an uncommonly beautiful variety, its blossoms +far surpassing those of the original in size, as well as brilliancy of +colour, the floral leaves also are highly coloured; we have represented +a single blossom of the common _Monarda fistulosa_, that the difference +of the two may be rendered obvious. + +This variety has been very lately introduced from Holland, by Messrs. +GRIMWOOD and Co. Kensington; it flowers from June to September, +and is propagated by parting its roots in spring or autumn. + + + + +[146] + +HYPERICUM CALYCINUM. LARGE-FLOWER'D ST. JOHN'S-WORT. + +_Class and Order._ + +POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ 5-partitus. _Petala_ 5. _Filamenta_ multa, in 5 phalanges basi + connata. _Capsula._ + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +HYPERICUM _calycinum_ floribus pentagynis solitariis terminalibus, caule + tetragono fruticoso, foliis oblongo-ovatis coriaceis. _Linn. Syst. + Vegetab. p. 700. Mant. 106._ _Hort. Kew. v. 3. 103._ + +ASCYRUM magno flore. _Bauh. Pin. 280. Prodr. 130._ + +ANDROSÆMUM Constantinopolitanum flore maximo. _Wheler's Journey into + Greece, p. 205. cum fig._ + +[Illustration: No 146] + +This species of St. John's-Wort, particularly distinguished by the +largeness of its flowers, has very generally been considered as the +_Ascyron_ of LINNÆUS, owing to his giving to that plant the +synonyms which properly belong to the present one: in his _Mantissa_, +this species is called _calycinum_, which name is adopted in the 14th +edition of the _Systema Vegetabilium_, and also in the _Hortus +Kewensis_, where the proper synonyms are applied to it, and from which +we learn, that it is a native of the country near Constantinople, and +was introduced into this country by Sir GEORGE WHELER, Bart. in +1676. + +It is a hardy perennial, increasing much by its roots, which are of the +creeping kind, and by parting of which in the autumn it is most readily +propagated; like the periwinkle, it is a plant well adapted to cover a +bank, or bare, spots under trees, where other plants will not thrive. + +It flowers from July to September. + + + + +[147] + +DAIS COTINIFOLIA. COTINUS-LEAV'D DAIS. + +_Class and Order._ + +DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +Involucrum 4-phyllum. _Cor._ 4 s. 5-fida. Bacca 1-sperma. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +DAIS _cotinifolia_ floribus quinquefidis decandris. _Linn. Syst. + Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 403._ _Spec. Pl. p. 556._ + +DAIS _laurifolia_. _Jacq. ic. collect. 1. p. 46._ + +[Illustration: No 147] + +The _Dais cotinifolia_ is an ornamental Green-house Shrub, of the +deciduous kind, and though it appears from the _Hortus Kewensis_ to have +been introduced by Mr. JAMES GORDON, of Mile-End, in 1776, is +yet a great rarity with us, and only to be found in some of the first +collections. + +Its scarcity, and consequent very high price, is attributed to the +Nursery-men's not having yet discovered the means of propagating it +freely. + +Messrs. GRIMWOOD and Co. of Kensington, have some very fine +plants of it, which flower every year in the months of June and July, +but as yet have produced no perfect seeds, which they may be expected to +do when grown older; such having been known to ripen them in Holland. + +It is a native of the Cape, and appears to have been long possessed by +the Dutch, as its Generic Character taken from D. V. ROYEN, is +printed in the Genera Plantarum of LINNÆUS in 1764. + +There are only two known species, and they vary in the number of their +Stamina, and divisions of the Corolla. + + + + +[148] + +PELARGONIUM BETULINUM. BIRCH-LEAV'D CRANE'S-BILL. + +_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. + _L'Herit. Geran._ + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +PELARGONIUM _betulinum_ umbellis paucifloris, foliis ovatis inæqualiter + serratis lævigatis. _L'Herit. n. 84._ + +GERANIUM _betulinum_ calycibus monophyllis, foliis ovatis inæqualiter + serratis planis, caule fruticoso. _Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 946._ _Burm. + Ger. 38._ + +GERANIUM fruticosum, betulæ folio, africanum. _Raii Suppl. 513._ + +[Illustration: No 148] + +Though long since described, we have been in possession of this species +of Crane's-Bill but a few years; it is one of the many new ones +introduced by Mr. MASSON from the Cape, and at the same time +one of the most desirable, as its blossoms which are ornamental, are +freely produced during most of the summer, and the plant itself is +readily propagated by cuttings. + +The flowers vary considerably, both in size, and colour; its foliage is +different from that of most others, and, as its name imports, like that +of the Birch-Tree. + +It requires the same treatment as most other Green-House Plants. + + + + +[149] + +ZINNIA MULTIFLORA. MANY-FLOWERED ZINNIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Recept._ paleaceum. _Pappus_ aristis 2 erectis. _Cal._ + ovato-cylindricus, imbricatus. _Flosculi_ radii 5-10, persistentes, + integri. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +ZINNIA _multiflora_ floribus pedunculatis. _Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. + Murr. p. 777._ + +[Illustration: No 149] + +The _Zinnia, multiflora_, a native of Louisania, is a plant of more +modern introduction, but requires the same treatment, and flowers at the +same time, as the _Tagetes patula_, with which, though far inferior in +brilliancy of colour, it contributes to decorate the borders of the +flower-garden from June to September. + +There is a variety of it with yellow flowers, nearly as common in our +gardens as the present plant. + +LINNÆUS gave to this genus the name of ZINNIA, in +honour of JOH. GOTTFR. ZINN, the pupil of HALLER, and +his successor at the University of Gottingen. + +The plant we have figured, answers to the name and to the specific +description of LINNÆUS'S _multiflora_; having never seen his +_pauciflora_, we cannot say whether there be any just cause for +suspecting them to be varieties of each other. + + + + +[150] + +TAGETES PATULA. SPREADING TAGETES, or FRENCH MARIGOLD. + +_Class and Order._ + +SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Receptaculum_ nudum. _Pappus_ aristis 5 erectis. _Cal._ 1-phyllus, + 5-dentatus, tubulosus. Flosculi radii 4-8, persistentes. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +TAGETES _patula_ caule subdiviso patulo. _Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. Murr. + 228._ + +TANACETUM Africanum Flos Africanus minor. _Bauh. Pin. 132._ + +FLOS Africanus. _Dod. Pempt. 255._ The small single French Marigold. + _Park. Par. p. 304._ + +[Illustration: No 150] + +For richness and variety of tints few flowers can vie with this species +of Tagetes, which forms one of the chief ornaments of our gardens at the +close of summer. + +Some authors make it a native of Africa, others of America. + +Two principal varieties are usually kept in the gardens, the common +small sort with a strong disagreeable smell, and a larger one here +figured, usually called sweet-scented, the former is of more humble +growth, its branches more spreading, its blossoms smaller than those of +the latter, the flowers of which have usually a greater portion of the +yellow tint, and the smell of the other so modified as to be far less +disagreeable; sweet-scented we fear it can scarcely be called: from the +seed of both sorts some flowers will be produced extremely double, and +others single. + +MILLER recommends the seed to be frequently changed, to prevent +them from degenerating. + +It is one of our tender annuals which require to be raised on a gentle +hot-bed, if we are desirous of having them early; if that be not an +object, they may be sown under a common hand-glass on a warm border the +beginning of May, and, when large enough, planted out in the +flower-beds, where they are to remain. + +DODONÆUS observes, that the leaves, if held up to the light, +appear as if perforated; and he adduces some instances, which prove the +plant to be of a poisonous nature. + + + + +[151] + +LOTUS TETRAGONOLOBUS. WINGED LOTUS. