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PROTEA STELLARIS. STARRY PROTEAs

HEHEHE Medeb ibabeet

Cla/s and Order.

TETRANDRIA MoNoGYNIA.

Generic Charafer.—Vid, Nem 878.

Specific Charafer and Synonyms.

PROTEA /frellaris ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis carnofis apice

callofis, capitulo hemifpherico glabro terminali

involucrum radiatum concolor fubaquante.

Descr. A low fhrub. Stem very much branched from the

bafe ; branches fome fimple, others verticillately divided at the

upper part. Leaves feflile, crowded, without order, lanceo-

late, narrowed towards the bafe, flefhy, concave, terminated

with a {mall callous point, thofe on the upper part of the

flowering branches fmooth, but fome of the lower ones and

thofe on the younger fhoots hairy underneath. Flowers yel-

lowifh green in a hemifpherical terminal head, not downy,

furrounded at the bafe with a regular, radiated, fmooth in-

volucre, projetting fomewhat beyond the head of flowers, of the

fame colour and fhape as the leaves. Within the involucre

are two or three rows of boat-fhaped éraées, hairy under-

neath, fhorter than the tube of the corolla, but the upper part

of the receptacle is without paleze. Corolla four-petaled: petals

linear, revolute, villous without, flightly adhering downwards

Intoatube. Style ereét, exferted: ftigma club-fhaped, {mooth,

greenifh.

_ This plant is very nearly allied to Prorea pallens and

/ conifera, two fpecies, the varieties of which, TuuN Bere allows

_ to be very difficultly diftinguifhed from each other ; nor is it

_ certain that the plants this Botanift has defcribed under thefe

_ Dames are the fame as thofe of Linnaus, a

We fhould not have hefitated to confider our plant as one.

of the varieties, of conifera, and of the particular one figured

by Breynius, were it not for the total want of all woollinefs —

in the head of flowers. At the fame time the fhortnefs and —

greater regularity of the involucre which has the fame colour as

the leaves, and the verticillate branches, feparate it from —

pallens, with which the fmoothnefs of the head unites it. In |

this dilemma we have thought it fafeft to confider this plant as —

an intermediate fpecies, diftin€& from both.

A native of the Cape of Good Hope, of as eafy culture as —

any of the genus,

Our drawing was taken from a plant communicated by —

Mefirs. Napizr and Caanb er in June laft; we were foon

after favoured with another by our friend Mr, Samuex Curtis —

of Walworth. :

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Hipiscus PaLustris. Marsuy Hisiscus.

JeHpeninbsesbinitiee

Cla/s and Order. -

MonapvevPuta Poryanpria.

Generic Charaficr.

Cal. duplex : exterior polyphyllus, Cap/- 5-locularis poly-

fperma. ae Saas

Specific Characfer and Synonyms.

HIBISCUS paluffris ; caule herbaceo fimpliciflimo, follis

ovatis fubtrilobis fubtus tomentofis, floribus

axillaribus. Sp. Pl. 976. Willd. 3. p. 808. Hort.

Kew. 2. p. 454. Mart. Mill. Dié?. n. 2. Cavan.

Diff. 3. p. 162. t.65. f. 2. Fabric. Helmft. n. 18.

ALTH A paluftris. Baub. Pin. 316.

ALTHAA hortenfis feu peregrina. Dod. Pempt.655.

ALTHAEA Sida difta quibufdam. Baub, Hij/?. 2. 957, (quoad

defcriptionem, fed figura eft alterius plantz.)

KETMIA paluftris flore purpureo. Tourn. Inff. 100. —

HIBISCUS Mofcheutos ; foliis ovalibus, acuminatis, dentatis, ©

fubtus incano-tomentofis; nonnullis fubtricufpi-

datis: pedunculis qguaf petiolis innatis: corolla

_ampliffima: capfula extus glabra. Michaux Flor.

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The external calyx confifts of twelve linear leaflets, the in-

ternal is five-cleft: fegments ovate, acute, quite entire. The

corolla has apparently five petals, but they cohere at the bafe.

Stigmas remarkably large and globofe. Capfule {mooth without.

Seeds globular, fhining. The peduncles are folitary, axillary,

jointed near the extremity, the-length of the petioles, with

which they adhere at the bafe. The leaves vary, fome of them

being fimply oval-acuminate, others fomewhat three-lobed —

Owing to the elongation of the lateral nerves, a

The Marfh Hibifcus is a native of North-America, and

feems to have been very early introduced into Europe, being

mentioned by Dopon £us as a foreign plant cultivated in the

gardens of Holland. It does not occur under this name in

Micuavux’s Flora of North-America, but we fufpeét that what

he has defcribed, as the Hisiscus mofcheutos of Linnzxus, is

the fame plant; indeed we very much doubt whether both

f{pecies are not in reality the fame. Be this as it may, we have

no doubt but that our plant is the palufiris of Linn .zus, having

had an opportunity of comparing it with a fpecimen from

Katum in the Bankfian Herbarium, which however does not

appear to differ from the Hisiscus Mo/cheutos of the fame

colleétion. In both, the peduncle and petiole appear rather to

be united at the -bafe than to grow the one out of the other.

Is a perfeétly hardy herbaceous: plant, but will rarely

flower in our gardens without the aid of artificial heat.

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~Evpuorsia PETIOLARIS. LONG-STALKED

SPURGE.

Cla/s and Order.

DopDECANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

Generic Charaffer. —

Cor. 4- feu 5-petala, calyci infidens, Cal. 1-phyllus, ven-

tricofus. Cap/. tricocca.

Specific Charaéer and Synonyms.

EUPHORBIA petiolaris ; petiolis verticillatis folio orbicu-

Jato longioribus, floribus folitariis, caule

fruticofo inermi nodofo.

For this hitherto undeferibed fpecies of Euphorbia we

are indebted to the Marquis of BLanprorp, who obligingly

communicated the fpecimen from which our drawing was taken,

from his Lordfhip’s colle&tion at White Knights in Berkfhire,

in May laft. It is nearly allied to Eupnorsia cotinifolia,

from which it is chiefly diftinguifhed by its flenderer and more

woody ftem, by the petioles, inftead of being fimply oppofite,

growing four or more in a whirl, and being longer in

proportion to the fmall leaves, and by the flowers being

folitary, whereas in cofinifolia they grow in a dichotomous

panicle,

We find a fpecimen of the fame fpecies in the Bankfian —

Herbarium under the name which we have adopted, collefted

by Mr. Ryan, from whence we learn that it is a native of the

Welt-India Iflands.

Should be kept in the dry ftove with the other tropical

fpecies of Euphorbia,

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AsTER REFLEXUS. REFLEXED-LEAVED

STAR-WorT.

Clafs and Order.

SYNGENESIA PoLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA.

Generic Charaéer.

Recept. nudum. Pappus fimplex. Cor. radii plures 10. Cal.

imbricati {quame inferiores patulz.

Specific Characfer and Synonyms.

ASTER reflexus; fruticofus, foliis ovatis fubimbricatis re-

curvatis ferrato-ciliatis, floribus terminalibus. Sp.

Pl. 1225. Reich 3. p. 803. Willd. 3. p. 2015+

Mart. Mill. Did. n. 2. Amen. Acad. 6. Afr. 68.

Berg. Cap. 285. ,

ASTER reflexus. Bot. Repof. 93.

ASTER africanus frutefcens {plendentibus parvis et reflexis

foliis. Comm. Hort. 2. p. 55. t. 28. Raii Sup. 159+

A flower fo nearly refembling the common Daify, would

hardly attra& the attention of any, did not its unufual foliage

afford fome appearance of novelty. The only other recom-

mendation it poffeffes is its continuing to bloffom through the

winter, The ray of the flower is faid by Martyn to be

blood-red, a tranflation of Linnaus’s radius fanguinens; —

but the colour is confined to the tips and on the under fide

only, the upper fide of the ray being perfe€ly white.

Native of the Cape and a hardy greenhoufe fhrub, eafily

propagated by cuttings, or by feeds, which it fometimes pro-

duces with us.

Introduced, according to Mr. Donn, in 1790.

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VERBASCUM PHGENICEUM. PURPLE-

FLOWERED MULLEIN.

Jesuit

Cla/s and Order.

PEnNTANDRIA MoNoGYNIA,

Generic Characer.

Cor. rotata, fubinzequalis. Cap/ 2-locularis, 2-valvis.

Specific Charaer and Synonyms,

VERBASCUM pheniceum ; foliis ovatis nudis crenatis radi-

calibus, caule fubnudo racemofo, Sy/f. Veg.

219. Wrlld. Sp. Pl.1. p. 1004. Reich. 1.

495- Jacq. Aufr. t.125. Pall. It. 1, p. 183.

Scop. Carn. m 250. Hort, Kew. 1. p. 237:

_ Allion, Ped. n. 384, Garin, Frud. 1. p. 262.

t. 55.

VERBASCUM flore ceruleo yel purpureo.. Baub, Hit. 3.

p. 875; |

BLATTARIA perennis, flore violaceo, Morif. Hi/, 2.

eee :

BLATTARIA purpurea. Bauh, Pin. 241. Rati Hift. 1096.

BLATTARIA flore purpureo, Park, Hif.64. Ger.emac. 776, 20

The Mulleins are all fhewy plants; this fpecies, a native

of the fouthern parts of Europe, having bright purple flowers

is very ornamental, and has been long thought worthy of |

cultivation, being feen in our gardens before the time of |

Gerarp. Is a perfe&ly hardy perennial, “the roote (as

Parkinson obferves) abiding fundry yeares,” though fome

have fuppofed it to be only biennial, an error ftill handed’ .

down in Marrtyn’s Mixuier’s Digtionary, May be eafily

propagated by parting its roots or by feeds, which however

with us it rarely produces, though in fome years abundantly.

Succeeds beft in a fandy loam with an eaftern -expofure ; its.

tems, if not tied up, are liable to fuffer from high winds.

Blooms through the months of May and’ June.

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ScABIOSA CAUCASEA. CAUCASEAN

SCABIOUS.

