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LYCIUM jAPONICUM. JAP:NE$1 
Claf and Order. 
Px M, 
G, ..eric Ch,.r_v!er. 
hr. tubulofa, fauce c.la"'" filamentorum 
1oculans polyfperma. 
barba. Bact. 
Specific Cha, Syno'vms. 
LYCIUM japo_.cum inert ova nervofis p!anis, 
fioribus feffilibus. if'h, 
Linn. $yfl. Fegetab. ed. x a. trr. 
v, x. p, 5 6. 
LYCIUM ./ Jd, œinn. Sup L 15o, 
LYCIUM iMium. Retz. Obf. :. p 
LIGUSTRO affinis, Erutex bacciœcr ftens, Buxi 
Come Gommi, Mante½. Kwmpf lm:_-- 
780. 
BUCHOZIA coprofinoide  L:Her,,. Monograph. 
tcle  
E t. p. 
White flowers reprefented on white paper, make a poor 
figure, efpecially if froall; our delinc3on, therefore, as we 
have too frequently to lament, does not d jutlice to the ori- 
ginal, which forms a neat thick buth of humble growth, and in' 
the autumn produces numerous white flowers, fomewhat like 
thofe of Jafmine, but without fee . ' the whole plant if 
not bruifed; but if you llrongly fqueeze a flower-bud or the 
top of a young thoot betwixt your thumb and finger, you will 
perceive a fmell highly difgulling, which Kizvv.a likens to 
that of human ordure: Profeffor Rv. xztJs, who has minutely 
defcribed this plant in his Obf. Bot. denies the exillence of 
this fmell% and thus very unjullly impeaches the ver,acity of 
the learned and accurate K2sxt,: Profeffor Tu 
* Qe de odore ftercoris refert Kmil, t= falfa effe in Hott0 Hafnienti 
obfervavi, et ad fingularem Botanicifque ignotarn arborern a Batavis Strunthout 
diam referri debere rnonuit amiciffrnus Tx !a   
appears 
appears to have eountenanced him Jr this idea, vld. note; we 
cannot account for this error in Prof. RTzius, dittinguiihed 
for the excellence of his botanical obfervations, but by fup- 
poring that he fmelt to the old leaves of the Lycium, which, 
if ever fo ftrongly bruifed, emit little or no fcent: an odour 
timilar to that of the prefent plant is excited in the Dracoce. 
pbalum $ibiricum on the flighteR touch, and the roots of feveral 
fpecies of Mimofa are equally oftenfive. 
Km,FR, who'found this plant not only wild, but culti- 
vated in Japan, obferved the flowers to vary in the number 
of their fegments, which they do here: TuuuRG obferved 
it with double flowers, a variety now not uncommon in the 
colleions about London ;. he remarked alfo hedges made of it, 
and what is very remarkable, he fays, the plant produces no 
fruit, frugtus not producit; Kvv muff have found it in 
fruit, or he would not have called it $accifert Mr. HxTo, 
-,vhen in the fuit of the late embaffy to Chin a, found it cul- 
tivated by the Chinefe in the open ground and in pots. 
It was introduced here in 787, by Monf. Czs , is uœually 
kept in-the greenhoufe, and is readily enough increafed by 
cuttings. 
Many of the Japaneœe plants being as hardy as our own 
.natives, we recommend it to be tried in the open ground 
Ait. Kerr, 
ERICA 
r_. 8 3 
RETORTA. RECURVED HEATH, 
ß 
Clafs and Order. 
OCT , n½A MONOGtA. 
.eric CicaraCier. 
'al. 4-phyllus. Cot 4'-da. Fi; 
Anthera b'fide. CapJ 4-1ocular; 
receptaculo ink rta. 
ERICA 
ERICA 
ERICA 
ERICA 
$pecific Charae7er and Synonyms. 
retorta foliis quaternis ariltatis recurvis, pedunculis 
brae--teatis, floribus ampullaceis vifcofis, {tyloexferto, 
laciniis corolle acutis. 
retorta antheris fubcriltatis, foliis quaternis recurvi, 
corollis ovato-oblongis, ftylo mediocri. Linn. $uppl. 
Plant. p. o. 
retorta foliis quaternis ovati; ferrulatis fquarrofis, 
ribus umbellatis vifcofis. Fhu'b. Prod. PL Cap. p. 75' 
retorta Mont. All. holm. ann. x774. p. 97' t. 7' 
No one can view the prefent fpecies of Erica, without per- 
ceiving a manifeft fimilarity betwixt it and the ampullacea 
already figured; the flowers of each are timilar in form, and 
not very different in fize and colour; in the retorta the ttripes 
of the ampullacea are wanting, the bloffoms of both are highly 
vifcous, the fegments of the  corolla are more pointed in the 
retorta, the bra0tea: in the ampullacea are larger, more numer- 
ous, and more highly coloured; in the foliage the two plants 
differ very obvioufly, the leaves of the retorta being all of 
them recurveal, 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; b, ut furely 
thefe are not fufficiently ftrong to jultify Txuxqv. lto s term of 
JFrrulatis. 
The flowers when they begin to blow, which is at different 
periods of the rummet, ufually about Auguft,' grow four to- 
gether- there, as they advance, make way for four others, ia- 
ß - ' their 
their tentre, and there again foe others; fo that in large fpe- 
cimens, a bunch of flowers will fometimes'confift of twenty 
or moe bloffoms: plevious to their expanfion they are beau- 
tiful in the extreme, the body of the corolla is then almoR 
white, the bulbous part at its fummit a deep crimfon, termi- 
nated by a little flame-like point, inclining more to a fcarlet, 
vhich expands into four acute fegments. 
Our drawing was made from a plant which_ flowered at 
]Viefirs. Le and Kr tqe,y's, Hammerfmith; we afterwards 
faw at Mr. W LL.s', Turnham~Green, a variety with larger 
flow.ers, and leaves more clofely imbricated. 
This 'fpecies has long fince been defcribed by Mo4ei, 'in 
the Swedi/h Tranfaions and more lately in the Suppl. Pl. 
of the younger L. us, who makes it a native of the Cape 
on the authority of Profeffor Tu,t. 
To this country it has been introduced fince the publication 
of tz  t. Ke, 
Lil  an 'a, it is at prefent fcarcely to be had for 
any pt, beifig rare, and difficult to increafe by cuttings. 
I 
II 
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ROSA LUTEA. AUSTRIAN Ro,sz. 
$%'- 
C/aft and Order. 
ICOSANDXI  POLYGYNIA. 
Generic C3araer. 
Peta]a 5. Cak urcco]atus, 5-fidus, carnoFus, collo coaratus, 
Se .... p]urima, hi[pida, calycis intcriorl latcri axa. 
Specific Cbaraer and 3yno,ms. 
ROSA t tt germinibus .glbofis pedunculifque glabris, caly- 
cibu petiolifque fpinulofis, aculeis ramorum reis 
dit. Kew. v. . p.  Mill. Di. ed. fl. 4to. 
OSA lulca fimpx. Ba '- Pin. 483. The tingle yellow Role. 
Park. Parad. p. 4  7  
Proq J xcu has given ns a monograph on the geiu 
"'- vl,h he has execute4 l.ighly to his honour; w wifi 
me ani of equal abiliti, would do tile fame b' the 
-enus R, many of the fpeces of which are ill involved in 
at  bfcurity: Mr. Axo  in the Hort. Kew. has taken much 
pain 5 to elucidate m. of , and this one ia particular, 
vhich he clls lutea, a e had previoufly obtained from 
MILLEr and feveral (,l Botani[s; we wi he had been lefs 
complaifam n th:s -ccafion, and given to it and thefulphurea 
 'hich he 11s  uble yellow role) epithets more diffcii- 
minarive: hit- rto thv _z has not been found that we know 
of in a double ate, it pobly may at rome future time in 
that. caffe, the lul:_. and fdph rea ill both have the fame 
name :to prevent  ,nfufion, have thought it expedient to 
all the luLa the AuLan Rot qd the fulphurea may be de- 
r.ed the Lewnt Role: .... e are aware that names of this 
are nt of the ' n ind, and only to be adopted under 
_.rain cicum[ano . 
This fpecL i  und' x41d in AurWa, anti othe parts o 
Cermany; was culfivatd in this country in the time of Gg 
and P   r : it is a flrub of low growth, flowers in July, 
is very hardy and readily propagated; authors differ as to 
the fcet of its flowers, M hys they have none, others 
-very little, and thers that the little they have is ve unplea- 
rant; hence it has been called y Azxox, Rfaftida; in'- 
point of colour, they are fubje to great variation; the red 
and yellow Au[rian Rofc is confidered by Mr. ALTON aS its 
principal variety  it is onr intention 'to give a figure o this 
very fiewy plant in rome future number of the Magazine, 
when we hope further to elucidate the fubje by rome prac- 
tical obfervafions. 
ViTI 
VIT 
NGUNnO. Fiv-Lv.vo CI-IASTE-T.E.. 
C',r, a.d Order. 
iDYAa, ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gerffc Charaer. 
s_dentatus. Co,. limbus 6-fidus. Bacca 4tFperma. 
Specific Charaer and Synonyms. 
Negundo foliis quinatis ternatifque ferratis, floribus 
racemoro paniculatis. Linn. S)fl. Feg. ed.  4. Murr 
P- 579- it. Kew. v . p. 365. 
VIT[ triFolia minor indica. Pl". lm. 390. t. 
NEGI'NDO arb r mas. Bauh tI. . p. x89. 
VITE ' chim-nfis. Milles Di. ed. 6. 4to. 
Mr. _kiTOn informs us*, that this deciduous tend[r ilsrub, 
a nativ, of China and the Eaff-htdi'e, diffinguilhed more for' 
the elegance of its foliage than the beauty of its flowers, was 
cultivated here by the Duche's ot' BEauvoRx, in 697, at 
this pt, lEnt time juff one hundred years ago; the plants fo 
cultive*od in all probability were loft, as we find Mr-. 
in d, rcribinq the fame plant in his Di&ionary, nnder the name 
of chh, et.', thus to exprefs himfall, "the fourth fort, viz, 
" :efis, has been lately introduced into the Englifl gar- 
dzns from Paris, where the plants were railed fi'om leeds 
.hich were lent from China by the milfionaries. I was 
"favoured with rome young plants, by Monf. 
"gardener to the. king, at Verfailles. The two forts with 
white and blue flowers have fucceeded in the Chelfea gar- 
"de,, but that with red flowers mircarried." It would ap- 
pear from this account, that th "Virex Negtndo was a common 
o'bjd t of ornamental culture amongff the Chinere, fince they 
pofliffed fo many varieties of it in point of colour; the purple 
flowered one is, we believe, the only fort cultivated in offr 
nurferies, and that not commonly; it bloffoms late i:n the 
gummet, and poffeffes rome fragrance. 
The plant is not difficult to .increafe by cuttings, being too 
tender to bear our winters, at leaf[ thole which are revere ;- 
it is commonly kept in the greenhoufe. Mtx. x.e. very per- 
tinently remarks, "that the plants ate late n putting out leaves 
"in the fpring, and before there appear, they have fo much the 
"appearance of dead plants, that they have been turned out 
' of the pOtS by rome, fuppofing they were 
w Hon, Kew. 
OENOT- RA 
EL vr 
lass ] 
Lo'NO OA. LONO- 
ED OENOTHERA. 
4-fdus. Peta 
OENOTHERA 
dn infera. gm. nuda, 
,,,,s denticulat,., caulibus fimpli- 
cibus 1 :' tali's diftantibus bilbbis. Linn. 
Sift. Fe 358. Mant. 7' ./lit. Kew. 
-- . P' 3' ]acq,. Hort. . p. 8 . t. x 7 ' 
This Oenothera, in point of fize, the reverfe of the pumila, 
lately figured in this work (pL 355) is a native .of Buenos 
Ayres, and was introduced by the Chevalier Muv. v..¾, in 
a776% 
We have feen this plant grow to a greater height than any 
other fpecies, luxuriant fpecimens have ex_ceeded five feet by 
the time that 'they have nearly done flowering; and as the 
flowers are uncommonly large and thewy, and continue blow- 
ing  long while in fucceffion (from July to O6'tober) we 
fcarcely know a more defirable plant for the open border of a 
garden that is fpacious; the flowers indeed, as in moR of the 
plants of this genus, open in the evenin'g, and appear in their 
greater beauty when thole of other plants are either fallen to 
the .ground, withered by the heat of the day, or folded in 
the arms of fleeO.' 
It is an annual of ready growth, and very produa'tive of feed, 
fome of which ripensearly; there are to be fown.in the open 
border, where the plant i's in, tended to flower, in March or the 
befinning of April; as a tingle plant will be fufficient for one 
fpot, - feedling only need be left; care-mutt be taken to put 
a ftic eqrly of about four feet in length, to which its 
brancl_ ._; muff be carefull-' tied, when about a foot long, and 
' ' all that cc rr" be done; by this - :ans the plant 
'' pr;_ m the effe&s of viol, winds, but 
advarac 
366 
'-Is and, rder. 
OL:r' Mooc 
Gel,. c Chava:?er. 
,L 4-phyllus- Cot. 4-fida, Filamev'" receptaculo infertin 
_/lnther, e apice bifide, pertuœe. Capri 4-1ocularis, 4-valvis 
polyfperma. 
$ecifi Chara .%r end $ynon.3 ls. 
ERICA pyramidalis antheris muticl incluffs, coro. 11is ififund, 
buliformibus quaternis, 2ylo fubexferto, f'o!iis qua- 
ternis pubefcentibus. _&t. Ket. ' 3' P' 49 L. Lis 
fl, Nat. ed. Gruel p. 624. 
"e preœent to our readers another Heath, a native of the 
Cap_, introduced by Mr. M^o, in 1787, and now to be 
found in moff of the cbllee'-tic ns of greenfioufe plants in the 
,,eighbourhood of London. 
i a ver)s ornamental fpeces, both in regard to its mode 
-,f growth, as well as to the raft profufion o'f fl. owers with 
ß vhich its branches are covered; the form of there is very 
-harae'-teriftic, and their colour, when air and fun are freely 
.inkted to them, fufficiently brilliant. 
It cortinues to bloffom from. September to March or 
April; in point of height, it is to ,be ranked amo,ng thofe of a 
id'dling fize, 
When young' it is more apt to go off than many others; 
l raifed from cuttings in the ufual way. 
VERBENA TRIPHYLLA. TfREE-LEAVEO 
TERVA1N. 
Clafi and Order. 
IANDRI MONOGYIA. 
Generic Charades. 
Cot. infundibuliformis fubqualis, curva. Cacb unico. dente 
truncato. 8era. ,.f 4- nuda. (Sram. ,. 40 
$pece Charaer and Synonyms. 
VERBENA Irthylla tetrandra, floribus paniculatis, 
ternis, caule f?uticofo. L'Herit. Stirp. Nov. p. 
ALOYSIA citrodora. Oft. et Pal.-d 
vVe learn from Monf. L'Hw:rxs% who has figured.and 
defcribed this plant, in his work above refbrred to, that iœ is. 
a native of South-America, from whence it had been-tranf- 
reitted to Spain, in the gardens of which it was cultivated in 
the open borders; Prof. O:reg^, of Madrid, lent both plant 
and feeds. of it to Monf. L'Heatxe at Paris, where Dr. 
SI:rop obtained it, on his return from Greece, ad int- 
duced it. here in 78,t. 
Profeffors Oa:r(;.t and P^LAU fir defcribed this pla:_r,. 
and named it Aloyfia eBrodora, Monf. L'Hsi-r:v found it 
to be a P>rbena, and gave it tlm trivial name of lriphylla. 
The leaves (or any part of the plant) when bruifed, give 
out a moil: delightleft f?agrance; on this account, it is. a lnOff 
valuable acqnilition to our gardens: it forms a fhrnb of a con- 
riderable fize; the leaves, its far as we have noticed, ahvays 
grow th 7' together; the veins on each fide of the midrib run 
par. allcl to each other; ihe flowers are finall, nearly'white, 
%fining a panicle, which, as far as our oblrv'ation has ex~ 
rended (and we have examined many luxuriant fpecimens) is 
never branched in the manner reprorented in L'HRXsR'S 
figure; they are produced' during moft of the rummet and 
autumnat months. 
-This-'flrub, being eafily propagaicd by cuttings, is now 
become common in tim neighbourhood of London, where it is 
treated as a greenhoufe ptant; in rome parts of this ifland, 
efpecially near the lea, where hc winter toles much of its 
verity, t !d, in all probability, fucceed very well in the 
oloel; ]  
Gcltcric ChalaFlel . 
L 5-phylhis. Corolhe bails deorfum prominens ,nearifer,a. 
 pf. 2-1ocularis. 
$pec)q Chara7er and Synodfires. 
rIRRHINUM v(um foliis cauiinis linearibus alterhis, 
radicalibus lanceolatis quaternis, calyci- 
bus rillotis, cauli approximatis. Linn. Sp. 
PL ed. 2. p. 855. fifl. Fogytab. ed. 
Murr. p. 556. /tmwn. Acad. v. 4. P. 39 . 
Ait. Kcw. v. .'. 334- Syn. 
p. 80. 
NTIRRHINUM hitturn foliis lanceolatis hirtis, fledbus 
fpicatis, foliolo calicino fupremo maximo. 
facq. L rat. ic. cent. . t. 3 o. 
