Volume 1797 1798

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THE

Botanical Magazine; O R

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Flower-Garden Difplayed IN

WHICH

The molt Ornamental Foreign Plants, Open Ground, the Green-Houfe, and

cultivated in the

the

Stove,

are

accurately reprefented in their natural Colours.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED, Their Names, Clafs, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according to the celebrated

Linnaeus;

their Places of

and Times of Flowering

Growth,

:

TOGETHER WITH

THE MOST APPROVED METHODS OF CULTURE.

WORK

A Intended for the Ufe of fuch

Ladies, Gentlemen, and Gardeners,

as

wilh to become fcientifically acquainted with the Plants they cultivate.

By

WILLIAM CURTIS, Author of the Flora Londinensis.

VOL.

XI.

" Not **

|

\

a tree,

A plant, a leaf, a bloflbm, but contains A folio volume. We may read and read,

" " And read again, and ftill find fomething new, " Something to pleafe, and fomething to inftrucV'

The Village Curate.

LONDON: PRINTED BY STEPHEN COUCHMAN, for

W. CURTIS, N° And

3,

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George 's-Crefcent,

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Sold by the principal Eookfellers in Great-Britain and Ireland.

MDCCXCVII.


.J^Sdf

Pul> by H'CitrOf SfGee. OjfirrU JTei.

f

Iff*.


3S1 C

Lycium Japonicum. "T*

'j*

*!•

v

'i*

3

Japanese Boxthorn.

yTfry y y y Tji' y y y C/rt/}

-

yyy

and Order.

Pentandria Monogynia. Generic Characlcr. Cor.

tubulofa,

fauce claufa

filamentorum

barba.

Bacca

2-

locularis polyfperma.

Specific Character

LYCIUM

japonicum inerme,

foliis c

Ihunb.

floribus feflilibus.

Linn.

and Synonyms.

Syji. Vegetab. ed.

ovatis

nervofis

planis,

Fl.

Jap. p. 93. tab. 17. 14. Murr. p. 228. Ait. Kew.

v. 1. p.

256. fcetidum. Linn. Suppl. 150. indicum. Retz. Obf. 2. p. 12.

LYCIUM LYCIUM LIGUSTKO

frutex

affinis,

Come Gommi,

baccifer

Mantees.

«.

21.

foe tens,

Buxi

facie

Kcempf. Amcen. Exot. p.

780.

BUCHOZIA White

coprofmoides.

flowers

L'Herit. Monograph.

reprefented on white paper,

make

a poor

our delineation, therefore, as we have too frequently to lament, does not do juftice to the original, which forms a neat thick bufh of humble growth, and in the autumn produces numerous white flowers, fomewhat like thofe of Jafmine, but without fcent, as is the whole plant if not bruifed; but if you ftrongly fqueeze a flower-bud or the top of a young fhoot betwixt your thumb and finger, you will perceive a fmell highly difgufting, which Kampfer likens to that of human ordure Profeffor Retzius, who has minutely defcribed this plant in his Obf. Bot. denies the exiftence of this fmell • and thus very unjuftly impeaches the veracity of the learned and accurate Kj£m?fer: Profeffor Thun berg figure, efpecially

if

fmall

;

:

Quae de odore ftercoris refert Kjempfer. falfa effe in Horto Hafnienfi obfervavi, et ad fingularem Botanicifque ignotam arborem a Batavis Strunthout diftam refcrri debere raonuit amiciflimus

Thun berg. appears


appears to have countenanced him in this idea, vid. note ; we cannot account for this error in Prof. Retzius, diftinguifhed for the excellence of his botanical obfervations, but by fuppofing that he fmelt to the old leaves of the Lycium, which, if ever fo ftrongly bruifed, emit little or no fcent : an odour fimilar to that of the prefent plant is excited in the Dracocefhalum Sibiricum on the flighted touch, and the roots of feveral fpecies of Mimofa are equally offenfive. K/empfer, who found this plant not only wild, but cultivated in Japan, obferved the flowers to vary in the number of their fegments, which they do here Thunberg obferved it with double flowers, a variety now not uncommon in the colle&ions about London ; he remarked alfo hedges made of it, :

and what

is

very remarkable, he

fays, the

plant produces

no

fruclus non producit ; K^empfer mull have found it in fruit, or he would not have called it baccifer : Mr. Haxton, when in the fuit of the late embaffy to China, found it cultivated by the Chinefe in the open ground and in pots. fruit,

It

was introduced here

in

1787, by Monf. Cels*,

kept in the greenhouie, and

is

readily

is

ufually

enough increafed by

cuttings.

Many

of the Japanefe plants being as hardy as our natives, we recommend it to be tried in the open ground,

Ait.

Kew,

own


J^%a

Pui. hy WCitrtisJ!*GtaCre/een


[ 3«2

Recurved Heath.

Erica Retorta. TjCTfr

«js* ij»

*{* vj»

v,c

]

/}»

C/^/>

<p

•,»

*i~«v» /jC«jr

/j.

yjC^r>,v

£«i Order.

OcTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Character. Cal.

4-phylIus.

Anther*

Cor.

bifidae.

4-fida.

C^^

Filamenta receptaculo inferta.

4-locularis.

Specific Characler

ERICA

and Synonyms.

quaternis ariftatis recurvis, pedanculis bracleatis, floribus ampullaceis vifcofis, ftylo exferto,

retorta foliis

laciniis corollas acutis.

ERICA

retorta antheris fubcriftatis, foliis quaternis recurvis, corollis ovato-oblongis, ftylo mediocri.

ERICA ERICA

Linn. Suppi,

Plant, p. 220. retorta foliis quaternis ovatis ferrulatis fquarrofis, floribus umbellatis vifcofis. Thunb. Prod. PL Cap. p. 75. retorta Mont. Aft. holm. ami. 1774. p. 297. /. 7.

No

one can view the prefent fpecies of Erica, without perceiving a manifeft fimilarity betwixt it and the ampullacea already figured; the flowers of each are fimilar in form, and not very different in fize and colour in the retorta the ltripes of the ampullacea are wanting, the bloffoms of both are highly vifcous, the fegments of the corolla arc more pointed in the retorta, the braclege in the ampullacea are larger, more numerous, and more highly coloured; in the foliage the two plants differ very obvioufly, the leaves of the retorta being all of them recurved, or bent back, whence its name; each of them is alfo terminated by a long awn or fpine viewed with a magnifying glafs, they appear edged with hairs ; but furely thefe are not fufficiently ftrong to juftify Thunberg's term of ;

:

ferrulatis.

The

flowers

when they begin

to blow,

which

is

at different

periods of the fummer, ufually about Auguft, grow four together; thefe, as they advance, make way for four others, in their


and thefe again bunch of flowers

their centre,

for others

;

fo that in large fpe-

cimens, 3 will fometimes confift of twenty or more bloflbms : previous to their expanfion they are beautiful in the extreme, the body of the corolla is then almoft white, the bulbous part at its fummit a deep crimfon, terminated by a little flame-like point, inclining more to a fcarlet. which expands into four acute fegments. Our drawing was made from a plant which flowered at Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy's, Hammerfmith; we afterwards faw at Mr, Williams's, Turnham-Green, a variety with larger flowers, and leaves

more

clofely imbricated.

This fpecies has long fince been defcribed by Monti, in the Swedifh Tranfactions, and more lately in the SuppL PL of the younger Linnaeus, who makes it a native of the Cape

on the authority of Profeffor Thunberg.

To

this

country

it

has been introduced fince the publication

of the Hort. Kezv. Like the ampullacea> it is at prefent fcarcely to be had for any price, being rare, and difficult to increafe by cuttings.


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Austrian Rose.

Rosa Lutea. Clafs

and Order.

IcOSANDRtA POLYGYNIA. Generic Character. Cat. urceolatus, 5-fidus, carnofus, coilo coarctatus.

Petala 5, Sem. plurima, hifpida, calycis interiori lateri affixa. Specific Charatler

ROSA

lutea

and Synonyms.

germinibus globofis pedunculifque glabris, caly-

cibus petiolifque

aculeis

fpinulofis,

ramorum

reclis

v. 2. p. 201. Mill. Dicl. ed. 6. \to. lutea (implex. Baith. Pin. 483. The (ingle yellow Rofe. Ait.

ROSA

Kew.

Park. Parad. p. 417. has given us a monograph on the genus OxaliSy which he has executed highly to his honour; we wiih Tome Botanift of equal abilities would do the fame by the genus Rofa, many of the fpecies of which are ftill involved in Mr. Aiton in the Hort. Kezv. has taken much great obfeurity

Jacquin

Prof.

:

many of them, and this one in particular, which he calls lutea, a name it had previoufly obtained from Miller, and feveral older Botanifts we wiih he had been lefs

pains to elucidate

;

complaifant on this occafion, and given to it and the fulphurea (which he calls the double yellow rofe) epithets more difcriminativ-e

of

in a

:

hitherto the lutea has not been found that

double

(late,

it

poffibly

may

at

we know

fome future time

;

in

and fulphurea will both have the fame name to prevent confufion, we have thought it expedient to call the lutea the Auftrian Rofe, and the fulphurea may be denominated the Levant Rofe :- we are aware that names of this fort are not of the beft kind, and only to be adopted under that

cafe, the :

—

lutea

—

certain circumftances.

This fpecies is found wild in Auftria, and other parts of Germany; was cultivated in this country in the time of Gerard and Parkinson it is a fhrub of low growth, flowers in July, is very hardy, and readily propagated authors differ as to the fcent of its flowers, Miller fays they have none, others very little, and others that the little they have is 'very unpleafant; hence it has been called by Allioni, Rofafoetida : in :

;

point of colour, they are fubject to great variation; the red and yellow Auftrian Rofe is confidered by Mr. Aiton as its principal variety it is our intention to give a figure of this :

very fhewy plant in fome future number of the Magazine, when we hope further to elucidate the fubject by fome practical obfervations.


363

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Five-Leaved Chaste-Tree.

Vitex Negundo.

Clafs

and Order.

DlDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMI A. Generic Charatler.

Specific Charatler

VITEX

trifoiia

NEGUNDO VITEX

and Synonyms.

Negundo foliis quinatis ternatifqae ferratis, floribus racemofo paniculatis. Linn. Syfl. Veg. ed. 14. Murr.

Kcw.

p. 579. Ait.

VITEX

Bacca 4-fperma.

Cor. limbus 6-fidas.

Cil. 5-dentatus.

minor

v. 2. p.

365.

Pink. Aim. 390.

indica.

arbor mas. Bauh

1.

hlijl.

/.

200.

p. 189.

Miller's Die}, ed. 6. 4/0.

chtnenfis.

Mr, Aiton informs us*, that this deciduous tender fhrub, a native of China and the Earl-Indies, diftinguifhed more for the elegance of its foliage than the beauty of its flowers, was cultivated here by the Duchefs of Beaufort, in 1697, at the plants fo this prefent time juft one hundred years ago; cultivated in all probability were loft, as we find Mr. Miller, in defcribing the lame plant in his Dictionary, under the name " the fourth fort, viz, " chinenjis, has been lately introduced into the Englifh gar" dens from Paris, where the plants were raifed from feeds " which were fent from China by the miffionaries. I was " favoured with fome young plants, by Monf. Richard, " gardener to the king, at Verfailles. The two forts with 11 white and blue flowers have fucceeded in the Chelfea gar" den, but that with red flowers mifcarried." It would appear from this account, that the Vitex Negundo was a common object of ornamental culture amongft the Chinefe, fince they

of

chtnenfis, thus

pofleiTedfo

many

flowered one

is,

to exprefs himfelf,

varieties of

we

it

in point

of Colour; the purple

believe, the only fort cultivated in

our

and that not commonly it bloflfoms late in the fummer, and poflefles fome fragrance. The plant is not difficult to increafe by cuttings, being ton tender to bear our winters, at lead thofe which are fevere ; nurferies,

commonly kept

;

Miller

very pertinently remarks, " that the plants are late in putting out leaves " in the fpring, and before thefe appear, they have fo much the " appearance of dead plants, that they have been turned out *c of the pots by fome, fuppofing they were fo." it

is

in the greenhoufe.

*

Hort.Kcw.


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<

J^nb.

fr\


3% 3 Oenothera Longi flora. LongFlowered Oenothera. C

A A A A A A A jfr A «> ^. •,>

Sgl

.,»

»y» >j»

SJE «ji

C/<i/>

AA A A A i^^i

W.«fe.jfe„4r •,>»

.,»

<f><ft ijc

«jc V,«"

42W Order.

OcTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Characler. Cal. 4-fidus.

Petala 4.

Gi#£ cylindrica

Specific Character

OENOTHERA

infera.

Sew. nuda.

and Synonyms.

longifiora foliis denticulatis,

caulibus fimpli

cibus pilofis, petalis diftantibus bilobis. Linn Mant. 227. Ait. Kcw Syft. Vegetab. 358. v. 2. p. 3.

This Oenothera, lately figured in

in

Jacq. Hort.

point of

work

2.

/>.

81.

/.

172.

the reverfe of the pumila,

fize,

a native of Buenos Ayres, and was introduced by the Chevalier Murray, in 1776*. have feen this plant grow to a greater height than any other fpecies, luxuriant fpecimens have exceeded five feet by the time that they have nearly done flowering and as the ; this

(pi.

355)

is

We

flowers are uncommonly large and fhewy, and continue blowing a long while in fucceffion (from July to Oftober) we fcarcely

know a more

defirable plant for the open border of a garden that is fpacious; the flowers indeed, as in mod of the plants of this genus, open in the evening, and appear in their greateft beauty

when

thofe of other plants are either fallen to the ground, withered by the heat of the day, or folded in the arms of deep.

an annual of ready growth, and very produaive of feed, tome of Which ripen early ; thefe are to be fown in the open border, where the plant is intended to flower, in March or the beginning of April ; as a (ingle plant will be fufficient for one tpot, one feedhng only need be left care muft be taken to put a ftick to it early of about four feet in length, to which its branches muft be carefully tied, when about It is

;

a foot Ion*, and

this is all that is neceffary to is

be done

by this means the° plant not only preferved from the effeBs of violent winds, but

appears to

much

greater advantage.

Ait.

Kew.

;


J*ui, by

7fCUr£u\J'

t

<Zec>:Crefct:ntMan

1

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C 366 ]

Pyramidal Heath.

Erica Pyramidalis.

rfh

dh

JJk

Jk jfe.s5t-A.jfe .sfe jfe jfe.jfe >fe jfe. jfe. jfe-s't-A

C/iz/} <2Âť<i

stA

Order.

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Generic Characler.

Cal.

4-pbyllus.

Cor. 4-fida.

Anther* apice

bifida?,

Filamenta receptaculo

pertufse.

inferta.

Cap/. 4-locularis, 4-valvis,

polyfperma.

Specific Characler

ERICA

and Synonyms.

pyramidalis antheris muticis inclufis, corollis infundibuhformibus quaternis, ftylo fubexferto, foliis quaternis pubefcentibus. Ait. Kcw. v. o. p. 4Q1 . nn Syft. Nat. ed. Gmel. p. 624.

n

We

prefent to our readers another Heath, a native of the Cape introduced by Mr. Masson, in i 7 8 7> and now to be found in moft of the coitions of greenhoufc plants in the v

neighbourhood of London. It is a very ornamental fpecies, both, in regard to its mode of growth as well as to the vail profufion of flowers with which us branches are covered; the form of thefe is verv charaaenft.c, and their colour, when air and fun are freel

-

admitted to them, fufficiently brilliant. It continues to bloffom from September to March or April; in point of height, it is to be ranked among thofc UI of a 5 middling fize. *

When is

raifed

young

it

is

from cuttings

more

apt

to

in the ufuai

go off than many othersway.


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J'ui. iry

IV.

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367 ]

C

Three-Leaved

Verbena Triphylla.

Vervain. jfe. >'*.

^r

*S*

i

5,*..>k.^ji.jfe.j <..-s!t. skjtt aiuiufe. jJt..>'«-.>'<-i'«. ^s-sjs..sf*. "¥* '1* I* t* *!* t* 1" I* t» *r t?"'J nr

v

W TV

V

1,

C/#/>

and Order.

DlANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Charatler. Cor, infundibuliformis, fubasqualis, curva.

truncate Sem.

2. f. 4.

nuda. (Stum.

Specific Characler

VERBENA

iripbylla tetrandra, ternis, caule

We

unico

deirtc

2. J. 4.)

and Synonyms. floribus

fruticofo.

paniculatis,

foliis

L'Herit. Siirp. Nov. p.

i\. Ait. Kezv. v. 3. p. 480. atrodora. Ort. et PaL dijf. MSS. 21.

ALOYSIA

Calycis

/.

from Monf. JL'Heritier, who has figured and defcribed this plant, in his work above referred to, that it is 2 native of South-America, from whence it had been tranfmitted to Spain, in the gardens of which it was cultivated in the open borders Prof. Ortkga, of Madrid, fent both plants and feeds of it to Monf. L'Heritier at Paris, where Dr. Sibthorp obtained it, on his return from Greece, and introduced it here in 1784. Profeffors Ortega and Palau firft defcribed this plant, and named it Aloyfia citrodora, Monf. L'Heritier found it to be a Verbena, and gave it the trivial name of triphylla. The leaves (or any part of the plant) when bruifed, give out a molt delightful fragrance; on this account, it is a molt valuable acquihtion to our gardens it forms a fhrub of a conlearn

;

:

fiderable fize

the leaves, as far as we have noticed, always grow three together; the veins on each fide of the midrib run parallel

;

to each

other

;

the flowers are fmall, nearly white,

forming a panicle, which, as far as our obfervation has extended (and we have examined many luxuriant fpecimens) is never branched in the manner reprefented in L'Heritier's figure

they are produced during moft of the autumnal months. ;

This fhrub, being

fummer and

propagated by cuttings, is now become common in the neighbourhood of London, where it is treated as a greenhoufe plant in fome parts of this ifland, efpecially near the fea, where the winter lofes much of its feverity, it would, in all probability, fucceed very well in the open border. eafily

;


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368 ] C

Clammy

Antirrhinum Viscosum. Toad-Flax. <V

sk_A r Vj^Vj* *,»

rfirilr

ifli

,

•7J»">,C3'j'

•?* vis. J«.v> : !<. *'*..>'4 V*...*'*. >'<.>'«. lit.jli. /j» VjS" v,-» v.s: *y» •.% »J» *> •<» «v» *p <T> #Y*

CVt//]r

#W Order.