Je HHH HE Hebe

Clafs and Order.

TeTRANDRIA MonocynNia.

Generic Charaéer.

Cal. communis polyphyllus ; proprius duplex, fuperus.

Recept. paleaceum f, nudum.

Specific Charaier.

SCABIOSA caucafea ; corollulis quinquefidis radiantibus,

foliis lanceolatis utrinque attenuatis hifpidis bafi

connatis, calycibus internis externos bis fuper-

_ antibus,

Descr. Stem ere&, fimple, round, pubefcent, terminating ina,

long, naked, round peduncle. Leaves oppofite, lanceolate,

narrowed at both ends, quite entire or with here and there a

{mall tooth, hifpid with white, adpreffed, ftiffifh hairs. Flower

folitary, very large, radiated. Involucre about ten-leaved :

leaflets lanceolate-acuminate, terminated in a fharp mucro,

hairy. Pale@ \inear-lanceolate, very. hairy, longer than the

florets of the difk. Florets of the radius tubular, with an un-

equal five-cleft limb, the three outer fegments many times

larger than the twa inner, all obtufe and villous without:

florets of the difk tubular, with a five-cleft equal border, ex-

ternal calyx membranous, cupped, plicate; internal calyx of

five, briftle-fhaped, black leaflets, twice the length of the ex-

ternal. Germen covered with long white down. Style oblique,

Stigma globofe. Seeds hairy, crowned with both the calyces.

This fpecies has very great affinity to Scasiosa grami-

nifolia, but the ftem is more ere&, the flowers are much

larger, the leaves broader and lefs filvery, with longer and

| more

more rigid hairs ; but the moft material difference appears to.

be in the length of the internal calyx, which in graminifolia is”

hardly longer than the external.

The flower exceeds in fize that of any other known {pecies

of Scabious, and continues long in beauty. a

Raifed by Mr. Loppices from feeds received by him from —

Mount Caucafus, .Is a hardy perennial. Flowers in July and

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ATRAGENE AMERICANA. AMERICAN

ATRAGENE.

ETE REE EE TE EE EEE ee a eee

Cla/s and Order.

PoLyANDRIA PoLyGYNIA.

Generic Charafler.

Cal.o. Cor. 4—6-petala. Neéfaria (f. petala interna) Ay

fpathulata, petalis alternantia. Fi/am. plurima: exteriora di-

latata fubantherifera. Sem, ariftata: ariftis pilofis.

Specific Charadier and Synonyms. —

ATRAGENE. americana ; foliis quaternis ternatis: foliolis

_ cordatis integerrimis, ne€tariis acutis.

At No. 530 of this work we have figured and defcribed the

ATRAGENE auffriaca, of which the a/pina from Siberia has

been generally confidered as a variety ; but we there obferved

that thefe plants were probably diftin& fpecies. We are now

_ able to afcertain that they really are fo, and to add a third, a

_ Native of North-America, which, with ochotenfis of Pa.tas,

_ makes up the whole of the fpecies from which the above ge-

_ neric charafter is formed; ATRAGENE capenfis and all the

other fpecies mentioned by WittpENow, except perhaps

ATRAGENE Zeylanica, probably do not’ belong to this genus;

_ which is chiefly diftinguifhed from Cremartis by the prefence

of the ne&taries or internal petals, and by its very fingular

_ manner of growth ; every gemma (to which there appears to be

_ nothing fimilar in Crematis) producing as it were a diftinét

pliant, confifting of two or four leaves, with a peduncle bearing a

_ folitary flower in thecentre. Thefe plants are conneéted together

by farmentous ftalks, but on very elevated mountains the ATRA-

_ GENE aufrriaca is entirely deftitute of thefe ftalks, and the whole

plant confifts merely of two radical leaves with a Fv

: ower,

flower, fupported ona fcape: It was in this form only that

the plant had occurred to Hatter, at the time he wrote his

Hiftoria Stirpium Helvetia ; probably alfo Linn aus had not

feen it in any other, when he defcribed the leaves as radical,

and called the peduncle a feape: and even in cultivation the

feedling plants will fometimes flower before any running fhoot

appears.

The ne@aries or internal petals have been hitherto faid to be

- numerous, but we conftantly find four that are fomewhat different

from the reft, placed alternately with the petals and without

any veltige of anthers ; all the others, generally about twelve,

having more or lefs appearance of anthers at their tips, we

confider as dilated laments. The ne€taries afford an excellent

mark of> difcrimination between ATRAGENE auffriaca and

fibirica, which are otherwife not eafily diftinguifhed by words,

thofe of the latter being emarginate or linear-obcordate, whereas

thofe of the former are quite entire at the point. :

Having had an opportunity of feeing three fpecies flower a

Mr. Loppices, at Hackney, this fummer, we have not

omitted comparing them together, and think they may be

fafely concluded to be diftin€ and chara€terized as follows :

~ 4. ATRAGENE aufriaca ; foliis binis duplicato-ternatis:

foliolis ovatis ferratis, ne€tariis obtufis. i "es

2. ATRAGENE filirica ; foliis binis duplicato-ternatis:

foliolis ovatis ferratis, ne€tariis emarginatis.

g. ATRAGENE americana ; foliis quaternisternatis: foliolis

cordatis integerrimis, ne€tariis acutis. |

Of the fourth fpecies, the ochoienfis of Patias, we know

nothing but the little this author has given of it in his Flora

. Roffica, vol. 2, p. 6g. . It has fix petals, but in other refpetts

has the habit of the reft. aS

According to Jussieu, what we have denominated corolla is

a calyx, and our ne€laries are petals. We prefer keeping to the

_ Linnean terms, and have only adopted that of ne€taries inftead

of his internal petals, in conformity to his own language in the

reft of the order. |

The plant now figured flowers nearly at the fame time with

ATRAGENE aufriaca, a month later than /idirica, is hardly lefs

ornamental, and has the exclufive advantage of being agreeably

{cented. Was raifed from feeds from North-America, by

Mr. Loppices ; appears to be perfeétly hardy, and to produce

feeds freely, by which it may be propagated without difficulty,

and makes a very defirable addition to our climbing fhrubs.

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-EPIDENDRUM SINENSE. CHINESE

EPIDENDRUM.

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Cla/s and Order, .

GyNANDRIA DIANDRIA.

Generic Charafer.

NeGarium undulatum, obliquum, reflexum.

Specific Charaffer and Synonyms.

EPIDENDRUM /fnen/e ; foliis enfiformibus nervofo-ftriatis

radicalibus, floribus nutantibus, petalis fub-

zequalibus, neétario revoluto maculatofubtus

concavo, bra¢tea germine parum breviore.

EPIDENDRUM /nenje. Bot. Repo/. 216. Donn, Cantab. 166.

This plant belongs to the genus Cymaipium of Swarrz*,

and is very nearly allied to Epipenprum enjifolium of Lin-

naus, figured by Dr. Smtru,.in his Spéctlegium Botanicum ;

fo nearly indeed that, perhaps, fome may be inclined to con-

fider both as varieties. It is a larger plant, the leaves wider and

more evidently nerved, the flowers larger, darker coloured,

and more nodding; the braée below each flower is abové

two-thirds the length of the germen, whereas in en/folia it is

fcarcely one-third the length; and the germen is much curved,

which in ex/ifolia is nearly ftraight. But even thefe diftinétions,

flight as they are, we can hardly infift upon, unlefs we had

feen more fpecimens of both in flower: there is however a

confiderable difference in the general appearance, and culti-

vators think them diftin@. We have a drawing of the other

* See the Profeffor’s paper on the genera of Orcu1pE#, in Tra&s relative to

Bstany, which we are informed was tranflated from the Swedifh language, by

our friend Mr. CHarues Konic, two years prior to the publication,

plant

plant by us, and perhaps, when we publifh this, we may be

able to fpeak more decidedly upon the fubjeé.

A native of China, from whence it was introduced by the

late Mr. Starter ; has been hitherto treated as a ftove plant,

but does not require fo much heat as the Weft-Indian {pecies,

thriving luxuriantly in the confervatory.

The genus Ep1pEN DRUM, as at prefent conftituted, certainly

contains many very heterogeneous fpecies; but, perhaps, until

a much larger number of them have been figured and defcribed,

it may be better to fuffer them to remain as they are. _Profeffor

Swartz has done much, but we acknowledge that we are

deterred from following his arrangement, by obferving feveral

fpeties united which can hardly belong to the fame genus +

thus Ep1penprum cucullaium, figured above, No. 543, ranks —

with our prefent plant under Cymaipium! ‘

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~Onosma Taurica. GoLpEen-FLOWERED

ONOsMA.

HBSS Hb oboe

Cla/s and Order.

PentTanpria Monocynia.

Generic Charafer.

Cor, campanulata: fauce pervia. Semina 4.

Specific Chara&er and Synonyms.

ONOSMA faurica ; caulibus fimplicibus e bafi multicipe,

foliis lineari-lanceolatis utringue albo-pilofis,

frudtibus ere&tis, Mar/ch. v. Biberflein Terek nu.

Kur. p. 138.

ONOSMA faurica. Pallas Tableau de la Tauride, p. 47

Annals of Bot. v. 2. p.

aes

This plant is not entirely new in our gardens, where it has

generally paffed for Onosma echioides of Linnazus, a much

larger plant, greatly branched, clothed with very long yellowifh

hairs, and having entirely the habit of Ecurum vulgare. We

at firft fufpefled it to be the Onosma /impliciffima ; but, from

the confufion in the fynonymy and the want of precifion in the

fpecific charafters, it was not eafy to determine the queftion.