The plant here figured,' the tntirrhinum v'ofim of LiN- 
_:us, ]s a native' of Spain, and was introduced to the royal 
garden at Kew, in 1786 , by Monf. Toux4 . 
It grows to about the fame height as the tntirrh. fpartcum, . 
figured PL uoo, has a Router and more upright ftem, covered 
with more numerous hairs; its flowers are larger than thol"e of 
thefpametim, more particoloured, and have a greater affinity 
to thole of our common Toad-fla:; in their form we may ti'ace 
romething of the fimilitude of a bird's head, the calyx is re- 
markable as to the form of its leaves, and.accords tb well with 
that of Prof..l. cq u i N 'S 4ntfrrh, hitturn, defcribed 'in GM L i. x 4 's 
Lt)m. S)fl. Nat. ed. x 3. p. 93 , that w ftrongly thfpetCt it to 
be the lime-plant. 
It is an annual of ready growth, and flowers in July. 
Its feeds fhould be fown about the beginning of April, in 
froall patches,: on the borders where the plants are intended to 
remain; when the t;eedlings come up, they fhould be thinned, 
and left at the diftance of two or three inches from each other. 
* Aft. Kew. 
[ 369 ' 
AMARYLLIS UNDULATA. WAVED- 
FLOWERED AMARYLLIS. 
Clafi and Order. 
HE XA, N R A. MONOGYNA. 
. Geieric Charaler. 
Cor. hexapetaloidea, irregularis. tilamenta fauci tubi inferta, 
declinata, inqualia roportione vel direione. Linn. Fil. 
Specific Charaler and Synonyms. 
AMARYLLIS undulata petalis linearibus canaliculaiis undu- 
latis, ftaminibus piftilloque deflexis corolla 
brevi0. ribus, Rigmate obfoleto. Linn. Fil. Ait. 
Kew. v. . p. 42 . Linn. $yfi. Feget. ed.  4. 
Murr. p. 
In the flowers of this fpecies of 4maryllis, a native of the 
Cape, and introduced about 767, by JoH BrAcrutyas, 
Efq.  there is a confiderable degree of beauty, and frill 
more of fingularity; and the plant is rendered more defirable, 
from its producing thole flowers towards the clofe of autumn, 
fo late as O&ober and November, and that too both readily 
and abundantly. 
Being a tender bulb, it is ufually kept during winter in 
the greenhoufe, or a well-fecured frame. 
Is propagated by offsets, which are plentifully produced. 
Ait. Kew. 
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I-IOUSTO NtA iARULEA. B.oE-FLowE} v.r 
HOUSTONIA. 
Cls and Orden 
TTRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charaer. 
Cot. -petala, iJfundibuliformis. Capfula g-locularis, -[perma, 
fupera. 
' Specific Chara&r and Synonyms. 
HOUSTONIA cmrulea foliis radicalibu's ovatis, caule com- 
pofito, pedunculis primis bifloris. iinn. 
Fegetab. e& 4. Mutt. . 49' . I{ew. 
v. . . 
RUBIA parva foliolis ad geniculum unumquodque binis, 
flore cmruleo fiRulotb. Ban. P'irg.  97 . 
HOUSTONIA primo vere ubique florens, floribus in[hndi- 
buliformibus dilute ruleis, foliis parris ad- 
verfis in caule paucis. ClayL n. 60. 
To this genus of plants GRoowus gave the name of Hon_/- 
tonia, in hbnour of Dr. WxLLX-AM HousTo}4, a name that 
muff be familiar to all who have read the Gardener's Difi'tionars' 
of Mr. PxxLv MxLzER,' ;as there is fcarcely a page in that 
'book in which the writer does not record the obligations lm 
is under to his much-valued and mol ufeful friend. 
Of this genus, two fpecies only have ben difcovered, both 
natives of Virginia, the cerulea and purpurea; the former is 
the only one that has been introduced to this country, and [hat 
by Mr. Aucu ME4zs, in x785 . 
We fcarcely know a plant that has afforded us more plealure 
in the cultivation than this our little favourite; though a native 
of the warmer parts of North-America, it bears our ordinary 
winters uninjured, is of ready growth, and, if paid the leait 
attention to, flowers perpetually, fpring, fummer, and autumn; 
fucceeds beft in a pot, and loves moitture; foil and fituation 
are not fo material to it: is increafed by parting it roots 
or by cuttings of the plant; has fcarcely colour enough in its 
tilowers tojuftify the term c, erulea. 
,hit. 
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iVlmmUSJA[Ar. 
OF PER U. 
Clafi and Order. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIAo 
Generic Chara?er. 
r. infundibul. fupera. Cal. inferus. 
germen includens. 
Nec7arium globofum, 
Specific Chara?er and Synonyms. 
dlRABILIS talapa floribus congeftis, terminalibus, ereai. 
Linn. Syfi. Vegetab. ed. x 4. Murr. p. o.x 8. Air." 
Kew. p. 234. 
SOLANUM 'mexicanurn, flore. magno. Bauh. Pin. x68 
MIRABILIA Peruviana. The Marvaile of Peru. Get. Her&, 
p. 27. rum. fig. 
ADMIRABILIS. The Mervaile of the World. Park. Par... 
p. 365. t. 369. f. 9. 
From Peru, its original place of growth, this plant 'was 
introduced to Europe at a very early period; the names it 
bore on its introducqion, fufficiently terrify the admiration in 
which it was held: it was well known both to GEa^RD and 
Kaso; the latter devotes a whole page of his Parad. terr. to 
its defcription and culture, with the latter he appears to have 
been perfecqly well acquainted, and even to have known the 
feveral varieties which we now cultivate.' 
It being a common pracqice to raife this plant fro}n feed, 
rome have been led to regard it as an annual, but it is Rricqly 
perennial; the roots in their native country, where they are 
never killed by fi'ott, acquire, like thofe of the potatoe, a pro- 
digious fize; the flowers, of which the plant is very producqive, 
open towards evenifig, whence, in the WeR-Indies, it has been 
called the four o'clock plant, and continue expanded till the next 
day's ' 
day's fun'clofes them up; we hard obferved that the continuance 
of their expanfion is in proportion to the power of the fun, and 
that late in the autumn, o? in cloudy weatheri 3hey continue 
open moR of the day; we have obferved alfo, that a bed of 
thefe flowers communicates a delightful fragrance to a confi- 
detable diRance; to the tare the whole plant is highly acri- 
in6ni'ous, probably purgative, if not poifonous: it was once 
fuppofed that its roots produced the Jalap of the {hops, when 
that opinion was found to be erroneous, Lx N zamus {hould have 
changed the trivial name of ealala to that of peruwiana, as it 
now tends to miflead. 
The principal varieties in point 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 raifing thefe plants is from feed, which 
they plentifully produce; your early-blowing plants tour be 
raifed on a hot-bed, your late ones in the open ground, tranf- 
planting 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 land, and plant them in the fpring; thefe will 
make ftronger plants, and will blow earlier than feedlings, 
viz. in. AuguR, and you will hereby be fure of continuing any 
particular fort- 
L ] 
ZYGOPHYLLUM INSUAVE. UNPLEASANT 
BEAN-CAPER. 
Clafi and Ordet 
ECANRIA ONOGYIA 
Generic Charaeg 
L 5-phyllus ?etala 5' e[lavium xo-phyllum ermen tegens 
Capf 5Aocularis. 
Specie Chavaer and Synvnyms. 
ZYGOPHYLLUM itae caule frutico;o olHs conjugati 
pefiolatis obovafis, fruu lvi. 
ABAGO airs [rutelens minor, flore flavo magno, unguibu 
petalorum fufcis.  R. . Boerh Ind. 
. p. 3. 
In this genus of plants, the leaves have a peculiarity of 
growth, which gives birth to its botanic name of Z)gophyllum 
and which, literally tra. nflated, would be Yokeleaf; twelve 
fpecies are numerated. in Prof. GlentN's e4itio.n of Linn: 
$),fl. Nat. the plant here reprefented comes nearer to tho 
.Zyg. Morgsana figured in DILLENUS'S HorA Elth.' and for 
which it has by fome been miRaken; but the charaEters in 
which the two plants differ, are fo very ftrikin. g, that qe have 
no doubt of beingjuRified in making it.a fpecles. 
The leaves' of Morgsana are flefhy, nearly fertile, and fcent- 
lefs; thofe of our plant are.- not flefhy, Rand on long footfialks 
and diffufe widely a Rrong foxy froell, like that of Crown 
Imperial; the flowers of the Morgsana are fmall, thofe of the 
inoha've large and ornamental, When the plant is healthy; the 
{ed-vefll of the Mogsana. has four wi'ngs, ours not the leaft,, 
appear/nce of any: other different:es, it would be fuperfluous 
!o point out. 
This fpecies is molt probably a native of the Cape, as it 
accords with the flort deR:ription of Bo  tx v , above referred 
to; the precife time of its being introduced to this country, 
We have not been able to learn with certainty; it is not mere 
rioned either in the Di. of Mr. Mi, or the Hort. Kew. 
of Mr. ALTON. 
It is a green-houfe plant of ready growth; flowers from July 
to september, and is eafily increared by cuttings; its unpleafant 
fcent will prove an inf.uperable bar to its general introdu6tion. 
Claj5 and Order. 
Generic Chara[ter: 
Cor, 6-partira, in,quails :. laciniis alternis geniculato:patenfibus. 
$tigmata P,etaliformia cucullato-bilabiata. 
specific Chara[ter. 
IRIS Cb. inens tadice rpente, catl ' paniculato multifloro, flo., 
ribus riflati's, ttigtnatibus laciniatis. 
The public are indebted to Mr, EvAns of the India-Houfe, 
for the introducqion of this plant from China, where it is a 
native. 
ß It flowered laR year, at different periods,- 'for the firft time, 
in mE_:_ collecqions near London; this irregularity of its blow- 
ing was occafioned, we prefume by its being kept in different 
degrees of heat, in the Roves of rome, and the green-houfes of 
others; Mr. Toaso, Nurfcryman of Mile-Eud, at the 
c10fe of the year, had it growing very luxuriantly in the 
open ground; but the very fievere winter of' 796-x797, in 
which the thermometer at Brompton was three degrees below o, 
deRroyed it; neverthelefs, there is no doubt but it vill' bear 
the cold of our ordinary winters, ahd thrive better in the open 
.ground, in a molt! fituation, than in the Rove, or green-houfe,' 
m either of which, however, it vill flower very well; and, 
where the plant is luxuriant, continue to do fo for a conrider- 
able length of time, the bloffoms being numerous,. and un- 
folding gradually: ifi a flrong plant at Mr. Co . v  . Us, Nurfcry- 
man,. King's-Road, we counted feven bloff0ms expanded at 
one nine on its different branches, 
It differs from all other known Iris's, in having a root per- 
fe6'tly of the creeping kind, fending out/hoots to a confiderable 
.diftance, by which it is rendered very eafy of propagation; 
ts flowers, in form and colour, come nearer to thole of ]rfs 
½rifiata, and have a confiderable degree of fragrance. 
Ill 
CYRiLLA PuLCHEL'LA. SCARLET-FLOWEREB 
CYRILLAo 
Clafz and O;der. 
DIDYNAMIA dN GIOSPRlIA, 
Generic Cbaragler. 
CaL fuperus, 5-phyllus-' Cor, declinata, 
Limbus planus, '5'-partitus, fubqualis, 
menti quinti.. Capf. IEmibi!ocularis. 
infundibuliformis, 
Rudimenturn ilia. 
Specific Charalter and Synonyms. 
t 
CYRILLA pulctella. L'Herit. 8tirp. Nov. t. 7 t, 
COLUMNEA ereca. Le Lamarck encycl.. g. p. 68. 
BUCHNERIA coccinea, $cop. infubr. g. p. xO. t. 5' 
JkCHIMENES mirror ereia fimplex, foliis crenatis ovatis 
oppofitis vel ternatis, floribus petiolatis fin. 
gularibtls ad' alas. Browne Yam. git. t. 13 O, 
f... 
After receiving various appellations, this plant has been 
finally named Cyrilla, by Monf. L'HERTIE, in honour of 
Dowco C¾rro, M.D. Profeffor of Medicine at Naples, 
and author of 2Vlante ratiores regni Neapolitani, &c, Cyrilld 
racemofa is referred by. Sw.aTz to the Genus ]tea. 
This beautiful exonc is a native of Jamaica; Dr. Baowg 
found it near Hope-River, in the lower mouutains of' Liguanea 
he. recommends it to be cultivated as an ornamental plant, 
fays that it thrives beff in a cool gravelly foil, well furni/hed 
with moifture, and intermixed with a rich foil; lb this country 
it was introduced by 'Mr. Vxii^ Fo.v, sYT} in x778, an 
is now very generally cultivated in our Roves; it will no.t 
fucceed in a green,houfe; but, provided it has a fufficient de-. 
gree of heat, there is no difficulty attends its culture: it throws 
out frodq its roots abundance of fquamous/hoots of a fingular 
appearance, by which it is readily inc-reafed. 
It flowers from Augur to Oober 
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$TRAGALUS MONSPESSULANUS. 
MONT- 
Cla and Order. 
DIADELPHIA 
Generic Charaer. 
Capfula'(plurimis) 21ocularis, gibba, Filamenturn folitariura 
xeres. Lin, $yfl. Nat. ed. Gruel. p. 
Specific CharaeIer and Synonyms. 
ASTRAGALUS monfpeffulanus acaulis, fcapis declinatis lon- 
gitudine foliorum, leguminibus fubulatis te- 
retibus fubarcuatis glabris, Linn. 
ed. x 4. Murr. p. 684. Mant. 45 o, Ait. 
IiYw. v, v.. p. 77- 
ASTRAGALUS monfpeffulanus. œauhin,'Hifl. 3' P, 338, 
Magnol. œot. Monfp. p. 83- 
.ASTRAGALUS urpureus'perennis monii)elienfis, Mor 
H/fl. 3. p. xo6. 
The plants of this genus are very numerous, and many-of 
them highly ornamental; the brilliant colours which the blof- 
fores, but more efpecially the flower-cups, of the prefent fpe. 
cies exhibits, juftly entitle it to a place in the flower.garden. 
it is a native of the South of France; MACNOL informs us, 
that it grows in dry places about Montpelier; is a hardy peren- 
nial, of ready growth, flowers em'ly in July, and has ripened 
its feeds in my garden at Brornpton; by there tle plato is 
mof advantageoufly increafed; it may alfo be railed from 
cuttings of the Ralks: moR of this tribe have large roots, 
penetrating to a great depth, which not being eafily divifible, 
renders it difficult to increafe them By parting their roots. 
The beR fituation for this plant is an elevated bne, among 
flones, or rock.work, where its flowering fiems 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 Pica had the honour of introducing 
his plant in ' 776. 
SALVIA FORMOSA, 
SHNZ'c-Lv. AV.D 
Clad5 and Order. 
'DIANDRIA IIoNoGYNIA, 
Generic Charac7er. 
Cot. inzequalis. Filamenta tranfverfe pedicello affixa, 
Specific Charac7er and Synonyms. 
SALVIA formorn foliis fubcordatis, corollarum galen barbata, 
calycibus trilobis; caule frutefcefite. 1;'Herit. $t. irp.' 
nov. p. 41. t. x. ./lit. Kew. v. z. p, 43. 
SALVIA Leonuroides. Gloxin. Of. œot. p. 5' t. . 
SALVIA pyrialia. Dom& Per raft. 
This charming fpecies oF Sage, diffinguithed by its heart- 
th.aped gloffy leaves and fcarlet flowers, is a native of Peru, 
and was introduced to the royal garden at Kew, by Monf. 
THOUIN, in 783: it is now very generally cultivated near 
London, as a green-houfe plant; the foliage, but more efpe- 
cial!y the flower-cups, when bruifed, emit a fmell romewhat 
like Clary; the bloffoms which appear during th . latter part of 
rummet foon drop, even before they decay: the pIant is eafily 
.propagated by cuttings; in the win{er it requires to be placed 
n a warm and dry green-houfe and to be fparingly watered, 
being ten'der and apt to go off. 
In the figure and defcription of this plat, given by Monf. 
L'H,x in the work above referred to,. we may be faid 
to have a model of perfec'-'tion. 
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ERODIUM ROMANUM. ROMAN CRANE'S'ILL. 
la aad Order. 
MONADELPH{A PEN ANDRIA 
Generic Charaer.' 
Cal. 5-phyllfis. Cot. 5petaiaj e. $amu .5, turn filamcntis 
alternantes; et 'G/auI mellifer, .bari aminum infidentes. 
 ',us 5-coccus,' roratus; roa foiralia, introrfum barbara. 
ERODIUM romanm acaule, fcapis radicalibus multiflor/s, 
foliis pinnads, folio!is pinnatifidis, L'erit, ..x ,, 
GERANIUM myrrhinum tenuifolium, amplo riore putpureo, 
Bart. far. 568 t.  245, 
In point of folia, a great fiqilarity exifls btixt the pre- 
nt plant, and the GraMum cicutarium of:Lsmvs, a wild 
Bti native, common on many of the bnks and walls about 
London; there is alfo a confidetable aniy in the form and 
colour of their flowers; but the'ranmnum is a peffely. diinCt 
fpeci6s, differing in'having a r of longer duration, and 'hich 
is more properly rennial than annual; indeed e have no 
doubt but that, in its natul ate, it is perfe&ly fo: in the 
:ultivated plt {he flowering ems rife immediately from the 
ß oot, not from the alks, as in the G. ctarium. 