D id Vm ami a An oiosperm

i

a.

Generic Character. Col. 5-pbyllus.

Corolla: bafis

deorfum prominens ne&arifera.

Cap/. 2-locularis. Specific Character

ANTIRRHINUM

vi/co/um

and Synonyms.

foliis

radicalibus

caulinis lincaribus alternis,

lanceolatis

bus

villofis, cauli

PL

ed.

2.

quaternis, calyci-

approximatis.

p. 855.

Syji.

Unit. Sp.

Vcgetab. ed. 14.

Murr. Ait.

p. 556. Amcen. Acad. v. 4. p. 319. Kezv. v. 2. p. 334. Syn. Arag.

p. 80.

ANTIRRHINUM

hirtum

foliis

lanceolatis

fpicatis, foliolo calicino

PL

Jacq.

rar.

ic.

hirtis,

floribus

fupremo max mo.

cent. 1.

i

/.

30.

The

plant here figured, the Antirrhinum vi/co/um of LinNJEtJi, is a native of Spain, and was introduced to the royal

garden at Kew, in 1786, by Monf. Thou in*. It grows to about the fame height as the Antirrh. parI cum, f figured PL 200, has a ftouter and more upright item, covered with more numerous hairs j its flowers are larger than thofe of the fparteum,

more particoloured, and have

to thole of our

common

a greater affinity

Toad-flax ; in their form we may trace fomething of the fimilitude of a bird's head, the calyx is remarkable as to the form of its leaves, and accords fo well with that of Prof. acq u i n *s Antirrh. hirtum, defcribed in G m e l 1 n 's J Linn. Syft. Nat. ed. 13. p. 931, that we ftrongly fufpett it to be the fame plant. It is an annual of ready growth, and flowers in July. Its feeds ihould be fown about the beginning of April, in fm all patches, on the borders where the plants are intended to remain ; when the feedlings come up, they fhould be thinned, and left at the diftance of two or three inches from each other. *

Ait.

Kew.


'a <yoi

J\tb. Oy

W. C'urfj.i J?Gep CrtfcencApr

t.

f

7'/7-


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Amaryllis Undulata. WavedFlowered Amaryllis. •I*

*£•>

/j*

Sj*:

/j>

v>

'v.-;

">s* SjE T|5 v^% V^i

C/ct/} <a»#

^

«^ /^

#y*»

Order.

Hexandria Monogynia. Generic Character.

Cor. hexapetaloidea, irregularis. Filamenta fauci tubi inferta, declinata, inaequalia proportione vcl diretlione. Linn. Fit,

Specific Charatler

AMARYLLIS

and Synonyms.

undulata petalis linearibus canaliculars undulatis, ftaminibus piftilloque deflexis corolla brevioribus, ftigmate obfoleto. Linn. Fit. Ait. Kezv. v. 1. p. 421. Linn. Syjl. Veget. ed. 14.

Murr.

p.

In the flowers of this fpecies of Amaryllis, a native of the Cape and introduced about 1767, by John Blackburne, Liq. there is a confiderable degree of beauty, and flill more of fingularity and the plant is rendered more deferable, from its producing thofe flowers towards the clofe of autumn, '

;

lo late as

Oaober and November, and

that too

both readily

and abundantly. Being a tender bulb, it is ufually kept during winter the greenhoufe, or a well-fecured frame. Is propagated by offsets, which are plentifully produced.

*

Ait.

Kew.

in


jfVtp

'

'„><>

Crefi

'

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;

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HOUSTONIA CiERULEA. BLUE-FLOWERED HOUSTONIA. jit. &.

»f

«K*

.>'«.. .•-'£ .."'i

1*

f

*i»

sfe. *'»

v''

& 4> £ v,« >;<r>,c qr^r «-/,,iS»

*S»

<i» '*i<*'i«' *£»

G&z/jf

«!»

«!»

lie

and Order.

Tetrandria Monogynia. Generic Character. Cor. t-petala, infundibuliformis. flip era. Specific Character

HOUSTONIA

RUBIA

parva

ccerulea

HOUSTONIA

and Synonyms.

radicalibus ovatis, caule

foliis

Linn.Syji.

Vegetab.

ed.

Ait.

v. 1. p.

14L ad

14.

Murr. p. 149.

unumquodque binis, florc casruleo fiflulofo. BamjL Virg. 1927. primp vere ubique fiorens, floribus mhmdicaeruleis,

verfis in caule paucis.

foliis

_

genus of plants honour of Dr.

this

toma in muft be familiar to

parvis ad-

Clayt. n. 60.

ot

Kew.

geniculum

buhformibus dilute

To

com.

pofito, pedunculis primis bifloris.

foliolis

T

CapfuJa 2-locularis, s-Ipenna^

'__

Gronovius gave the name of Hafi William Houston, a name that

who have read the Gardener's Didionary Mr. Ihilip Miller, as there is fcarcely a page in that

book

all

which the writer does not record the obligations he much-valued and moft ufeful friend. ° Ut this genus, two fpecies only have been difcovered, both natives of Virginia, the corulea and purpurea; the former is he only one that has been introduced to this country, and that by Mr. Archibald Menzies, in 1785* in

n nu

We fcarcely know a plant that

has afforded us more pleafure in the cultivation than this our little favourite though a native ; of the warmer parts of North-America, it bears our ordinary

2S?T*

is

of rcady §rowth '

and >

if

aid thelealt P

°, fl0Wers er Petually, fpring, P fummer/ and autumn n fiirr^ fucceeds K beft in a pot, and loves moHture foil and fixation t

,

are not fo material to it:

J17«.?

** P lant

increafed by parting its roots has fcarcely colour enough in its

is ^

fiowers tojuftify the term carulea.

Ait.

Kcw.

'


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Tul

-by

WCnr^J-taee.Crefcemfray.r.ttfj.


37i

[

]

Mirabilis Jalapa. Common of Peru,

Clafs

Marvel

and Order.

Pentandria Monogynia. Generic Cor. infundibul.

fupera.

CaL

Character.

Neclarium globofum

inferus*

germen includens. Specific Character

MIRABILIS

Jalapa floribus Linn.

SOLANUM

and Synonyms.

congeftis,. terrainalibus, ereclis.

Syft. Vegetab. ed. 14.

Murr. p. 218.

Ait.

Kew. p. 234. mexicanum, flore magno. Bauh. Pin. 168.

MIRABILIA

Peruviana. p. 272. cum.

ADMIRABILIS. The p- 3^5-

'•

The Marvaile of

Peru. Ger.Herb.

fig.

Mervaile of the World. Park. 6 3 9- /• 9*

Pan

was plant this growth, From Peru, its original place of introduced to Europe at a very early period; the names it bore on its introduction, fufficiently teftify the admiration in

which

it

was held:

it

was well

known both

to

Ger a ri> and Par-

to terr. Parad. his of page whole the latter devotes a ; its defcription and culture, with the latter he appears to have been perfectly well acquainted, and even to have known the

kinson

feveral varieties

which we now

being a common fome have been led to regard It

cultivate.

practice to raife it

as

this plant

an annual, but

from feed,

it is

ftriclly

are. they where country, native ; the roots in their never killed by froft, acquire, like thofe of the potatoe, a prodigious fize ; the flowers, of which the plant is very produaive,

perennial

open towards evening, whence, in the Weft-Indies, it has been called the/our o'clock plant, and continue expanded till the next day's


day's fun clofes

them up

j

we have obferved

that the continuance

of tHeir expaniion is in proportion to the power of the fun, and that late in the autumn, or in cloudy weather, they continue open moil of the day we have obferved alfo, that a bed of thefe flowers communicates a delightful fragrance to a confi.;

derable diftance

;

to the tafte the

whole plant

is

highly acri-

monious, probably purgative, if not poifonous it was once fuppofed that its roots produced the Jalap of the fhops, when that opinion was found to be erroneous, LinnjEus mould have changed the trivial name of Jalapa to that of peruviana, as it :

now tends to miflead. The principal varieties

of colour are the purple, the white, the yellow,, the variegated purple and white, the variegated purple and yellow ; each of thefe, contrary to the opinion entertained of varieties, is found to produce the fame. The ufual mode of railing thefe plants is from feed, which they plentifully produce your early-blowing plants muft be raifed on a hot-bed, your late ones in the open ground, tranfplanting them when of a proper fize or take up the roots of your plants as you do your potatoes, preferve them during winter in dry fand, and plant them in the fpring ; thefe will make ftronger plants, and will blow earlier than feedlings, viz. in Auguft, and you will hereby be fure of continuing any in point

;

;

particular fort.


372 3

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ZYGOPHYLLUM InSUAVE.

UNPLEASANT

Bean-Caper. K*

"I*

*$* *iv

'i*

*V*

'f*

C7<rz/j

*i"

"'>'»

'j»

«v» <7» *J*

^j^Ty.

V,-I*

and Order.

Decandria Monogynia. Generic Characler. Cat. 5-phyJIus.

Petala 5. Ncclarium

10-phyUum germen

tegens.

Cap/. 5-locularis.

and Synmtyms.

Specific Character

ZYGOPHYLLUM FABAGO

in/nave caule fruticofo, foliis conjugatis petiolatis obovatis, fructu laevi.

afra frutefccns minor, flore flavo

petalorum fufcis. JF/.p. 3 i 9

//.

magno, unguibus

R. D. Boerb. Iud.

.

In this genus of plants, the leaves have a peculiarity of growth, which gives birth to its botanic name of Zygophyllum t and which, literally tranflated, would be Yokeleaf; twelve fpecies are enumerated in Prof. Gmelin's edition of Linn. Syfi: Nat. the plant here reprefented comes neareft to the Zyg. Morgsana figured in Dillenius's Hort. Elth. and for which it has by fome been miuaken ; but the characters in

which the two plants differ, are fo very ftriking, that we have no doubt of being jultified in making it a fpecies. The leaves of Morgsana are flefhy, nearly feffile, and fcentlefs thole of our plant are not flefhy, Rand on long footftalks, and diffufe widely a flrong foxy fmell, like that of ;

Grown

Imperial; the flowers of the Morgsana are fmall, thofe of the infitave large and ornamental, when the plant is healthy; thefced-veflel of the Morgsana has four wings, ours not the leaft appearance of any : other differences, it would be fuperfluous to point out.

This fpecies is mofl probably a native of the Cape, as it accords with the fhort defcription of Boer have, above referred to; the nrecife time of its being introduced to this country, we have not been able to learn with certainty; it is not mentioned either in the Diet, of Mr. Miller, or the Hort. Kew* of Mr. Aiton. It

is

a ^--cen-houfe plant of ready

to September,

kern

will

growth flowers from July increafedby cuttings its unpleafant

and is eafily prove an infuperable bar to

;

;

its

general introdudion,


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V/TCurth.r J** Geo Crefrcn/ Jfay f tjf) .


;

C 373 ]

Chinese

Iris Chinensis.

Iris.

Oafs and Order.

Triandria Monogynia. Generic Cbaratler. Cor. 6-partita, in<equalis

:

laciniis

akernis geniculato-patentibus.

Stigmata petaliformia cucullato-bilabiata. Specific Cbaratler.

IRIS

Chinenfis radice repente, caule paniculato multifloro, ilo-

ribus criftatis, ftigmatibus laciniatis.

The

public are indebted to

for the introdu&ion of this

Mr. Evans of the Jndia-Houfe, plant from China, where it is a

native. It flowered laft year, at different periods, for the firft time, in

many

collections near

London;

this irregularity

of its blow-

ing was occasioned, we prefume by its being kept in different degrees of heat, in the ftoves of fbme, and the green-houfes of others; Mr. Thomson, Nurferyman of Mile-End, at the clofe of the year, had it growing very luxuriantly in the open ground; but the very fevere winter of 1796-1797, in

which the thermometer

IJrompton was three degrees below Q, destroyed it nevei thelefs, there is no doubt but it will bear the cold of our ordinary winters, and thrive better in the open ground, in a moift fituation, than in the ftove, or green-houfe, in either of which, however, *it will flower very well; and, where the plant is luxuriant, continue to do fo for a confiderable length of time, the bloffoms being numerous, and unfolding gradually in a ftrong plant at Mr. Colvi ll's, Nurferyman, King's-Road, we counted feven bloffoms expanded at one time on its different branches. It differs from all other known Iris's, in having a root perfectly of the creeping kind, fending out fhoots to a confiderable diftance, by which it is rendered very eafy of propagation its flowers, in form and colour, come neareft to thole of Iris criftata, and have a confiderable degree of fragrance. ;

:

at


3/3

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[

Scarlet-Flowered Pulchella. Cyrilla Cyrilla.

Clafs

and Order.

DlDYNAMIA ANGIQSPRMIA, Generic Character. Cal.

5-pbyllus.

fuperus,

Cor.

declinata,

infundibuliformis.

Rudimentum

Limbus planus, 5-partitus, fubaequalis, Cap/, femibilocularis. menti quinti. Specific Character

CYRILLA

pulchella.

COLUMNEA BUCHNERIA ACHIMENES

eretla.

fila^

and Synonyms.

L'Herit. Stirp. Nov.

Le Lamarck

t.

71.

encycl. 2. p. 66.

coccinea. Scop, infubr. 2. p. 10.

minor erecla fimplex,

5.

crenatis ovatis

foliis

oppofitis vel ternatis, floribus

gularibus ad alas.

/.

petiolatis fin-

Browne Jam. 271.

After receiving various appellations,

/.

30.

been finally named Cyrilla* by Monf. L'Heritier, in honour of Dominico Cyrillo, M. D. Profelfor of Medicine at Naples, and author of Plants rariores regni Neapolitanis &c. Cyrilla racemofa is referred by Swart? to the Genus ltea. This beautiful exotic is a native of Jamaica Dr. Browne found it near Hope-River, in the lower mountains of Liguanea; he recommends it to be cultivated as an ornamental plant, plant has

this

;

fays that

it

thrives beft in a cool gravelly

foil,

well furnifhed

with moifture, and intermixed with a rich foil to this country it was introduced by Mr. William Forsyth in 1778, and is now very generally cultivated in our ftoves it will not fucceed in a green-houfe ; but, provided it has a fufficient degree of heat, there is no difficulty attends its culture it throws out from its roots abundance of fquamous (hoots of a fingular appearance, by which it is readily increafed. ;

;

:

It

flowers

from Auguft

to

O&ober.


3/4

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ly irr'uf/i

<£

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C 375

]

Astragalus Monspessulanus, pelier Milk-Vetch.

Mont-

»»$»** Clafs

and Order.

DlADELPHIA DECANPRIA, Generic Characler. folitarium gibba. Filamentum 2-locularis, (plurimis) Capf'tla Linn. Syft. Nat. ed. Gmel. p. 1132. teres. Specific

ASTRAGALUS

Character and Synonyms,

monfpejfulanus acaulis, fcapis declinatis lon-

gitudine foliorum, leguminibus fubulatis teretibus fubarcuatis glabris. Linn. Syft. Veg. ed.

14.

Kew.

ASTRAGALUS

Murr.

monfpeffulanus.

ASTRAGALUS

Mant. 450.

Ait.

v. 2. p. 77.

MagnoL

Banhin. Hijl.

Bot. Monfp.

3.

p.

338.

^.33.

purpureus perennis monf'pelienfis. Hiji. z..p.

The

p. 684.

Morif.

ic6.

numerous, and many of them highly ornamental the brilliant colours which the bloffoms, but more efpecially the flower-cups, of the prefent fpeplants of this genus are very ;

cies exhibits, juftly entitle

it

to a place in the flower-garden.

a native of the South of France; Magnol informs us, that it grows in dry places about Montpelier ; is a hardy perennial, of ready growth, flowers early in July, and has ripened It is

my

garden at Brompton ; by thefe the plant is moft advantageoufly increafed ; it may alfo be railed from cuttings of the ftalks : moft of this tribe have large roots, penetrating to a great depth, which not being eafily diviiible, its

feeds in

renders

The

it

difficult

to increafe

them by parting

their roots.

an elevated one, among flones, or rock-work, where its flowering items may hang down; thus its bloffoms are difplayed to greater advantage, and not fo liable to be disfigured as when lying on the ground. Dr. William Pitcairn had the honour of introducing beft fituation for this plant

this plant in

1776.

is



[ 376 ]

Salvia Formosa.

Shining-Leaved Sage.

Oafs and Order.

DlANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Character.

Cor. inaequalis.

'Filamenta tranfverfe pedicello affixa.

Specific

SALVIA

formofa

Charafter and Synonyms.

fubcordatis, corollarum galea barbata, calycibus trilobis, caule frutefccnte. L'Herit. Stirp. nov. p. 41. t. 21. Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 43. foliis

SALVIA

Leonnroides.

SALVIA

pyrifolia.

Gloxin. ObJ. Bot. p. 15.

Bomb. Per

t.

2.

mff.

This charming fpecies of Sage, diftinguiflied by its heartfhaped glotf'y leaves and fcarlet flowers, is a native of Peru, and was introduced to the royal garden at Kew, by Monf. Thouin, in 1783: it is now very generally cultivated near London, as a green-houfe plant; the foliage, but more efpecially the flower-cups,

like Clary

;

when

bruifed, emit

a

fmell

fomewhat

the blofloms which appear during the latter part of

fummer foon

drop, even before they decay : the plant is eafily propagated by cuttings ; in the winter it requires to be placed in a warm and dry green-houfe, and to be fparingly watered, being tender and apt to go off. In the figure and defcription of this plant, given by Monf.

L'Heritier to

in the

work above referred

have a model of perfection.

to,

we may be

faid


Fu&. hy W?Curtir.J?(k&£r!j/€mtJutyt.tffi.


C 377 ]

AN&'s-BlLL. Cr ROMAN ROMANUM. ERODIUM $»»* »»»»»» j Clafs and Order.