But fortunately in our fearch we met with fpecimens exattly

correfponding with our plant, in a colleétion fent from Cau~

cafus to Sir Joseru Banxs, by Count Muscuin Puscakin,

under the name which we have adopted ; and with the affiftance

of our kind friend Mr. Carres Konic, we are enabled to give

the fpecific charaéter as drawn up by Marfchal v. Bizersrzin,

by whom we are informed that it is frequent in the open hills

of Tauria, about Karaffubafac and Sympheropolis, and alfo in

the mountains of the Cafpian Caucafus, flowering in May and

June. A careful examination of the dried fpecimens left us

almoft without doubt, yet the obfervation of this author, as

the

the flowers are of a full yellow colour, affords an additional —

proof of the identity of the plants. 2

It is a bardy perennial, but requires the fame care as moft —

other alpine olanth which are often preferved with more dif-

ficulty through our moift winters and variable {prings, than the

natives of warmer climes.

Our drawing was taken at the nurfery of Meffrs. WuitLey |

and Brams, Old-Brompton, in June laft.

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GoopENIA GRANDIFLORA. LARGE-

FLOWERED GOODENIA,

TRE TE AE RE ETE Ea ea a ae ae

Cla/s and Order.

PENTANDRIA MoNoGYNIA.

Generic Charafer.

Capf. 2-locularis, 2-valvis, polyfperma, diffepimento parallelo.

_ Sem.imbricata, Cor. fupra longitudinaliter fiffa, genitalia ex-

ferens: limbo 5-fido, fecundo. Anthere lineares, imberbes.

_ Stigma urceolatum, ciliatum. Smita.

Specific Charager.

GOODENIA grandiflora; caule herbaceo angulato, foliis

cordatis dentato-ferratis villofis: inferioribus

pinnatis, floribus axillaribus ternis, capfulis

pentagonis gibbis, we :

Desc. Root annual or biennial, fibrous. Stalk branched,

three or four feet high, fix or feven angled, and deeply fur-

rowed, hairy, filled with light pith like elder. Leaves alternate,

on long petioles ; upper ones fimple; heart-fhaped, acuminate,

fawed, with teeth nearly perpendicular, foft and fomewhat

clammy ; lower ones pinnated, the terminal leaflet the fame as

the upper leaves and much larger than the others. Flowers

row generally by threes, but at the upper part of the plant

Frequently folitary, from the axils of the petioles, the common

peduncle very fhort or almoft none, with a fhort fubulate

bragte at the bafe of each pedicle. Calyx fuperior or growing

to the germen, divided into five fubulate fegments, perfiftent.

Corolig yellow, irregular; laciniz 5, ovate-lanceolate, three-

nerved on the under furface, margin undulated; the claws

of the three lower ones adhere together, but the two upper

laciniz

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GoopEnia GRANDIFLORA. LARGE-

FLOWERED GoopeNIA,

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| Cla/s and Order.

PENTANDRIA MonoeyYNIA.

Generic Chara@er.

Cap/. 2-locularis, 2-valvis, polyfperma, diffepimento parallelo,

_ Sem.imbricata, Cor. fupra longitudinaliter fiffa, genitalia ex-

ferens: limbo 5-fido, fecundo. Anthere lineares, imberbes.

_ Stigma urceolatum, ciliatum. Smrtx.

Specific Charager.

GOODENIA grandiflora; caule herbaceo angulato, foliis

cordatis dentato-ferratis villofis: inferioribus

pinnatis, floribus axillaribus ternis, capfulis

pentagonis gibbis, ed a

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Desc. Roof annual or biennial, fibrous. Stalk branched,

three or four feet high, fix or feven angled, and deeply fur-

rowed, hairy, filled with light pith like elder. Leaves alternate,

On long petioles ; upper ones fimple; heart-fhaped, acuminate,

_ fawed, with teeth nearly perpendicular, foft and fomewhat

clammy ; lower ones pinnated, the terminal leaflet the fame as

the upper leaves and much larger than the others. Flowers

grow generally by threes, but at the upper part of the plant

requently folitary, from the axils of the petioles, the common

peduncle very fhort or almoft none, with a fhort fubulate

braéte at the bafe of each pedicle. Calyx fuperior or growing

to the germen, divided into five fubulate fegments, perfiftent.

Corolla yellow, irregular; lacinie 5, ovate-lanceolate, three-

nerved on the under furface, margin undulated; the claws

of the three lower ones adhere together, but the wee upper

) acinie

lacinie are diftin& and ere&, forming a hood or umbrella over

theftyle. Stamens 5, quickly perifhing; filaments fhort, recurved, -

_ inferted into the crown of the germen; antherslinear. Style erc@,

incurved, hairy; Stigma large, compreffed, ciliated at the

mouth. Cap/wles five-angled, gibbous, two-celled, fplitting at

the point into four valves, to difcharge the feeds. Seeds lenti-

cular, attached to the diffepiment, which is detached from the

fides of the capfule at its upper part. Embryo in the centre

of a flefhy perifperm: radicle defcendent.

As foon as the flower opens, the ftamens are bent quite away

from the ftigma ; but the anthers in this genus, as in moft, if |

not all, the family of campanulacee, fhed their pollen before

the corolla is expanded. If the flower-bud in this fpecies be

carefully opened a day or two before its proper feafon of ex-

panding, a moft curious fpe€lacle offers itfelf, the ftigma will

be found ere&, open, in the fhape of a cup, and fometimes

completely filled with the pollen, fhed from the anthers, which

now connive over its mouth. Before the flower opens, the

ftyle is much lengthened, and the ftigma clofes, the filaments

at the fame time fhrinking away. | |

The flowers have a fweet, but not very agreeable, fmell, #

and the whole plant partakes of the fame.

If brought forward by fowing the feeds in a gentle hot-bed

in the fpring, and the young plants be afterwards fet out in —

open ground, they will flower about the beginning of Auguft, —

and continue to bloffom till the froft fets in. The feeds will |

ripen in O€tober. Requires a plentiful fupply of water.

We received this plant from Mr. Wuirtzey, of Old-

Brompton, who raifed it from feeds from New South-Wales._

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PIMELEA LINIFOLIA. FLAXx-LEAVED

PIMELEA.

JH Heer

Clafs and Order.

DIANDRIA MoNoGYNIA,.

Generic Chara@er.

Cal.o. Cor. 4-fida. Stam, fauci inferta. Nux corticata,

a-locularis. Smits.

Specific Charaéier.

PIMELEA® Jinifolia ; foliis lineari lanceolatis, capitulis ter-

_minalibus involucratis, corolla extus villofa.

_ Smith Nov. Holl. x p. 31. t. 11. Willd. Sp. Pl.

1. p. 50. Mart. Mill. Did.

Desc. Stem fhrubby with a ferrugineous bark: branches

ere, fubdichotomous. Leaves oppofite, decuffate, horizontal,

fmooth, linear-lanceolate, thickened at the margin: middle

nerve depreffed underneath, raifed on the upper furface. Jn-

florefcence a terminal umbel, fupported by an involucre of four

ovate, acute, quite entire leaflets. F/owers white, fcentlefs.

Corolla tubular, with a quadrifid limb; tube and the two ex-

terior lacinie of the limb villous, the two interior fmooth.

Filaments two, inferted into the margin of the tube, the

length of the lacinie. Anthers orange-coloured. Germen

fuperior, oval, green : /fyle filiform, longer than the tube (in

the centre flowers fhorter): /figma fimple.

For this elegant {mall greenhoufe fhrub, which continues to

bloom through the greateft part of the year, we are indebted

to Mr. Loppicss of Hackney, -

It is a native of New South-Wales; may be propagated by

cuttings or from feeds imported from its native country. _

* For what reafon Dr. SotanperR applied this name to the genus is unknown ;

but, being derived from smiysa%, fat, in pronunciation the accent fhould be laid

upon the laft e, not on the firft

by Prof. Martyn 3—Pimeléa not Pimélea, as has been duly noticed

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£. Nanfom uedp

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- ALTHAA FLExuosa. SERINGAPATAM

, HoOLLYHOCK,

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Cla/s and Order. Pegs

MonapELPHIA PoLYANDRIA.

Generic Chara@er.

Cal. duplex: exterior 6- feu g-fidus. Cap/ule plurime, mo-~

nofperme. 3

—Arcea Linn.

Specific CharaGer and Synonyms.

ALTHAA flexuofa ; caule fubflexuofo hifpido, floribus

axillaribus folitariis, petiolis folio feptem-lobo

longioribus.

‘Citrine

The Hotryuocks in Linnzvs’s fyftem formed a genus of

themfelves under the name of Alcea; but the number of feg-

-™ents in the calyx not being very conftant, this charaéter has

been thought too flight; and the genus has been fuffered to

immerge in AL rua; an alteration adopted both by Scureser

in his Genera Plantarum and WittpENow in his new edition

of the Species Plantarum. In plants fo fubje&& to vary it is

not very eafy to diftinguifh real fpecies from mere varieties,

and whether this will continue to preferve its characters, after .

a few years cultivation, is at prefent dubious. The dwarf

Chinefe Hollyhock, a few years fince held in high eftimation,

18 now hardly to be found in its genuine ftate.

The flowers of all that have hitherto been raifed, proved

fingle; the ftem is about two feethigh, fomewhat zig-zag from

leaf to leaf, befet with rigid patent hairs, the petioles long and

hairy, the leaves three, five, and feven-lobed, crenate, villous ;

peduncles folitary, ere&, one-flowered ; inner calyx frequently

fix-cleft as well as the outer; capfules hifpid. For this plant

We are indebted to Mr. Wuirtey, of Old-Brompton, a

raife

raifed it from feeds fent by Lady Gwittim from Madrafs,

under the name of the Seringapatam Hollyhock.

We negleéted to mention.in our Jaft number that the op- —

portunity of giving a figure of the Hiaiscus palufiris (No. 882)

was afforded us by the fame ingenious cultivator, who, ob-

ferving that under the ordinary treatment this plant never -

flowered, removed it from the open ground into the ftove

towards the end of the fummer 1800, and thus forced it into

bloffom ; a praétice that has been fince fuccefsfully followed by

others,

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Littum MartTacon. ‘Turxk’s-CapP LILy.

SHER adeeieduea

Clafs and Order.

HexaAnprRia MonocyNIA.

Generic Charaéter.—Vid. N*™ 800.

Specific Charaéer and Synonyms.