This lively little plant begins' flowering in April, nd 'con- 
inffes to do'fo durln m0 of the rummet onths, producing ' 
eds in abun'dan<% which 'flling on tle ground vegetate, and 
ereale the plant; e have indeed found that it is much.di 
pored to become 'h weed,' in dry pal}urcs,: or on rafs, noi 
'.Y - quently mown, which it mo'agreeab!y. enlivens, ' 
dry fituation fuits it be: c iS ,ell calculated to grow among 
fion . or rock-work. 
Cro-s fpomaneoufly in Italy, nd is laid by Lci t0 be 
f'md in the reets of P. ome ;. was cultivated in Chelfea garden 
m 724. 
Its 'feeds'are a curious dbje, the manfie in which they are 
?ached when perfe&ly ripe, in hot, dry wather, and the 
few-like form which the tail of the arills quickly affumes, 
' highly deferring of attntioo. 
ROELLA 
CILIATA.' PRICKLY ROELLA. 
CiaJ3 and Ordee. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA 
Generic Charatler. 
Cot. in{'undibuliformis, timdo claufo ftaminiferis valvulis. Stigma 
-fidum, Cap[ -1ocularis cylindrica in[era. 
Specific Charabler and Synonyms. 
ROELLA ciliata foliis ciliads, mucrone re&o. Liin. Sp. 
ed. 8' P' 4 t' Syfl. Fegeta& ed. x4. Murr. p. 
lit. Kew. v. x. p.  5. 
CAMPANULA africana frutefcens aculeofa, tore violaceo, 
Corem, Hort, v. . p. 77- t. 80, 
CAMPANULA af'ricana humilis piloœa, tore ex albido- 
Ianguide purpureo. $eb. if'he[ x. p. 5' t. 6. f, 
ACULEOSA mauritanica, ericze foliis hirfutis rigidis infefto 
mucrone pungentibus. œ1ukj4ln. 8. t. 
As a genus, Roella is very nearly related to Campanula. 
In a flower of this fpecies recently expanded, we fee diftin&ly 
five lhades of colour, which being difpofed in rings, or circles, 
produce a ftriking effe&; the bottom of the flower is white, 
ofa yellowilh ca[t, next ficceeds a circle of deep blue, inclining 
to black, with a fur[ace highly glazed, the next circle is greyith 
blue, refembling fatin, the next nearly white, and the outermoR 
pale purple. 
The anthera at'firK are clofely applied to the 'fur[ace of 
the corolla, and refemble fo many froall ridges; the ffigma, as 
in many other flowers does not affume its true appearance till 
the corolla is on the-decay, then it becomes bifid. 
This thrub of low growth, long fince known to the Dutch 
Botani{s, is a native of the Cape, and was introduced by 
Mr. M&ssos in x774; it flowers in June, and ontinues in 
bloffom feveral weeks: its foliage does not correfpond with 
the elegant appearance of its bloffoms; it is a green-houfe 
plant, ufually increared by cuttings, but not readily, nor is the 
p!ant fo eafy of culture as many others. 
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NARiSissus TENUIOR. SLENDER NARCISSU,, 
Cla and Oder. 
'Generic CharadeS. 
Petala  qualia; Neario infundibuliformi X-phyllo; 
mina intra Neafium. 
Specc Charades. 
ARCiSSUS tenuior foliis leafi ;ubulatis analiculatis, fcap 
uniflor% ne&fio brevi rotato plicato. 
In the month of May 794, i firft obferved this Narciffu 
in a tingle, but .moftly in a double flate, in the garden of. Mr. 
JAM.s MAoca, Florift at Walworth, who obtained bulbs 
of it from Holland, under the name of Narciqs flore ful: 
phureojunquifolius; by the Dutch it appears to have been long 
cultivated: of what country it'is a native does not appear 
yet; there is little doubt oir its being an European plant, 
being found to be perfe6tly hardy; as a fpecies it is ce'rtainl 
very diftin6t, though inferior in fize and beauty to many other,' 
Root the fize of a -hnall nutmeg, of a pale brown colour: 
leaves about a fpan long, very narrow, at their bafe fcai-cely 
quarter of an inch wide, .tapering gradually to a point, vhich 
fomewhat obtuf% the outer fide is convex and fomewhat flute' 
the inner c, oncave, not glaucous; Ralk fomewhat longer tha 
the leaves, round, flightly flattened, efpecially on its.'upper pa, 
fupporting on its fummit one flower .(I have :never obfervo 
more) this poffeffes a confiderable fr'agrance, lefs powerful th.. 
that of the fonquif, and more fo than 'that of odorus; the fpath. 
is membranous, length of the peduncle, which'is about,an ind'b 
long; flower, When fully blown, ftandg horizontally; tub. 
greenith, nearly cylindrical, fomewhat longer than the p. 
duncle; limb flat, divided into fix fegments, of a pale-yello 
or fulphur colour, ovate, the- three alternate fegments larger{ 
each terminating in a thort mucro; 'neary yellow, in fore 
like that of .biflorus, plaited, the margin of it as 'the flower ad. 
vances becoming brown 'the anth4ra of the three 1og  
[tamina 'vifible in 'the ]nouth of .it. 
!" 
DOL[CHOS LNOSUS. PURPLE DOLCHO s 
Clafs and Order. 
DIADELPHIA DECAI4D'RIA, 
Generic Chara7er. 
l&xilli bails dallis  pai'allelis oblongis alas fubtus comprimentibus. 
hoecific Charalter and fi}ynonyms. 
DOLICHOS lignofis volubilis, caule perenni, pedunculis ca- 
pitam, leguminibus Rrib&is tinearibus. Linn. 
lZegetab. ed. 4. Murr. p. t558. HorI. Cliff ,,tit. 
Kew. v. 
'CACARA fiv. e Phafeolus perehnis. Rump& .4rob. 5'P. 378. t.  86, 
The plant here reprefented bas very generally been regarded 
'as the Dolichos lignofus of Lz N 4 . t s, and we ar.e confirmed in 
the idea of its being t'o fi'om his own fiure in the I]ort. Cliff. 
and that in the Iferb .mboin. to which he refers, rather than 
}'tom its cc,)rdiing-' nh his fpecific defcription, for with trial 
the plant is evide,tly at variance, the feed:veffels being neithe 
ttraight n0i' linear, but evidently_ curved, as reprefented on t':_e 
ß plate: in their natoral fituation the concave part is ttirned up- 
wards. Ruiai'nxtdefcr. ibes the ger.men under the term cori. 
culum fcrm elevai.m, and the feed-veil'els as pa?um icurv,b 
Dr. Snrrn, on the contrary, takin no notice of the impro- 
..priety of I.i N N/Eus's defi:riptio.n, lays they are a little recurveal, 
whether this term be ftri!y app!icable to. the'feed:veffels i- 
the Linnaan fenfe of the word, may perhaps admit of a doubt' 
Rv,vs inforths us, that the feed-veffels of this plato are 
a common food throughout India, eaten as our French or kid: 
hey beans _are, to which however he obferves, that they are 
far inferior; of that extenfive .country it is confidered as a 
native, there are good grounds for regarding it alfo as a native 
of Spain find PortUgal: we were favourcd with feeds of it By 
Mr. JoxN W ½ 'rz, of Fleet-St,'eet, whehlad been gathered 
at Gibraltar by his brother, Liet/t W½ xE, of the 8d regiment 
This'plant, b :ar fi'om requiring a ttovc, is hardy enough t  
Bear our ordinary winters, when pl,ced againPt a w'11 in a 
fleltered part of the gard'/n; but it i: u{ha!lv kept in the gree.n- 
houfe as a elire'bet, for which it is well adyted, as i[ continues 
iF it has plenty of pot i'oom, during moiøt of the ibmruer to throw 
out abun'dance of bright purple flowers, in fqcceon  there loon 
hde, and are follov..:d by feed,veffelo, whi,.h ha e produced ripe 
feeds in my garden at B'rompton, and by tht fe th,_ plant is readil) 
increared. 
* Ifitrod. . Monf. Povx; t7/( 
+-Vid. Marxx  La ß of Bot. Term recu, 
C/aft' and Order.. 
TRIADRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic C&raer. 
,r. 6partita, campanulata, egulari t[gmata 3' 
Specie Charar  
_XIA 'qcolor-oliis enfiformibus ereis, fcapo-flexuofo fub- 
riflor9, fpathis thfco maculatis, tcnuiflime fulcao plicati 
.h e do not 'remember ever to hw, c been to forcibly firuck 
with the beautiful app mr- ice of a flower, as"with that of t 
r ia, no do we r:colletCt any one that can boat]; 
ß 'fo various, {b brilliant, and {b pleating; placed 
o the tmaryl!isformq4fimA, farnietfis, vittata, the 
,-s, Pelargomum t i-n; 9r a hundred other plan 
.note, tiful/brts, t. he ey would be fixed by this -lonc. 
a pl; -f taller 'growth than the Ixia crocata, tit,. ftv!l 
;totk *t ,_ jhtof about a foot ,and a half, the lower. half of it i 
n 'enveloped by the foliage, ufuatly timpie, round, fmooth. 
{hpporting on its ibmreit two or th:ee flowers, fomc- 
.in,e. more, leaves fword-fhaped, perfelly fmooth, extending 
erm0ft flower; flowers large, tkffile, encJofie d be' " 
expand in a bivalve membranous fleath, which, on  
r part particularly, is deeply grooved or plaitcd,-and th, 
of it is finely lotted; to fie the fingularity and beauty 
p,rt it is ncceffary to ufea froall magnifier: t:.e 
are fuperbly brilliant, the bate'of each petal is fine 
llox, the middle is marked with a large arrow-fiaped fp'" 
f a dark-purple hue, with the appearance of velvet, a line 
'hich cunq down through the, yellow altd terminates before 
dte bottom of the petal, the remainder of the petal 
colour difficult to defcribe (a kind of bright orange) die 
_11 are yellow, the' fSgma trifid, etch tgment purplifl 
-d bilqd. Though 'new to this country, this plant has oeen 
.-own lbrne years to the Dutch, we find it in the?r catalogues 
er the name of Ixiaflel/ata lricolor no doubt they received 
it from the Cape. Thi. fpecies is propagated With the {hrne 
that moff of the Ixias are, and requires the l.me manag  
.... lt,to be planted in a pot of bog-earth and fecured from 
It has ripened fee,l with'me at Brompton]; one capfhle 
-t ten. 
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IL"ENE 
[ -1 
ORNATAo DARK-COLOURED 
CATChFLY. 
ClaJ3 and Order. 
DEcAN D'RI A TRIGYNIAo 
Generic Cbara?er. 
Cal. ventricofus. Peta[a 5-unguiculata coronata ad faucem 
Calf :g-locularis. 
$pecific C3araer. 
SILENE ornata calycibus fruFtus oblongis carinatis pi.411 
leta.lis biffdis, foliis lanceolatis pubefcen'tibus vifcofi: 
planis, caule viti:ido. Air. Kew. v. . i. 9 6. 
The beauty of dfis plant confills merely in the colour of 
its flowers, which is dark red, fomewhat like that of the 
Clove pink; the plant itfelf is of rude growth, and require 
frequent attention to keep it in order: it grows readily, rifi] 
to the height of about two feet, blows freely .during molt ot 
the rumruer monthsi and ripens its feeds, from which the 
plant may ea.fily be raifed;'but it is molt commonly propa. 
gated by cuttings, ,,vhich flrike freely. 
It is firPt defcribed in. the Hort. Kew. and has not, to 
Imowledge, been figured till now; Mr. AXTON informs 
ß that it is a biennial, and vas introduced from the Cape 
Mr. Msso½, in 775' 
There are few greenhc;ul'es near London in ,hich t- 
plant-is not to be met with. 
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GL DIOLUS SECURIGER. COPPER-COLOURED 
CORN-FLAG. 
Clafs and Order. 
TRIAIq DRXA MONOGYN1A. 
Generic Charafter. 
r. 6-partira tubulofa tingens. Stamina adfcendentia. 
Specific CtJaratTer and Synonyms. 
ADIOLUS fecuriger foliis lineari-enfiformibusplanis, fauce 
labii lhperioris trilaminato: laminis ungui- 
lbrmibus perpendicularibus, bra&eis obtufis. 
Ait. Iiew. v. x. iv. 65: 
ß The termJ?curlger implies the carrying an ax or hatchet; 
tl  flower of this Gladiolus bears internally three p.roje&ing 
lamina, or thin plates, which have been fancifully compared 
 fo many hatchets; ,and'hence the name./?curiger. 
This fingular fpeeies of Gladio16s, fo, nearly related to fome 
o[ the Ixias, and firIt defcribed in the Hortus Kewenfis, is a 
of the Cape, and vas introduced in 774, by Mr. 
lASsON. 
t flowers in May and June, requires the fame treatment a 
[xiao in general, is a free blower, and produces offsets 
table abundance. 
lib 
'[ a,84' ]. 
CASSULA COTYLEDONø C^ssuL,, 
CI,' and Order. 
PEN3 ANDRIA Pv. NTAc NIA. 
Generic Caraer. 
Cal. 5:phyllus. 'Pet 5. Squam,e 5-nearifera ad bafi 
minis. Capf. 5'Pølyfperme- 
Specific ( ,araHer and Synonyms. 
CR. ASSULA Cotyledon foliis fubrotundis camoils fupr a pun&a. 
tis, caule arboreo. Linn. $yfi. ??egetab. ed.  
Murr. 4it. Kew. v. . p. 3. acq. Mircell.  
P' 95. t.  9' 
COTYLEDON arborefiezs caule ramoœo fucculento f61iL 
obverœe ovatis emarginati& mai-ginibus purpureis. 
Mill. Di7. ed. 6. 4to. 
In the habit of this plant, but more eFpecially in its foliage, 
there exiRs a great fimilarity to the Ctyledon orbictdata, 
figured t. 3 of this work; there will be found however robe 
a very great difference in the form of their. flowers, thole 0 
tbe C'raffula'.refemble tbe flowers of a Sedum; to which 
genus, indeed, it has great affinity, but a fingular trait 
this plant is its indifpofition to flower: Mr. F,XXR,R in 
forms me, that he neer law it produce bloffoms in Chelfea 
Gai'den till the prefent rum'met; Mr. M,.v. never tw it 
flower, nor does it appear that Mr. Aor4 ever did. At 
Chelfea Garden there are feveral plants of this fpecies, 
of which form finall trees; one of thole, b{.t not the oldeft, 
produced this rumruer feveral bunches of flowers, which con- 
tinued during May and June: in the treatment of thefe plant 
tbere has been no variation; they are conftantly kept in a glafs 
care with otber thcculents.. 
it is a native of the Cape, and was cultivated by 
in-t739 '. ' Is readily incrcaikd by cuttings 
 Air K½ 
MoNSONL LOAT^. 
MONSONIA. 
C/aft and Ordcr. 
POLYADELPHIA DODECANDglAo 
Generic CharafTer. 
5_phyllus. Cot. 5-petala. Sram. 5 connata in 5 fila- 
,tylu$ 5-fidus. Cœf. 5-cocca. 
Specific Chzra7er and Synonyms. 
MONSONIA loSata foliis cordatis lobgtis dentatis. lit. Hort.. 
Ifew. v. 2. p., ,oo. 
'vlONSONIA 1o13ata tbliis ovalo-cordatis fubJobatis, calycibus 
muticis. Linn. $)fi. l/egctab. ed. *4. Mrr. 
ß 697. 
ONSONIA filia foliis fimplicihus cordatis Iobatis. Limw 
Suppl. p. 342. 
MONSONIA lohata. Monti,. in agL gothob. 2. p, . t. 1o 
In the third volume of this work we have givcn a fig.ure 
md account of the Moffa fpeciofa, to which the prelint 
cies, in .its general habit, bears a great fimilitude, diffiSr- 
g principally in its foliage, which is undivided; the flowers 
re fmaller than thole of. fpeciofa, and more handrome in bud 
mn when open; they a're more fi'equently produced, but re- 
uire the influence df the fun to make them expand fully. 
It i,s a native of the Cape, and was introduced by Mr. 
M.so4 in 774- 
Flowers in April and May; requires the. fame  treatment 
d i propagated in the fame manner as thefiocciofa. 
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RANUNCOLUS PARNASSIFOLIUS. 
LEAVED CROWFOOT. 
pARNAS$IA- 
Cla and Order. 
POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIAo 
Generic Charaier. 
de,qduus 5-'lylh's (rarius 3-phylh,s). ['eta& 5 (radm 
z, 3,  e) ntra ungue.: fquamida vel poro mel. lifcro. Sty' 
pediftentes. Scm. incruffata ere&a. 
Specific CharacTer and Synonyms. 
RANUNCULUS parnaifolius foliis fubovatis nervofis li4eatu 
integerrimis petiolatis, floribus umbellati 
Linn. S)fi. F?œ'etab. ed t 4. Murr. p. 55 
ylit. Kew v. . p. 6 5. 
