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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/24670-8.txt b/24670-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..61f5c08 --- /dev/null +++ b/24670-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2688 @@ +Project Gutenberg's The Botanical Magazine Vol. 8, 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. 8 + Or, Flower-Garden Displayed + +Author: William Curtis + +Release Date: February 22, 2008 [EBook #24670] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE VOL. 8 *** + + + + +Produced by Jason Isbell, Janet Blenkinship and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file made using scans of public domain works at the +University of Georgia.) + + + + + + + + + THE + + BOTANICAL MAGAZINE; + + OR, + + Flower-Garden Displayed: + + IN WHICH + + The most Ornamental FOREIGN PLANTS, cultivated in the + Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately + represented in their natural Colours. + + TO WHICH ARE ADDED, + + Their Names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according + to the celebrated 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. VIII. + + "Much I love + To see the fair one bind the straggling pink, + Cheer the sweet rose, the lupin, and the stock, + And lend a staff to the still gadding pea. + Ye fair, it well becomes you. Better thus + Cheat time away, than at the crowded rout, + Rustling in silk, in a small room, close-pent, + And heated e'en to fusion; made to breathe + A rank contagious air, and fret at whist, + Or sit aside to sneer and whisper scandal." + + VILLAGE CURATE, p. 74. + +_LONDON:_ + +PRINTED BY STEPHEN COUCHMAN, 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 XCIV. */ + + + + +[253] + +LATHYRUS ARTICULATUS. JOINTED-PODDED LATHYRUS. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Stylus_ planus, supra villosus, superne latior. _Cal._ laciniæ + superiores 2-breviores. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + LATHYRUS _articulatus_ pedunculis subunifloris, cirrhis + polyphyllis; foliolis alternis. _Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14._ _Murr. + p. 662._ _Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 41._ + + CLYMENUM hispanicum, flore vario, siliqua articulata. _Tourn. Inst. + 396._ + + LATHYRUS hispanicus, pedunculis bifloris, cirrhis polyphyllis + foliolis alternis. _Mill. Dict. ed. 6. 4to._ + +The seed-vessels are of the first importance in ascertaining the several +species of Lathyrus, some being naked, others hairy, some long, others +short, some having a smooth and perfectly even surface, others, as in +the present instance, assuming an uneven or jointed appearance. + +Of this genus we have already figured three annual species, common in +flower-gardens, viz. _odoratus_, _tingitanus_, and _sativus_; to these +we now add the _articulatus_, not altogether so frequently met with, but +meriting a place on the flower-border, as the lively red and delicate +white so conspicuous in its blossoms, causes it to be much admired. + +It is a native of Italy, and was cultivated at the Chelsea Garden, in +the time of Mr. RAND, anno 1739. + +It is a hardy annual, requiring support, and rarely exceeding the height +of two feet, flowering in July and August, and is readily raised from +seeds, which should be sown in the open border at the beginning of +April. + +[Illustration: No 253] + +[Illustration: No 254] + + + + +[254] + +LOPEZIA RACEMOSA. MEXICAN LOPEZIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 4-phyllus. _Cor._ irregularis, pentapetala, duo superiora + geniculata, quintum inferne declinatum, plicatum, ungue arcuata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + LOPEZIA _racemosa_ caule herbaceo ramoso; foliis alternis + ovato-lanceolatis, serratis; floribus racemosis. _Cavanilles Ic. et + descr. Pl._ + +Some plants have a claim on our attention for their utility, some for +their beauty, and some for the singularity of their structure, and the +wonderful nature of their oeconomy; in the last class we must place +the present plant, the flowers of which we recommend to the examination +of such of our readers as may have an opportunity of seeing them; to the +philosophic mind, not captivated with mere shew, they will afford a most +delicious treat. + +We first saw this novelty in flower, towards the close of the year 1792, +at the Apothecaries Garden, Chelsea, where Mr. FAIRBAIRN informed me, +that he had that season raised several plants of it from seeds, +communicated by Dr. J. E. SMITH, who received them from Madrid, to which +place they were sent from South-America, and where the plant as Mons. +CAVANILLE informs us, grows spontaneously near Mexico. In October 1793, +we had the pleasure of seeing the plant again in blossom in the +aforesaid garden, raised from seeds which ripened there the preceding +year, but unfortunately from the lateness of their flowering, and the +very great injury the plants had sustained from the Cobweb Mite (_Acarus +teliarius_) vulgarly called the red Spider, there seemed little prospect +that the seed-vessels would arrive at perfection. + +The seeds were sown by Mr. FAIRBAIRN, in March, and the plants kept in +the green-house till very late in the summer, when to accelerate their +blowing, they were removed into the dry stove: it is worthy of remark, +that these plants, even late in the autumn, shew no signs of blossoming, +but the flowers at length come forth with almost unexampled rapidity, +and the seed-vessels are formed as quickly, so that if the flowers were +not very numerous, their blossoming period would be of very short +duration; future experience may perhaps point out the means of making +the plant blow earlier: in Spain, the blossoms appeared later than here, +Mons. CAVANILLE observed them in the Royal Garden, in November and +December, most probably in the open ground, as no mention is made of the +plants having been preserved from the weather. + +It was not till long after our description was taken, that we had an +opportunity of seeing Mons. CAVANILLE'S most accurate and elegant work, +above quoted, in which this plant is first figured and described; we +have selected the most essential parts of his generic character, and +adopted his specific description: there is one point, however, in which +we differ from him; the part which he regards as the fifth Petal, we are +inclined to consider rather as that indescribable something, called by +LINNÆUS the Nectary, it is indeed of little moment whether we call it a +Petal or a Nectary, but there are several reasons why, strictly +speaking, we cannot regard it as a Petal: in general the number of +Petals correspond with the number of the leaves of the Calyx, those of +the latter are four; the base of this Nectary originates deeper than the +claws of the Petals, springing in fact from the same part as the +Filament, its structure, especially the lower part of it, is evidently +different from that of the Petals, corresponding indeed as nearly as +possible with that of the base of the filament.--_Vid._ DESCER. + +Mons. CAVANILLE was induced to call this plant _Lopezia_, in compliment +to TH. LOPEZ, a Spaniard[1]. + +[Footnote 1: In honorem Licent. THOMÆ LOPEZ, Burgensis, qui aliquot +annos Regii Senatoris munere functus in America, CAROLO V. imperante. In +patriam reversus breviarium historiæ naturalis novi orbis scripsit sub +titulo de tribus elementis aëre, aqua, et terra, MS. apud eundem +Muguozium.] + + + + +DESCRIPTION OF THE LOPEZIA. + +ROOT annual. + + STALK five or six feet high, branched almost to the bottom, square, + of a deep red colour, smooth towards the bottom, slightly hairy + above: _Branches_ like the stalk. + + LEAVES alternate, ovate, pointed, toothed on the edges, more so on + the larger leaves, slightly beset with soft hairs, veins prominent + on the under side, usually running parallel to each other and + unbranched: _Leafstalks_ hairy. + + FLOWERS numerous, from the alæ of the leaves, growing irregularly + on hairy leafy racemi, standing on long slender peduncles, which + hang down as the seed-vessels are produced: in this and some others + of its characters, the plant shews some affinity to the _Circæa_. + + CALYX: a _Perianthium_ of four leaves, sitting on the Germen, + leaves narrow, concave, reddish, with green tips, the lowermost one + widely separated from the others, and placed immediately under the + Nectary, _fig._ 1. + + COROLLA four _Petals_ of a pale red colour, forming in their mode + of growth the upper half of a circle, the two uppermost linear, of + a deeper colour near the apex, jointed below the middle, with a + small green gland on each joint, standing on short round + footstalks, which are hairy when magnified, the two side Petals + nearly orbicular with long narrow claws, the part between the base + of the Petal and the claw of a deeper red or crimson, _fig._ 2. + + NECTARY situated below the Petals, perfectly white, somewhat ovate, + the sides folding together, before the flower fully expands, nearly + upright, embracing and containing within it the Pistillum and + Stamen, on touching it ever so slightly with the point of a pin, + while in this state, it suddenly springs back and quits the + Pistillum, the lower elastic part of it is then bent in the form + represented in a magnified view of the flower on the plate, _fig._ + 4. this curious phoenomenon has not been noticed by CAVANILLE. + + STAMEN: _Filament_ one, tapering and very slender just below the + Anthera, arising from the same part as (and placed opposite to the + base of) the Nectary the lower part of it broader, somewhat fleshy, + cartilaginous, and of the same nature as the inferior part of the + Nectary, with a groove as that has on the inside, so that before + the flower expands, the bases of each are like two half tubes, the + sides of which, nearly touching each other, wholly enclose the + Pistillum; as the fructification goes forward, the Filament, + endowed also with an elastic power, bends back soon after the + flower is open, betwixt the two uppermost Petals, and becomes + invisible to an inattentive observer; the Anthera, which is large, + is at first yellow, and afterwards dark brown, _fig._ 5. + + PISTILLUM: _Germen_ below the Calyx, round, smooth, and green; + _Style_ filiform, white, length of the Filament; Stigma forming a + small villous head, _fig._ 6. in some of the flowers the Pistillum + appears imperfect, being much shorter than usual, and wanting the + Stigma, perhaps such have not acquired their full growth, _fig._ 6. + + PERICARPIUM (from CAVANILLE) a round _Capsule_, of four cells, and + four valves, the cells many-seeded. + +SEEDS very minute, ovate, affixed to a four-cornered receptacle. + +[Illustration: No 256] + + + + +[255] + +CYTISUS SESSILIFOLIUS. SESSILE-LEAV'D, OR COMMON CYTISUS. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 2-labiatus: 2/3 _Legumen_ basi attenuatum. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + CYTISUS _sessilifolius_ racemis erectis, calycibus bractæa + triplici, foliis floralibus sessilibus. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. + 14._ _Murr. p. 666._ _Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 50._ + + CYTISUS glabris foliis subrotundis, pediculis brevissimis. _Bauh. + Pin. p. 390._ + + CYTISUS vulgatior, the common Tree Trefoile. _Park. Parad. p. 440._ + +The term _sessilifolius_ has been given to this species of Cytisus, +because the leaves are for the most part sessile, that is sit close to +the branches, without any or very short footstalks; such they are at +least on the flowering branches when the shrub is in blossom, but at the +close of the summer they are no longer so, the leaves acquiring very +evident footstalks. + +It is a native of the more southern parts of Europe, and though in point +of size and elegance it cannot vie with its kindred Laburnum, it is a +deciduous shrub of considerable beauty, rarely exceeding the height of +five or six feet, and producing a great profusion of bright yellow +flowers, which continue in blossom a long while; they make their +appearance in May and June, and are usually succeeded by seed-vessels +which produce ripe seeds, by these the plant is readily propagated. + +It is one of the most common shrubs we have, as well as one of the +oldest inhabitants of our shrubberies, being mentioned by PARKINSON in +his _Parad. Terrestris_. + + + + +[256] + +IXIA LONGIFLORA. LONG-FLOWER'D IXIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ 6-partita, campanulata, regularis. _Stigmata_ 3. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + IXIA _longiflora_ foliis ensiformibus linearibus strictis, tubo + filiformi longissimo. _Ait. Kew. v. 4. p. 58._ + + GLADIOLUS _longiflorus_ caule tereti, tubo longissimo, spathis + foliisque linearibus glabris. _Linn. Suppl. p. 96._ _Gmel. Syst. + Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 86._ + +We are not acquainted with a tribe of plants which stand more in need of +elucidation than those of this genus; of the vast numbers imported from +the Cape within these few years, where they are chiefly natives, and +that for the most part by way of Holland, few comparatively are well +ascertained; some of them appear subject to great variation, both in the +size and colour of their blossoms (whether in their wild state they are +thus inconstant, or whether there are seminal varieties raised by the +persevering industry of the Dutch Florists, we have not yet had it in +our power satisfactorily to ascertain); others like the present one have +their characters strongly marked, and less variable; in general they are +plants of easy culture, requiring chiefly to be protected from the +effects of frost, the least degree of which is presently fatal to most +of them. + +The treatment recommended for the _Ixia flexuosa_ is applicable to this +and the other Cape species. + +According to the _Hort. Kew._ this species was introduced by Mr. MASSON +in the year 1774. + +It flowers from April to June. + +[Illustration: No 256] + +[Illustration: No 257] + + + + +[257] + +LYCHNIS CHALCEDONICA. SCARLET LYCHNIS. + +_Class and Order._ + +DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 1-phyllus, oblongus, lævis. _Petala_ 5-unguiculata. _Limbo_ + sub-bifido. _Caps._ 5-locularis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + LYCHNIS _chalcedonica_ floribus fasciculatis fastigiatis. _Linn. + Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 435._ _Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 16._ + + LYCHNIS hirsuta flore coccineo major. _Bauh. Pin. 203._ + + FLOS Constantinopolitanus. _Dod. Pempt. 178._ + + LYCHNIS _chalcedonica_ flore simplici miniato. Single Nonsuch, or + Flower of Bristow or Constantinople. _Parkins. Parad. 253._ + +The Scarlet Lychnis appears to have been a great favourite with +PARKINSON, he calls it a glorious flower, and in a wooden print of him +prefixed to his _Paradisus Terrestris_, we see him represented with a +flower of this sort in his hand of the double kind. + +It grows spontaneously in most parts of Russia, and is one of our most +hardy perennials. + +The extreme brilliancy of its flowers renders it a plant, in its single +state highly ornamental; when double, its beauty is heightened, and the +duration of it increased. + +It flowers in June and July. + +The single sort may be increased by parting its roots in autumn, but +more abundantly by seeds, which should be sown in the spring; the double +sort may also be increased by dividing its roots, but more plentifully +by cuttings of the stalk, put in in June, before the flowers make their +appearance; in striking of these, however, there requires some nicety. + +This plant is found to succeed best in a rich, loamy, soil; and certain +districts have been found to be more favourable to its growth than +others. + +A white and a pale red variety of it in its single state were known to +CLUSIUS, and similar varieties of the double kind are said to exist; it +is of little moment whether they do or not, every variation in this +plant from a bright scarlet is in every sense of the word a degeneracy. + +[Illustration: No 258] + + + + +[258] + +CORONILLA VARIA. PURPLE CORONILLA. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 2-labiatus: 2/3: dentibus superioribus connatis. _Vexillum_ + vix alis longius. _Legumen_ isthmis interceptum. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + CORONILLA _varia_ herbacea, leguminibus erectis teretibus torosis + numerosis, foliolis plurimis glabris. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. + 14._ _Murr. p. 670._ _Ait. Kew. v. 3. p. 59._ + + SECURIDACA dumetorum major, flore vario, siliquis articulatis. + _Bauh. Pin. p. 349._ + + SECURIDACA II. altera species. _Clus. Hist. 2. ccxxxvij._ The + greater joynted Hatchet Vetch. _Park. Theat. p. 1088._ + +CLUSIUS, in his work above referred to, informs us that he found this +plant growing wild in various parts of Germany, in meadows, fields, and +by road sides; that it flowered in June, sometimes the whole summer +through, and ripened its seeds in July and August; the blossoms he found +subject to much variation of colour, being either deep purple, whitish, +or even wholly white: CASP. BAUHINE notices another variety, in which +the alæ are white and the rostrum purple; this variety, which we have +had the honour to receive from the Earl of EGREMONT is the most +desirable one to cultivate in gardens, as it is more ornamental than the +one wholly purple, most commonly met with in the nurseries, and +corresponds also better with its name of _varia_; it is to be noted +however that this variety of colour exists only in the young blossoms. + +The Coronilla varia is a hardy, perennial, herbaceous plant, climbing, +if supported, to the height of four or five feet, otherwise spreading +widely on the ground, and frequently injuring less robust plants growing +near it; on this account, as well as from its having powerfully creeping +roots whereby it greatly increases, though a pretty plant, and flowering +during most of the summer, it is not to be introduced without caution, +and is rather to be placed in the shrubbery, or outskirts of the garden, +than in the flower border. + +It will grow in any soil or situation, but blossoms and seeds most +freely in a soil moderately dry. + +PARKINSON in his _Theater of Plants_, mentions its being cultivated, as +an ornamental plant. _Ait. Kew._ + +Its bitterness, will be an objection to its being cultivated for the use +of cattle, for which purpose it has been recommended. + + + + +[259] + +LILIUM CATESBÆI. CATESBY'S LILY. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ 6-petala campanulata: linea longitudinali nectarifera. + _Caps._ valvulis pilo cancellato connexis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + LILIUM _Catesbæi_ caule unifloro, petalis erectis unguiculatis. + _Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 13._ _Gmel. p. 545._ + + LILIUM _Catesbæi_ foliis sparsis, bipedali, flore unico erecto, + corolla campanulata, petalis unguibus angustis longis. _Walt. Fl. + Carol. p. 123._ + + LILIUM _Spectabile_ foliis sparsis; floribus solitariis erectis; + petalorum unguibus angustis, alternis extus utrinque sulcatis, + laminis revolutis. _Salisb. Ic. Stirp. rar. t. 5._ + +At the close of the year 1787, Mr. ROBERT SQUIBB, sent me from +South-Carolina roots of the Lily here figured, many of which have since +flowered with various persons in this kingdom. + +CATESBY in his Natural History of Carolina, gives a figure and short +account of it; WALTER in his _Flora Caroliniana_ describes it under the +name of _Lilium Catesbæi_; Mr. SALISBURY in the first number of his very +magnificent work, lately published, presents us with a very highly +finished likeness of this lily, accompanied by a most accurate and +minute description of it, and judging from some appearances in CATESBY'S +figure, that it was not the _Lilium Catesbæi_ of WALTER, names it +_spectabile_; but as we are assured by Mr. SQUIBB, who assisted his +friend WALTER in his publication, that it was the lily figured by +CATESBY, we have continued the name given in honour of that Naturalist. + +Of the different Lilies cultivated in this country, this is to be +numbered among the least, the whole plant when in bloom being frequently +little more than a foot high; in its native soil it is described as +growing to the height of two feet; the stalk is terminated by one +upright flower, of the form and colour represented on the plate; we have +observed it to vary considerably in the breadth of its petals, in their +colour, and spots. + +It flowers usually in July and August. + +This plant may be raised from seeds, or increased by offsets, which, +however, are not very plentifully produced, nor is the plant to be made +grow in perfection without great care, the roots in particular are to be +guarded against frost; the soil and situation may be the same as +recommended for the _Cyclamen Coum. p. 4. v. 1_. + +[Illustration: No 259] + + + + +[260] + +METROSIDEROS CITRINA. HARSH-LEAV'D METROSIDEROS. + +_Class and Order._ + +ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 5-dentatus, sinu germen fovens. _Petala_ 5, caduca. _Stam._ + discreta, petalis multoties longiora. _Caps._ 3-4 locularis, + polysperma. _Banks. Gærtner._ + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + METROSIDEROS _citrina_ foliis lineari-lanceolatis rigentibus. + +Though many species of this genus have been raised from seeds, brought +within these few years from the South Seas, where they are said to be +very numerous; this is, we believe, the only one that as yet has +flowered in this country: our drawing was made from a plant which +blossomed toward the close of last summer at Lord CREMORNES, the root of +which had been sent from Botany-Bay; previous to this period we have +been informed, that the same species flowered both at Kew and +Sion-House: as it is without difficulty raised both from seeds and +cuttings, young plants of it are to be seen in most of the Nurseries +near town; it would seem that they do not flower till they are at least +five or six years old. + +_Metrosideros_ is a name given originally by RUMPHIUS in _Herb. Amboin_ +to some plants of this genus, the term applies to the hardness of their +wood, which by the Dutch is called Yzerhout (Ironwood): FORSTER in his +_Gen. Pl._ figures this and another genus on the same plate, under the +name of _Leptospermum_; SCHREBER in his edition of the _Gen. Pl._ of +LINNÆUS, unites _Metrosideros_, _Melaleuca_, _Leptospermum_, and +_Fabricia_, under the genus _Melaleuca_; GÆRTNER in his elaborate work +on the seeds of plants, makes separate genera of these, agreeably to the +ideas of Sir JOSEPH BANKS and Mr. DRYANDER, who on this subject can +certainly boast the best information. + +We cannot, without transgressing the allotted limits of our +letter-press, give a minute description of the plant figured; suffice it +to say, that it is an ever-green shrub, growing to the height of from +four to six or more feet, that its leaves on the old wood feel very +harsh or rigid to the touch, and when bruised give forth an agreeable +fragrance, the flowers grow in spikes on the tops of the branches, and +owe their beauty wholly to the brilliant colour of the filaments. + +[Illustration: No 260] + +[Illustration: No 261] + + + + +[261] + +ERODIUM INCARNATUM. FLESH-COLOURED CRANE'S-BILL. + +_Class and Order._ + +MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 5-phyllus. _Cor._ 5-petala. _Nect. Squamulæ_ 5 cum + filamentis alternantes; et glandulæ melliferæ, basi staminum + insidentes. _Fructus_ 5-coccus, rostratus; rostra spiralia, + introrsum barbata. _L'Herit. Geran._ + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + ERODIUM _incarnatum_ pedunculis paucifloris, foliis tripartitis + ternatisve trifidis scabris, caule fruticuloso. _L'Herit. n. 21. + tab. 5._ _Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 415._ + + GERANIUM incarnatum pedunculis bifloris, foliis tripartitis + trifidis glabris, petalis integris, arillis glabris. _Linn. Suppl. + Pl._ + + GERANIUM _incarnatum_ foliis incisis quinquelobis punctatis; + petiolis longissimis, pedunculis trifloris. _Cavanill. diff. 4. p. + 223. n. 314. t. 97. f. 3._ + +In the 80th number of this work we gave a figure of the _Pelargonium +tricolor_, a plant very generally regarded as the most beautiful of the +genus; we now present our readers with the representation of an +_Erodium_, which has to boast nearly an equal share of admiration. + +This species, as we learn from the _Hortus Kewensis_, is a native of the +Cape, and was introduced by Mr. MASSON in the year 1787. + +Its usual time of flowering is July and August; in this point it is +inferior to the _Pelargonium tricolor_, which blossoms through the +spring as well as summer months. + +It produces seeds but sparingly; cuttings of the plant are struck with +less difficulty than those of the _Pelargonium_ above mentioned, the +same treatment is applicable to both plants, they must be regarded as +green-house plants of the more tender kind, which are liable to be +destroyed in the winter season by a moist cold atmosphere. + + + + +[262] + +MESEMBRYANTHEMUM AUREUM. GOLDEN FIG-MARIGOLD. + +_Class and Order._ + +ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 5-fidus. _Petala_ numerosa linearia. _Caps._ carnosa infera + polysperma. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + MESEMBRYANTHEMUM _aureum_ foliis cylindrico-triquetris punctatis + distinctis, pistillis atro purpurascentibus. _Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. + 10. p. 1060._ _Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 190._ + +This Mesembryanthemum is one of the taller and more upright species, as +well as the earliest in point of flowering, producing its blossoms from +February to May; these are large and of a bright orange hue, the +pistilla in the centre are purple, and serve at once to distinguish and +embellish them. + +It was first described in the _10th ed._ of _Linn. Syst. Nat._ and +afterwards inserted in the _Hort. Kew._ of Mr. AITON, who informs us +that it is a native of the Cape, and was cultivated by Mr. MILLER, in +the year 1750. Prof. MURRAY omits it in his _12th ed._ of the _Syst. +Vegetab._ of LINNÆUS, as does Prof. GMELIN in the last edition of _Linn. +Syst. Nat._ + +The facility with which this tribe in general is increased by cuttings +is well known; this is raised as readily as the others. + +[Illustration: No 262] + +[Illustration: No 263] + + + + +[263] + +GLYCINE BIMACULATA. PURPLE GLYCINE. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 2-labiatus. _Corollæ_ carina apice vexillum reflectens. + +_Specific Character._ + + GLYCINE _bimaculata_ caule volubili lævi, foliis simplicibus + cordato-oblongis, racemis multifloris. + +Of the many plants which within these few years have been raised from +Botany-Bay seeds, this is one of the first which flowered in this +country, and one of the most ornamental; to the greenhouse it is indeed +an invaluable acquisition: we regret that the size of our paper and the +imperfection of the colouring art, will not admit of our giving a +representation of it more adequate to its beauty. + +It rises up with a twining shrubby stalk to the height of six, eight, or +more feet; these multiplying greatly by age, become loaded with a +profusion of purple flowers, growing in racemi, the richness of which is +enlivened by the appearance of two green spots at the base of the +vexillum; for the most part the blossoms go off with us without +producing any seed-vessels; in some instances, however, perfect seeds +have been produced, and we have seen a plant in bloom raised from such +in the charming retreat of JOHN ORD, Esq. Walham-Green. + +A great excellence of this plant is the duration of its flowering +period, it begins to put forth its blossoms in February, and continues +to do so during most of the summer. + +In the Nurseries about town, it is known by the name of _Glycine +virens_, a name given the plant originally by Dr. SOLANDER; the latter +of these terms we have taken the liberty of changing to _bimaculata_, as +being more expressive of an obvious character in the flower: we might, +perhaps, been justified in altering the genus, as its characters do not +appear to be peculiarly expressive of a Glycine, nor indeed of any other +genus in this numerous natural order. + +It is raised readily from seeds. + +We think it highly probable, that in warm sheltered situations, this +climber might grow in the open ground; to such as have it in abundance, +we recommend them to make the experiment. + + + + +[264] + +CISTUS FORMOSUS. BEAUTIFUL CISTUS. + +_Class and Order._ + +POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ 5-petala. _Cal._ 5-phyllus, foliolis duobus minoribus. + _Capsula._ + +Mr. LEE, Nurseryman of Hammersmith, informs me, that in the year 1780, +he raised the Cistus here figured from seeds, the produce of Portugal, +and as its flowers were uncommonly beautiful, he was induced to name it +_formosus_. + +It approaches so near to the _Cistus halimifolius_ in point of habit, in +the form and colour of its leaves and flowers, that we are inclined +rather to regard it as a variety of that plant, than as a distinct +species; at the same time it must be allowed to be a very striking +variety, the flowers being at least thrice as large as those of the +_halimifolius_ usually are, and the whole plant more hairy: as an +ornamental shrub, it is highly deserving a place in all curious +collections. + +It will grow very well in the open border in warm sheltered situations, +it may be kept also in a pot, by which means it may more readily be +sheltered during the winter, either in the greenhouse or under a frame. + +It flowers early in May, and may be increased by cuttings. + +[Illustration: No 264] + +[Illustration: No 265] + + + + +[265] + +IXIA BULBOCODIUM. CROCUS-LEAV'D IXIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ 1-petala, tubulosa; tubo recto, filiformi; limbo 6-partito, + campanulato, æquali. _Stigmata_ tria, simplicia. _Thunb. Diss. + de Ixia._ + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + IXIA _Bulbocodium_ scapo unifloro brevissimo, foliis angulatis + caulinis, stigmatibus sextuplicibus. _Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 13. p. + 76._ + + IXIA _Bulbocodium_ scapo ramoso, floribus solitariis, foliis + sulcatis reflexis. _Thunb. Diss. n. 3._ + + CROCUS vernus angustifolius. 1. 11. _Clus. Hist. i. p. 207._ + violaceo flore, 208. _ejusd._ + +There are three plants cultivated in the gardens of the curious to which +_Bulbocodium_ is applied, either as a generic or a trivial name, viz. +_Narcissus Bulbocodium_, _Bulbocodium vernum_, already figured, and the +present plant: the _Ixia Bulbocodium_ and _Bulbocodium vernum_ are given +in this work, not so much for their beauty as their rarity, not so much +to gratify the eye, as to communicate a knowledge of two plants but +little known, and liable to be confounded from a similarity of their +names. + +This is one of the few hardy species of the genus, and grows wild in +many parts of Spain and Italy; it is said to have been found in +Guernsey: it affects hilly and dry situations, will grow readily in +almost any soil, especially if fresh, and not infested with vermin: it +flowers about the middle of April, the blossoms do not expand fully +unless exposed to the sun, and are not of long duration: authors +describe the wild plants as varying greatly in colour, _vid. Clus._ they +are most commonly pale blue. + +Like the Crocus, it increases readily by offsets. + +Was cultivated by Mr. MILLER, in 1739, _Ait. Kew._ Bulbocodium, 1. in +the 6th edition of his Dictionary in 4to, is not this plant, but the +_Anthericum scrotinum_, _Jacq. Fl. Austr. v. 5. app. t. 38._ + + + + +[266] + +RANUNCULUS AMPLEXICAULIS. PLANTAIN-LEAVED CROWFOOT. + +_Class and Order._ + +POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ deciduus. 5 phyllus, (rarius 3-phyllus) _Petala_ 5, (rarius + 2, 3, aut 8) intra ungues squamula vel poro mellifero. _Styli_ + persistentes. _Sem._ incrustata, erecta. _Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 13. + Gmel._ + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + RANUNCULUS _amplexicaulis_ foliis ovatis acuminatis + amplexicaulibus, caule multifloro, radice fasciculata. _Linn. Syst. + Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 515._ _Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 265._ + + RANUNCULUS montanus foliis plantaginis. _Bauh. Pin. 180._ + + RANUNCULUS pyrenæus albo flore. _Clus. app. alt. auct. ic. 4 ta._ + _Ger. emac. 963. fig. 2._ + +The leaves of the _Ranunculus amplexicaulis_ in part surround the stalk +at their base, whence its trivial name; in colour they differ from most +others of the genus, being of a greyer or more glaucous hue, which +peculiarity joined to the delicate whiteness of the flowers, renders +this species a very desirable one to add to a collection of hardy, +ornamental, herbaceous plants, more especially as it occupies but little +space, and has no tendency to injure the growth of others. + +It is a native of the Apennine and Pyrenean mountains, and flowers in +April and May. + +CLUSIUS is the first author who describes and figures this species. +JOHNSON in his _ed._ of GERARD copies his figure, and mentions it as +being then made a denizen of our gardens. + +It is readily propagated by parting its roots in Autumn, and provided it +has a pure air will succeed in most soils an situations. + +[Illustration: No 266] + +[Illustration: No. 267] + + + + +[267] + +PYRUS SPECTABILIS. CHINESE APPLE TREE. + +_Class and Order._ + +ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 5-fidus. _Petala_ 5. _Pomum_ inferum, 5-loculare, + polyspermum. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + PYRUS _spectabilis_ umbellis sessilibus, foliis ovali oblongis + serratis lævibus, unguibus calyce longioribus, stylis basi lanatis. + _Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 175._ _Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 13._ _Gmel. p. + 842._ + +The Chinese Apple-Tree when it blossoms in perfection, answers truly to +the name of _spectabilis_; a more shewy or ornamental tree can scarcely +be introduced to decorate the shrubbery or plantation; its beauty like +that of most trees, whose ornament consists chiefly in their blossoms, +is however but of short duration, and depends in some degree on the +favourableness of the season at the time of their expansion, which +usually takes place about the end of April or beginning of May; the +flowers are large, of a pale red when open, and semi-double, the buds +are of a much deeper hue, the fruit is of little account, and but +sparingly produced. Trees of this species are to be met with in some +gardens of the height of twenty or thirty feet. + +Dr. FOTHERGILL is regarded as the first who introduced this Chinese +native, he cultivated it in the year 1780; such plants of it as were in +his collection, passed at his decease into the hands of Messrs. GORDON +and THOMPSON, in whose rich and elegant Nursery, at Mile-End, this tree +may be seen in great perfection. + +Though perfectly hardy, as its blossoms are liable to be injured by +cutting winds, it will be most proper to plant it in a shelter'd +situation. + +It is usually increased by grafting it on the Crab stock. + + + + +[268] + +GLYCINE RUBICUNDA. DINGY-FLOWERED GLYCINE. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 2-labiatus. _Corollæ_ carina apice vexillum reflectens. + +_Specific Character._ + + GLYCINE _rubicunda_ caule perenni volubili, foliis ternatis, + foliolis subovalibus integerrimis, pedunculis subtrifloris. + +The plant here figured, and very generally known to the Nurserymen, in +the neighbourhood of London, by the name of _Glycine rubicunda_, is a +native of New South-Wales, and was introduced to this country about the +same time as the _Glycine bimaculata_ already figured. + +It is a shrubby, twining plant, running up to the height of five, six, +or more feet, producing blossoms abundantly from April to June, which +are usually succeeded by seed-vessels which ripen their seeds with us. + +The flowers though large and shewy, have a kind of dingy or lurid +appearance, which greatly diminishes their beauty. We have observed the +blossoms of some plants more brilliant than those of others, and we +think it highly probable, that, at some future period, seminal varieties +may be obtained with flowers highly improved in colour. + +This species is readily raised from seeds, is of quick growth, and may +be regarded as one of our more hardy green-house plants: probably it may +succeed in the open air, if planted in a warm situation, and sheltered +in inclement seasons. + +[Illustration: No 268] + +[Illustration: No 269] + + + + +[269] + +ORNITHOGALUM NUTANS. NEAPOLITAN STAR OF BETHLEHEM. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ 6 petala, erecta, persistens, supra medium patens, + _Filamenta_ alterna basi dilatata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + ORNITHOGALUM _nutans_ floribus secundis pendulis, nectario stamineo + campaniformi. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 328._ _Ait. + Kew. v. i. p. 443._ + + ORNITHOGALUM exoticum magno flore minori innato. _Bauh. Pin. p. + 70._ + + ORNITHOGALUM Neopolitanum, the Starre-flower of Naples. _Park. + Parad. p. 138. p. 137. f. 8._ _Clus. app. alt. p. 9. fig. 7._ + +Authors have given to this species of Ornithogalum the name of +Neapolitan, following CLUSIUS by whom the plant is figured and +described, and who so called it, merely on receiving it from Naples; it +may perhaps be doubted whether it be originally a native of Italy. Prof. +JACQUIN has figured it in his _Flora Austriaca_, the plant being common +about Vienna, in garden-walks, under hedges, and in meadows, he does not +however, from that circumstance, regard it as an original native there. +CASP. BAUHIN informs us that HONORIUS BELLI sent it him from Crete under +the name of _Phalangium_, leaving its true habitat to be settled more +precisely hereafter, we shall observe, that it is one of those plants +which soon accommodate themselves to any country; producing a numerous +progeny both from roots and seeds, and by no means nice as to soil or +situation; it is not long before it becomes a weed in the garden, from +whence it is apt like the _Hyacinthus racemosus_, already figured, to +pass into the field or meadow. + +Its flowers, which if not beautiful are singular and delicate, make +their appearance towards the end of April, they are of no long duration, +seldom continuing above a fortnight, and are succeeded by seed-vessels +which produce abundance of ripe seed, by which, as well as by its bulbs, +the plant may be increased. + +In the _Hortus Kewensis_ it is set down as a Greenhouse plant, one of +the rare errors which occur in that most useful work. + +[Illustration: No 270] + + + + +[270] + +GLYCINE COCCINEA. SCARLET GLYCINE. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 2-labiatus. _Corollæ_ carina apice vexillum reflectens. + +_Specific Character._ + + GLYCINE _coccinea_ foliis ternatis, foliolis subrotundis undulatis. + +We here present our readers with another Glycine, very lately raised by +several persons in the neighbourhood of London from Botany-Bay seeds, +and which we have called _coccinea_ from the colour of its blossoms. + +It is a shrubby, climbing plant, which, if supported, will grow to the +height of many feet, producing a great number of flowers on its pendant +branches; the leaves, which grow three together, are nearly round, and, +in the older ones especially, are crimped or curled at the edges; the +flowers grow for the most part in pairs, are of a glowing scarlet +colour, at the base of the carina somewhat inclined to purple, the +bottom of the vexillum is decorated with a large yellow spot, verging to +green, which adds much to the beauty of the flower. + +It blossoms from April to June, and appears to be fully as much disposed +to produce seed vessels, and perfect seeds, as the _rubicunda_, and by +which alone it has hitherto been propagated. + +We must rank it among the more tender green-house plants. + + + + +[271] + +CYRTANTHUS ANGUSTIFOLIUS. NARROW-LEAVED CYRTANTHUS. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ tubulosa, clavata, curva, 6-fida, laciniæ ovato-oblongæ. + _Filamenta_ tubo inserta, apice conniventia. _Linn. Fil._ + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + CYRTANTHUS _angustifolius_ foliis obtuse carinatis rectis, floribus + cernuis, _Linn. Fil. Ait. Kew. v. i. p. 414._ + + CRINUM _angustifolium_ foliis linearibus obtusis, corollis + cylindricis: laciniis alternis interglandulosis. _Linn. Suppl. + 195._ + +CYRTANTHUS is a genus which takes its name from the curvature of its +flower, was established by the younger LINNÆUS, and adopted by Mr. AITON +in the _Hortus Kewensis_. + +The present species is a native of the Cape, and was added to the royal +collection at Kew, by Mr. MASSON, in the year 1774. The plant from +whence our drawing was made flowered the preceding May with Mr. WHITLEY, +Nurseryman, Old Brompton, who received it from Holland, and who has been +so fortunate as to obtain young plants of it from seed. + +It flowers in May and June; requires the same treatment as other Cape +bulbs, and may be increased by offsets and seeds. + +At the extremity of each alternate segment of the corolla there is a +kind of small glandular hook, deserving of notice. + +[Illustration: N.271] + + + + +[272] + +GLADIOLUS TRISTIS. SQUARE-LEAVED CORN-FLAG. + +_Class and Order._ + +TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ 6-partita, ringens. _Stamina_ adscendentia. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + GLADIOLUS _tristis_ foliis lineari-cruciatis, corollis + campanulatis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 86._ _Ait. + Kew. v. 1. p. 63._ + + LILIO-GLADIOLUS bifolius et biflorus, foliis quadrangulis. _Trew. + Ehret. t. 39._ + + GLADIOLUS _tristis_ foliis linearibus sulcatis, caule bifloro, tubo + longissimo, segmentis æqualibus. _Mill. Dict. ed. 6. 4to._ + +LINNÆUS gave to this species of _Gladiolus_ the name of _tristis_, from +the colour of its flowers, which however possess scarcely sufficient of +the sombre to justify the appellation; still less so if they vary in the +manner represented in TREW'S _Ehret_, where they are painted in gay and +lively colours: in the specimens we have seen, the blossoms have been of +a sulphur colour, shaded in particular parts with very fine pencillings, +especially on the under side: most authors describe the flowering stems +as producing only two flowers, LINNÆUS has observed that they sometimes +produce many, we have seen them do so where the plant has grown in +perfection; in their expansion, which usually takes place in April and +May, they give forth a most agreeable fragrance. + +It is a native of the Cape, and other parts of Africa; was cultivated by +Mr. MILLER, and flowered in the Chelsea Garden in the year 1745. _Ait. +Kew._ + +The leaves which so characteristically distinguish this species are +highly deserving of notice, instances of such rarely occur; as the bulbs +produce numerous offsets, the plant is propagated by them without +difficulty, and requires the same treatment as other Cape bulbs. + +[Illustration: No 272] + +[Illustration: No 273] + + + + +[273] + +DIOSMA UNIFLORA. ONE-FLOWERED DIOSMA. + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ 5-petala. _Nectaria_ 5, supra germen. _Caps._ 3. s. 5. + coalitæ. _Sem._ calyptrata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + DIOSMA _uniflora_ foliis ovato oblongis, floribus solitariis + terminalibus. _Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 3. p. 287._ _Syst. Vegetab. ed. + 14._ _Murr. p. 239._ _Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 276._ + + CISTUS humilis æthiopicus, inferioribus foliis rosmarini sylvestris + punctatis, cæteris autem serpylli subrotundis, flore carneo. _Pluk. + mant. 49. t. 342. f. 5._ + +The _Diosma uniflora_ another native of the Cape, that never failing +source of vegetable riches, was introduced to the Royal Garden at Kew by +Mr. MASSON in the year 1775, it flowers in our Green-Houses from April +to June, and is usually propagated by cuttings. + +This plant forms a small bushy shrub, the leaves are thickly and +irregularly set on the branches, quite up to the flowers, which stand +singly on their summits, and are larger than those of any other known +species of Diosma, expanding as we have found on trial beyond the size +of half-a-crown, which the blossom does in our figure, though it will +not appear to do so to the eye of most observers; they are without +scent, the calyx is large and continuing, composed of five +ovato-lanceolate leaves, reddish on the upper side, and if viewed from +above visible between the petals; the petals are five in number, much +larger than the calyx, and deciduous, of a white colour with a streak of +red running down the middle of each, surface highly glazed, the stamina +are composed of five short filaments, white and slightly hairy, broad at +their base and tapering gradually to a fine point, by which they are +inserted into the hind part of the antheræ, near the bottom; the +antheræ are as long as the filaments, of a brown purple colour, bending +over the stigma, and opening inwardly, each carrying on the upper part +of its back a gland-like substance, of a pale brown colour: besides +these parts there are five filamentous bodies alternating with, and of +the same length as the stamina, of a white colour, and hairy, each +dilating at its extremity where it is of a reddish hue, and presenting +towards the antheræ an oval somewhat concave surface, which secretes a +viscous liquid; in some flowers that we have examined, and we regret +seeing but few, we have observed these nectaries (for such they may be +strictly called) closely adhering by their viscous summits to the +glandular substances at the back of the antheræ[2]; the germen is +studded with a constellation of little glands, which pour forth, and +almost deluge it with nectar; the stigma is composed of five little +round knobs: seed vessels we have not seen. + +[Footnote 2: What the use of this very extraordinary apparatus may be we +can at present scarcely conjecture, future observation may perhaps +enable us to speak more decisively; when we figure the _Diosma +ericoides_ we shall probably have more to say of this species.] + + + + +[274] + +BORBONIA CRENATA. HEART-LEAVED BORBONIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ acuminato-spinosus. _Stigma_ emarginatum. _Legumen_ + mucronatum. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + BORBONIA _crenata_ foliis cordatis multinerviis denticulatis. + _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 643._ _Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. + 9._ + + FRUTEX _æthiopicus_ leguminosus, foliis rusci majoribus in ambitu + spinulis fimbriatis. _Pluk. Alm. 159._ + + PLANTA leguminosa æthiopica, foliis rusci. _Breyn. Cent. t. 28._ + +_Borbonia_ is a genus of plants established by LINNÆUS in the 6th +edition of his _Genera Plantarum_; of this genus there are six species +enumerated in the 3d edition of the _Species Plant_. and two in the +_Hort. Kew._ the latter of which, the _crenata_, introduced from the +Cape by Mr. MASSON, in 1774, is here figured. + +It is a small shrubby plant, rarely exceeding the height of three feet, +producing its flowers in a small cluster on the summits of the branches; +these are of a yellow colour, and have nothing about them peculiarly +singular, or beautiful; it is the foliage alone which renders this plant +desirable in a collection. + +It flowers from June to August, and in favourable seasons ripens its +seeds, by which the plant is usually propagated. + +[Illustration: No 274] + +[Illustration: No 275] + + + + +[275] + +LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA. COMMON TULIP-TREE. + +_Class and Order._ + +POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 3-phyllus. _Petala_ 6. _Sem._ imbricata in strobilum. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + LIRIODENDRON _Tulipifera_ foliis lobatis. _Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. + 14._ _Murr. p. 507._ _Ait. Kew. v. 2. 250._ + + TULIPIFERA virginiana, tripartito aceris folio: media lacinia velut + abscissa. _Pluk. Alm. 379. t. 117. f. 5. & t. 248. f. 7._ _Catesb. + Carol. 1. p. 48. t. 48._ + + LIRIODENDRON foliis angulatis truncatis. _Trew. Ehret. t. x._ + +The Tulip-tree is a native of most parts of North-America, MARSHALL +describes it as often growing to the size of a very large tree, 70 or 80 +feet in height, and above 4 feet in diameter; he mentions two varieties, +one with yellow and the other with white wood; that with yellow wood is +soft and brittle, much used for boards, heels of shoes, also turned into +bowls, trenchers, &c. the white is heavy, tough, and hard, and is sawed +into joists, boards, &c. for building. + +RAY informs us in his _Hist. Pl._ that this tree was cultivated here by +Bishop COMPTON, in 1688: and from MILLER we learn, that the first tree +of the kind which flowered in this country, was in the gardens of the +Earl of PETERBOROUGH, at Parsons-Green, near Fulham; in Mr. ORD'S +garden, at Walham-Green, there is, among other choice old trees, a very +fine tulip-tree, which is every year covered with blossoms, and which +afforded us the specimen here figured. It flowers in June and July, +rarely ripens its seeds with us, though it does readily in America. + +The foliage of this plant is extremely singular, most of the leaves +appearing as if truncated, or cut off at the extremity; they vary +greatly in the division of their lobes, the flowers differ from those of +the tulip in having a calyx, but agree as to the number of petals, which +is six; and so they are described in the sixth edition of the _Gen. Pl._ +of LINN. but in _Professor_ MURRAY'S _Syst. Veg. Ait. H. K. Linn. Syst. +Nat. ed. 13_, by GMELIN, 9 are given, this in the first instance must be +a mere typographical error arising from the inversion of the 6. + +This tree is found to flourish most in a soil moderately stiff and +moist, is usually raised from seeds, the process of which is amply +described by MILLER in his Dictionary. + +[Illustration: No 276] + + + + +[276] + +BLITUM VIRGATUM. STRAWBERRY BLITE. + +_Class and Order._ + +MONANDRIA DIGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Col._ 3-fidus. _Petala_ O. _Sem._ 1. calyce baccato. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + BLITUM _virgatum_ capitellis sparsis lateralibus. _Linn. Syst. + Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 53._ _Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 7._ + + ATRIPLEX sylvestris mori fructu. _Bauh. Pin. p. 519._ + + ATRIPLEX sylvestris baccifera. _Clus. Hist. cxxxv._ + +This plant, not unfrequently met with in gardens, is known to most +cultivators by the name of _Strawberry Spinach_; the leaves somewhat +resembling those of the latter, and the fruit that of the former: C. +BAUHINE likens its berries to those of the Mulberry, to which they +certainly bear a greater resemblance: in most of the species of this +genus the calyx exhibits a very singular phenomenon, when the flowering +is over, it increases in size, becomes fleshy, and finally pulpy, +containing the ripe seed, which however it does not wholly envelope; +thus from each cluster of flowers growing in the alæ of the leaves are +produced so many berries, of a charming red colour, to which the plant +owes its beauty altogether, for the flowers are small, herbaceous, and +not distinctly visible to the naked eye; they can boast however of being +of the first class in the Linnean system _Monandria_, to which few +belong. + +Strawberry Blite is a hardy annual, growing spontaneously in some parts +of France, Spain, and Tartary; is not a very old inhabitant of our +gardens, Mr. AITON mentioning it as being first cultivated by Mr. MILLER +in 1759. Its berries are produced from June to September; in their taste +they have nothing to recommend them, though not pleasant they are +harmless. + +CLUSIUS we believe to be the first author who gives a figure and +description of it. + +It affects a dry soil, and open situation; in such there is no necessity +to give any particular directions for its cultivation, as it comes up +readily from seed spontaneously scattered, so much so as sometimes to +prove a troublesome weed. + + + + +[277] + +MAHERNIA PINNATA. WINGED MAHERNIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 5-dentatus. _Petala_ 5. _Nectaria_ 5 obcordata, filamentis + supposita. _Caps._ 5-locularis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + MAHERNIA _pinnata_, foliis tripartito pinnatifidis. _Linn. Syst. + Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 308._ _Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 398._ + + HERMANNIA foliis tripartitis, media pinnatifida. _Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. + 3. p. 943._ + + HERMANNIA frutescens, folio multifido tenui, caule rubro. _Boerh. + Lugd. 1. p. 273._ + +LINNÆUS, in his _Spec. Pl._ regarded this plant as a species of +_Hermannia_; finding afterwards that it differed materially in its +fructification from that genus, he made a new one of it in his +_Mantissa_, by the name of _Mahernia_; still, however, the two genera +are very nearly related: one principal difference consists in the +nectaria of the _Mahernia_, which are very remarkable. + +This species was introduced from the Cape, where it is a native, by Mr. +MASSON, in 1774, and is now very generally met with in our green-houses. +It produces its little bells, of a lively red when they first open, from +June to August, or September; is a small delicate plant, and easily +raised from cuttings. + +[Illustration: No 277] + +[Illustration: No 278] + + + + +[278] + +LILIUM CANDIDUM. WHITE LILY. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ 6-petala, campanulata: linea longitudinali nectarifera. + _Caps._ valvulis pilo cancellato connexis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + LILIUM _candidum_ foliis sparsis, corollis campanulatis, intus + glabris. _Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 3. p. 433._ _Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ + _Murr. p. 324._ _Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 429._ + + LILIUM album flore erecto et vulgare. _Bauh. Pin. 76._ + + LILIUM album vulgare. The ordinary White Lily. _Park. Parad. p. 39. + t. 37. f. 4._ + +We may rank the White Lily among the very oldest inhabitants of the +flower-garden; in the time of GERARD it was very generally cultivated, +and doubtless at a much earlier period; a plant of such stateliness, so +shewy, so fragrant, and at the same time so much disposed to increase, +would of course soon be found very generally in gardens, into which its +introduction would be accelerated on another account; it was regarded as +a plant of great efficacy; among other extraordinary powers attributed +to it, we are gravely told that it taketh away the wrinkles of the face. + +LINNÆUS makes it a native of Palestine and Syria; Mr. AITON of the +Levant. + +Its blossoms, which open early in July, continue about three weeks, and +when they go off leave the flower-garden greatly thinned of its +inhabitants. + +Of the White Lily there are three principal varieties: + + 1. With double flowers. + 2. With flowers blotched with purple. + 3. With striped leaves, or leaves edged with yellow. + +The two first of these are to be esteemed merely as curiosities; in the +third the plant acquires an accession of beauty which it has not +originally; though many persons object to variegated leaves, as +conveying an idea of fickliness, that complaint cannot be urged against +the foliage of the striped Lily, to which the borders of the +flower-garden are indebted for one of their chief ornaments during the +autumnal and winter months; early in September these begin to emerge, +and towards spring another set rises up in their centre, of more upright +growth, and which announce the rising of the flowering stem. + +Besides these varieties, LINNÆUS has considered the _Lilium album +floribus dependentibus s. peregrinum_ of C. BAUHINE, the _Sultan +Zambach_ of CLUSIUS, and the _Hortus Eystettensis_, as one of its +varieties also: MILLER regards this plant as a distinct species, and +those who have attentively examined the figures and descriptions of +CLUSIUS and the _Hort. Eyst._ will be of the same opinion. + +The Lily increases most abundantly by offsets, hence it becomes +necessary that the bulbs should be taken up, and reduced every second or +third year; but the striped leaved variety increasing much more slowly, +should remain unmolested for a greater length of time. + +There is scarcely a soil or situation in which the Lily will not grow, +it will thrive most in a soil moderately stiff and moist; though a +native of a warm climate no severity of weather affects it with us: we +may learn from this, not to regulate the culture of plants invariably by +the climate in which they grow spontaneously. + +The best time for removing the bulbs of this plant is about the middle +of August, before they shoot forth their leaves; but they may be +transplanted any time from September to spring. + +[Illustration: No 279] + + + + +[279] + +PLUMERIA RUBRA. RED PLUMERIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + Contorta. _Folliculi_ 2. reflexi. _Semina_ membranæ propriæ + inserta. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + PLUMERIA _rubra_ foliis ovato-oblongis, petiolis biglandulosis. + _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 254._ _Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. + 298._ + + PLUMERIA flore roseo odoratissimo. _Tourn. Inst. 659._ _Trew. + Ehret. Tab. xli._ + +_Plumeria_ is a genus of plants named by TOURNEFORT in honour of his +countryman the celebrated PLUMIER, it comes near to Nerium or Oleander, +and contains several species, all natives of warm climates. + +The present plant is a native of Jamaica, where it is known by the name +of Red Jasmine, from whence seeds and large cuttings are often sent to +this country; here they require the stove to bring them to flower: +seed-vessels they are never known to produce. + +The flowers, which are very odoriferous, are produced in July and August +in large bunches, on the summits of the branches, from whence the leaves +also proceed; the stems, which grow to a considerable height as well as +thickness, are naked, and the whole plant loses its foliage from the +middle of winter till about the beginning of May; the branches and other +parts of the plant, when broken off, give forth a milky juice, the +leaves are handsome, and the veins remarkable. + +Being too tender to bear the open air of this climate, it is kept in the +stove even during summer, in hot weather it must have plenty of air, and +in cold seasons be sparingly watered. + +Is propagated by seeds, but more frequently by cuttings, which MILLER +recommends to be put by for two months or ten weeks, previous to their +being committed to the earth. + +[Illustration: No 280] + + + + +[280] + +APOCYNUM ANDROSÆMIFOLIUM. TUTSAN-LEAV'D, or FLY-CATCHING DOGSBANE. + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ campanulata. _Glandulæ_ 5 cum staminibus alternæ. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + APOCYNUM _androsæmifolium_ caule rectiuseulo herbaceo, foliis + ovatis utrinque glabris, cymis terminalibus. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. + ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 258._ _Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 303._ + + APOCYNUM canadense; foliis androsæmi majoris. _Bocc. sicc. 35. t. + 16. f. 3._ _Moris. Hist. 3. p. 609. s. 15. t. 3. f. 16._ + +In addition to the powerful recommendations of beauty and fragrance, the +Tutsan-leav'd Dogsbane interests us on account of the curious structure +of its flowers, and their singular property of catching flies. + +This species is a native of different parts of North-America; Mr. W. +HALE, of Alton, Hants, who resided at Halifax in Nova-Scotia several +years, brought me some seeds of it gathered in that neighbourhood, which +vegetated, and produced flowering plants: it is not new to this country, +being known to MORISON who figures it, and to MILLER, who cultivated it +in 1731. + +It is a hardy perennial plant, growing to about the height of a foot and +a half, or two feet, and flowering from the beginning of July, to +September; it has a creeping root, thereby it increases greatly in light +dry soils, and warm situations, so as even to be troublesome; it will +not thrive in a wet soil; with us it produces seed-vessels but rarely; +is propagated by parting its roots in Autumn or Spring; MILLER +recommends March as the most proper season, or it may be raised from +seeds, which in certain situations and seasons ripen here. + +The flowers of this Apocynum have a sweet honey-like fragrance, which +perfumes the air to a considerable distance, and no doubt operates +powerfully in attracting insects; when a plant of this sort is fully +blown, one may always find flies caught in its blossoms, usually by the +trunk, very rarely by the leg; sometimes four, or even five, which is +the greatest possible number, are found in one flower, some dead, others +endeavouring to disentangle themselves, in which they are now and then +so fortunate as to succeed; these flies are of different species, the +_musca pipiens_, a slender variegated fly with thick thighs, is a very +common victim, the _musca domestica_, or house fly, we have never +observed among the captives. + +Previous to our explaining the manner in which it appears to us that +these insects are caught, it will be necessary that we should describe, +in as plain a manner as possible, those parts of the flower which more +particularly constitute this fatal fly trap. + +On looking into the flower we perceive five Stamina, the Antheræ of +which are large, of a yellow colour, and converge into a kind of cone; +each of these Antheræ is arrow-shaped, towards the top of the cone their +sides touch but do not adhere, below they separate a little, so as to +leave a very narrow opening or slit between each, they are placed on +very short filaments, which stand so far apart that a considerable +opening is left between them, which openings, however, are closed up by +processes of the corolla, nicely adapted to, and projecting into them; +at the bottom of, and in the very centre of the flower, we perceive two +germina, or seed-buds, the rudiments of future seed-vessels, surrounded +by glandular substances, secreting a sweet liquid; on the summit of +these germina, and betwixt the two, stands the stigma, in the form of a +little urn, the middle of which is encircled by a glandular ring, which +secretes a viscid honey-like substance, to this part of the stigma the +Antheræ interiorly adhere most tenaciously, so as to prevent their +separation unless considerable force be applied; it is, as we apprehend, +the sweet viscid substance thus secreted by the stigma, within the +Antheræ, which the fly endeavours to obtain, and to this end insinuates +its trunk first into the lowermost and widest part of the slit, betwixt +each of the Antheræ above described, pushing it of necessity upwards: +when gratified, not having the sense to place itself in the same +position as that in which it stood when it inserted its trunk, and to +draw it out in the same direction downwards, unfortunately for it, it +varies its position, and pulling its trunk upwards, draws it into the +narrow part of the slit, where it becomes closely wedged in, and the +more it pulls the more securely it is caught, and thus this heedless +insect, as THOMSON calls it, terminates its existence in captivity most +miserable. + +In the incomparable poem of Dr. DARWIN, entitled the _Botanic Garden_, +there is a figure given of this plant; and in the Supplement we have the +following account written by Mr. DARWIN, of Elston. + +"In the Apocynum Androsæmifolium the Anthers converge over the +nectaries, which consist of five glandular oval corpuscles, surrounding +the germ, and at the same time admit air to the nectaries at the +interstice between each anther; but when a fly inserts its proboscis +between these anthers to plunder the honey, they converge closer, and +with such violence as to detain the fly, which thus generally perishes." + +This explanation of a phænomenon entitled to much attention, is widely +different from ours; which of the two is most consonant to truth and +nature, we shall leave to the determination of future observers. + +In explaining the preceding appearances, to prevent confusion we called +those parts which form the cone in the middle of the flower Antheræ, but +strictly speaking they are not such, the true Antheræ being situated on +the inside of their summits, where they will be found to be ten in +number, making in fact the Apocynum a decandrous plant. + + + + +[281] + +TURNERA ANGUSTIFOLIA. NARROW-LEAV'D TURNERA. + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 5-fidus, infundibuliformis, exterior 2-phyllus. _Petala_ 5 + calyci inserta. _Stigmata_ multifida. _Caps._ 1-locularis, + 3-valvis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + TURNERA _angustifolia_ floribus sessilibus petiolaribus, foliis + lanceolatis rugosis acuminatis. _Mill. Dict. ed. 6. 4to._ + + TURNERA frutescens folio longiore et mucronato. _Mart. Cent. 49. t. + 49._ + +This plant here represented is generally known to the Nurserymen about +London as the _Turnera ulmifolia_, or _Elm-leav'd Turnera_, its foliage +however does not answer to the name, nor to the figures of the plant as +given by MARTYN in his _Cent. Pl._ and LINNÆUS in his _Hortus +Cliffortianus_, which figures indeed are so similar that they look like +copies of each other, these represent the true elm leaf; on the same +plate of _Martyn's Cent._ there is given a very excellent figure of what +he considers as another species of Turnera, vide Synon. and which +MILLER, who cultivated it about the year 1773, also describes as a +distinct species, under the name of _angustifolia_, asserting, from the +experience of thirty years, that plants raised from its seeds have +constantly differed from those of the _ulmifolia_; this is our plant, +which on his authority we have given as a species, though LINNÆUS +regards it as a variety. + +PLUMIER gave to this genus the name of _Turnera_, in honour of Dr. +WILLIAM TURNER, a celebrated English Botanist and Physician, who +published an Herbal, black letter, folio, in 1568. + +The present species is a native of the West-Indies, and is commonly +cultivated in our stoves, where it rises with a semi-shrubby stalk, to +the height of several feet, seldom continuing more than two or three +years; young plants generally come up in plenty from seeds spontaneously +scattered, so that a succession is easily obtained. + +It flowers from June to August. + +Its foliage has a disagreeable smell when bruised; its flowers are +shewy, but of short duration, and are remarkable for growing out of the +footstalk of the leaf. + +[Illustration: No 281] + +[Illustration: No 282] + + + + +[282] + +HEDYSARUM OBSCURUM. CREEPING-ROOTED HEDYSARUM. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ carina transverse obtusa. _Legumen_ articulis 1-spermis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + HEDYSARUM _obscurum_ foliis pinnatis, stipulis vaginalibus, caule + erecto flexuoso, floribus pendulis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ + _Murr. p. 676._ _Mant. 447._ _Jacq. Fl. Austr. v. 2. t. 168._ + + HEDYSARUM caule recto, ramoso; foliis ovatis; siliquis pendulis, + lævissimis, venosis. _Hall. Hist. Helv. n. 395._ + + ONOBRYCHIS semine clypeato lævi. _Bauh. Pin. 350._ + +Prof. JACQUIN, in the second volume of the _Flora austriaca_, gives an +excellent figure and accurate description of our plant, a native of the +Alps of Germany and Switzerland, and points out the characters in which +it differs from the _alpinum_, for which it has sometimes been mistaken. + +It is a hardy perennial, rarely exceeding a foot in height, produces its +spikes of pendulous flowers, which are of a most beautiful purple +colour, in July and August; hitherto these have not been succeeded by +seed-vessels with us; though we have cultivated the plant for several +years. + +Its size renders it a suitable plant for rock-work, on which it will +grow readily, increasing by its roots, which are of the creeping kind. + +HALLER mentions a variety of it with white flowers. + + + + +[283] + +MIMULUS RINGENS. NARROW-LEAVED MONKEY-FLOWER. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 4-dentatus, prismaticus. _Cor._ ringens; labio superiore + lateribus replicato. _Caps._ 2-locularis, polysperma. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + MIMULUS _ringens_ erectus, foliis oblongis linearibus sessilibus. + _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 575._ _Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. + 361._ + + EUPHRASIA floridana lysimachiæ glabræ siliquosæ foliis, quadrato + caule ramosior. _Pluk. Amalth. 83. t. 393. f. 3._ + + LYSIMACHIA galericulata s. Gratiola elatior non ramosa, &c. _Gron. + Fl. Virg. p. 97._ + + DIGITALIS perfoliata glabra flore violaceo minore. _Moris. Hist. 2. + p. 479. s. 5. t. 8. f. 6._ + +CLAYTON, in the _Fl. Virg._ published by GRONOVIUS, describes this plant +as a native of Virginia, and says of it, "maddidis gaudet locis," it +delights in wet places: LINNÆUS makes it a native of Canada also. + +It is a hardy, perennial, herbaceous plant, growing with us to the +height of about two feet, and producing its flowers, which are of a pale +violet colour, in July and August; these are frequently succeeded by +capsules containing perfect seeds, by which the plant may be propagated, +as also by parting its roots in Autumn; MILLER recommends the seeds to +be sown as soon as ripe. + +The plant succeeds best in a moist and somewhat shady situation, with a +loamy soil. + +A perusal of the synonyms will shew to what a variety of genera this +plant has been referred by different authors; LINNÆUS first gave to it +the name of _Mimulus_, of which term we find in his _Philosophia +Botanica_ the following concise explanation:--"MIMULUS mimus +personatus;" in plain English, a masked mimick: MIMMULUS is a classical +word for the Pedicularis, or Lousewort; the English term Monkey flower +has probably been given it, from an idea that _mimulus_ originated from +[Greek: mimô] a monkey, as in _mimusops_ monkey face. + +[Illustration: No 283] + + + + +[284] + +ROSA SEMPERFLORENS. EVER-BLOWING ROSE. + +_Class and Order._ + +ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Petala_ 5. _Cal._ urceolatus, 5-fidus, carnosus, collo coarctatus, + demum baccatus, coloratus. _Antrum_ duplicatum, 1-loculare, superne + apertum, pericarpiis osseis intus nidulantibus. + +_Specific Character._ + + ROSA _semperflorens_ caule aculeato, foliis subternis, pedunculis + subunifloris aculeato-hispidis, calycis laciniis integris. + +We are induced to consider the rose here represented, as one of the most +desirable plants in point of ornament ever introduced to this country; +its flowers, large in proportion to the plant, are semi-double, and with +great richness of colour unite a most delightful fragrance; they blossom +during the whole of the year, more sparingly indeed in the winter +months; the shrub itself is more hardy than most greenhouse plants, and +will grow in so small a compass of earth, that it may be reared almost +in a coffee cup; is kept with the least possible trouble, and propagated +without difficulty by cuttings or suckers. + +For this invaluable acquisition, our country is indebted to the late +GILBERT SLATER, Esq. of Knots-Green, near Laytonstone, whose untimely +death every person must deplore, who is a friend to improvements in +ornamental gardening: in procuring the rarer plants from abroad, more +particularly from the East-Indies, Mr. SLATER was indefatigable, nor was +he less anxious to have them in the greatest perfection this country +will admit; to gain this point there was no contrivance that ingenuity +could suggest, no labour, no expence withheld; such exertions must soon +have insured him the first collection of the plants of India: it is now +about three years since he obtained this rose from China; as he readily +imparted his most valuable acquisitions to those who were most likely to +increase them, this plant soon became conspicuous in the collections of +the principal Nurserymen near town, and in the course of a few years +will, no doubt, decorate the window of every amateur. + +The largest plants we have seen have not exceeded three feet, it may no +doubt be trained to a much greater height; a variety of it much more +robust, having usually several flowers on a footstalk, of a pale red +colour, and semi-double also, has more lately been introduced, and as +far as we can learn from the same source. + +[Illustration: No 284] + +[Illustration: No 285] + + + + +[285] + +JASMINUM ODORATISSIMUM. SWEETEST JASMINE. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Corolla_ hypocrateriformis. _Bacca_ dicocca. _Semina_ solitaria, + arillata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + JASMINUM _odoratissimum_ foliis alternis obtusiusculis ternatis + pinnatisque, ramis teretibus, laciniis calycinis brevissimis. _Ait. + Hort. H. v. 1. p. 10._ _Linn. Syst. Veget. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 56._ + + JASMINUM flavum odoratum. _Barr. Ic. 62._ + + +The flowers of most of the species of Jasmine are odoriferous, trivial +names therefore expressive of this quality are ineligible, as wanting +character; the present name is peculiarly objectionable, inasmuch as +several other species are greatly superior to this in point of +fragrance; a lesson for Botanists to abstain from trivial names of the +superlative degree, such as _odoratissimum_, _foetidissimum_, +_maximum_, _minimum_, &c. + +The present species, according to Mr. AITON, is a native of Madeira, and +was cultivated by Mr. MILLER, in 1730; it is now a plant common in most +greenhouses: it will form a shrub of considerable size, which requires +no support; its leaves are glossy, inclining to yellow, growing for the +most part three together, sometimes pinnated; its blossoms, which are +yellow, make their appearance from May to November: in point of +hardiness it is superior to many greenhouse plants, and may be +propagated without difficulty by cuttings. + + + + +[286] + +PORTLANDIA GRANDIFLORA. GREAT-FLOWERED PORTLANDIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ clavato-infundibuliformis. _Antheræ_ 4-6. longitudinales. + _Caps._ 5-gona, 2-valvis, retusa, 2-locularis, polysperma, coronata + calyce 5-phyllo. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + PORTLANDIA _grandiflora_ floribus pentandris. _Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. + 14._ _Murr. p. 213._ _Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 228. foliis ovatis._ + _Syst. Nat. ed. 13._ _Gmel. p. 360._ + + PORTLANDIA _grandiflora_ floribus pentandris, capsulis ovatis, + foliis oblongis acuminatis. _Swartz. Obs. Bot. p. 69._ + + +Dr. BROWN, in his Natural History of Jamaica, gives to this genus the +name of _Portlandia_, in honour of the Duchess Dowager of PORTLAND, who +employed many of the leisure hours of a long and happy life, in the +pursuits of natural history, in which she was eminently skilled.--She +was the friend and patron of Mr. LIGHTFOOT, who dedicates to her his +_Flora Scotica_; the fine collection of rare and valuable trees and +shrubs which enrich part of the grounds at Bulstrode, were of her +planting. + +Dr. SWARTZ, in his Observations on the Plants of the West-Indies, +informs us, that this species grows wild in Jamaica, where (_incolit +calcareosa petrosa_) it inhabits calcareous rocky places[3], forms a +small tree about the height of six feet, and flowers from the middle of +Summer to Autumn; its bark, he observes, as in other plants of the same +genus, is extremely bitter. + +From Mr. AITON we learn, that it was introduced here by ---- ELLIS, Esq. +in 1775. + +It forms a very beautiful stove plant, not of difficult growth, and +readily disposed to flower; we have seen blowing plants of it little +more than a foot high; its blossoms are not only uncommonly large, +shewy, and curious in their structure, but fragrant also, and very much +so when dried. + +It is usually increased by cuttings. + +[Footnote 3: We wish that every person who describes foreign plants on +the spot, would do thus; it would greatly facilitate their culture.] + +[Illustration: No 286] + +[Illustration: No 287] + + + + +[287] + +GOODENIA LÆVIGATA. SMOOTH GOODENIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Flores_ monopetali, superi. _Caps._ bilocularis. _Cor._ supra + longitudinaliter fissa, stigma urceolatum ciliatum. _Smith Trans. + Linn. Soc. v. 2. p. 346._ + +_Specific Character._ + + GOODENIA lævigata foliis obovato-lanceolatis dentatis glabris. + + +In the Autumn of 1792, SAMUEL TOLFREY Esq. most kindly invited me to +inspect a vast number of the natural productions of Botany-Bay, in his +possession; collected with great assiduity, and brought over in high +preservation by Captain TENCH; among other curiosities, he shewed me +specimens of the earths of that country, imported in very small bags. I +suggested to Mr. TOLFREY, that those earths might possibly contain the +seeds of some curious and unknown plants; he readily acquiesced in the +idea, and permitted me to make trial of them: accordingly, in the Spring +of 1793, I exposed them in shallow pans, on a gentle tan heat, keeping +them duly watered; in the course of the Summer they yielded me fourteen +plants, most of which were altogether new, and among others the species +of _Goodenia_ here figured; this we have since found to be a hardy +greenhouse plant, flowering from July to October, and very readily +increased by cuttings. + +The oldest plant in our possession is about a foot and a half high, much +branched, the stalks are round and smooth to the naked eye, green below, +above purplish, the leaves are smooth, a deep bright green colour, +alternate, standing on footstalks, which gradually widen into the +leaves, somewhat ovate, and deeply toothed; the flowers grow in the alæ +of the leaves, forming a thin spike, they are sessile, of a pale violet +colour, and have a peculiar smell which is rather unpleasant; at the +side of each flower are two long narrow Bracteæ; the Calyx, which is +placed on the germen, is composed of five short ovate leaves, which +appear edged with hairs if magnified; the Corolla is monopetalous, the +lower part, which at first is tubular, splits longitudinally above, and +forms a kind of half tube, the edges of which are brown, the inside +yellow, the outside greenish, the mouth beset with short hairs, each of +which is terminated by a small villous head; the limb is deeply divided +into five linear segments, spreading out like a hand, and terminated by +short points; the Filaments are five in number, of a whitish colour, +somewhat broadest above, rather flat, inserted into the receptacle; +Antheræ oval, flattened, yellow, bilocular, a little bent, the length of +the pistillum; but this is to be understood of such flowers as are not +yet fully expanded, in those that are, they are much shorter, and appear +withered; the Style, in flowers about to open, the length of the +filaments, upright, in those that are opened much longer, and bent +somewhat downward; Stigma at first upright, in the form of a cup, +having the edge curiously fringed with white hairs, afterwards it closes +together, loses its hollow, and assumes a flat appearance, and nods +somewhat, the back part of it is bearded; Germen beneath the calyx, +oblong, usually abortive with us. + +The name of _Goodenia_ has been given to this genus by Dr. SMITH, in +honour of the Rev. SAMUEL GOODENOUGH, LL. D. of _Ealing_, my +much-honoured friend, whose name will be ever dear to Botanists for his +laborious investigation of the British Carices[4]. + +[Footnote 4: Vide a Dissertation on the British species of Carex, by Dr. +GOODENOUGH, in the second volume of the Transactions of the Linnean +Society.] + +[Illustration: No 288] + + + + +[288] + +PASSIFLORA CILIATA. FRINGED-LEAVED PASSION-FLOWER. + +_Class and Order._ + +GYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Stamina germini vicina. _Nectarium_ + multi-radiatum. _Antrum_ pedicellatum duplicatum 1-loculare. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + PASSIFLORA _ciliata_ foliis trilobis glabris ciliato serratis + intermedio longissimo, petiolis eglandulosis. _Ait. Kew. v. 3. p. + 310._ + + +This Passion-Flower is described in the _Hort. Kew._ as a new one, under +the name of _ciliata_, introduced by Mrs. NORMAN, from the West-Indies, +in 1783: we saw it during the latter part of the last Summer, with great +profusion of flowers, in several collections, more particularly in that +of Mr. VERE, Kensington-Gore, from whence our figure and description +were taken. + +Its stalks are round, perfectly smooth, and run to a very great height; +leaves dark green, glossy, perfectly smooth, except on the edges, where +they are beset with strong glandular hairs, divided into three large and +two small lobes, the middle lobe running out to a considerable length, +the footstalks of the leaves are beset with a few hairs thinly +scattered, at the base of each leaf is a tendril, and two finely-divided +stipulæ, edged also with glandular hairs. The Involucrum is composed of +three leaves, dividing into capillary segments, each of which terminates +in a viscid globule, fetid when bruised; betwixt the involucrum and the +blossom is a short peduncle; the pillar which supports the germen is of +a bright purple colour, with spots of a darker hue, the germen is smooth +and green; Styles green; Stigmata of a dark green; Filaments six in +number; Antheræ pale yellow green, the former dotted with purple; of +Radii, there may be said to be four rows, variegated with white and +purple, petals ten, externally greenish, internally red, deeper or paler +according to circumstances. + +The leaves of this plant vary greatly in form, according to the health +and luxuriance of the plant; on comparing it with the _foetida_, we +strongly suspect it to be a variety merely of that species: time will +shew. + +It is increased by cuttings, or seeds. + + + + +INDEX. + +In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the _Eighth Volume_ +are alphabetically arranged. + + + Pl. + + 280 Apocynum androsæmifolium. + + 276 Blitum virgatum. + + 274 Borbonia crenata. + + 264 Cistus formosus. + + 258 Coronilla varia. + + 271 Cyrtanthus angustifolius. + + 255 Cytisus sessilifolius. + + 273 Diosma uniflora. + + 261 Erodium incarnatum. + + 272 Gladiolus tristis. + + 263 Glycine bimaculata. + + 268 ------- rubicunda. + + 270 ------- coccinea. + + 287 Goodenia lævigata. + + 282 Hedysarum obscurum. + + 285 Jasminum odoratissimum. + + 256 Ixia longiflora. + + 265 ---- Bulbocodium. + + 253 Lathyrus articulatus. + + 259 Lilium Catesbæi. + + 278 ------ candidum. + + 275 Liriodendron Tulipifera. + + 254 Lopezia racemosa. + + 257 Lychnis chalcedonica. + + 277 Mahernia pinnata. + + 262 Mesembryanthemum aureum. + + 260 Metrosideros citrina. + + 283 Mimulus ringens. + + 269 Ornithogalum nutans. + + 288 Passiflora ciliata. + + 279 Plumeria rubra. + + 286 Portlandia grandiflora. + + 267 Pyrus spectabilis. + + 266 Ranunculus amplexicaulis. + + 284 Rosa semperflorens. + + 281 Turnera angustifolia. + + + + +INDEX. + +In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the _Eighth +Volume_ are alphabetically arranged. + + + Pl. + + 267 Apple-tree Chinese. + + 276 Blite strawberry. + + 274 Borbonia heart-leaved. + + 264 Cistus beautiful. + + 272 Corn-flag square-leaved. + + 258 Coronilla purple. + + 261 Crane's-bill flesh-coloured. + + 266 Crowfoot plantain-leaved. + + 271 Cyrtanthus narrow-leaved. + + 255 Cytisus common. + + 273 Diosma one-flowered. + + 280 Dogsbane tutsan-leaved. + + 262 Fig-marigold golden. + + 263 Glycine purple. + + 268 ------- dingy-flowered. + + 270 ------- scarlet. + + 287 Goodenia smooth. + + 282 Hedysarum creeping-rooted. + + 285 Jasmine sweet. + + 256 Ixia long-flowered. + + 265 ---- crocus-leaved. + + 253 Lathyrus jointed-podded. + + 259 Lily Catesby's. + + 278 ---- white. + + 254 Lopezia mexican. + + 257 Lychnis scarlet. + + 277 Mahernia winged. + + 260 Metrosideros harsh-leaved. + + 283 Monkey-flower narrow-leav'd. + + 288 Passion-flower fringed-leaved. + + 279 Plumeria red. + + 286 Portlandia great-flowered. + + 284 Rose ever-blowing. + + 269 Star of Bethlehem Neapolitan. + + 275 Tulip-tree common. + + 281 Turnera narrow-leaved. + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Botanical Magazine Vol. 8, by William Curtis + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE VOL. 8 *** + +***** This file should be named 24670-8.txt or 24670-8.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/4/6/7/24670/ + +Produced by Jason Isbell, Janet Blenkinship and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file made using scans of public domain works at the +University of Georgia.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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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. 8 + Or, Flower-Garden Displayed + +Author: William Curtis + +Release Date: February 22, 2008 [EBook #24670] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE VOL. 8 *** + + + + +Produced by Jason Isbell, Janet Blenkinship and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file made using scans of public domain works at the +University of Georgia.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + + + +<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. VIII.</h3> +<p><br /></p> + + + +<div class='centered'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="poem"> +<tr><td align='left'>"Much I love</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>To see the fair one bind the straggling pink,</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cheer the sweet rose, the lupin, and the stock,</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>And lend a staff to the still gadding pea.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Ye fair, it well becomes you. Better thus</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cheat time away, than at the crowded rout,</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Rustling in silk, in a small room, close-pent,</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>And heated e'en to fusion; made to breathe</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>A rank contagious air, and fret at whist,</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Or sit aside to sneer and whisper scandal."</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 10em;">Village Curate, p. 74.</span></td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + +<p class="center"><i>LONDON:</i><br /><br /> + +PRINTED BY STEPHEN COUCHMAN, For W. CURTIS,<br />N<sup>o</sup> 3, <i>St. +George's-Crescent</i>, Black-Friars-Road;<br />And Sold by the principal +Booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland, M DCC XCIV.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>CONTENTS</h2> + +<div class='centered'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="CONTENTS"> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Lathyrus_Articulatus_Jointed-Podded_Lathyrus">[253]—<span class="smcap">Lathyrus Articulatus. Jointed-Podded Lathyrus.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Lopezia_Racemosa_Mexican_Lopezia">[254]—<span class="smcap">Lopezia Racemosa. Mexican Lopezia.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Cytisus_Sessilifolius_Sessile-Leavd_or_Common_Cytisus">[255]—<span class="smcap">Cytisus Sessilifolius. Sessile-Leav'd, or Common Cytisus.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Ixia_Longiflora_Long-Flowerd_Ixia">[256]—<span class="smcap">Ixia Longiflora. Long-Flower'd Ixia.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Lychnis_Chalcedonica_Scarlet_Lychnis">[257]—<span class="smcap">Lychnis Chalcedonica. Scarlet Lychnis.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Coronilla_Varia_Purple_Coronilla">[258]—<span class="smcap">Coronilla Varia. Purple Coronilla.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Lilium_Catesbaei_Catesbys_Lily">[259]—<span class="smcap">Lilium Catesbæi. Catesby's Lily.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Metrosideros_Citrina_Harsh-Leavd_Metrosideros">[260]—<span class="smcap">Metrosideros Citrina. Harsh-Leav'd Metrosideros.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Erodium_Incarnatum_Flesh-Coloured_Cranes-Bill">[261]—<span class="smcap">Erodium Incarnatum. Flesh-Coloured Crane's-Bill.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Mesembryanthemum_Aureum_Golden_Fig-Marigold">[262]—<span class="smcap">Mesembryanthemum Aureum. Golden Fig-Marigold.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Glycine_Bimaculata_Purple_Glycine">[263]—<span class="smcap">Glycine Bimaculata. Purple Glycine.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Cistus_Formosus_Beautiful_Cistus">[264]—<span class="smcap">Cistus Formosus. Beautiful Cistus.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Ixia_Bulbocodium_Crocus-Leavd_Ixia">[265]—<span class="smcap">Ixia Bulbocodium. Crocus-Leav'd Ixia.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Ranunculus_Amplexicaulis_Plantain-Leaved_Crowfoot">[266]—<span class="smcap">Ranunculus Amplexicaulis. Plantain-Leaved Crowfoot.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Pyrus_Spectabilis_Chinese_Apple_Tree">[267]—<span class="smcap">Pyrus Spectabilis. Chinese Apple Tree.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Glycine_Rubicunda_Dingy-flowered_Glycine">[268]—<span class="smcap">Glycine Rubicunda. Dingy-flowered Glycine.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Ornithogalum_Nutans_Neapolitan_Star_of_Bethlehem">[269]—<span class="smcap">Ornithogalum Nutans. Neapolitan Star of Bethlehem.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Glycine_Coccinea_Scarlet_Glycine">[270]—<span class="smcap">Glycine Coccinea. Scarlet Glycine.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Cyrtanthus_Angustifolius_Narrow-leaved_Cyrtanthus">[271]—<span class="smcap">Cyrtanthus Angustifolius. Narrow-leaved Cyrtanthus.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Gladiolus_Tristis_Square-leaved_Corn-flag">[272]—<span class="smcap">Gladiolus Tristis. Square-leaved Corn-flag.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Diosma_Uniflora_One-flowered_Diosma">[273]—<span class="smcap">Diosma Uniflora. One-flowered Diosma.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Borbonia_Crenata_Heart-Leaved_Borbonia">[274]—<span class="smcap">Borbonia Crenata. Heart-Leaved Borbonia.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Liriodendron_Tulipifera_Common_Tulip-Tree">[275]—<span class="smcap">Liriodendron Tulipifera. Common Tulip-Tree.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Blitum_Virgatum_Strawberry_Blite">[276]—<span class="smcap">Blitum Virgatum. Strawberry Blite.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Mahernia_Pinnata_Winged_Mahernia">[277]—<span class="smcap">Mahernia Pinnata. Winged Mahernia.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Lilium_Candidum_White_Lily">[278]—<span class="smcap">Lilium Candidum. White Lily.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Plumeria_Rubra_Red_Plumeria">[279]—<span class="smcap">Plumeria Rubra. Red Plumeria.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Apocynum_Androsaemifolium_Tutsan-Leavd_or_Fly-Catching_Dogsbane">[280]—<span class="smcap">Apocynum Androsæmifolium. Tutsan-Leav'd, or Fly-Catching Dogsbane.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Turnera_Angustifolia_Narrow-Leavd_Turnera">[281]—<span class="smcap">Turnera Angustifolia. Narrow-Leav'd Turnera.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Hedysarum_Obscurum_Creeping-Rooted_Hedysarum">[282]—<span class="smcap">Hedysarum Obscurum. Creeping-Rooted Hedysarum.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Mimulus_Ringens_Narrow-Leaved_Monkey-Flower">[283]—<span class="smcap">Mimulus Ringens. Narrow-Leaved Monkey-Flower.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Rosa_Semperflorens_Ever-Blowing_Rose">[284]—<span class="smcap">Rosa Semperflorens. Ever-Blowing Rose.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Jasminum_Odoratissimum_Sweetest_Jasmine">[285]—<span class="smcap">Jasminum Odoratissimum. Sweetest Jasmine.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Portlandia_Grandiflora_Great-Flowered_Portlandia">[286]—<span class="smcap">Portlandia Grandiflora. Great-Flowered Portlandia.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Goodenia_Laevigata_Smooth_Goodenia">[287]—<span class="smcap">Goodenia Lævigata. Smooth Goodenia.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Passiflora_Ciliata_Fringed-Leaved_Passion-Flower">[288]—<span class="smcap">Passiflora Ciliata. Fringed-Leaved Passion-Flower.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#INDEX"><span class="smcap">Index I.</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#INDEX2"><span class="smcap">Index II.</span></a></td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + +<h2>[253]</h2> +<h2><a name="Lathyrus_Articulatus_Jointed-Podded_Lathyrus" id="Lathyrus_Articulatus_Jointed-Podded_Lathyrus"></a><span class="smcap">Lathyrus Articulatus. Jointed-Podded Lathyrus.</span></h2> + +<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 style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><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 style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">LATHYRUS <i>articulatus</i> pedunculis subunifloris, cirrhis +polyphyllis; foliolis alternis. <i>Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. +p. 662.</i> <i>Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 41.</i></p> + +<p>CLYMENUM hispanicum, flore vario, siliqua articulata. <i>Tourn. Inst. +396.</i></p> + +<p>LATHYRUS hispanicus, pedunculis bifloris, cirrhis polyphyllis +foliolis alternis. <i>Mill. Dict. ed. 6. 4to.</i></p></div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i003.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>253.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i003.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>The seed-vessels are of the first importance in ascertaining the several +species of Lathyrus, some being naked, others hairy, some long, others +short, some having a smooth and perfectly even surface, others, as in +the present instance, assuming an uneven or jointed appearance.</p> + +<p>Of this genus we have already figured three annual species, common in +flower-gardens, viz. <i>odoratus</i>, <i>tingitanus</i>, and <i>sativus</i>; to these +we now add the <i>articulatus</i>, not altogether so frequently met with, but +meriting a place on the flower-border, as the lively red and delicate +white so conspicuous in its blossoms, causes it to be much admired.</p> + +<p>It is a native of Italy, and was cultivated at the Chelsea Garden, in +the time of Mr. <span class="smcap">Rand</span>, anno 1739.</p> + +<p>It is a hardy annual, requiring support, and rarely exceeding the height +of two feet, flowering in July and August, and is readily raised from +seeds, which should be sown in the open border at the beginning of +April.</p> + + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[254]</h2> + +<h2><a name="Lopezia_Racemosa_Mexican_Lopezia" id="Lopezia_Racemosa_Mexican_Lopezia"></a><span class="smcap">Lopezia Racemosa. Mexican Lopezia.</span></h2> + +<p class="center"><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Monandria Monogynia.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cal.</i> 4-phyllus. <i>Cor.</i> irregularis, pentapetala, duo superiora +geniculata, quintum inferne declinatum, plicatum, ungue arcuata.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">LOPEZIA <i>racemosa</i> caule herbaceo ramoso; foliis alternis +ovato-lanceolatis, serratis; floribus racemosis. <i>Cavanilles Ic. et +descr. Pl.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i004.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>254.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i004.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>Some plants have a claim on our attention for their utility, some for +their beauty, and some for the singularity of their structure, and the +wonderful nature of their œconomy; in the last class we must place +the present plant, the flowers of which we recommend to the examination +of such of our readers as may have an opportunity of seeing them; to the +philosophic mind, not captivated with mere shew, they will afford a most +delicious treat.</p> + +<p>We first saw this novelty in flower, towards the close of the year 1792, +at the Apothecaries Garden, Chelsea, where Mr. <span class="smcap">Fairbairn</span> informed me, +that he had that season raised several plants of it from seeds, +communicated by Dr. <span class="smcap">J. E. Smith</span>, who received them from Madrid, to which +place they were sent from South-America, and where the plant as Mons. +<span class="smcap">Cavanille</span> informs us, grows spontaneously near Mexico. In October 1793, +we had the pleasure of seeing the plant again in blossom in the +aforesaid garden, raised from seeds which ripened there the preceding +year, but unfortunately from the lateness of their flowering, and the +very great injury the plants had sustained from the Cobweb Mite (<i>Acarus +teliarius</i>) vulgarly called the red Spider, there seemed little prospect +that the seed-vessels would arrive at perfection.</p> + +<p>The seeds were sown by Mr. <span class="smcap">Fairbairn</span>, in March, and the plants kept in +the green-house till very late in the summer, when to accelerate their +blowing, they were removed into the dry stove: it is worthy of remark, +that these plants, even late in the autumn, shew no signs of blossoming, +but the flowers at length come forth with almost unexampled rapidity, +and the seed-vessels are formed as quickly, so that if the flowers were +not very numerous, their blossoming period would be of very short +duration; future experience may perhaps point out the means of making +the plant blow earlier: in Spain, the blossoms appeared later than here, +Mons. <span class="smcap">Cavanille</span> observed them in the Royal Garden, in November and +December, most probably in the open ground, as no mention is made of the +plants having been preserved from the weather.</p> + +<p>It was not till long after our description was taken, that we had an +opportunity of seeing Mons. <span class="smcap">Cavanille's</span> most accurate and elegant work, +above quoted, in which this plant is first figured and described; we +have selected the most essential parts of his generic character, and +adopted his specific description: there is one point, however, in which +we differ from him; the part which he regards as the fifth Petal, we are +inclined to consider rather as that indescribable something, called by +<span class="smcap">Linnæus</span> the Nectary, it is indeed of little moment whether we call it a +Petal or a Nectary, but there are several reasons why, strictly +speaking, we cannot regard it as a Petal: in general the number of +Petals correspond with the number of the leaves of the Calyx, those of +the latter are four; the base of this Nectary originates deeper than the +claws of the Petals, springing in fact from the same part as the +Filament, its structure, especially the lower part of it, is evidently +different from that of the Petals, corresponding indeed as nearly as +possible with that of the base of the filament.—<i>Vid.</i> <span class="smcap">Descer</span>.</p> + +<p>Mons. <span class="smcap">Cavanille</span> was induced to call this plant <i>Lopezia</i>, in compliment +to <span class="smcap">Th. Lopez</span>, a Spaniard<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a>.</p> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + +<h2><a name="DESCRIPTION_OF_THE_LOPEZIA" id="DESCRIPTION_OF_THE_LOPEZIA"></a>DESCRIPTION <span class="smcap">OF THE</span> LOPEZIA.</h2> + + + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>ROOT annual.</p> + +<p>STALK five or six feet high, branched almost to the bottom, square, +of a deep red colour, smooth towards the bottom, slightly hairy +above: <i>Branches</i> like the stalk.</p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">LEAVES alternate, ovate, pointed, toothed on the edges, more so on +the larger leaves, slightly beset with soft hairs, veins prominent +on the under side, usually running parallel to each other and +unbranched: <i>Leafstalks</i> hairy.</p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">FLOWERS numerous, from the alæ of the leaves, growing irregularly +on hairy leafy racemi, standing on long slender peduncles, which +hang down as the seed-vessels are produced: in this and some others +of its characters, the plant shews some affinity to the <i>Circæa</i>.</p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">CALYX: a <i>Perianthium</i> of four leaves, sitting on the Germen, +leaves narrow, concave, reddish, with green tips, the lowermost one +widely separated from the others, and placed immediately under the +Nectary, <i>fig.</i> 1.</p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">COROLLA four <i>Petals</i> of a pale red colour, forming in their mode +of growth the upper half of a circle, the two uppermost linear, of +a deeper colour near the apex, jointed below the middle, with a +small green gland on each joint, standing on short round +footstalks, which are hairy when magnified, the two side Petals +nearly orbicular with long narrow claws, the part between the base +of the Petal and the claw of a deeper red or crimson, <i>fig.</i> 2.</p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">NECTARY situated below the Petals, perfectly white, somewhat ovate, +the sides folding together, before the flower fully expands, nearly +upright, embracing and containing within it the Pistillum and +Stamen, on touching it ever so slightly with the point of a pin, +while in this state, it suddenly springs back and quits the +Pistillum, the lower elastic part of it is then bent in the form +represented in a magnified view of the flower on the plate, <i>fig.</i> +4. this curious phœnomenon has not been noticed by <span class="smcap">Cavanille</span>.</p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">STAMEN: <i>Filament</i> one, tapering and very slender just below the +Anthera, arising from the same part as (and placed opposite to the +base of) the Nectary the lower part of it broader, somewhat fleshy, +cartilaginous, and of the same nature as the inferior part of the +Nectary, with a groove as that has on the inside, so that before +the flower expands, the bases of each are like two half tubes, the +sides of which, nearly touching each other, wholly enclose the +Pistillum; as the fructification goes forward, the Filament, +endowed also with an elastic power, bends back soon after the +flower is open, betwixt the two uppermost Petals, and becomes +invisible to an inattentive observer; the Anthera, which is large, +is at first yellow, and afterwards dark brown, <i>fig.</i> 5.</p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">PISTILLUM: <i>Germen</i> below the Calyx, round, smooth, and green; +<i>Style</i> filiform, white, length of the Filament; Stigma forming a +small villous head, <i>fig.</i> 6. in some of the flowers the Pistillum +appears imperfect, being much shorter than usual, and wanting the +Stigma, perhaps such have not acquired their full growth, <i>fig.</i> 6.</p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">PERICARPIUM (from <span class="smcap">Cavanille</span>) a round <i>Capsule</i>, of four cells, and +four valves, the cells many-seeded.</p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">SEEDS very minute, ovate, affixed to a four-cornered receptacle.</p> +</div> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + +<h2>[255]</h2> +<h2><a name="Cytisus_Sessilifolius_Sessile-Leavd_or_Common_Cytisus" id="Cytisus_Sessilifolius_Sessile-Leavd_or_Common_Cytisus"></a><span class="smcap">Cytisus Sessilifolius. Sessile-Leav'd, or Common Cytisus.</span></h2> + +<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>Cal.</i> 2-labiatus: 2/3 <i>Legumen</i> basi attenuatum.</p> +</div> +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">CYTISUS <i>sessilifolius</i> racemis erectis, calycibus bractæa +triplici, foliis floralibus sessilibus. <i>Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. +14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 666.</i> <i>Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 50.</i></p> + +<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">CYTISUS glabris foliis subrotundis, pediculis brevissimis. <i>Bauh. +Pin. p. 390.</i></p> + +<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">CYTISUS vulgatior, the common Tree Trefoile. <i>Park. Parad. p. 440.</i></p></div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i009.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>255.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i009.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>The term <i>sessilifolius</i> has been given to this species of Cytisus, +because the leaves are for the most part sessile, that is sit close to +the branches, without any or very short footstalks; such they are at +least on the flowering branches when the shrub is in blossom, but at the +close of the summer they are no longer so, the leaves acquiring very +evident footstalks.</p> + +<p>It is a native of the more southern parts of Europe, and though in point +of size and elegance it cannot vie with its kindred Laburnum, it is a +deciduous shrub of considerable beauty, rarely exceeding the height of +five or six feet, and producing a great profusion of bright yellow +flowers, which continue in blossom a long while; they make their +appearance in May and June, and are usually succeeded by seed-vessels +which produce ripe seeds, by these the plant is readily propagated.</p> + +<p>It is one of the most common shrubs we have, as well as one of the +oldest inhabitants of our shrubberies, being mentioned by <span class="smcap">Parkinson</span> in +his <i>Parad. Terrestris</i>.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[256]</h2> +<h2><a name="Ixia_Longiflora_Long-Flowerd_Ixia" id="Ixia_Longiflora_Long-Flowerd_Ixia"></a><span class="smcap">Ixia Longiflora. Long-Flower'd Ixia.</span></h2> + +<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> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cor.</i> 6-partita, campanulata, regularis. <i>Stigmata</i> 3.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">IXIA <i>longiflora</i> foliis ensiformibus linearibus strictis, tubo +filiformi longissimo. <i>Ait. Kew. v. 4. p. 58.</i></p> + +<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">GLADIOLUS <i>longiflorus</i> caule tereti, tubo longissimo, spathis +foliisque linearibus glabris. <i>Linn. Suppl. p. 96.</i> <i>Gmel. Syst. +Vegetab. ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 86.</i></p></div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i012.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>256.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i012.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>We are not acquainted with a tribe of plants which stand more in need of +elucidation than those of this genus; of the vast numbers imported from +the Cape within these few years, where they are chiefly natives, and +that for the most part by way of Holland, few comparatively are well +ascertained; some of them appear subject to great variation, both in the +size and colour of their blossoms (whether in their wild state they are +thus inconstant, or whether there are seminal varieties raised by the +persevering industry of the Dutch Florists, we have not yet had it in +our power satisfactorily to ascertain); others like the present one have +their characters strongly marked, and less variable; in general they are +plants of easy culture, requiring chiefly to be protected from the +effects of frost, the least degree of which is presently fatal to most +of them.</p> + +<p>The treatment recommended for the <i>Ixia flexuosa</i> is applicable to this +and the other Cape species.</p> + +<p>According to the <i>Hort. Kew.</i> this species was introduced by Mr. <span class="smcap">Masson</span> +in the year 1774.</p> + +<p>It flowers from April to June.</p> + + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>[257]</h2> +<h2><a name="Lychnis_Chalcedonica_Scarlet_Lychnis" id="Lychnis_Chalcedonica_Scarlet_Lychnis"></a><span class="smcap">Lychnis Chalcedonica. Scarlet Lychnis.</span></h2> + +<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 style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cal.</i> 1-phyllus, oblongus, lævis. <i>Petala</i> 5-unguiculata. <i>Limbo</i> +sub-bifido. <i>Caps.</i> 5-locularis.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">LYCHNIS <i>chalcedonica</i> floribus fasciculatis fastigiatis. <i>Linn. +Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 435.</i> <i>Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 16.</i></p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">LYCHNIS hirsuta flore coccineo major. <i>Bauh. Pin. 203.</i></p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">FLOS Constantinopolitanus. <i>Dod. Pempt. 178.</i></p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">LYCHNIS <i>chalcedonica</i> flore simplici miniato. Single Nonsuch, or +Flower of Bristow or Constantinople. <i>Parkins. Parad. 253.</i></p></div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i013.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>257.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i013.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>The Scarlet Lychnis appears to have been a great favourite with +<span class="smcap">Parkinson</span>, he calls it a glorious flower, and in a wooden print of him +prefixed to his <i>Paradisus Terrestris</i>, we see him represented with a +flower of this sort in his hand of the double kind.</p> + +<p>It grows spontaneously in most parts of Russia, and is one of our most +hardy perennials.</p> + +<p>The extreme brilliancy of its flowers renders it a plant, in its single +state highly ornamental; when double, its beauty is heightened, and the +duration of it increased.</p> + +<p>It flowers in June and July.</p> + +<p>The single sort may be increased by parting its roots in autumn, but +more abundantly by seeds, which should be sown in the spring; the double +sort may also be increased by dividing its roots, but more plentifully +by cuttings of the stalk, put in in June, before the flowers make their +appearance; in striking of these, however, there requires some nicety.</p> + +<p>This plant is found to succeed best in a rich, loamy, soil; and certain +districts have been found to be more favourable to its growth than +others.