LILIUM Martagon foliis ftri€tiufculis, obovato-lanceolatis,

. mudis, fubcorrugato-venofis, deorfum remote (fepe

etiam duplicatim) verticillatis ; racemo multifloro;

corollis pendulo-cernuis, laciniis revoluto-reilexis,

intimis apice villofis atque obtufiffimis. G.

LILIUM Martagon. Hort. Cliff.120. Gaertn, Sem. 2. p. 17>

t. 83. Flor. Arragon. 301. Facq. Aufir. t. 351-

_ Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 88. Hort. Kew. 1. p. 431-

LILIUM foliis verticillatis floribus pendulis revolutis. Hall.

Helv. n. 1233. .

LILIUM filveftre five montanum. Clu/: Hift.133. Dod. Pempt.

201. a ; :

LILIUM floribus reflexis montanum. Baub. Pin. 77.

MARTAGON. Camer. Epit. 617.

~MARTAGON Imperiale. Park. Parad. 28.

MARTAGON Imperiale mofchatum. Hort. Ey/?. Plant. Aipiv»

Ord. Il, necnon tab. 2 sequent.

A native of the Auftrian mountains and of fome other parts

of Germany. Becomes in our gardens a large plant, between —

three and four feet high, or more. Corolla gloffy, glazed

like porcelain, varies in its colour from purple, to whitifh

purple and white. - Leaves coarfe and harfh. Braétes often

double. Diftance between the whorls of leaves about the

length of the leaves. Pedicles long, afcendently patent.

Stamens far fhorter than the corolla. Style clubbed, twice

longer than germen. Perfeétly hardy ; and flowers about July

or Auguft, |

There are two Auftrian fpecimens in the Bankfian Her-

barium, the one with a naked, the other with a -pubefcent

ftem; the former is figured in Jacquin, and isa flenderer

{maller plant, but we can hardly think them fpecifically

different. G,

Geo Crefeent Dec 11805

Peis or Pub by 1 Cu

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HEMEROCALLIS CZRULEA. CHINESE

Day-LIy.

Clafs and Order.

HeExANDRIA MonocyNnlia.

Generic CharaGer.

Cor. bafi infundibuliformis, limbo campanulato, fexfido, apice

revoluto, S/am. declinata, Stigm. 3-gonum. Germen inferum.

Cap/. 3-gona, corolla teéta.

Oss. Radices fafciculate, et flores in feapo corymbofi aut racemofi. JUSS.

Vix AGAPANTHO nift habitu diftinguenda, :

Specific Charaéter and Synonyms.

HEMEROCALLIS cerulea foliis petiolatis, acuminato-ovatis,

fubplicato-nervofis ; bra€teis pedicellos

parum fuperantibus, fcariofo-membrana-

ceis; racemo multifloro; corolla tubo

fulcato-cylindrico limbum fubfemi-fex-

partitum campanulatum vix equante 5

_ ftaminibus apice involutis. G.

HEMEROCALLIS cerulea. Bot. Rep.tab.6. Liliac. a Redoute,

106. ¢.106. Venten. Malmaif. 18. t. 18.

HEMEROCALLIS japonica @. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 198.

After the very detailed defcriptions in the works of RE-

pouTe and VenTeEnat (above cited) of this now not uncom-

mon plant, it would be fuperfluous to add any further defcription

to that contained in the {pecific chara&ter, which feems to

diftingnifh it from Hemeroca tis japonica, of which it has

been deemed a variety by WiittpENnow. =

A native of China; thought to bloom beft in the ftoves

but thrives very well in a greenhoufe ; and fome cultivators

affure us, that it fucceeds in the open ground better than with

any other treatment, ; pope

_ Introduced by Grorce Hissert, Efq. Seeds freely, and

is eafily propagated by offsets, as :

_Our drawing was taken from a {mall few-flowered {pe-

cimen. G, B28 a. oe

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Wirsenta CorymBosa;y © CoRYMBOSE

“Sia € WHPSENTIASQ”..3

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am ~— Glajs and Orders

Trianpria MonocynNlia,

Generic Chara@er.

Inflor. aut fafciculata, involucro bra&eis pluribus minoribus

quafi imbricatim calyculato, aut paniculata fingulo flore fpatha

bivalvi uni-braéteata excepto. Cor. regularis, zqualis; vel

tubulofa limbo 6-partito, vel tota hexapetalo-partita. S/am.

ereGia, laciniarum bafi adnata. Stigm.tria. Cap/. putaminea,

trifariam dehifcens. Sem. plura, angulato-prefla. G. Vid.

Ann, of Bot..v. 1. p. 236.

Specific Charadler and Synonyms. |

WITSENIA coryméo/a inflorefcentia corymbofo-paniculata ;

fpatha bivalvi unibra€teata ; corolla hypocrateri-

formi ; tubo ereéto {patham pluries, limbum ex-

planatum parum, excedente; filamentis fubnullis 5

piftillo corollam fubfuperante. G.

emiaiaitiigs

A new fpecies, probably the firft of the genus ever culti-

vated inan European garden. Raifed from feeds received

from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. Hiszert at Clapham.

Agrees in herb with the three {pecies enumerated in the Aunals _

of Botany, v. 1. p. 237, but differs from them widely in its —

inflorefcence, which is a many-flowered corymbofe panicle,

borne on a flat two-edged rachis and pedicles. This is the only

genus of the order that has any thing of a frutefcent habits

the rootftock becomes woody and lengthens into a flat ftem,

covered with enfiform flabellately diftich leaves, which are im-

bricately equitant towards their bafes ; this {tem is analogous

to the rootftock of the Iris, but is lignefcent, flender, and 22

upright, inftead of being flefhy, thick, and procumbent. The _

prefent plant appears to be the conneéting link of its genus with

Lareyrousia, fee plate 595, and probably on its other fide

alfo with Artstza, fee A. cyanea, No. 458. Requires the

protetion of a greenhoufe; flowersin September; fcentlefs. G-

Sed 7 AB > com | vad - Pe? “ al ~ ss > 4t

yd Bdvarde del. Pub ey Tturts. J*Geo: C refeera Lée.2> Id 0d, P Santor

f. 896 J

Do.icHos LABLAB. BLACK-SEEDED

DOLICHOS.

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Cla/s and Order.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA,

Generic Charaéfer.

Vexilli bafis callis 2, parallelis, oblongis, alas fubtus coms

primentibus,

Specific Character and Synonyms.

DOLICHOS Lad/ab ; volubilis, leguminibus ovato-acinaci-

formibus, feminibus ovatis hilo arcuato verfus —

alteram extremitatem. Sp. Pl. 1019. Reichard

941- Willd. 3. p. 1037. Roy. Lugdd. 368. Hort.

Upf. 214. Haffelquifl. 483. Eng. Edit. 252+

Mart. Mill. Diff. 2. Hort. Kew. 3. p. 31. Gaerte

Frud. 2. p. 322. t. 150.

PHASEOLUS peregrinus 14 Leblab. Cluf. Hiff. 2. p.227-—

PHASEOLUS ezgpytius nigro femine. Bauh. Pin, 341. Ratt —

Seemann

Hift, 888.

PHASEOLUS. Riv. Tetr. t. 29. f. 4.

PHASEOLUS niger Lablab. Alp. Zgypt. 74. t. 75.2 Vel

3 Aigy pt. 29. ?

Although always confidered as a native of Egypt, Hasset- —

quisT affures us, that this plant is only cultivated there, and was

moft probably introduced from Europe, as it is called by the in- _

habitants the European Bean. Is cultivated for the table in

feveral warm countries, in the fame manner as the kidney-bean

is with us; indeed Phafeolus and Dolichos are very nearly

allied. Is ufually confidered as a ftove plant, but is marked

by Mr. Down as a hardy annual.

Axpinus defcribes his Lablab as a climbing evergreen

tree, as large as a vine, enduring a hundred years or more,

and in frequent ufe in the gardens of Egypt for making fhady

bowers. Surely this muft render it very doubtful if his plant

be the fame as ours; more efpecially as he deferibes the pods

as being long.

Flowers from July to September. Said in the Hortus Kew-

enfis to have been cultivated by the Duchefs. of BeaurorTs

in 1714. Communicated by Mr. Giss s, Seed{man, Piccadilly.

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PyROLA MacuLaTaA. Spottep-LEAVED

~ WINTER-GREEN.

TE ee ee

Clafs and Order.

Decanpria Monoeynia,

Generic Charafer.

Cal, 5-partitus. Petala 5. Capf 5-locularis, angulis de-

hifcens.

Specific Charader and Synonyms.

PYROLA maculata ; pedunculis fubbifloris, foliis lanceolatis

dentato-ferratis variegatis, ftigmate fubfeffili he-

mifpherico.

PYROLA maculata ; pedunculis bifloris. Spec. Plant. 567.

Reich. 2. p. 300. Willd. 2. p. 622. Hort. Kew.

2. p. 34. Mart. Mill. Diz. n. 5.

PYROLA maculata; foliis lanceolatis, rigide ferratis, fafcia

longitudinali difcolore notatis: fcapo bi- five rarius

trifloro; filamentis lanuginofis :. ftigmate feffili.

Michaux Flor. Bor. Amer. 1. p. 251.

PYROLA petiolis apice bifloris vel trifloris. Gron. Virg. 48.

PYROLA marilandica minor folio mucronato arbuti. Pet.

Muf. 675.

PYROLA Mariana, arbuti foliis anguftioribus, trifoliata ; ad

medium nervum linea alba utrinque per longi-

tudinem difcurrente, Pluk, Mant. p. 157. t. 348. _

This fpecies has very near affinity with the Pyroxa um-

bellata, No. 778, and is likewife a native of North-America.

The leaves are more rigid, pointed, and marked with a white

line fometimes only on each fide the midrib, but more ufually

branching

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ORONTIUM JAPONICUM. JAPAN OronTiUM.

JERS HSHSHHeBCHE

Clafs and Order. |

HexaAnpDrRIiA Monoeynlia.

Generic Charaéer.

Spadix cylindricus, te€tus flofculis, Cor. 6-partite nuda.