RANUNCULUS montanus-graminis parnaffi folio. ournef 
In the autumn of 796; I recdved roots.of this and fevera 
other rare and curious Alpi, ne plauts from Mr. NcK^ , 
S^osuR% at Geneva, and have been fo fortunate as to bring 
the prefent plant to flower with me early in the gumruer of 
797, .and to flmw figns of ripening fome of its fedds :, it grea 
ith me in a froall pot of loam and bog-earth, fheltered during 
the winter in a frame. 
Mr. AzxoN * informs us, that.this fpe ..... as introduce3 by 
Mefl¾s. Kx¾ and L[ , in t769, but there is no mendo, 
made of its flowering; froall indeed is, we believe, the number 
of Botanifts who have feen this plant in flower, as neither L- 
NEUS, MUllRAY, or Gt,rzi, refer to any figure of it; this 
has proved an additional inducement for us not to let the pre 
gent opportu,ity flip of przfenting to the botanical world a 
figure of this rare and precious jz'.:cl of the Alps. 
* Hort. Kew 
i 
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E?IL,DRU. ALOXES. 
PIDENDRUM. 
Clafs and Order. 
GYNANDRIA 
Generic Charaer. 
m mrbinatum obliquum reflexurn. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
NDRUM aloolum foliis radicalibus oblongis obtufis 
fuperne ltioribns. Lin. S)fl. Eg'etab. ed. 
4. Murr. p. 8x8. Spec. P1. ed. 3. P' 85 o- 
:I JR ,tM-MARAVARA. Rheede Walab.  . p.  7' t. 8. 
lent Epidendrum is figured and defcribed in Ri E E o 's 
,/, from whence we'!earn that it is parafitical to fe- 
ndia, but moff frequently ibund on the Strychnos 
rs fince, my friend Mr. VRE, of Kenfine, ton , re- 
plant œom India, by the kindhers of his neighbour 
., '"ES, Efq. Placed in a pot of erth and plunged 
u Fit of'the tove, it grew, increared, and now fiouri/hes, 
but , not blown: with Meffrs' GRMWO919 'and 
:rvmen, Kenfington, the-plant has flowered this rummet 
of plunging it in the tan, they fet it on the fine of 
:e; and to this variation in its treatment, ira flowering 
.haps to be attributed. 
o 1 ,es of this plant were/bmewhat more than a foot in 
rather flefixy, and very rigid; they had this fingularity, 
tremity one-half projeed beyond the other., the 
ß , branch fprung.from the bale-of the leaves and ex- 
led to about the fame length, the flowers grew in a fpike, 
n or eighteen, moffly alternate, they appeared to have 
ß t but pleating fragrance, the petals were of a dull purple 
,tr marked with deeper firipes, their' edges white or pale- 
'3ur, neary nearly the fame colour, r'evolute, trifid, 
gment marked about the niiddle with two yellow 
It i_ of more ready growth than pai7,afitical plants in general, 
'" increared by parting its roots. 
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ANOMALOUS 
OCTAN DRI. MONOGYN 
Generic Chrac7er. 
'-/5-v 4-fidus. Petala 4. Capfida columnaris, infera, 
laris. Bernina nuda,-angulolh, fungofa. 
Specific Charac?er. 
OENOTHERA anomala caule fruticofo3 foliis ovato-lanceo- 
lads dentads, flo.ribus Oenothera:, frue-tibus 
- Gaura. 
Seeds. of th'e prefent plant, a native of South-America, were 
lent by Profeffor ORT;C^, of Madrid, to the Marchionefs 
,f BUT;, in the year 795, by the name of Gaura mutabilis: 
her Ladyfifip molt obligingly communicated to us a part of' 
thofe, and many other rare and curious plants from the fame 
ountry, which in due time will appear in this work. 
The plants which we railed from feed, being fet in' the open 
,round, periihed by the feverity of the winter 796-7; one 
aifedfrom a cutting and kept in the greenhoufe was preferved, 
,nd now forms a firub about two feet high, a peculiarity not 
o be met with either in the Oenothera or Gaura tribes *; but 
his is not the only peculiarity. obfervable in this plant; its 
rueqification afbrds chara6'teis highly eccentric; the bloffom 
..., to all appearance, that of an Oenothera, differing merely in 
the form of its petals, which, when expanded, 'give to the flower: 
ß peculiar fquarenefs; the feed veffel correfponds equally well 
fith that of a Gaura, containing merely a few more feeds; in 
he time and rammer of the flowers expanding it agrees with 
The Oenotl'erafruticofa, notwithfianding its name, not being thrubby in 
 open ground; perhaps it might be fo i.n the greenhoufe, where flowering 
, zt m,ght prove a valuable acqmfitmn. 
the 
the Oenothera, .excepting ttt it is latex in the evening be 
the flower opens, fo late, indeed, that its blowing, unlefs p 
ticulafiy attended to, might efcape obferxation,.betre m9rni  
it clofes, changing in decay to a deep rich onmge. 
In Rri& propriety. this plant ought, perhaps, to be made 
new'genus of, according to what is at prefent known of th 
genera Oenothera and Gaura, as more fpecies. of each a 
difcovered, tfiey may poflibly befound to run into each othc 
it is poffible alfo, that other plants may be bund with fruq 
fications timilar to the one here figured, in that care there w,. 
be no hefitation in forming them into a new-genus. 
Should this.plant be bund too tender to bear our ordina 
froRs in the open air, Rill, as it-readily ripens its feeds in fucl 
fitu.ations, it may be railed yearly from feed, and..regarded . 
a tender annual, as Well as a greenhoufe plant. 
In the open border t flowers in September, in the greer 
houfe more early. 
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GAURA BIENNS. BENNI^L GAURA. 
Cl and Order.' 
OCTAN D,RI A MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Cbaraer. 
Ch,z 4-fidus, tubulofus. Cot. 4-petala, afcendens verfus latus 
dpeius. Drpa conicofa, infera, -1ocularis. Nx  fpema 
4 .angula, ' 
GAURA biennis. Lim $)fi. FegetaE e. 4. rr. . 358. 
LYSIMACHIA Chamner. io fimilis floridana, [oliis nigris 
punfiis, capfulis carinafis in ramulorum cymis. 
We have, here given a repreœentation oœ the Gaura biennis 
that its [lowers and feeds may be contralied with thole of the 
Oenothera anomala figured in the fame n. umber. Th flowers of 
the Gaura will be found to differ extremely in form and 
fituation œrom thoœe of the Oenothera, yet they agree preciœely 
i that curious.part oœtheir cocohorny, opening in the evening; 
the plan_t agrees alœo with many fpecies of that genus, in being 
a biennial. 
The prefent is the only œpecies of Gaura which, as vet; ha 
been difcovered.; it is a native of North-America, nd was 
introduced to this country in  762, by that excellent Gardene 
and truly reœpeable chara&er, Mr. J^zs GoR)o, of 
Mile-End. 
This plant,. which is o[' the hardy herbaceous kind, grows to 
the height of four or five feet, producing many branche 
xvhich on their œummits are thickly covered with white flowers, 
having roœe-coloured calyces; when expanded they produce a 
fine effeœ in the evening, fo as to juflify the name given to 
id"; much o[ their beauty remains in the morning: it is to be, 
obœerved that each flower opens only once. 
It bloffoms in Augul, September, and Oaober, and yield 
abundance o[ œeeds, which, if left to fcatter them[elves, pro- 
duce plenty o[ young plants and which o[ a proper age may 
fucceœsœully be tranfplanted. Being liable,' from its height, t 
fuffer from high winds, it is neceffary early and .carc['ully t 
lick it. 
* Gaura from the Greek '-,½, fuperbus. 
AGNOLI-'. PURPUREA. PURPLE MAGNOLIA. 
C/aft =n Og. 
POLYAN. DRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Generic Charer. 
3-phyllus. Petala 9' pfulm bivalves mbricat. 
etMna baccata ndula. 
Specific Charaer. 
MAGNOLIA purpuvca flofibus h.exatalis, petalis exm, 
purpureis. 
There is a magnificence about the plant of this genus vhi.cl 
-nders them unfuitable fubjeOs of reprefentation in a wo.rk 
the fize of ours; nor would it have 'been in our power 'to have 
, yen a figure of this new and beautiful fpecies, differing fo 
materially from al} the others in the-colour of its flowers, 
had we not fortunately been favoured by the Countefs o[ 
Cox xx, with a finall plant of it, about a foot highß which 
flowered with her Ladylhip in town'; we have fince lieen mcla 
larger plants with proportionate flowers. 
it is a native of Chinaß and is reported to bare firll flowered 
 the collefi'tion of tbe Duke of POXXL. , at Buiftrode; is 
n garded as a greenh'oufe plantß and molt probably will be 
bund. hardy enough witb a little /helter t-o bear the e.bld o[ 
aqr winters. 
Iv a ((onfervatory, when in a fiouri'fhing fiate, it will flower 
during motl of tbe fummer, and is increafed without mch 
difficulty by layers and cuttings. 
Defcription: Stalk fhrubby; round, green, marked with 
whitifl dots; leaves from tbree to nine inches long, and fmra 
-. and a half to four broad, ftanding on footltalk.s of a 
yellowi{h colourß ovateß running out to a {harp point, narrowed 
towardsthe bafe, flightly downy; flower'about the fize of a 
middling tulip, without fcent, cupping fomewhat in the fam 2 
,,ray, rarely fully expanding, at leaft in the greenhoufe; petals 
' in number, ovateß rather fiefhy,' the three outermolt ex- 
panding more than the three innermoft, all of a purple hue on 
the out fide, bale, midrib, and veins of a deeper hue, here and 
here gaffrod; calyx compofed of three leavesß which are ver$ 
flmfq fpreading, and turning down a little, of a pale greeh 
our; ftamina very n.umerous, filaments fcarcely perceivable, 
-_ra oblong flefly, with two cells opening inwardly; 
ilia numerous, forrning a coniq:al bead, rifing above the 
ß cornpored of numerons {hort ftyles placed clol 
tler, one above another, ofa purple hw 
PHILADELPHUS CORONARIUSo COMMOl 
'PHILADELPHU$, or MOcK-ORANGE. 
lCOS^NIRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charaer. 
CaL 4  5:P artltus, fuperus. etala  f. 5' Cap 4 f. 5'1o' 
cularis, poly fpera.. 
Specific Charaer and 8ynogms. 
PHILADELPHUS' coronarius foliis fubdentatls. Linn. 83fl. 
' eget.. e. 4. Murr, p 4o. it. 
v..p.55. 
SYRINGA alba, five Philadelphus Athenmi. Bauh, Pin. 
p. 898- 
FRUTEX' coronarius. Ch H. p. 55- f 1. 
The Philadelphus coronarius is one of the moil common 
-/hrubs of our gardens, and known to molt perfons b.y the name 
of Mock-orange, the bloffoms in point of fcent being fuppofed 
to have rome affinity with thole of the orange; in ou:' accour' 
of the Syringa vulgaris, or Lilac, p.  88, the reader will fin 
rome curious obfervations on the fcent of there flowers, by old 
GzgAtx), which are there .by miilake5 attributed to the Lilac, 
this the reader is requeiled to corre& 'and pardon. To prevent 
timilar miPtakes in future, it will be neceffary to ceafe applying 
the term Syringa to this plant altogether. 
This fhrub is haidy, and readily propagated by fuckers; 
u[ually flowers in 'May, but it is only.in feaœons unufually mild 
and favourablel that its bloffoms and foliage are feen in per- 
feEtion, 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 tbr t. hat 
purpofe it is a flrub often ufed. 
It was cultivated by G,,x,n in 2597. C,usius obferves, 
that he never law it in a wild {late, nor had he been able to 
determine whether it was known to the ancients  L.xNN,ss 
feems to have had his doubts as to its original place of growth, 
by putting "Habitat Ve,:onW' with a quere; M,,, fay: 
ß ahere it naturally grows is uhcertain; Mr. Aro defcribes t 
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 foliage, 
xvhich is apt to become wholly green. The leaves, as authot 
have obferved talte like cucumber. 
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pIIMUL LONOFOLI. LONo-LEAVED 
PRIMULA. 
Claj5 and Ordcr. 
PENTANI)RIA'MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Chara7er. 
crum umbellule. Coroll, e tubus cylindricus: ore patulo. 
PRIMULA lonœ'o%lia foliis fpathulatis, deniiculatis, utrinque 
nudis, port fiorefcentiam dongaffs, erefiufculis 
urnbella ereEta, multiflora, 
Fhe plant here figured we received, about three years fince, 
m Meffrs. GRMWOOD and Co. Nurthrymen, Knfington, 
to whom it had been recently fent from France by Mr. 
-x , Nurferyman, near Paris, but without any information 
as to ts original place of growth, 
We have found it to be a very hardy perennial fpecies, 
bearing a great affinity to the Primula farinofa, but differing 
from it in many effential points both of foliage and flowers, 
The leaves differ in form, colour, and mode of growth: when 
fully grown, taking two plants of an equal-degree of luxuriance, 
they are twice the length of thole ofjarinofa; indeed, from their 
unufual length, when fully grown, which they are not when 
in flower, proportioned to the fize of the plant,. we have 
hought that the term longifolia might well ferve as its trivial 
name. They are not mealy, the under fide being as green as 
tl.e upper; and they have a greater tendency to grow upright, 
the fcapus is fiorter and thicker, the flowers form a timilar 
hi)el; but each individual bloffom is fnmalief, and in point of 
mour much lefs brilliant: upon the whole, though thperior 
in fize, it is inierior to thefarinofa in beauty. 
It flowers early in May; is a plant of ready growth; will 
ucceed either in the pot or the open border, guarding it from 
he fun in rumruer, and from revere froft and too much wet in 
;-ter; is propagated by parting its roots, either in September 
'the beginning.of March. _ 
We have found it very liable to be injured by the: Aphis 
'lant-Loufe or Blighter. 
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BRUNFELSIA AMERICANA. AMERICAN 
BRUNFELSIA. 
Clafi and Orden 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Generic CharaeL 
Calx 5-dentatus, anguus. Comllm tubus Iongimus. Ca 
unilocularis, polylperma: conceptaculo camolb maximo.' 
Specc Charat7er and Synonyms. 
BRUNFELSIA americana foliis ellipticis, acuminatis, pe 
olis longioribus, corollm tubo ereo, limb 
integro. Lin. S)fl. Nat. Gruel p. 
Feg'etab. ed. 4. Murr. p. 3 
v. . p. 840. Swamz. Ob Botan. p. 
t. 4. fig. z. 
BRUNFELSIA flore albo, fru$[u croceo molli. Ph 
Gen.  . ic. 65. 
CATESBA ? tuticolh, foliis obl0ngo-ovatis, floribm fi 
gularibus. Brown yam; t 4 . 
PLUMIER gave tO this genus of plants the name of 
fea, in honour 6f Ox,o BuNvtzsus,-.ho at a v 
early period, 53 o, publifled figures of plants in ood, 
have been generally admired for'their fuperior excellence. 
Till lately the prefent plant was confidered as the only kno. 
fpecies, bu[ another' has lately been added by Prof. Sw.a 
_who .informs us that the Bruea americana inhabits 
mountainous parts of Jamaica, where it forms a tree from 
to fifteen feet high; in his Obrv. Botan. he gives a minu- 
delhription of it, and oblrves that the flowers are extreme 
l?agran. It was late in the prefent rumruer, hen we law 
plant here figured flowering in Mr. CozvzCs tan-ovc; 
fragrance to us was fcarcely perceptible: its bloffoms are larg 
and ewy, about the fize of thole of the llamanda catharti 
figured tab. 338, but of a much paler yellow, inclining to ful- 
phur colour; thel are produced during mo of the fOreroe 
months, and frequently in pairs. . 
' This rub has long been cultivated in this country* 
Mr. MILLER defcribes it in his Diionary;,in 
works, fo late even as Muaax's edition of the 
flands under the clafs Pentandria. 
It is ulhally increared by layers and cuttings. 
* By Muz in 
,/ 
Generic Caraa7er. 
½al),x -.phyllus, oblongus, levis. Petala 5, unguiculata: 
Litubo lhb-bifido. Capfula 5-1ocularis. 
Specific Charaa7er and Synonyms. 
LYCHNIS alpba, petalis bifidis, floribus tetragynis., Linn. 
$2fl. Feget. ed. 4. Murr. p. 435- Zit. Kezd, 
v. . p. xx 7. 
;ILENE floribus in capitulum congeRis. Hall. Helv. 376. 
Of thi genu there are many fpecies cultivated for orna- 
ment; to the number of thefe we add the one here figured, a 
native of the mountainous countries of molt parts of Europe, 
and which at a future period may poffibly be found wild in fom½ 
unexplored p.art of this kingdom. 
It is chiefly to the decoration of rock-work, that this dimi- 
nutive fpecies is applicable; for that purpofe it has all the 
tefirable requifites, being hardy, of ready growth, and forming 
 thick tuft of foliage, from Which arife numerous flowering 
terns, four to fix inches high, fuftaining heads of flowers 
rather large in proportion to the plant, of a lively red colour, 
:hefe appear in May, continue about three weeks, and are 
lollowed by' feed-veffels with us, which contain abundance of 
ripe feeds; by thefe the plant may eafily be propagated, it 
may, alfo be increafed by parting its roots, fpring or autumn. 
All plants kept in pots require to be regularly watered in dry 
"7eather; we have not found this Lychnis require an unufual 
uu. antity, though ML/,u was of that opinion. 
Cla r. ,d 6rder. 