</p> + +<p>A white and a pale red variety of it in its single state were known to +<span class="smcap">Clusius</span>, and similar varieties of the double kind are said to exist; it +is of little moment whether they do or not, every variation in this +plant from a bright scarlet is in every sense of the word a degeneracy.</p> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[258]</h2> +<h2><a name="Coronilla_Varia_Purple_Coronilla" id="Coronilla_Varia_Purple_Coronilla"></a><span class="smcap">Coronilla Varia. Purple Coronilla.</span></h2> + +<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 style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cal.</i> 2-labiatus: 2/3: dentibus superioribus connatis. <i>Vexillum</i> +vix alis longius. <i>Legumen</i> isthmis interceptum.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">CORONILLA <i>varia</i> herbacea, leguminibus erectis teretibus torosis +numerosis, foliolis plurimis glabris. <i>Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. +14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 670.</i> <i>Ait. Kew. v. 3. p. 59.</i></p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">SECURIDACA dumetorum major, flore vario, siliquis articulatis. +<i>Bauh. Pin. p. 349.</i></p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">SECURIDACA II. altera species. <i>Clus. Hist. 2. ccxxxvij.</i> The +greater joynted Hatchet Vetch. <i>Park. Theat. p. 1088.</i></p></div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i015.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>258.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i015.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Clusius</span>, in his work above referred to, informs us that he found this +plant growing wild in various parts of Germany, in meadows, fields, and +by road sides; that it flowered in June, sometimes the whole summer +through, and ripened its seeds in July and August; the blossoms he found +subject to much variation of colour, being either deep purple, whitish, +or even wholly white: <span class="smcap">Casp. Bauhine</span> notices another variety, in which +the alæ are white and the rostrum purple; this variety, which we have +had the honour to receive from the Earl of <span class="smcap">Egremont</span> is the most +desirable one to cultivate in gardens, as it is more ornamental than the +one wholly purple, most commonly met with in the nurseries, and +corresponds also better with its name of <i>varia</i>; it is to be noted +however that this variety of colour exists only in the young blossoms.</p> + +<p>The Coronilla varia is a hardy, perennial, herbaceous plant, climbing, +if supported, to the height of four or five feet, otherwise spreading +widely on the ground, and frequently injuring less robust plants growing +near it; on this account, as well as from its having powerfully creeping +roots whereby it greatly increases, though a pretty plant, and flowering +during most of the summer, it is not to be introduced without caution, +and is rather to be placed in the shrubbery, or outskirts of the garden, +than in the flower border.</p> + +<p>It will grow in any soil or situation, but blossoms and seeds most +freely in a soil moderately dry.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Parkinson</span> in his <i>Theater of Plants</i>, mentions its being cultivated, as +an ornamental plant. <i>Ait. Kew.</i></p> + +<p>Its bitterness, will be an objection to its being cultivated for the use +of cattle, for which purpose it has been recommended.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>[259]</h2> +<h2><a name="Lilium_Catesbaei_Catesbys_Lily" id="Lilium_Catesbaei_Catesbys_Lily"></a><span class="smcap">Lilium Catesbæi. Catesby's Lily.</span></h2> + +<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 style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cor.</i> 6-petala campanulata: linea longitudinali nectarifera. +<i>Caps.</i> valvulis pilo cancellato connexis.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">LILIUM <i>Catesbæi</i> caule unifloro, petalis erectis unguiculatis. +<i>Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 13.</i> <i>Gmel. p. 545.</i></p> + +<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">LILIUM <i>Catesbæi</i> foliis sparsis, bipedali, flore unico erecto, +corolla campanulata, petalis unguibus angustis longis. <i>Walt. Fl. +Carol. p. 123.</i></p> + +<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">LILIUM <i>Spectabile</i> foliis sparsis; floribus solitariis erectis; +petalorum unguibus angustis, alternis extus utrinque sulcatis, +laminis revolutis. <i>Salisb. Ic. Stirp. rar. t. 5.</i></p></div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i018.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>259.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i018.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>At the close of the year 1787, Mr. <span class="smcap">Robert Squibb</span>, sent me from +South-Carolina roots of the Lily here figured, many of which have since +flowered with various persons in this kingdom.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Catesby</span> in his Natural History of Carolina, gives a figure and short +account of it; <span class="smcap">Walter</span> in his <i>Flora Caroliniana</i> describes it under the +name of <i>Lilium Catesbæi</i>; Mr. <span class="smcap">Salisbury</span> in the first number of his very +magnificent work, lately published, presents us with a very highly +finished likeness of this lily, accompanied by a most accurate and +minute description of it, and judging from some appearances in <span class="smcap">Catesby's</span> +figure, that it was not the <i>Lilium Catesbæi</i> of <span class="smcap">Walter</span>, names it +<i>spectabile</i>; but as we are assured by Mr. <span class="smcap">Squibb</span>, who assisted his +friend <span class="smcap">Walter</span> in his publication, that it was the lily figured by +<span class="smcap">Catesby</span>, we have continued the name given in honour of that Naturalist.</p> + +<p>Of the different Lilies cultivated in this country, this is to be +numbered among the least, the whole plant when in bloom being frequently +little more than a foot high; in its native soil it is described as +growing to the height of two feet; the stalk is terminated by one +upright flower, of the form and colour represented on the plate; we have +observed it to vary considerably in the breadth of its petals, in their +colour, and spots.</p> + +<p>It flowers usually in July and August.</p> + +<p>This plant may be raised from seeds, or increased by offsets, which, +however, are not very plentifully produced, nor is the plant to be made +grow in perfection without great care, the roots in particular are to be +guarded against frost; the soil and situation may be the same as +recommended for the <i>Cyclamen Coum. p. 4. v. 1</i>.</p> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>[260]</h2> +<h2><a name="Metrosideros_Citrina_Harsh-Leavd_Metrosideros" id="Metrosideros_Citrina_Harsh-Leavd_Metrosideros"></a><span class="smcap">Metrosideros Citrina. Harsh-Leav'd Metrosideros.</span></h2> + +<p class="center"><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Icosandria Monogynia.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cal.</i> 5-dentatus, sinu germen fovens. <i>Petala</i> 5, caduca. <i>Stam.</i> +discreta, petalis multoties longiora. <i>Caps.</i> 3-4 locularis, +polysperma. <i>Banks. Gærtner.</i></p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">METROSIDEROS <i>citrina</i> foliis lineari-lanceolatis rigentibus.</p></div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i020.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>260.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i020.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>Though many species of this genus have been raised from seeds, brought +within these few years from the South Seas, where they are said to be +very numerous; this is, we believe, the only one that as yet has +flowered in this country: our drawing was made from a plant which +blossomed toward the close of last summer at Lord <span class="smcap">Cremornes</span>, the root of +which had been sent from Botany-Bay; previous to this period we have +been informed, that the same species flowered both at Kew and +Sion-House: as it is without difficulty raised both from seeds and +cuttings, young plants of it are to be seen in most of the Nurseries +near town; it would seem that they do not flower till they are at least +five or six years old.</p> + +<p><i>Metrosideros</i> is a name given originally by <span class="smcap">Rumphius</span> in <i>Herb. Amboin</i> +to some plants of this genus, the term applies to the hardness of their +wood, which by the Dutch is called Yzerhout (Ironwood): <span class="smcap">Forster</span> in his +<i>Gen. Pl.</i> figures this and another genus on the same plate, under the +name of <i>Leptospermum</i>; <span class="smcap">Schreber</span> in his edition of the <i>Gen. Pl.</i> of +<span class="smcap">Linnæus</span>, unites <i>Metrosideros</i>, <i>Melaleuca</i>, <i>Leptospermum</i>, and +<i>Fabricia</i>, under the genus <i>Melaleuca</i>; <span class="smcap">Gærtner</span> in his elaborate work +on the seeds of plants, makes separate genera of these, agreeably to the +ideas of Sir <span class="smcap">Joseph Banks</span> and Mr. <span class="smcap">Dryander</span>, who on this subject can +certainly boast the best information.</p> + +<p>We cannot, without transgressing the allotted limits of our +letter-press, give a minute description of the plant figured; suffice it +to say, that it is an ever-green shrub, growing to the height of from +four to six or more feet, that its leaves on the old wood feel very +harsh or rigid to the touch, and when bruised give forth an agreeable +fragrance, the flowers grow in spikes on the tops of the branches, and +owe their beauty wholly to the brilliant colour of the filaments.</p> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>[261]</h2> +<h2><a name="Erodium_Incarnatum_Flesh-Coloured_Cranes-Bill" id="Erodium_Incarnatum_Flesh-Coloured_Cranes-Bill"></a><span class="smcap">Erodium Incarnatum. Flesh-Coloured Crane's-Bill.</span></h2> + +<p class="center"><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Monadelphia Pentandria.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cal.</i> 5-phyllus. <i>Cor.</i> 5-petala. <i>Nect. Squamulæ</i> 5 cum +filamentis alternantes; et glandulæ melliferæ, basi staminum +insidentes. <i>Fructus</i> 5-coccus, rostratus; rostra spiralia, +introrsum barbata. <i>L'Herit. Geran.</i></p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">ERODIUM <i>incarnatum</i> pedunculis paucifloris, foliis tripartitis +ternatisve trifidis scabris, caule fruticuloso. <i>L'Herit. n. 21. +tab. 5.</i> <i>Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 415.</i></p> + +<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">GERANIUM incarnatum pedunculis bifloris, foliis tripartitis +trifidis glabris, petalis integris, arillis glabris. <i>Linn. Suppl. +Pl.</i></p> + +<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">GERANIUM <i>incarnatum</i> foliis incisis quinquelobis punctatis; +petiolis longissimis, pedunculis trifloris. <i>Cavanill. diff. 4. p. +223. n. 314. t. 97. f. 3.</i></p></div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i021.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>261.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i021.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>In the 80th number of this work we gave a figure of the <i>Pelargonium +tricolor</i>, a plant very generally regarded as the most beautiful of the +genus; we now present our readers with the representation of an +<i>Erodium</i>, which has to boast nearly an equal share of admiration.</p> + +<p>This species, as we learn from the <i>Hortus Kewensis</i>, is a native of the +Cape, and was introduced by Mr. <span class="smcap">Masson</span> in the year 1787.</p> + +<p>Its usual time of flowering is July and August; in this point it is +inferior to the <i>Pelargonium tricolor</i>, which blossoms through the +spring as well as summer months.</p> + +<p>It produces seeds but sparingly; cuttings of the plant are struck with +less difficulty than those of the <i>Pelargonium</i> above mentioned, the +same treatment is applicable to both plants, they must be regarded as +green-house plants of the more tender kind, which are liable to be +destroyed in the winter season by a moist cold atmosphere.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[262]</h2> +<h2><a name="Mesembryanthemum_Aureum_Golden_Fig-Marigold" id="Mesembryanthemum_Aureum_Golden_Fig-Marigold"></a><span class="smcap">Mesembryanthemum Aureum. Golden Fig-Marigold.</span></h2> + +<p class="center"><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Icosandria Pentagynia.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cal.</i> 5-fidus. <i>Petala</i> numerosa linearia. <i>Caps.</i> carnosa infera +polysperma.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">MESEMBRYANTHEMUM <i>aureum</i> foliis cylindrico-triquetris punctatis +distinctis, pistillis atro purpurascentibus. <i>Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. +10. p. 1060.</i> <i>Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 190.</i></p></div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i024.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>262.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i024.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>This Mesembryanthemum is one of the taller and more upright species, as +well as the earliest in point of flowering, producing its blossoms from +February to May; these are large and of a bright orange hue, the +pistilla in the centre are purple, and serve at once to distinguish and +embellish them.</p> + +<p>It was first described in the <i>10th ed.</i> of <i>Linn. Syst. Nat.</i> and +afterwards inserted in the <i>Hort. Kew.</i> of Mr. <span class="smcap">Aiton</span>, who informs us +that it is a native of the Cape, and was cultivated by Mr. <span class="smcap">Miller</span>, in +the year 1750. Prof. <span class="smcap">Murray</span> omits it in his <i>12th ed.</i> of the <i>Syst. +Vegetab.</i> of <span class="smcap">Linnæus</span>, as does Prof. <span class="smcap">Gmelin</span> in the last edition of <i>Linn. +Syst. Nat.</i></p> + +<p>The facility with which this tribe in general is increased by cuttings +is well known; this is raised as readily as the others.</p> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[263]</h2> +<h2><a name="Glycine_Bimaculata_Purple_Glycine" id="Glycine_Bimaculata_Purple_Glycine"></a><span class="smcap">Glycine Bimaculata. Purple Glycine.</span></h2> + +<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 style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cal.</i> 2-labiatus. <i>Corollæ</i> carina apice vexillum reflectens.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">GLYCINE <i>bimaculata</i> caule volubili lævi, foliis simplicibus +cordato-oblongis, racemis multifloris.</p></div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i025.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>263.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i025.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>Of the many plants which within these few years have been raised from +Botany-Bay seeds, this is one of the first which flowered in this +country, and one of the most ornamental; to the greenhouse it is indeed +an invaluable acquisition: we regret that the size of our paper and the +imperfection of the colouring art, will not admit of our giving a +representation of it more adequate to its beauty.</p> + +<p>It rises up with a twining shrubby stalk to the height of six, eight, or +more feet; these multiplying greatly by age, become loaded with a +profusion of purple flowers, growing in racemi, the richness of which is +enlivened by the appearance of two green spots at the base of the +vexillum; for the most part the blossoms go off with us without +producing any seed-vessels; in some instances, however, perfect seeds +have been produced, and we have seen a plant in bloom raised from such +in the charming retreat of <span class="smcap">John Ord</span>, Esq. Walham-Green.</p> + +<p>A great excellence of this plant is the duration of its flowering +period, it begins to put forth its blossoms in February, and continues +to do so during most of the summer.</p> + +<p>In the Nurseries about town, it is known by the name of <i>Glycine +virens</i>, a name given the plant originally by Dr. <span class="smcap">Solander</span>; the latter +of these terms we have taken the liberty of changing to <i>bimaculata</i>, as +being more expressive of an obvious character in the flower: we might, +perhaps, been justified in altering the genus, as its characters do not +appear to be peculiarly expressive of a Glycine, nor indeed of any other +genus in this numerous natural order.</p> + +<p>It is raised readily from seeds.</p> + +<p>We think it highly probable, that in warm sheltered situations, this +climber might grow in the open ground; to such as have it in abundance, +we recommend them to make the experiment.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[264]</h2> +<h2><a name="Cistus_Formosus_Beautiful_Cistus" id="Cistus_Formosus_Beautiful_Cistus"></a><span class="smcap">Cistus Formosus. Beautiful Cistus.</span></h2> + +<p class="center"><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Polyandria Monogynia.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cor.</i> 5-petala. <i>Cal.</i> 5-phyllus, foliolis duobus minoribus. +<i>Capsula.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i028.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>264.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i028.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">Lee</span>, Nurseryman of Hammersmith, informs me, that in the year 1780, +he raised the Cistus here figured from seeds, the produce of Portugal, +and as its flowers were uncommonly beautiful, he was induced to name it +<i>formosus</i>.</p> + +<p>It approaches so near to the <i>Cistus halimifolius</i> in point of habit, in +the form and colour of its leaves and flowers, that we are inclined +rather to regard it as a variety of that plant, than as a distinct +species; at the same time it must be allowed to be a very striking +variety, the flowers being at least thrice as large as those of the +<i>halimifolius</i> usually are, and the whole plant more hairy: as an +ornamental shrub, it is highly deserving a place in all curious +collections.</p> + +<p>It will grow very well in the open border in warm sheltered situations, +it may be kept also in a pot, by which means it may more readily be +sheltered during the winter, either in the greenhouse or under a frame.</p> + +<p>It flowers early in May, and may be increased by cuttings.</p> + + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[265]</h2> +<h2><a name="Ixia_Bulbocodium_Crocus-Leavd_Ixia" id="Ixia_Bulbocodium_Crocus-Leavd_Ixia"></a><span class="smcap">Ixia Bulbocodium. Crocus-Leav'd Ixia.</span></h2> + +<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> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cor.</i> 1-petala, tubulosa; tubo recto, filiformi; limbo 6-partito, +campanulato, æquali. <i>Stigmata</i> tria, simplicia. <i>Thunb. Diss. +de Ixia.</i></p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">IXIA <i>Bulbocodium</i> scapo unifloro brevissimo, foliis angulatis +caulinis, stigmatibus sextuplicibus. <i>Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 13. p. +76.</i></p> + +<p>IXIA <i>Bulbocodium</i> scapo ramoso, floribus solitariis, foliis +sulcatis reflexis. <i>Thunb. Diss. n. 3.</i></p> + +<p>CROCUS vernus angustifolius. 1. 11. <i>Clus. Hist. i. p. 207.</i> +violaceo flore, 208. <i>ejusd.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i029.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>265.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i029.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>There are three plants cultivated in the gardens of the curious to which +<i>Bulbocodium</i> is applied, either as a generic or a trivial name, viz. +<i>Narcissus Bulbocodium</i>, <i>Bulbocodium vernum</i>, already figured, and the +present plant: the <i>Ixia Bulbocodium</i> and <i>Bulbocodium vernum</i> are given +in this work, not so much for their beauty as their rarity, not so much +to gratify the eye, as to communicate a knowledge of two plants but +little known, and liable to be confounded from a similarity of their +names.</p> + +<p>This is one of the few hardy species of the genus, and grows wild in +many parts of Spain and Italy; it is said to have been found in +Guernsey: it affects hilly and dry situations, will grow readily in +almost any soil, especially if fresh, and not infested with vermin: it +flowers about the middle of April, the blossoms do not expand fully +unless exposed to the sun, and are not of long duration: authors +describe the wild plants as varying greatly in colour, <i>vid. Clus.</i> they +are most commonly pale blue.</p> + +<p>Like the Crocus, it increases readily by offsets.</p> + +<p>Was cultivated by Mr. <span class="smcap">Miller</span>, in 1739, <i>Ait. Kew.</i> Bulbocodium, 1. in +the 6th edition of his Dictionary in 4to, is not this plant, but the +<i>Anthericum scrotinum</i>, <i>Jacq. Fl. Austr. v. 5. app. t. 38.</i></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[266]</h2> +<h2><a name="Ranunculus_Amplexicaulis_Plantain-Leaved_Crowfoot" id="Ranunculus_Amplexicaulis_Plantain-Leaved_Crowfoot"></a><span class="smcap">Ranunculus Amplexicaulis. Plantain-Leaved Crowfoot.</span></h2> + +<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> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cal.</i> deciduus. 5 phyllus, (rarius 3-phyllus) <i>Petala</i> 5, (rarius +2, 3, aut 8) intra ungues squamula vel poro mellifero. <i>Styli</i> +persistentes. <i>Sem.</i> incrustata, erecta. <i>Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 13. +Gmel.</i></p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">RANUNCULUS <i>amplexicaulis</i> foliis ovatis acuminatis +amplexicaulibus, caule multifloro, radice fasciculata. <i>Linn. Syst. +Vegetab. ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 515.</i> <i>Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 265.</i></p> + +<p>RANUNCULUS montanus foliis plantaginis. <i>Bauh. Pin. 180.</i></p> + +<p>RANUNCULUS pyrenæus albo flore. <i>Clus. app. alt. auct. ic. 4 ta.</i> +<i>Ger. emac. 963. fig. 2.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i032.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>266.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i032.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>The leaves of the <i>Ranunculus amplexicaulis</i> in part surround the stalk +at their base, whence its trivial name; in colour they differ from most +others of the genus, being of a greyer or more glaucous hue, which +peculiarity joined to the delicate whiteness of the flowers, renders +this species a very desirable one to add to a collection of hardy, +ornamental, herbaceous plants, more especially as it occupies but little +space, and has no tendency to injure the growth of others.</p> + +<p>It is a native of the Apennine and Pyrenean mountains, and flowers in +April and May.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Clusius</span> is the first author who describes and figures this species. +<span class="smcap">Johnson</span> in his <i>ed.</i> of <span class="smcap">Gerard</span> copies his figure, and mentions it as +being then made a denizen of our gardens.</p> + +<p>It is readily propagated by parting its roots in Autumn, and provided it +has a pure air will succeed in most soils an situations.</p> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[267]</h2> +<h2><a name="Pyrus_Spectabilis_Chinese_Apple_Tree" id="Pyrus_Spectabilis_Chinese_Apple_Tree"></a><span class="smcap">Pyrus Spectabilis. Chinese Apple Tree.</span></h2> + +<p class="center"><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Icosandria Pentagynia.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cal.</i> 5-fidus. <i>Petala</i> 5. <i>Pomum</i> inferum, 5-loculare, +polyspermum.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">PYRUS <i>spectabilis</i> umbellis sessilibus, foliis ovali oblongis +serratis lævibus, unguibus calyce longioribus, stylis basi lanatis. +<i>Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 175.</i> <i>Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 13.</i> <i>Gmel. p. +842.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i033.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>267.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i033.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>The Chinese Apple-Tree when it blossoms in perfection, answers truly to +the name of <i>spectabilis</i>; a more shewy or ornamental tree can scarcely +be introduced to decorate the shrubbery or plantation; its beauty like +that of most trees, whose ornament consists chiefly in their blossoms, +is however but of short duration, and depends in some degree on the +favourableness of the season at the time of their expansion, which +usually takes place about the end of April or beginning of May; the +flowers are large, of a pale red when open, and semi-double, the buds +are of a much deeper hue, the fruit is of little account, and but +sparingly produced. Trees of this species are to be met with in some +gardens of the height of twenty or thirty feet.</p> + +<p>Dr. <span class="smcap">Fothergill</span> is regarded as the first who introduced this Chinese +native, he cultivated it in the year 1780; such plants of it as were in +his collection, passed at his decease into the hands of Messrs. <span class="smcap">Gordon</span> +and <span class="smcap">Thompson</span>, in whose rich and elegant Nursery, at Mile-End, this tree +may be seen in great perfection.</p> + +<p>Though perfectly hardy, as its blossoms are liable to be injured by +cutting winds, it will be most proper to plant it in a shelter'd +situation.</p> + +<p>It is usually increased by grafting it on the Crab stock.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[268]</h2> +<h2><a name="Glycine_Rubicunda_Dingy-flowered_Glycine" id="Glycine_Rubicunda_Dingy-flowered_Glycine"></a><span class="smcap">Glycine Rubicunda. Dingy-flowered Glycine.</span></h2> + +<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 style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cal.</i> 2-labiatus. <i>Corollæ</i> carina apice vexillum reflectens.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">GLYCINE <i>rubicunda</i> caule perenni volubili, foliis ternatis, +foliolis subovalibus integerrimis, pedunculis subtrifloris.</p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i036.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>268.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i036.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>The plant here figured, and very generally known to the Nurserymen, in +the neighbourhood of London, by the name of <i>Glycine rubicunda</i>, is a +native of New South-Wales, and was introduced to this country about the +same time as the <i>Glycine bimaculata</i> already figured.</p> + +<p>It is a shrubby, twining plant, running up to the height of five, six, +or more feet, producing blossoms abundantly from April to June, which +are usually succeeded by seed-vessels which ripen their seeds with us.</p> + +<p>The flowers though large and shewy, have a kind of dingy or lurid +appearance, which greatly diminishes their beauty. We have observed the +blossoms of some plants more brilliant than those of others, and we +think it highly probable, that, at some future period, seminal varieties +may be obtained with flowers highly improved in colour.</p> + +<p>This species is readily raised from seeds, is of quick growth, and may +be regarded as one of our more hardy green-house plants: probably it may +succeed in the open air, if planted in a warm situation, and sheltered +in inclement seasons.</p> + + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[269]</h2> +<h2><a name="Ornithogalum_Nutans_Neapolitan_Star_of_Bethlehem" id="Ornithogalum_Nutans_Neapolitan_Star_of_Bethlehem"></a><span class="smcap">Ornithogalum Nutans. Neapolitan Star of Bethlehem.</span></h2> + +<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 style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cor.</i> 6 petala, erecta, persistens, supra medium patens, +<i>Filamenta</i> alterna basi dilatata.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">ORNITHOGALUM <i>nutans</i> floribus secundis pendulis, nectario stamineo +campaniformi. <i>Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 328.</i> <i>Ait. +Kew. v. i. p. 443.</i></p> + +<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">ORNITHOGALUM exoticum magno flore minori innato. <i>Bauh. Pin. p. +70.</i></p> + +<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">ORNITHOGALUM Neopolitanum, the Starre-flower of Naples. <i>Park. +Parad. p. 138. p. 137. f. 8.</i> <i>Clus. app. alt. p. 9. fig. 7.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i037.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>269.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i037.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>Authors have given to this species of Ornithogalum the name of +Neapolitan, following <span class="smcap">Clusius</span> by whom the plant is figured and +described, and who so called it, merely on receiving it from Naples; it +may perhaps be doubted whether it be originally a native of Italy. Prof. +<span class="smcap">Jacquin</span> has figured it in his <i>Flora Austriaca</i>, the plant being common +about Vienna, in garden-walks, under hedges, and in meadows, he does not +however, from that circumstance, regard it as an original native there. +<span class="smcap">Casp. Bauhin</span> informs us that <span class="smcap">Honorius Belli</span> sent it him from Crete under +the name of <i>Phalangium</i>, leaving its true habitat to be settled more +precisely hereafter, we shall observe, that it is one of those plants +which soon accommodate themselves to any country; producing a numerous +progeny both from roots and seeds, and by no means nice as to soil or +situation; it is not long before it becomes a weed in the garden, from +whence it is apt like the <i>Hyacinthus racemosus</i>, already figured, to +pass into the field or meadow.</p> + +<p>Its flowers, which if not beautiful are singular and delicate, make +their appearance towards the end of April, they are of no long duration, +seldom continuing above a fortnight, and are succeeded by seed-vessels +which produce abundance of ripe seed, by which, as well as by its bulbs, +the plant may be increased.</p> + +<p>In the <i>Hortus Kewensis</i> it is set down as a Greenhouse plant, one of +the rare errors which occur in that most useful work.</p> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[270]</h2> +<h2><a name="Glycine_Coccinea_Scarlet_Glycine" id="Glycine_Coccinea_Scarlet_Glycine"></a><span class="smcap">Glycine Coccinea. Scarlet Glycine.</span></h2> + +<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 style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cal.</i> 2-labiatus. <i>Corollæ</i> carina apice vexillum reflectens.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">GLYCINE <i>coccinea</i> foliis ternatis, foliolis subrotundis undulatis.</p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i039.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>270.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i039.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>We here present our readers with another Glycine, very lately raised by +several persons in the neighbourhood of London from Botany-Bay seeds, +and which we have called <i>coccinea</i> from the colour of its blossoms.</p> + +<p>It is a shrubby, climbing plant, which, if supported, will grow to the +height of many feet, producing a great number of flowers on its pendant +branches; the leaves, which grow three together, are nearly round, and, +in the older ones especially, are crimped or curled at the edges; the +flowers grow for the most part in pairs, are of a glowing scarlet +colour, at the base of the carina somewhat inclined to purple, the +bottom of the vexillum is decorated with a large yellow spot, verging to +green, which adds much to the beauty of the flower.</p> + +<p>It blossoms from April to June, and appears to be fully as much disposed +to produce seed vessels, and perfect seeds, as the <i>rubicunda</i>, and by +which alone it has hitherto been propagated.</p> + +<p>We must rank it among the more tender green-house plants.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[271]</h2> +<h2><a name="Cyrtanthus_Angustifolius_Narrow-leaved_Cyrtanthus" id="Cyrtanthus_Angustifolius_Narrow-leaved_Cyrtanthus"></a><span class="smcap">Cyrtanthus Angustifolius. Narrow-leaved Cyrtanthus.</span></h2> + +<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 style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cor.</i> tubulosa, clavata, curva, 6-fida, laciniæ ovato-oblongæ. +<i>Filamenta</i> tubo inserta, apice conniventia. <i>Linn. Fil.</i></p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">CYRTANTHUS <i>angustifolius</i> foliis obtuse carinatis rectis, floribus +cernuis, <i>Linn. Fil. Ait. Kew. v. i. p. 414.</i></p> + +<p>CRINUM <i>angustifolium</i> foliis linearibus obtusis, corollis +cylindricis: laciniis alternis interglandulosis. <i>Linn. Suppl. +195.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i042.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>271.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i042.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Cyrtanthus</span> is a genus which takes its name from the curvature of its +flower, was established by the younger <span class="smcap">Linnæus</span>, and adopted by Mr. <span class="smcap">Aiton</span> +in the <i>Hortus Kewensis</i>.</p> + +<p>The present species is a native of the Cape, and was added to the royal +collection at Kew, by Mr. <span class="smcap">Masson</span>, in the year 1774. The plant from +whence our drawing was made flowered the preceding May with Mr. <span class="smcap">Whitley</span>, +Nurseryman, Old Brompton, who received it from Holland, and who has been +so fortunate as to obtain young plants of it from seed.</p> + +<p>It flowers in May and June; requires the same treatment as other Cape +bulbs, and may be increased by offsets and seeds.</p> + +<p>At the extremity of each alternate segment of the corolla there is a +kind of small glandular hook, deserving of notice.</p> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[272]</h2> +<h2><a name="Gladiolus_Tristis_Square-leaved_Corn-flag" id="Gladiolus_Tristis_Square-leaved_Corn-flag"></a><span class="smcap">Gladiolus Tristis. Square-leaved Corn-flag.</span></h2> + +<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> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cor.</i> 6-partita, ringens. <i>Stamina</i> adscendentia.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">GLADIOLUS <i>tristis</i> foliis lineari-cruciatis, corollis +campanulatis. <i>Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 86.</i> <i>Ait. +Kew. v. 1. p. 63.</i></p> + +<p>LILIO-GLADIOLUS bifolius et biflorus, foliis quadrangulis. <i>Trew. +Ehret. t. 39.</i></p> + +<p>GLADIOLUS <i>tristis</i> foliis linearibus sulcatis, caule bifloro, tubo +longissimo, segmentis æqualibus. <i>Mill. Dict. ed. 6. 4to.</i></p></div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i044.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>272.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i044.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Linnæus</span> gave to this species of <i>Gladiolus</i> the name of <i>tristis</i>, from +the colour of its flowers, which however possess scarcely sufficient of +the sombre to justify the appellation; still less so if they vary in the +manner represented in <span class="smcap">Trew's</span> <i>Ehret</i>, where they are painted in gay and +lively colours: in the specimens we have seen, the blossoms have been of +a sulphur colour, shaded in particular parts with very fine pencillings, +especially on the under side: most authors describe the flowering stems +as producing only two flowers, <span class="smcap">Linnæus</span> has observed that they sometimes +produce many, we have seen them do so where the plant has grown in +perfection; in their expansion, which usually takes place in April and +May, they give forth a most agreeable fragrance.</p> + +<p>It is a native of the Cape, and other parts of Africa; was cultivated by +Mr. <span class="smcap">Miller</span>, and flowered in the Chelsea Garden in the year 1745. <i>Ait. +Kew.</i></p> + +<p>The leaves which so characteristically distinguish this species are +highly deserving of notice, instances of such rarely occur; as the bulbs +produce numerous offsets, the plant is propagated by them without +difficulty, and requires the same treatment as other Cape bulbs.