Stylus nullus. Folliculi 1-{permi. et

Specific Charafer and Synonyms.

ORONTIUM Faponicum rhizomate oblongo, craffo, carnofo;

fibris craffis ; foliis lanceolatis, nervofo-ftriatis,

_bafi convolutis ; {capo aroideo, iftis aliquoties

breviore ; {pica ovali-oblonga favofim conferta;

baccis obovato-oliveformibus rubentibus. G. —

—ORONTIUM Faponicum. Thunb. Fap. 144. Syft. Veg. 350.

Hort. Kew. 1. 474. Sp. Pl. 2. 200.

KIRO et RIRJO, vulgo OMOTTO. Kempf. amen. exot.

| 785. Bankf. Ic. Kempf. tab. 12. optima.

This fingular plant is a native of Japan, and has been admi-

tably defcribed as well as figured by the indefatigable Kamprer,

who fays the Japanefe plant it to cover by its luxuriant leaves

the watte {pots and corners of their pleafure gardens. The root

's rather bitter, but without the acritude of that of Arum; and

Confifts of an elongated, fubcylindric, thick, flefhy root-ftock

with flefhy fibres ; leaves radical, oppofite, lanceolate, feveral,

Convolute at their bafes; from one to two feet long, one to

three inches broad, deep green {cape feveral times fhorter than

thefe, one to three inches high, {pike oval-oblong, thick fet

With feffile flowers, as crowded as the cells of a honey-comb,

_ Parted by membranous braétes, corollas campanulate with the

_ Points of the fegments fomewhat infleéted ; the berries are faid

_ °Y Kamprer to be about the fize and form of a {mall olive,

containing a {carlet pulp, with a fingle heart-fhaped feed of a

ny fubftance; have a naufeous talte. Tuunserc’s defcrip-

Yon of this plant is inconceivably defe€tive and erroneous poe

i fays

fays he found it near Nagafaki as well as in feveral other parts of

the country; if he had not quoted K amprer and fent a{pecimen,

which is preferved in the Bankfian Herbarium, it would have

required no {mall fhare of fagacity to have difcovered what

plant he meant,

Introduced into this country by Mr. Grarer in 1783.

Ufually cultivated in the dry ftove ; when it flowers about

January; but is fufficiently hardy to endure our ordinary

winters in the open air, and flowers from March to June;

we have feen it in feveral colleétions ; our drawing was made

at that of Mr. Matcoim’s, Kenfington; propagated by off-

fets. We loft the opportunity of examining the flowers, fo

that we have trufted to a dried fpecimen and the drawing for

their defcription.

The above effential chara€ter we have added as we found

it in the books; but think that it is no ways adapted to the

prefent fpecies; nor indeed to Oronrium aquaticum, as far

as we Can make out from the dried plant. G.

Srd Ledward: del Pub. by 1 Curks Seo. € refcent Jan1Iscb F-Sanfom seudp

Ta? 8b9°:9 .

CONVALLARIA RAcemMosa. C.ustTer-—

FLOWERED SOLOMON’s SEAL.

FEET EEE BR TE aR aie ae he

Cla/s and Order.

HeExANDRIA MonoeyNia.

' Generic Charafer.

Cor. vel fexfido-tubulofa, vel globofa, aut fexpartito-patens.

Stigma trigonum. Bacca fupera, 3-locularis, ante maturitatem

maculata,

Oss. Species una foliis 6-verticillatis, altera radicalibus vaginantibus

Jpathaceis, cetera Seffilibus alternis. Jussteu.

Specific Charader and Synonyms,

CONVALLARIA racemofa; herba tota pubefcens ; foliis

ovali-lanceolatis, longe acuminatis, fefli-

_libus, alternis caulinis ; racemo compofito,

terminali; corollis rotatis, parvis, crebris ;

laciniis peranguftis. G.

CONVALLARIA racemofa. Sp. Pl. 452. Hort. Cliff. 125.

Gron. Virg. 38, 52. Hort. Kew. 1. 455-

Mart. Mill. Dict. Willd, Sp. Pl. 2. 162.

Michaux Fl. Bor- Amer. 1. 202.

POLYGONATUM racemofum. Corn. Canad. 36. 1. 37.

Morif. Hift. f. 13. t. 4.f. 9 Park. Theat.

697. f 8.

A native of Virginia and Canada; Micuaux fays he alfo

found it on the mountains in Carolina; there is a diminutive

ftrongly pubefcent variety in the Bankfian Herbarium from

the neighbourhood of New-York ; from which fource we alfo

learn that it is called in the language of the Cherokee Indians,

Otole Nowote (Child’s Phyfic). Cultivated

uuvate

Cultivated in this country by Mr. Joun Tranvescant,

jun. in 1656. <A hardy perennial, growing to the height of

about two feet; leaves ribbed, lower ones not unlike thofe of

Plantain. Blooms about June; corollas minute, fucceeded

by fmall red berries. LEafily propagated by parting its roots ;

fucceeds beft in a light foil and fhady fituation.

Ranks among the Smi/aces, a denomination given to a fub-

divifion of this genus, including the fpecies which have rotate

corollas, G,

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Yucca FILAMENTOosSA. THREADY ADAM’s

NEEDLE.

TE TT Te ee eee ee

Cla/s and Order.

HeEXxANDRIA Monoecynia.

Generic CharaZer.

_ Cor. hexapetalo-partita, campanulata. Svam. filamentis fu-

perne craffioribus ; antheris minimis. Stigm. g, feflilia. Cap/.

(Bacca carnofa Gertn. ) obtufe trigona. Sem. plana.

Specific CharaGer and Synonyms.

YUCCA filamentofa (acaulis) foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, mar-

ginibus diftanter filiferis ; ftigmatibus recurvato-

patentibus. G.

YUCCA filamentofa. Sy/. Vegetab. Murr. 337. Mill. Di. 4.

Gron. Virg. 152 ; 58. Trew Ebret. t. 37. Hort.

Kew. 1. 465. Willd, Sp. Pl. 2. 184. Michaux Flor. —

Bor-Amer. 1. 196.

YUCCA foliis filamentofis. Morif, Hift. 2. p- 419 ,

YUCCA virginiana foliis per marginem apprime hilatis. | Pl

Alm. 396.

According to Micxaux a native of the weftern parts of ©

Carolina = Virginia, growing on wilds near the fea-fhore, —

with a ftem rifing fometimes to the height of five feet.

An old inhabitant of ot ' ns, Sbeving been cultivated

in them as far back as 1675. y- Very ornamental ; —

flowers about September or Oftober. Is not uncommon ey

our Nurferies ; oe by fuckers. G. es

Me ERRATA.

No. oe ‘14, pro * Lacuewanta ee lege ** Lacnewatta |

No. 895, 1. 26, for * a lat two.edged rachis apeh pedicles,” rad at :

Jy Edwards del Pub hy T lurks . Pe Geol Tefcent Jan 11806 Fantom retadp

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LosBeiA Ertnus? Ascenpine LOBELIA.

JES H Eee

Clafs and Order.

PENTANDRtA Monocynta, olim SyNGENESIA MONOGAMIA.

Generic Charaéer. -

Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. 1-petala, irregularis. Anthere coherentes,

Cap/. infera 2- feu 3-locularis,

Specific Character and Synonyms. — aie

LOBELIA Erinus ; caulibus filiformibus toftiidls-aiettte

foliis obovatis incifo-dentatis glabris petiolatis,

floribus racemofis terminalibus, capfulis bilocu«

~ Jaribus,

LOBELIA Erinus ; foliis lanceolatis ferratis glabris, caule

flexuofo ere€&to, pedunculis axillaribus folio lon-

gioribus. Thunb, Prod. 40. ?

LOBELIA Erinus. Syft. Vegetab. 802.2 Willd. Sp. Pl. 1

p- 948. ?

—ae

There is fo much difficulty in determining many {pecies of

Lobelia, that it is not without hefitation that we give this

Plant, as the Losexia Erinus ; it feems probable indeed that

Linn xvus himfelf took up different plants, under this name.

At firft fight there appears to be a great fimilarity between the

Prefent plant and that figured at No. 514 of this work, but a

_ Nearer examination fhews a fufficient difference; the flowers

hardly differ, except that in the Erinus the flower fegments are

more obtufe and the colour is more brilliant; the ftalks,

though weaker, affe€t a more upright growth and feem cal-

culated to rife up among grafs; the whole plant is fmooth,

whereas the other is covered in every part with ftiffifh hairs ;

the root is perennial, as indeed it is in dicolor, though faid

y us, erroneoufly, to be annual; the capfules of both are

two-celled, in which refpeét our plant does not correfpond with

_ the defeription of Linn aus. inte

We were favoured with the plant from which our drawing

was made by the lady of J. Witson, Efq. of Iflington.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope; flowers from June to

September ; fhould be kept in an airy part of the greenhoufe

during the winter, and requires a plentiful fupply of water

whilft in bloom,

The Lozerta color, No. 514, as we at firft fufpefted, is

perhaps a mere variety of the Lopexia pudbefcens of the Hortus

Kewenfis ; the flowers of the former frequently degenerate to

white, yet we have .never feen them of fo pure a white as in:

the original pudéefcens, in which too the ftalks are more ere&,

more branched at the upper part, and the leaves are broader,

more toothed, and fomewhat more pubefcent.

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ANTIRRHINUM ASARINA. HEART-LEAVED

SNAP-DRAGON,

EAE TEE TREE EEE IE Ee

Clafs and Order.

DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA,

Generic Charadler.

Cal. 5-phyllus. Corolle bafis deorfum prominens, ne@tarifera.

Capf. 2-locularis.

Specific Charaéfer and Synonyms.

ANTIRRHINUM Afarina ; foliis oppofitis cordatis crenatis,

corollis ecaudatis, caulibus procumbenti-

bus. Spec. Pl. 860. Reich. 3. Pp. 139»

Willd. 3. p.259. Hort. Clif. 313. Hort.

Kew. 2. p. 338. Mart. Mill. Did. n. 43.