D, Atq n. rOG 
Though a nativ.e of India, as its name implies this mao 
[icent fpecies of rage is found to be a hardy herbaceous pl 
requiring, indeed, a little extraordin, ary care to be taken o 
in revere winters; v(e have had it flower in great perle&ion. 
a large garden pot, butit will fucceed as well, or better, in the 
open border, where it will grow to the height of four or five 
feet, and produce luring the months of June and Jul" 
abundance of flowers, fingularly and beautifully marked. 
It may be increared by parting its roots in the autumn 
fpring, and alfo by feeds; the latter we have found to be b 
fparingly produced ifi our garden at Brompton, though  
conrider it as peculiarly favourable to the feeding qf plants. 
The beauty of tall plants, like the prefent, depends greatly 
on the pains taken in licking them; this bufinefs in general 
not f,ufficiently atended to, being frequently deferred till 
becomes a matter of neceffity rather than of choice; we woulc 
therefor/ recommend it to our readers to let about it earl,, 
loon after the plant .emerges from the ground, efpe.cially r 
refpec'-t to all thole which are furnifhed with tendrils, or have 
twining [talks; the due execution of this work requires jud 
went, and will admit the difplay of rome tafte. 
It appears that Mr. M i- cultivated this' Sage at Chelf,-a 
in the year 73 , and yet even now it is a plant rarely feen' 
gardens. 
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1V[ESE?'IB R--ANTHE MUM SPECTABILE. 
SH,EWY 
Clafi and Or& 
ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYN IA. 
Generic Charaer. 
n2us. Petala numer9fa, linearia. Capfula carnora, 
polyfperma. 
Specific Charater. 
VlESEMBRYANTHEMUMfpettabile, foliis perfoliatis, Ion, 
giffimis, glaucis, punatis, integerrimis, h'i- 
quetris, apice fubulatis, caule lignofo adfcen- 
dente. Haworlh. VIemb. .p. 385.. 
vlr. Hax;oax.t, in his obfervations on the genus Mefem- 
,nthemum, gives to this fpecies the name of fpec7abile, its 
as being uncommonly fhewy. 
thi tribe.there are fpecies whole flowers are fnperior in 
ß nd brilliancy of colour to the prefent, whole leaves are 
c 'remarkable for the fingularity of their form', yet io point 
mment, this, perhaps,_is of all other the molt defirable, 
it continues to produce its fine large pdrple flowers during 
c whole of the fummer, is of ready growth, .and raifed with- 
ut difficulty 'from cuttings. 
t has been introduced to this country within there few y. ears, 
noft probably from the Cape, by Mr. M^ssoN. 
Fo Mr. H^xvoaxWs defcription of the foliage we have only, 
add, that the leaves fometimes throw out internally a tooth 
.r their extremities, as ;.s fhewn in our figure. 
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Cla and Order. 
ENT iNDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charac7er. 
Cor. campanu!at.a, findo claufo valvis ftaminiferis. 
fidurn. Capf. infcra, poris lateralibus dehilkens. 
Stigma 
Specific Charaer and Synonyms. 
CAMPANULA perficifolia (var. maxima) foliis radicalibus 
obovatis, caulinis lanceolato-linearibus fubfer- 
ratis feffilibus reinotis. Linn. S)fl. l&g'etab.. 
ed. 4. Mzrr. p. 
Mr. DXCKSON, of Covent-Garden, favoured me lal't Spring 
with roots of this. plant, received by him from South-Carolina, 
in  79  
Th 2 who have been accuttomed to fee the Campanulaperfid 
folia i  its tingle t}ate, now but rarely mot with in our gardens 
the two varieties ;.'th double flowers having ufurped its place, 
will perceive in poi t of general habit a ttriking fimilaritv 
bet;,vixt it and the prefent plant; the' only difference ifideet 
appears to confil in fize, and as fize alone forms no fpeci 
:harater, we have been induced to regard this magnificen 
plant as a variety of that fpecies. , , 
C^v. B^vxtxg enumerates a large'variety of Campanu.. 
'perJic.i/olia, which he calls var. major  on confulting the 
figures to which he re[Ers, we cannot regard his and ours - 
the fame, hut are inclined'to lhppofe that the latter plant is.' 
variety altogether new to the European world. 
Hooever this may prove, by the-introduEtion of the prefent 
plant our flower borders gain a moff defirable ornament; nd 
the acquifition is the more valuable, as the plant is very hardy' 
and eafy of culture, increaring by its roots, which are rome- 
what creeping,, and may be-parted either Spring or Autumn. 
In a moiff rich foil,'it will'acquire the height of three or 
four feet, and produce during the months of AUguff and Sep- 
tember abundance of flov:rs truly magnificent. 
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Rose CAMPION. 
UMBEL'D 
. Cla and Order. 
DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Generic Charaler. 
ß t-phllus, coriaceus. Petala 5, unguiculata. Zœmo obtufo, 
indivifo. Capf. x-locularis. 
Specific Charaler and Synonyms. 
AGROSTEMMA ]los ]ovis: tomentofa, petalis emarginatis. 
Linn' $2) PL625.' 2{iL w. v. 2..p. xx6. 
LYCHNIS coronaria fylvefiris. Bauh. Pin. 2o4 Motif. t-bfl. 
2. p. 450. f. 5' t. 36. f. 2. 
From the high-fldwn epithet of Flos ]ovis, beltowed on this 
ß pecies of lgroflemma by rome of the old Botanift, one would 
e led to conclude that the plant muft be one .0f a fuperior 
rder, and fuperlatively beautiful: fuch, however, 'it is not; 
t is it fufficiently ornaniental to merit a place in .every 
over-gardn, and into which indeed .i has 'been very geneially 
ntroduced. /[ ' "..cultivated .it in , 726. 
It is a hardy pete, l; a native of the Swifs and Piedmon_ 
tefe mountains, growingto the height of about a foot and a 
half; its leaves and /talks are covered with a white woolly 
fubfiance; 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 prefers a foil moderately/lift, and may be ro a ated by 
?rting its roots, but feedlings make the befl: plf, Jts, p grd fr 
-ed it may be raifed 'without- a,y difficulty. 
PRIMULA CORTUSOIDES. CORTUSA-LF. AVE  
PRIMULA. 
-,- -,- -,- -,,-, .,. . x%:, ß -,- ...--+{+  .. 
Claj and Order. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charaler. 
Znvolucr. umbellula. Corolhe tubus cylindricus: ore pat 
Specific CharaCter and Syneny,Js. 
PRIMULA cortuJides, foiiJs petiolatis cordads fublobati 
natis. Linn. h]yfl. l/egetab. ed.  4. Murr. p.  9 
Gruel. Sib. v. 4- t. 45. 
This very rare fpecies of œrinula, called eortu3ides, on 
count of the fimilitude of its foliage to that of the Cort 
blatthioli of L.us, is a native of Siberia, and figured 
by GgL. 
To increaœe our colleEtion of œrimula's, now conrifting 
thirteen dillinEt fpecies, we purchafed this plant' about two 
years fince of Meffrs. Lzz and Kzzu, Nurferymen, 
Hammerfmith, who had jutt received it from abroad. 
In the wrinkled appearan.ce of its foliage , i approaches th 
t'rimula acaulis, and others of that dlvilion, while, in its in- 
florefcence, the colour of its flowers, and fi)litary fcapus ('which 
,fifes to an unufual height) it bears an affinity to the .fir/n0fa. 
Being yet a very rare plant, it will be neceffarv to treat i 
ith unufual care, to keep it in a pot filled-with eual parts 
loam and bog-earth, to place it in a moitt fhady fituation 
the Summer, and in a frame in the Winter.. 
It flowers in June and July, and may be riifed from feedS, 
or propagated by parting its.roots; but is aptto be 1olt if not 
duly attendeel to, " 
In the Winter it lores its leaves entirely, and forms a fort 
of bulbous hyberncUlum under ground; this circumttance -i' 
the more neceffary to be known, -as it fubjeEts the plant-to be 
hrown away as dead. 
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Lsvsnuns DENT^'r^. 
½!afs and Order. 
DIDYN MIA GYMNOSPERMIo 
Generic Charac7er. 
Ualyx ovatus, fibdentatus, bra&ea fuffultus. Covvlla relhpinata. 
$1amina intra roburn. 
6)ecific Charac7er and Synonyms. 
LAVANDULA denrata fohis feflilibus linearibus pe&inato- 
pinnatis, fpica coar&ata comofa. Linn. 
ed. 4. Murk: 53o..etit. Kew. v. 
STCECHAS dentara: foliis pinnato dentaris. Mill. Dii. 
ed. 6. 4to. 
ST(ECHAS: folio ferrato. Toothed Sticadoue. Get. 
47 ø- f- 3- 
lhe old Botanits, whom Mxi. I. ZW has followed, made thi 
plan' r Stcechas; LINN/IUS claffes it with the Lavender3. 
tnc: are few tender plants that have been fo long culti- 
 in :mr gardens as this; we find it figured in 
obirves that it muff be covered in the Winter from 
corn, or elfe let in pots or tubs with ß earth, and carried into 
nottiEs; thus did they preferve their tender plants be[bre the 
introduCe. ion of green-houfes. 
latg. has given a very good account of this plant, which 
we cannot do better œhan copy, juff obferving that he de- 
fcribes the leaves as of a grayifh colour, which they can fcarcely' 
be faid to be, efp,ecially if contrafled with thole of the pinnata 
figured in the prefent number, and which he had never feen. 
"The dentara grows naturally in Andalufia in Spain, and 
alfo about Mercia; this has a !igneous ffalk, which riles 
"two or three, feet high,' furnifhed with branches on every 
"fide, which are four-cornered, and garnifhed with leave, 
"placed oppofite by pairs, indented regularly on both fides;, 
"aimoff to the midrib, in form of winged leaves; they are of 
*'a grayifh colour, have a plearant aromatic odour, and 
"biting warm taffe. The flowers are produced in fca, ly fpikes 
"at the end of the branches, ftanding upon long naked foot- 
' ttalks, they are four-cornered, hairy,. and about an inch 
' long, terminated by a few purplifla leaves, in the like man- 
ner as the oher forts which incline me to keep it joined to 
' them; it flowers great part of the Summer, but the feeds 
very rarely ripen in England. It is propagated by flips or 
"cuttings." 
II, 
LAVANDULA PINNATA. 
LAVENDER. 
PINNATED 
Cla and Order. 
DI DYI%AMI A GYM N O $P'E R iI I A.o 
Generic Cara7er. 
Calyx ovatus, fubdentatus, brae-tea fuffultuso Corolla'refipinatao 
Stamina intra tuburn: 
5'pecifi c Chra7er and Synonyms. 
LAVANDULA œinnata foliis petiolatis: foliolis cuneiforml. 
bus, fpica imbricata. Linn. Syfl. k'eget. ed. 
'Murr. p, 530. ztit.' Kew. v. -. p. 88. 
œinn. Fil. Diff. de Lavandula n. 4. t. . 
LAVANDULA maritima Canarienfis fpica multiplici-cevulea, 
ß Pluk. alm. .o 9. t. 8o3.f. 5' ]acq, Pl. rar. c. 
eeet. . t. 9' 
The Lavandula pinnata is a green-houfe plant, comparatively 
of modern introdu&ion, a native of Madeira, a½i:ording.to 
M^ssos, and brought to this country in i777. 
It riles to about the fame height as the dentara, but differs 
from it materially in the form and colour of its foliage, which 
is of a whitifl hue, ftmewhat refembling that. of the Othonna 
pe7œnata; it differs alfo 'in.ha;ing little or no fcent, an 
equal degree of difference s obfervable in the fpikes and 
flowers of the two plants, the former are molt commonly 
branched and the latter large and purple, while in the dentata 
they are froall and white; it would be needlers to point out 
feveral other obvious differences.' 
The dentata rarely ripens its feeds with us, but the œinnata 
does readily, and by them it is belt-railed, 
Both there plants are common to our green-houfes; the 
dentara recommends itfelf by the neathelk and charming 
fragrance of its leaves, the other is altogether the more 
flewy plant, though, in this refpe3, it is not equal to 'many. 
others; our readers muir not expec to find on every plate 
an Ixia tricolor or a Ciflu$ formom 
ERICA VESTITA. fVa'. CocciZea).' RgD' 
FLOWER'D TREMULOUS HEATH. 
ClaoD and Order. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 
Generic Chara7er. 
ß 4-phyllus. Cot. 4-fida. Filamenta receptaculo inferta. 
4nther,e biffdie.. Capri 4-1ocularis. 
Specific Charat7er and Synonyms. 
ERICA vflita coccinea, mudca foliis lnis iinearibus fecundis, 
floribus axillaribus clavatis villofis. [hunb. œrod. 
p. 7 o. 
The plant originally introduced to this country, and called 
rata in the royal gardens at Kew, where it has flowered fince 
publication of the Hort. Kewenfis is diftinguilhed by its 
'or height, by having its ftems very thickly covered with 
3' remarkably fine and delicate, fo as to be tremulous on 
flighteft {hake, and by having bloffoms of a pure white 
dour; fuch is generally undedtood to be'the original and 
ru, Erica vefl#a. 
Unf,rtunatety this genus of plants fe,ems to be prolue"tive 
.r as many varieties as the œelargoniums, which are now bet 
'"e fo numerous that they may be laid to be literally "be- 
' y,,nd the power of Botanifts to number up their tribes," 
Mr. Lo-nDgES, Nurferyman of Hackney, wll known for 
extenfive collec'--tion of plants in generalg and of this tribe 
particular, in the yetr 789, railed a crimfon variety of 
'' plant from feeds, which, in its general habit, bore a reat 
ß cfemblance to the original veflita  and lately Mr. Wx z L i AMS, 
-rferyman, of Turr/hamGreen, has' railed another variety, 
veeing with .the other in the colour of its flowers, but more 
-ftantly related to the true one:befides thefe, there';is a 
vqita with purple' flowers. - 
We have given a figure of Mr. WLL.X&gs's variety, as 
the plant.we had of him (flowering at a mor4œavourable time 
.œ the year)' aflbrded the bell fpecimen. 
In their periods of flowering, thefe feveral varieties.are not 
'-gular as rome others producing their bloffoms during 
mt [ of the Summer months, and fometimes even in the Winter. 
f They are all railed with difficulty from cuttings, more readily 
?m feeds, by thofe who are acc,uttomed o it. The Cape, fo 
tertde in heaths, is the fpot which producs ,them, -and from 
l'-nce feed may fometimes be obtained. 
II. 
[403'] 
AggcA FLAX. 
Cla and Order. 
PITAIIlvP. I A PrAG¾1IA. 
Generic ½baraglbr. 
Cal. &phyllus. Petala 3. Capf. 5-valvis, o-locularis. Sent. 
folitaria. 
Specific Charafter and Synonyms. 
LINUM afribanum follis oppoiltis lineari-lanceolatis, floribus 
terminalibm pedunculatis. 8p. PL {o. tit. Kew 
1588. œ'Herit. 8tirp. nov. tom. 2. tab. 3' 
LtNUM africanurn foliis oppofitis lineari-lanceolatis, caule 
frutefcente. if'hun& Prod. p. 57. 
The Linum africanurn is a'very neat and pretty greenhoufe 
plant, arifing to the height of two or three feet, and pro- 
ducing during the months of June and .July' abundance of 
yellow flowers, the buds of which iu particular are very 
beautif/al. 
It is a native of Africa, and was introduced to the royal 
garden at Kew, in 77, by Monf. RCHAaD. 
It is ufually 'railed from cuttings, which are ftruck without 
ditficulty. 
C,AVA'UZ, A OZ,ZS.' $Ot 
Cl m 0. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGN IA. 
Geerf 
Corolla campanulata fundo clauro valvis flaminfferis; Stigma 
trifidum; Capri infera, poris lateralibus dehifcensl 
Specific Charaer and Synodfires. 
LMPANULA mollie. cap[ulis quinquilbcularibus pedunc 
latis, caule prorato, foliis fuborbiculatis, 
Zinn. Syfl. .Feg'et. ed. . 
Nat. Gruel p. 85- 
VIOLA mariana minor clea, folio fubrotundo, calyce cor- 
niculato. Barv. ic. 75g- 
CAMPANULA rotundifolia hirfuta faxatilis folio molli, 
Bocc. rice. 83. 
Mr. FAIRBAIRN has long cultivated this rare fpecies oœ 
Campanula at the Apothecaries Garden, Chelfea, where he 
firR railed it from feeds, given him by Mr. HuDso,, in 788, 
who received them fi-om 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 curiouss 
feedling plants, when old enough to flower, throw out on all 
fides procurebent 'flowering Items, which die away after ripen- 
5ng the feeds, and are fucceeded by others: as this procefs goes 
on, the Item, arifing from the centre oœ the plantl flowly and 
gradually acquires a dwtrfifh height, and' becomes thrubb¾. 
We have no doubt but, where the plant grows naturally wil, 
t tour form a beautiful covering to the rocks on which it 
is found. 
Being a native of countries much warmer than our own, it 
is neceffary to mke'it a greemhoufe plant; it will bear even 
the warmth oœ the ove, and flower and ripen its teds the 
more freely for it. On a 'flelf, in the front of the ove at 
Chelfea, Mr. F^B. bas'it flowering and feeding, Spring, 
Summer, and Autumn; there in the pots it tatters its teds, 
which produce lj)ontaneonfly young plants in abundance; by 
teds,' indeed, the plant is eafily raifed,witl difficulty in an3 
-ther way. 