</p> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[273]</h2> +<h2><a name="Diosma_Uniflora_One-flowered_Diosma" id="Diosma_Uniflora_One-flowered_Diosma"></a><span class="smcap">Diosma Uniflora. One-flowered Diosma.</span></h2> + +<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 style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cor.</i> 5-petala. <i>Nectaria</i> 5, supra germen. <i>Caps.</i> 3. s. 5. +coalitæ. <i>Sem.</i> calyptrata.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">DIOSMA <i>uniflora</i> foliis ovato oblongis, floribus solitariis +terminalibus. <i>Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 3. p. 287.</i> <i>Syst. Vegetab. ed. +14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 239.</i> <i>Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 276.</i></p> + +<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">CISTUS humilis æthiopicus, inferioribus foliis rosmarini sylvestris +punctatis, cæteris autem serpylli subrotundis, flore carneo. <i>Pluk. +mant. 49. t. 342. f. 5.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i045.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>273.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i045.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + + +<p>The <i>Diosma uniflora</i> another native of the Cape, that never failing +source of vegetable riches, was introduced to the Royal Garden at Kew by +Mr. <span class="smcap">Masson</span> in the year 1775, it flowers in our Green-Houses from April +to June, and is usually propagated by cuttings.</p> + +<p>This plant forms a small bushy shrub, the leaves are thickly and +irregularly set on the branches, quite up to the flowers, which stand +singly on their summits, and are larger than those of any other known +species of Diosma, expanding as we have found on trial beyond the size +of half-a-crown, which the blossom does in our figure, though it will +not appear to do so to the eye of most observers; they are without +scent, the calyx is large and continuing, composed of five +ovato-lanceolate leaves, reddish on the upper side, and if viewed from +above visible between the petals; the petals are five in number, much +larger than the calyx, and deciduous, of a white colour with a streak of +red running down the middle of each, surface highly glazed, the stamina +are composed of five short filaments, white and slightly hairy, broad at +their base and tapering gradually to a fine point, by which they are +inserted into the hind part of the antheræ, near the bottom; the +antheræ are as long as the filaments, of a brown purple colour, bending +over the stigma, and opening inwardly, each carrying on the upper part +of its back a gland-like substance, of a pale brown colour: besides +these parts there are five filamentous bodies alternating with, and of +the same length as the stamina, of a white colour, and hairy, each +dilating at its extremity where it is of a reddish hue, and presenting +towards the antheræ an oval somewhat concave surface, which secretes a +viscous liquid; in some flowers that we have examined, and we regret +seeing but few, we have observed these nectaries (for such they may be +strictly called) closely adhering by their viscous summits to the +glandular substances at the back of the antheræ<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a>; the germen is +studded with a constellation of little glands, which pour forth, and +almost deluge it with nectar; the stigma is composed of five little +round knobs: seed vessels we have not seen.</p> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[274]</h2> +<h2><a name="Borbonia_Crenata_Heart-Leaved_Borbonia" id="Borbonia_Crenata_Heart-Leaved_Borbonia"></a><span class="smcap">Borbonia Crenata. Heart-Leaved Borbonia.</span></h2> + +<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 style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cal.</i> acuminato-spinosus. <i>Stigma</i> emarginatum. <i>Legumen</i> +mucronatum.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">BORBONIA <i>crenata</i> foliis cordatis multinerviis denticulatis. +<i>Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 643.</i> <i>Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. +9.</i></p> + +<p>FRUTEX <i>æthiopicus</i> leguminosus, foliis rusci majoribus in ambitu +spinulis fimbriatis. <i>Pluk. Alm. 159.</i></p> + +<p>PLANTA leguminosa æthiopica, foliis rusci. <i>Breyn. Cent. t. 28.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i049.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>274.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i049.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p><i>Borbonia</i> is a genus of plants established by <span class="smcap">Linnæus</span> in the 6th +edition of his <i>Genera Plantarum</i>; of this genus there are six species +enumerated in the 3d edition of the <i>Species Plant</i>. and two in the +<i>Hort. Kew.</i> the latter of which, the <i>crenata</i>, introduced from the +Cape by Mr. <span class="smcap">Masson</span>, in 1774, is here figured.</p> + +<p>It is a small shrubby plant, rarely exceeding the height of three feet, +producing its flowers in a small cluster on the summits of the branches; +these are of a yellow colour, and have nothing about them peculiarly +singular, or beautiful; it is the foliage alone which renders this plant +desirable in a collection.</p> + +<p>It flowers from June to August, and in favourable seasons ripens its +seeds, by which the plant is usually propagated.</p> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[275]</h2> +<h2><a name="Liriodendron_Tulipifera_Common_Tulip-Tree" id="Liriodendron_Tulipifera_Common_Tulip-Tree"></a><span class="smcap">Liriodendron Tulipifera. Common Tulip-Tree.</span></h2> + +<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> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cal.</i> 3-phyllus. <i>Petala</i> 6. <i>Sem.</i> imbricata in strobilum.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">LIRIODENDRON <i>Tulipifera</i> foliis lobatis. <i>Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. +14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 507.</i> <i>Ait. Kew. v. 2. 250.</i></p> + +<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">TULIPIFERA virginiana, tripartito aceris folio: media lacinia velut +abscissa. <i>Pluk. Alm. 379. t. 117. f. 5. & t. 248. f. 7.</i> <i>Catesb. +Carol. 1. p. 48. t. 48.</i></p> + +<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">LIRIODENDRON foliis angulatis truncatis. <i>Trew. Ehret. t. x.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i050.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>275.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i050.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>The Tulip-tree is a native of most parts of North-America, <span class="smcap">Marshall</span> +describes it as often growing to the size of a very large tree, 70 or 80 +feet in height, and above 4 feet in diameter; he mentions two varieties, +one with yellow and the other with white wood; that with yellow wood is +soft and brittle, much used for boards, heels of shoes, also turned into +bowls, trenchers, &c. the white is heavy, tough, and hard, and is sawed +into joists, boards, &c. for building.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Ray</span> informs us in his <i>Hist. Pl.</i> that this tree was cultivated here by +Bishop <span class="smcap">Compton</span>, in 1688: and from <span class="smcap">Miller</span> we learn, that the first tree +of the kind which flowered in this country, was in the gardens of the +Earl of <span class="smcap">Peterborough</span>, at Parsons-Green, near Fulham; in Mr. <span class="smcap">Ord's</span> +garden, at Walham-Green, there is, among other choice old trees, a very +fine tulip-tree, which is every year covered with blossoms, and which +afforded us the specimen here figured. It flowers in June and July, +rarely ripens its seeds with us, though it does readily in America.</p> + +<p>The foliage of this plant is extremely singular, most of the leaves +appearing as if truncated, or cut off at the extremity; they vary +greatly in the division of their lobes, the flowers differ from those of +the tulip in having a calyx, but agree as to the number of petals, which +is six; and so they are described in the sixth edition of the <i>Gen. Pl.</i> +of <span class="smcap">Linn.</span> but in <i>Professor</i> <span class="smcap">Murray's</span> <i>Syst. Veg. Ait. H. K. Linn. Syst. +Nat. ed. 13</i>, by <span class="smcap">Gmelin</span>, 9 are given, this in the first instance must be +a mere typographical error arising from the inversion of the 6.</p> + +<p>This tree is found to flourish most in a soil moderately stiff and +moist, is usually raised from seeds, the process of which is amply +described by <span class="smcap">Miller</span> in his Dictionary.</p> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[276]</h2> +<h2><a name="Blitum_Virgatum_Strawberry_Blite" id="Blitum_Virgatum_Strawberry_Blite"></a><span class="smcap">Blitum Virgatum. Strawberry Blite.</span></h2> + +<p class="center"><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Monandria Digynia.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Col.</i> 3-fidus. <i>Petala</i> O. <i>Sem.</i> 1. calyce baccato.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">BLITUM <i>virgatum</i> capitellis sparsis lateralibus. <i>Linn. Syst. +Vegetab. ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 53.</i> <i>Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 7.</i></p> + +<p>ATRIPLEX sylvestris mori fructu. <i>Bauh. Pin. p. 519.</i></p> + +<p>ATRIPLEX sylvestris baccifera. <i>Clus. Hist. cxxxv.</i></p></div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i052.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>276.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i052.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>This plant, not unfrequently met with in gardens, is known to most +cultivators by the name of <i>Strawberry Spinach</i>; the leaves somewhat +resembling those of the latter, and the fruit that of the former: <span class="smcap">C. +Bauhine</span> likens its berries to those of the Mulberry, to which they +certainly bear a greater resemblance: in most of the species of this +genus the calyx exhibits a very singular phenomenon, when the flowering +is over, it increases in size, becomes fleshy, and finally pulpy, +containing the ripe seed, which however it does not wholly envelope; +thus from each cluster of flowers growing in the alæ of the leaves are +produced so many berries, of a charming red colour, to which the plant +owes its beauty altogether, for the flowers are small, herbaceous, and +not distinctly visible to the naked eye; they can boast however of being +of the first class in the Linnean system <i>Monandria</i>, to which few +belong.</p> + +<p>Strawberry Blite is a hardy annual, growing spontaneously in some parts +of France, Spain, and Tartary; is not a very old inhabitant of our +gardens, Mr. <span class="smcap">Aiton</span> mentioning it as being first cultivated by Mr. <span class="smcap">Miller</span> +in 1759. Its berries are produced from June to September; in their taste +they have nothing to recommend them, though not pleasant they are +harmless.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Clusius</span> we believe to be the first author who gives a figure and +description of it.</p> + +<p>It affects a dry soil, and open situation; in such there is no necessity +to give any particular directions for its cultivation, as it comes up +readily from seed spontaneously scattered, so much so as sometimes to +prove a troublesome weed.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[277]</h2> +<h2><a name="Mahernia_Pinnata_Winged_Mahernia" id="Mahernia_Pinnata_Winged_Mahernia"></a><span class="smcap">Mahernia Pinnata. Winged Mahernia.</span></h2> + +<p class="center"><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Pentandria Pentagynia.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cal.</i> 5-dentatus. <i>Petala</i> 5. <i>Nectaria</i> 5 obcordata, filamentis +supposita. <i>Caps.</i> 5-locularis.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">MAHERNIA <i>pinnata</i>, foliis tripartito pinnatifidis. <i>Linn. Syst. +Vegetab. ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 308.</i> <i>Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 398.</i></p> + +<p>HERMANNIA foliis tripartitis, media pinnatifida. <i>Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. +3. p. 943.</i></p> + +<p>HERMANNIA frutescens, folio multifido tenui, caule rubro. <i>Boerh. +Lugd. 1. p. 273.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i055.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>277.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i055.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Linnæus</span>, in his <i>Spec. Pl.</i> regarded this plant as a species of +<i>Hermannia</i>; finding afterwards that it differed materially in its +fructification from that genus, he made a new one of it in his +<i>Mantissa</i>, by the name of <i>Mahernia</i>; still, however, the two genera +are very nearly related: one principal difference consists in the +nectaria of the <i>Mahernia</i>, which are very remarkable.</p> + +<p>This species was introduced from the Cape, where it is a native, by Mr. +<span class="smcap">Masson</span>, in 1774, and is now very generally met with in our green-houses. +It produces its little bells, of a lively red when they first open, from +June to August, or September; is a small delicate plant, and easily +raised from cuttings.</p> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[278]</h2> +<h2><a name="Lilium_Candidum_White_Lily" id="Lilium_Candidum_White_Lily"></a><span class="smcap">Lilium Candidum. White Lily.</span></h2> + +<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 style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cor.</i> 6-petala, campanulata: linea longitudinali nectarifera. +<i>Caps.</i> valvulis pilo cancellato connexis.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">LILIUM <i>candidum</i> foliis sparsis, corollis campanulatis, intus +glabris. <i>Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 3. p. 433.</i> <i>Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14.</i> +<i>Murr. p. 324.</i> <i>Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 429.</i></p> + +<p>LILIUM album flore erecto et vulgare. <i>Bauh. Pin. 76.</i></p> + +<p>LILIUM album vulgare. The ordinary White Lily. <i>Park. Parad. p. 39. +t. 37. f. 4.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i056.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>278.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i056.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>We may rank the White Lily among the very oldest inhabitants of the +flower-garden; in the time of <span class="smcap">Gerard</span> it was very generally cultivated, +and doubtless at a much earlier period; a plant of such stateliness, so +shewy, so fragrant, and at the same time so much disposed to increase, +would of course soon be found very generally in gardens, into which its +introduction would be accelerated on another account; it was regarded as +a plant of great efficacy; among other extraordinary powers attributed +to it, we are gravely told that it taketh away the wrinkles of the face.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Linnæus</span> makes it a native of Palestine and Syria; Mr. <span class="smcap">Aiton</span> of the +Levant.</p> + +<p>Its blossoms, which open early in July, continue about three weeks, and +when they go off leave the flower-garden greatly thinned of its +inhabitants.</p> + +<p>Of the White Lily there are three principal varieties:</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">1. With double flowers.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">2. With flowers blotched with purple.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">3. With striped leaves, or leaves edged with yellow.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>The two first of these are to be esteemed merely as curiosities; in the +third the plant acquires an accession of beauty which it has not +originally; though many persons object to variegated leaves, as +conveying an idea of fickliness, that complaint cannot be urged against +the foliage of the striped Lily, to which the borders of the +flower-garden are indebted for one of their chief ornaments during the +autumnal and winter months; early in September these begin to emerge, +and towards spring another set rises up in their centre, of more upright +growth, and which announce the rising of the flowering stem.</p> + +<p>Besides these varieties, <span class="smcap">Linnæus</span> has considered the <i>Lilium album +floribus dependentibus s. peregrinum</i> of <span class="smcap">C. Bauhine</span>, the <i>Sultan +Zambach</i> of <span class="smcap">Clusius</span>, and the <i>Hortus Eystettensis</i>, as one of its +varieties also: <span class="smcap">Miller</span> regards this plant as a distinct species, and +those who have attentively examined the figures and descriptions of +<span class="smcap">Clusius</span> and the <i>Hort. Eyst.</i> will be of the same opinion.</p> + +<p>The Lily increases most abundantly by offsets, hence it becomes +necessary that the bulbs should be taken up, and reduced every second or +third year; but the striped leaved variety increasing much more slowly, +should remain unmolested for a greater length of time.</p> + +<p>There is scarcely a soil or situation in which the Lily will not grow, +it will thrive most in a soil moderately stiff and moist; though a +native of a warm climate no severity of weather affects it with us: we +may learn from this, not to regulate the culture of plants invariably by +the climate in which they grow spontaneously.</p> + +<p>The best time for removing the bulbs of this plant is about the middle +of August, before they shoot forth their leaves; but they may be +transplanted any time from September to spring.</p> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[279]</h2> +<h2><a name="Plumeria_Rubra_Red_Plumeria" id="Plumeria_Rubra_Red_Plumeria"></a><span class="smcap">Plumeria Rubra. Red Plumeria.</span></h2> + +<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 style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">Contorta. <i>Folliculi</i> 2. reflexi. <i>Semina</i> membranæ propriæ +inserta.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">PLUMERIA <i>rubra</i> foliis ovato-oblongis, petiolis biglandulosis. +<i>Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 254.</i> <i>Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. +298.</i></p> + +<p>PLUMERIA flore roseo odoratissimo. <i>Tourn. Inst. 659.</i> <i>Trew. +Ehret. Tab. xli.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i059.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>279.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i059.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p><i>Plumeria</i> is a genus of plants named by <span class="smcap">Tournefort</span> in honour of his +countryman the celebrated <span class="smcap">Plumier</span>, it comes near to Nerium or Oleander, +and contains several species, all natives of warm climates.</p> + +<p>The present plant is a native of Jamaica, where it is known by the name +of Red Jasmine, from whence seeds and large cuttings are often sent to +this country; here they require the stove to bring them to flower: +seed-vessels they are never known to produce.</p> + +<p>The flowers, which are very odoriferous, are produced in July and August +in large bunches, on the summits of the branches, from whence the leaves +also proceed; the stems, which grow to a considerable height as well as +thickness, are naked, and the whole plant loses its foliage from the +middle of winter till about the beginning of May; the branches and other +parts of the plant, when broken off, give forth a milky juice, the +leaves are handsome, and the veins remarkable.</p> + +<p>Being too tender to bear the open air of this climate, it is kept in the +stove even during summer, in hot weather it must have plenty of air, and +in cold seasons be sparingly watered.</p> + +<p>Is propagated by seeds, but more frequently by cuttings, which <span class="smcap">Miller</span> +recommends to be put by for two months or ten weeks, previous to their +being committed to the earth.</p> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[280]</h2> +<h2><a name="Apocynum_Androsaemifolium_Tutsan-Leavd_or_Fly-Catching_Dogsbane" id="Apocynum_Androsaemifolium_Tutsan-Leavd_or_Fly-Catching_Dogsbane"></a><span class="smcap">Apocynum Androsæmifolium. Tutsan-Leav'd,</span> or <span class="smcap">Fly-Catching Dogsbane.</span></h2> + +<p class="center"><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Pentandria Digynia.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cor.</i> campanulata. <i>Glandulæ</i> 5 cum staminibus alternæ.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">APOCYNUM <i>androsæmifolium</i> caule rectiuseulo herbaceo, foliis +ovatis utrinque glabris, cymis terminalibus. <i>Linn. Syst. Vegetab. +ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 258.</i> <i>Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 303.</i></p> + +<p>APOCYNUM canadense; foliis androsæmi majoris. <i>Bocc. sicc. 35. t. +16. f. 3.</i> <i>Moris. Hist. 3. p. 609. s. 15. t. 3. f. 16.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i061.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>280.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i061.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>In addition to the powerful recommendations of beauty and fragrance, the +Tutsan-leav'd Dogsbane interests us on account of the curious structure +of its flowers, and their singular property of catching flies.</p> + +<p>This species is a native of different parts of North-America; Mr. <span class="smcap">W. +Hale</span>, of Alton, Hants, who resided at Halifax in Nova-Scotia several +years, brought me some seeds of it gathered in that neighbourhood, which +vegetated, and produced flowering plants: it is not new to this country, +being known to <span class="smcap">Morison</span> who figures it, and to <span class="smcap">Miller</span>, who cultivated it +in 1731.</p> + +<p>It is a hardy perennial plant, growing to about the height of a foot and +a half, or two feet, and flowering from the beginning of July, to +September; it has a creeping root, thereby it increases greatly in light +dry soils, and warm situations, so as even to be troublesome; it will +not thrive in a wet soil; with us it produces seed-vessels but rarely; +is propagated by parting its roots in Autumn or Spring; <span class="smcap">Miller</span> +recommends March as the most proper season, or it may be raised from +seeds, which in certain situations and seasons ripen here.</p> + +<p>The flowers of this Apocynum have a sweet honey-like fragrance, which +perfumes the air to a considerable distance, and no doubt operates +powerfully in attracting insects; when a plant of this sort is fully +blown, one may always find flies caught in its blossoms, usually by the +trunk, very rarely by the leg; sometimes four, or even five, which is +the greatest possible number, are found in one flower, some dead, others +endeavouring to disentangle themselves, in which they are now and then +so fortunate as to succeed; these flies are of different species, the +<i>musca pipiens</i>, a slender variegated fly with thick thighs, is a very +common victim, the <i>musca domestica</i>, or house fly, we have never +observed among the captives.</p> + +<p>Previous to our explaining the manner in which it appears to us that +these insects are caught, it will be necessary that we should describe, +in as plain a manner as possible, those parts of the flower which more +particularly constitute this fatal fly trap.</p> + +<p>On looking into the flower we perceive five Stamina, the Antheræ of +which are large, of a yellow colour, and converge into a kind of cone; +each of these Antheræ is arrow-shaped, towards the top of the cone their +sides touch but do not adhere, below they separate a little, so as to +leave a very narrow opening or slit between each, they are placed on +very short filaments, which stand so far apart that a considerable +opening is left between them, which openings, however, are closed up by +processes of the corolla, nicely adapted to, and projecting into them; +at the bottom of, and in the very centre of the flower, we perceive two +germina, or seed-buds, the rudiments of future seed-vessels, surrounded +by glandular substances, secreting a sweet liquid; on the summit of +these germina, and betwixt the two, stands the stigma, in the form of a +little urn, the middle of which is encircled by a glandular ring, which +secretes a viscid honey-like substance, to this part of the stigma the +Antheræ interiorly adhere most tenaciously, so as to prevent their +separation unless considerable force be applied; it is, as we apprehend, +the sweet viscid substance thus secreted by the stigma, within the +Antheræ, which the fly endeavours to obtain, and to this end insinuates +its trunk first into the lowermost and widest part of the slit, betwixt +each of the Antheræ above described, pushing it of necessity upwards: +when gratified, not having the sense to place itself in the same +position as that in which it stood when it inserted its trunk, and to +draw it out in the same direction downwards, unfortunately for it, it +varies its position, and pulling its trunk upwards, draws it into the +narrow part of the slit, where it becomes closely wedged in, and the +more it pulls the more securely it is caught, and thus this heedless +insect, as <span class="smcap">Thomson</span> calls it, terminates its existence in captivity most +miserable.</p> + +<p>In the incomparable poem of Dr. <span class="smcap">Darwin</span>, entitled the <i>Botanic Garden</i>, +there is a figure given of this plant; and in the Supplement we have the +following account written by Mr. <span class="smcap">Darwin</span>, of Elston.</p> + +<p>"In the Apocynum Androsæmifolium the Anthers converge over the +nectaries, which consist of five glandular oval corpuscles, surrounding +the germ, and at the same time admit air to the nectaries at the +interstice between each anther; but when a fly inserts its proboscis +between these anthers to plunder the honey, they converge closer, and +with such violence as to detain the fly, which thus generally perishes."</p> + +<p>This explanation of a phænomenon entitled to much attention, is widely +different from ours; which of the two is most consonant to truth and +nature, we shall leave to the determination of future observers.</p> + +<p>In explaining the preceding appearances, to prevent confusion we called +those parts which form the cone in the middle of the flower Antheræ, but +strictly speaking they are not such, the true Antheræ being situated on +the inside of their summits, where they will be found to be ten in +number, making in fact the Apocynum a decandrous plant.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[281]</h2> +<h2><a name="Turnera_Angustifolia_Narrow-Leavd_Turnera" id="Turnera_Angustifolia_Narrow-Leavd_Turnera"></a><span class="smcap">Turnera Angustifolia. Narrow-Leav'd Turnera.</span></h2> + +<p class="center"><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Pentandria Trigynia.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cal.</i> 5-fidus, infundibuliformis, exterior 2-phyllus. <i>Petala</i> 5 +calyci inserta. <i>Stigmata</i> multifida. <i>Caps.</i> 1-locularis, +3-valvis.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">TURNERA <i>angustifolia</i> floribus sessilibus petiolaribus, foliis +lanceolatis rugosis acuminatis. <i>Mill. Dict. ed. 6. 4to.</i></p> + +<p>TURNERA frutescens folio longiore et mucronato. <i>Mart. Cent. 49. t. +49.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i066.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>281.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i066.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>This plant here represented is generally known to the Nurserymen about +London as the <i>Turnera ulmifolia</i>, or <i>Elm-leav'd Turnera</i>, its foliage +however does not answer to the name, nor to the figures of the plant as +given by <span class="smcap">Martyn</span> in his <i>Cent. Pl.</i> and <span class="smcap">Linnæus</span> in his <i>Hortus +Cliffortianus</i>, which figures indeed are so similar that they look like +copies of each other, these represent the true elm leaf; on the same +plate of <i>Martyn's Cent.</i> there is given a very excellent figure of what +he considers as another species of Turnera, vide Synon. and which +<span class="smcap">Miller</span>, who cultivated it about the year 1773, also describes as a +distinct species, under the name of <i>angustifolia</i>, asserting, from the +experience of thirty years, that plants raised from its seeds have +constantly differed from those of the <i>ulmifolia</i>; this is our plant, +which on his authority we have given as a species, though <span class="smcap">Linnæus</span> +regards it as a variety.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Plumier</span> gave to this genus the name of <i>Turnera</i>, in honour of Dr. +<span class="smcap">William Turner</span>, a celebrated English Botanist and Physician, who +published an Herbal, black letter, folio, in 1568.</p> + +<p>The present species is a native of the West-Indies, and is commonly +cultivated in our stoves, where it rises with a semi-shrubby stalk, to +the height of several feet, seldom continuing more than two or three +years; young plants generally come up in plenty from seeds spontaneously +scattered, so that a succession is easily obtained.</p> + +<p>It flowers from June to August.</p> + +<p>Its foliage has a disagreeable smell when bruised; its flowers are +shewy, but of short duration, and are remarkable for growing out of the +footstalk of the leaf.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[282]</h2> +<h2><a name="Hedysarum_Obscurum_Creeping-Rooted_Hedysarum" id="Hedysarum_Obscurum_Creeping-Rooted_Hedysarum"></a><span class="smcap">Hedysarum Obscurum. Creeping-Rooted Hedysarum.</span></h2> + +<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 style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cor.</i> carina transverse obtusa. <i>Legumen</i> articulis 1-spermis.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">HEDYSARUM <i>obscurum</i> foliis pinnatis, stipulis vaginalibus, caule +erecto flexuoso, floribus pendulis. <i>Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14.</i> +<i>Murr. p. 676.</i> <i>Mant. 447.</i> <i>Jacq. Fl. Austr. v. 2. t. 168.</i></p> + +<p>HEDYSARUM caule recto, ramoso; foliis ovatis; siliquis pendulis, +lævissimis, venosis. <i>Hall. Hist. Helv. n. 395.</i></p> + +<p>ONOBRYCHIS semine clypeato lævi. <i>Bauh. Pin. 350.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i067.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>282.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i067.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>Prof. <span class="smcap">Jacquin</span>, in the second volume of the <i>Flora austriaca</i>, gives an +excellent figure and accurate description of our plant, a native of the +Alps of Germany and Switzerland, and points out the characters in which +it differs from the <i>alpinum</i>, for which it has sometimes been mistaken.</p> + +<p>It is a hardy perennial, rarely exceeding a foot in height, produces its +spikes of pendulous flowers, which are of a most beautiful purple +colour, in July and August; hitherto these have not been succeeded by +seed-vessels with us; though we have cultivated the plant for several +years.</p> + +<p>Its size renders it a suitable plant for rock-work, on which it will +grow readily, increasing by its roots, which are of the creeping kind.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Haller</span> mentions a variety of it with white flowers.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[283]</h2> +<h2><a name="Mimulus_Ringens_Narrow-Leaved_Monkey-Flower" id="Mimulus_Ringens_Narrow-Leaved_Monkey-Flower"></a><span class="smcap">Mimulus Ringens. Narrow-Leaved Monkey-Flower.</span></h2> + +<p class="center"><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Didynamia Angiospermia.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cal.</i> 4-dentatus, prismaticus. <i>Cor.</i> ringens; labio superiore +lateribus replicato. <i>Caps.</i> 2-locularis, polysperma.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">MIMULUS <i>ringens</i> erectus, foliis oblongis linearibus sessilibus. +<i>Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 575.</i> <i>Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. +361.</i></p> + +<p>EUPHRASIA floridana lysimachiæ glabræ siliquosæ foliis, quadrato +caule ramosior. <i>Pluk. Amalth. 83. t. 393. f. 3.</i></p> + +<p>LYSIMACHIA galericulata s. Gratiola elatior non ramosa, &c. <i>Gron. +Fl. Virg. p. 97.</i></p> + +<p>DIGITALIS perfoliata glabra flore violaceo minore. <i>Moris. Hist. 2. +p. 479. s. 5. t. 8. f. 6.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i070.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>283.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i070.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Clayton</span>, in the <i>Fl. Virg.</i> published by <span class="smcap">Gronovius</span>, describes this plant +as a native of Virginia, and says of it, "maddidis gaudet locis," it +delights in wet places: <span class="smcap">Linnæus</span> makes it a native of Canada also.</p> + +<p>It is a hardy, perennial, herbaceous plant, growing with us to the +height of about two feet, and producing its flowers, which are of a pale +violet colour, in July and August; these are frequently succeeded by +capsules containing perfect seeds, by which the plant may be propagated, +as also by parting its roots in Autumn; <span class="smcap">Miller</span> recommends the seeds to +be sown as soon as ripe.</p> + +<p>The plant succeeds best in a moist and somewhat shady situation, with a +loamy soil.</p> + +<p>A perusal of the synonyms will shew to what a variety of genera this +plant has been referred by different authors; <span class="smcap">Linnæus</span> first gave to it +the name of <i>Mimulus</i>, of which term we find in his <i>Philosophia +Botanica</i> the following concise explanation:—"<span class="smcap">Mimulus</span> mimus +personatus;" in plain English, a masked mimick: <span class="smcap">Mimmulus</span> is a classical +word for the Pedicularis, or Lousewort; the English term Monkey flower +has probably been given it, from an idea that <i>mimulus</i> originated from +μιμω a monkey, as in <i>mimusops</i> monkey face.</p> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[284]</h2> +<h2><a name="Rosa_Semperflorens_Ever-Blowing_Rose" id="Rosa_Semperflorens_Ever-Blowing_Rose"></a><span class="smcap">Rosa Semperflorens. Ever-Blowing Rose.</span></h2> + +<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> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Petala</i> 5. <i>Cal.</i> urceolatus, 5-fidus, carnosus, collo coarctatus, +demum baccatus, coloratus. <i>Antrum</i> duplicatum, 1-loculare, superne +apertum, pericarpiis osseis intus nidulantibus.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">ROSA <i>semperflorens</i> caule aculeato, foliis subternis, pedunculis +subunifloris aculeato-hispidis, calycis laciniis integris.</p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i072.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>284.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i072.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>We are induced to consider the rose here represented, as one of the most +desirable plants in point of ornament ever introduced to this country; +its flowers, large in proportion to the plant, are semi-double, and with +great richness of colour unite a most delightful fragrance; they blossom +during the whole of the year, more sparingly indeed in the winter +months; the shrub itself is more hardy than most greenhouse plants, and +will grow in so small a compass of earth, that it may be reared almost +in a coffee cup; is kept with the least possible trouble, and propagated +without difficulty by cuttings or suckers.</p> + +<p>For this invaluable acquisition, our country is indebted to the late +<span class="smcap">Gilbert Slater</span>, Esq. of Knots-Green, near Laytonstone, whose untimely +death every person must deplore, who is a friend to improvements in +ornamental gardening: in procuring the rarer plants from abroad, more +particularly from the East-Indies, Mr. <span class="smcap">Slater</span> was indefatigable, nor was +he less anxious to have them in the greatest perfection this country +will admit; to gain this point there was no contrivance that ingenuity +could suggest, no labour, no expence withheld; such exertions must soon +have insured him the first collection of the plants of India: it is now +about three years since he obtained this rose from China; as he readily +imparted his most valuable acquisitions to those who were most likely to +increase them, this plant soon became conspicuous in the collections of +the principal Nurserymen near town, and in the course of a few years +will, no doubt, decorate the window of every amateur.