_ ASARINA procumbens. Mill. Dia. ro?

ASARINA. Lod, Ic. 601. Bauh, Hift. 3. p. 856. Hort. Rom.

« f. Qe

ASARINA oaitain 2 Maris Hift. 3. p. 432. §. 14. ¢. 91.

SJ. penult.

HEDERA faxatilis magno flore. Bauh. Pin. 306. Ger. Emac.

856. 2. Raitt. Hift. 567. .

“4 ———

—_ —

_ _ This fpecies of Antirrhinum, although cultivated by

_ Bosart, at Oxford, as long ago as the year 1699, and again

- by Purzip Miter, in the Phyfic Garden at Chelfea, before

1748, may be neverthelefs confidered as a rare plant.

Native of Italy, and, according to Mrixier, a hardy an-

nual, faid in the Kew Catalogue to be perennial and hardy ; but

Fl r. Donn, of Cambridge, juftly confiders it as a greenhoufe

_ plant,

_, Flowers from July to September. Our drawing was taken

rom a plant communicated by Narizr and Cuanpisr,

Nurfgrymen, Vauxhall.

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‘Nevumsium Spgciosum. Sacrep BEAN

or Inpia.

“eee deseakde se setae eae

Cla/s and Order.

PoLyANDRIA Potyeynia.

Generic Charafer.

Cal. 4 feu 5-phyllus. Cor. polypetala. Nuces 1-fperme, ftylo

perfiftente coronate, receptaculo truncato immerfe.

Specific Charaéter and Synonyms.

NELUMBIUM /pecio/um ; foliis peltatis, orbiculatis integer-

rimis, pedunculis petiolifque muricatis, co-

rolla polypetala. Willd, Sp. Pl. v.2. p.1258.

NELUMBO u2ucifera. Gert. Frud. 1. p. 73. t. 17. fi 2-

NYMPH ZA Nelumbo; Sp. Pl. 730. Reich. 2. p. 579

Lerche in Nov. AG. Nat. Cur. v. 5. app.

p- 191. Thunb, Fap. 223. Lour. Cochinch,

340. Pluk. Alm. 267. Phyt. t. 322. f. 1.

CYAMUS Nelumbo. Smith Exot. Bot. t. 31 & 32.

CYAMUS myfticus. Salifb. in Ann. of Botany, v. 2. P. 73+

TARATTI. Rumpbh. Amb. 6. p. 168. ?. 73.

TAMARA. Rbeede Malad. v. 11. p. §9- te 30+

REN. Kempf. Amen. Exot. 880.

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_ In the courfe of our botanical purfuits, we have long been

in the habit of looking up to the learned Prefident of the

Linnean Society, and have ever been happy to fhelter our-

felves under his authority ; it is not without reluétance there-

fore, that, in this inftance, we think ourfelves obliged to

forfake his banners, and adhere to thofe principles by which

we have been hitherto governed, in our choice of names.

Linnaus

Linna&us had followed preceding botanifts in uniting the

plant, with the figure of which we now prefent our readers, to —

the genus Nymphea, calling it Nymenza Nelumbo; but on —

account of the very remarkable difference in the ftru€ture of —

the fruit, later botanifts found it neceffary to raife it into a —

ew genus: accordingly ADANSON, GZRTNER, Jussieu, and

Wi.tipeNnow adopted Linn#us’s trivial name, the vulgar

appellation of the plant in the ifland of Ceylon. For the fake

~ of uniformity of language, Jusstzu gave it a Latin termination,

and Netumsium has. been fince generally admitted, But

Dr. Smits, departing from his great mafter’s precept, that —

a fuitable name is not to be changed even for a etter, prefers

Cyamus, a name under which the fame plant is defcribed by

Tusopurastus, and therefore, doubtlefs, unobjeAionable,

had it been at all neceffary to feck a new one. It may be re-

marked, however, that this name is not given by THEOPHRAS-

tus exclufively to this plant, as the worthy Prefident feems

to have imagined; it before belonged to a Jeguminous plant,

probably, fome kind of bean, common in Greece, and was —

applied to the Nelumbium merely on account of the fimilanity

of the feed, juft as our Englifh voyagers give the name of

apples, pears, and goofeberries, to fuch tropical fruits as beat

fome fort of refemblance to the produce of their own country,

and precifely as Heroporus had long before, in defcribing -

the fame plant, called it a rofe-coloured Lily ; on which

account, by the bye, another botanift may think, that CrinuM

has every right and title to be preferred, and thus names may —

‘be altered without end.* oe

Dr. Smitu accufes us, in common with other modert

writers, of confounding the Nymenaa Lotus with this plant

but certainly without juft ground. Indeed, no botanift cat

poflibly have miftaken the one for the other, fince the publi- |

_ cations of Gzrrner and Jussizu, however the mythological L

hiftory of thefe plants may have been occafionally mifapplied.

if any difficulties remained, thefe have been fince cleared UP

eri It may appear, at firft fight, that as the chapter begins * ‘O 33 nba -

Qeclas,’” &c. that this name is applied exclufively to the plant of which

: THtorHRastus se here fpeaking, but in fome copies the reading is gat

nuevos ty Avyiale Quieres’? ;

; : there is no occafion, however, to have rec |

to this reading, for the fenterice -is evidently epntivned Fics the end of rill

former chapter, where the author is treating of aquatic plants ieee

Egypt, and confequently the repetition of the epithet Egyptian was unneceHaly?

In other places Tororurastus has himfelf ufed the word daze to denote

fome kind of pulfe, and it o edly i vet

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. isthithe fame fates : urs repeatedly in the works of sey ge.

by the mafterly papers of Savicyy and De Lire, publifhed

- in the firft volume of the Auuales du Muféum d’ Hifloire Naturelle,

in 1802 (vide dunals of Botany, vol. 2. page 174.) which

contain a very fair and fatisfattory account of the Egyptian

Lotus, and a careful diftinétion of it from the Egyptian Bean ;

together with every thing that has been faid of thefe plants by

Herovortus, THeorurastus, and other ancient writers,

‘Whether in the Egyptian mythology the Nymphza Lotus

became important only as a fub{titute for the Sacred Bean, as

Dr. Smiru prefumes, we leave to.others to decide; to us, how-

ever, it feems probable that a plant which made its appearance

only with the inundation of the Nile, the fource of all fertility

in Egypt, and difappeared as the water receded, lying con-

cealed in the arid fand, until revivified by the fucceeding inun-

dation, could not fail to be ¢elebrated by the ancient Egyptians,

independent of any refemblance it might bear to the Sacred

Bean. Even the prefent inhabitants diftinguifh it by the name

of the fpoufe of the Nile; a term expreflive of its being con-

fidered by them as the fymbol of the fertility about to be

renewed by the fojourn of the waters upon the earth, Our

prefent plant which grew, as THropurastus informs us, in

ftagnant waters, and not in the lands overflowed by the Nile,

appears to have had a lefs powerful claim to the adoration of

the fuperftitious Egyptians, pee

Befides, the more frequent occurrence both of the flower

and fruit of the Nymeuaza Lotus, than of the Ne.umsium,

on the {fculptured monuments and fymbolic tables of the ancient

temples of Egypt, militates againft the Prefident’s opinion; as

doe’ alfo the blending of the fruit of the former plant with the -

ears of corn, to form the infignia of Ists, as the fymbols of

fertility and abundance, and the probable conjecture, that the

Poppy was dedicated to Ceres, whofe attributes are fo fimilar

to thofe of ihe Egyptian goddefs, entirely on account of its

refemblance to the Lotus, It is remarkable too, that if the —

Netumsium was really the celebrated Lotus of antiquity

Heroporus and Tusopurastus, who have defcribed both

plants, fhould have agreed in applying the name of Lotus to

the Nymeua#a. |

The conjeéture of our learned friend, that the Beans, faid to

be forbidden by Pythagoras to be eaten by his difciples, were

the fruit of the Nelumbium, although favoured by the cir-

cumftance, that this celebrated philofopher is fuppofed to have

imbibed his doétrines from the Egyptian priefts, may, perhaps,

be rendered dubious by the apparent abfurdity of profcribing

the ufe of a vegetable altogether unknown in Greece; a con-

dua

dué& much the fame as if an Englifh enthufiaft fhould preach q

up in London the neceflity of a total abftinence from yams!

The Nelumbium is no longer found in Egypt, but is ¢om-—

mon in moft parts of the Eaft-Indies, and appears to be held

in high eftimation in China, where there are feveral varieties,

if not diftiné fpecies. -Is faid to occur likewife in the Weft.

Indies, but it appears to us probable that this is a different

{pecies. oy ae

The feeds of this plant preferve their vegetative properties —

for very many years; which makes it the more furprifing,

that fuch a very ornamental and fragrant flower fhould not more

frequently occur in our ftoves; but its proper culture does not

feem to be as yet well underftood. It requires a deep ciftern

with a confiderable depth of mud for its roots. The ancient”

Egyptians planted the feeds in balls of mud or clay, mixed with —

chaff, and thus funk them in the water ; perhaps this praétice —

might be fuccefsfully imitated. : a

Although feldom reared to perfeftion in this country, it

_ bears the fevere cold of Pekin with impunity. Probably, if

attention were paid to obtain feeds from the coldeft climes in

which it is found, we might be more fuccefsful in cultivating it,

with little or no artificial heat ; at prefent, we believe, it h

not with us been made to flower out of the ftove. =,

Our drawing was firft fketched from a very fine plant in

bloffom at Mr. Liprrap’s, at Mile-End, in the year 17:

and finifhed from one that made a moft magnificent appearant

in the ftove of the Right Honourable Cuarzes Grevittl

at Paddington, in the fummer of 1804. Introduced in 17!

by the Right Hon. Sir Joszpu Banks, Bart. os

A. reprefents a flower of the natural fize over a {mall leaf. a

B. adiminifhed figure of the plant, fhewing the mode of its growth.

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MELASTOMA CorRYMBOSA. CORYMBOUS

MELASTOMA. | ~

“HP PS HS SPHHbkasiense

Clafs and Order.