MONADELPHIA PeNTANDRIA. Generic Characler.

Cal

5-phyllus. Cor. 5-petala. Necl.

SquamuU

cum

5,

filamcntis

akernantes ; et GlanduU melliferae, bafi ftaminum infidemes. FruSfus 5-coccus, roftratus ; rojira fpiralia, introrfum barbata. Specific Characler

ERODIUM

romanum acaule,

and Synonyms.

fcapis

radicalibus

L'Herit. n.

foliis pinnatis, foliolis pinnatifidis.

Ait.

GERANIUM GERANIUM

Kew.

multiOoris, 1

u

v. 2. p. 414.

romanum, Linn. Sp.

PL

ed. 3. p.

myrrhinum tenuifolium, amplo

Barr. rar. 568.

/.

951. flore

purpureo.

1245.

In point of foliage, a great limilarky exifls betwixt the prcfent plant, and the Geranium cicutarium of Linn.*, us, a wild Britifh native, common on many of the banks and walls about

London

;

there

is

alfo a confiderable affinity in the

form and

colour of their flowers ; but the romanum is a perfectly diftintt fpecies, differing in having a root of longer duration, and which is more properly perennial than annual indeed we have no doubt but that, in its natural ftate, it is perfectly fo in the ;

:

cultivated plant the flowering ftems rife immediately root, not from the (talks, as in the G. cicutarium.

This

lively little plant begins flowering

from

the

and continues to do fo during moft of the fummer months, producing feeds in abundance, which falling on the ground vegetate, and increafe the plant; we have indeed found that it is much difpofed to become a weed, in dry paftures, or on grafs, not very frequently mown, which it moft agreeably enlivens; a dry fituation fuits it bell it is well calculated to grow among ftones, or rock-work. Grows fpontaneoufly in Italy, and is laid by Linn.eus to be found in the ftreets of Rome was cultivated in Chelfea garden in April,

:

;

in 1724. Its feeds are

a curious object, the

manner

detached when perfectly ripe, in hot, fcrew-like form* which the tail of the is highly deferving of attention.

in

which they are

dry weather, arid the arillus quickly atiumes,


AJi A


[ 373 ]

ROELLA ClLIATA,

Cla/s

PRICKLY ROELLA.

and Order.

'

\

PeNTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA* Generic Character.

fundo claufo ftaminiferis

Cor. infundibuliformis,

valvulis. Stigma

2-fidum. Cap/. 2-locularis cylindrica infera.

Charader and Synonyms*

Specific

ROELLA

mucrone re&o.

Linn. Sp. Pt. ed. 3. p. 241. Syji. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 211.

ciliata foliis ciliatis,

Ait.

CAMPANULA

Kew.

v. 1. p. 225.

africana frutefcens aculeofa, flore violaceo.

Comm. Hort.

CAMPANULA

v. 2. p. 77. /. 30* africana humilis pilofa,

flore

ex

albido

languide purpureo. Seh. The/. 1. p. 25. /. 16./. 5. mauritanica, ericae foliis hirfutis rigidis infefto mucrone pungentibus. Pluk. Aln. 8. /. 252. /. 4.

ACULEOSA

very nearly related to Campanula. In a flower of this fpecies recently expanded, we fee diftinclty five fhades of colour, which being difpofed in rings, or circles, produce a ftriking efFe6t the bottom of the flower is white, of a yellowifh caft, next fucceeds a circle of deep blue, inclining to black, with afurface highly glazed, the next circle is greyifh blue, refembling fatin, the next nearly white, and the outermoft

As

a genus, Roella

is

;

pale purple.

of furface applied clofely to the are The as ftigma, the fmall ridges refemble fo many ; corolla, and the till appearance flowers, does not affume its true other in many antherae at

firft

on the decay, then it becomes bifid. This fhrub of low growth, long fince known to the Dutch by introduced and was Botanifts, is a native of the Cape, in continues Mr. Masson in 1774; it flowers in June, and with correfpond bloflbm feveral weeks its foliage does not the corolla

is

:

bloffoms; it is a green-houfe the is nor readily, plant, ufually increafed by cuttings, but not plant- fo eafy of culture as many others. the elegant appearance of

its


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C 379 ]

Narcissus Tenuior. i

Slender Narcissus.

M M#

||i <

<E<

frfr

jfr fr

Clafs and Order.

HEXANDRIA

MofJO'GYNIA.

Generic Character. Petala 6 aequalia

;

Neilario infundibuliformi i-pbyllo;

Sta-,

mina intra Ne&arium. Specific Charatler.

NARCISSUS

/fwa/or foliis lineari fubulatis canaliculars, fcapo unifloro, ne&ario brevi rotato plicato.

In the month of May 1794, I firfi obferved this Nar'ciffuS in a fingle, but moftly in a double ftate, in the garden of Mr. Jamjes MAbDocKi Florift at Walworth, who obtained bulbs of it from Holland, Under the name of Narcijus Jul flore

phureojunquifolius } by the Dutch it appears to have been long cultivated of what country it is a native does hot appear as yet ; there is little doubt of its being an European plant, it :

being found to be pferfeQly hardy as a fpecies it is certainly ; very diltind, though inferior in fize and beauty to many others. Root the flzeofa fmall nutmeg, of a pale brown colour, leaves about a fpan long, very narrow, at their bafe fcarcely a quarter of an inch wide, tapering gradually to a point, which is iomewhat obtufe, the outer fide is convex and fomewhat fldted, the inner concave, not glaucous; ftalk fomewhat longer than the leaves, round, flightly flattened, efpecially on its upper part, Supporting on its fummit one flower (I have never obferved more) this poffefTes a confiderable fragrance, lefs powerful than that of the Jonquil, and more fo than that of odorus ; the fpatha is membranous, length of the peduncle, which is about an inch long; flower, when fully blown, Handing horizontally; tube 1

greenifh, nearly Cylindrical,

fomewhat longer than the pe-

duncle ; limb flat, divided into fix fegments, of a pale-yellow dr fulphtir colour, ovate, the three alternate fegments Iargeft, each terminating iri a mort mucro neftary yellow, in form like that of bifibrtiSj plaited, the margin of it as the flower advances becoming brown, the anther* of the three longer! liamina vifible in the mouth of it. ;



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PURPLE DoLICHOS.

DOLICHOS LlGNOSUS. % HMt : tt

#

$

C/a/Jr ÂŁÂŤ</

Order.

DlADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Generic Charaeler. fox////bafiscaUis2parallelisoblongisalasfubtus comprimentibus. Specific Charatler and Synonyms. lignqfus volubilis, caule perenni, pedunculis capitatis, leguminibus ftri&is linearibus. Linn. Syjl.

DOLICHOS

Vegetab. ed. 14.

Murr.

p. 658. Hort. Cliff. Ait. v. 3. p. 32. * Smith. Spicil. Bot. t. 2.

Kew. CACARAfivePhafeolusperennisi Rumph. Amb. 5. p. 378. t. 136*

The

plant here reprefented has very generally been regarded as the Dolicbos lignqfus of Linnaeus, and we are confirmed in

being fo from his own figure in the Hort. Cliff. and that in the Herbar. Amboin. to which he refers, rather than From its according with his fpecific defcription, for with that

the idea of

the plant

its

evidently at variance, the feed-veflels being neither Straight nor linear, but evidently curved, as reprefented on the plate in their natural fituation the concave part is turned upwards. Rumphius defcribes the germen under the term corniis

:

cuhim furfum eievatum, and the feed-vefTels as parum incurve: Dr. Smith, on the contrary, taking no notice of the impropriety of Li n n alv s's description, fays they are a little recurved; whether this term be ftriaiy applicable to the feed-veffels in the Linnzan fenfe of the word, may perhaps admit of a doubt t. Rumphius informs us, that the feed-vefTels of this plant are a common food throughout India, eaten as our French or kidney beans are, to which however he obferves, that they are far inferior of that extenfive country it is confidered as a ;

good grounds for regarding it alfo as a native of Spain and Portugal we were favoured with feeds of it by Mr. John White, of Fleet-Street, which had been gathered at Gibraltar by his brother, Lieut* White, of the 82d regiment. This plant, fo far from requiring a ftove, is hardy enough to bear our ordinary winters, when placed againft a wall in a native, there are

:

flickered part of the garden ; but it is ufually kept in the greenhoufc as a climber, for which it is well adapted, as it continues, if it has plenty of pot room, during moft of the fummer to throw

out abundance of bright purple flowers, in fucceffion ; thefe foon fade, and are followed by feed-vefTels, which have produced ripe feeds in

my

garden

at

Brompton, and by thefe the plant

increased. * Introd. by Monf.

Thoois,

1776.

t Vid. Martyr's Lang, of Bot. Term

norcM,

is

readily


^sV

-Puh by JtrCurtzs J^G^ee,- Cre/cent^duy-

/


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]

Three-Coloured

Ixia Tricolor.

Ixia.

*» < <', #)>.%# •

Clafs

and Order.

Triandria Monogynia. Generic Characler. Cor. 6-partita, campanulata, regularis. Specific

,

IXIA

Stigmata 3,

Chamber.

enfiformibus ere&is, fcapo flexuofo fubtrifloro,fpathis fufco maculatis, tenuiflimcfulcato plicatis. tricolor foliis

We

do not remember ever to have been fo forcibly ft ruck with the beautiful appearance of a flower, as with that of the prefent Ixia, nor do we recollect any one that can boaft colours at once fo various, fo brilliant,' and fo pleafmg placed by the fide of the Amaryllis formofiffima, farnienfis, vittata, the ;

Cijlus formofus,

the

Pelargonium

tricolor,

or a hundred other plants of

more

beautiful forts/the eye would be fixed by this alone. It is a plant of taller growth than the Ixia crocata, the {talk nfing to the height of about afoot and a half, the lower half of it is

cunoufty enveloped by the foliage, ufually Ample, round, fmooth, crooked, fupporting on its fummit two or three flowers, fometimes more, leaves fword-fhaped, perfedly fmooth, extending to thelowermoft flower; flowers large, feffile, enclofed before they expand m a bivalve membranous fhcath, which, on its lower part particularly, is deeply grooved or plaited, and the whole of it is. finely fpotted j to fee the Angularity and beauty of this part, it is neceOary to ufe a fmall magnifier the :

flowers arc fuperbly brilliant, the bafe of each petal is fine yellow, the middle is marked with a large arrow-fhaped fpot of a dark-purple hue, with the appearance of velvet, a line of which runs down through the yellow and terminates before it reaches the bottom of the petal, the remainder of the petal is of a colour difficult to defcribe (a kind of bright orange) die antherac are yellow, the itigma trifid, each fegment purplift

and

1 hough new to this country, this plant has been known fome years to the Dutch, we find it in their catalogues under the name of IxiaJieUata tricolor; no doubt they received u from the Cape. This fpecies is propagated with the fame eale that mod of the Ixias are, and requires the fame managebifid.

ment,— to be troft.

It

planted in a pot of bog-earth and fecured from has ripened iceds with me at Brompton one capfufe ;

contained ten.


-;

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[ 3^2

Silene Ornata.

]

Dark-Coloured

Catchfly.

*$»»»»»»$»>.»# C£z/i

a»^ Order.

Decandria Trigynia. Generic Chara tier. Cat. ventricofus. ^

Petala 5-unguiculata coronata ad faucem,

Cap/. 3-iocularis.

Specific Characler.

SILENE

The its

ornata calyeibus fruftus oblongis carinatis pilofis, petalis bifidis, foliis lanceolatis pubefcentibus vifcolis planis, caule vifcido. Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 06.

beauty of

flowers,

this

which

is

plant confifts merely in the colour of dark red, fomewhat like that of the

Clove pink; the plant itfelf is of rude growth, and requires frequent attention to keep it in order it grows readily rifing to the height of about two feet, blows freely during moft of the fummer months, and ripens its feeds, from which the :

plant

may

eafily

be raifed;

but

it is

moft commonly propa-

gated by cuttings, which ftrike freely. It is firft

defcribed in the Hort. Kew. and has not, to our knowledge, been figured till now; Mr. Aiton informs us, that it is a biennial, and was introduced from the Cape by

Mr. Massom,

in

1775.

There are few greenhoufes near London plant is not to be met with.

in

which the


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Gladiolus Securiger. Copper-Coloured Corn-Flag.

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and Order.

Triandria Monogynia.

Generic Character.

Cor. 6-partita tubulofa ringens.

Specific Characlcr

GLADIOLUS

Jecuriger

Stamina adfcendcntia.

and Synonyms.

foliis

lineari-enfiformibusplanis,faucc labn fuperioris trilaminato laminis unguiformibus perpendicularibus, bradeis obtuhs. Ait. Kezv. v. i. p. 6§. :

The term Jecuriger

implies the carrying an ax or hatchet; the tiower of this Gladiolus bears internally three projecting lamina, or thin plates, which have been fancifully

to io

many

hatchets

;

compared

and hence the iaxa& Jecuriger.

This fingular fpecies of Gladiolus, fo nearly related to fome of the Ixias, and firft defcribed in the Hortus KewenJ/s, is a native of the Cape, and was introduced in 1774, by Mr. Mass on.

It flowers in

Ixias

May

in general, is tolerable abundance.

and June, requires the fame treatment a a free blower, and produces offsets


p

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C •

Tree Crassula.

Crassula Cotyledon.

and Order.

Chifs

Pen tan dr

1

a

Pentagynia.

Generic Charatler. Cat. 5-phyllus.

minis.

Pet. 5.

Sqnam<ÂŁ 5-ne6tariferae ad balm ger-

Cap/. 5 polyfpermae. Specific

CRASSULA

CharacJer and Synonyms.

Cotyledon foliis fubrotundis carnofis fupra punftatis,

Mnrr.

Ait.

p. 295.

Kew.

Syft..

v. t. p. 393.

Vegetab. cd. 14-

Jacq. Mifceil. 2.

19. arborejcens

COTYLEDON .

Linn.

caule arboreo.

/.

caule ramofo facculento foliis obverfe ovatis emarginatis, marginibus purpureis.

Mill

Dicl. ed. 6. 4to.

In the habit of this plant, but more efpecially in there

exifts

a

great

fimilarity

to

the

its

foliage,

Cotyledon orbiculatat

there will be found however to be a very great difference in the form of their flowers, thofe ot the Crajfula refemble the flowers of a Sedtim to which genus, indeed, it has great affinity, but a lingular trait in

figured

/.

321 of

this

work

;

,-

this plant

is

forms me,

its

indifpofition to flower

:

Mr. Fairbairn

in-

produce bloffoms in Chelfea Garden till the prefent fummer Mr. Miller never faw it At flower, nor does it appear that Mr. Aiton ever did. Chelfea Garden there are feveral plants of this fpecies, fome of which form fmall trees ; one of thofe, but not the oldeft, produced this fummer feveral bunches of flowers, which continued during May and June in the treatment of thefe plants there has been no variation, they are conftantly kept in a glafsthat

he never law

it

;

:

cafe with other fucculents.

a native of the Cape, and was cultivated in 1739*. Is readily increafed by cuttings. It is

* Ait. Kew,

by Miller


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BROAD-LEAVED' LOBATA. MONSONIA M ON SON A. I

Clafs

and Order,

POLYADELPHIA Do D EC A N JDB.I A. /

Generic Characler. til. 5-phyllus.

Stam. 15 connata in 5 Cap/. 5-cocca.

Cor. 5-petala.

<>/jf/Âťi 5-fitius.

noe&ta.

Specific Characler

MONSONIA MONSONIA

and Synonyms.

lobata foliis cordatis lobatis dentatis.

Kew.

fila-

Ait.

IhrL

v. 2. p. 100.

lobata foliis ovato-cordatis fublobatis, calycibus

muricis.

Linn.

Syft.

Vegetab. ed. 14.

Murr.

p.

6 97-

MONSONIA

fi.ia

foliis

fimplicibus cordatis lobatis.

Linn,

Suppl.p. 341.

MONSONIA

lobata.

Montis., in all. goihob. 2. p. 1.

t.

1.

In the third volume of this work we have given a figure and account of the Monfonia Jpeciofa, to which the prefent fpecies, in its general habit, bears a great {imili aae, differing principally in its foliage, which is undivided me flowers ;

are fmaller than thofe offpeciofa, and more handfome in bud than when open; they are more frequently produced, but re-quire the influence of the fun to make them expand fully. It

is

a native of the Cape,

and was introduced by Mr.

Masson

in 1774. Flowers in April

and

is

and

May;

requires 'the fame treatment

propagated in the fame manner as thefpeeiofa.


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Ranunculus Parnassifolius. ParnassiaLeaved Crowfoot. j*£.A.jJtjf«.A.j>'«.j''«. «fsj!«.jIt jit •,>

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C/i/} and. Order.

POLYANDRIA PoLYGYNIA. Generic

Character.

deciduus 5-phylIus (rarius 3-pbyIlus). Petala 5 frarfiw 2, 3, am 8) intra ungues fqaamula vel poro mellifero. Styli periiitentes. San. incruftata erecta. Cal.

Specific Charatler

RANUNCULUS

paYttajfifolius foliis fubovaiis nervofis

integerrimis

Linn.

RANUNCULUS

and Synonyms.

Syji.

petiolatis,

floribus

Vegetal, ed. 14.

1

means

umbellatis.

Murr.

p. 515*

Ait. Kc'iv. v. 2. p. 265.

montanus graminis Inft.

parnaffi folio.

Tourntf.

286.

In the autumn of 1796, I received roots of this and fevera! other rare and curious Alpine plants from Mr. Neckar de Saussure, at Geneva, and have been fo fortunate as to bring the prefcnt plant to flower with me early in the fummer of 1797, an d to fhew figns of ripening fome of its feeds: it grew with me in a fmall pot of loam and bog-earth, .

fheltered during

the winter in a frame.

Mr.

A ton*

informs us, fhat

was introduced by Meffrs. Kennedy and Lee, in 1769, but there is no mention made of its flowering fmall indeed is, we believe, the number of Botanifts who have feen this plant in flower, as neither Lin1

this fpecies

;

n/eus, Murray, or Gmelin, refer to any figure of it; this has proved an additional inducement for us not to let the prefent opportunity flip' of prefenting to the botanical world a figure of this rare and precious jewel of the Alps. * Hort.