</p> + +<p>The largest plants we have seen have not exceeded three feet, it may no +doubt be trained to a much greater height; a variety of it much more +robust, having usually several flowers on a footstalk, of a pale red +colour, and semi-double also, has more lately been introduced, and as +far as we can learn from the same source.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[285]</h2> +<h2><a name="Jasminum_Odoratissimum_Sweetest_Jasmine" id="Jasminum_Odoratissimum_Sweetest_Jasmine"></a><span class="smcap">Jasminum Odoratissimum. Sweetest Jasmine.</span></h2> + +<p class="center"><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Diandria Monogynia.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Corolla</i> hypocrateriformis. <i>Bacca</i> dicocca. <i>Semina</i> solitaria, +arillata.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">JASMINUM <i>odoratissimum</i> foliis alternis obtusiusculis ternatis +pinnatisque, ramis teretibus, laciniis calycinis brevissimis. <i>Ait. +Hort. H. v. 1. p. 10.</i> <i>Linn. Syst. Veget. ed. 14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 56.</i></p> + +<p>JASMINUM flavum odoratum. <i>Barr. Ic. 62.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i073.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>285.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i073.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>The flowers of most of the species of Jasmine are odoriferous, trivial +names therefore expressive of this quality are ineligible, as wanting +character; the present name is peculiarly objectionable, inasmuch as +several other species are greatly superior to this in point of +fragrance; a lesson for Botanists to abstain from trivial names of the +superlative degree, such as <i>odoratissimum</i>, <i>fœtidissimum</i>, +<i>maximum</i>, <i>minimum</i>, &c.</p> + +<p>The present species, according to Mr. <span class="smcap">Aiton</span>, is a native of Madeira, and +was cultivated by Mr. <span class="smcap">Miller</span>, in 1730; it is now a plant common in most +greenhouses: it will form a shrub of considerable size, which requires +no support; its leaves are glossy, inclining to yellow, growing for the +most part three together, sometimes pinnated; its blossoms, which are +yellow, make their appearance from May to November: in point of +hardiness it is superior to many greenhouse plants, and may be +propagated without difficulty by cuttings.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[286]</h2> +<h2><a name="Portlandia_Grandiflora_Great-Flowered_Portlandia" id="Portlandia_Grandiflora_Great-Flowered_Portlandia"></a><span class="smcap">Portlandia Grandiflora. Great-Flowered Portlandia.</span></h2> + +<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 style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cor.</i> clavato-infundibuliformis. <i>Antheræ</i> 4-6. longitudinales. +<i>Caps.</i> 5-gona, 2-valvis, retusa, 2-locularis, polysperma, coronata +calyce 5-phyllo.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">PORTLANDIA <i>grandiflora</i> floribus pentandris. <i>Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. +14.</i> <i>Murr. p. 213.</i> <i>Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 228. foliis ovatis.</i> +<i>Syst. Nat. ed. 13.</i> <i>Gmel. p. 360.</i></p> + +<p>PORTLANDIA <i>grandiflora</i> floribus pentandris, capsulis ovatis, +foliis oblongis acuminatis. <i>Swartz. Obs. Bot. p. 69.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i076.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>286.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i076.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>Dr. <span class="smcap">Brown</span>, in his Natural History of Jamaica, gives to this genus the +name of <i>Portlandia</i>, in honour of the Duchess Dowager of <span class="smcap">Portland</span>, who +employed many of the leisure hours of a long and happy life, in the +pursuits of natural history, in which she was eminently skilled.—She +was the friend and patron of Mr. <span class="smcap">Lightfoot</span>, who dedicates to her his +<i>Flora Scotica</i>; the fine collection of rare and valuable trees and +shrubs which enrich part of the grounds at Bulstrode, were of her +planting.</p> + +<p>Dr. <span class="smcap">Swartz</span>, in his Observations on the Plants of the West-Indies, +informs us, that this species grows wild in Jamaica, where (<i>incolit +calcareosa petrosa</i>) it inhabits calcareous rocky places<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a>, forms a +small tree about the height of six feet, and flowers from the middle of +Summer to Autumn; its bark, he observes, as in other plants of the same +genus, is extremely bitter.</p> + +<p>From Mr. <span class="smcap">Aiton</span> we learn, that it was introduced here by —— <span class="smcap">Ellis</span>, Esq. +in 1775.</p> + +<p>It forms a very beautiful stove plant, not of difficult growth, and +readily disposed to flower; we have seen blowing plants of it little +more than a foot high; its blossoms are not only uncommonly large, +shewy, and curious in their structure, but fragrant also, and very much +so when dried.</p> + +<p>It is usually increased by cuttings.</p> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[287]</h2> +<h2><a name="Goodenia_Laevigata_Smooth_Goodenia" id="Goodenia_Laevigata_Smooth_Goodenia"></a><span class="smcap">Goodenia Lævigata. Smooth Goodenia.</span></h2> + +<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 style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Flores</i> monopetali, superi. <i>Caps.</i> bilocularis. <i>Cor.</i> supra +longitudinaliter fissa, stigma urceolatum ciliatum. <i>Smith Trans. +Linn. Soc. v. 2. p. 346.</i></p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">GOODENIA lævigata foliis obovato-lanceolatis dentatis glabris.</p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i077.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>287.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i077.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + +<p>In the Autumn of 1792, <span class="smcap">Samuel Tolfrey</span> Esq. most kindly invited me to +inspect a vast number of the natural productions of Botany-Bay, in his +possession; collected with great assiduity, and brought over in high +preservation by Captain <span class="smcap">Tench</span>; among other curiosities, he shewed me +specimens of the earths of that country, imported in very small bags. I +suggested to Mr. <span class="smcap">Tolfrey</span>, that those earths might possibly contain the +seeds of some curious and unknown plants; he readily acquiesced in the +idea, and permitted me to make trial of them: accordingly, in the Spring +of 1793, I exposed them in shallow pans, on a gentle tan heat, keeping +them duly watered; in the course of the Summer they yielded me fourteen +plants, most of which were altogether new, and among others the species +of <i>Goodenia</i> here figured; this we have since found to be a hardy +greenhouse plant, flowering from July to October, and very readily +increased by cuttings.</p> + +<p>The oldest plant in our possession is about a foot and a half high, much +branched, the stalks are round and smooth to the naked eye, green below, +above purplish, the leaves are smooth, a deep bright green colour, +alternate, standing on footstalks, which gradually widen into the +leaves, somewhat ovate, and deeply toothed; the flowers grow in the alæ +of the leaves, forming a thin spike, they are sessile, of a pale violet +colour, and have a peculiar smell which is rather unpleasant; at the +side of each flower are two long narrow Bracteæ; the Calyx, which is +placed on the germen, is composed of five short ovate leaves, which +appear edged with hairs if magnified; the Corolla is monopetalous, the +lower part, which at first is tubular, splits longitudinally above, and +forms a kind of half tube, the edges of which are brown, the inside +yellow, the outside greenish, the mouth beset with short hairs, each of +which is terminated by a small villous head; the limb is deeply divided +into five linear segments, spreading out like a hand, and terminated by +short points; the Filaments are five in number, of a whitish colour, +somewhat broadest above, rather flat, inserted into the receptacle; +Antheræ oval, flattened, yellow, bilocular, a little bent, the length of +the pistillum; but this is to be understood of such flowers as are not +yet fully expanded, in those that are, they are much shorter, and appear +withered; the Style, in flowers about to open, the length of the +filaments, upright, in those that are opened much longer, and bent +somewhat downward; Stigma at first upright, in the form of a cup, +having the edge curiously fringed with white hairs, afterwards it closes +together, loses its hollow, and assumes a flat appearance, and nods +somewhat, the back part of it is bearded; Germen beneath the calyx, +oblong, usually abortive with us.</p> + +<p>The name of <i>Goodenia</i> has been given to this genus by Dr. <span class="smcap">Smith</span>, in +honour of the Rev. <span class="smcap">Samuel Goodenough</span>, LL. D. of <i>Ealing</i>, my +much-honoured friend, whose name will be ever dear to Botanists for his +laborious investigation of the British Carices<a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a>.</p> + + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>[288]</h2> +<h2><a name="Passiflora_Ciliata_Fringed-Leaved_Passion-Flower" id="Passiflora_Ciliata_Fringed-Leaved_Passion-Flower"></a><span class="smcap">Passiflora Ciliata. Fringed-Leaved Passion-Flower.</span></h2> + +<p class="center"><i>Class and Order.</i></p> + +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Gynandria Hexandria.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><i>Generic Character.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i>Cal.</i> 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Stamina germini vicina. <i>Nectarium</i> +multi-radiatum. <i>Antrum</i> pedicellatum duplicatum 1-loculare.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><i>Specific Character and Synonyms.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">PASSIFLORA <i>ciliata</i> foliis trilobis glabris ciliato serratis +intermedio longissimo, petiolis eglandulosis. <i>Ait. Kew. v. 3. p. +310.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<img src="images/i080.tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +<span class="caption">N<sup>o</sup>288.</span> +<br /><span class="link"><a href="images/i080.jpg"><small>View larger image</small></a></span> +</div> + + +<p>This Passion-Flower is described in the <i>Hort. Kew.</i> as a new one, under +the name of <i>ciliata</i>, introduced by Mrs. <span class="smcap">Norman</span>, from the West-Indies, +in 1783: we saw it during the latter part of the last Summer, with great +profusion of flowers, in several collections, more particularly in that +of Mr. <span class="smcap">Vere</span>, Kensington-Gore, from whence our figure and description +were taken.</p> + +<p>Its stalks are round, perfectly smooth, and run to a very great height; +leaves dark green, glossy, perfectly smooth, except on the edges, where +they are beset with strong glandular hairs, divided into three large and +two small lobes, the middle lobe running out to a considerable length, +the footstalks of the leaves are beset with a few hairs thinly +scattered, at the base of each leaf is a tendril, and two finely-divided +stipulæ, edged also with glandular hairs. The Involucrum is composed of +three leaves, dividing into capillary segments, each of which terminates +in a viscid globule, fetid when bruised; betwixt the involucrum and the +blossom is a short peduncle; the pillar which supports the germen is of +a bright purple colour, with spots of a darker hue, the germen is smooth +and green; Styles green; Stigmata of a dark green; Filaments six in +number; Antheræ pale yellow green, the former dotted with purple; of +Radii, there may be said to be four rows, variegated with white and +purple, petals ten, externally greenish, internally red, deeper or paler +according to circumstances.</p> + +<p>The leaves of this plant vary greatly in form, according to the health +and luxuriance of the plant; on comparing it with the <i>fœtida</i>, we +strongly suspect it to be a variety merely of that species: time will +shew.</p> + +<p>It is increased by cuttings, or seeds.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="INDEX" id="INDEX"></a>INDEX.</h2> + +<p>In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the <i>Eighth Volume</i> +are alphabetically arranged.</p> + + + + +<div class='centered'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="Latin Names of the Plants"> +<tr><td align='left'>Pl.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Apocynum_Androsaemifolium_Tutsan-Leavd_or_Fly-Catching_Dogsbane'><b>280</b></a></td><td align='left'>Apocynum androsæmifolium.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Blitum_Virgatum_Strawberry_Blite'><b>276</b></a></td><td align='left'>Blitum virgatum.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Borbonia_Crenata_Heart-Leaved_Borbonia'><b>274</b></a></td><td align='left'>Borbonia crenata.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Cistus_Formosus_Beautiful_Cistus'><b>264</b></a></td><td align='left'>Cistus formosus.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Coronilla_Varia_Purple_Coronilla'><b>258</b></a></td><td align='left'>Coronilla varia.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Cyrtanthus_Angustifolius_Narrow-leaved_Cyrtanthus'><b>271</b></a></td><td align='left'>Cyrtanthus angustifolius.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Cytisus_Sessilifolius_Sessile-Leavd_or_Common_Cytisus'><b>255</b></a></td><td align='left'>Cytisus sessilifolius.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Diosma_Uniflora_One-flowered_Diosma'><b>273</b></a></td><td align='left'>Diosma uniflora.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Erodium_Incarnatum_Flesh-Coloured_Cranes-Bill'><b>261</b></a></td><td align='left'>Erodium incarnatum.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Gladiolus_Tristis_Square-leaved_Corn-flag'><b>272</b></a></td><td align='left'>Gladiolus tristis.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Glycine_Bimaculata_Purple_Glycine'><b>263</b></a></td><td align='left'>Glycine bimaculata.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Glycine_Rubicunda_Dingy-flowered_Glycine'><b>268</b></a></td><td align='left'>Glycine rubicunda.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Glycine_Coccinea_Scarlet_Glycine'><b>270</b></a></td><td align='left'>Glycine coccinea.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Goodenia_Laevigata_Smooth_Goodenia'><b>287</b></a></td><td align='left'>Goodenia lævigata.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Hedysarum_Obscurum_Creeping-Rooted_Hedysarum'><b>282</b></a></td><td align='left'>Hedysarum obscurum.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Jasminum_Odoratissimum_Sweetest_Jasmine'><b>285</b></a></td><td align='left'>Jasminum odoratissimum.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Ixia_Longiflora_Long-Flowerd_Ixia'><b>256</b></a></td><td align='left'>Ixia longiflora.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Ixia_Bulbocodium_Crocus-Leavd_Ixia'><b>265</b></a></td><td align='left'>—— Bulbocodium.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Lathyrus_Articulatus_Jointed-Podded_Lathyrus'><b>253</b></a></td><td align='left'>Lathyrus articulatus.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Lilium_Catesbaei_Catesbys_Lily'><b>259</b></a></td><td align='left'>Lilium Catesbæi.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Lilium_Candidum_White_Lily'><b>278</b></a></td><td align='left'>Lilium candidum.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Liriodendron_Tulipifera_Common_Tulip-Tree'><b>275</b></a></td><td align='left'>Liriodendron Tulipifera.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Lopezia_Racemosa_Mexican_Lopezia'><b>254</b></a></td><td align='left'>Lopezia racemosa.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Lychnis_Chalcedonica_Scarlet_Lychnis'><b>257</b></a></td><td align='left'>Lychnis chalcedonica.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Mahernia_Pinnata_Winged_Mahernia'><b>277</b></a></td><td align='left'>Mahernia pinnata.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Mesembryanthemum_Aureum_Golden_Fig-Marigold'><b>262</b></a></td><td align='left'>Mesembryanthemum aureum.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Metrosideros_Citrina_Harsh-Leavd_Metrosideros'><b>260</b></a></td><td align='left'>Metrosideros citrina.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Mimulus_Ringens_Narrow-Leaved_Monkey-Flower'><b>283</b></a></td><td align='left'>Mimulus ringens.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Ornithogalum_Nutans_Neapolitan_Star_of_Bethlehem'><b>269</b></a></td><td align='left'>Ornithogalum nutans.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Passiflora_Ciliata_Fringed-Leaved_Passion-Flower'><b>288</b></a></td><td align='left'>Passiflora ciliata.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Plumeria_Rubra_Red_Plumeria'><b>279</b></a></td><td align='left'>Plumeria rubra.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Portlandia_Grandiflora_Great-Flowered_Portlandia'><b>286</b></a></td><td align='left'>Portlandia grandiflora.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Pyrus_Spectabilis_Chinese_Apple_Tree'><b>267</b></a></td><td align='left'>Pyrus spectabilis.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Ranunculus_Amplexicaulis_Plantain-Leaved_Crowfoot'><b>266</b></a></td><td align='left'>Ranunculus amplexicaulis.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Rosa_Semperflorens_Ever-Blowing_Rose'><b>284</b></a></td><td align='left'>Rosa semperflorens.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Turnera_Angustifolia_Narrow-Leavd_Turnera'><b>281</b></a></td><td align='left'>Turnera angustifolia.</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="INDEX2" id="INDEX2"></a>INDEX.</h2> + +<p>In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the <i>Eighth +Volume</i> are alphabetically arranged.</p> + + + + +<div class='centered'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="English Names of the Plants"> +<tr><td align='left'>Pl.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Pyrus_Spectabilis_Chinese_Apple_Tree'><b>267</b></a></td><td align='left'>Apple-tree Chinese.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Blitum_Virgatum_Strawberry_Blite'><b>276</b></a></td><td align='left'>Blite strawberry.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Borbonia_Crenata_Heart-Leaved_Borbonia'><b>274</b></a></td><td align='left'>Borbonia heart-leaved.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Cistus_Formosus_Beautiful_Cistus'><b>264</b></a></td><td align='left'>Cistus beautiful.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Gladiolus_Tristis_Square-leaved_Corn-flag'><b>272</b></a></td><td align='left'>Corn-flag square-leaved.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Coronilla_Varia_Purple_Coronilla'><b>258</b></a></td><td align='left'>Coronilla purple.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Erodium_Incarnatum_Flesh-Coloured_Cranes-Bill'><b>261</b></a></td><td align='left'>Crane's-bill flesh-coloured.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Ranunculus_Amplexicaulis_Plantain-Leaved_Crowfoot'><b>266</b></a></td><td align='left'>Crowfoot plantain-leaved.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Cyrtanthus_Angustifolius_Narrow-leaved_Cyrtanthus'><b>271</b></a></td><td align='left'>Cyrtanthus narrow-leaved.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Cytisus_Sessilifolius_Sessile-Leavd_or_Common_Cytisus'><b>255</b></a></td><td align='left'>Cytisus common.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Diosma_Uniflora_One-flowered_Diosma'><b>273</b></a></td><td align='left'>Diosma one-flowered.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Apocynum_Androsaemifolium_Tutsan-Leavd_or_Fly-Catching_Dogsbane'><b>280</b></a></td><td align='left'>Dogsbane tutsan-leaved.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Mesembryanthemum_Aureum_Golden_Fig-Marigold'><b>262</b></a></td><td align='left'>Fig-marigold golden.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Glycine_Bimaculata_Purple_Glycine'><b>263</b></a></td><td align='left'>Glycine purple.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Glycine_Rubicunda_Dingy-flowered_Glycine'><b>268</b></a></td><td align='left'>Glycine dingy-flowered.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Glycine_Coccinea_Scarlet_Glycine'><b>270</b></a></td><td align='left'>Glycine scarlet.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Goodenia_Laevigata_Smooth_Goodenia'><b>287</b></a></td><td align='left'>Goodenia smooth.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Hedysarum_Obscurum_Creeping-Rooted_Hedysarum'><b>282</b></a></td><td align='left'>Hedysarum creeping-rooted.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Jasminum_Odoratissimum_Sweetest_Jasmine'><b>285</b></a></td><td align='left'>Jasmine sweet.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Ixia_Longiflora_Long-Flowerd_Ixia'><b>256</b></a></td><td align='left'>Ixia long-flowered.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Ixia_Bulbocodium_Crocus-Leavd_Ixia'><b>265</b></a></td><td align='left'>Ixia crocus-leaved.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Lathyrus_Articulatus_Jointed-Podded_Lathyrus'><b>253</b></a></td><td align='left'>Lathyrus jointed-podded.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Lilium_Catesbaei_Catesbys_Lily'><b>259</b></a></td><td align='left'>Lily Catesby's.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Lilium_Candidum_White_Lily'><b>278</b></a></td><td align='left'>Lily white.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Lopezia_Racemosa_Mexican_Lopezia'><b>254</b></a></td><td align='left'>Lopezia mexican.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Lychnis_Chalcedonica_Scarlet_Lychnis'><b>257</b></a></td><td align='left'>Lychnis scarlet.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Mahernia_Pinnata_Winged_Mahernia'><b>277</b></a></td><td align='left'>Mahernia winged.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Metrosideros_Citrina_Harsh-Leavd_Metrosideros'><b>260</b></a></td><td align='left'>Metrosideros harsh-leaved.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Mimulus_Ringens_Narrow-Leaved_Monkey-Flower'><b>283</b></a></td><td align='left'>Monkey-flower narrow-leav'd.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Passiflora_Ciliata_Fringed-Leaved_Passion-Flower'><b>288</b></a></td><td align='left'>Passion-flower fringed-leaved.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Plumeria_Rubra_Red_Plumeria'><b>279</b></a></td><td align='left'>Plumeria red.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Portlandia_Grandiflora_Great-Flowered_Portlandia'><b>286</b></a></td><td align='left'>Portlandia great-flowered.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Rosa_Semperflorens_Ever-Blowing_Rose'><b>284</b></a></td><td align='left'>Rose ever-blowing.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Ornithogalum_Nutans_Neapolitan_Star_of_Bethlehem'><b>269</b></a></td><td align='left'>Star of Bethlehem Neapolitan.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Liriodendron_Tulipifera_Common_Tulip-Tree'><b>275</b></a></td><td align='left'>Tulip-tree common.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href='#Turnera_Angustifolia_Narrow-Leavd_Turnera'><b>281</b></a></td><td align='left'>Turnera narrow-leaved.</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<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> In honorem Licent. <span class="smcap">Thomæ Lopez</span>, Burgensis, qui aliquot +annos Regii Senatoris munere functus in America, <span class="smcap">Carolo</span> V. imperante. In +patriam reversus breviarium historiæ naturalis novi orbis scripsit sub +titulo de tribus elementis aëre, aqua, et terra, MS. apud eundem +Muguozium.</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> What the use of this very extraordinary apparatus may be we +can at present scarcely conjecture, future observation may perhaps +enable us to speak more decisively; when we figure the <i>Diosma +ericoides</i> we shall probably have more to say of this species.</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> We wish that every person who describes foreign plants on +the spot, would do thus; it would greatly facilitate their culture.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_4"><span class="label">[4]</span></a> Vide a Dissertation on the British species of Carex, by Dr. +<span class="smcap">Goodenough</span>, in the second volume of the Transactions of the Linnean +Society.</p></div> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Botanical Magazine Vol. 8, by William Curtis + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE VOL. 8 *** + +***** This file should be named 24670-h.htm or 24670-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/4/6/7/24670/ + +Produced by Jason Isbell, Janet Blenkinship and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file made using scans of public domain works at the +University of Georgia.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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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. 8 + Or, Flower-Garden Displayed + +Author: William Curtis + +Release Date: February 22, 2008 [EBook #24670] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE VOL. 8 *** + + + + +Produced by Jason Isbell, Janet Blenkinship and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file made using scans of public domain works at the +University of Georgia.) + + + + + + + + + THE + + BOTANICAL MAGAZINE; + + OR, + + Flower-Garden Displayed: + + IN WHICH + + The most Ornamental FOREIGN PLANTS, cultivated in the + Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately + represented in their natural Colours. + + TO WHICH ARE ADDED, + + Their Names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according + to the celebrated LINNAEUS; their Places of Growth, + and Times of Flowering: + + TOGETHER WITH + + THE MOST APPROVED METHODS OF CULTURE. + + A WORK + + Intended for the Use of such LADIES, GENTLEMEN, and GARDENERS, as + wish to become scientifically acquainted with the Plants they cultivate. + + By _WILLIAM CURTIS_, + + Author of the FLORA LONDINENSIS. + + VOL. VIII. + + "Much I love + To see the fair one bind the straggling pink, + Cheer the sweet rose, the lupin, and the stock, + And lend a staff to the still gadding pea. + Ye fair, it well becomes you. Better thus + Cheat time away, than at the crowded rout, + Rustling in silk, in a small room, close-pent, + And heated e'en to fusion; made to breathe + A rank contagious air, and fret at whist, + Or sit aside to sneer and whisper scandal." + + VILLAGE CURATE, p. 74. + +_LONDON:_ + +PRINTED BY STEPHEN COUCHMAN, 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 XCIV. */ + + + + +[253] + +LATHYRUS ARTICULATUS. JOINTED-PODDED LATHYRUS. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Stylus_ planus, supra villosus, superne latior. _Cal._ laciniae + superiores 2-breviores. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + LATHYRUS _articulatus_ pedunculis subunifloris, cirrhis + polyphyllis; foliolis alternis. _Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14._ _Murr. + p. 662._ _Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 41._ + + CLYMENUM hispanicum, flore vario, siliqua articulata. _Tourn. Inst. + 396._ + + LATHYRUS hispanicus, pedunculis bifloris, cirrhis polyphyllis + foliolis alternis. _Mill. Dict. ed. 6. 4to._ + +The seed-vessels are of the first importance in ascertaining the several +species of Lathyrus, some being naked, others hairy, some long, others +short, some having a smooth and perfectly even surface, others, as in +the present instance, assuming an uneven or jointed appearance. + +Of this genus we have already figured three annual species, common in +flower-gardens, viz. _odoratus_, _tingitanus_, and _sativus_; to these +we now add the _articulatus_, not altogether so frequently met with, but +meriting a place on the flower-border, as the lively red and delicate +white so conspicuous in its blossoms, causes it to be much admired. + +It is a native of Italy, and was cultivated at the Chelsea Garden, in +the time of Mr. RAND, anno 1739. + +It is a hardy annual, requiring support, and rarely exceeding the height +of two feet, flowering in July and August, and is readily raised from +seeds, which should be sown in the open border at the beginning of +April. + +[Illustration: No 253] + +[Illustration: No 254] + + + + +[254] + +LOPEZIA RACEMOSA. MEXICAN LOPEZIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 4-phyllus. _Cor._ irregularis, pentapetala, duo superiora + geniculata, quintum inferne declinatum, plicatum, ungue arcuata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + LOPEZIA _racemosa_ caule herbaceo ramoso; foliis alternis + ovato-lanceolatis, serratis; floribus racemosis. _Cavanilles Ic. et + descr. Pl._ + +Some plants have a claim on our attention for their utility, some for +their beauty, and some for the singularity of their structure, and the +wonderful nature of their oeconomy; in the last class we must place +the present plant, the flowers of which we recommend to the examination +of such of our readers as may have an opportunity of seeing them; to the +philosophic mind, not captivated with mere shew, they will afford a most +delicious treat. + +We first saw this novelty in flower, towards the close of the year 1792, +at the Apothecaries Garden, Chelsea, where Mr. FAIRBAIRN informed me, +that he had that season raised several plants of it from seeds, +communicated by Dr. J. E. SMITH, who received them from Madrid, to which +place they were sent from South-America, and where the plant as Mons. +CAVANILLE informs us, grows spontaneously near Mexico. In October 1793, +we had the pleasure of seeing the plant again in blossom in the +aforesaid garden, raised from seeds which ripened there the preceding +year, but unfortunately from the lateness of their flowering, and the +very great injury the plants had sustained from the Cobweb Mite (_Acarus +teliarius_) vulgarly called the red Spider, there seemed little prospect +that the seed-vessels would arrive at perfection. + +The seeds were sown by Mr. FAIRBAIRN, in March, and the plants kept in +the green-house till very late in the summer, when to accelerate their +blowing, they were removed into the dry stove: it is worthy of remark, +that these plants, even late in the autumn, shew no signs of blossoming, +but the flowers at length come forth with almost unexampled rapidity, +and the seed-vessels are formed as quickly, so that if the flowers were +not very numerous, their blossoming period would be of very short +duration; future experience may perhaps point out the means of making +the plant blow earlier: in Spain, the blossoms appeared later than here, +Mons. CAVANILLE observed them in the Royal Garden, in November and +December, most probably in the open ground, as no mention is made of the +plants having been preserved from the weather. + +It was not till long after our description was taken, that we had an +opportunity of seeing Mons. CAVANILLE'S most accurate and elegant work, +above quoted, in which this plant is first figured and described; we +have selected the most essential parts of his generic character, and +adopted his specific description: there is one point, however, in which +we differ from him; the part which he regards as the fifth Petal, we are +inclined to consider rather as that indescribable something, called by +LINNAEUS the Nectary, it is indeed of little moment whether we call it a +Petal or a Nectary, but there are several reasons why, strictly +speaking, we cannot regard it as a Petal: in general the number of +Petals correspond with the number of the leaves of the Calyx, those of +the latter are four; the base of this Nectary originates deeper than the +claws of the Petals, springing in fact from the same part as the +Filament, its structure, especially the lower part of it, is evidently +different from that of the Petals, corresponding indeed as nearly as +possible with that of the base of the filament.--_Vid._ DESCER. + +Mons. CAVANILLE was induced to call this plant _Lopezia_, in compliment +to TH. LOPEZ, a Spaniard[1]. + +[Footnote 1: In honorem Licent. THOMAE LOPEZ, Burgensis, qui aliquot +annos Regii Senatoris munere functus in America, CAROLO V. imperante. In +patriam reversus breviarium historiae naturalis novi orbis scripsit sub +titulo de tribus elementis aere, aqua, et terra, MS. apud eundem +Muguozium.] + + + + +DESCRIPTION OF THE LOPEZIA. + +ROOT annual. + + STALK five or six feet high, branched almost to the bottom, square, + of a deep red colour, smooth towards the bottom, slightly hairy + above: _Branches_ like the stalk. + + LEAVES alternate, ovate, pointed, toothed on the edges, more so on + the larger leaves, slightly beset with soft hairs, veins prominent + on the under side, usually running parallel to each other and + unbranched: _Leafstalks_ hairy. + + FLOWERS numerous, from the alae of the leaves, growing irregularly + on hairy leafy racemi, standing on long slender peduncles, which + hang down as the seed-vessels are produced: in this and some others + of its characters, the plant shews some affinity to the _Circaea_. + + CALYX: a _Perianthium_ of four leaves, sitting on the Germen, + leaves narrow, concave, reddish, with green tips, the lowermost one + widely separated from the others, and placed immediately under the + Nectary, _fig._ 1. + + COROLLA four _Petals_ of a pale red colour, forming in their mode + of growth the upper half of a circle, the two uppermost linear, of + a deeper colour near the apex, jointed below the middle, with a + small green gland on each joint, standing on short round + footstalks, which are hairy when magnified, the two side Petals + nearly orbicular with long narrow claws, the part between the base + of the Petal and the claw of a deeper red or crimson, _fig._ 2. + + NECTARY situated below the Petals, perfectly white, somewhat ovate, + the sides folding together, before the flower fully expands, nearly + upright, embracing and containing within it the Pistillum and + Stamen, on touching it ever so slightly with the point of a pin, + while in this state, it suddenly springs back and quits the + Pistillum, the lower elastic part of it is then bent in the form + represented in a magnified view of the flower on the plate, _fig._ + 4. this curious phoenomenon has not been noticed by CAVANILLE. + + STAMEN: _Filament_ one, tapering and very slender just below the + Anthera, arising from the same part as (and placed opposite to the + base of) the Nectary the lower part of it broader, somewhat fleshy, + cartilaginous, and of the same nature as the inferior part of the + Nectary, with a groove as that has on the inside, so that before + the flower expands, the bases of each are like two half tubes, the + sides of which, nearly touching each other, wholly enclose the + Pistillum; as the fructification goes forward, the Filament, + endowed also with an elastic power, bends back soon after the + flower is open, betwixt the two uppermost Petals, and becomes + invisible to an inattentive observer; the Anthera, which is large, + is at first yellow, and afterwards dark brown, _fig._ 5. + + PISTILLUM: _Germen_ below the Calyx, round, smooth, and green; + _Style_ filiform, white, length of the Filament; Stigma forming a + small villous head, _fig._ 6. in some of the flowers the Pistillum + appears imperfect, being much shorter than usual, and wanting the + Stigma, perhaps such have not acquired their full growth, _fig._ 6. + + PERICARPIUM (from CAVANILLE) a round _Capsule_, of four cells, and + four valves, the cells many-seeded. + +SEEDS very minute, ovate, affixed to a four-cornered receptacle. + +[Illustration: No 256] + + + + +[255] + +CYTISUS SESSILIFOLIUS. SESSILE-LEAV'D, OR COMMON CYTISUS. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + +_Cal._ 2-labiatus: 2/3 _Legumen_ basi attenuatum. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + CYTISUS _sessilifolius_ racemis erectis, calycibus bractaea + triplici, foliis floralibus sessilibus. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. + 14._ _Murr. p. 666._ _Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 50._ + + CYTISUS glabris foliis subrotundis, pediculis brevissimis. _Bauh. + Pin. p. 390._ + + CYTISUS vulgatior, the common Tree Trefoile. _Park. Parad. p. 440._ + +The term _sessilifolius_ has been given to this species of Cytisus, +because the leaves are for the most part sessile, that is sit close to +the branches, without any or very short footstalks; such they are at +least on the flowering branches when the shrub is in blossom, but at the +close of the summer they are no longer so, the leaves acquiring very +evident footstalks. + +It is a native of the more southern parts of Europe, and though in point +of size and elegance it cannot vie with its kindred Laburnum, it is a +deciduous shrub of considerable beauty, rarely exceeding the height of +five or six feet, and producing a great profusion of bright yellow +flowers, which continue in blossom a long while; they make their +appearance in May and June, and are usually succeeded by seed-vessels +which produce ripe seeds, by these the plant is readily propagated. + +It is one of the most common shrubs we have, as well as one of the +oldest inhabitants of our shrubberies, being mentioned by PARKINSON in +his _Parad. Terrestris_. + + + + +[256] + +IXIA LONGIFLORA. LONG-FLOWER'D IXIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ 6-partita, campanulata, regularis. _Stigmata_ 3. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + IXIA _longiflora_ foliis ensiformibus linearibus strictis, tubo + filiformi longissimo. _Ait. Kew. v. 4. p. 58._ + + GLADIOLUS _longiflorus_ caule tereti, tubo longissimo, spathis + foliisque linearibus glabris. _Linn. Suppl. p. 96._ _Gmel. Syst. + Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 86._ + +We are not acquainted with a tribe of plants which stand more in need of +elucidation than those of this genus; of the vast numbers imported from +the Cape within these few years, where they are chiefly natives, and +that for the most part by way of Holland, few comparatively are well +ascertained; some of them appear subject to great variation, both in the +size and colour of their blossoms (whether in their wild state they are +thus inconstant, or whether there are seminal varieties raised by the +persevering industry of the Dutch Florists, we have not yet had it in +our power satisfactorily to ascertain); others like the present one have +their characters strongly marked, and less variable; in general they are +plants of easy culture, requiring chiefly to be protected from the +effects of frost, the least degree of which is presently fatal to most +of them. + +The treatment recommended for the _Ixia flexuosa_ is applicable to this +and the other Cape species. + +According to the _Hort. Kew._ this species was introduced by Mr. MASSON +in the year 1774. + +It flowers from April to June. + +[Illustration: No 256] + +[Illustration: No 257] + + + + +[257] + +LYCHNIS CHALCEDONICA. SCARLET LYCHNIS. + +_Class and Order._ + +DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 1-phyllus, oblongus, laevis. _Petala_ 5-unguiculata. _Limbo_ + sub-bifido. _Caps._ 5-locularis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + LYCHNIS _chalcedonica_ floribus fasciculatis fastigiatis. _Linn. + Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 435._ _Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 16._ + + LYCHNIS hirsuta flore coccineo major. _Bauh. Pin. 203._ + + FLOS Constantinopolitanus. _Dod. Pempt. 178._ + + LYCHNIS _chalcedonica_ flore simplici miniato. Single Nonsuch, or + Flower of Bristow or Constantinople. _Parkins. Parad. 253._ + +The Scarlet Lychnis appears to have been a great favourite with +PARKINSON, he calls it a glorious flower, and in a wooden print of him +prefixed to his _Paradisus Terrestris_, we see him represented with a +flower of this sort in his hand of the double kind. + +It grows spontaneously in most parts of Russia, and is one of our most +hardy perennials. + +The extreme brilliancy of its flowers renders it a plant, in its single +state highly ornamental; when double, its beauty is heightened, and the +duration of it increased. + +It flowers in June and July. + +The single sort may be increased by parting its roots in autumn, but +more abundantly by seeds, which should be sown in the spring; the double +sort may also be increased by dividing its roots, but more plentifully +by cuttings of the stalk, put in in June, before the flowers make their +appearance; in striking of these, however, there requires some nicety. + +This plant is found to succeed best in a rich, loamy, soil; and certain +districts have been found to be more favourable to its growth than +others. + +A white and a pale red variety of it in its single state were known to +CLUSIUS, and similar varieties of the double kind are said to exist; it +is of little moment whether they do or not, every variation in this +plant from a bright scarlet is in every sense of the word a degeneracy. + +[Illustration: No 258] + + + + +[258] + +CORONILLA VARIA. PURPLE CORONILLA. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 2-labiatus: 2/3: dentibus superioribus connatis. _Vexillum_ + vix alis longius. _Legumen_ isthmis interceptum. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + CORONILLA _varia_ herbacea, leguminibus erectis teretibus torosis + numerosis, foliolis plurimis glabris. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. + 14._ _Murr. p. 670._ _Ait. Kew. v. 3. p. 59._ + + SECURIDACA dumetorum major, flore vario, siliquis articulatis. + _Bauh. Pin. p. 349._ + + SECURIDACA II. altera species. _Clus. Hist. 2. ccxxxvij._ The + greater joynted Hatchet Vetch. _Park. Theat. p. 1088._ + +CLUSIUS, in his work above referred to, informs us that he found this +plant growing wild in various parts of Germany, in meadows, fields, and +by road sides; that it flowered in June, sometimes the whole summer +through, and ripened its seeds in July and August; the blossoms he found +subject to much variation of colour, being either deep purple, whitish, +or even wholly white: CASP. BAUHINE notices another variety, in which +the alae are white and the rostrum purple; this variety, which we have +had the honour to receive from the Earl of EGREMONT is the most +desirable one to cultivate in gardens, as it is more ornamental than the +one wholly purple, most commonly met with in the nurseries, and +corresponds also better with its name of _varia_; it is to be noted +however that this variety of colour exists only in the young blossoms. + +The Coronilla varia is a hardy, perennial, herbaceous plant, climbing, +if supported, to the height of four or five feet, otherwise spreading +widely on the ground, and frequently injuring less robust plants growing +near it; on this account, as well as from its having powerfully creeping +roots whereby it greatly increases, though a pretty plant, and flowering +during most of the summer, it is not to be introduced without caution, +and is rather to be placed in the shrubbery, or outskirts of the garden, +than in the flower border. + +It will grow in any soil or situation, but blossoms and seeds most +freely in a soil moderately dry. + +PARKINSON in his _Theater of Plants_, mentions its being cultivated, as +an ornamental plant. _Ait. Kew._ + +Its bitterness, will be an objection to its being cultivated for the use +of cattle, for which purpose it has been recommended. + + + + +[259] + +LILIUM CATESBAEI. CATESBY'S LILY. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ 6-petala campanulata: linea longitudinali nectarifera. + _Caps._ valvulis pilo cancellato connexis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + LILIUM _Catesbaei_ caule unifloro, petalis erectis unguiculatis. + _Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 13._ _Gmel. p. 545._ + + LILIUM _Catesbaei_ foliis sparsis, bipedali, flore unico erecto, + corolla campanulata, petalis unguibus angustis longis. _Walt. Fl. + Carol. p. 123._ + + LILIUM _Spectabile_ foliis sparsis; floribus solitariis erectis; + petalorum unguibus angustis, alternis extus utrinque sulcatis, + laminis revolutis. _Salisb. Ic. Stirp. rar. t. 5._ + +At the close of the year 1787, Mr. ROBERT SQUIBB, sent me from +South-Carolina roots of the Lily here figured, many of which have since +flowered with various persons in this kingdom. + +CATESBY in his Natural History of Carolina, gives a figure and short +account of it; WALTER in his _Flora Caroliniana_ describes it under the +name of _Lilium Catesbaei_; Mr. SALISBURY in the first number of his very +magnificent work, lately published, presents us with a very highly +finished likeness of this lily, accompanied by a most accurate and +minute description of it, and judging from some appearances in CATESBY'S +figure, that it was not the _Lilium Catesbaei_ of WALTER, names it +_spectabile_; but as we are assured by Mr. SQUIBB, who assisted his +friend WALTER in his publication, that it was the lily figured by +CATESBY, we have continued the name given in honour of that Naturalist. + +Of the different Lilies cultivated in this country, this is to be +numbered among the least, the whole plant when in bloom being frequently +little more than a foot high; in its native soil it is described as +growing to the height of two feet; the stalk is terminated by one +upright flower, of the form and colour represented on the plate; we have +observed it to vary considerably in the breadth of its petals, in their +colour, and spots. + +It flowers usually in July and August. + +This plant may be raised from seeds, or increased by offsets, which, +however, are not very plentifully produced, nor is the plant to be made +grow in perfection without great care, the roots in particular are to be +guarded against frost; the soil and situation may be the same as +recommended for the _Cyclamen Coum. p. 4. v. 1_. + +[Illustration: No 259] + + + + +[260] + +METROSIDEROS CITRINA. HARSH-LEAV'D METROSIDEROS. + +_Class and Order._ + +ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 5-dentatus, sinu germen fovens. _Petala_ 5, caduca. _Stam._ + discreta, petalis multoties longiora. _Caps._ 3-4 locularis, + polysperma. _Banks. Gaertner._ + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + METROSIDEROS _citrina_ foliis lineari-lanceolatis rigentibus. + +Though many species of this genus have been raised from seeds, brought +within these few years from the South Seas, where they are said to be +very numerous; this is, we believe, the only one that as yet has +flowered in this country: our drawing was made from a plant which +blossomed toward the close of last summer at Lord CREMORNES, the root of +which had been sent from Botany-Bay; previous to this period we have +been informed, that the same species flowered both at Kew and +Sion-House: as it is without difficulty raised both from seeds and +cuttings, young plants of it are to be seen in most of the Nurseries +near town; it would seem that they do not flower till they are at least +five or six years old. + +_Metrosideros_ is a name given originally by RUMPHIUS in _Herb. Amboin_ +to some plants of this genus, the term applies to the hardness of their +wood, which by the Dutch is called Yzerhout (Ironwood): FORSTER in his +_Gen. Pl._ figures this and another genus on the same plate, under the +name of _Leptospermum_; SCHREBER in his edition of the _Gen. Pl._ of +LINNAEUS, unites _Metrosideros_, _Melaleuca_, _Leptospermum_, and +_Fabricia_, under the genus _Melaleuca_; GAERTNER in his elaborate work +on the seeds of plants, makes separate genera of these, agreeably to the +ideas of Sir JOSEPH BANKS and Mr. DRYANDER, who on this subject can +certainly boast the best information. + +We cannot, without transgressing the allotted limits of our +letter-press, give a minute description of the plant figured; suffice it +to say, that it is an ever-green shrub, growing to the height of from +four to six or more feet, that its leaves on the old wood feel very +harsh or rigid to the touch, and when bruised give forth an agreeable +fragrance, the flowers grow in spikes on the tops of the branches, and +owe their beauty wholly to the brilliant colour of the filaments. + +[Illustration: No 260] + +[Illustration: No 261] + + + + +[261] + +ERODIUM INCARNATUM. FLESH-COLOURED CRANE'S-BILL. + +_Class and Order._ + +MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 5-phyllus. _Cor._ 5-petala. _Nect. Squamulae_ 5 cum + filamentis alternantes; et glandulae melliferae, basi staminum + insidentes. _Fructus_ 5-coccus, rostratus; rostra spiralia, + introrsum barbata. _L'Herit. Geran._ + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + ERODIUM _incarnatum_ pedunculis paucifloris, foliis tripartitis + ternatisve trifidis scabris, caule fruticuloso. _L'Herit. n. 21. + tab. 5._ _Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 415._ + + GERANIUM incarnatum pedunculis bifloris, foliis tripartitis + trifidis glabris, petalis integris, arillis glabris. _Linn. Suppl. + Pl._ + + GERANIUM _incarnatum_ foliis incisis quinquelobis punctatis; + petiolis longissimis, pedunculis trifloris. _Cavanill. diff. 4. p. + 223. n. 314. t. 97. f. 3._ + +In the 80th number of this work we gave a figure of the _Pelargonium +tricolor_, a plant very generally regarded as the most beautiful of the +genus; we now present our readers with the representation of an +_Erodium_, which has to boast nearly an equal share of admiration. + +This species, as we learn from the _Hortus Kewensis_, is a native of the +Cape, and was introduced by Mr. MASSON in the year 1787. + +Its usual time of flowering is July and August; in this point it is +inferior to the _Pelargonium tricolor_, which blossoms through the +spring as well as summer months. + +It produces seeds but sparingly; cuttings of the plant are struck with +less difficulty than those of the _Pelargonium_ above mentioned, the +same treatment is applicable to both plants, they must be regarded as +green-house plants of the more tender kind, which are liable to be +destroyed in the winter season by a moist cold atmosphere. + + + + +[262] + +MESEMBRYANTHEMUM AUREUM. GOLDEN FIG-MARIGOLD. + +_Class and Order._ + +ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 5-fidus. _Petala_ numerosa linearia. _Caps._ carnosa infera + polysperma. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + MESEMBRYANTHEMUM _aureum_ foliis cylindrico-triquetris punctatis + distinctis, pistillis atro purpurascentibus. _Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. + 10. p. 1060._ _Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 190._ + +This Mesembryanthemum is one of the taller and more upright species, as +well as the earliest in point of flowering, producing its blossoms from +February to May; these are large and of a bright orange hue, the +pistilla in the centre are purple, and serve at once to distinguish and +embellish them. + +It was first described in the _10th ed._ of _Linn. Syst. Nat._ and +afterwards inserted in the _Hort. Kew._ of Mr. AITON, who informs us +that it is a native of the Cape, and was cultivated by Mr. MILLER, in +the year 1750. Prof. MURRAY omits it in his _12th ed._ of the _Syst. +Vegetab._ of LINNAEUS, as does Prof. GMELIN in the last edition of _Linn. +Syst. Nat._ + +The facility with which this tribe in general is increased by cuttings +is well known; this is raised as readily as the others. + +[Illustration: No 262] + +[Illustration: No 263] + + + + +[263] + +GLYCINE BIMACULATA. PURPLE GLYCINE. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 2-labiatus. _Corollae_ carina apice vexillum reflectens. + +_Specific Character._ + + GLYCINE _bimaculata_ caule volubili laevi, foliis simplicibus + cordato-oblongis, racemis multifloris. + +Of the many plants which within these few years have been raised from +Botany-Bay seeds, this is one of the first which flowered in this +country, and one of the most ornamental; to the greenhouse it is indeed +an invaluable acquisition: we regret that the size of our paper and the +imperfection of the colouring art, will not admit of our giving a +representation of it more adequate to its beauty. + +It rises up with a twining shrubby stalk to the height of six, eight, or +more feet; these multiplying greatly by age, become loaded with a +profusion of purple flowers, growing in racemi, the richness of which is +enlivened by the appearance of two green spots at the base of the +vexillum; for the most part the blossoms go off with us without +producing any seed-vessels; in some instances, however, perfect seeds +have been produced, and we have seen a plant in bloom raised from such +in the charming retreat of JOHN ORD, Esq. Walham-Green. + +A great excellence of this plant is the duration of its flowering +period, it begins to put forth its blossoms in February, and continues +to do so during most of the summer. + +In the Nurseries about town, it is known by the name of _Glycine +virens_, a name given the plant originally by Dr. SOLANDER; the latter +of these terms we have taken the liberty of changing to _bimaculata_, as +being more expressive of an obvious character in the flower: we might, +perhaps, been justified in altering the genus, as its characters do not +appear to be peculiarly expressive of a Glycine, nor indeed of any other +genus in this numerous natural order. + +It is raised readily from seeds. + +We think it highly probable, that in warm sheltered situations, this +climber might grow in the open ground; to such as have it in abundance, +we recommend them to make the experiment. + + + + +[264] + +CISTUS FORMOSUS. BEAUTIFUL CISTUS. + +_Class and Order._ + +POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ 5-petala. _Cal._ 5-phyllus, foliolis duobus minoribus. + _Capsula._ + +Mr. LEE, Nurseryman of Hammersmith, informs me, that in the year 1780, +he raised the Cistus here figured from seeds, the produce of Portugal, +and as its flowers were uncommonly beautiful, he was induced to name it +_formosus_. + +It approaches so near to the _Cistus halimifolius_ in point of habit, in +the form and colour of its leaves and flowers, that we are inclined +rather to regard it as a variety of that plant, than as a distinct +species; at the same time it must be allowed to be a very striking +variety, the flowers being at least thrice as large as those of the +_halimifolius_ usually are, and the whole plant more hairy: as an +ornamental shrub, it is highly deserving a place in all curious +collections. + +It will grow very well in the open border in warm sheltered situations, +it may be kept also in a pot, by which means it may more readily be +sheltered during the winter, either in the greenhouse or under a frame. + +It flowers early in May, and may be increased by cuttings. + +[Illustration: No 264] + +[Illustration: No 265] + + + + +[265] + +IXIA BULBOCODIUM. CROCUS-LEAV'D IXIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ 1-petala, tubulosa; tubo recto, filiformi; limbo 6-partito, + campanulato, aequali. _Stigmata_ tria, simplicia. _Thunb. Diss. + de Ixia._ + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + IXIA _Bulbocodium_ scapo unifloro brevissimo, foliis angulatis + caulinis, stigmatibus sextuplicibus. _Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 13. p. + 76._ + + IXIA _Bulbocodium_ scapo ramoso, floribus solitariis, foliis + sulcatis reflexis. _Thunb. Diss. n. 3._ + + CROCUS vernus angustifolius. 1. 11. _Clus. Hist. i. p. 207._ + violaceo flore, 208. _ejusd._ + +There are three plants cultivated in the gardens of the curious to which +_Bulbocodium_ is applied, either as a generic or a trivial name, viz. +_Narcissus Bulbocodium_, _Bulbocodium vernum_, already figured, and the +present plant: the _Ixia Bulbocodium_ and _Bulbocodium vernum_ are given +in this work, not so much for their beauty as their rarity, not so much +to gratify the eye, as to communicate a knowledge of two plants but +little known, and liable to be confounded from a similarity of their +names. + +This is one of the few hardy species of the genus, and grows wild in +many parts of Spain and Italy; it is said to have been found in +Guernsey: it affects hilly and dry situations, will grow readily in +almost any soil, especially if fresh, and not infested with vermin: it +flowers about the middle of April, the blossoms do not expand fully +unless exposed to the sun, and are not of long duration: authors +describe the wild plants as varying greatly in colour, _vid. Clus._ they +are most commonly pale blue. + +Like the Crocus, it increases readily by offsets. + +Was cultivated by Mr. MILLER, in 1739, _Ait. Kew._ Bulbocodium, 1. in +the 6th edition of his Dictionary in 4to, is not this plant, but the +_Anthericum scrotinum_, _Jacq. Fl. Austr. v. 5. app. t. 38._ + + + + +[266] + +RANUNCULUS AMPLEXICAULIS. PLANTAIN-LEAVED CROWFOOT. + +_Class and Order._ + +POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ deciduus. 5 phyllus, (rarius 3-phyllus) _Petala_ 5, (rarius + 2, 3, aut 8) intra ungues squamula vel poro mellifero. _Styli_ + persistentes. _Sem._ incrustata, erecta. _Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 13. + Gmel._ + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + RANUNCULUS _amplexicaulis_ foliis ovatis acuminatis + amplexicaulibus, caule multifloro, radice fasciculata. _Linn. Syst. + Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 515._ _Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 265._ + + RANUNCULUS montanus foliis plantaginis. _Bauh. Pin. 180._ + + RANUNCULUS pyrenaeus albo flore. _Clus. app. alt. auct. ic. 4 ta._ + _Ger. emac. 963. fig. 2._ + +The leaves of the _Ranunculus amplexicaulis_ in part surround the stalk +at their base, whence its trivial name; in colour they differ from most +others of the genus, being of a greyer or more glaucous hue, which +peculiarity joined to the delicate whiteness of the flowers, renders +this species a very desirable one to add to a collection of hardy, +ornamental, herbaceous plants, more especially as it occupies but little +space, and has no tendency to injure the growth of others. + +It is a native of the Apennine and Pyrenean mountains, and flowers in +April and May. + +CLUSIUS is the first author who describes and figures this species. +JOHNSON in his _ed._ of GERARD copies his figure, and mentions it as +being then made a denizen of our gardens. + +It is readily propagated by parting its roots in Autumn, and provided it +has a pure air will succeed in most soils an situations. + +[Illustration: No 266] + +[Illustration: No. 267] + + + + +[267] + +PYRUS SPECTABILIS. CHINESE APPLE TREE. + +_Class and Order._ + +ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 5-fidus. _Petala_ 5. _Pomum_ inferum, 5-loculare, + polyspermum. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + PYRUS _spectabilis_ umbellis sessilibus, foliis ovali oblongis + serratis laevibus, unguibus calyce longioribus, stylis basi lanatis. + _Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 175._ _Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 13._ _Gmel. p. + 842._ + +The Chinese Apple-Tree when it blossoms in perfection, answers truly to +the name of _spectabilis_; a more shewy or ornamental tree can scarcely +be introduced to decorate the shrubbery or plantation; its beauty like +that of most trees, whose ornament consists chiefly in their blossoms, +is however but of short duration, and depends in some degree on the +favourableness of the season at the time of their expansion, which +usually takes place about the end of April or beginning of May; the +flowers are large, of a pale red when open, and semi-double, the buds +are of a much deeper hue, the fruit is of little account, and but +sparingly produced. Trees of this species are to be met with in some +gardens of the height of twenty or thirty feet. + +Dr. FOTHERGILL is regarded as the first who introduced this Chinese +native, he cultivated it in the year 1780; such plants of it as were in +his collection, passed at his decease into the hands of Messrs. GORDON +and THOMPSON, in whose rich and elegant Nursery, at Mile-End, this tree +may be seen in great perfection. + +Though perfectly hardy, as its blossoms are liable to be injured by +cutting winds, it will be most proper to plant it in a shelter'd +situation. + +It is usually increased by grafting it on the Crab stock. + + + + +[268] + +GLYCINE RUBICUNDA. DINGY-FLOWERED GLYCINE. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 2-labiatus. _Corollae_ carina apice vexillum reflectens. + +_Specific Character._ + + GLYCINE _rubicunda_ caule perenni volubili, foliis ternatis, + foliolis subovalibus integerrimis, pedunculis subtrifloris. + +The plant here figured, and very generally known to the Nurserymen, in +the neighbourhood of London, by the name of _Glycine rubicunda_, is a +native of New South-Wales, and was introduced to this country about the +same time as the _Glycine bimaculata_ already figured. + +It is a shrubby, twining plant, running up to the height of five, six, +or more feet, producing blossoms abundantly from April to June, which +are usually succeeded by seed-vessels which ripen their seeds with us. + +The flowers though large and shewy, have a kind of dingy or lurid +appearance, which greatly diminishes their beauty. We have observed the +blossoms of some plants more brilliant than those of others, and we +think it highly probable, that, at some future period, seminal varieties +may be obtained with flowers highly improved in colour. + +This species is readily raised from seeds, is of quick growth, and may +be regarded as one of our more hardy green-house plants: probably it may +succeed in the open air, if planted in a warm situation, and sheltered +in inclement seasons. + +[Illustration: No 268] + +[Illustration: No 269] + + + + +[269] + +ORNITHOGALUM NUTANS. NEAPOLITAN STAR OF BETHLEHEM. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ 6 petala, erecta, persistens, supra medium patens, + _Filamenta_ alterna basi dilatata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + ORNITHOGALUM _nutans_ floribus secundis pendulis, nectario stamineo + campaniformi. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 328._ _Ait. + Kew. v. i. p. 443._ + + ORNITHOGALUM exoticum magno flore minori innato. _Bauh. Pin. p. + 70._ + + ORNITHOGALUM Neopolitanum, the Starre-flower of Naples. _Park. + Parad. p. 138. p. 137. f. 8._ _Clus. app. alt. p. 9. fig. 7._ + +Authors have given to this species of Ornithogalum the name of +Neapolitan, following CLUSIUS by whom the plant is figured and +described, and who so called it, merely on receiving it from Naples; it +may perhaps be doubted whether it be originally a native of Italy. Prof. +JACQUIN has figured it in his _Flora Austriaca_, the plant being common +about Vienna, in garden-walks, under hedges, and in meadows, he does not +however, from that circumstance, regard it as an original native there. +CASP. BAUHIN informs us that HONORIUS BELLI sent it him from Crete under +the name of _Phalangium_, leaving its true habitat to be settled more +precisely hereafter, we shall observe, that it is one of those plants +which soon accommodate themselves to any country; producing a numerous +progeny both from roots and seeds, and by no means nice as to soil or +situation; it is not long before it becomes a weed in the garden, from +whence it is apt like the _Hyacinthus racemosus_, already figured, to +pass into the field or meadow. + +Its flowers, which if not beautiful are singular and delicate, make +their appearance towards the end of April, they are of no long duration, +seldom continuing above a fortnight, and are succeeded by seed-vessels +which produce abundance of ripe seed, by which, as well as by its bulbs, +the plant may be increased. + +In the _Hortus Kewensis_ it is set down as a Greenhouse plant, one of +the rare errors which occur in that most useful work. + +[Illustration: No 270] + + + + +[270] + +GLYCINE COCCINEA. SCARLET GLYCINE. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 2-labiatus. _Corollae_ carina apice vexillum reflectens. + +_Specific Character._ + + GLYCINE _coccinea_ foliis ternatis, foliolis subrotundis undulatis. + +We here present our readers with another Glycine, very lately raised by +several persons in the neighbourhood of London from Botany-Bay seeds, +and which we have called _coccinea_ from the colour of its blossoms. + +It is a shrubby, climbing plant, which, if supported, will grow to the +height of many feet, producing a great number of flowers on its pendant +branches; the leaves, which grow three together, are nearly round, and, +in the older ones especially, are crimped or curled at the edges; the +flowers grow for the most part in pairs, are of a glowing scarlet +colour, at the base of the carina somewhat inclined to purple, the +bottom of the vexillum is decorated with a large yellow spot, verging to +green, which adds much to the beauty of the flower. + +It blossoms from April to June, and appears to be fully as much disposed +to produce seed vessels, and perfect seeds, as the _rubicunda_, and by +which alone it has hitherto been propagated. + +We must rank it among the more tender green-house plants. + + + + +[271] + +CYRTANTHUS ANGUSTIFOLIUS. NARROW-LEAVED CYRTANTHUS. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ tubulosa, clavata, curva, 6-fida, laciniae ovato-oblongae. + _Filamenta_ tubo inserta, apice conniventia. _Linn. Fil._ + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + CYRTANTHUS _angustifolius_ foliis obtuse carinatis rectis, floribus + cernuis, _Linn. Fil. Ait. Kew. v. i. p. 414._ + + CRINUM _angustifolium_ foliis linearibus obtusis, corollis + cylindricis: laciniis alternis interglandulosis. _Linn. Suppl. + 195._ + +CYRTANTHUS is a genus which takes its name from the curvature of its +flower, was established by the younger LINNAEUS, and adopted by Mr. AITON +in the _Hortus Kewensis_. + +The present species is a native of the Cape, and was added to the royal +collection at Kew, by Mr. MASSON, in the year 1774. The plant from +whence our drawing was made flowered the preceding May with Mr. WHITLEY, +Nurseryman, Old Brompton, who received it from Holland, and who has been +so fortunate as to obtain young plants of it from seed. + +It flowers in May and June; requires the same treatment as other Cape +bulbs, and may be increased by offsets and seeds. + +At the extremity of each alternate segment of the corolla there is a +kind of small glandular hook, deserving of notice. + +[Illustration: N.271] + + + + +[272] + +GLADIOLUS TRISTIS. SQUARE-LEAVED CORN-FLAG. + +_Class and Order._ + +TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ 6-partita, ringens. _Stamina_ adscendentia. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + GLADIOLUS _tristis_ foliis lineari-cruciatis, corollis + campanulatis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 86._ _Ait. + Kew. v. 1. p. 63._ + + LILIO-GLADIOLUS bifolius et biflorus, foliis quadrangulis. _Trew. + Ehret. t. 39._ + + GLADIOLUS _tristis_ foliis linearibus sulcatis, caule bifloro, tubo + longissimo, segmentis aequalibus. _Mill. Dict. ed. 6. 4to._ + +LINNAEUS gave to this species of _Gladiolus_ the name of _tristis_, from +the colour of its flowers, which however possess scarcely sufficient of +the sombre to justify the appellation; still less so if they vary in the +manner represented in TREW'S _Ehret_, where they are painted in gay and +lively colours: in the specimens we have seen, the blossoms have been of +a sulphur colour, shaded in particular parts with very fine pencillings, +especially on the under side: most authors describe the flowering stems +as producing only two flowers, LINNAEUS has observed that they sometimes +produce many, we have seen them do so where the plant has grown in +perfection; in their expansion, which usually takes place in April and +May, they give forth a most agreeable fragrance. + +It is a native of the Cape, and other parts of Africa; was cultivated by +Mr. MILLER, and flowered in the Chelsea Garden in the year 1745. _Ait. +Kew._ + +The leaves which so characteristically distinguish this species are +highly deserving of notice, instances of such rarely occur; as the bulbs +produce numerous offsets, the plant is propagated by them without +difficulty, and requires the same treatment as other Cape bulbs. + +[Illustration: No 272] + +[Illustration: No 273] + + + + +[273] + +DIOSMA UNIFLORA. ONE-FLOWERED DIOSMA. + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ 5-petala. _Nectaria_ 5, supra germen. _Caps._ 3. s. 5. + coalitae. _Sem._ calyptrata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + DIOSMA _uniflora_ foliis ovato oblongis, floribus solitariis + terminalibus. _Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 3. p. 287._ _Syst. Vegetab. ed. + 14._ _Murr. p. 239._ _Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 276._ + + CISTUS humilis aethiopicus, inferioribus foliis rosmarini sylvestris + punctatis, caeteris autem serpylli subrotundis, flore carneo. _Pluk. + mant. 49. t. 342. f. 5._ + +The _Diosma uniflora_ another native of the Cape, that never failing +source of vegetable riches, was introduced to the Royal Garden at Kew by +Mr. MASSON in the year 1775, it flowers in our Green-Houses from April +to June, and is usually propagated by cuttings. + +This plant forms a small bushy shrub, the leaves are thickly and +irregularly set on the branches, quite up to the flowers, which stand +singly on their summits, and are larger than those of any other known +species of Diosma, expanding as we have found on trial beyond the size +of half-a-crown, which the blossom does in our figure, though it will +not appear to do so to the eye of most observers; they are without +scent, the calyx is large and continuing, composed of five +ovato-lanceolate leaves, reddish on the upper side, and if viewed from +above visible between the petals; the petals are five in number, much +larger than the calyx, and deciduous, of a white colour with a streak of +red running down the middle of each, surface highly glazed, the stamina +are composed of five short filaments, white and slightly hairy, broad at +their base and tapering gradually to a fine point, by which they are +inserted into the hind part of the antherae, near the bottom; the +antherae are as long as the filaments, of a brown purple colour, bending +over the stigma, and opening inwardly, each carrying on the upper part +of its back a gland-like substance, of a pale brown colour: besides +these parts there are five filamentous bodies alternating with, and of +the same length as the stamina, of a white colour, and hairy, each +dilating at its extremity where it is of a reddish hue, and presenting +towards the antherae an oval somewhat concave surface, which secretes a +viscous liquid; in some flowers that we have examined, and we regret +seeing but few, we have observed these nectaries (for such they may be +strictly called) closely adhering by their viscous summits to the +glandular substances at the back of the antherae[2]; the germen is +studded with a constellation of little glands, which pour forth, and +almost deluge it with nectar; the stigma is composed of five little +round knobs: seed vessels we have not seen. + +[Footnote 2: What the use of this very extraordinary apparatus may be we +can at present scarcely conjecture, future observation may perhaps +enable us to speak more decisively; when we figure the _Diosma +ericoides_ we shall probably have more to say of this species.] + + + + +[274] + +BORBONIA CRENATA. HEART-LEAVED BORBONIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ acuminato-spinosus. _Stigma_ emarginatum. _Legumen_ + mucronatum. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + BORBONIA _crenata_ foliis cordatis multinerviis denticulatis. + _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 643._ _Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. + 9._ + + FRUTEX _aethiopicus_ leguminosus, foliis rusci majoribus in ambitu + spinulis fimbriatis. _Pluk. Alm. 159._ + + PLANTA leguminosa aethiopica, foliis rusci. _Breyn. Cent. t. 28._ + +_Borbonia_ is a genus of plants established by LINNAEUS in the 6th +edition of his _Genera Plantarum_; of this genus there are six species +enumerated in the 3d edition of the _Species Plant_. and two in the +_Hort. Kew._ the latter of which, the _crenata_, introduced from the +Cape by Mr. MASSON, in 1774, is here figured. + +It is a small shrubby plant, rarely exceeding the height of three feet, +producing its flowers in a small cluster on the summits of the branches; +these are of a yellow colour, and have nothing about them peculiarly +singular, or beautiful; it is the foliage alone which renders this plant +desirable in a collection. + +It flowers from June to August, and in favourable seasons ripens its +seeds, by which the plant is usually propagated. + +[Illustration: No 274] + +[Illustration: No 275] + + + + +[275] + +LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA. COMMON TULIP-TREE. + +_Class and Order._ + +POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 3-phyllus. _Petala_ 6. _Sem._ imbricata in strobilum. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + LIRIODENDRON _Tulipifera_ foliis lobatis. _Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. + 14._ _Murr. p. 507._ _Ait. Kew. v. 2. 250._ + + TULIPIFERA virginiana, tripartito aceris folio: media lacinia velut + abscissa. _Pluk. Alm. 379. t. 117. f. 5. & t. 248. f. 7._ _Catesb. + Carol. 