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Legumen_ cylindricum strictum. _Alæ_ sursum longitudinaliter + conniventes. _Cal._ tubulosus. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +LOTUS _tetragonolobus_ leguminibus solitariis membranaceo-quadrangulis, + bractæis ovatis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab, p. 691._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. p. + 91._ + +LOTUS ruber siliqua angulosa. _Bauh. Pin. 332._ + +LOTUS pulcherrima tetragonolobus. _Comm. Hort. 91. t. 26._ + +PISUM quadratum, the crimson-blossom'd or square-codded Pease. _Park. + Parad. p. 338._ + +[Illustration: No 151] + +A common annual in our gardens, where it has been long cultivated; is a +native of Sicily, and flowers in the open borders in July and August; +requires the same management as other hardy annuals. + +MILLER observes, that it was formerly cultivated as an esculent +plant, the green pods being dressed and eaten as peas. + + + + +[152] + +EPIDENDRUM COCHLEATUM. TWO-LEAV'D EPIDENDRUM. + +_Class and Order._ + +GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +Nectarium turbinatum, obliquum, reflexum. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +EPIDENDRUM _cochleatum_ foliis oblongis geminis glabris striatis bulbo + innatis, scapo multifloro, nectario cordato. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab, + ed. 14. Murr. p. 819._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. V. 3. p. 303._ + +HELLEBORINE cochleato flore. _Plum. Sp. 9. u. 185. fig. 2._ + +[Illustration: No 152] + +Plants which draw their support from other living ones, of which there +are numerous instances, are by Botanists termed parasitical, and of this +kind are most of the present family; deriving their generic name, which +is of Greek extraction, from growing on trees, into the bark of which +they fix their roots; some of them are also found to grow on dead wood, +as the present plant, which is described by Sir HANS SLOANE, in +his history of Jamaica, _V. 1. p. 250. t. 121. f. 2._ as not only +growing plentifully on trees, but also on the palisadoes of St. Jago de +la Vega. + +Instances of these plants flowering in England are very rare; Commodore +GARDNER, in the year 1789, presented to the Apothecaries +company some roots of this plant, taken up in the woods of Jamaica with +great care, and which being successfully treated by Mr. +FAIRBAIRN in their garden at Chelsea, one of them threw up a +flowering stem last February, from whence our drawing was made. + +Mr. FAIRBAIRN planted the roots in pots of earth, composed of +rotten wood and decayed leaves, plunging them into the tan-bed of a pit +of considerable size. + +In its fructification, the Epidendrum obviously agrees with the Orchis +tribe, but differs essentially in the oeconomy of its roots; in the +Orchis the roots spring from the crown of the bulb, which is formed in +the earth; in the Epidendrum the bulb, or the part which appears to be +analogous to a bulb, though of a green colour, is produced above ground, +while the roots or fibres proceed from below it. + + + + +[153] + +BULBOCODIUM VERNUM. VERNAL BULBOCODIUM. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ infundibuliformis, hexapetala: unguibus angustis staminiferis. + _Capsula_ supera. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +BULBOCODIUM _vernum_ foliis lanceolatis. _Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. Murr. + p. 320._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 1. p. 421._ _Retz. Obs. Bot. Fasc. 2. + t. 1._ + +COLCHICUM vernum hispanicum. _Bauh. Pin. 69._ Medowe Saffron of the + spring. _Park. Parad. p. 158-159. f. 7._ + +[Illustration: No 153] + +The excellent and learned CLUSIUS, in the second appendix to +his history of rare plants, gives a very good figure of this plant, both +in flower and seed, accompanied with its history; our PARKINSON +also represents it in his _Parad. terr._ and gives such a minute +description of it, as convinces us he must have cultivated it at the +time he wrote: Mr. MILLER appears not to have been well +acquainted with it, or he would not have described its root to be like +that of the Snowdrop; had he said Colchicum, he would not have misled: +RETZIUS also in his Bot. Obs. gives a figure of it with the +flower dissected. + +The _Bulbocodium_, of which there is only one species, is a mountainous +plant, a native of Spain, and flowers in the open ground at the same +time as the Crocus, for a purple variety of which it might easily be +mistaken at first sight; but it differs from the Crocus in having six +stamina, and from the Colchicum, to which it is very nearly allied, in +having one style instead of three. + +It is at present a rare plant in our gardens, which we attribute to its +bulbs not admitting of much increase, as well as to its being liable to +be killed by frost, and hence requiring more care than it may be thought +entitled to from its appearance. + +It varies in the colour of its flowers. + + + + +[154] + +SAPONARIA OCYMOIDES, BASIL SOAP-WORT. + +_Class and Order._ + +DECANDRIA DIGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 1-phyllus, nudus. _Petala_ 5 unguiculata. _Caps._ oblonga + 1-locularis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +SAPONARIA _Ocymoides_ calycibus cylindricis villosis, caulibus + dichotomis procumbentibus. _Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. Murr._ _Jacq. + Fl. Austr. v. 5. app. t. 23._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 2. p. 87._ + +LYCHNIS vel Ocymoides repens montanum. _Bauh. Pin. 206._ + +[Illustration: No 154] + +The _Saponaria Ocymoides_ has been figured in the appendix to the fifth +volume of the _Flora Austriaca_ in its wild state, as in similar works +every plant is expected to be; our figure represents a branch of it +only, taken (as all ours in this work professedly are) from a garden +specimen which grew on a wall of a particular construction in our garden +at Brompton, and of which it was the principal ornament through the +months of May, June, and July, during most of which time it was covered +with a profusion of bloom[1]. + +Though it produces blossoms in abundance, it affords but little seed, +but may be increased by slips or cuttings. + +It is a hardy perennial, a native of France, Italy, Switzerland, and +Carinthia, loves a pure air and a dry situation[2], grows best among +rocks, stones, or out of a wall, and certainly is one of the best plants +imaginable for ornamenting of rock-work. + +I received seeds of it, and many other rare plants, from my very kind +friend Mr. DAVAL, of Orbe, in Switzerland. + + + + +[155] + +OXALIS VERSICOLOR. STRIPED-FLOWER'D WOOD-SORREL. + +_Class and Order._ + +DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 5-phyllus. _Petala_ unguibus connexa. _Caps._ angulis dehiscens, + 5-gona. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +OXALIS _versicolor_ caule erecto hirto, pedunculis unifloris, foliis + ternatis: foliolis linearibus callosis. _Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. + Murr. p. 114. p. 434._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 2. p. 114._ + +OXYS Africana foliis tenuissimis, flore amplo versicolore. _Pluk. + Amalth. 169. t. 434. f. 5._ + +OXYS Africana foliis tenuissimis in summitate caulis. _Raii Suppl. 