Kew,


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Epidendrum Aloides. Aloe-Leaved Epidendrum. Clcifs

and Order.

Gynandria Diandria. Generic Characler.

Net? avium turbinatum obliquum reflexum. Specific Character

EPIDENDRUM

and Synonyms.

aloifolium foliis radicalibu^ oblongis obtufis

fuperne latioribus. Linn. Syjl. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 818. Spec. PL ed. 3. p. 1350.

KANS1JRAM-MARAVARA.

Rheede Malab. 12. p. 17.

/.

8-

Theprefent Epidendrum is figured and defcribed in Rheede's Hort. Maiaif. from whence we learn that it is parafitical to feveral trees in India, but moft frequently found on the Strychnos

Nux

A

Vomica. few years fince,

my

friend

Mr. Vere, of Kenfington,

re-

from India, by the kindnefs of his neighbour Placed in a pot of earth and plunged I. Devaynes, Efq. in the tan pit of the (love, it grew, increafed, and now flourifhes, but has not blown with Meflrs Grimwood and Wykes, Nurferymen, Kenfington, the plant has flowered this fummer; inftead of plunging it in the tan, they fet it on the flue of the Rove; and to this variation in its treatment, its flowering

ceived

this plant

:

perhaps to be attributed. The leaves of this plant were fomewhat more than a foot in length, rather flefhy, and very rigid they had this Angularity, at the extremity one-half projected beyond the other, the flowering branch fprung from the bafe of the leaves and extended to about the fame length, the flowers grew in a fpike, feventeen or eighteen, moftly alternate, they appeared to have a flight but pleafing fragrance, the petals were of a dull purple colour marked with deeper (tripes, their edges white or palebuff colour, neftary nearly the fame colour, revolute, trifid, lower fegment marked about the middle with two yellow is

;

tubercles. It

and

is

is

of more ready growth than parafitical plants in general, increafed by parting its roots.


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Oenothera Anomala. Anomalous Oenothera. «,V

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C/j/> j»(i Order.

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Character. Capfula columnaris, infera, 4-locu/Vto/a 4. Semina nuda, angulofa, fungofa.

Calyx 4-fidus'. laris.

Specific Characler.

OENOTHERA

anomala caule fruticofo, latis dentatis, floribus

foliis

avato-lanceo-

Oenotheras, fructibus

Gaurae.

were South-America, of Seeds of lent by Profeffor Ortega, of Madrid, to the Marchionefs of Bute, in the year 1795, by the name of Gaura mutabilist her Ladyfliip mod obligingly communicated to us a part of the prefent plant, a native

fame the from plants curious other rare and

and many country, which in due time will appear in this work. open the in fet being feed, The plants which we raifed from one winter 1796-7; the ground, perifhed by the feverity of preferved, was greenhoule the raifed from a cutting and kept in not peculiarity a high, and now forms a fhrub about two feet but to be met with either in the Oenothera or Gaura tribes* thofe,

;

its plant; this in obfervable this is not the only peculiarity bloffomthe eccentric ; fmaification affords charaBers highly

Oenothera, differing

merely

m

appearance, that of an the form of its petals, which, when expanded, give to the flower well equally correfponds a peculiar fquarenefs the feed veffel with that of a Gaura, containing merely a few more feeus the time and manner of the flowers expanding it agrees with to all

is>

;

;

m

in fhrubby being not name, The Oenothera fruikofa, notwithftanding its Ae open ground perhaps it might be fo in the greenhoufe, where flowering ; earlier, it might prove a valuable acquiuuon,

*

,

the


;

the Oenothera, excepting that

it

is-

later in the

evening before

the flower opens, Co late, indeed, that its blowing, unlels particularly attended to, might efcape obfervation, before morning it

clofes,

In

new

changing in decay to a deep rich orange.

propriety, this plant ought, perhaps, to be made a genus of, according to what is at prefent known of the ftri6t

genera Oenothera and

Gaum ;

more

each are difcovered, they may poffibly be found to run into each other it is poffible alio, that other plants may be found with fructifications fimilar to the one here figured, in that cafe there will be no hefitation in forming them into a new genus. Should this plant be found too tender to bear our ordinary frolts in the

open

may

air,

ftill,

as

it

as

fpecies of

readily ripens

its

feeds in fuch

be raifed yearly from feed, and regarded as a tender annual, as well as a greenhoufe plant. In the open border it flowers in September, in the greenhoufe more early. fituations,

it


C 389 3

Gaura

Biennial Gaura.

Biennis.

Clafs

and Order.

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Character.

Calyx 4-fidus, tubulofus.

Drupa

iupcrius.

Cor. 4-petala, afcendens verfus latus corticofa, infera, 2-locuIaris. Nux 1 fperma,

4 anguia. Specific Charatler

GAURA

Linn.

biennis.

Kew.

,/Lit.

LYSIMACHIA

Syjl.

and Synonyms.

Vegetal, ed. 14.

Murr. p. 358.

v. 2.

Chamasnerio

fimilis

pun6tis, capfulis carinatis in

Amaltb. 139.

428. f.

t.

floridana,

foliis

nigris

ramulorum cymis. Pink,

2.

We

have here given a reprefentation of the Gaura biennis, that its flowers and feeds may be contrafted with thofe of the Oenothera anomala figured in the fame number. The flowers of the Gaura will be found to differ extremely in form and fituation from thofe of the Oenothera, yet they agree precifely in that curious part of their ceconomy, opening in the evening; the plant agrees alfo with many fpecies of that genus, in being a biennial.

The

prefent

is

been discovered

the only fpecies of

Gaura which,

as yet,

has

a native of North-America, and was introduced to this country in 1762, by that excellent'Gardener and truly refpeaable chamBer, Mr. Tames Gordon, of ;

it

Mile-End. This plant, which

is

J

of the hardy herbaceous kind, grows to the height of four or five feet, producing many branches, which on their fummits are thickly covered with white flowers, having rofe-coloured calyces ; when expanded they produce a fine effect it*

in the evening,

much of

;

is

fo as to j unify the

their beauty remains in the

name given

morning

:

it is

to

to be

obferved that each flower opens only once. It bloffoms in Auguft, September, and oaober, and yields abundance of feeds, which, if left to fcatter thcmfelves, produce plenty of young plants, and which of a proper age may fuccefsfully be tranfplanted. fuffer flick

from high winds,

it

is

Gaura from

the

Being

from its height, neceflary early and carefully liable,

it.

•

Greek

yaugo?, fuperbos.

to

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Magnolia Purpurea. Purple Magnolia, •A. Vj»

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jbjfc^, «J» V *r *p Vjs

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a

itf ifr jfe. £«• 4«f. 'i* 1* ** *i* *n

Order.

67j/jr #«d?

Poly an dr

Polygyria.

Generic Charatler.

Calyx 3-phyllus. P<?/#/£ Semina baccata pendula.

Capful* bivalves imbricate.

9.

Specific Charatler.

MAGNOLIA

purpurea

floribus

hexapetalis,

petalis extus

purpureis.

a magnificence about the plants of this genus which renders them unfuitable fubjecls of rcprefentation in a work

There

is

the fize of ours ; nor would it have been in our power to have given a figure of this new and beautiful fpecies, differing fi» materially from all the others in the colour of its flowers, had we not fortunately been favoured by the Countefs of Coventry with a fmall plant of it, about a foot high, which flowered with her Ladyfhip in town we have ilnce fecn much larger plants with proportionate flowers. It is a native of China, and is reported to have firft flowered ;

in the collection of the

Duke

of

Portland,

at

Bulftrode;

is

regarded as a greenhoufe plant, and mod probably will be found hardy enough with a little fhelter to bear the cold of

our winters. In a confervatory,

when

in a flourifhing ftate,

during moft of the fummer, and difficulty

by layers and

is

it

will flower

increafed without

much

cuttings.

Defcription: Stalk fhrubby, round, green, marked with whitifh dots; leaves from three to nine inches long, and from one and a half to four broad, ftanding on footftalks of * yeilowifh colour, ovate, running out to a fharp point, narrowed

towards the bafe, flightly downy ; flower about the fize of a middling tulip, without fcent, cupping fomewhat in the fame way, rarely fully expanding, at lead in the greenhoufe ; petals

number, ovate, rather flefhy, the three outermoft expanding more than the three innermoft, all of a purple hue on the outfide, bafe, midrib, and veins of a deeper hue, here and there gained calyx compofed of three leaves, which are very fhort, fpreading, and turning down a little, of a pale green colour; ftamina very numerous, filaments fcarcely perceivable, antherae oblong, flefhy, with two cells opening inwardly piftilla numerous, forming a conical head, riling above the (lamina, compofed of numerous fhort ftyles placed clofe together, one above another, of a purple hue. fix

in

;


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Philadelphia Coronarius. Common Philadelphia, or Mock-Orange. and Order.

Clafs

.

ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Cbaracler. Cat. 4 f. 5-partitus, fuperus. cularis, polyfperma.

Pctala 4

Specific Characler

PHILADELPHUS

FRUTEX

alba,

Cap/. 4

5.

f.

5-I0-

and Synonyms.

coronarius foliis fubdentatis. Linn. Syft. Veget. cd. 14. Murr. p. 460. Ait.Kew. v. 2.

SYRINGA

f.

155. five Philadelphia p.

coronarius.

/>.

Athenaei.

Bauh. Pin.

398. Cluf. Hifi. p. 55. f. 1.

The

Philadelphus coronarius is one of the moft common fhrubs of our gardens, and known to moil perfons by the name of Mock-orangey the bloffoms in point of fcent being fuppofed to have fome affinity with thofe of the orange in our account of the Syringa vulgaris, or Lilac, p. 183, the reader will find fome curious obfervations on the fcent of thefe flowers, by old Gerard, which are there by miftake attributed to the Lilac; this the reader is requefted to correa and pardon. To prevent ;

fimilar miftakes in future, it will be neceffary to ceafe applying the term Syringa to this plant altogether.

This

hardy, and readily propagated by fuckers; it ufually flowers in May, but it is only in feafons unufually mild and favourable, that its bloffoms antf foliage are feen in perfection, as they are very apt to be disfigured by the cold winds which, more or lefs, prevail at that time; it is only when gently forced that its beauty is fully difplayed, and for that flirub

is

purpofe it is a fhrub often u fed. It was cultivated by Gerard in Clusius obferves, 1597. that he never faw it in a wild ftate, nor had he been able to determine whether it was known to the ancients; Linn^us feems to have had his doubts as to its original place of growth, by putting " Habitat Veronae" with a quere ; Miller fays, where it naturally grows is uncertain ; Mr. Aiton defcribes it as a native of the South of Europe. A dwarf variety of it is mentioned by authors, which has little "to

recommend it and another with variegated apt to become wholly green. The leaves, as

which is have obfei ved,

;

tafte like

cucumber.

foliage,

authors


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JPu&.lry

WCurtij- ^

chv.

CrgcerU Vec.t.

tffi.


[

2 39

]

Primula Longifolia. Long-Leaved Primula. Oafs and Order.

Pentandria Monogynia. Generic Character. Corolla tubus cylindricus

Involucrum umbellulse.

Specific Characler

PRIMULA

from

ore patulo,,

and Synonyms.

hngifotia foliis fpathulatis, denticulatis, utrinque nudis, poft florefcentiam elongatis, erecliufculis;

umbelia

The

:

erefta, multiflora.

plant here figured

we received, about

Me firs. Grimwood

three years fince, and Co. Nurferymen, Kenfington,

had been recently fent from France by Mr. Williams, Nurferyman, near Paris, but without any information

to

whom

as to

its

We

it

original place of growth.

have found

it

be a very hardy

to

perennial

fpecies,

bearing a great affinity to the Primula farinofa y but differing from it in many effential points both of foliage and flowers.

The

leaves differ in form, colour,

and mode of growth

:

when

grown, taking two plants of an equal degree of luxuriance, they are twice the length of thofe of fafinofa ; indeed, from their unufual length, when fully grown, which they are not when in flower, proportioned to the fize of the plant, we have thought that the term longifolia might well ferve as its trivial name. They are not mealy, the under fide being as green as the upper ; and they have a greater tendency to grow upright, the fcapus is fhorter and thicker, the flowers form a fimila r umbel ; but each individual bloffom is firraiier, and in point of colour much lefs brilliant upon the whole, though fuperior in fize, it is inferior to the farinofa in beauty. It flowers early in May ; is a plant of ready growth ; will fucceed either in the pot or the open border, guarding it from the fun in fummer, and from fevere froft and too much wet in winter is propagated by parting its roots, either in September or the beginning of March. Aphis the have found it very liable to be injured by Plant-Louie or Blighter. fully

:

;

We


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&


[ 393

]

Brunfelsia Americana. Brunfelsia. A-A v *«

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4*

tl*

A

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jit sit «l> *f*

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rf£_afe

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American «I» '«*

TP"

jfe, *!*

Av

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«it.

'(^

C/a/i a«i/ Order.

DlDYNAMtA ANGIOSPERMIA. Generic Character. Calyx 5-dentatus, anguftus. Corolla tubus longiffimus. Cap/. uniloculars, polyfperma conceptaculo carnofo maximo. :

Specific Character

BRUNFELSIA

americana

and Synonyms.

foliis

ellipticis,

acuminatis, peti-

tubo ereCto, limbo integro. Linn. Syjl. Nat. Gmel. p. 929. Vegetal, ed. 14. Murr. p. 231. Ait. Kew. v.x. p. 340. Swariz. Ob/. Botan. p. 90.

olis longioribus, corollas

4. fig. 2.

t.

BRUNFELSIA CATESB^EA

?

flore

albo,

Gen. .12.

ic.

fruticofa,

foliis

gularibus.

Plumikr in

felfia,

croceo molli.

fruftu

Plum.

65.

oblongo-ovatis, floribus

fin-

Broivn Jam. 141.

name of Branhonour of Otho Brunfelsius, who at a very gave' to this genus of plants the

earlvperiod, 1530, publifhed figures of plants in wood, which have been generally admired for their fuperior excellence. Till lately the preient plant was confidered as the only known fpecies, but another has lately been added by Prof. Swartz, who informs us that the Brunfelfta americana inhabits the

mountainous parts of Jamaica, where to fifteen feet high

description of fragrant.

It

it,

was

;

in

his

forms a tree from ten Obferv. Botan. he gives a minute

and obferves

it

that the

late in the prefent

plant here figured flowering in

flowers are extremely

fummer, when we faw

Mr. Colvill's

tan-ltove

;

the its

fragrance to us was fcarcely perceptible its bloflbms are large and fhewy, about the fize of thofe of the Allamanda cathartic* figured tab. 338, but of a much paler yellow, inclining to fulphur colour ; thefe are produced during molt of the fummer :

months, and frequently in pairs. This fhrub has long been cultivated in this country ; Mr. Miller defcribes it in his Dictionary; in LinkaOS* works, fo late even as Murray's edition of the $$% I'^- li ftands under the clafs Pentandria. It

is

ufually increafed by layers

and

cuttings.

* By Milj-er in 1739.


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Lychnis Alpina.

C/#/}

Alpine Lychnis,

##i Order.

Decandria Pentagynia. Generic Charatler. Calyx

l-phyllus,

Limbo

oblongus,

fub-bifido.

alpina, fetalis bifidis, floribus tetragynis. v. 2. p.

Of

unguiculata;

Charatler and Synonyms.

Syjl. Veget.

SILENE

Pctala 5,

Capfula 5-locularis.

Specific

LYCHNIS

laevis.

ed. 14.

Murr. ^.435.

Ait.

Linn.

Kew.

nj.

floribus in capitulum congeftis.

Hall.

Heh.

'

376.

genus there are many fpecies cultivated for ornament ; to the number of thefe we add the one here figured, a native of the mountainous countries of mod parts of Europe, and which at a future period may poflibly be found wild in fome* unexplored part of this kingdom. this

^

It is chiefly to the

decoration of rock-work, that this diminutive fpecies is applicable ; for that purpofe it has all the deniable requifites, being hardy, of ready growth, and forming a thick tuft of foliage, from which arife numerous flowering ftcms, four to fix inches high, fuftaining heads of flowers rather large in proportion to the plant, of a lively red colour, thefe appear in May, continue about three weeks, and are followed by feed-veflels with us, which contain abundance of ripe feeds ; by thefe the plant may eafily be propagated, ÂŤ

may

alfo be increafed

by parting

its

roots, fpring or

autumn.

All plants kept in pots require to be regularly watered in dry weather; we have not found this Lychnis require an unufual quantity, though

Miller was

of that opinion.


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Salvia Indica. A

«l»

*•* 's*

J.

»«.

*i* *i»

A A y v i»

*i

i, _v

.i,

*p

*i»' *i*

Indian Sage.

«'/. «it _>'>>. kv"

'j*

C/j/C,- tf/z<^

*i*

"

>Lj_

V^ sv w» ^»

*?*

'r

vv

*5r

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v

Order.

DlANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. Generic CharacJer. Corolla inasqualis.

Filamcnta tranfverfe pedicello affixa.

Specific

SALVIA

indica

foliis

iciTihbus, Syjl.

Ait.

HORMINUM

eordatis, lateribus fublobatis

vcriicillis

Vtget.

Kew.

Cbaracler and Synonyms.

ed.

14.

;

fubnudis remotiffimis.

Murr.

p.

69.

fummis Linn.

Mant. 318.

v. 1. p. 41.

hirfutum fiore violaceo pun&is aureis notato. Morif. Hifi. 3. 11. /. 13./. 1 6.

SCLAREA

/

indica floribus variegatis.

Tourn.

Injl.

179.