The leaves oœ the ca!vx, in this plant, are remarkable for 
fir fize md u'row-lhapdd form'. 
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LAGERSTR(MIA INDICA. NDIAN 
LAGERSTR(EMIA. 
Cla and Orden 
OLYADRIA MOOGYIA. 
GeneWc Chare 
Cog  petala, crifpa. L fi fidus, campanulatus. Sram. multa, 
hoturn fi exteriora craora, petalis longiora. 
Specie Charaer and Synonyms. 
LAGERSTRMIA inn. Syfl. FegeL ed. 4. Mur p. 495. 
Mant. p. 4. ou: . Cochinchin, 
v. . p. 3o. hunb. Fl. Jap. p. 
Rumpfi arab. 7' P' 6. lab. 8.. 
SIBI vulgo Fakudfitqua. Kp amen. 855. 
Of this genus, named in honour ofM.,cN us L.ov. RsrRo v b 
Dire6or of the Swedifh Eaft-India Company, there is only one 
fpeies as yet known, and that a native of China, Cochinchina, 
and Japan; it is detribed minutely by TsvsR% alfo by' 
RUMPHIUS, and very Charaeriftically by KAMPFER. 
According to thefe authors, in its native country it grows to 
the heigbt 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 flewy, no wonder therefore that the 
natives flould be in the pracCtice of planting it about their 
houfes and their gardens. 
The petals are curioufly crifped or curled, each petal re- 
fembling, in miniature, a leaf of fome of our varieties of 
cabbage: .K   v v E e, compares them to the mefentery. 
The parts of frucCtification in this platit vary greatly in point 
of number, and have no fmall affinity to thofe of .the genus 
Lythrum. 
According to Mr. At'ro, it was introduced to the Royal 
Garden at Kew, by-Huox, 
in 759.' 
I: flowers from Auguft to O6-tober; but in the green-houfe, 
'where it is recommended by Mr. Aro to be kept, it is not a 
very ready blower,---in th Rove it bloffoms more freely. 
May be increared, w4thout 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 
ß . o. entitled Chinenfia Lagerftroemiaua, 
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CINERARIA CRUENTA. PURPLE-LEAVED 
CINE.RARIA. 
'-' 
ClaJ3 and Order. 
SYNGENESI POLYGAMIA SUPERIUA. 
Generic Charac7er. 
Recept. nudum. lappus capillaris. ½al, fimplex polyphyllus 
aequalis. 
Specific Charac7er and 
CINERARIA cruenta floribus cymofis, foliis cordaris ahgu- 
latis fubtus 'purpurafcentibus: pefiolis bari 
auritis. L'Herit. $ert. tngl. n.  . t. 33- tit. 
Kew. v. 3' t. 2. Linn. Syfl. Nat. ed. 3' 
Gruel. p.  238. Mill. Dill. ed. Mart. 
Of t-he many ornamental greenhoufe plants introduced by 
Mr. M^sso, this is one of the molt defirable; as a fhewy 
plant, it has indeed few equals, 
Its ffem is herbaceous, firing to the height of two, or even 
three feet, furnifhed with leaves which alfo are ornamental; 
the rummits'of the branches are covered with a, p.rofufi6n of 
purple flowers, rome of which begin to expanct m January, 
and are followed by others in fucceffion through the whole of 
- the Summer; by candle-light they exhibit an 'ex, traordinary 
degree of brilli'ancv. 
The Cineraria cuenta is a native of the Canary Ifles, and 
was introduced to the royal Garden at Kew, by Mr. MAssoe, 
'in t777: Monœ L'HTa firll figured and def:ribed it in 
'his $ert.' inglic. giving it the name of cruenta, as we fuppoœe, 
from the red colour-which enlivens the under fide of the leaves 
It is propagated by parting its roots, and during Summer 
requireg a greater degree of moiure than m,any other plants. 
Its feeds ufua!ly prove abortive. 
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II 
Ii 
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Ros 
POMPONE ROSE. 
Much pains have been taken by the late Mr. Ax:ro in the 
rt. Kew. t') fettle the different Roles, cultivated in olaf 
-ardens in his time; in this difficult bufinefs, as well as in the 
,le of his mo ufeful work, he wa- affit[ed (as he acknow- 
ges in his dedication) by men more lea H than hirnfelf; 
may conrider therefore his account, _ f it goes, to be 
rfectc as can reafonably be expe&ed in matter of fuch 
tn.cacy. 
here are two roles (from the names they bear, evidently 
n'rench origin, Meaux being the name of a tovn in France, 
pronounced a6 if written Mo) introduced to our gardens 
,. the time of'MLIER, and 'held in-very high et[imation, 
the greater and fmaller Ro de Meaux of the Hort. I(ew. 
')nfidered by Mr. A:ro as varieties of the R.ofa provihcialis, 
:latter of thefe (the one here .figured) is generally known 
Nurferymen and othe;rs as the Pondpone Role; we received 
as fich from Mr. M^LiE:r, of Guernfey, a gentleman very 
_rfant in plafits, very fond of their culture, and to whole 
,,dnefs we are much indebted. 
This role from its root throws' out numerous ftems, which 
v exceed a foot or a foot and a half in height; they are 
a!ly f/raight, rigid, and very prickly; the flowers are 
, r than thole of any other double role, genfirally of the 
ß e of thofe reprefented on the plate, and particularly diftin- 
r'4fh,d by the brilliant colour of the eye or central petals; a 
ß ',er of'this fort jure- on the point of expanfion is fuperlatively 
.autiful.' 
Avo makes i.t a variety of-the Rofa provlncialis; we 
cultivated it many years in our garden at Brompton, 
have always found it conftant to its principal chara&ers, 
to diflier in many effintial points from the greater Role 
kleavx of the fame authqr. 
requires an open fituation, a pure air, and a light foil; 
proved by-manure. and' watering in dry Summers. 
'g flowers are produced in June, and the plant is increared 
'ckers, which are not very plentifully produced, nor ex- 
to. any length. 
- roots fhould not be divided 6ftener t'han once in three 
; if the old wood be cut down every year, after the. 
nt has don/ blowing, this role will throw out more vi 
,rous floots and bl.offom more freely. 
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CALENDULA TRAGUSo BENDING-STALKEn 
MAR0ol... 
C!afi and Order. 
GEIES1A POLYGAIHA NCSSARIA, 
Generic Chara7er. 
Reeept, nudum, Pappus o, Cal. polyphyllus fubequalis, 
8era. difci utplurimum membranacea, 
Specific Charat7er and Synonyms. 
CALENDULA ragus caulefcens foliis alternis linearibus fub- 
integerrimis pilofiufculis, feminibus fuborbi- 
culatis. qit. Kew. v. $. p. 27. Linn. 
Nat. ed. 3' Gmel, v. 2. p, 1272, Mill. DiD. 
e.d, Mart. 
This fpecies of Marigold, a plant iiot uncommon in our 
colle&ions of greenhouti plants, i. a native of the Cape, and 
was introduced by Mr, MAssoN In X774. 
It flowers in May and June, and is raifed with facility from 
cuttings. 
The only account we have of-this plant ,s in the Hort. Key' 
'of Mr. AITON, where it is firft defcribed. 
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AMARYLLIS AUREA. GOLDEN AMARYLLIS. 
Clafi and Order. 
HEXANDRIA MONOG'N IA 
Generic Charat7er. 
t,;r. hexapetaloidea, irregularis..Filamenta fauci tubi inferta, 
declintta, inequalia proportione vel direœtione. Linn. 1l. p. 4 t 5' 
Specific Charat7er and Synonyms. 
AMARYLLIS aurea corollis bari tubulofis fexpartitis, laciniis 
linearibus undklatis, ttaminibus corolla brevi- 
oribus. L'Herit. Sert. .4ngl.. p, '4. t. , 5. 
MARYLLIS aurea floribus pedicellatis ere&iuti:ulis, corolli 
infundibuliformi-clavatis fubhexapetalis: laci- 
nils lineari-lanceolatis, ftaminibus piltilloque 
re&is, foliis linearibus ere&is canaliculatis mar- 
gine reflexo glabro. Linn. Fil. .4it. Kew. v. 2. 
P' 4 t 9' Mill. Di[1. ed. ,¾[art. 
Mr. ALTON in his Hort..Kew,. informs us, that this elegant 
hecies of Amaryllis was introduced from China, by J'our 
'OTUUo.L, M. D, in 777, that it is a flove plant, and 
flowers from Auguft to September. 
There are but few of the Chinefe plants that require the heat 
of a ftove; the prefent fpecies would no doubt live in a good 
greenhoufe, but the general pra&ice confirms the propriety of 
giving it more heat, pai'ticularlv when coming into bloflbm; 
.he flowering indeed of many grenhoufe plants, efpecially thole 
,,f the bulbous and tuberous kinds, is greatly improved by a 
,ra&ice of this for. 
Such as wilfh to fee a minute defcription of this plant, may 
.onfult the Hort, Kew, of Mr. AroN, .or Prof. M.auv¾N's 
edition of Mtsu's Di&ionary; it will be fufficient for us 
) obferve, that it grows to about the fize of the .drearyIlls 
formofiJfima, that it is chara&erifed by the upright growth of 
ts flowers, which are of a pale orange colour, having narrow 
and fomewhat undulated fegments, with a greenith keel; its 
ftyle is very long, and its ftigma bright red- 
Like many other bulbs, it blows very irregularly, and is 
propagated by offsets which are produced in tolerable abun- 
dance. 
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IxA RURO-CYANFA. Rr)-B.u 
TRA-]0R ^ MOOGYNIA. 
Cot. 6-p, arfita, 
latula. 
IXl[A 
IXIA 
Generic Charalter. 
patens, asqualis. ,Stigmata 3, erec'Ttiufculo. 
Specific Charalter and Synonyms. 
ruro-cyanea foliis oblongo-lanceolatis vilt'ofis plic 
diftichis, [patha trivalvi, corolle limbo patentiffimo. 
yacq. It'. rar. . t. 85. Colle& 3. P. 68. 
rubro-cyanea foliis oblongo-lanceoiatis plicatis villot  
fcapo t)liis breviore, fpathis tubo brevioribus. Lin 
Sp œL ed.  5' 14/illden. p. 98. 
The I'xia here reprefented was drawn laff Summer from 
fpecinu n unufually fine, which flowered with Mr. Corvxrr, 
Nurfery King's-Road, May ", 797; it appears to be 
a very cfifli_ t fpecies, not lefs diffinguifhed for the fingularity 
than the brfiliancy of its colours, and is one of thole recently' 
imported from the Cape by way of Holland. 
It is propagated in the t3.me way and fucceeds with the fame 
treatment as other Ixias; care .muff 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. 
Dscaxv xo.Stalk from fix to nine inches high, round, 
villous, leafy; Leaves phited, villous, ver. y flrongly fo below; 
Spath 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 thole of the Gladiolus Jkcuriger, or rather 
larger; Tube about half an inch in length, dingy purpl e' 
Brim divided into five fpreading fegments, upper part of a 
fine ultramarine blue on. the infide, the lower part the richer 
crimfon, dazzling the eye of the beholder; Filaments three 
placed round the Piftil; Antheras yellow above, purple below 
Style projec'ting romewhat beyond. the Antheras  Stigma trifid, 
each fegment expanding fo 'as to be nearly flat, and edged 
xvith ftrong hairs. 
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PHLOX SUBULATA. AwL-LEAVED PLOX, 
or LYCHNIDEAo 
Cla and Order. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charac7er. 
(.or, hypocrateriformis. Filamenta inequalia. Stigma trifidum. 
,al. prifmaticus. Capf. 3Aocularis, x-fperma. 
Specific Charac7er and Synonyms. 
PHLOX fubulata foliis fubulatis hirfutis fioribus oppofitis. 
ß Linn. Sp. PL p.   7' 
LYCHNIDEA blattarie accedens virginiana minor repens 
hirfutis Camphorata foliis, floribus fiftulofis in um- 
bellam fitis. Pluk. Phyt. t. 9 8. . 
This plant, a hari:ly herbaceous one, is a native of Virginia, 
and has been introduced to this country within thefe few years. 
Left to itfelf its Rems trail on the ground, the young fhoots 
are of a reddilh hue, and flightly villous, the leaves are 
edged with hairs, fubulate, oppofite, recurved, and rather 
fiefhy, producing others from their ala, becoming as the plant 
grows old of a brownilh colour, which renders the plant in 
rome degree unfightly; the flowers are produced from one to 
tlree or four in an umbel, drooping before they expand, the 
cal 'ces are villous,' the flowers pale purple or flelh colour, 
enlivened by an eye of dark but brilliant purple difpofed in a 
liar-like form, anthera yellow. 
Flowers the beginning of May; the flowers are extremely 
pretty, but delicate, reqtiring the fhelter of a hand-glafs or 
greenhoufe during the period of their bloffoming, which is of 
lhorter duration than in molt of the other fpecies. 
This plant fhould be renewed frequently by cuttings, which' 
qrike readily; it may be fuffered to grow either in its natural 
rocumbent way, or be made to appear .to more advantage 
by training it to a frick. 
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IRxs CRISTAT.o CRESTED IR'IS. 
Clafi and Order. 
Tt x, rixx, MooGrtq x,, 
Generic Charat7er. 
Corolla 6-partita inaqualis, laciniis alterhis, geniculato- 
patentibus, ftigmata petaliformia cucullato bilablata. 
8p'cific Chara7er and Synods'ms. 
IRIS criflata corollis barbatis, barba criftata, caule fubunifloro 
1ongitudine foliorum, germinibus trigonis, petalis fub- 
-zequalibus. Ait. Kew. v. . p. 7 o. Smith $picil. t. 
It appears from the Hort. Kew. vhere this plant is firf- 
and minutely defcribed, that it is a native of North-America, 
and was introduced by Pv. TV.R CO'LXNSO, Efq. in 756. 
Authors have defcribed this plant as having a creeping root 
but perhaps not with ftriEt propriety; to us it appears to in- 
creafe much in the fame way as moft others of the genus, with 
this differenc% that when it grows luxuriantly it throws out 
longer lhoots; as thefe are always above ground and throw out 
fibres from their under fide, they are to be regarded as ftaiks 
rather than roots; in the 1Hs chinentis it is very different, 
there the root is truly creeping. 
If the Iris criflata be planted in bog earth, in a moift fitua- 
tion (for it will not fucceed at all in a dry one ) and has the 
thelter of a hand-glafs in fevere weather, it will grow readily 
in the open border. 
It bloffoms-about the middle of May. 
The tube of the flower in this fpecies 'is unufually long, 
tender, and brittle in the extreme; the flowers are delicate, 
with little or no fcent. 
It is increafed by dividing its roots. 
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19ELARGONIUM TEKNATUM. 
CRANE'S-BILL. 
TERNATE 
Clafi and Order. 
Generic CharatTer. 
Cal. &partitus: lacinia fuprem a definente in tubulum ca- 
pillarera, netariferum, fecus pedunculum decurrentem. Cot. 
õ-petala, irregularis. Filam. ao, inaqualia; quorum 8 (taro 5) 
cartrata. Frutus$-coccus, roffratus; roffra fpiralia, introrfum 
barbata. L'Herit. Geran. 
Specific Charat7er and $y?onyms. 
,gERANIUM ternatum caule fruficofo hifpido; foliis oppo- 
fitis ternatis: foliolis cuneatis incifo-trifidis fer- 
ratis fcabris. Linn. $uppl. p. 806. Cavan. diff. 
4. t. ol. f. . 
This vry difiin& fpecies of Pelargonium, a native of the 
Cape, and which takes its name of ternatum from the form of 
its leaves, has been added to our colle&ions of greenhoufe 
plants within there few years, and of courfe is not enumerated 
m the Hort. Kew. of Mr. Axxos. 
In the unufual roughhers of its fialks, as well as in its whole 
habit, it differs very materially from the reft of the tribe; its 
{lowers, which are large and thewy, are produced in June and 
July. 
It is railed from cuttings without difficulty. 
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X:RTraEMU FULC4nUM. GP,.E^T YELLOW 
LOW'ERED XERANTHEMUM. 
Cla and Order. 
SYNGENE$IA POLYGA1VIIA SUPERFLUA. 
Generic Charaler. 
Recept. paleaceum. Pappus fetac'eus. 
diatus, radio colorato. 
Calyx imbricatus, ra-. 
Specific Charaler and Synonyms. 
XERANTHEMUM fulgidum fruticofum ereOum, foliis ob- 
longis margine tomentofis../lit. Kew. v. 
3. p. 8'o. 
¾ERANTHEMUM Julgidum foliis latoAanceolatis convoluto- 
incumbentibus, floribus nonnullis. Linn. 
$uppL p. 365 . 
This fpecies of rathemum is firPt defcribed, and mi.nutely 
['% in the $uppl. Plant. of the younger LxNN.vs; in the . 
rlort. Kcw. of Mr. A,ToN it has obtained a different fpecific 
:fcription, as may be feen above; in that work it is men~ 
',oned as being a native of the Cap% and introduced by 
%'. MASSON in :774  , 
It is diPtinguifhed by the remarkable uprightneœs of it 
owth, and the unufual fize of its flowers, which exceed 
thole of any other known fpecies, of ranthemum in our col~ 
le&ions; they are of a fine yellow or gold colour, very gloffy, 
and make a grand appearance either in the greenhoufe when 
growing, or among timilar plants on' the mantle-Pnelf when 
dry. . 