1. p. 48. t. 48._ + + LIRIODENDRON foliis angulatis truncatis. _Trew. Ehret. t. x._ + +The Tulip-tree is a native of most parts of North-America, MARSHALL +describes it as often growing to the size of a very large tree, 70 or 80 +feet in height, and above 4 feet in diameter; he mentions two varieties, +one with yellow and the other with white wood; that with yellow wood is +soft and brittle, much used for boards, heels of shoes, also turned into +bowls, trenchers, &c. the white is heavy, tough, and hard, and is sawed +into joists, boards, &c. for building. + +RAY informs us in his _Hist. Pl._ that this tree was cultivated here by +Bishop COMPTON, in 1688: and from MILLER we learn, that the first tree +of the kind which flowered in this country, was in the gardens of the +Earl of PETERBOROUGH, at Parsons-Green, near Fulham; in Mr. ORD'S +garden, at Walham-Green, there is, among other choice old trees, a very +fine tulip-tree, which is every year covered with blossoms, and which +afforded us the specimen here figured. It flowers in June and July, +rarely ripens its seeds with us, though it does readily in America. + +The foliage of this plant is extremely singular, most of the leaves +appearing as if truncated, or cut off at the extremity; they vary +greatly in the division of their lobes, the flowers differ from those of +the tulip in having a calyx, but agree as to the number of petals, which +is six; and so they are described in the sixth edition of the _Gen. Pl._ +of LINN. but in _Professor_ MURRAY'S _Syst. Veg. Ait. H. K. Linn. Syst. +Nat. ed. 13_, by GMELIN, 9 are given, this in the first instance must be +a mere typographical error arising from the inversion of the 6. + +This tree is found to flourish most in a soil moderately stiff and +moist, is usually raised from seeds, the process of which is amply +described by MILLER in his Dictionary. + +[Illustration: No 276] + + + + +[276] + +BLITUM VIRGATUM. STRAWBERRY BLITE. + +_Class and Order._ + +MONANDRIA DIGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Col._ 3-fidus. _Petala_ O. _Sem._ 1. calyce baccato. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + BLITUM _virgatum_ capitellis sparsis lateralibus. _Linn. Syst. + Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 53._ _Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 7._ + + ATRIPLEX sylvestris mori fructu. _Bauh. Pin. p. 519._ + + ATRIPLEX sylvestris baccifera. _Clus. Hist. cxxxv._ + +This plant, not unfrequently met with in gardens, is known to most +cultivators by the name of _Strawberry Spinach_; the leaves somewhat +resembling those of the latter, and the fruit that of the former: C. +BAUHINE likens its berries to those of the Mulberry, to which they +certainly bear a greater resemblance: in most of the species of this +genus the calyx exhibits a very singular phenomenon, when the flowering +is over, it increases in size, becomes fleshy, and finally pulpy, +containing the ripe seed, which however it does not wholly envelope; +thus from each cluster of flowers growing in the alae of the leaves are +produced so many berries, of a charming red colour, to which the plant +owes its beauty altogether, for the flowers are small, herbaceous, and +not distinctly visible to the naked eye; they can boast however of being +of the first class in the Linnean system _Monandria_, to which few +belong. + +Strawberry Blite is a hardy annual, growing spontaneously in some parts +of France, Spain, and Tartary; is not a very old inhabitant of our +gardens, Mr. AITON mentioning it as being first cultivated by Mr. MILLER +in 1759. Its berries are produced from June to September; in their taste +they have nothing to recommend them, though not pleasant they are +harmless. + +CLUSIUS we believe to be the first author who gives a figure and +description of it. + +It affects a dry soil, and open situation; in such there is no necessity +to give any particular directions for its cultivation, as it comes up +readily from seed spontaneously scattered, so much so as sometimes to +prove a troublesome weed. + + + + +[277] + +MAHERNIA PINNATA. WINGED MAHERNIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 5-dentatus. _Petala_ 5. _Nectaria_ 5 obcordata, filamentis + supposita. _Caps._ 5-locularis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + MAHERNIA _pinnata_, foliis tripartito pinnatifidis. _Linn. Syst. + Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 308._ _Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 398._ + + HERMANNIA foliis tripartitis, media pinnatifida. _Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. + 3. p. 943._ + + HERMANNIA frutescens, folio multifido tenui, caule rubro. _Boerh. + Lugd. 1. p. 273._ + +LINNAEUS, in his _Spec. Pl._ regarded this plant as a species of +_Hermannia_; finding afterwards that it differed materially in its +fructification from that genus, he made a new one of it in his +_Mantissa_, by the name of _Mahernia_; still, however, the two genera +are very nearly related: one principal difference consists in the +nectaria of the _Mahernia_, which are very remarkable. + +This species was introduced from the Cape, where it is a native, by Mr. +MASSON, in 1774, and is now very generally met with in our green-houses. +It produces its little bells, of a lively red when they first open, from +June to August, or September; is a small delicate plant, and easily +raised from cuttings. + +[Illustration: No 277] + +[Illustration: No 278] + + + + +[278] + +LILIUM CANDIDUM. WHITE LILY. + +_Class and Order._ + +HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ 6-petala, campanulata: linea longitudinali nectarifera. + _Caps._ valvulis pilo cancellato connexis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + LILIUM _candidum_ foliis sparsis, corollis campanulatis, intus + glabris. _Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 3. p. 433._ _Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ + _Murr. p. 324._ _Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 429._ + + LILIUM album flore erecto et vulgare. _Bauh. Pin. 76._ + + LILIUM album vulgare. The ordinary White Lily. _Park. Parad. p. 39. + t. 37. f. 4._ + +We may rank the White Lily among the very oldest inhabitants of the +flower-garden; in the time of GERARD it was very generally cultivated, +and doubtless at a much earlier period; a plant of such stateliness, so +shewy, so fragrant, and at the same time so much disposed to increase, +would of course soon be found very generally in gardens, into which its +introduction would be accelerated on another account; it was regarded as +a plant of great efficacy; among other extraordinary powers attributed +to it, we are gravely told that it taketh away the wrinkles of the face. + +LINNAEUS makes it a native of Palestine and Syria; Mr. AITON of the +Levant. + +Its blossoms, which open early in July, continue about three weeks, and +when they go off leave the flower-garden greatly thinned of its +inhabitants. + +Of the White Lily there are three principal varieties: + + 1. With double flowers. + 2. With flowers blotched with purple. + 3. With striped leaves, or leaves edged with yellow. + +The two first of these are to be esteemed merely as curiosities; in the +third the plant acquires an accession of beauty which it has not +originally; though many persons object to variegated leaves, as +conveying an idea of fickliness, that complaint cannot be urged against +the foliage of the striped Lily, to which the borders of the +flower-garden are indebted for one of their chief ornaments during the +autumnal and winter months; early in September these begin to emerge, +and towards spring another set rises up in their centre, of more upright +growth, and which announce the rising of the flowering stem. + +Besides these varieties, LINNAEUS has considered the _Lilium album +floribus dependentibus s. peregrinum_ of C. BAUHINE, the _Sultan +Zambach_ of CLUSIUS, and the _Hortus Eystettensis_, as one of its +varieties also: MILLER regards this plant as a distinct species, and +those who have attentively examined the figures and descriptions of +CLUSIUS and the _Hort. Eyst._ will be of the same opinion. + +The Lily increases most abundantly by offsets, hence it becomes +necessary that the bulbs should be taken up, and reduced every second or +third year; but the striped leaved variety increasing much more slowly, +should remain unmolested for a greater length of time. + +There is scarcely a soil or situation in which the Lily will not grow, +it will thrive most in a soil moderately stiff and moist; though a +native of a warm climate no severity of weather affects it with us: we +may learn from this, not to regulate the culture of plants invariably by +the climate in which they grow spontaneously. + +The best time for removing the bulbs of this plant is about the middle +of August, before they shoot forth their leaves; but they may be +transplanted any time from September to spring. + +[Illustration: No 279] + + + + +[279] + +PLUMERIA RUBRA. RED PLUMERIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + Contorta. _Folliculi_ 2. reflexi. _Semina_ membranae propriae + inserta. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + PLUMERIA _rubra_ foliis ovato-oblongis, petiolis biglandulosis. + _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 254._ _Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. + 298._ + + PLUMERIA flore roseo odoratissimo. _Tourn. Inst. 659._ _Trew. + Ehret. Tab. xli._ + +_Plumeria_ is a genus of plants named by TOURNEFORT in honour of his +countryman the celebrated PLUMIER, it comes near to Nerium or Oleander, +and contains several species, all natives of warm climates. + +The present plant is a native of Jamaica, where it is known by the name +of Red Jasmine, from whence seeds and large cuttings are often sent to +this country; here they require the stove to bring them to flower: +seed-vessels they are never known to produce. + +The flowers, which are very odoriferous, are produced in July and August +in large bunches, on the summits of the branches, from whence the leaves +also proceed; the stems, which grow to a considerable height as well as +thickness, are naked, and the whole plant loses its foliage from the +middle of winter till about the beginning of May; the branches and other +parts of the plant, when broken off, give forth a milky juice, the +leaves are handsome, and the veins remarkable. + +Being too tender to bear the open air of this climate, it is kept in the +stove even during summer, in hot weather it must have plenty of air, and +in cold seasons be sparingly watered. + +Is propagated by seeds, but more frequently by cuttings, which MILLER +recommends to be put by for two months or ten weeks, previous to their +being committed to the earth. + +[Illustration: No 280] + + + + +[280] + +APOCYNUM ANDROSAEMIFOLIUM. TUTSAN-LEAV'D, or FLY-CATCHING DOGSBANE. + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ campanulata. _Glandulae_ 5 cum staminibus alternae. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + APOCYNUM _androsaemifolium_ caule rectiuseulo herbaceo, foliis + ovatis utrinque glabris, cymis terminalibus. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. + ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 258._ _Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 303._ + + APOCYNUM canadense; foliis androsaemi majoris. _Bocc. sicc. 35. t. + 16. f. 3._ _Moris. Hist. 3. p. 609. s. 15. t. 3. f. 16._ + +In addition to the powerful recommendations of beauty and fragrance, the +Tutsan-leav'd Dogsbane interests us on account of the curious structure +of its flowers, and their singular property of catching flies. + +This species is a native of different parts of North-America; Mr. W. +HALE, of Alton, Hants, who resided at Halifax in Nova-Scotia several +years, brought me some seeds of it gathered in that neighbourhood, which +vegetated, and produced flowering plants: it is not new to this country, +being known to MORISON who figures it, and to MILLER, who cultivated it +in 1731. + +It is a hardy perennial plant, growing to about the height of a foot and +a half, or two feet, and flowering from the beginning of July, to +September; it has a creeping root, thereby it increases greatly in light +dry soils, and warm situations, so as even to be troublesome; it will +not thrive in a wet soil; with us it produces seed-vessels but rarely; +is propagated by parting its roots in Autumn or Spring; MILLER +recommends March as the most proper season, or it may be raised from +seeds, which in certain situations and seasons ripen here. + +The flowers of this Apocynum have a sweet honey-like fragrance, which +perfumes the air to a considerable distance, and no doubt operates +powerfully in attracting insects; when a plant of this sort is fully +blown, one may always find flies caught in its blossoms, usually by the +trunk, very rarely by the leg; sometimes four, or even five, which is +the greatest possible number, are found in one flower, some dead, others +endeavouring to disentangle themselves, in which they are now and then +so fortunate as to succeed; these flies are of different species, the +_musca pipiens_, a slender variegated fly with thick thighs, is a very +common victim, the _musca domestica_, or house fly, we have never +observed among the captives. + +Previous to our explaining the manner in which it appears to us that +these insects are caught, it will be necessary that we should describe, +in as plain a manner as possible, those parts of the flower which more +particularly constitute this fatal fly trap. + +On looking into the flower we perceive five Stamina, the Antherae of +which are large, of a yellow colour, and converge into a kind of cone; +each of these Antherae is arrow-shaped, towards the top of the cone their +sides touch but do not adhere, below they separate a little, so as to +leave a very narrow opening or slit between each, they are placed on +very short filaments, which stand so far apart that a considerable +opening is left between them, which openings, however, are closed up by +processes of the corolla, nicely adapted to, and projecting into them; +at the bottom of, and in the very centre of the flower, we perceive two +germina, or seed-buds, the rudiments of future seed-vessels, surrounded +by glandular substances, secreting a sweet liquid; on the summit of +these germina, and betwixt the two, stands the stigma, in the form of a +little urn, the middle of which is encircled by a glandular ring, which +secretes a viscid honey-like substance, to this part of the stigma the +Antherae interiorly adhere most tenaciously, so as to prevent their +separation unless considerable force be applied; it is, as we apprehend, +the sweet viscid substance thus secreted by the stigma, within the +Antherae, which the fly endeavours to obtain, and to this end insinuates +its trunk first into the lowermost and widest part of the slit, betwixt +each of the Antherae above described, pushing it of necessity upwards: +when gratified, not having the sense to place itself in the same +position as that in which it stood when it inserted its trunk, and to +draw it out in the same direction downwards, unfortunately for it, it +varies its position, and pulling its trunk upwards, draws it into the +narrow part of the slit, where it becomes closely wedged in, and the +more it pulls the more securely it is caught, and thus this heedless +insect, as THOMSON calls it, terminates its existence in captivity most +miserable. + +In the incomparable poem of Dr. DARWIN, entitled the _Botanic Garden_, +there is a figure given of this plant; and in the Supplement we have the +following account written by Mr. DARWIN, of Elston. + +"In the Apocynum Androsaemifolium the Anthers converge over the +nectaries, which consist of five glandular oval corpuscles, surrounding +the germ, and at the same time admit air to the nectaries at the +interstice between each anther; but when a fly inserts its proboscis +between these anthers to plunder the honey, they converge closer, and +with such violence as to detain the fly, which thus generally perishes." + +This explanation of a phaenomenon entitled to much attention, is widely +different from ours; which of the two is most consonant to truth and +nature, we shall leave to the determination of future observers. + +In explaining the preceding appearances, to prevent confusion we called +those parts which form the cone in the middle of the flower Antherae, but +strictly speaking they are not such, the true Antherae being situated on +the inside of their summits, where they will be found to be ten in +number, making in fact the Apocynum a decandrous plant. + + + + +[281] + +TURNERA ANGUSTIFOLIA. NARROW-LEAV'D TURNERA. + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 5-fidus, infundibuliformis, exterior 2-phyllus. _Petala_ 5 + calyci inserta. _Stigmata_ multifida. _Caps._ 1-locularis, + 3-valvis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + TURNERA _angustifolia_ floribus sessilibus petiolaribus, foliis + lanceolatis rugosis acuminatis. _Mill. Dict. ed. 6. 4to._ + + TURNERA frutescens folio longiore et mucronato. _Mart. Cent. 49. t. + 49._ + +This plant here represented is generally known to the Nurserymen about +London as the _Turnera ulmifolia_, or _Elm-leav'd Turnera_, its foliage +however does not answer to the name, nor to the figures of the plant as +given by MARTYN in his _Cent. Pl._ and LINNAEUS in his _Hortus +Cliffortianus_, which figures indeed are so similar that they look like +copies of each other, these represent the true elm leaf; on the same +plate of _Martyn's Cent._ there is given a very excellent figure of what +he considers as another species of Turnera, vide Synon. and which +MILLER, who cultivated it about the year 1773, also describes as a +distinct species, under the name of _angustifolia_, asserting, from the +experience of thirty years, that plants raised from its seeds have +constantly differed from those of the _ulmifolia_; this is our plant, +which on his authority we have given as a species, though LINNAEUS +regards it as a variety. + +PLUMIER gave to this genus the name of _Turnera_, in honour of Dr. +WILLIAM TURNER, a celebrated English Botanist and Physician, who +published an Herbal, black letter, folio, in 1568. + +The present species is a native of the West-Indies, and is commonly +cultivated in our stoves, where it rises with a semi-shrubby stalk, to +the height of several feet, seldom continuing more than two or three +years; young plants generally come up in plenty from seeds spontaneously +scattered, so that a succession is easily obtained. + +It flowers from June to August. + +Its foliage has a disagreeable smell when bruised; its flowers are +shewy, but of short duration, and are remarkable for growing out of the +footstalk of the leaf. + +[Illustration: No 281] + +[Illustration: No 282] + + + + +[282] + +HEDYSARUM OBSCURUM. CREEPING-ROOTED HEDYSARUM. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ carina transverse obtusa. _Legumen_ articulis 1-spermis. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + HEDYSARUM _obscurum_ foliis pinnatis, stipulis vaginalibus, caule + erecto flexuoso, floribus pendulis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ + _Murr. p. 676._ _Mant. 447._ _Jacq. Fl. Austr. v. 2. t. 168._ + + HEDYSARUM caule recto, ramoso; foliis ovatis; siliquis pendulis, + laevissimis, venosis. _Hall. Hist. Helv. n. 395._ + + ONOBRYCHIS semine clypeato laevi. _Bauh. Pin. 350._ + +Prof. JACQUIN, in the second volume of the _Flora austriaca_, gives an +excellent figure and accurate description of our plant, a native of the +Alps of Germany and Switzerland, and points out the characters in which +it differs from the _alpinum_, for which it has sometimes been mistaken. + +It is a hardy perennial, rarely exceeding a foot in height, produces its +spikes of pendulous flowers, which are of a most beautiful purple +colour, in July and August; hitherto these have not been succeeded by +seed-vessels with us; though we have cultivated the plant for several +years. + +Its size renders it a suitable plant for rock-work, on which it will +grow readily, increasing by its roots, which are of the creeping kind. + +HALLER mentions a variety of it with white flowers. + + + + +[283] + +MIMULUS RINGENS. NARROW-LEAVED MONKEY-FLOWER. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 4-dentatus, prismaticus. _Cor._ ringens; labio superiore + lateribus replicato. _Caps._ 2-locularis, polysperma. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + MIMULUS _ringens_ erectus, foliis oblongis linearibus sessilibus. + _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 575._ _Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. + 361._ + + EUPHRASIA floridana lysimachiae glabrae siliquosae foliis, quadrato + caule ramosior. _Pluk. Amalth. 83. t. 393. f. 3._ + + LYSIMACHIA galericulata s. Gratiola elatior non ramosa, &c. _Gron. + Fl. Virg. p. 97._ + + DIGITALIS perfoliata glabra flore violaceo minore. _Moris. Hist. 2. + p. 479. s. 5. t. 8. f. 6._ + +CLAYTON, in the _Fl. Virg._ published by GRONOVIUS, describes this plant +as a native of Virginia, and says of it, "maddidis gaudet locis," it +delights in wet places: LINNAEUS makes it a native of Canada also. + +It is a hardy, perennial, herbaceous plant, growing with us to the +height of about two feet, and producing its flowers, which are of a pale +violet colour, in July and August; these are frequently succeeded by +capsules containing perfect seeds, by which the plant may be propagated, +as also by parting its roots in Autumn; MILLER recommends the seeds to +be sown as soon as ripe. + +The plant succeeds best in a moist and somewhat shady situation, with a +loamy soil. + +A perusal of the synonyms will shew to what a variety of genera this +plant has been referred by different authors; LINNAEUS first gave to it +the name of _Mimulus_, of which term we find in his _Philosophia +Botanica_ the following concise explanation:--"MIMULUS mimus +personatus;" in plain English, a masked mimick: MIMMULUS is a classical +word for the Pedicularis, or Lousewort; the English term Monkey flower +has probably been given it, from an idea that _mimulus_ originated from +[Greek: mimo] a monkey, as in _mimusops_ monkey face. + +[Illustration: No 283] + + + + +[284] + +ROSA SEMPERFLORENS. EVER-BLOWING ROSE. + +_Class and Order._ + +ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Petala_ 5. _Cal._ urceolatus, 5-fidus, carnosus, collo coarctatus, + demum baccatus, coloratus. _Antrum_ duplicatum, 1-loculare, superne + apertum, pericarpiis osseis intus nidulantibus. + +_Specific Character._ + + ROSA _semperflorens_ caule aculeato, foliis subternis, pedunculis + subunifloris aculeato-hispidis, calycis laciniis integris. + +We are induced to consider the rose here represented, as one of the most +desirable plants in point of ornament ever introduced to this country; +its flowers, large in proportion to the plant, are semi-double, and with +great richness of colour unite a most delightful fragrance; they blossom +during the whole of the year, more sparingly indeed in the winter +months; the shrub itself is more hardy than most greenhouse plants, and +will grow in so small a compass of earth, that it may be reared almost +in a coffee cup; is kept with the least possible trouble, and propagated +without difficulty by cuttings or suckers. + +For this invaluable acquisition, our country is indebted to the late +GILBERT SLATER, Esq. of Knots-Green, near Laytonstone, whose untimely +death every person must deplore, who is a friend to improvements in +ornamental gardening: in procuring the rarer plants from abroad, more +particularly from the East-Indies, Mr. SLATER was indefatigable, nor was +he less anxious to have them in the greatest perfection this country +will admit; to gain this point there was no contrivance that ingenuity +could suggest, no labour, no expence withheld; such exertions must soon +have insured him the first collection of the plants of India: it is now +about three years since he obtained this rose from China; as he readily +imparted his most valuable acquisitions to those who were most likely to +increase them, this plant soon became conspicuous in the collections of +the principal Nurserymen near town, and in the course of a few years +will, no doubt, decorate the window of every amateur. + +The largest plants we have seen have not exceeded three feet, it may no +doubt be trained to a much greater height; a variety of it much more +robust, having usually several flowers on a footstalk, of a pale red +colour, and semi-double also, has more lately been introduced, and as +far as we can learn from the same source. + +[Illustration: No 284] + +[Illustration: No 285] + + + + +[285] + +JASMINUM ODORATISSIMUM. SWEETEST JASMINE. + +_Class and Order._ + +DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Corolla_ hypocrateriformis. _Bacca_ dicocca. _Semina_ solitaria, + arillata. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + JASMINUM _odoratissimum_ foliis alternis obtusiusculis ternatis + pinnatisque, ramis teretibus, laciniis calycinis brevissimis. _Ait. + Hort. H. v. 1. p. 10._ _Linn. Syst. Veget. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 56._ + + JASMINUM flavum odoratum. _Barr. Ic. 62._ + + +The flowers of most of the species of Jasmine are odoriferous, trivial +names therefore expressive of this quality are ineligible, as wanting +character; the present name is peculiarly objectionable, inasmuch as +several other species are greatly superior to this in point of +fragrance; a lesson for Botanists to abstain from trivial names of the +superlative degree, such as _odoratissimum_, _foetidissimum_, +_maximum_, _minimum_, &c. + +The present species, according to Mr. AITON, is a native of Madeira, and +was cultivated by Mr. MILLER, in 1730; it is now a plant common in most +greenhouses: it will form a shrub of considerable size, which requires +no support; its leaves are glossy, inclining to yellow, growing for the +most part three together, sometimes pinnated; its blossoms, which are +yellow, make their appearance from May to November: in point of +hardiness it is superior to many greenhouse plants, and may be +propagated without difficulty by cuttings. + + + + +[286] + +PORTLANDIA GRANDIFLORA. GREAT-FLOWERED PORTLANDIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cor._ clavato-infundibuliformis. _Antherae_ 4-6. longitudinales. + _Caps._ 5-gona, 2-valvis, retusa, 2-locularis, polysperma, coronata + calyce 5-phyllo. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + PORTLANDIA _grandiflora_ floribus pentandris. _Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. + 14._ _Murr. p. 213._ _Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 228. foliis ovatis._ + _Syst. Nat. ed. 13._ _Gmel. p. 360._ + + PORTLANDIA _grandiflora_ floribus pentandris, capsulis ovatis, + foliis oblongis acuminatis. _Swartz. Obs. Bot. p. 69._ + + +Dr. BROWN, in his Natural History of Jamaica, gives to this genus the +name of _Portlandia_, in honour of the Duchess Dowager of PORTLAND, who +employed many of the leisure hours of a long and happy life, in the +pursuits of natural history, in which she was eminently skilled.--She +was the friend and patron of Mr. LIGHTFOOT, who dedicates to her his +_Flora Scotica_; the fine collection of rare and valuable trees and +shrubs which enrich part of the grounds at Bulstrode, were of her +planting. + +Dr. SWARTZ, in his Observations on the Plants of the West-Indies, +informs us, that this species grows wild in Jamaica, where (_incolit +calcareosa petrosa_) it inhabits calcareous rocky places[3], forms a +small tree about the height of six feet, and flowers from the middle of +Summer to Autumn; its bark, he observes, as in other plants of the same +genus, is extremely bitter. + +From Mr. AITON we learn, that it was introduced here by ---- ELLIS, Esq. +in 1775. + +It forms a very beautiful stove plant, not of difficult growth, and +readily disposed to flower; we have seen blowing plants of it little +more than a foot high; its blossoms are not only uncommonly large, +shewy, and curious in their structure, but fragrant also, and very much +so when dried. + +It is usually increased by cuttings. + +[Footnote 3: We wish that every person who describes foreign plants on +the spot, would do thus; it would greatly facilitate their culture.] + +[Illustration: No 286] + +[Illustration: No 287] + + + + +[287] + +GOODENIA LAEVIGATA. SMOOTH GOODENIA. + +_Class and Order._ + +PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Flores_ monopetali, superi. _Caps._ bilocularis. _Cor._ supra + longitudinaliter fissa, stigma urceolatum ciliatum. _Smith Trans. + Linn. Soc. v. 2. p. 346._ + +_Specific Character._ + + GOODENIA laevigata foliis obovato-lanceolatis dentatis glabris. + + +In the Autumn of 1792, SAMUEL TOLFREY Esq. most kindly invited me to +inspect a vast number of the natural productions of Botany-Bay, in his +possession; collected with great assiduity, and brought over in high +preservation by Captain TENCH; among other curiosities, he shewed me +specimens of the earths of that country, imported in very small bags. I +suggested to Mr. TOLFREY, that those earths might possibly contain the +seeds of some curious and unknown plants; he readily acquiesced in the +idea, and permitted me to make trial of them: accordingly, in the Spring +of 1793, I exposed them in shallow pans, on a gentle tan heat, keeping +them duly watered; in the course of the Summer they yielded me fourteen +plants, most of which were altogether new, and among others the species +of _Goodenia_ here figured; this we have since found to be a hardy +greenhouse plant, flowering from July to October, and very readily +increased by cuttings. + +The oldest plant in our possession is about a foot and a half high, much +branched, the stalks are round and smooth to the naked eye, green below, +above purplish, the leaves are smooth, a deep bright green colour, +alternate, standing on footstalks, which gradually widen into the +leaves, somewhat ovate, and deeply toothed; the flowers grow in the alae +of the leaves, forming a thin spike, they are sessile, of a pale violet +colour, and have a peculiar smell which is rather unpleasant; at the +side of each flower are two long narrow Bracteae; the Calyx, which is +placed on the germen, is composed of five short ovate leaves, which +appear edged with hairs if magnified; the Corolla is monopetalous, the +lower part, which at first is tubular, splits longitudinally above, and +forms a kind of half tube, the edges of which are brown, the inside +yellow, the outside greenish, the mouth beset with short hairs, each of +which is terminated by a small villous head; the limb is deeply divided +into five linear segments, spreading out like a hand, and terminated by +short points; the Filaments are five in number, of a whitish colour, +somewhat broadest above, rather flat, inserted into the receptacle; +Antherae oval, flattened, yellow, bilocular, a little bent, the length of +the pistillum; but this is to be understood of such flowers as are not +yet fully expanded, in those that are, they are much shorter, and appear +withered; the Style, in flowers about to open, the length of the +filaments, upright, in those that are opened much longer, and bent +somewhat downward; Stigma at first upright, in the form of a cup, +having the edge curiously fringed with white hairs, afterwards it closes +together, loses its hollow, and assumes a flat appearance, and nods +somewhat, the back part of it is bearded; Germen beneath the calyx, +oblong, usually abortive with us. + +The name of _Goodenia_ has been given to this genus by Dr. SMITH, in +honour of the Rev. SAMUEL GOODENOUGH, LL. D. of _Ealing_, my +much-honoured friend, whose name will be ever dear to Botanists for his +laborious investigation of the British Carices[4]. + +[Footnote 4: Vide a Dissertation on the British species of Carex, by Dr. +GOODENOUGH, in the second volume of the Transactions of the Linnean +Society.] + +[Illustration: No 288] + + + + +[288] + +PASSIFLORA CILIATA. FRINGED-LEAVED PASSION-FLOWER. + +_Class and Order._ + +GYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA. + +_Generic Character._ + + _Cal._ 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Stamina germini vicina. _Nectarium_ + multi-radiatum. _Antrum_ pedicellatum duplicatum 1-loculare. + +_Specific Character and Synonyms._ + + PASSIFLORA _ciliata_ foliis trilobis glabris ciliato serratis + intermedio longissimo, petiolis eglandulosis. _Ait. Kew. v. 3. p. + 310._ + + +This Passion-Flower is described in the _Hort. Kew._ as a new one, under +the name of _ciliata_, introduced by Mrs. NORMAN, from the West-Indies, +in 1783: we saw it during the latter part of the last Summer, with great +profusion of flowers, in several collections, more particularly in that +of Mr. VERE, Kensington-Gore, from whence our figure and description +were taken. + +Its stalks are round, perfectly smooth, and run to a very great height; +leaves dark green, glossy, perfectly smooth, except on the edges, where +they are beset with strong glandular hairs, divided into three large and +two small lobes, the middle lobe running out to a considerable length, +the footstalks of the leaves are beset with a few hairs thinly +scattered, at the base of each leaf is a tendril, and two finely-divided +stipulae, edged also with glandular hairs. The Involucrum is composed of +three leaves, dividing into capillary segments, each of which terminates +in a viscid globule, fetid when bruised; betwixt the involucrum and the +blossom is a short peduncle; the pillar which supports the germen is of +a bright purple colour, with spots of a darker hue, the germen is smooth +and green; Styles green; Stigmata of a dark green; Filaments six in +number; Antherae pale yellow green, the former dotted with purple; of +Radii, there may be said to be four rows, variegated with white and +purple, petals ten, externally greenish, internally red, deeper or paler +according to circumstances. + +The leaves of this plant vary greatly in form, according to the health +and luxuriance of the plant; on comparing it with the _foetida_, we +strongly suspect it to be a variety merely of that species: time will +shew. + +It is increased by cuttings, or seeds. + + + + +INDEX. + +In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the _Eighth Volume_ +are alphabetically arranged. + + + Pl. + + 280 Apocynum androsaemifolium. + + 276 Blitum virgatum. + + 274 Borbonia crenata. + + 264 Cistus formosus. + + 258 Coronilla varia. + + 271 Cyrtanthus angustifolius. + + 255 Cytisus sessilifolius. + + 273 Diosma uniflora. + + 261 Erodium incarnatum. + + 272 Gladiolus tristis. + + 263 Glycine bimaculata. + + 268 ------- rubicunda. + + 270 ------- coccinea. + + 287 Goodenia laevigata. + + 282 Hedysarum obscurum. + + 285 Jasminum odoratissimum. + + 256 Ixia longiflora. + + 265 ---- Bulbocodium. + + 253 Lathyrus articulatus. + + 259 Lilium Catesbaei. + + 278 ------ candidum. + + 275 Liriodendron Tulipifera. + + 254 Lopezia racemosa. + + 257 Lychnis chalcedonica. + + 277 Mahernia pinnata. + + 262 Mesembryanthemum aureum. + + 260 Metrosideros citrina. + + 283 Mimulus ringens. + + 269 Ornithogalum nutans. + + 288 Passiflora ciliata. + + 279 Plumeria rubra. + + 286 Portlandia grandiflora. + + 267 Pyrus spectabilis. + + 266 Ranunculus amplexicaulis. + + 284 Rosa semperflorens. + + 281 Turnera angustifolia. + + + + +INDEX. + +In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the _Eighth +Volume_ are alphabetically arranged. + + + Pl. + + 267 Apple-tree Chinese. + + 276 Blite strawberry. + + 274 Borbonia heart-leaved. + + 264 Cistus beautiful. + + 272 Corn-flag square-leaved. + + 258 Coronilla purple. + + 261 Crane's-bill flesh-coloured. + + 266 Crowfoot plantain-leaved. + + 271 Cyrtanthus narrow-leaved. + + 255 Cytisus common. + + 273 Diosma one-flowered. + + 280 Dogsbane tutsan-leaved. + + 262 Fig-marigold golden. + + 263 Glycine purple. + + 268 ------- dingy-flowered. + + 270 ------- scarlet. + + 287 Goodenia smooth. + + 282 Hedysarum creeping-rooted. + + 285 Jasmine sweet. + + 256 Ixia long-flowered. + + 265 ---- crocus-leaved. + + 253 Lathyrus jointed-podded. + + 259 Lily Catesby's. + + 278 ---- white. + + 254 Lopezia mexican. + + 257 Lychnis scarlet. + + 277 Mahernia winged. + + 260 Metrosideros harsh-leaved. + + 283 Monkey-flower narrow-leav'd. + + 288 Passion-flower fringed-leaved. + + 279 Plumeria red. + + 286 Portlandia great-flowered. + + 284 Rose ever-blowing. + + 269 Star of Bethlehem Neapolitan. + + 275 Tulip-tree common. + + 281 Turnera narrow-leaved. + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Botanical Magazine Vol. 8, by William Curtis + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE VOL. 8 *** + +***** This file should be named 24670.txt or 24670.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/4/6/7/24670/ + +Produced by Jason Isbell, Janet Blenkinship and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file made using scans of public domain works at the +University of Georgia.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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