598._ + +[Illustration: No 155] + +The _Oxalis-versicolor_ is considered as one of the most beautiful of +the many species cultivated in gardens; and, though well known to, and +described by several of the older Botanists, has graced our collections +but a few years, being introduced to the Royal Garden at Kew, from the +Cape (where, as well as in Ethiopia, it grows spontaneously) by Mr. +MASSON, in the Year 1774. + +Many of this genus flower early in the spring, the season in which this +species also puts forth its blossoms, but by dexterous management it may +be made to flower during most of the year; and this is effected by +placing the pea-like tubera or knobs which the root sends forth, and by +which the plant is propagated, in pots filled with loam and bog-earth at +stated distant periods. + +Like most of the Cape plants, it is well adapted to the greenhouse, and +succeeds best when placed on a front shelf of the house, where it can +have plenty of light and air; some keep it in the stove, but there the +plant is drawn up, and the flowers lose a part of their brilliancy: in +no situation do they ever expand but when the sun shines on them; this +is the less to be regretted, as they are most beautiful when closed. + + + + +[156] + +COREOPSIS VERTICILLATA. WHORLED COREOPSIS. + +_Class and Order._ + +SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA FRUSTRANEA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Receptaculum_ paleaceum. _Pappus_ bicornis. _Calyx_ erectus, + polyphyllus, basi radiis patentibus cinctus. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +COREOPSIS _verticillata_ foliis decomposito-linearibus. _Linn. Syst. + Veg. ed. 14. Murr. p. 782._ + +COREOPSIS foliis verticillatis linearibus multifidis. _Gronov. Fl. + Virgin. p. 131._ + +DELPHINII vel mei foliis planta ad nodos positis caule singulari. + _Clayt. n. 308._ + +[Illustration: No 156] + +The _Coreopsis verticillata_ is a hardy, perennial, herbaceous plant, a +native of North-America; producing its blossoms, which are uncommonly +shewy, from July to October, and is readily propagated by parting its +roots in Autumn. + +It grows to a great height, and is therefore rather adapted to the +shrubbery than the flower-garden. + +CLAYTON remarks, that the petals, though of a yellow +colour, are used by the inhabitants to dye cloth red. + + + + +[157] + +HYACINTHUS BOTRYOIDES. GRAPE HYACINTH. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cor._ campanulata: _Pori_ 3 melliferi germinis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +HYACINTHUS _botryoides_ corollis globosis uniformibus, foliis + canaliculato-cylindricis strictis. _Linn. Syst. Veget. ed. 14. + Murr. p. 336._ _Aiton Hort. Kew. v. 1. p. 459._ + +HYACINTHUS _racemosus_ cæruleus major. _Bauh. Pin. 42._ + +HYACINTHUS Botroides cæruleus amoenus. The skie-coloured grape-flower. + _Park. Par. p. 114. p. 113. f. 5._ + +[Illustration: No 157] + +The _Hyacinthus botryoides_, a native of Italy, and cultivated in the +time of GERARD and PARKINSON, is now become scarce with us, being only +to be accidentally met with in long-established gardens; we first saw it +in the garden of our very worthy and much valued friend, Mr. JOHN +CHORLEY, of Tottenham, to whose lady my collection stands indebted for +several rare and valuable plants. + +This species increases sufficiently fast by offsets, but in the open +border does not very readily produce flowering stems: as both it and the +_racemosus_ are apt to become troublesome in a garden from their great +increase, we would recommend their bulbs to be placed in moderately +sized pots filled with light earth, and plunged in the borders where +they are designed to flower; in the autumn they should be regularly +taken out, the offsets thrown away, and about half a dozen of the +largest bulbs left, all of which will most probably flower at the usual +time, the end of March or beginning of April. + +PARKINSON, who most admirably describes this and the _racemosus_, +enumerates three varieties, viz. the _white_, the _blush-coloured_, and +the _branched_; the first is frequently imported with other bulbs from +Holland, the second and third we have not seen; the latter, if we may +judge from PARKINSON'S _fig._ in his _Parad._ is a most curious plant, +and was obtained, as CLUSIUS reports, from seeds of the white variety; +whether it now exists is deserving of inquiry. + +The _botryoides_ differs from the _racemosus_, in having its leaves +upright, its bunch of flowers smaller, the flowers themselves larger, +rounder, of a paler and brighter blue. + + + + +[158] + +HIBISCUS ROSA SINENSIS. CHINA-ROSE HIBISCUS. + +_Class and Order._ + +MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ duplex, exterior polyphyllus. _Capsula_ 5-locularis, polysperma. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +HIBISCUS _Rosa Sinensis_ foliis ovatis acuminatis serratis, caule + arboreo. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 629._ _Ait. Hort. + Kew. p. 629._ + +ALCEA javanica arborescens, flore pleno rubicundo. _Breyn. cent. 121. t. + 56._ + +HIBISCUS _javanica_. _Mill. Dict. ed. 6. 4to._ by whom cultivated in + 1731. + +[Illustration: No 158] + +RUMPHIUS in his _Herbarium Amboinense_ gives an excellent +account of this beautiful native of the East-Indies, accompanied by a +representation of it with double flowers, in which state it is more +particularly cultivated in all the gardens in India, as well as China; +he informs us that it grows to the full size of our hazel, and that it +varies with white flowers. + +The inhabitants of India, he observes, are extremely partial to whatever +is red, they consider it as a colour which tends to exhilarate; and +hence they not only cultivate this plant universally in their gardens, +but use its flowers on all occasions of festivity, and even in their +sepulchral rites: he mentions also an oeconomical purpose to which the +flowers are applied, little consistent with their elegance and beauty, +that of blacking shoes, whence their name of _Rosæ calceolariæ_; the +shoes, after the colour is imparted to them, are rubbed with the hand, +to give them a gloss, and which thereby receives a blueish tinge, to +discharge which they have recourse to lemon juice. + +With us it is kept in the stove, where it thrives and flowers readily +during most of the summer; the single blossoms last but a short time, +yet their superiority arising from the curious and beautiful structure +of the interior parts of the flower, compensates for the shortness of +their duration. + +It is usually increased by cuttings. + + + + +[159] + +ALYSSUM SAXATILE. YELLOW ALYSSUM. + +_Class and Order._ + +TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Filamenta_ quædam introrsum denticulo notata. _Silicula_ emarginata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + +ALYSSUM _saxatile_ caulibus frutescentibus paniculatis, foliis + lanceolatis mollissimis repandis. _Linn. Syst. Veg, ed. 14. Murr. + p. 590._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. p. 381._ + +ALYSSUM Creticum Saxatile, foliis undulatis incanis. _Tourn. cor. 15._ + +THLASPI luteum leucoji folio. _Bocc. muf. 79. t. 93._ + +[Illustration: No 159] + +As this plant has very generally obtained in gardens and nurseries the +name of yellow Alyssum, we have retained it; for though it is not the +only one of the genus which produces yellow flowers, it may still be +called yellow by way of eminence, such is the extreme brilliancy and +profusion of its blossoms. + +It is a native of Crete, and was first cultivated in this country by Mr. +MILLER, in 1731[3], at Chelsea garden. + +It begins to flower about the latter end of April, and continues to +blossom through great part of May; and it is not uncommon for it to +flower again in autumn. + +If it has a pure air and a dry situation, it will grow in almost any +soil. + +The usual mode of propagating it is by slips, or cuttings. As it is a +small, shewy, hardy plant, and not disposed to over-run others, it is +very suitable to embellish rock-work. + + + + +[160] + +PULMONARIA VIRGINICA. VIRGINIA LUNGWORT. + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ infundibuliformis fauce pervia. _Calyx_ prismatico-pentagonus. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +PULMONARIA _Virginica_ calycibus abbreviatis, foliis lanceolatis + obtusiusculis. _Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. Murr. p. 187._ + +PULMONARIA non maculosa, floribus tubulosis longis pulcherrimis + cæruleis, in panicula pendula congestis, foliis teneribus glabris + latis obtusis, ad margines æqualibus, pediculis dilute purpureis + infidentibus, radice crassa instar symphyti. Mountain Cowslip. + _Clayt. Gron. Fl. Virg. p. 25._ + +[Illustration: No 160] + +MILLER informs us in his Dictionary, that the _Pulmonaria +Virginica_ grows naturally upon mountains in most parts of +North-America, that the seeds were sent many years since by Mr. +BANISTER, from Virginia; and some of the plants were raised in +the garden of the Bishop of London, at Fulham, where for several years +it was growing. + +Though a native of Virginia, it ranks with the hardy herbaceous plants +of our gardens, and flowers in the open border about the middle of +April; the blossoms before their expansion are of a reddish purple +colour, when fully blown they become of a light bright blue, the foliage +is glaucous, or blueish green; it is said to vary with white and +flesh-coloured flowers. + +In favourable seasons, the Flower-Garden owes much of its gaiety to this +elegant plant, and at a time when ornament is most desirable. + +It requires a pure air, and a situation moderately sheltered, as the +cold easterly winds which too readily prevail in April, when it is in +flower, are apt to deface it. + +It is usually propagated by parting its roots in autumn, and is a free +grower. + + + + +[161] + +AMYGDALUS NANA. DWARF ALMOND. + +_Class and Order._ + +ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 5-fidus, inferus. _Petala_ 5. Drupa nuce poris perforata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +AMYGDALUS _nana_ foliis basi attenuatis. _Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. Murr. + p. 162._ _Pallas. Ross. 1. p. 12. t. 6._ + +AMYGDALUS indica nana. _Pluk. alm. 28. t. 11. f. 3._ + +ARMENIACA persicæ foliis, fructu exsucco. _Amm. Ruth. 273. t. 30._ + +[Illustration: No 161] + +The Dwarf Almond, a native of Russia and Tartary, is justly considered +as one of our most ornamental shrubs; it rarely rises above the height +of three feet, and hence becomes very suitable for the shrubbery of +small extent. It flowers about the middle of April, somewhat later than +the common Almond. + +MILLER observes, that the roots are apt to put out suckers, by +which the plant may be increased in plenty; and if those are not +annually taken away, they will starve the old plant. + +Cultivated in 1683, by Mr. JAMES SUTHERLAND. _Ait. Hort. +Kew._ + + + + +[162] + +SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS. CANADA PUCCOON, or BLOODWORT. + +_Class and Order._ + +POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cor._ 8-petala. _Cal._ 2-phyllus. Siliqua ovata, 1-locularis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +SANGUINARIA _Canadensis_. _Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. Murr. p. 489._ + +CHELIDONIUM majus Canadense acaulon. _Corn. Canad. 212._ + +RANUNCULUS Virginiensis albus. _Park. Theat. 226._ + +SANGUINARIA flore simplici. _Dill. Elth. t. 252._ + +[Illustration: No 162] + +Though the Sanguinaria cannot be considered as a handsome shewy plant, +yet we scarcely know its equal in point of delicacy and singularity; +there is something in it to admire, from the time that its leaves emerge +from the ground, and embosom the infant blossom, to their full +expansion, and the ripening of its seed vessels. + +The woods of Canada, as well as of other parts of North-America, produce +this plant in abundance with us it flowers in the beginning of April: +its blossoms are fugacious, and fully expand only in fine warm weather. +It is a hardy perennial, and is usually propagated by parting its roots +in autumn; a situation moderately shady, and a soil having a mixture of +bog-earth or rotten leaves in it suits it best. + +Its knobby roots, when broken asunder, pour forth a juice of a bright +red or orange colour, whence its name of Sanguinaria: with this liquid +the Indians are said to paint themselves. + +DILLENIUS, has figured it in his admirable work, the Hortus +Elthamensis, where three varieties of it are represented, viz. a large +one, a small one, and one in which the petals are multiplied, but which +can scarcely be called double. + +It appears from MORISON[4], that the Sanguinaria was cultivated +in this country in 1680, the date of his work. + + + + +[163] + +PHLOX DIVARICATA. EARLY-FLOWERING LYCHNIDEA. + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corolla_ hypocrateriformis. _Filamenta_ inæqualia. _Stigma_ 3-fidum. + _Cal._ prismaticus. _Caps._ 3-locularis, i-sperma. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +PHLOX _divaricata_ foliis lato-lanceolatis: superioribus alternis, caule + bifido, pedunculis geminis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab, p. 199._ _Ait. + Hort. Kew. p. 206._ + +LYCHNIDEA virginiana, alsines aquaticæ foliis, floribus in ramulis + divaricatis. _Pluk. Mant. 121?_ + +[Illustration: No 163] + +Most of the plants of this genus are natives of North-America, and +remarkable for their beauty; they were first introduced under the name +of _Lychnidea_, which, though a Latin term, is now familiarized to the +English ear. + +Mr. AITON has given to this species the name of +early-flowering, it coming much sooner into blossom than any of the +others, beginning to flower in May with the yellow Alyssum; its +blossoms, however, are not of so long duration, nor so ornamental as +some others of the same family. + +It seldom exceeds a foot in height, and, on this account, may be +regarded as a suitable rock-plant. + +It rarely ripens its seeds with us, but is readily increased either by +cuttings or layers; succeeds best in a pure air and a situation +moderately dry. + +Like most other American plants, it is of modern introduction, was +cultivated by Mr. MILLER, in 1758, and figured in his Icones. + + + + +[164] + +RANUNCULUS GRAMINEUS. GRASS-LEAVED CROWFOOT. + +_Class and Order._ + +POLYANDRIA POLYGNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ 5-phyllus. _Petala_ 5 intra ungues poro mellifero. _Semina_ + nuda. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +RANUNCULUS _gramineus_ foliis lanceolato linearibus indivisis, caule + erecto lævissimo paucifloro. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. + 515._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. p. 265._ + + +RANUNCULUS gramineo folio bulbosus. _Bauh. Pin. 181?_ + +RANUNCULUS montanus folio gramineo. _Bauh. Pin. 180._ + +RANUNCULUS gramineus. Grasse leafed Crowfoot. _Park. Parad. p. 218. 221. + f. i._ + +[Illustration: No 164] + +This species of Ranunculus, an inhabitant of the dry pastures South of +France and Italy, and a hardy herbaceous plant of ready growth, +recommends itself by the earliness of its flowering and the delicate +glaucous colour of its foliage. PARKINSON figures it with +double flowers, though he describes it with semi-double ones only; we +have not observed either of these varieties in the gardens about London, +they have most probably fallen victims to the rage for novelty, at the +shrine of which many a fair and goodly flower is yearly sacrificed. + +It flowers towards the end of April, and is propagated by parting its +roots in autumn. + +The synonyms of this and other species of Ranunculus described in +GERARD'S _Fl. Gallopr._ are very inaccurately quoted in +Professor MURRAY'S edition of the _Syst. Vegetab._ + + + + +[165] + +PELARGONIUM CORDIFOLIUM. HEART-LEAVED GERANIUM. + +_Class and Order._ + +MONADELPHIA HEPTANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 5-partitus: lacinia suprema, definente in tubulum capilarem, + nectariferum, secus pedunculum decurrentem. _Cor._ 5-petala, + irregularis. _Filam_. 