Is propagated by cuttingi; care mupt be taken that it does 
not fuffer from to6 much moillure. 
Poxo 
Ch and Order. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic CharaCter. 
Cor. hypocrateriformis.' Filamenta inequalia. Stig'ma.3-fidum. 
Cal. prifmaticus. Cpfi 3-1ocularis x-fperma. 
Specific CharaCter an Synonyms. 
PHLOX jtacea foliis fetaceis glabris, floribus folitariis. Linn 
Syfl. l/egeta& ed. 24. Murr. p. 200. Sp. PL 227. 
LYCHNIDEA blattarie accedens virginiana camphorata con- 
generis glabris foliis. Pluk../llm. 235. t. 98. f 3- 
This tribe of plants; of which there is fcarcely one that is n)t 
'ornamental, are chiefly natives of North-America; fuch is the 
prefent fpecies, brought from Carolina by Mr. JoH. FR^szR 
in x788, now introduced to moR of the co!leions about town 
and ufua!!y treated as a green-houfe plant. 
Its fialks, when fupported, rife to the height of abqut a 
foot, if left to themfelves, trailing on the grohnd; they are 
thickly covered with leaves, which are longer and, for the 
moR part, freer, and more hairy than thofe of the fubulata, 
figured pl. 4x2, and in the month of May. the whole plant, if 
fuccefsfully treated'and carefully tied up, forms a highly orna- 
mental bufh of purple flowers. 
This fpecies, like moR of the others, is eafily railed from 
cuttings, which trhould be ftruck early in the fpring, as fuch 
vill become flowering plants the next feafon; to have this 
plant in perfeEtion, it is neceffary to renew it thus yearly, old 
plants being lefs produive of flowers, and lefs prfeEt in their 
foliage. 
Plants are frequently kept in green-houfes that would fuc- 
ceed better, and blow more freely, with a lefs tender treatment 
thus this fpecies of Phlox, which in mild winters wouldlive 
abroad, requires only the trhelter of a frame, and may be re- 
garded therefore, with many others, rather as a frame than a 
green-h0ufe plant. 
Ires MARTNmNSS. Ires. 
C7aJ3'and Order; 
Tt ANDREA MONOOYNIA. 
Generic Charagter. 
6'petala, inequalis, petalis alternis geniculato-patentibus. 
tigmata petaliformia, cucullato-bilabiata. 
Specific Chara7er and Synonyms. 
'RIS marthdcefis imberbis, foliis l'inearibus, petalis bari fo- 
reoils glandulofis; germinibus trigonis. Fhunb. Diff. 6. 
Linn. S)fl. Peg. ed. . Murr. iv. 99. Ait. Kew. v. x. 
iv. 7 . 
)m an averfion to the changing 'oœ long-eftabliihed names, 
'etaave followed LNiqmt0s, A'roN, and Tnuugv,e, in 
nhdering this plant as an Iris, though in our private opinion 
rs. not fuch; whoever will carefully exarriine its fru6tification, 
,fil find it correfpond in its feveral parts with thole of a pla. nt 
tell known in our nurferies by the name of bora, a Norlhiana; 
and they will be found, in our humble opinion, to be two 
plants belonging to a new and diftin genus. 
This fpecies is a native of the Weft-India iflands, and was 
troduced to the royal garden at Kew in 782, by Mr. 
FXADER ANDERSON, from St. Lucia. 
ufually kept in the'Rove, plunged in the tan, xhere i½ 
11ov, ers in May and June, and for the moR part ripens its 
:ds, by which it is readily increafed. 
Is mr;re remarkable for the curious Rruure. than the beauty 
its flowers. 
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C.LaA URTCmFOLA. NETTnF,-LF, xVF, r) 
CELSX. 
Cla and Order. 
DIDYNAMIA AN GIosPERMIAo 
Generic CharacTer. 
Cal. &partitus. Cot. rotata. Filam. barbata. Capf. -1ocularis 
Specific CharaCTer and Synonyms. 
CELSIA urticmjWia caule frutefcente, fol[is ovato-lanceolatis, 
ffi'rratis. 
In the 7oth number of this work, we figured and defcribett 
a plant under the name of Celfia linearis, fo called by Profeffor 
'J.cquIN; )bferving at the hme time that d(ubts might be 
entertained as to its being a true Celfia; whether it be fucb, 
'or whether it be a diptin genus, the prefent plant in its generic 
charaers comes as nearly to it as' poflible: as a fpecies, it is 
perleft'fly and mopt obvioufly diptin. 
In the royal garden at Kew, where we law it in flower this 
fpring, x798 , it is called urlicadlia: Mr. AI'ON informed 
_me, that it was firPt difcovered by Mr. Mv.4zIv. S, in South- 
America, by whom'it had lately been introduced. 
The extreme brilliancy of its flowers renders it a very 
ornamental plant; being pf quick and ready growth, it 
foon be common in our green-houfes, moPt probably on the 
borders of our flower-gardens alfo; for we fufpe that it will 
prove much more hardy thaff the Celfia. linearis; it is a much 
ftronger plant alfo, and in the open ground will grow to the 
height of feveral feet. 
It flowers and feeds during molt of the fummer; is readily 
raitid from cuttings, as well as from feeds. 
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ANTHOLYZ, MZR,NA. RD-FLOwF, 
ANTnOLYZA. 
Claj3 and Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Chara7er. 
Cot. tubu10fa: irregularis, recurrata. Capri infera, 
Specific. Chara7er and Synoeyms, 
NTHOLYZA Meriana corollis infundibuliformibus, foliis 
enfiformibus. Linn Syfl. Feg'etab. ed. . 
Murr. p. 87. 4it. Kew. v. . p. 67. 
dERIANA flore rubello. Frew. Ehret. t. 40. 
WATSONIA Meriana floribus infundibuliformibus fuba- 
qualibus. Mill. Dit?. ed. 6. 4to. 
Mr. MILLIgR informs us in his Diftionary, that he raifed 
.his moR elegant fpecies of Antholyza from feeds lent him by 
his friend Dr. jo B^sxv.}t, which fucceeded jn the Chelfea 
;arden in 756; conceiving it to be a difiin6t, genus; he 
named it ld/atnia, in honour of Mr. (afterwards) Sir WxI.- 
I.^a W^xso.xq; Dr. Tixv, of Nuremberg, figured it in his 
Idones by En}tx, under the name of Meriaua, from S¾ II, 
M}tX^N, the celebrated female Dutch naturalifi, fo eminently 
difiinguifhed for the produaions of her pencil; 
ranges it. with the 4nthol. yza's, preferving the trivial name of 
Meriaua. 
It is. unneceffary for us to defcribe this plant minutely 
here, fince Mr. Mx}t has done it fo well in his Diationary 
t will be fufficient for us to obferve, that it is a much 
tmnger plant than the 4nholy. za Cunonia, already figured in 
hs work, and that though the colour of its flowers is not 
1o fplendid, the whole plant poffeffes more ifiegance. 
It requires the fame treatment as the Cape bulbs fucceeds ' 
ß ery well, and produces plenty of offsets when planted in 
light randy bog-earth. 
Flowers in May and June, and is propagated by offsets. 
ALYSSUM 
MON2'ANUM. MOUNTAIN ALYSSLrM 
or MADWORT. 
ClaJ3 md Order. 
TETRADYN ANIIA SlLICULOSA. 
Generir Charat7er. 
Filamenta qua:dam introrfum denticulo notata, fiticula emar- 
ginata. 
Specific Charat7er and Synonyms. 
ALYSSUM montanum c'aulibus herbaceis, diffufis foliis fublan- 
ceolatis punf'tato echinatis. Linn. Syfl. I/egeta& 
ed. 4. Murr,. p. 59 o. 4it Kew. v. 2. p. 38.. 
yacq. Fl. 4uflr. t. 37. 
ALYSSUM fubfruticofum, foliis ellipticis fcabris. Hall. Hifl. 
Helv. num. 492. 
THLASPI faxatile incanum luteurn ferpillifolio minus. Bauho 
Pin. x 0 7. 
In this work we have already figured three fpecies of Alyf- 
rum, faxatile, deltoideum, and utriculatum, the yellow, the 
purple, and bladder-podded, all of them plants adapted to de- 
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 part? of Switzerland and 
Auftfia, is alfo applicable. 
The tlyffum montanum is a fmall procurebent plant, of the 
perennial kind, with hoary leaves curioufly emboffed with little 
prominent ioints, 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 perfe.R 
feed, though in its wild ftate it is fufficiently fertile, as is 
evident from Profeffor JxcQu's figure'. 
Through want of feeds, it may be increared without difficulty 
from cuttings; requires the fame treatment as other rare 
Alpine plants. 
Was cultivated by Mr. MILLER in 759' -./lit. Kew. 
X:RANTHWMUM CANV, SC:NS. 
XERANTHE19IUM. 
ELEGANT 
Cla and Order. 
Generic Character. 
ecept. paleaceum. Pappus fetaceus. Cal. imbricatus radiatus 
radio colorato. 
8p'cific Charat7er nd Synonyms. 
XERANTHEMUM canedens fruticofum, foliis imbricatis, 
ovato-fubulatis glabris. Linn. $yfi. Veg. 
ed. 4. Murr. p. 75 ¸. Am,en. Acad. 
Aft. 60. 
XERANTHEMUM ifii:anum, foliis fubrotundis, dore puro 
pureo. œurm. Afr. 83. t. 68. f. 
Our plant accords exaaly with fpecimens of Xeranthemum 
eaneens of LiNNus in the Herbarium of Sir Josgva 
B^us; though it does not agree fo well in fome refpe&s 
vith the Linna:an defcription as could be wilhed. 
It is a weak, branched, and widelyZfpreading plant if left 
to itfelf, and does not appear to advantage in a co!letShon, un- 
lefs carefully tied up to a frick; nor is it a plant that fucceeds 
vell with every one: Mr. B^aa, Nurferyman, Ball's-Pond, 
near Hackney, manages it better than any one that we have 
feen; and his fup.erior fuccel 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 
gren-houfe affords; thus fituated, it begins flwering with him 
in the autumn, and continues in bioffom 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 ftate, and even 
continue to expand ard look beautiful when the fun {hines on 
them. 
It is a native of the Cape, recently introduced, and is pro- 
pagated by cuttings., 
CZ'TAt;REA AUREA. GOtmEN CENTAURY, 
or KNAPWEED. 
ClaJ3 and Order. 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA FRUSTRANEA. 
Generic Charafter. 
Recept. feterum. Pappus plumofus vol capillaris. Cr. radii 
infundibuliformes, 1ongiores, irregulares. 
$pecic Charater and Synon),ms. 
CENTAUREA aurea calycibus fimpliciffime fpinofis: fpin{ 
patentibus, flofculis aqualibus, foliis hirtis, 
inferioribus pinnatifidis. lit. Iiew. v. 3' P' 
6 5. 
Though cultivated by Mr. MrLLER fO long fince as 758, 
-this fpecies of' Centaury appears to have been but little known; 
it is fif[ defcribed in the Hort. Kew. of Mr. A:ro, 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 
about two feet, 'and producing on the fummits of the ftalks 
fine, bold, magnificent flowers, of a beautiful yellow or gold 
colour; there making their appearance in Augur and Sep- 
tember, contribute not a little to enrich the borders of the 
flower-garden, at that time on the decline. 
Grows readily in almoR any foil or fituation, and is eafily 
increafed by parting its roots. 
t 
GREWIA. 
Cl and Order. 
GYNANDRIA POLYANDRIA. 
Generic Charac7er. 
Monogyna, Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5: bari fquama netarifera 
Bacca ,t-locularis. 
- Specific CharafTer and Synonyms. 
GREW IA occidentalis foliis fubovatis, floribus folitariis. Linn. 
Syfl. I/egetab. 80.6. fflit. Hort. Kew. v. 3' P' 3t3 - 
GREWIA corollis acutis. Hort. cliff. 't33- Duham. arb. 2. 
p. 276. t. ,08. 
ULMIFOLIA arbor africana baccifera, floribus purpureis. 
Pluk. alto. 393- t. 237. f. 2. 
ULMI FACIE ARBUSCULA a:thiopica, ramulis alatis, flo- 
ribus purpurafcentibus. Comrh. hort. . p. ,65. 
t. 85. Sob. the_[. . p. 46. t. 29. f. 3' Raj. dendr. , 3' 
LiN N.US gave to this genus the name of Grewia, in honour 
of Dr. NEEMI^ GtEv, the celebrated author of the Ana- 
tomy of Vegetables, &c. Of the feveral fpecies enumerated 
by aptbors, few have been introduced into our colleco 
tions; "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 item and branches are very 
like ihofe of the fmalLleaved Elm, the bark beig fmooth, 
and of the fame colour as that when young; the leaves are 
alfo very like thole of the Elm, and fall off in autumn; the 
flowers are produced fingly along the young branches fiom 
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 poflible in mild weather, as' 
they only require to be protefted from froft; and after the leaves 
' are fallen, they will require very moderate watering, but in 
"rumruer they thould have it more conftantly in dry weather." 
Miller's. Dit7. This fpecies is a native of the Cape, is propa- 
gated by cuttings or layers, and downers molt part of the fummer. 
* Cultivated in the royal garden at Hampton-Court in 
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ERCA ARTCULARIS. ARTCUL.R HFATH. 
Clafs and Order. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.- 
Generic Chara7er. 
,. zi_phyIlus. Cot. 4-fida. Filamentc; receptaculo inferta: 
/Inth?r,e apice 2-fi&e, per,urge. Capf. 4-1ocularis, 4.-vaMk 
polyfperma. 
Specific Chara7er and Synonyms. 
ERICA articularis antheris biffdis incluffs, corolEs cam'panu- 
latis calyce color_ato brevioribus, foEis ternis lineari- 
bus levibus appreffis. Linn. (ant; x.'p. 6 5. 
œRICA articularis antheris criftatis, corollis ovafis acuminatis, 
ftylo inclufo calyce longiore, foEis ternis. Linn. 
Feg'etab. ed. x4. (urr. p. 366. 
RICA articularis ari{.tata, foliis ternis ovatis glabris, floribus' 
racemoils, caule ereEto. Lbunb. Prod. Pl:. Cap. p. 7 . 
Linn. S)'FI. lYat. ed.  3. Gruel p. 6e6. 
The Erica here figured is firPt defcribed in Linn. (ant. x. 
and fo .fatisfaL::torily, that there can be no doubt of its being 
*he plant intended by L4.ts; the fpecific charafters of 
VRR.¾ arid TxtzR, publithed fince, are very inappli- 
cable. 
This heath is one of the leaft of its kind, it is not unufual to 
fee plants of it full of bloffoms not more than eight or ten 
inches high, its leaves (growing ufually in threes) are lanceolate, 
fmooth,. concave on the infide, preff. d to thefialk, fianding on 
fuch fhort footftalks, that they may be laid to be almo{t feffile: 
Flowers numerous on the rummits of the branches, romewhat 
drooping: Peduncles furnithd with two upright brae,e placed 
oppofite to each other, oFa pale red colour tipped with green: 
Calyx larger than the corolla, fomewha.t belt-thaped, fpreading; 
four-leaved, each leaf ovate and pointed, green at the bale and 
. romewhat 
fomewhat wrinkled, middle part nearly white, upper part bright 
pink colour, each fegment marked at its extremity on the 
under. fide witha green calyx-likeibflance, and terminating ina 
reddifh mucro or point: Corolla withi.n the calyx, tube nearly 
ovate and white,' limhfpreading, divided into four fegments 
ovate, long-pointed, and pink-coloured: Stamina eight, en- 
ckfed within the tube of the Corolla: Antherae at firit bright 
red, afterwards brown: Awns two, fhort and fomewhat bifid: 
Gerrnen green :- Style the length of the tube: Stigma fome- 
what lrge and blunt. 
A vein of great' peculiarity runs through the.whole of this 
plant, which is a native of the Cape, of modern introduion, 
/lowers early in the fpring, often in the depth of winter, and 
is ufually propagated by cuttings. 
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SAXIFRAGA ROTUNDIFOLIA. 
LEAVED SAXIFRAGE. 
ROUND- 
ClaJ} and Order. 
DECANDRI DiGYNIA. 
Cal. &partitus. 
fperma. 
Generic Charafler. 
Cot. 5petala. Capf, 2-roffris, t-locularis, poiy- 
$)ecific CharaVer and Synonyms. 
SAXIFRAGA rotundifotia foliis caulinis reniformibus dentatis 
petiolatis, caule paniculato. Linn. Syfl. 
ed. t4. Mutt. p. 423. tit. Kew. v. 2._p. 82. 
SANICULA montana rotundifolia major. Bauh. ]in. 243. 
A hardy, perennial, herbaceous fpecies of Saxifrage, grow- 
ing fpontaneoufly in Switzerland and other parts of Europe, 
cultivated here in 2597 by 
Of this numerous and beautiful .tribe of plants, we know of 
none whole flowers in point of prettinefs can vie with thole of 
the prefent fpecies; they are marked.with numerous fine dots, 
like thofe. of the London Pride, (Saxifraga umbrofa) .but in a 
fuperior ftyle of beauty, and appear to great advantage when 
viewed with a magnifier/ 
The leaves, in point of form, do not correfpond fo exa&ly 
with the name rotundilia as one would expecCt. 