DEecANDRIA MonocyYNIA.

Generic CharaGer.

Cal. 5-fidus campanulatus. - Petala 5 eo inferta, Bacca

5-locularis, eager ——

Specific Chara&er and Synonyms,

pees TOMA corymbofa ; foliis feptemnerviis cordato-ovatis |

| acutis ferratis nudis, corymbo paniculato

terminali.

MELASTOMA 5. Af. in Herb. Banks ?

‘This very handfome fpecies of Melaftoma is a native of

Sierra Leone, on the Welt coaft of Africa. We believe it was

introduced into this country by our friend, Profeffor ArzEL1US;

and is hitherto undefcribed.

Our memoranda have been miflaid, but, if we miftake ge ee

it belongs to the oftandrous divifion, having eight ftamens,

three of which are fterile. Requires to be kept in the ftove,

but is not fo impatient of cold as might be fufpeéted from the

place of its natural growth. Is propagated by cuttings. Our

plant was received from Mr. Loppicxs, Hackney.

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ANDROMEDA ARBOREA. TREEANDROMEDA,

or SORREL-LTREE.

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Clafs and Order.

DEcANDRIA MonocyYNIA,.

Generic Charaéer.

Cal. 5-partitus, Cor. ovata: ore 5-fido. Cap/, 5-locularis,

Specific Charatter and Synonyms,

ANDROMEDA arborea ; paniculis terminalibus, corollis

fubpubefcentibus, foliis ellipticis acuminatis

denticulatis. L’Herit. Stirp. Nov. v. 2

Hort. Kew. a. p.69. Willd. Sp. Pl. 565+

3 Mart. Mill, Di. a. 13. |

ANDROMEDA arborea ; racemis fecundis nudis, corollis

rotundo-ovatis. Sp. Pl. 565.

ANDROMEDA arborea ; ramis teretibus; foliis majufculis

oblongo - ovalibus, acutiflime acuminatis,

argute ferrulatis: panicula terminali, poly-

ftachia : corollis pubefcentibus, ovoideo-

cylindraceis: antheris linearibus, muticis.

Michaux Flor. Bor-Am. 1. p.255.

THE SORREL-TREE, Cate/b. Car. 1. p.71. ¢. 71.

___ Said to grow in its native foil, in the Alhegany-Mountains,

into a tree fifty or fixty feet high, The fpecimen from

which our drawing was taken forms a very large fhrub in

Meffrs. Wuirxey and Bramz’s Nurfery, in Old Brompton;

the branches are pendent, and the long racemes of white

flowers grow from their extremities. Bloffoms from July te7

September, and during this feafon in particular makes a very

handfome appearance.

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ZizipHORA SERPYLLACEA. SWEET-SCENTED

ZAZIPHORA.

Seabee eakakaealesiese sk-skakeate se ak

Cla/s and Order.

Dranpria Monocynlia.

Generic Charaéler.

Cor. ringens: labio fuperiore reflexo, integro, Cal, filiformis.

Sem. 4.

Specific Charaéter and Synonyms.

ZIZIPHORA /erpyllacea ; capitulis terminalibus ovalibus,—

foliis ovatis fubferratis: floralibus fubfimili-

. bus integerrimis ciliatis.

ZIZIPHORA /erpyllacea ; racemis terminalibus capitatis, fo-

liis ovato-lanceolatis- fubferratis: floralibus

confimilibus. Mar/chall. v. Beberflein Terek

u Kur, p.127. Annals of Botany, v. 2. inedil.

ZIZIPHORA odoratifima. Loddiges. —

aneciamel

Seeds of this alpine plant were received from Mount Caucafus, —

by Mr. Loppices, who kindly fent it us in flower in July

laft, It continues feveral weeks in bloffom, and is at the

fame time agreeable to the eye and grateful to the fmell.

Having compared our plant with the fpecimens fent from

Caucafus by Mr. Apams to Sir Joszrpu Banxs, under the

__ name we have adopted, we are certain of the identity of their {pe- _

cies. In thefe fpecimens as well as in ours the brates are not

exaétly fimilar to the leaves, being fmaller, rounder, and more

acuminate, without notches, ciliated at the edge, and more

ftrongly nerved. The filaments in this {pecies are extremely fhort,

_ the anthers being nearly feffile in the faux of the corolla. ID

the fame colleétion is another plant very nearly refembling this,

except that the calyx is thickly covered with ftiff hairs; 4§

far as we can judge in the dried ftate it appears to be a mere

variety of this; Mr. Apams however confiders it as a diftin®& —

fpecies, and calls it Zizipnora Poufchkini. We have pre-

ferved as a fynonym the name by which Mr. LoppiceEs ©

ceived it, as we have fometimes found that the plants of thele —

very diftant countriés have been publifhed under thefe name> —

long before we have known of it, | a

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‘CoronitLa CoronaTa. CROWN-

_ FLowErep CorONILLA.

(aa seasick eas sede

Clafs and Order.

DiaADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Generic Charaffer.

Cal. 2-labiatus: 2: dentibus fuperioribus connatis. Vextllum

vix alislongius. Legumen ifthmis interceptum.

~ Specific Character and Synonyms. 7

CORONILLA coronata; caulibus ereftis flexuofts, foliolis

-novenis ellipticis: internis cauli approximatis,

leguminibus pendulis.

CORONILLA coronata ; fuffruticofa, foliolis novenis ellip~

eS ticis: internis cauli approximatis, ftipula

* oppofitifolia bipartita. Willd. Sp. Pig. p.11§1+

CORONILLA coronata. Spec. Pl. 1047. Reich. 3. 49% ©

Syft. Veg. 669. Facq. Aufir. t. 95. Hoffm.

Germ. 260. Roth. Germ. I. 318. II. 212.

CORONILLA montana. Scop. Carn, 912. t. 44. Riv. teir.

— te 93+

CORONILLA caule ere&o, foliis undenis ovatis, floribus

3 umbellatis, filiquis articulatis pendulis, Hall.

Helv. 388.

COLUTEA filiquofa minor coronata. Baub, Pin, 397- Rati

: Hift. 924. :

COLUTEA fcorpioides altera. Clu/. Pam. 46. Cluf. Hif. 1-

Pp. 98.

COLUTEA fcorpioides montana Clufii. Ger. Emac. 1300-

The flipula in this plant, if any, are fo deciduous, that,

when the plant is in flower, they are not feen, on which

account we have omitted them in the fpecific charafter and

added the more diftinguifhing mark of the pendulous feed-pods.

It is properly an herbaceous perennial, for, although the lower

part of the ftem becomes woody, it perifhes to the ground

every year ;- is a much handfomer growing plant than the Coro-

nilla varia; the root furvives our common winters in the open

ground, unlefs the foil be too wet. Is a native of the fouthern

mountains of Europe. Propagated by feeds. Flowers in the

Summer months. Introduced in 1776 by Profeffor JacQuiN-

Our drawing was taken at Mr, Sarissury’s Botanic Garden,

Brompton,

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SILENE FIMBRIATA. FRINGED-FLOWERED

: CAMPION,

aR eseok shakes estes deka aap

Cla/s and Order.

Decanpria TRIGYNIA.

Generic Charaé@er.

Cal. 1-phyllus, ventricofus. Pctala 5, unguiculata, Cap. .

fupera, femitrilocularis, apice dehifcens, polyfperma. Smiru.

Specific Charaéter and S )YONYINS.

SILENE fimériata ; floribus dichotome paniculatis, petalis

femibifidis incifo-fimbriatis, corona bipartita, caly-

cibus inflatis venofis pubefcentibus,

CUCUBALUS multifidus. Adams in Herb, Bank. :

LYCHNIS Behen alba fimilis, major perfoliata. Buxd. Cent.

4, 9.51.1. 578

Peete,

Desc. Stalks ere&t, two feet high, hairy, round. Leaves

broad, heart-fhaped, quite entire, rugofe underneath, hifpid

on both fides: margin undulated, upper ones feflile, lower

petiolated. Petioles winged, connate. Inflorefcence a dicho-

_. tomous panicle. Ca/yx inflated, covered with a foft pubel-

cence. Corolla five-petaled: claws of the petals very narrow

and diftant, expanding into wings at the upper part; limb

divided half-way: lobes finely cut. Crown a bipartite proce!s

arifing from the middle of the limb, not its bafe. Stameus ten ;

filaments the length of the petals, inferted into the elevated

receptacle below the ovary; anthers ovate greenifh. Ovary

nearly globular, fomewhat flattened, half three-celled ; ftyles

three ; ftigmas acute. Czp/ule one-celled, the diffepiments

which extended from the circumference half-way to the recep-

tacle in the ovary now difappearing. Receptacle of the feeds

conical, central, unconneéted. Seeds reniform rugofe. a

This has altogether the habit of Cucubalus Behen of Lrx-

naus (S1LENE inflata of Smitu) of which it is doubtlefs a

congener. However averfe from unneceflarily changing names,

we entirely agree with our friend Dr. Smit in the propriety

of feparating thefe plants from Cucusatus dacciferus and

- uniting them with the genus Silene, of which the prefent f{pe-

cies has altogether the charaéter; nor is the Behen perfeélly free

at all times from thefe proceffes, which forms what Linnavus

calls the corona, as is obferved by Dr. Smiru, and before him

by that accurate Botanift Poxiticn.

Native of Mount Caucafus ; perfeétly hardy ; propagated by

feeds, which it produces plentifully. Introduced by Mr.

Loppices, from whom we received it in flower in July laf,

under the name of Cucusa us fimbriatus.

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- Mepicaco CarsTIENsIS. CREEPING-

Rootep MeDICck.

SHIME RIE ae

Clafs and Order.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Generic Charader.

Legumen compreffum, cochleatum. Carina corolle a vexillo

defleétens. :

Specific Character and Synonyms.

MEDICAGO carfienfis ; pedunculis multifloris, leguminibus’

cochleatis utrinque compreflis, aculeis fubulatis

re@tis, ftipulis dentatis, caule eretio. Willd.