10 inæqualia: quorum 3. (raro 5) castrata. + _Fructus_ 5-coccus, rostratus: rostra spiralia introrsum barbata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +PELARGONIUM _cordatum_ umbellis multifloris, foliis cordatis acutis + dentatis, petalis inferis linearibus acutis. _Ait. Hort. Kew. p. + 427._ + +GERANIUM _cordifolium_. _Cavan. Diss. p. 240. t. 117. f. 3._ + +[Illustration: No 165] + +Our readers are here presented with the figure of another Geranium of +modern introduction, not enumerated by LINNÆUS or MILLER, and which in +point of beauty, duration of flowering, and facility of culture, is +equal to most. + +It was introduced to the Royal Garden, at Kew, from the Cape, by Mr. +MASSON, in 1774. + +There are several varieties of it, but the one here figured is the most +beautiful. + +It strikes readily from cuttings, by which it is usually propagated. + +Requires the same treatment as the more common Geraniums, and +flowers, from March to July. + + + + +[166] + +CHEIRANTHUS MARITIMUS. MEDITERRANEAN STOCK. + +_Class and Order._ + +TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Germen_ utrinque denticulo glandulato. _Cal._ clausus: foliolis duobus + basi gibbis. _Semina_ plana. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +CHEIRANTHUS _maritimus_ foliis ellipticis obtusis nudis scabriusculis, + caule diffuso scabro. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. p. 597._ _Mantiss. p. + 568._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 2. p. 395._ + +LEUCOJUM minus flore violaceo. _Barr. Ic. 1127._ + +[Illustration: No 166] + +LINNÆUS has described this plant minutely in his _Mantissa +Plant_, so that no doubt remains of its being his _maritimus_. + +With us, it has been customary for Gardeners and Nurserymen to +distinguish this species by the name of Virginia Stock, a name highly +improper, as it is found to be a native of the Mediterranean coast. + +The blossoms which this plant first puts forth are of a lively red, in a +few days they become of a blueish purple colour; to this variety of hues +the plant owes its chief beauty. + +Being of humble growth, and producing a profusion of bloom, which is of +long duration, it is frequently used as an edging to borders, and +sometimes sown in little patches with other annuals; in whatever way +used, it contributes greatly to enliven the borders of the +flower-garden. + +It is one of those annuals whose seeds should be sown in the autumn, as +it thereby comes much forwarder into bloom, and its blossoms are more +lively than those arising from seeds sown in the spring; by varying the +time of sowing, it may be had to flower in spring, summer, and autumn. + +Small pots of it in bloom have a pretty appearance, and may be used to +decorate the windows of those who reside in cities or great towns, where +the pleasures of the garden are not to be enjoyed. + + + + +[167] + +SOPHORA TETRAPTERA. WINGED-PODDED SOPHORA. + +_Class and Order._ + +DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ 5-dentatus, superne gibbus. _Cor._ papilionacea: + alis-longitudine vexilli. _Legumen._ + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +SOPHORA _tetraptera_ foliis pinnatis foliolis numerosis (17--19) + lanceolato-oblongis villosiusculis: leguminibus + membranaceo-quadrangulis, caule arboreo. _Ait. Hort. Kew. p. 43._ + +SOPHORA _tetraptera_. _Job. Miller ic. tab. 1._ + +[Illustration: No 167] + +The magnificent and highly curious species of Sophora here represented, +is one of the many plants discovered by Sir JOSEPH BANKS at +New-Zealand, where it forms a tree of a considerable size. + +A finer sight can scarcely be imagined than a tree of this sort, +extending to a great breadth on a wall with a western aspect, in the +Apothecaries Garden at Chelsea, where it was planted by Mr. +FORSYTH about the year 1774, and which at this moment (April +28, 1791) is thickly covered with large pendulous branches of yellow, I +had almost said golden flowers; for they have a peculiar richness, which +it is impossible to represent in colouring; in the winter care is taken +to cover it carefully with mats, least it should suffer from any +extraordinarily severe weather. + +It usually produces a few seed vessels of an uncommon form, having four +wings, whence its name of _tetraptera_; from some of the seeds which +have ripened in this country plants have been raised, and by these the +plant is found to be propagated with the most success; it may also be +increased by cuttings and layers. + + + + +[168] + +IRIS PAVONIA. PEACOCK IRIS. + +_Class and Order._ + +TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cor._ 6-petala inæqualis, _Petalis_ alternis geniculato-patentibus, + _Stigmata_ petaliformia; cucullato-bilabiata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +IRIS _pavonia_ imberbis folio lineari glabro, scapo subunifloro. _Linn. + Syst. Vegetab. p. 92._ + +[Illustration: No 168] + +We have our doubts whether the plant here figured be the _pavonia_ of +the _Systema Vegetabilium_, as it does not accord so well with the +description there given, as we could wish; as such however it has been +regarded by some here, and it must be allowed to answer extremely well +to the name. + +It is a small delicate Iris, about a foot and a half high, with very +narrow leaves, bearing on the top of the stalk one or at most two +flowers, three of the petals are large and white, with a brilliant blue +spot at the base of each, edged on the outer side with deep purple; the +delicacy of the flower, and the eye-like spot at the base of three of +the petals, render at one of the most striking plants of the genus. + +The figure here given was drawn from a plant which flowered with Messrs. +GRIMWOOD and Co. last June, who received it from Holland, and +treat it in the same way as their Cape bulbs, of which country it is +said to be a native. + +It is not mentioned either in Mr. MILLER'S _Gardener's +Dictionary_, or the _Hortus Kewensis_. + + + + +[169] + +IXORA COCCINEA. SCARLET IXORA. + +_Class and Order._ + +TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cor._ 1-petala, infundibuliformis, longa, supera, _Stamina_ supra + faucem. _Bacca_ 4-sperma. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +IXORA _coccinea_ foliis ovalibus semiamplexicaulibus, floribus + fasciculatis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. + p. 148._ + +JASMINUM indicum, lauri folio, inodorum umbellatum, floribus coccineis. + _Pluk. alm. 196. t. 59. s. 2._ + +CERASUS zeylanica humilis sylvestris, floribus holosericeis intense + rubris umbellatim congestis, fructibus nigris. _Mus. Zeyl. p. 15._ + +FLAMMA SYLVARUM _Rumph. Amb. 4. p. 105. t. 46._ + +[Illustration: No 169] + +It will appear strange, we presume, to most of our readers, when they +are informed, that the _Ixora coccinea_, a plant at present in few +hands, and which a short time since was sold in some of our nurseries +for five guineas, should have been known in this country a hundred years +ago; and yet Mr. AITON, who has so laudably exerted himself, in +ascertaining the precise period, when most of the exotics cultivated in +the royal garden at Kew first made their appearance in Great-Britain, +informs us on very respectable authority, that this plant was introduced +by Mr. BENTICK in 1690. + +There is every reason to suppose, that this splendid exotic did not long +survive its introduction; on inquiry, we learn that it was reintroduced +about fifteen years ago, by the late Dr. JOHN FOTHERGILL, a +name, to medicine and botany ever dear, in whose rich and magnificent +collection at Upton was first known to flower; about the same time, the +late Mr. THOBURN, Nurseryman at Brompton, raised a few Ixoras +from foreign seeds, and from these (an accident having happened to the +plant