Though

a native of India, as its name implies, this magnificent fpecies of lage is found to be a hardy herbaceous plant, requiring, indeed, a little extraordinary care to be taken of it in fevere winters ; we have had it flower in in

great perfection a large garden pot, but it will fucceed as well, or better, in the open border, where it will grow to the height of four or five

and produce during the months of June and July abundance of flowers, Angularly and beautifully marked. It may be increafed by parting its roots in the autumn or fpring, and alio by feeds ; the latter we have found to be but fpanngly produced in our garden at Brompton, though we feet,

confider

The on

as peculiarly favourable to the feeding of plants. beauty of tall plants, like the prefent, depends greatly it

the pains taken in flicking

them

bufmefs in general is not lufficiently attended to, being frequently deferred till it becomes a matter of neceffity rather than of choice ; we would therefore recommend it to our readers to fet about it early, foon after the plant emerges from the ground, efpecially in refpea to all thofe which are furnifhed with tendrils, or have twining ftalks the due execution of this work requires judgment, and will admit the difplay of fome tafte. It appears that Mr. Miller cultivated this Sage at Chelfea, in the year 1731, and yet even now it is a plant rarely feenin ;

gardens.

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Mesembryanthemum Spectabile. Shewy Fig-Marigold. jJt .A. -%! #j»

•,»

/(.

A.A. A„A.

A.

«J» ?^f .-*jk. <fc, jfri.'frii 4t. y*. *,«••>,« «j-k"Sjr> «"v,'i-v,c «j» sjfs «£. *.» ags ^j. I

CAz/} <z»^ Order.

IcOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA, Generic Character. i

Gii>* 5-fidus.

Petala numerofa, infera, polyfperma.

linearia.

Capfula camofa,

Specific CharatJer.

MESEMBRYANTHEMUM//^^,

fbliis perfoliatis, lon-

giffimis, glaucis,

pun&atis, integerrimis, triquetris, apice fubuhuis, caule lignofo adfcendente. Haivorih. Mejemb. p. 385.

Mr. Haworth, in bryanthemum, gives to bloffoms being

Of

his obfervations this fpecies the

uncommonly fhewy.

on the genus Mcfem-

name o{ fpecLabile,

its

this tribe

there are fpecies whofe flowers are fuperior in fize and brilliancy of colour to the prefent, whofe leaves are more remarkable for the angularity of their form, yet in point of ornament, this, perhaps, is of all other the molt deniable, as it continues to produce its fine large purple flowers during the whole of the fummer, is of ready

growth, and railed with*

out difficulty from cuttings. It has

been introduced to this country within thefe few years, moft probably from the Cape, by Mr. Masson.

To

Mr. Haworth's delcription of the

we have

only to add, that the leaves fometimes throw out internally a tooth near their extremities, as is fhewn in foliage

our figure.


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INDEX.

INDEX. # In which the Latin

Names

of***

the Plants contained in the

$

Names

In which the Enghfh

of the Plants contained in Eleventh

Eleventh Volume are alpha-

the

betically arranged.

alphabetically arranged.

PL 369 368 375 393 384 374 380 387 362 266 377 389 383 370 373

are

PL Amaryllis undulata. Antirrhinum vifcofum. Aftragalus monfpeffulanus. Brunfelfia americana. CrafTula Cotyledon. Cyrilla pulchella.

Dolichos lignofus.

Epidendrum Aloides. Erica retorta. pyramidalis.

Erodium romanum. Gaura biennis. Gladiolus fecuriger.

Houftonia coerulea. Iris chinenfis.

381 Ixia tricolor. alpina. Lychnis 394 361 Lycium japonicum. 390 Magnolia purpurea.

396 Mefembryanthem. fpe&abile. 371 Mirabilis lalapa. 3«5 Monfonia lobata.

379 388 6 3 5 * 39 2 39 386

NarciflTus tenuior.

378

Roella

36 3

Rofa

Oenothera anomala. longiflora.

Philadelphus coronarius.

Primula longifolia. Ranunculus parnaffifolius. ciliata.

lutea.

Salvia formofa. 6 37

395

Volume

- indica.

'

3» a Silene ornata. 367 Verbena triphylla. 364 Vitex negundo.

372 Zygophyllum

infuave.

369 372 361 393 382 364 383 377 384 386 374 380 387 396 389 362 366 37° 373 38 i 394 390 37 1 375 385 379 388

Amaryllis waved-flowered.

Bean-Caper unpleafant. Boxthorn Japanefe. Brunfelfia american.

Catchfly dark-flowered. Chafte-tree five-leaved. Corn-flag copper-coloured. Crane's-bill

roman.

Craflula tree.

Crowfoot Pamaflia-leaved. Cyrilla fcarlet-flowered.

Dolichos purple.

Epidendrum Aloe-leaved. Fig-marigold fhewy.

Gaura biennial. Heath recurved, pyramidal. Houftonia blue-flowered. Iris chinefe.

Ixia three-coloured.

Lychnis alpine. Magnolia purple. Marvel of Peru common. Milk-vetch Montpelier. Monfonia broad-leaved. Narciffus fiender.

Oenothera anomalous.

3 65

long-flowered. 39' Philadelphus common. 2 Primula iong-leaved. 39 3 6 3 Rofe Auftrian. 378 Roella prickly.

395 Sage Indian'. fhiniiig-leaved. 376 368 Toad-flax clammy. 367 Vervain three-leaved.

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Campanula Persicifolia (tar. Maxima). Greatest-Flowered Peach-Leaved .

Bell-Flower. •i*

AA

^f:

T>i* vj»

v> Jf »,»

/i»

AA A /,c •,» <t»

<jf

Clafs

4f *jf 'V *** j'< >'-! *!*. *'•». "J*, ^» /(C v,<r Vjir v,« v,c sjr v,«^ i,«*

/js

and Order.

PlNTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. Generic Charatlcr. Cor. campanulata >

fundo claufo valvis

flaminiferis.

Stigma 3-

Cap/, infera, poris lateralihus dehifcens.

iidum.

Specific Charatlcr

CAMPANULA

pcrficifolia

and Synonyms.

(var. maxima)

foliis

radicalibus

obovatis, caulinis lanceolato-linearibus fubierratis feffilibus remotis. Linn. Syji. Vegetal, ed. 14.

Murr.

p. 206. Ait.

Kew.

v. 1. p. 220.

Mr. Dickson, of Covent-Garden, favoured me laft Spring with roots of this plant, received by him from South-Carolina, in 1791.

Thofe who have been accuftomed

Campanula perjicifolia in its fmgle ftate, now but rarely met with in our gardens, the two varieties with double flowers having ufurped its place, will perceive in point of general habit a finking fimilarity betwixt it and the prefent plant; the only difference indeed appears to confift in lize, and as fize alone forms no fpecific character, we have been induced to regard this magnificent to fee the

plant as a variety of that fpecies.

Casp. *

Bauhine enumerates

which he calls which he refers, we cannot regard

perjicifolia,

figures to

a large variety of Campanula var. major; on- confulting the his

and ours

as

the fame, but are inclined to fuppofe that the latter plant is a variety altogether new to the European world. However this may prove, by the introdu&ion of the prefent plant our flower borders gain a moft defirable ornament ; and the acquifition is the more valuable, as the plant is very hardy and eafy of culture, increafing by its roots, which are fome-

what creeping, and may be parted either Spring or Autumn. or three a of moilt rich foil, height it will acquire the In four feet, and produce during the months of Auguft and Sep-

tember abundance of flowers truly magnificent.


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Agrostemma Flos

Jovis.

Umbel'd

Rose Campion.

+ÂťM *Âť * Clafs

* ******** and Order.

Decandria Pentagynia, Generic CharacJer. Gil. l-phyllus, coriaceus. Petala 5, unguiculata. indivifo. Cap/, j-locularis.

Specific CharacJer

AGROSTEMMA LYCHNIS

Limbo

obtufo,

and Synonyms.

tomentofa, petalis emarginatis. Linn. Sp. PL 625. Ait. Keiv. v. 2. p. 116. Flos Jovis

:

coronaria fylveftris. Bauh. Pin. 204. Mori/. 2. p. 450. 5. /. 36./. 2.

Hift*

/

From

the high-flown epithet of Flos Jovis, beftowed on this fpecies of Agrojlemma by ibme of the old Botamfts, one would be led to conclude that the plant muft be one of a fuperior order, and fuperlatively beautiful : fuch, however, it is not yet is it fufficiently ornamental to merit a place in every flower-garden, and into which indeed it has been very generally

introduced.

Miller

cultivated

it

in

1726.

hardy perennial, a native of the Swifs and Piedmontefe mountains, growing to the height of about a foot and a half; its leaves and ftalks are covered with a white woolly fubftance; its flowers, which are bright red and grow in a kind of umbel, are produced in June and July ; and its feeds ripen in September. It is a

by propagated moderately ftiff, and may be parting its roots, but feedlings make the belt plants, and from feed it may be raifed without any difficulty. It prefers a foil


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Primula Cortusoides. Cortusa-Leaved Primula. •A.*'*. A.j&.A.j&.A.jfe.A

t*

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'i*

vv

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'i* 'i*

*i*

CA7/}

A. 'i*

A. A A..Av VAA. v¥ v "J*

'«»

'i*

»''

vi*

and Order.

Pentandria Monogynia. Generic Character. Jnvolucr. umbellulae.

Corolla tubus cylindricus

Specific Character

PRIMULA

Linn.

Syft.

Gmel. Sib. v. 4.

/.

ore patulo.

and Synonyms.

cartiifoides, foliis petiolatis

natis.

:

cordatis fublobatis

Vegetab. ed, 14.

Murr.

cre-

p. 193*

45.

This very rare fpecies of Primula, called cortufoides, on account of the fimilitude of its foliage to that of the Cortnfa Matthioli of Linnaus, is a native of Siberia, and figured

by Gmelim.

To

increafe our collection of Primula's, now confining of thirteen diftina fpecies, we purchafed this plant about two years iince of MefTrs. Lee and Kennedy, Nurferymen, at

Hammerfmith, who had

juft received

from, abroad.

it

In the wrinkled appearance of its foliage, it approaches the Primula acaulis, and others of that divifion, while, in its inflorefcence, the colour of its flowers, andfolitary fcapus (which rifes to an unufual heighi) it bears an affinity to the farinof^

Being yet a very rare plant, it will be neceflary to treat H with unufual care, to keep it in a pot filled with equal parts oi loam and bog-earth, to place it in a moift fhady fituation m the Summer, and in a frame in the Winter. It flowers in June and July, and may be raifed from feeds, or propagated by parting its roots ; but is apt to be loft if n0t duly attended to. In the Winter

it

lofes its leaves entirely,

and forms

a

fo r

e

of bulbous hybernaculum under ground this circumftanc the more neceflary to be known, as it fubjeds the plant to & thrown away as dead. ;

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Tooth'd-Leav'd Lavandula Dentata. Lavender. Clafs

and Order,

DlDYNAMlA GYMNOSPERMIA. Generic Character. Calyx ovatus, fubdentatus, braftca fuffultus. Corolla refupinata.

Stamina intra tubum. Specific Charatler

LAVANDULA

dentata

foliis

and Synonyms.

feffilibus

linearibus peflinato-

coar&ata comofa. 14. Murr. 530. Ait. Kew. v.

pinnatis, fpica ed.

STCECHAS STCECHAS:

dentata:

foliis

ed. 6. 4 to. folio ferrate*.

47°- /• i

puinato

dentatis.

Linn. Syfi. 2. p. 288. Mill. Diet.

Toothed Sticadoue.

Ger. Herb.

3^

The

old Botanifts, whom Miller has followed, made plant a Stcechas ; Linn^us claffes it with the Lavenders.

There are few tender

plants that

have been fo long

this

culti-

vated in our gardens as this ; we find it figured in Gerard, who obierves that it mult be covered in the Winter from cold, or elfe fet in pots or tubs with earth, and carried into houfes ; thus did they preferve their tender plants before the introduction of green-houfes. Miller has given a very good account of this plant, which we cannot do better than copy, juft obferving tnat he dcfcribes the leaves as of a grayifh colour, which they can fcarcely

be

faid to be, efpecialiy if

contrafted with thofe of the pintiata

figured in the prefent

number, and which he had never feen. " The dentata grows naturally in Andalufia in Spain, and • alfo about Mercia this has a ligneous ftalk, which rifes feet high, furnifhed with branches on every '! two or three fide, which are four-cornered, and garnifhed with leaves w placed oppofite by pairs, indented regularly on both fides, " almoft to the midrib, in form of winged leaves they are ot ' a grayifh colour, have a pleafant aromatic odour, and * biting warm tafte. The flowers are produced in fcaly fpikes " at the end of the branches, (landing upon long naked footftalks, they are four-cornered, inch an hairy, and about " long, terminated by a few purplifh leaves, in the like roan" ner as the oher forts, which incline me to keep it joined to " them it flowers great part of the Summer, but the feeds ft very rarely ripen in England. It is propagated by flips ;

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Lavandula Pinnata.

Pinnated

Lavender.

Clafs

and Order.

DlDYNAMlA GYMNOSPERMI A. Generic Characler.

Ca/y* ovatus, fubdentatus, braQea fuffultus. Corolla refupinata. Stamina intra tubum. Specific

LAVANDULA

Charabler and Synonyms.

pinnata foliis petiolatis foliolis cuneiformibus, fpicaimbricata. Linn. Syft. Veget. ed. 14, :

Murr. Linn.

LAVANDULA

p. Fil.

Att. Kew. v. 2. p. 288. 530. Dif. de Lavandula n. 4. t. 1.

maritima Canarienfis, fpica muitiplici-cserulea. Pluk. aim. 209. /. 303./. 5. Jacq. PL rar. ic, cent. 1.

t.

g.

The Lavandula pinnata is

a green-houfe plant, comparatively a native of Madeira, according to

of modern introdu&ion, Masson, and brought to this country in 1777. It rifes to about the fame height as the dentatay but differs from it materially in the form and colour of its foliage, which is of a whitifli hue, fomewhat refembling that of the Othonna petlinata ; it differs alfo in having little or no fcent, an equal degree of difference is obfervable in the fpikes and flowers of the two plants, the former are moft commonly branched and the latter large and purple, while in the dentate they are fmall and white ; it would be needlefs to point out feveral other obvious differences. The dentata rarely ripens its feeds with us, but the pinnate

does readily, and by them

Both thefe plants are dentata

recommends

it is

beft raifed.

common

to

our green-houfes

;

the

and charming fragrance of its leaves, the other is altogether the more fhewy plant, though, in this refpeft, it is not equal to many others our readers muft not expert to find on every plate itfelf

by the

;

an Ixia tricolor or a Cijlus formofus.

neatnefs


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RedFlqwer'd Tremulous Heath. »».»& ft %% $

Erjca Vestita. (var.

Coccinea).

»

ill

Oafs and Order.

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Character. Filamcnia Cor. 4-fada.

Cat. 4-phyllus.

Anther*

bifidae.

inferta.

Cap/. 4-locularis.

Specific

ERICA

receptaculo

Charatler and Synonyms.

vefiita coccinea, muticafoliis fenis linearibus fecundis,

floribusr axillaribus

clavatis villofis.

Thank. Prod.

p. 70.

The

plant originally introduced to this country, and called vefiita in the royal gardens at Kew, where it has flowered fince the publication of the Hort. Kewenjis is difiinguifhed by its fuperior height, by having its fterns very thickly covered with foliage

and delicate, fo as to be tremulous on fhake, and by having blofibms of a pure white

remarkably

the flighteft

fine

colour ; fuch is generally understood to be the original and true Erica vefiita. Unfortunately this genus of plants feems to be productive of as many varieties as the Pelargonium s> which are now become fo numerous that they may be laid to be literally " be" yond the power of Botanifts to number up their tribes."

Mr. Loddiges, Nurferyman of Hackney, his extenfive collection of plants in general,

well

known

and of

for

this tribe

in the year 1789, railed a crimfon variety of this plant from feeds, which, in its general habit, bore a great in particular,

refembiance to the original vefiita ; and lately Mr. Williams, Nurferyman, of Turnham-Green, has raifed another variety, agreeing with the other in the colour of its flowers, but more diftantly related to the true one: befides thefe, there is a

vefiita with

purple flowers. have given a figure of Mr. Williams's variety, as the plant we had of him (flowering at a more favourable time of the year) afforded the beft fpecimen. In their periods of flowering, thefe feveral varieties are not fo regular as fome others, producing their bloffoms during moft of the Summer months, and fometimes even in the Winter.

We

They are

more

readily

from from feeds, by thofe who are accuftomed to it. The Cape, fo fertile in heaths, is the fpot which produces them, and from thence feed may fometimes be obtained. all

raifed with difficulty

cuttings,


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Linum Africanum.

African Flax.

^^HlHMHhJHJHJI- $-$"$-$ ^- $•$ * &

C/#/}

Order.

fl?;^

PENTANDRIA PeNTAGYNIA, Generic Character.

Petala 5.

Cat. 5-phyllus.

Ga^

5-vaIvis,

lo-locularis*

Sent*

folitaria.

Specific Character

LINUM

africanum foliis oppofitis lineari-Ianceolatis, floribus terminalibus pedunculitis. Sp* PL 401. Ait. Kew.

388.

LINUM

and Synonyms*

L Her

africanum

it.

Slirp. nov. torn. 2. 4ah 3.

foliis

frutefcente.

oppofitis

Thunk

lineari-Ianceolatis,

caulc

Prod. p. 57.

The JJmm

africanum is a very neat and pretty greenhoufe plant, arifing to the height of two or three feet, and producing daring the months of June and July abundance of yellow flowers, the buds of which in particular are very beautiful.

It

is

garden It

is

a native at

Kew,

of Africa, in

and was introduced 1771, by Monf. Richard.

ufually raifed

difficulty.

from

cuttings,

to

the royal

which are ftruck without


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Soft Bell-Flower.

Campanula Mollis. Clafs

and Order.

Pentandria Monogynia. Generic Character. Corolla

campanulata fundo claufo valvis ftaminiferis

trifidum

;

Cap/, infera, poris lateral ibus dehifcens. Specific Character

CAMPANULA

mollis latis,

Stigma

;

.

and Synonyms.

capfulis quinquilocularibus peduncu-

caule proftrato,

foliis

fuborbiculatis,

Linn. Syjf. Veget. ed. 14. Murr. p. 209. Nat. Gmeh P- 351.