This fpecies fucceeds belt in a fituation fomewhat moift and 
fhady, with a foil inclined to ftiffnefs, flowers in May and June, 
and is increafed by parting its roots in autumn. 
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XERANTHEMUM SESAMOIDES. 
SUPERB 
Cl Order. 
SYNO " IA Po kMIA SUPERFLU" 
Gt Chara?er. 
ecept. paleaceum. Pappus fetaceus. Cal. imbricatus radiatus: 
radio colorato. 
Specific Charac7er and Synodgins. 
.ERANTHEMUM jfamoides ramis unifloris imbricatis foliis 
linearibus. Linn. Off. 17egetab. ed. s4. 
Murr. p.. 75 o. 
To Mrs. C, OSLING, of Whitton, near Hounflow, appertains 
honour of raifing this fpecies of Xeranthemum, 'and of 
ß hereby introducing one of the molt dele&able,plants that ever 
decorated the Britifh green-houfe; this was about the year 
t795, lall Summer (797)it flowered with Meffrs. GRM- 
wood and W¾rs, NurR-'men, Kenfington, and again much 
ftronger this prefi ,t feafon, here being at lear twenty. blof~ 
fores on a tingle plant of it2 
This is not one of thole beau ies, which meteorAike, dazzle 
th. eye and vaniflh but on wh,cn continues to difplay its 
charms from the time of its firr budding to the full expanfion 
of its bloffoms, a period 7 , or three months; in any of 
thefe its different ftates, if gthered, and carefully dried, it 
will make a moll valuable ad tion to timilar plants for de~ 
rating apartments in the Wi  r. 
It is a native of the Cape, from whence Mrs. 
obtained its feeds, flowers in May and June, and may be in- 
crCJ by cuttings; in this way Mr. W:KS has fucceeded 
-ropagating it: . but as there are few that equal him in a 
' 'age of e, 'cs, fo there are few that exercife the fame 
ß in tF ..... lture, or e 'ual him in fuccefs. 
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CYTISUS FOLIOLOSUS. LEAFY CYTISUS, 
ClaJ3 and Order, 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 
Generic Charairier. 
Cal. e-labiatus: '3 Legumen bari attenuatum (plurimis.) zequaie 
latum. 
Specific Charac7er and Synonyms. 
CYTISUS fol}'olofus racemis terminalibus ereais, calycibus vii, 
lofts; laciniis falcatis, folioIls obovato-oblongis, 
4it. Kew. v. 3' 2. 49- 
The tlalks in this fpecies of Cytifus are thickly covered 
with froall leaves, which gives the whole plant an outr 
appearance, hence Mr. Axa'o's name offoliolofus, fo happily 
hit off; many other peculiarities attend _this charming fhrub, 
of which its long deciduous bra&ee are not the leaf[ re- 
markable. 
It is a native of the Canary Ifles, where it was found by 
Mr. MAssoN, and introduced in 779'; if fuffered to grow, 
it will acquire a great height, become indeed too large for a 
froall green-houfe, and more fit for a confervatory: for whicl 
it would appear to be a mof defttable plant  ,t produces 
flowers abundantly during May and June, which are not only 
ornamental but delicioufly fragrant. 
Strong eftablilhed plants ufually produce perfeX. feeds, by 
hich this fnrub is increared; cuttings rarely fucceed. 
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[-IPPOCREPIS BALEARICA. SHRUBBY HORSE- 
SHog VETCH. 
Cla and Order, 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Generic Charalter. 
Pericarpimn multiioculare, compreffum altera futura'pludes 
emarginatum, curvum 
Specific Ch. aragter and $yionyms. 
HIPPOCREPIS 
balearica leguminibus. pedunctllatis conferti 
fubaftuatis l,nceolato oblongis margine ex- 
teriore repantlis, Linn, Syfl. I/egetab. ed. 
Murr. p. 611. eacq. Mifc. 2. p. 305. 
far, ic. cent. s. t. 5' 
HiPPOCREPIS 
balearica legtminibus pedunculatis confertis 
glabris margine exteriore 1obatis, foliis ca- 
lycibufque pilofiuf ulis, Caulibus ancipitibus, 
lit. Hort. Kew v '; . p. 6. 
Profeffor J^couts is the firft wl o figured and defcribed 
this fpecies of Hippocrepis, inferred by Profeffor Mu}taAy 
in the $yfl. I/egetab. and enumerated alfo in the Hort. Kew. 
of Mr. Aixo4, with a new and different fpecific defcription. 
It is a native of Minorca, as its name implies, and was in- 
troduced to the 'royal garden at Kew, by Monf. Tous, 
in x776. 
Though not fo ornamental as many of our raritie: cultivated 
for fhe% it is found in molt colle&ions of green-houfe plants, 
recommending itfelf rather by the elegance of its foliage .han 
the beauty of its flowers; the latter appear in May and June, 
and with us are fparingly fucceeded by feed-veffels. 
The plant is propagated either by feeds or ,cuttings. 
DAPHNE COLLINA, PNEAPOLITAN /EZEREON, 
Cla a ' %'der. 
OCANDRIA 
Generic Charaer. 
CaL o. Or. 4-fida; corollacea, marcefcens, amina includens. 
Bacca, l-fperma. 
Specific and ayno,.. ns. 
DAPHNE colli,"f. brkus termmalibus felibus, foliis ob- 
ovatis obtufis fupernc'glaberrimis, inferne pilofis. 
Smith. 3iciL Fare. . p   . .  8. 
CHAM LA alpina, folio inferp; incano. 'anh_ Pin. 
'Ld, ic. 37 o. 
CHAMELA incana'et lanuginofa. Bauh. H. , 58& 
THYMELA faxatilis Ole blio.. ourmf I. 594. 
Though the prefm-J'te4es of M.'zereon has till'withi 
thefe few years bee"', firanger to o{ir gardens, and efcaped 
the enumeration en of I szvs, t was well known to 
many of the older Botanifts; indeed it was impoffible that a 
plant fo common  as this s in %me parts of Italy, could 
efcape the obfervation of the many exce'lcnt Botanilts, which 
that country has produced, or been vii, ed by. 
Though not tb ornmnental a fhrub as inany, it is a very 
defirable acqlfifiti'-' -account of -h, = earlinefs o its 
{lowering and agreeable fcent, it foliage ano i% on mental, 
its upper furlace bei.ng of a fine g[offy green; the culti- 
vated plant does not anfwer to '=he defcription of authors, 
in regard to jlia fitbtus incana; the- flowers, in point of 
colour, are not o brilliant as thofe of the common 
Mezereon, and foon change to a faded purple; before they 
:xpand, they are covered with a fine filky down. 
Mr, G.,r  was the firPt who i ttroduced this novelty, by 
finding feeds of it to Meffrs. Lw - m.? M.,t:a, Nurfery- 
men, Kingfland, who; as far as we cat. learn, firIt had the 
rub for lb, le; it is ufual to trea  a green-houfe plant'; 
in mild winters it will bear to flap .fibroad; it flowers from 
January to April, is not ditlqcult t6f culture, and is ufuall¾ 
propagated by grafting it on the common Mezereon, or Spurg'e- 
Laurel. 
This molt beautiful fhrub covers the hills' and fields on the banks of th 
a'uriaus, as the Furze does our commons in England. &nit& 8?icil. 
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ERXCA AITONIA. AITON'S HEATH. 
Claj3 and Order. 
OCTANDRIA  )NoGYNIA. 
Generic ( ,aratter. 
Cal. 4-phyllus. Cot. 4-fida. .';lamenta receptaculo inferta; 
Anthere apica: bifid pertt to. Capf. 4-1ocularis 4-valvis, 
polyfperma. 
Specific Ci ara, and Synonyms. 
ERICA Aitonia foliis fubternis fubappreffis, calycibus glutinofis, 
limbo corolla maximo. 
DEoCtIVTION. Stem flaxabby rifing to the height offeveral 
Ket, .together with the brant?'s en&r, and requiring fupport; 
leaves for the moR part in thrs, upright, and rather preffed 
o the ftalk, fomewhat linear, blunfifh, with a flight mucro, 
gloffy, and extremely vi[t:id 
middle of each; bafi pale gree._ 
or four; peduncles red; cal 
no,s, with a groove down th 
of the corolla an inch or moro 
enlarged at the top, ftriped 
fluted, lirr/b very large, at firPt 
divided into four fegmen 
having a groove down the 
; riowe dterminal, about three 
s extn mely gloffy and gluti- 
hiddie of each {gment; tube 
in levgth, cylindrical, a little 
fith ed lines, and fomewhat 
ehit' changing to a pale red, 
hit' are ovate and obtufe; 
ftamina within the tube; ftina 1 -oje&ing a little beyond'it. 
Mr. MxssoN difcovered th-i very curious fpecies of Erica 
at the Cape, where Lieut. Cc . PXTSSO informs me that 
it has been found in one fpot only, at Swartiberg, near the 
warm bath, in a moift fituation; it has been named Aitonia, 
at the deftre of Mr. Mt, sso, in commemoration of his much 
valued and molt excellent friend. 
It differs fo widely from the reft of the genus, that rome 
have been'a,tdy to regard it as a diftincCt genus, but certainly'. 
on no good grounds. 
Is propagated by cuttings, but as yet is very rare. 
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JusxcIt PERUVIANA. P,RUVA JusTice^. 
Clafs and Orde 
DIANDRI Mo fig 
Generi Charaer 
&r, rngens. Cap -1ocularis: ferninure ret[nacu -valvis: 
vMvis 1ongitudinalibus unciculatis: Sram. anthera [olitaria. 
Specific Chal and' Synony,as. 
JUSTICIA peviana fpicis aXillaribs e ß .minalibus, foliis 
ovatis acura. b'nn. Sp. PI. ed. llld. p 97- 
JUSTICIA peviana folii ovati acutis: fpicis brevibus 
axillaribus c terminMius, floribus tribraaeatis. 
Cavan. Icon.  7'  fi'  8. 
Dscaxt, xo. Stalk about two feet-and a half high, nearly 
,round, pubefcent, fwelled at the joints, branched; branches 
oppofite, nearly upright; l. eaves;.oppofite, Landing on foot- 
ftalks, ovato-lanceolate, veiny, f ,ooth on the under fide, 
above covered with lhort hairs; f16 vets large, of a pale violet 
colour, growing in cluLers in the aloe of the l,.,v½:, intermixed 
vith lanceolate bra&eae about the 1 ngth of the: calyx; the 
upper lip contra&ed near its extremiff.; where it is forked, 
the lower lip trifid, fegments obtufe, he bale 'of the middle 
fegment reticulated with white veins; ntherae greeni[h, cells 
parallel with and romewhat dirtant from each other; Ly. le the 
length of the Lamina, ne&ar copious. 
Our defcription and figure were tage. from a plant which 
flowered at Brompton, Augur 8, 796, "" the Love. of the 
Marchionefs of Bute, and which had been .raifed-from feeds, 
communicated by Profeffor Oaxg^, of Madrid, and fent 
originally from Peru. 
It is properly a Love plant; may be increared by feeds, 
vhich it produces in abundance, or by cuttings; flowers during 
the autumnal months. 
LAXo 
FOuR-LEAVED 
Clafi and Order. 
PENTAN DRIA PENTAGYNIAo 
Generic Charac?er. 
Cl. 5-Ph)llus. Petala- 5. Capri 5-valvis, xo-locularis. Sero. 
folitaria. 
Specific Charaer and Synonyms. 
LINUM quadrifolium folii quaternis. Linn $yfi. l/egetabo 
ed. x4- Murr. p. 3o$. 
LI1 [UM africanurn rubie foliis quaternis ftellatis. Raii Suppl. 
Our plant accords exa&ly with the Linum quadrifolium of 
Lxus, and as fuch it is egarded at the royal garden, 
Kew, where we faw it in flower this fpring, x7.98; it agrees 
alfo with the defcription of Ray, fo far as relates to its fpecific 
chara&er, quoted by Lxsb, but the flowers of R^Y'S plant 
are defcribed as blue, it is molt probably therefore the quadri- 
tblium of Lus, but not of RtY. 
The llalks of this fpecies rife to the height of ab6ut two 
feet, are much branched at their rummits, on which are pro- 
duced nnmerous yellow flowers, fmaller than thole of L arbo- 
reum orfiavum, to either of which, as an ornamental plant, it 
mtift be allowed to be inferior; yet it is not without its/hare 
of elegance and beauty. 
It is a native of the Cape, newly introdnced to onr green- 
honfes, flowers in May and June, and is readily increa[kd by 
cuttings. 
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JUSTICIA COCCINEA. SCARLET-FLOWERED 
JUSTICIA. 
Clajg' and Order. 
DIANDRIA MONOGYNIAo 
Generic Charafter. 
Cor. ringens. Capf. -1ocularis: ferninure retinaculis 2-valvis 
val¾is 1ongitudinalibus unciculatis. Stamina anthera folitaria. 
]USTICIA 
JUSTICIA 
[USTICIA 
Specific Chara7er and Synonyms. 
coc.cinea fruticofa, corollis bilabiatis, labo fiperiori 
indiviœo, foliis bra .rteiœque fpicarurn ellipticis acu- 
minatis, antheris parallelis. Ait. Kew. v. x. p. 6. 
coccinea foliis ovatis glabris integerrimis, fpicis 
terminalibus verticillatis: floribus feffilibus. Lim. 
]Vat. ed. t 3. Gruel. p. 35- 
coccinea. Aublet. Guian. o. I. 3. 
Of the feveral fpecie of uflicia cul,ivatel our Roves, 
prelni excels in magnificence and qow ,t riœe to a 
onfidcrable height, and produces * blofloms early in the 
fpr, ug, when it flowers in perfeaion; tl e fpikes are of the 
fiz. of thole reprefented on the plate, the drawing of which 
as made from a plant which flowered with Meffrs. 
anti BAR" I r, Nurferymen, OlJ-Brompton. 
It is a native of South-America, and was introduced to the 
royal gardeh at Kew in 77 o. _/lit. Kew. 
Is' propagated without difficulty by .cuttings. 
INDEX. I N D E X. 
which the Latin Names oœ{:-' In which the Englith Names 
the Plants contained in the ½* oœ the Plants contained in 
Elev:en?h l/olume are alpha- . te Eleventh l/olume are 
betically arranged. ,, alphabetically arranged. 
369 Amaryllis undulata. t, $69 Amaryllis waved-flowered. 
g68 Antirhinum vifcofum. t, $7 Bean-Caper unpleafant. 
37g Atragalus monfpeffulanus, {:,, $6t Boxthorn Japanere. ß 
898 Brunfelfia americana. { 898 Brunfeifia american. 
$84 Craffula Cotyledon. { 88 Catchfly dark-flowered. 
g74 Cyrilla pulchella. { $64 Chaffc-tree five-leaved. 
88o Dolichos lignofus. { 888 Corn-flag copper-coloured. 
.387 Epidendrum Aiddes.  877 Crane's-bill roman. 
$6 Erica retorta. t** Craffula tree. 
88z} 
866 _ pyramidalis. . 886 Crowfoot Parnaflia-leaved. 
77 Emdium romanurn.  874 Cyrilla fcarlet-flowered. . 
89 Gaura biennis. t** 88o Dolichos purple. 
g88 Gladiolus fecuriger. { 887 Epidendrum Aloe-leaved. 
7 ¸ Houttonia ceerulea  896 Fig-marigold thewy. 
-q78 Iri chinentis. * 889 Gaura biennial. 
88 Ixia tricolor. {* 86 Heath recurred. 
:394 Lvchnis alpina. * 866 . pyramidal. 
86 L;/ciumjaponicum.  87 ¸ Hourionia blue-flowered. 
89 ¸ Magnolia pureurea. ' .i 878 Iris chinere. 
896 Meembryantem. fpe&abile. ? 88 lxia hree-coloured. 
87  Mirabills Jalapa. ; 894 Lychnis alpine. 
38j Monfonia 1obata. ;:. 89 ¸ Magnolia purple. 
879 Narciffus tenuior. . 87  Marvel of Peru common. 
88 Oenothera anomala, {* 87,5 Milk-vetch Montpelier. 
6,5 1ongiflora. , 88,5 Monfonia broad-leaved. 
9 x Philadelphus coronarius/ *:' .879 Narciffus flender. 
$9  Primula 1ongifolia. {,, 888 Oenothera anomalous. 
-86 Ranunculus parnaffifolius. {* 86,5 long-flowered. 
78 Roella ciliata. ' 89 t Philadelphu common. 
68 Rofa lutea. * 89  Primula long-leaved. 
876 Salvia formoh. {* Role Autrian. 
89,5 indica. .[ 868 
, .878 Roella prickly. 
88 Silene ornata. {, 89,5 Sage Indian. 
867 Verbena triphylla. {;, 876 . lhining-leaved. 
864 Virex negundo. ,, 868 Toad-flax clammy. 
87  Zygophyllum infuave. {, 367 Vetvain three-leaved. 
IN D EX. o IN D EX. 
hich the iatin Names 
. . . ',:' In xvhich the Englifh Names 
Plants contraned n the, of the Plants contained in 
_.f)h Plume are alpha-* the 5Twelfth Folume are al- 
.tically arranged. ',' phabetically arranged. 
p, 0 PI. 
Agroftemma Flos Jovis. 
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