which was Dr. FOTHERGILL'S) are said to have arisen the +plants at present in this country. + +Both RHEEDE and RUMPHIUS describe and figure this +plant in their respective works, the _Hortus Malabaricus_ and _Herbarium +Amboinense_; it is mentioned also by several other authors: from their +various accounts we discover, that in different parts of India, where it +grows wild, it forms a slender shrub, or tree, about six feet high, +rising generally with a single stem; that its clusters of flowers, seen +from afar are so brilliant as to resemble a burning coal, especially in +a dark wood, whence its name of _Flamma Sylvarum_; that it grows in the +woods, and flowers in September and October, producing a black fruit, +the size of small cherries, on which the peacocks are supposed to feed, +and from whence they have obtained the name of _Cerasa Pavonina_. The +Chinese call it _Santanhoa_; with them it produces flowers and fruit the +year through, and they hold the blossoms in such veneration, as to use +them in the sacrifices they make to their idol IXORA, whence +LINNÆUS has taken the name applied by him to this genus. The +root is said to possess some acrimony, and to be made use of by the +natives in curing the toothach. + +It is customary in this country, to treat the _Ixora_ as a stove plant; +perhaps it may be less tender than we are aware of; it flowers in July +and August, but has not been known to produce fruit; is increased from +cuttings, without much difficulty. + +Our drawing was taken from a small but very healthy plant in the stove +of Mr. WHITLEY (late THOBURN and WHITLEY, Brompton). + +LINNÆUS describes, and some authors figure this plant with +stipulæ, which our plant had not, not being arrived at an age, perhaps, +to produce them. + + + + +[170] + +DRABA AIZOIDES. SENGREEN DRABA, or WHITLOW-GRASS. + +_Class and Order._ + +TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Silicula_ integra, ovali-oblonga: valvis planiusculis, dissepimento + parallelis. _Stylus_ nullus. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +DRABA _aizoides_ scapo nudo simplici, foliis ensiformibus carinatis + ciliatis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. Murr. p. 372._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. + v. 2. p. 372._ + +SEDUM alpinum hirsutum luteum. _Bauh. Pin. 284._ + +LEUCOJUM luteum aizoides montanum. _Col. Ecphr. 2. p. 62._ + +[Illustration: No 170] + +The plant here figured, a native of the German Alps, is one of those +whose beauty cannot be shewn in a small detached piece of it; to be +admired, it must be seen in a tuft of some considerable size, which it +is much disposed to form when growing among rock-work, for which, like +many other small Alpine plants, it is well suited; thus elevated above +the surface of the ground, the various beauties of this humble race are +more distinctly seen, and their curious structure more readily +inspected. + +This species is the more to be esteemed, as it flowers very early in the +spring, in March, and the beginning of April, and continues in blossom +about six weeks. + +LINNÆUS originally confounded it with a similar plant, the +_Draba alpina_, a mistake since rectified in his _Mantissa Plant. p. +91._ + + + + +[171] + +IXIA CHINENSIS. CHINESE IXIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cor._ 6-partita, campanulata, regularis. _Stigmata_ 3. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +IXIA _chinensis_ foliis ensiformibus; floribus remotis, panicula + dichotoma, floribus pedunculatis. _Linn. Sp. Pl. v. i. p. 52._ + _Ait. Hort. Kew. v. i. p. 62._ + +MORÆA _chinensis_ caule compresso, foliis ensiformibus, panicula + dichotoma, floribus pedunculatis. _Murr. Syst. Vegetab. p. 93._ + +[Illustration: No 171] + +In that elaborate and inestimable work, the _Hortus Malabaricus_, we +have a good figure of the plant here exhibited, accompanied by a minute +description; the author informs us that it grows spontaneously in India, +attaining the height even of five or six feet, and affecting a sandy +soil; the natives consider it as an antidote to poisons in general, and +regard the bruised root as peculiarly efficacious in curing the bite of +the serpent, called Cobra de Copella. + +We raised plants of it last year from seeds imparted to us by J. +IBBETTSON, Esq. of the Admiralty; this year, during the months of +August and September, many of them have flowered, and capsules are +forming which have every appearance of producing perfect seeds; the root +of this plant is yellow, and tuberous like that of the Iris, the leaves +also greatly resemble those of that tribe, it grows to the height of +about three feet, and produces a considerable number of flowers in +succession each of which is of short duration. + +The root and radical leaves as represented on the plate are much smaller +than in plants which have been long established. + +Our plants stood in pots in the open ground through the winter of 1790-1 +without injury, but it must be remembered, that the weather during that +period was uncommonly mild; it will be safest therefore to consider +it as a tender herbaceous plant. + +It differs so much in its fructification from many others of the genus, +that Prof. MURRAY has considered it as a _Moræa_, with which, +in our humble opinion, it has scarcely any affinity. + + + + +[172] + +LAMIUM ORVALA. BALM-LEAVED ARCHANGEL, or DEAD-NETTLE. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Corollæ_ labium superius integrum, fornicatum; lab. infer. 2-lobum; + faux utrinque margine dentata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +LAMIUM _Orvala_ foliis cordatis inæqualiter arguteque serratis, corollis + fauce inflata, caulibus coloratis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14. + Murr. p. 534._ + +LAMIUM maximum sylvaticum alterum. _Bauh. Pin. 231._ + +GALEOPSIS maxima pannonica. _Clus. hist. 2. p. 35._ Hungary Dead-Nettle, + or the Dragon Flower. _Park. Parad. p. 385._ + +[Illustration: No 172] + +Few of the plants of this genus have been thought to possess sufficient +beauty for the flower-garden, the present one excepted, the magnificence +of whose blossoms justly entitles it to rank with the more curious, if +not the most beautiful of the vegetable tribes. + +Though not common in our gardens, it has long been introduced, having +been cultivated and accurately described, though badly figured, by +PARKINSON in his _Parad. terr._ + +It grows spontaneously in the woods of Italy and Hungary, and flowers +with us about the latter end of April, at which time, if cold winds +prevail, it is apt to be injured, unless placed in a sheltered part of +the garden. + +It may be propagated either by seeds, or by parting its roots in autumn, +is a hardy plant and grows readily. + + + + +[173] + +AITONIA CAPENSIS. CAPE AITONIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +MONADELPHIA OCTANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +Monogyna. _Cal._ 4-partitus. _Cor._ 4-petala. _Bacca_ sicca, + 4-angularis, 1-locularis, polysperma. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +AITONIA _Capensis_. _Linn. Suppl. Pl. p. 303._ _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. + 14. Murr. p. 612._ + +COTYLEDON foliis linearibus, flore quadrifido, fructu subrotundo. _Burm. + Afric. 