VIOLA

mariana minor caerulea, folio fubrotundo, niculato.

CAMPANULA

Barr.

rotundifolia

ic.

hirfuta

Syjl.

calyc'e cor-

759. faxatilis

folio

molli.

Bocc. ficc, 83.

Mr. Fairbairn has long cultivated this rare fpecies of Campanula at the Apothecaries Garden, Chelfea, where he firft raifed it from feeds, given him by Mr. Hudson, in 1788, who received them from Spain. According to authors, this plant is found wild in rocky fituations, in Syria, Sicily, and Spain. Though not a fhewy plant, it is both rare and curious; feedling plants, when old enough to flower, throw out on all fides procumbent flowering items, which die away after ripening the feeds, and are fucceeded by others as this procefs goes :

on, the ftem, arifing from the centre of the plant, {lowly and gradually acquires a dwarfifh height, and becomes fhrubby.

We it

is

have no doubt but, where the plant grows naturally wild, mud form a beautiful covering to the rocks on which it found.

Being a native of countries much warmer than our own,

it

ncceffary to make it a grcen-houfe plant ; it will bear even the warmth of the ftove, and flower and ripen its feeds the more freely for it. On a fhelf, in the front of the ftove at Chelfea, Mr. Fairbairn has it flowering and feeding, Spring,

is

Summer, and Autumn

there in the pots it fcatter's its feeds which produce fpontaneoufly voting plants in abundance bf any feeds, indeed, the plant is in difficulty raifed,—with other way. j

;

ea%

The

leaves of the calyx, in this plant, are remarkable for

their fize and arrow-fhaped form.


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Indian

Lagerstrcemi a Indica. Lag e r st r (EM a. 1

»#

ft

» Clafs

and Order.

POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Character.

6 petala, crifpa. Col. 6 fidus, campanulatus. Stam. multa, horura 6 exteriora crafliora, petalis longiora.

Cor.

Specific

LAGERSTRCEMI A

Character and Synonyms. Linn.

Veget. ed. 14.

Syji.

Mant. p. 402.

Lour.

Tbunb.

v. 1. p. 340.

Fl.

Fl.

Rumpf. amb. 7. p. 61. SIBI vulgo Fakudfitqua. Kampf. amaen. 855.

Of this

genus,

Murr.

p..495.

Cochinchint

Jap. p. 224.

tab. 28.

named in honour of *Magnus Lagerstroem, Swedifh Eaft-India Company, there is only one

Dire£tor of the fpecies as yet known, and that a native of China, Cochinchina, and Japan; it is defcribed minutely by Thunberg, alfo by Rumphius, and very characteriftically by Kjempfer.

According

to thefe authors, in

its

native country

it

grows

to

the height of fix feet, or more, acquires a ftem the thicknefs of one's arm, and produces flowers the fize of the garden

Clove, which are very fhewy, no wonder therefore that the natives fhould be in the practice of planting it about their houfes and their gardens.

The

petals are curioufly crifped or curled,

each petal refembling, in miniature, a leaf of fome of our varieties of cabbage: Kjempfer compares them to the mefentery. The parts of fructification in this plant vary greatly in point of number, and have no fmall affinity to thofe of the genus

Ly thrum. According

Garden in

at

Mr. Aiton, Kew, by Hugh, to

was introduced to the Royal Duke of Northumberland, it

j

759. It flowers from Auguft to

where

it is

O&ober but in the green-houfe, recommended by Mr. Aiton to be kept, it is not a ;

very ready blower,— in the ftove it bloflbms more freely. May be increafed, without difficulty, from cuttings. *

For an enumeration of the many advantages which Sweden reaped from

this great

promoter of Natural Hiftory, vide a paper in the Amcen. Acad.

/. 230. entitled Chinenfia Lagerftroemiana.

torn. 4.


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Cineraria Cruenta. Purple-Leaved Cineraria.

Oafs and Order.

Syngenesia Polygamia Superflua, Generic Characler. Recept.

nudum. Pappus

capillaris.

Cat. fimplex polyphyllusr

<equalis.

Specific Characler

CINERARIA

and Synonyms.

cruenta fioribus cymofis,

cordatis angu-

foliis

fubtus

purpurafcentibus petiolis bafi auritis. L Merit. Sert. Angl. n. 11. /. 33. Ait. Kezv. v. 3. /. 221. Linn. Syfi. Nat. ed. 13. Gmel. p. 1238. Mill. Dicl. ed. Mart.

latis

Of

:

many ornamental greenhoufe Mr. Masson, this is one of the mod plant,

the

it

introduced by defirable ; as a fhewy plants

has indeed few equals.

Mem

herbaceous, rifing to the height of two, or even three feet, furnifhed with leaves which alio are ornamental the fummits of the branches are covered with a profufion of purple flowers, fome of which begin to expand in January, and are followed by others in fucceflion through the whole of the Summer; by candle-light they exhibit an extraordinary degree of brilliancy. The Cineraria cruenta is a native of the Canary Ifles, and Its

is

was introduced to the royal Garden at Kew, by Mr. Mas son, in 1777: Monf. L'Heritier fir ft figured and defcribed it in his Sert. Anglic, giving

it

the

name of

cruenta, as

we

fuppofe,

from the red colour which enlivens the under fide of the leaves. It is propagated by parting its roots, and during Summer requires a greater degree of moiflure than Its feeds ufually prove abortive.

many

other plants.


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Rosa Provincialis

Much

(yar.)

Pompone Rose.

pains have been taken by the late

Mr. Aiton

in the

Hort. Kew. to fettle the different Rofes, cultivated in our gardens in his time in this difficult bufinefs, as well as in the whole of his molt ufeful work, he was affifted (as he acknowledges in his dedication) by men more learned than himfelf we may confider therefore his account, as far as it goes, to be as perfect as can reafonably be expected in a matter of fuch ;

intricacy.

There

are two rofes (from the

names they

bear, evidently

of French origin, Meaux being the name of a town in France, and pronounced as if written Mo) introduced to our gardens fince the time of Miller, and held in very high eftimation, viz. the greater and fmaller Rofe de Meaux of the Hort. Kew. confidered by Mr. Aiton as varieties of the Rofa provincialis, the latter of thefe (the one here figured) is generally known by Nurferymen and others as the Pompone Rofe we received it as fuch from Mr. Mallet, of Guernfey, a gentleman very converfant in plants, very fond of their culture, and to whofe ;

kindnefs

we

are

much

indebted. This rofe from its root throws out numerous (terns, which rarely exceed a foot or a foot and a half in height ; they are ufually ftraight, rigid, and very prickly; the flowers are fmaller than thofe of any other double rofe, generally of the fize of thofe reprefented on the plate, and particularly diftinguifhed by the brilliant colour of the eye or central petals; a flower of this fort juft on the point of expanfion is fuperlativelv beautiful.

Mr. Aiton makes it a variety of the Rofa provincialis ; we nave cultivated it many years in our garden at Brompton, and have always found and to differ in many de

Meaux of the fame

it

conftant to

effential points

its

principal characters,

from the greater Rofe

author.

It requires

an open fituation, a pure air, and a light foil is improved by manure, and watering in dry Summers. Its flowers are produced in June, and the plant is increafed by luckers, which are not very plentifully produced, nor extend to any length.

The

roots fhould not be divided three in once oftener than years if the old wood be cut down every year, after the plant has done blowing, this rofe will throw out more vigorous fhoots and bloffom more freely. ;


^Pul. by tftttr£ur*£'


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Calendula Tragus.

Bending-Stalked

Marigold. tfrjf

. *$3fr

$Âť

Oafs and Order.

Syngenesia Polygamia Necessaria.

Generic Cbara&er.

Recept.

Sem.

difci

nudum.

Pappus o. CaL polyphyllus utplurimum membranacea.

Specific Charatler

CALENDULA

fubaequalis.

and Synonyms.

Tragus caulefcens

foliis alternis

linearibus fub-

integerrimis pilofiufculis, feminibus fuborbiculatis.

Nat. ed.

Ait.

ed. 13.

Kew.

v. 3. p. 271,.

Gmel.v.

2,

Linn. Syft. p. 1272. Mill. Dicl*

Mart.

This fpecies of Marigold, a plant not uncommon in our collections of grecnhoufe plants, is a native of the Cape, and was introduced by Mr. Masson in 1774. It flowers in

May and

June, and

is

raifed with facility from

cuttings.

The of

only account

we have of

Mr. Aiton, where

it

is

firft

this plant

defcribcd.

is

in the Hort.

Kew*


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by

tt^c

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Amaryllis AUrea.

C/afs

Golden Amaryllis. and Order.

Hexandria MoNOGYN'IA. Generic Ckarafier. Cor. hexapetaloidea, irregularis. Vilamenta faiici tubi inferia, declinata,inaequalia proportione vel direfiioDC linn. Fit p. 415. Specific Character

AMARYLLIS AMARYLLIS

and Synonyms.

aurea corollis bafi tubulofis fexpartitis, laciniis linearibus undulatis, ftaminibus corolla brevioribus. L'Hcrit. Sert. Angl. p. 14. /. 15. aurea floribuspedicellatis ere&iufculis, corollis laciinfundibuliformi-clavatis fubhexapetalis :

niis

lineari-lanceolatis,

ftaminibus

rcftis, foliis linearibus erettis

gine reflexo glabro. Linn. />.

pillilloque

canaliculus mar-,

Fil.

Ait.

Kew.

v. 1.

Mart. ed. Ditt. Mill. 419.

elegant this that us, informs Kew. Mr. A 1 ton in his Hort. by China, John from introduced was fpecies of Amaryllis and plant, ftove a it is that Fothergill, M. D. in 1777, flowers from Auguft to September. heat the require that plants There are but few of the Cbinefe good a in live doubt no would of a ftove; the prefent fpecies

of propriety the confirms greenhoufe, but the general praaice bloflbm into ; coming when giving it more heat, particularly thofe efpecially plants, greenhoufe the flowering indeed of many

of the bulbous and practice of this fort.

tuberous kinds,

is

greatly

improved by

a

may plant, this of defcription Such as wifh to fee a minute Martyn's Prof. or Aiton, confultthe Hort. Kew. of Mr. us for fufficient be will ; it Didionary edition

of Miller's Amaryllis the of fize the to obferve, that it grows to about of growth upright the formojifima, that it is charaaerifed by narrow having colour, orange its flowers, which are of a pale its keel greenifh a and fomewhat undulated fegments, with ftyle is very long, and its fligma bright red. is and irregularly, very Like many other bulbs, it blows abuntolerable in propagated by offsets, which are produced dance. ;


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Ixia

Red-Blue

Rubro-Cyanea.

Clafs

Ixia.

and Order.

Triandria Monogyxia, Generic Character, Cor.

patens,

6-partita,

asqualis.

Stigmata 3,

erectiufculo-

patula. Specific Character

IXIA

ndro-cyanea diftichis,

IXIA

oblongo-lanceolatis villofis plicatis

foliis

fpatha

and Synonyms.

trivalvi,

corollas

limbo patentiflimo,

Jacq. Ic. rar. 2. /. 285. Colleel. 3. p. 268. rubro-cyanea foliis oblongo-lanceolatis plicatis

fcapo Sp,

breviore, fpathis tubo brevioribus. ed. 5. Willden. p. 198.

foliis

PL

The

Ixia here reprefented was drawn laft fpecimen unufually fine, which flowered with

Nurferyman, King's-Road,

villofis,

Linn.

Summer from

a

Mr. Colvill,

May

24, 1797; it appears to be a very diltincl: fpecies, not lefs diftinguifhed for the Angularity

than the brilliancy of its colours, and is one of thofe recently imported from the Cape by way of Holland. It is propagated in the fame way and fucceeds with the fame treatment as other Ixias care muft be taken when it comes into flower that it be not too much expofed to the fun, for that will render its beauties of very fhort duration. Description. Stalk from fix to nine inches high, round, ;

—

Leaves plaited, villous, very ftrongly fo below; Spathae three-leaved, one large, forming a kind of fheath to the germen, the other two narrower and fomewhat fhorter on each fide of it, all of them villous; Flowers ufually three or four, about the fize of thofe of the Gladiolus fecuriger, or rather larger ; Tube about half an inch in length, dingy purple Krim divided into five fpreading fegments, upper part of a fine ultramarine blue on the infide, the lower part the richeft crimfon, dazzling the eye of the beholder,; Filaments three, placed round the Piftil Antherae yellow above, purple below Stigma trifid, Style projecting fomewhat beyond the Antherae each fegment expanding fo as to be nearly flat, and edged villous, leafy;

;

;

with ftrong hairs.


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Phlox Subulata. Awl-Leaved Phlox, or Lychnidea. •jjf

tpig."]ft

*}• *f>

t 1* V v

C/«/Sr

T

TF

v

Vj-.'-jj-j-

v,vy,vvj»' vt'<r"S$s'

tf#^ Order.

Pentandria Monogynia. Generic Cbaracler. Cor. hypocrateriformis. Filamenta inaequalia.

Gz/. prifmaticus.

Gt£/~, 3-locularis,

Specific Cbaracler

PHLOX Juhulata

foliis

Linn. Sp.

LYCHNIDEA

PL

Stigma

trifidura.

l-fperma.

and Synonyms,

fubulatis

hirfutis

floribus oppofitis.

p. 217.

accedens virginiana minor repens Camphoratae foliis, floribus fiftulofis in um-

blattariae

hirfutis

bellam

Litis.

Pink. Phyt.

t.

98.

2,

This plant, a hardy herbaceous one, is a native of Virginia, and has been introduced to this country within thefe few years. Left to itlelf its Items trail on the ground, the young fhoots are of a reddifh hue, and flightly villous, the leaves are edged with hairs, fubulate, oppofite, recurved, and. rather flefhy,

producing others from their alae, becoming as the plant grows old of a brownifh colour, which renders the plant in fome degree unfightly ; the flowers are produced from one to three or four in an umbel, drooping before they expand, the calyces are villous, the flowers pale purple or flefh colour, enlivened by an eye of dark but brilliant purple difpofed in a liar-like form, antherae yellow. Flowers the beginning of May ; the .flowers are extremely pretty, but delicate, requiring the flielter of

a hand-glafs or

greenhoufc during the period of their bloffoming, which is of lhorter duration than in raoft of the other fpecies. This plant fhould be renewed frequently by cuttings, which ftrike readily; it may be fuffered to grow either in its natural procumbent way, or be made to appear to more advantage

by training

it

to a flick.


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Iris Cristata. -%

Crested

Iris.

$ * $ #$ *•****$ * *•$-*** * * Clafs

and Order.

Triandria Monocynia. Generic Charatlcr. Corolla

6-partlta

insqualis,

laciniis

alternis,

geniculato-

patentibus, ftigmata petalifonnia cucullato bilabiata.

Specific

IRIS

Character and Synonyms.

crifiata corollis barbatis,

barba criftata, caule fubunifloro longitudine foliorum, germinibus trigom's, petalis fubsequalibus. Ait. Kcw. v. 1. p. 70. Smith Spicil. t. 13.

appears from the Hort. Kezv. where this plant is firft and minutely defcribed, that it is a native of North-America, and was introduced by Peter Collinson, Efq. in 1756. Authors have defcribed this plant as having a creeping root, but perhaps not with Arid propriety; to us it appears to increase much in the fame way as moft others of the genus, with this difference, that when it grows luxuriantly it throws out longer (hoots ; as thefe are always above ground and throw out It

fibres

from

their

under

they are to be regarded as (talks rather than roots in the his chinenfis it is very different, there the root is truly creeping. If e T S crifiata be plante°d in bog earth, in a moid fixa!j tion (for it will not fucceed at all in a dry one) and has the inelter of a hand-glafs in fevere weather, it will grow readily in the open border. It bloffoms about the middle of May. The tube of the flower in this fpecies is unufually long, fide,

;

P

.

tender, and brittle in the extreme with little or no fcent. It

is

increafed by dividing

its

;

the flowers are delicate,

roots.


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]

Pelargonium TernatuxM.

Ternate

Crane's-Bill. jk„>'i. jikjJi-?'*. > 4.. A..>"«.. j!&. jk>^k J^ft •sjT'^rTj^ vj^sfc^Sj* >j» v,v /jr *,-c /j» *yrVj» f

j-'t.

,j!t. s-'i. jje.

.>!i..A. <jr7j«^v >i^v^

##i Order.

C/^/Jr

MONADELPHIA HePTANDRIA. Generic Character.

fuprema dcfinente in tubulum piliarem, ne&ariferum, fecus pedunculum decurrentem. Ca\. 5-partitus

:

lacinia

caCor.

5-petala, irregularis.

Filam. io, inaequalia ; quorum (raro 5) 3 caftrata. Fruftus 5 -coccus, roftratus ; roftra fpiraiia, introrfum barbata. L'Herit. Geran.

Specific CbaraiJer

GERANIUM

tematum caule fitis

ternatis

:

ratis fcabris.

4.

t.

107. /.

and Synonyms.

fruticofo hifpido, foliis oppo-

foliolis

cuneatis incifo-trifidis

Linn. Suppl. p. 306.

Cavan.

i'er-

diff*

2.

This very diflina fpecies of Pelargonium, a native of the Cape, and which takes its name of of form tematum from the its leaves, has been added to our colleaions of greenhoufe plants within thefe few years, and of courfe is not enumerated in the Hort. Kew. of Mr. A 1 ton. In the unufual roughnefs of its ftalks, whole its as well as in habit, it differs very materially it* from the reft of the tribe ;

flowers, •I

which are large and fhewy, are produced

J

It

is

raifed

from cuttings without

difficulty.

in

June

and


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XeranthemumFulgidum. Great Yellow Flowered Xeranthemum. f ftfr.fr $ 33 fr $ C/tf/Sr

$ jr ft $ ft fr

awi Order.

Syngenesia Polygamia Superflua. Generic Charatler.

Pappus

Recept. paleaceum. diatus,

fetaceus.

Calyx imbricatus, ra-

radio colorato.

Charatler and Synonyms.

Specific

XERANTHEMUM fulgidum

fruticofum

ereaum,

foliis

longis margine tomentofis. Ait.

XERANTHEMUM

ob-

Kew.

v.

180. fulgidum foliis lato-lanceolatis convolutoincumbentibus, floribus rronnullis. Linn. Suppl. p. 365.

3. p.

This fpecies of Xeranthemum is firft defcribed, and minutely fo, in the Suppl. Plant, of the younger Linnxus; in the Hort.Kew. of Mr. Aiton it has obtained a different fpecific defcription, as may be feen above in that work it is mentioned as being a native of the Cape, and introduced by ;

Mr. Masson

in

1774.

its of uprightnefs by the remarkable growth, and the unufual fize of its flowers, which exceed thofe of any other known fpecies of Xeranthemum in our col-

It

diftinguilhed

is

they are of a fine yellow or gold colour, very gloffy* and make a grand appearance either in the greenhoufe when growing, or among fimilar plants on the mantle-fhelf when lections

;

dry.

propagated by cuttings care muft be not fuffer from too much moifture. Is

;

taken that

it

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C

Phlox Setacea. .A'«..>'i <,» /i»

A. Ms.,yt. >*< .>';...>'* .,» •,» /,» ^ » /> ^«

t

.>'* /y»

Fine-Leaved Phlox. &

>'4. »'<..>'-t. v'o't. >ii..>^ >'i. »'i..>'i. •,« »,»>,»->,>'.'» «vC7,'T/v> «]>•';»

C7fl/i

<ri//^

! 4..>'a. > ivTVjVVjV

Order.

Pentandria Monogynia. Generic Characler. Cor. hypocrateriformis. Cal. prifmaticus.

Filamenta inzequalia.

Cap/. 3-locularis l-fperma.

Specific Character

PHLOX Jetacca foliis Syft.

Stigma 3-ftdum.

and Synonyms.

fetaceis glabris, floribus folitariis. Linn.

Vegetab, ed. 14.

Murr.

p. 200.

Sp.

PL

217. blattarias accedens virginiana camphoratae congeneris glabris foliis. Pluk. Aim. 233. t. 98./.

LYCHNI DEA

3,

Tbis tribe of

of which there is fcarcel y one that is not ornamental, are chiefly natives of North- America fuch is the prefent fpecies, brought from Carolina by Mr. John Fraser in 1788, now introduced to molt of the collections about town, and ufually treated as a green-houfe plant. plants,

;

Its (talks,

when fupported,

height of about a foot, if left to themfelves, trailing on the ground they are thickly covered with leaves, which are longer and, for the moft part, finer, and more hairy than thofe of the fubulatd, figured pi. 411, and in the month of May the whole plant, if rife

to

the

;

fuccefsfully treated

and carefully

tied up,

forms a highly orna-

mental bum of purple flowers. This fpecies, like moft of the others, is eafily raifed from cuttings, which fliould be ftruck early in the fpring, as fuch will become flowering plants the next feafon ; to have this plant in perfedion, it is neceffary to renew it thus yearly, old plants being lefs produBive of flowers, and lefs perfed in their foliage.

Plants are frequently kept in green-houfes that would fucceed better, and blow more freely, with a lefs tender treatment thus this fpecies of Phlox, which in mild winters would live

abroad, requires only the fhelter of a frame, and may be regarded therefore, with many others, rather as a frame than a green-houfe plant.


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4i5 ] C Iris

Martinico

Martinicensis.

•$

Iris.

#* #$•& $»#-$ %%% £ £ *-# & & C/fl/j

and Order,

Triandria Monogyni a. Generic Charaller. Cor. 6-petala, inaequalis,

petalis alternis geniculato-patcntibus.

Stigmata petaliformia, cucullato-bilabiata.

Specific Character

IRIS m Stinicenfis imberbw,

and Synonyms.

foliis

linearibu?, petalis bafi fo-

vcolis glandulofis, germinibus trigonis. Thunb. Dijf. 6, Linn. Syji. Veg. ed. 14. Murr, p. g 2 . Ait. Kew. v. 1, p. 72.

From

an averfion to the changing of long-eftablifhed names, ve have followed Linn ^ us, Aiton, and Thunberg, in conhdering this plant as an Iris, though in our private opinion It 11

not fuch

will find

it

;

whoever

correfpond

will carefully

examine

its

fruaification,

in its feveral parts

with thofe of a plant well known in our nurferies by the name of Mor*a Norlhiana; and they will be found, in our humble opinion, to be two plants belonging to a new and diftinft genusf 1

his Ipecies is

m

introduced

to

a native of the Weft-India iflands, and was the royal garden at Kew in 1782, by Mr.

Alexander Anderson,

from St. Lucia. Is uiually kept in the (love, plunged in the tan, where it Ilowers in May and June, and for the molt part ripens its leeds, by which it is readily increafed. Is more remarkable for the curious ftruQure than the beauty i

ot us ilowers.


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[

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Celsia Urtic^folia.

Nettle-Leaved

Celsia.

-Clafs

and Order.

DlDYNAMIA' ANGIOSPfiRMIA. Generic Characler. Cal. 5-partitus.

Cor. rotata.

Filam. barbata.

Specific Characler

CELSIA

Cap/

2-locularis.

and Synonyms.

nrticafolia caule frutefcente, foliis ovato-Ianceolatis, ferratis.

In the 7 oth number of this work, we figured and defcribed a plant under the name of Celjia linearis, fo called by Profeflbr Jacquin; obfervingat the fame time that doubts might be entertained as to its being a true Celfia whether it be fuch, or whether it be a dittma genus, the prefent generic j

plant in

its

perreBly and moft obvioufly diftincl n thC r °y a, ga rden at Kew wh *re

fnl mo th,!',?

Ame ri« TI Z

-

'

"

M S

W3S i

"& h

we faw it in flower this Ca led urt informed Mr. Aiton "*M*: a I dl fc °vered by Mr. Menzies, in South>

.

i

,

had

TnC lanc

late1

been introduced. ^

T ^ foonT,n °^> T^S ^ns " r °\ C ^ fT 1 ornamPnM

border! nrov ft

P

of its flowers ™ders it a very y u m;being ° f ick and ^ady growth, it will '" ° UF S reen - h moft probably on the fl

er-g ar

Ha

", onL"

SWittStf "^

alfo;

for

we

fufpeft trit it will ><**'"*> " is a rauch

y than the in the open round *

fCCds during moft of Ac raifedfrom cuttings, as well as from feeds.

nif^frZ'

«™

^mmer

;

is

to tbe readily


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[

Antholyza Meriana.

Red-Flowered Antholyza.

and Order.

Clafs

>

.

Triandria Monogynia. Generic Character. Cor. tubulofa, irregularis, recurvata.

Specific

ANTHOLYZA

Cap/, infera.

Chara&er and Synonyms.

Meriana

corollis

enfiformibus.

infundibuiiformibus, fo'Hs Linn. Syfi. Vegetab. ed. 14.

Murr. p. 87. Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 67. MERIANA flore rubello. Trew. Ehret. t. 40. WATSONIA Meriana floribus infundibuiiformibus qualibus. Mill. Did. ed. 6. 4/0.

Mr. Miller informs

us

fubae-

in his

Diaionary, that he raifed this molt elegant fpecies of Antholyza from feeds fent him by his friend Dr. Job Baster, which fucceeded in the Chelfea garden in 1756; conceiving it to be a diftind genus, he named it Watfonia, in honour of Mr. (afterwards) Sir William Watson Dr. Trew, of Nuremberg, figured it in his icones by Ehret, under the name ot Meriana, from Sybilla j

Merian,

the celebrated female Dutch naturalift, fo eminently diftinguifhed for the produBions of her pencil; Linn*us ' '^ Antholy* a 5> the trivial name of

Paving

"ufrtam It

unneceffary for us to defcribe this plant minutely here , nee Mr Miller has done it fo well in his Diaionary; it will be fufhcient for us to obferve, that it is a much itronger plant than the Antholyza Cunonia, already figured in this work and that though the colour of its flowers is not io jplendid, the whole plant pofTeffes more elegance. it requires the fame treatment as the Cape bulbs, fucceeds very well, and produces plenty of offsets when planted in light fandy bog-earth. is

Flowers

in

May

and June, and

is

propagated by

offsets.

.


PaJihy

JprCurlicJrff*?.

t

'-,.

•tfSef) .1 tft


[ 4^9 ]

Alyssum Montanum. or

Mountain Alyssum,

Madwort.

Clqfs

and Order.

Tetradynamia Siliculosa. Generic CharaEIer.

Tilamenta quasdam introrfum denticulo notata, filicula emarginata. Specific Character

ALYSSUM

ALYSSUM THLASPI

and Synonyms.

montanum caulibus herbaceis, diffufis foliis fublanceolatis pundato echinatis. Linn. Syjl. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 590. Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 382.

Jacq.

Fl. Auftr.

/.

37.

fubfruticofum, foliis ellipticis fcabris. Helv. num. 492. faxatile

incanum luteum

ferpillifolio

Hall. Hijl.

minus. Baub.

Pin. 107.

In this work we have already figured three fpecies of Alyffum, faxatile, delioideum, and utriculatum, the yellow, the purple, and bladder-podded, all of them deplants adapted to

corate the fmall borders of the flower-garden, or any kind of rock-work ; to which purpofes the prefent more rare fpecies, an inhabitant of the mountainous and parts

of Switzerland

Auitna,

is

alfo applicable.

The

Alyffum montanum is a fmall procumbent plant, of the perennial kind, with hoary leaves curioufly emboffed with little

prominent points, having the fummits of its branches about the end of April covered with a profufion of bright yellow flowers which ufually go off without producing any perfeB feed, though in its wild ftate it is fufficiently fertile, as is evident from ProfefTor Jacquin's figure. Through want of feeds, it may be increafed without difficulty from cuttings; requires the fame treatment as other rare Alpine plants.

Was

cultivated by

Mr. Miller

in

1759. Ait. Kew.


JT:419

J>ul.


;

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420 ]

Xeranthemum Canescens. Xeranthemum. -^

Elegant

£-£ &-*«Nt *$-$ » fc#£ »» $ » ft » C/a/Jr

t7«<i

Order.

Syngenesia Polygamia Superflua. Generic Characler. Recept. paleaceum. Pappus fetaceus. Cal. imbricatus radiatus

radio colorato. Specific Characler

XERANTHEMUM

canefcens

and Synonyms. fruticofum,

ovato-fubulatis glabris. ed. 14.

Murr. p. 750.

foliis

imbricatis,

Linn.

Syji. Veg.

Amten. Acad,

6.

Afr. 60.

XERANTHEMUM

Our

incanum, foliis fubrotundis, flore purpureo. Burm. Afr. 183. /. 68. /. 1.

fpecimens of Xeranthemum canefcens of Linn^us in the Herbarium of Sir Joseph Banks; though it does not agree fo well in fome refpects with the Linnaean defcription as could be wifhed. It is a weak, branched, and widely-fpreading plant if left to itfelf, and does not appear to advantage in a collection, unlefs carefully tied up to a (tick ; nor is it a plant that fucceeds well with every one Mr. Barr, Nurferyman, Ball's-Pond, near Hackney, manages it better than any one that we have feen and his fuperior fuccefs appears to have arifen from his keeping it in a warmer fituation than others, on a fhelf in the front of his ftove, for it requires more warmth than the green-houfe affords; thus fituated, it begins flowering with him in the autumn, and continues in blofl'om all the winter and fpring when the flowers are out of bloom they droop, but will continue a long while in the plant in that (late, and even continue to expand and look beautiful when the fun fhines on them. plant accords exactly with

:

;

;

a native of the Cape, recently introduced, and pagated by cuttings. It

is

is

pro-


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Centaurea Aurea. Golden Centaury, or Knapweed. j&j& J&. A. &jIl A .A .sk.jk.jje <jr rs|p j't j& Vj» v «^s*VjCV,«^,'C

jjt. j&. T^f jjs. Tpr^jf >sv

vj>

t>,v

jJs~>'-«.

#j* if!

1

C/j/j

»J>

«}»

and Order.

Syngenesia Polygamia Frustranea.

Generic Charatler.

Recept. fetofum.

Pappus plumofus

vcl

capillaris.

Cor. radii

infundibuliformes, longiores, irregulares.

Specific Charatler

CENTAUREA

and Synonyms.

aurea calycibus fimpliciffime fpinofis patentibus,

flofculis

aequalibus,

inferioribus pinnatifidis.

Ait.

:

foliis

fpinis hirtis,

Kezv. v. 3.

/••

265.

Though

cultivated

by Mr.

Miller

fo long

fince as 1758,

of Centaury appears to have been but little known ; it is fir ft defcribed in the Hort. Kew. of Mr. Aiton, without a reference to any author ; it is there mentioned to be a native of the South of Europe. It is a hardy herbaceous plant, growing to the height of this fpecies

about two

feet,

and producing on the fummits of the

ftalks

bold, magnificent flowers, of a beautiful yellow or gold colour; thefe making their appearance in Auguft and September, contribute not a little to enrich the borders of the fine,

flower-garden, at that time on the decline. Grows readily in almoft any foil or fituation, and increafed by parting its roots.

is

eafily


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422

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]

Grewia Occidentalis.

Elm-Leaved

Grewia. jS&A. ak.

jfe-jfe. s$l >*£. *k.

Clafs

*v j£c

^

aic ^a.

*>'-£.

*V

.*?£. *A*

«fe*

and Order.

Gynandria Polyandria. Generic Charailer.

Monogyna.

Cat. 5-phyllus.

Petala 5

bafi

:

fquama

Reclarifera.

Bacca 4-locularis. Specific Characler

GREWIA

occidentalis foYns fubovatis, floribus folitariis.

Vegetab. 826.

Syjl.

GREWIA

and Synonyms.

corollis

p. 276.

ULMIFOLIA

acutis. /.

Ait. Hort.

Hort.

237./.

/.

ULMI FACIE ARBUSCULA

arb. 1.

floribus

purpureis.

1.

stliiopica, ramulis alatis,

purpurafcentibus.

85. Seb. the/. 1. p. 46.

Liknveus gave

Duham.

433.

arbor africana baccifera,

ribus

v. 3. p. 313.

108.

Pluk. aim. 393.

/.

cliff.

Kew.

Linn.

Comm. /.

hort.

29./

1.

flo-

165.

p.

3. Raj. dendr. 13.

genus the name of Grczvia, in honour of Dr. Nehemiah Grew, the celebrated author of the Anatomy of Vegetables, &c. Of the feveral fpecies enumerated by authors, few have been introduced into our collections " the one here figured, which has been long* and very " generally cultivated as a green-houfe plant, will grow to the height of ten or twelve feet the ftem and branches are very like thofeof the fmall-leaved Elm, the bark being fmooth, and of the fame colour as that when younothe feaves are alfo very like thofe of the Elm, and fall off in autumn the r owers are produced fmgly along the young branches from the wings of the leaves, and are of a bright purple colour. " In winter, the plants fhould be placed in the green-houfe, for they are too tender to live abroad in England but they fhould have as much free air as poffible in mild weather, as they only require tobeproteaedfromfroft; andafter the leaves ^ * are fallen, they will require very moderate watering, but in Rummer they fhould have it more conftantly in dry weather." lEi This *P ecies is a native of the Cape, is propaau' gated by cuttings or layers, and flowers mod part of the fummer. to this

;

;

;

;

;

^

'

* Cultivated in the royal garden at

Hampton- Court

in 1692. Ait.

Kmo.


o/I

.P/^.^ WCurMfJ^^oCrsTeeru

(htrl.tjft

Sat


:

fomewhat wrinkled, middle part nearly white, upper part bright -pink colour, each fegment marked at its extremity on the under fide with a green calyx-like Jubfiancey and terminating in a

mucro or

point: Corolla within the calyx, tube nearly ovate and white, limb fpreading, divided into four fegments, Stamina eight, enovate, long-pointed, and pink-coloured clofed within the tube of the Corolla : Antherae at firft bright reddifh

:

red, afterwards

Germen green

:

Awns

two, fhort and fomewhat bifid Style the length of the tube : Stigma fome-

brown

:

what large and blunt. A vein of great peculiarity runs through the whole of this plant, which is a native of the Cape, of modern introduction, flowers early in the fpring, often in the depth of winter, and is

ufually propagated by cuttings.


:

423 ]

C

Articular Heath.

Erica Articularis.

C/#/}

<?ÂŤ*/

Order.

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Characler. Cal.

4-phyllus.

Cor.

Anther* apice

2-fidae,

receptaculo inferta. Cap/. 4-locdaris, 4-va!vis

Filamenta

4-fida.

pertufe.

polyfperma. Specific

ERICA

Characler and Synonyms.

articularis antheris bifidis inclufis, corollis latis

calyce colorato brevioribus,

bus laevibus appreffis.

ERICA

foliis

Linn. Mant.

campanu-

ternis lineari-

1.

p. 65. articularis antheris criftatis, corollis ovatis acuminatis, ftylo inclufo calyce longiore, foliis ternis.

Vegetab. ed. 14.

ERICA

Murr.

Linn.

Syjl.

p. 366.

articularis ariftata, foliis ternis ovatis glabris,

floribus

Thunb. Prod. PL Cap. p. 72. Nat. ed. 13. Gmel. p. 626.

racemofis, caule erefto.

Linn.

The

Syjl.

Erica here figured

defcribed in Linn. Mant. 1. and fo fatisfa&orily, that there can be no doubt of its being the plant intended by Linnaeus; the fpecific chara&ers of

Murray

Thunberg,

and

is

firfl;

publiihed fince, are very inappli-

cable.

This heath fee plants of inches high,

is it

one of the lead of full

not unufual to of bloffoms not more than eight or ten its

kind,

it is

leaves (growing ufually in threes) are lanceolate, fmooth, concave on the infide, prej/cd to the Jlalk, Handing on fuch fhort footftalks, that they may be faid to be almoft feffile its

Flowers numerous on the fummits of the branches, fomewhat drooping : Peduncles furnifhed with two upright bracle* placed oppojite to each other, of a pale red colour tipped with green: Calyx larger than the corolla, fomewhat bell-fhaped, fpreading, four-leaved, each leaf ovate and pointed, green at the bafe and

fomewhat


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[ 424

]

Saxifraga Rotundifolia.