53. t. 21. s. 2._ + +[Illustration: No 173] + +This genus, of which there is only one known species, has been named by +the younger LINNÆUS, in honour of Mr. WILLIAM AITON, author of the +_Hortus Kewensis_, and Botanic Gardener to his Majesty. The great length +of time[5], Mr. AITON has been engaged in the cultivation of plants, the +immense numbers which have been the constant objects of his care through +every period of their growth, joined to his superior discernment, give +him a decided superiority in the _prima facie_ knowledge of living +plants over most Botanists the present day; his abilities in the other +line of his profession, are displayed in the eulogies of all who have +seen the royal collection at Kew, which he has the honour to +superintend. + +The Aitonia is a native of the Cape, and was introduced by Mr. +MASSON, in the year 1774. + +It is a greenhouse shrub of slow growth, seldom exceeding three feet in +height; producing, when of sufficient age, flowers and fruit through +most of the year; the fruit is a large dry angular berry, of a fine red +colour. + +Our drawing was made from a very fine plant, formerly Dr. FOTHERGILL'S, +now in the collection of Messrs. GRIMWOOD and Co. Kensington. + +It is only to be raised from seeds, which are sparingly produced in this +country. + + + + +[174] + +BUDDLEA GLOBOSA. ROUND-HEADED BUDDLEA. + +_Class and Order._ + +TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 4-fidus. _Cor._ 4-fida. _Stamina_ ex incifuris. _Caps._ 2-fulca, + 2-locularis, polysperma. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +BUDDLEA _globosa_ foliis lanceolatis, capitulis solitariis. _Ait. Hort. + Kew. p. 150. V. 1._ + +BUDLEJA _globosa_. _Hope in Act. Harlem, V. 20. part. 2. p. 417. t. 11._ + +PALQUIN _Feuil. it. 3. p. 51. t. 38._ + +[Illustration: No 174] + +Mr. ADAM BUDDLE, in honour of whom the present genus has been +originally named by Dr. HOUSTON, was an ingenious English +Botanist, cotemporary with, and the friend of PETIVER; his name +is often mentioned in the _Synopsis_ of Mr. RAY and his _Hortus +Siccus_, or dried collection of British plants, preserved in the British +Museum, still resorted to in doubtful cases. + +The present species not enumerated either by LINNÆUS or +MILLER, is a native of Chili, and according to the _Hort. Kew._ +was introduced by Messrs. KENNEDY and LEE, in 1774. + +It has been customary, in consideration of its native place of growth, +to treat it here as a greenhouse plant, for which situation it soon +becomes unfit from its magnitude; some have ventured to plant it in the +open borders in warm sheltered situations, where it has been found to +succeed very well, producing its beautiful yellow blossoms in abundance; +care must be taken, however, to guard it carefully from severe frosts, +which are apt to destroy it. + +It flowers in May and June, and is usually propagated by cuttings or +layers. + + + + +[175] + +KALMIA LATIFOLIA. BROAD-LEAV'D KALMIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Calyx_ 5-partitus. _Cor._ hypocrateriformis: limbo subtus quinquecorni. + _Caps._ 5-locularis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +KALMIA _latifolia_ foliis ovato-ellipticis ternis sparsisque, corymbis + terminalibus. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. p. 64. ed. 14. Murr._ _Ait. + Hort. Kew. V. 2. p. 64._ + +ANDROMEDA foliis ovatis obtusis, corollis corymbosis infundibuliformis, + genitalibus declinatis. _Fl. Virg. 160._ + +CHAMÆDAPHNE foliis tini, floribus bullatis. _Catesb. Car. 11. t. 98._ + +CISTUS chamærhododendros Mariana laurifolia, floribus expansis, summo + ramulo in umbellam plurimis. _Pluk. mant. 49. t. 379. s. 6._ The + common Laurel, vulgarly called Ivy. + +[Illustration: No 175] + +Professor KALM (in honour of whom LINNÆUS, as before +has been observed, named this genus of plants) in his travels into +North-America, published in English by Mr. FORSTER, relates +that he found this species in various provinces of that extensive +continent, as Pensylvania, New-Jersey, and New-York, growing most +commonly on the sides of hills, sometimes in woods; that it flourished +most on the northern sides of the hills, especially where they were +intersected by rivulets; he observes, that when all the other trees had +lost their ornaments, this enlivened the woods by the verdure of its +foliage, and that about the month of May, it was covered with a +profusion of blossoms of unrivalled beauty. + + + + +[176] + +CYTISUS LABURNUM. COMMON LABURNUM. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 2-labiatus: 2/3. _Legumen_ basi attenuatum. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +CYTISUS _Laburnum_ racemis simplicibus pendulis, foliolis + ovato-oblongis. _Linn. Syst. Veg. p. 666. ed. 14. Murr._ _Ait. + Hort. Kew. V. 3. p. 49._ + +LABURNUM arbor trifolia anagyridi similis. _Bauh. hist. 2. p. 361._ + +LABURNUM. Beane Trefoile. _Park. Parad. p. 438._ + +[Illustration: No 176] + +Of the Laburnum, our nurseries afford two principal varieties, the broad +and narrow-leav'd; the latter (which is the one here figured) Mr. MILLER +was induced to make a species of under the name of _alpinum_; it +certainly differs very materially from the broad-leav'd one, yet is most +probably only a seminal variety; the Laburnum figured in its wild state +by Professor JACQUIN, in his _Flora Austriaca_, has much broader leaves +than ours, no mention is made by him of its being subject to vary. + +Both MILLER and HANBURY recommend the Laburnum to be cultivated not only +as an ornamental but as a timber tree, the wood having a very close +grain, a good colour, and bearing a high polish;[6] they urge in its +favour, that it is very hardy, a quick grower, and one that will thrive +in almost any soil; the latter says, it will become a timber tree of +more than a yard in girt: whatever success may attend its cultivation +for the more useful purposes, as a hardy, deciduous, ornamental tree, it +has long been the pride of our shrubberies and plantations. + +It blossoms in May, and is usually very productive of seeds, by which it +may be propagated most readily. + +Hares and rabbits being fond of its bark, do great damage to plantations +of Laburnum, especially in severe weather; I remember somewhere to have +read, that these animals will not touch a tree if soot has been placed +about it; perhaps, a circle drawn round the base of the tree with the +new coal tar, which has a powerful smell of long duration, might keep +off these noxious animals. + +The Professor does not mention the precise height which he had observed +these trees to attain in North-America, but it is evident that they +acquire a considerable thickness, as the wood of the root as well as the +body of the tree is manufactured into various utensils by the natives, +and by the Indians into spoons in particular, whence it has obtained the +name of the _Spoon Tree_. + +The leaves have been found to prove poisonous to kine, horses, and +sheep, but the deer are observed to brouse on them with impunity. + +PETER COLLINSON, Esq. who was highly instrumental in enriching +this country with the native plants of North-America, is said to have +introduced this elegant species about the year 1734. + +With us it succeeds best when planted with a northern aspect, well +sheltered, in a soil composed of loam and bog earth, in a situation +moderately moist, where the air is perfectly pure. + +Being with difficulty propagated by suckers or layers, it is most +commonly raised from American seeds. + + + + +[177] + +KALMIA GLAUCA. GLAUCOUS KALMIA. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +KALMIA _glauca_ foliis oppositis oblongis lævigatis, subtus glaucis, + margine revolutis, corymbis terminalibus, ramulis ancipitibus. + _Ait. Hort. Kew. V. 2. p. 64. tab. 8._ + +[Illustration: No 177] + +This species (much inferior in size to the _latifolia_, as it rarely +exceeds two feet in height) is a native of Newfoundland, where it was +discovered by Sir JOSEPH BANKS, Bart. and by him introduced to +this country in the year 1767. + +It is of course not described by Mr. MILLER, nor is it mentioned the in +the 14th edition of LINNÆUS'S _Syst. Vegetab._ by Professor MURRAY; in +the _Hort. Kew._ of Mr. AITON, it is both described and figured. + +It flowers in April and May, is propagated in the same manner and +requires the same treatment as the _latifolia_. + + + + +[178] + +HYPERICUM CORIS. HEATH-LEAV'D. ST. JOHN'S-WORT. + +_Class and Order._ + + +POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 5-phyllus. _Petala_ 5. _Nect._ 0. _Capsula._ + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +HYPERICUM _Coris_ floribus trigynis, calycibus serrato-glandulosis, + foliis subverticillatis. _Linn. Syst. Veget. ed. 14. Murr. p. 702._ + +CORIS lutea. _Bauh. pin. 280._ + +CORIS legitima, Ericæ similis. _Hon. Belli, ep. 1. ad Cluj. Clus. op. V. + 1. p. 299._ + +CORIS. _Matthioli 939._ + +[Illustration: No 178] + +There is an elegance and neatness in most of this tribe, and none +possess those qualities in a greater degree than the present species, +which is a charming little evergreen, admirably adapted for the +greenhouse, as it forms a pretty bulb, and flowers during most of the +summer. + +It grows spontaneously in the South of Europe, and many parts of the +Levant; HONORIUS BELLUS, in his epistle CLUSIUS (_vid. Clus. op_.) +describes it as growing on the hilly parts of the island of Crete. + +Mr. LEE, of Hammersmith, received it about four years since +from the Crimea. + +It is propagated by cuttings. + + + + +[179] + +FUMARIA GLAUCA. GLAUCOUS FUMITORY. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA HEXANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ diphyllus. _Cor._ ringens. _Filamenta_ 2, membranacea, singula + _Antheris_ 3. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +FUMARIA _sempervirens_ siliquis linearibus paniculatis, caule erecto. + _Linn. Sp. Pl. V. 2. p. 984. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 837._ + _Ait. Hort. Kew. V. 3. p. 2._ Bastard Fumitory. _Mill. Dict. ed. 6. + 4to._ + +FUMARIA siliquosa sempervirens. _Corn. Canad. 57. t. 57._ + +[Illustration: No 179] + +The term _sempervirens_ applied to this plant by LINNÆUS, +originated in the description given of it by CORNUTUS; (_vid. +Syn_.) the impropriety of calling an annual plant (for such it +undoubtedly is with us, and must be in Canada, its native place of +growth) an _evergreen_, has appeared to us too glaring to be continued; +we have thought the promotion of the science required a change in the +name, and have therefore altered it to that of _glauca_, as coinciding +with the English name of _glaucous_, given it by Mr. AITON in +his _Hortus Kewensis_; for to the delicate, pleasing, glaucous hue of +its foliage, it owes its beauty, as much as to the lively colours of its +blossoms. + +It is a hardy annual, coming up spontaneously in the open border where +it has once flowered and seeded, and sometimes reaching the height of +two feet. + +It flowers from June to September. + +Mr. AITON informs us of its having been cultivated by Mr. +JAMES SUTHERLAND in the year 1683. Strange! that it should yet +be a rarity in our gardens. + + + + +[180] + +AZALEA NUDIFLORA _var._ COCCINEA. SCARLET AZALEA. + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cor._ campanulata. _Stamina_ receptaculo inferta. _Caps._ 1-locularis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + +AZALEA _nudiflora_ foliis ovatis, corollis pilosis, staminibus + longissimis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 198._ _Ait. + Hort. Kew. V. 1. p. 202._ + +CISTUS virginiana, periclymeni flore ampliori minus odorato. _Pluck. + Mant. 49._ + +[Illustration: No 180] + +Whether the variety of the Azalea nudiflora here figured, was originally +introduced to this country by Mrs. NORMAN of Bromley in Kent, +or Mr. BEWICK of Clapham in Surrey (both celebrated for their +collections of American plants) we cannot with certainty assert; true it +is, the Azalea coccinea was little known here till the sale of Mr. +BEWICK'S plant in 1722; a considerable number of these shrubs +formed the choicest part of that collection, and sold at high prices, +one of them produced twenty guineas: prior to this period, Mr. +BEWICK had presented one of the same sort of shrubs to Mr. +THOBURN, the fruits of whose skill and assiduous care in the +cultivation of American plants are apparent in his late nursery at +Brompton, now Mr. WHITLEY'S, and from the produce of which +plant our figure was taken. + +The original species, found abundantly in the more southern parts of +North-America, was introduced, according to Mr. AITON'S +account, by PETER COLLINSON, Esq. about the year 1724. + +The brilliancy of colour and a happy combination of form, unite in +rendering the variety here figured, one of the most beautiful plants in +nature: yet it wants the fragrance of some of the varieties of the +_viscosa_. + +It flowers in June and continues in blossom about three weeks, requires +a sheltered but not too shady a situation, more dry than moist, and a +soil composed of loam and bog earth, or rotten leaves. + +The usual mode of propagating it is by layers; care must be taken not to +remove the offspring too soon from the mother plant. + + + + + INDEX. + + In which the Latin Names of + the Plants contained in the + _Fourth Volume_ are alphabetically + arranged. + + _Pl._ + + 173 Aitonia capensis. + 159 Alyssum saxatile. + 161 Amygdalus nana. + 180 Azalea nudiflora _var._ coccinea. + 174 Buddlea globosa. + 153 Bulbocodium vernum. + 166 Cheiranthus maritimus. + 156 Coreopsis verticillata. + 176 Cytisus Laburnum. + 147 Dais continifolia. + 170 Draba aizoides. + 152 Epidendrum cochleatum. + 179 Fumaria glauca. + 158 Hibiscus Rosa Sinensis. + 157 Hyacinthus botryoides. + 146 Hypericum calycinum. + 178 Hypericum Coris. + 168 Iris pavonia. + 171 Ixia chinensis. + 169 Ixora coccinea. + 175 Kalmia latifolia. + 177 Kalmia glauca. + 172 Lamium Orvala. + 151 Lotus tetragonolobus. + 145 Monarda fistulosa _var._ + 155 Oxalis versicolor. + 165 Pelargonium cordifolium. + 148 Pelargonium betulinum. + 163 Phlox divaricata. + 160 Pumonaria virginica. + 164 Ranunculus gramineus. + 162 Sanguinaria canadensis. + 167 Sophora tetraptera. + 154 Saponaria Ocymoides. + 150 Tagetes patula. + 149 Zinnia multiflora. + + + + + INDEX. + + In which the English Names + of the Plants contained in + the _Fourth Volume_ are alphabetically + arranged. + + _Pl._ + + 173 Aitonia cape. + 161 Almond dwarf. + 159 Alyssum yellow. + 172 Archangel balm-leav'd. + 180 Azalea scarlet. + 174 Buddlea round-headed. + 153 Bulbocodium vernal. + 148 Crane's-bill birch-leav'd. + 165 Crane's-bill heart-leav'd. + 164 Crowsfoot grass-leav'd. + 156 Coreopsis whorled. + 147 Dais continus-leav'd. + 170 Draba fengreen. + 152 Epidendrum two-leav'd. + 179 Fumitory glaucous. + 158 Hisicus china-rose. + 157 Hyacinth grape. + 168 Iris peacock. + 171 Ixia Chinese. + 169 Ixora scarlet. + 175 Kalmia broad-leav'd. + 177 Kalmia glaucous. + 176 Laburnum common. + 151 Lotus winged. + 160 Lungwort Virginian. + 163 Lychnidea early-flowering. + 150 Marigold French. + 145 Monarda crimson. + 162 Puccoon Canada. + 146 St. John's-wort large-flower'd. + 178 St. John's-wort heath-leav'd. + 154 Soap-wort basil. + 167 Sophora winged-podded. + 166 Stock Mediterranean. + 155 Wood-sorrel striped-flower'd. + 149 Zinnia many-flower'd. + + + * * * * * + + +FOOTNOTES + +[1] Pulcherrimos et latissimos in rupibus cespites efficit. _Haller._ + +[2] Delectatur solo duro, arenoso, umbroso sylvarum. _Jacquin._ + +[3] _Ait. Hort. Kew._ + +[4] Provenit sponte in America occidentali five in Virginia seu Canada, +unde semen ad nos delata, quibus propagata ejus fobeles abundanter satis +in hortulo suburbano Gul. Walker non longe a palatio Divi Jacobi, sito +in vico ejusdem nominis Jacobeo dicto. + +[5] Mr. A. was a pupil of the celebrated Mr. MILLER. + +[6] MATTHIOLUS long since noticed the excellence of this wood, +and speaks of it as being particularly used for making the best kind of +bows; are our modern Toxopholites acquainted with this circumstance? + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Botanical Magazine, Vol. V, by William Curtis + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, VOL. 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