Round-

Leaved Saxifrage.

»$»»»»»»*»» Clqfs

and Order.

Decandria Digynia* Generic Character. Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. 5-petala*

Cap/. 2-roftris, l-locularis, poly*

fperma.

Specific

SAXIFRAGA

rotundifolia foliis caulinis feniformibus dentatis petiolatis, caule paniculate Linn. Syft. Veg.

ed.14.

SANICULA

Charabler and Synonyms.

Murr.p. 413.

Ait.

Kew.

v. 2. p. 81.

montana rotundifolia major. Bauh. Pin. 243.

A

hardy, perennial, herbaceous fpecies of Saxifrage, growing fpontaneoufly in Switzerland and other parts of Europe, cultivated here in 1597 by Gerard.

Of this numerous and

beautiful tribe of plants, we know of none whofe flowers in point of prettinefs can vie with thofe of the prefent fpecies ; they are marked with numerous fine dots, like thofe of the London Pride, (Saxifraga umbrofa) but in a

fupenor ftyle of beauty, and appear to great advantage when viewed with a magnifier.

The

leaves, in point

of form, do not correfpond fo exaOly with the name rotundifolia as one would expeB. This fpecies fucceeds beft in a fituation fomewhat moift and ihady, with a foil inclined to fliffnefs, flowers in May and June, and is increafed by parting its roots in autumn.


jtfm

7:,h

hm

;.•;„,

S.'Gm i W/r,„/X»

>

<fl>

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C

425 ]

Xeranthemum Sesamoides. Xeranthemum. fr» » »

$ » fr$ » » » $ CAi/}

aW

»

Superb

ftfr

Order.

SyNGENESIA PoLYGAMIA StJPERFLUA. Generic Charatler. Recept. paleaceum. Pappus fetaceus. Cal. imbricatus radiatus: radio colorato.

Specific Charatler

and Synonyms.

XERANTHEMUM fejamoides ramis unifloris imbricatis foliis linearibus.

Linn.

Syfi.

Vegetab. ed> 14.

Murr. p. 750,

To

Mrs. Gosling, of Whitton, near Hounflow, appertains the honour of raifing this fpecies of Xeranthemum, and of thereby introducing one of the moft dekaable plants that ever decorated the Britifh green-houfe ; this was about the year 1795, laft Summer (1797) it flowered with Meffrs. Grim\vood and Wykes, Nurierymen, Kenfmgton, and again much ftronger this prefent feafon, there being at leaft twenty bloffoms on a fingle plant of it. This is not one of thofe beauties, which meteor-like, dazzle the eye and vanifh, but one which continues to difplay its charms from the time of its firft budding to the full expanfion of its bloffoms, a period of two or three months ; in any of thefe its different ftates, if gathered, and carefully dried, it will make a moft valuable addition to fimilar plants for decorating apartments in the Winter. It is a native of the Cape, from whence Mrs. Gosling

obtained its feeds, flowers in May and inbe may and June, creafed by cuttings ; in this way' Mr. Wykes has fucceeded in propagating it but as there are few that equal him in a knowledge of exotics, fo there are few that exercife the fame ingenuity in their culture, or equal him in fuccefs. :


f&

JPukh

MCurti*.

HYGecKCrsftent Nov.

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426 ] C

Leafy

Cytisus Foliolosus.

Cytistjs,

Oafs and Order.

DlADELPHIA DECANDRIA*

Generic Character.

Cal. 2-labiatus

4 Legumen

:

attenuatum (plurimis)

bafi

zeqiiale^

latum.

Specific CharaEler

CYTISUS

Ait.

The

ftalks in

laciniis

;

Kew.

this

with fmall leaves, appearance, hence hit off;

its

falcatis,

ereclis, calycibus vil-

foliolis

obovato-oblongis;

v. 3. p. 49.

are thickly covered whole plant an outre of foliolofus y fo happily

fpecies of Cytifus

which gives the Mr. A 1 ton's name

many other

of which markable. It is

racemis terminalibus

foliolofus

lous

and Synonyms*

peculiarities attend this

charming fhrub,

long deciduous bra&eae are not the

a native of the Canary Ifles, where

leaft re-

was found by

it

grow, to 1779; it will acquire a great height, become indeed too large for a fmall green-houfe, and more fit for a confervatory, for which

Mr. Masson, and introduced

in

if fuffered

it produces be a moft defirable plant flowers abundantly during May and June, which are not only ornamental but delicioufly fragrant. Strong eflablifhed plants ufually produce perfeÂŁt feeds, by which this fhrub is increafed ; cuttings rarely fucceed. it

would appear

to

;


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Shrubby HorseShoe Vetch.

Hippocrepis Balearica.

.;'*. .^t..>'<. >'t,.>-'t. z'*., &j£t. qnjr^v,* >,\ *jv v,^ ^,c » v ^»

jl&.j}g.A. rj^fr »j»

s

C/o/i

A A t^ 4>

>'t »'• •,« *je vji v^s /,» v'»

.

jfc ,«ft„jh. Vj» vjt Vj-r

and Order.

DiADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Generic Charatler.

Pericarpium multiloculare, emarginatum, curvum.

compreflum,

Specific Character

HIPPOCREPIS

and Synonyms.

balearica Ieguminibus pedunculatis confertis fubarcuatis lanceolato oblongis margine exteriore repandis.

Murr. p. 671. rar.

HIPPOCREPIS

altera futura pluries

ic.

cent. 1.

Linn.

Syji.

Jacq. Mifc. t.

Vegetab. ed. 14. 2.

p. 305.

fU

5.

balearica Ieguminibus pedunculatis confertis glabris margine exteriore lobatis, foliis ca-

lycibufque pilofiufculis, caulibus ancipitibus, Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 3. p. 61.

Profeflbr

Jacquin

the firfl who figured and defcribed this fpecies of Hippocrepis, inferted by Profeffor Murray, in the Syji. Vegetab. and enumerated alfo in the Hort. KcW. is

of Mr. Aiton, with anew and different fpecific defcription. It is a native of Minorca, as its name implies, and was introduced to the royal garden at Kew, Thouin,

by Monf.

in

1776.

Though not fo ornamental as many of our rarities cultivated for mew, it is found in moft colleaions of green-houfe plants, recommending the beauty of

itfelf

its

rather by the elegance of flowers ; the latter appear in

its

foliage than

May

and June,

and with us are fparingly fucceeded by feed-veflels. The plant is propagated either by feeds or cuttings.


42J

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;

428 ] C

Daphne Collina. Neapolitan Mezereon. Tfj<

TjT

SJ» Sji

^,>

'.-.

SrjS

7.C

^

's*^»i»

«v»

*V

'i>

C/j/j a»</ Order.

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Character. Cat. o.

Cor. 4-fida, corollacea,

marcefcens, ftamina includens.

Bacca, l-fperma. Specific Character

DAPHNE

collina

(loribus

ovatis obtufis,

and Synonyms.

terminalibus

fuperne glaberrimis, inferne

Smith. Spicil. Fafc. 2. p. 16. /. 18. alpina, folio inferne incano. Lob. ic. 370.

CHAMELiEA

CHAMELjEA THYMEL^EA Though

foliis

feffilibus,

Bauh

ob-

pilofis.

Pin. 462.

incana et lanuginofa. Bauh. Hijl. 1. 586. faxatilis Oleae folio. Tournf. Inft. 594.

of Mezereon has till within thefe few years been a ft ranger to our gardens, and efcaped the enumeration even of Linnaeus, it was well known to many of the older Botanifts; indeed it was impomble that a plant fo common * as this is in fome parts of Italy, could efcape the obfervation of the many excellent Botanilts, which that country has produced, or been vifited by. Though not fo ornamental a fhrub as many, it is a very defirable acquifition, on account of the earlinefs of its flowering and agreeable fcent, its foliage alfo is ornamental, its upper furface being of a fine g'ofly green the cultivated plant does not anfwer to the defcription of authors, in regard to folia fubtus incana ; the flowers, in point of the

prefent fpecies

;

common of the Mezereon, and foon change to a faded purple before they expand, they are covered with a fine filky down. Mr. Gruffer was the firft: who introduced this novelty, by fending feeds of it to Melfrs. Lewis and Mackie, NurferVmen, Kingfland, who, as far as we can learn, firft had the fhrub for fale ; it is ufual to treat it as a green-houfe plant in mild winters it will bear to (land abroad; it flowers from colour,

are

not

fo

brilliant

as

thofe

;

January to April, is not difficult of culture, and is ufually propagated by grafting it on the common Mezereon, or Spurge Laurel. * This mod beautiful (hrub covers the hills and fields on the banks of the Voltaren*, as the Furze does our commons in England. Smith. Spcil. /. 1°.


428

2>uJ>. by

WCurtirS' (Ax


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429 ]

Aiton's Heath.

Erica Aitonia. ,

jfe,„»'^J&.^^.y»..> ^&,.2j>..jJ£ •Sjfv^Tr}; |pi' /,v vfl' ijs jfl

«j»

ip

»St.y»

jit. *St. »'». "*»

Jp* fjjt •sjrijs^jr "^

C/^/> <?»^ Order.

*^ 1

^

jgl J|l

***

»Js.

^csjr

*

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Characlcr. Col.

4-phyllus.

Anthers

Cor.

apicae

4-fida.

bifidae

Filamenta

pertufae.

receptaculo inferta

Cap/. 4-locularis 4~valvis,

polyfperma. Specific Characlcr

ERICA

and Synonyms.

Aitonia foliis fubternis fubappreffis, calycibus glutinofis>

limbo corollas maximo.

Description. Stem fhrubby,

of feveral feet, together with the branches [lender, and requiring fupport; leaves for the moil part in threes, upright, and rather prefTed to the ftalk, fomewhat linear, bluntifh, with a flight mucro, gloffy, and extremely vifcid, having a groove down the middle of each bafe pale green flowers terminal, about three or four peduncles red ; calyx extremely gloffy and glutinous, with a groove down the middle of each fegment tube of the corolla an inch or more in length, cylindrical, a little enlarged at the top, liriped with red lines, and fomewhat fluted, limb very large, at firft white, changing to a pale red, divided into four fegments, which are ovate and obtufe ;

rifing to the height

;

;

;

ftamma within the tube; ftigma projecting a little beyond it. Mr. Masson difcovered this very curious fpecies of Erica at the Cape, where Lieut. Col. Pater son informs me that it has been found in one fpot only, at Swartfberg, near the

warm

bath, in a moift fituation at the defire of Mr. Masson, in ;

valued

and

mod

named Aitoniay commemoration of his much it

has been

excellent friend.

widely from the reft of the genus, that fome have been ready to regard it as a diftina genus, but certainly on no good grounds. Is propagated by cuttings, but as yet is very rare. It differs fo


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Peruvian

Justicia Peruviana.

Clqfs

Justicia.

and Order.

DlANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Characler. Cor. ringens.

Cap/. 2-locularis

feminum

:

valvis longitudinalibus unciculatis

Specific Character

JUSTICIA

peruviana

Slam, anthera

folitaria.

and Synonyms.

fpicis axillaribus et terminalibus, foliis

ovatis acutis.

JUSTICIA

:

retinaculis 2-valvis

peruviana

Linn. Sp. PI. ed. IVilld. p. 97.

foliis

ovatis

acutis: fpicis brevibus axillaribus et terminalibus, floribus tribrafteatis.

Cavan. Icon.

17, n. 26.

1. p.

t.

28.

Description.

Stalk about two feet and a half high, nearly round, pubefcent, fwelled at the joints, branched branches ; oppofite, nearly upright ; leaves oppofite, Handing on footftalks,

ovato-lanceolate,

veiny,

fmooth on the under

fide,

above covered with ftiort hairs flowers large, of a pale violet colour, growing in clufters in the alas of the leaves, intermixed with lanceolate braaeae about the length of the calyx ; the upper lip contraaed near its extremity ; where it is forked, the lower lip trifid, fegments obtufe, the bafe of the middle fegment reticulated with white veins ; anthera? greenifti, cells parallel with and fomewhat diftant from each other ; ftyle the ;

length of the {lamina,

neaar copious. Our defcription and figure were taken from a plant which flowered at Brompton, Auguft 18, the of ftove the in 1796, Marchionefs of Bute, and which had been raifed from feeds, communicated by Profeflbr Ortega, of Madrid, and fent originally from Peru. It is

properly a ftove plant

;

may

be increafed by

which it produces in abundance, or by cuttings the autumnal months.

;

feeds,

flowers during


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Pentandria Pentagynia. Generic Character. Petala 5.

Cal. 5-phyllus.

Cap/, 5-valvis, 10-locularis.

Sent.

fblitaria.

Specific Character

LINUM

quadrifolium ed. 14.

LINUM

foliis

and Synonyms.

quaternis.

Linn.

Syjl.

Vegetah

Murr. p. 303.

africanum rubiae

foliis

quaternis

ftellatis.

Rati Suppl.

exa%

Our

plant accords Linn* us, and as fuch

with the Linum quadrifolium of it is regarded at the royal garden, Kew, where we faw it in flower this fpring, 1798; it agrees alio with the defcription of Ray, fo far as relates to its fpecific character, quoted by Linn^us, but the flowers of Ray's plant are defcnbed as blue, it is molt probably therefore the quadrijolium of Linn* us, but not of Ray.

The

ftalks

feet, are

of

this fpecies

much branched

rife to

the height of about two

at their

fummits, on which are produced numerous yellow flowers, fmaller than thofe of L. arboreum or flavum, to either of which, as an ornamental plant, it mult be allowed to be inferior; yet it is not without its fharc of elegance and beauty. It is

a native of the Cape, newly introduced to our greenhoufcs, flowers in May and June, and is readily increased by cuttings.

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JUSTICIA COCCINEA.

JUSTICIA.

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Oafs and Order.

DlANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character. Cor. ringens.

Cap/. 2-locularis

:

feminum

valvis longitudinalibus unciculatis.

Specific Characler

JUSTICIA

retinaculis 2-valvis

Stamina anthera

and Synonyms.

coccinea fruticdfe, corollis bjlabiatis, labio fuperiori indivifo, foliis braBeifque fpicarum ellipticis acu-

minatis, antheris paiallelis. Ait. Kezv. v.

JUSTICIA

folitaria.

coccinea

foliis

ovatis glabris

1.

p. 26.

integerrimis, fpicis

terminalibus verticillatis: floribus feffilibus. Linn. Syji. Nat. ed. 13. Gmel. p. 35.

JUSTICIA

coccinea.

Aublet. Guian. 10.

/.

3.

Of

the feveral fpecies of Jujiicia cultivated the prefent excels in magnificence and fhow

confiderable

height,

and produces

in ;

it

our

ftoves,

rifes

to a

bloflbms early in the fpring, when it flowers in perfection ; the fpikes are of the fize of thofe reprefented on the plate, the drawing of which was made from a plant which flowered with Meffrs. VVhiti ::v its

andBARRiT, Nurferymen, Old-Brompton. It is a native

royal garden at Is

of South-America, and was introduced to the

Kew

in

1770.

Ait. Kezv.

propagated without difficulty by cuttings.


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INDEX.

INDEX.

In which the Latin Names oPifln which the Englifh Names

the$ alpha- $

the Plants contained in

Twelfth Volume are

of the Plants contained in the Twelfth Volume are alphabetically arranged.

betically arranged.

PL 398 419 4C9 418 408 397

TV.

Agroftemma Flos Jovis. AlyiTurn montanum. Amaryllis aurca. AntKolyza Meriana. Calendula Tragus.

Campanula

£417 CeHia

Campanula

Celfiamrticsefolia.

Centaurea aurea.

$ 406 V413

Cineraria cruenta. Cytifus foliolofus.

426 | 403

Daphne

nettle-leav'd.

© 421 Centaury orKnapweed golden.

mollis.

J

*j*

collina.

Erica Aitonia. articularis. 2 Erica 4 3 402 Erica veftita, var. coccin.

422 Grewia occidentalis. 427 Hippocrepis balearica. 416 Iris martinicenfis. 412 Iris criftata.

Cineraria purple-leav'd. Crane's-bill ternate. Cytifus leafy Flax african. Flax four-leav'd.

X 431 X 422 Grewia elm-leav'd £'429 Heath Alton's.

4423 Heath articular. Heath tremulous, 402 % a flower'd, $ 427 Horfe-fhoe

var.

Iris

Jufticia coccinea.

Ixia red-blue. > 43° Jufticia peruvian.

Lagerftrcemia indica.

a43 2

Jufticia fcarlet-flower'd

405 X 401 A 400 $ 408 428

Lagerftrcemia indian.

Lavandula dentata. Lavandula pinnata.

J»*

f

Linum Linum

africanum.

quadrifoHuin. 4*3 Pelargonium ternatum.

red-

vetch ihrubby.

#412 $416 V410

410 Ixia rubro-cyanca. 430 Jufticia peruviana. 432 4°5 400 401 4°3 43

mountain. 409 Amaryllis golden. 418 Antholyza red-flower'd.

Bell-flower peach-leav'd, great £ 397 X var. perficifolia, var. & 404 Bell-flower foft.

max.

404 417 421 406 426 428 429

f T419 Aly Hum

Iris ere (ted.

Martinico.

Lavender pinnated. Lavender tooth 'd-leav'd. Marigold bending-ftalk'd.

Mezereon Neapolitan.

4'5 Phlox fetacca. 411 Phlox or Lychnideaawl-leav'd 411 Phlox fubulata. $ 415 Phlox fine-leav'd. cortufoides. Primula 399 Primula CortuFa-ieav'd. 399 407 Rofa provincialis, var. Pom- # 407 Rofe Pompone pone. 398 Rofe- Campion umbel'd. 424 Saxifraga rotundifolia. 424 Saxifrage round-leav'd. nthemum great yellow 414 Xeranthemum fulgidum. ithemuro cars 420 ,_r'd. fefataoides. 420 Xeranthemum elegant. 4-5 42

Xeranthemum

fuperb.

ERRATA. The Binder

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oppofuc page 422,

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