“Sp. Pl. 3. p. 1412+ :

MEDICAGO carftienfis; caule erefto, radice perenni rep-

tante, floribus umbellatis, leguminibus coch-

leatis fetofis. Facg. Coll. 1. p. 86. Lc. rar. 1.

t.156. Hof Sym. 417-

MEDICA cochleata polycarpos, capfula fpinofa minore, per-

ennis ciliaris five capfulis ciliaribus nigris.

Morif. Hift. 2. p. 154+

MEDICA ciliaris Guilandini. Rats Hy. 965.

This {pecies of Medicago is undoubtedly diftin€& from all

the fuppofed varieties of Mepicaco polymorpha, particularly

in having a perennial creeping root and upright, {quare, almolt

fhrubby ftalks. . : oo ;

Found by Bursar in the Carftian mountains in Carniola,

by whom feeds were fent.to Profeffor Jacquin. » Although

feemingly confidered by him as entirely new, it was known

to fome of the older Botanifts; Ray gathered his plant in the

mountains of Carinthia; RereHanp, in his edition of the

Species Plantarum, added the Synonyms of Rax and Mort-

in which he was followed by Profeffor

MartYn,

-Maarryy, in his edition of M1iizR’s Di€tionary ; but Witt-

peNow is certainly right in having applied them to this

lant.

: Flowers in June and. July; is a hardy. perennial, but like

other alpine plants, apt to perifh in our humid winters.

Our drawing was taken from a plant fent us by Mr. Lop-

pices. We_ had alfo a fpecimen fome years before from

the Botanic Garden at Brompton. We learn from Mr. Donn,

in his Hortus Cantabrigienfis, that it was introduced in 1799,

probably by himfelf. :

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Clafs ‘and Order.

DoprecanDRia Monocynia.

® Generic CharaGer.

4-locularis. Sem. folitaria.

Specific Charaéfer and Synonyms.

HALESIA tetrapiera ; foliis ovatis acuminatis, venis fubtus

pilofis, alis fruétus equalibus. Willd. Arb. 137.

Ejufd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 849.

HALESIA ¢etraptera. Sp. Pl. 636. Reich.2. p. 417. Michaux

t. 32. Cavan. Diff. 6. p- 338. ¢. 186. Ellis in

AG. Ang. v. G1. p. 831. ¢. 22.f. 4. Mart. Mill.

Di. a. 1.

_FRUTEX padi foliis ferratis, floribus monopetalis albis cam-

Car. 1. p. 64. t. 64.

ee . Pa

venerable Srepnen Hates, D. D. F.R.S. by Joun Extis,

Carolina, where it grows by the fides of rivulets fhaded by

wood. Is perfeétly hardy. Flowers in April and May; but not

_. with us, as in America, entirely before the appearance of the

leaves. :

Propagated by feeds, and as thefe, in favourable feafons,

are not unfrequently perfeéted here, we are furprifed that a

fhrub of fo much beauty fhould not be more generally met

with in our pleafure-grounds. According to Dr, GARDEN,

the fruit is alfo very pleafant to the tafte.

Havesia TETRAPTERA. Four-WINGED |

Fl. Bor-Amer. 2. p. 40. Gert. Frud. 1. p. 160. ©

paniformibus, fruétu craffo tetragono. Cate.

This fine fhrub was named in honour of the learned and

Efq. who firft raifed it in this country from feeds fent over by 2

Dr. ALexanper Garpen, in 1756. It is a native of South- —

Cal. 4-dentatus, fuperus. Cor. 4-fida. Nux “g-angularis, 3

4 7 y+ Poa + wis 1

r 7 7 p > Wes {te pz | ee Tefcent A

t 5 Fe, Eidiavd edel Lid? oY Li MTS WJ: oreo :

- CypripEDIUM ParvirLorUM. YELLOW

Lapies SLIPPER. :

Joie bbb &

Clafs and Order.

GYNANDRIA DIANDRIAs

Generic Charatter.

Petgla 4, cruciatim difpofita. “Neéarii Yabium inferius ven-—

tticofum, inflatum, calceiforme. — Ps

Specific Charaéfer and Synonyms.

CYPRIPEDIUM parviflorum ; petalis lateralibus linearibus

ee “contortis calceolo avenio longioribus. —

CYPRIPEDIUM parviflorum ; lobo ftyli fagitteeformi bafi

| deflexo, labello petalis breviore compreffo.

Swartz Orchidee. Trads on Botany, p. 207-

Salifoury in Linn. Tranf. VU. 16 Po 77+ be 2

Te Bs

CYPRIPEDIUM Calceolus ; minutim pubefcens: caule fo-

liofo: laciniis calycis exterioribus oblongo-

ovalibus, acuminatis ; interioribus lineari-

bus conferti/que : calceolo luteo. Michaux

: Fl. Bor-Amer. v. 2. p. 161.

HELLEBORINE calceolus diéta, mariana, caule foliofo, flore

luteo minore. Pluk. Mant. p. 101. t. 488-

fia |

This fpecies of Ladies-Slipper is an inhabitant of North-

America, from New-England to North-Carolina. It comes

. very near to the European [pecies, and we fuppofe has been

miftaken for the fame by Micuaux, in whofe {pecific defcrip-

= tion confertis feems to be an error of the prefs for contortis.

3 It is a taller plant, more pubcfcent ; lateral or interior petals

ae longer, narrower, and more curled; and the neGlarium or

) flipper is of a plain yellow colour without veins. “

See SEES ee a gee SS eS eae eS ee ee a =

Our drawing was taken at Mr. Wooprorn’s, at his late

refidence at Vauxhall, early in June.

Muetises calls fegments of the calyx, both the petals and

nettarium, as we, in conformity to Linnaus and moft Bo-

tanifts, call them; Swartz confiders our petals as calyx and

- the ne&tarium as corolla. Dr. Smitn has very properly re-

marked that there is no end to difputes of this kind; to us

the language of Linn us appears the moft eafily intelligible,

and the name of neé€tarium, fo offenfive to many modern

Botanilts, is conveniently applied to thofe parts of a flower -

that have an anomalous form, although they may not always —

be organs for fecreting or retaining the honey. To avoid the

impropriety of borrowing a name from a fun@tion, which the

part does not perform, fome botanifts have propofed to fubfti-

tute parapetalum for neZarium ; but it feems hardly worth while

_to change an eftablifhed word, well underftood ; and indeed

we believe that the cafes, where thefe parts are not really re-

ceptacles of honey or fome analogous fluid, are fewer than is.

generally fuppofed.

NGI2

tM Ip.

64. Bber-ds det Pub by T Curks, S¢Geo-Crefeent Mar11806. BF Sanfom

ee ee ee oe ee

L 912 J

CAMPANULA MAcropHyLLa. LARGE-

LEAVED BELL-FLOWER.

TEER ERE eee eee

Clafs and Order.

PeENTANDRIA MonocYNIA.

Gani: Chatader:

Cor, campanulata, fundo claufo -valvis ftaminiféris, Stigma

trifidum. Cap/. infera, poris lateralibus dehifcens. HS

Specific Charager and Synonyms.

CAMPANULA macrophylla ; capfulis obte&tis trilocularibus,

, foliis cordatis crenatis fubtus tomentofis,

floribus in racemo compofito nutantibus

fecundis.

CAMPANULA alliariefolia. Adams 2

Descr. Root biennial? tap-fhaped. Stalk round, ereé,

ftriated, woolly, and hairy, branched at the top only and

fometimes terminated in a fimple raceme. Radical leaves

large, heart-fhaped (in our fpecimen haftate, but this form does

not appear to be conftant) crenate, tomentofe underneath,

cauline on footftalks gradually fhortening upwards: floral quite

feffile. Flowers white, nodding, fecund, at the ends of the

branches, on fhort curved footftalks, which grow fingly from

the axils of the floral leaves. Calyx of five lanceolate entire

fegments, with their margins rolled back, ereét, with the

- angles lengthened, refle€ted upon and adhering to the germen,

which is top-fhaped, irregularly fulcated, three-celled, and

terminated by a trifid, finally revolute fgma. Corolla bell-

fhaped: tube three times longer than calyx, widening gra-

dually upwards: limb five-cleft, fegments patent, ciliated at the

edges ; angles between the fegments as if pinched into a eo

ike

like procefs, vifible before the bloffom is expanded. Valves —

fupporting the ftamens ovate, ciliated : filaments fhort, capil-

lary: anthers linear. The whole plant abounds with a clammy

greenifh milk. .

For this. new fpecies of Campanula we are indebted to

Mr. Loppices, the produé of feeds fent him from Mount

Caucafus. Specimens of the fame plant are in the colleétion

tranfmitted from that country to Sir Jostea Banxs, by Count

Mousuin Povsnkin ;;-but the ticket containing the name

given by Dr. Apams having been loft, we are not certain that

we apply from his lift the one intended, and the leaves not

appearing to us to bear a good refemblance to thofe of Alliaria,

we have preferred that by which we faw the fame plant

defignated in Mr. Yere’s fine colle€tion at Kenfington-

Gore.

Is perfe&tly hardy. Flowers in July and Auguft. Propa-

_gated by feeds. Being of large growth it requires room, andis,

on that account, more adapted to ornament extenfive plantations,

than the confined parterre.

Sid Fadnards det. Pub by T Curtis, St Geo:Crefcent Mar. 11806

Gilg ee ps

‘Eucomis PunctaTa. SpoTTep-LEAVED

EucomIs. 7

Seseedinekek

Clas and Order.

HEXANDRIA MoNnoCYNIA.

~ Generic Charaéer.

. a *

Cor. infera, fexdivifa, perfiftens ; laciniis re€tioribus. Stam.

-ferto membranaceo brevi corolle adnato connexa. Gerni.

trigonum, membranam ftaminilegam longe fuperans. G.

Frititraria, Lian. Basstraa. Fuff.

Oss. Massontr@ confinis; dignofcenda tamen tubo vix ullo, germine

Supra fertum fiaminilegum longe es corolla laciniis neve retrofiexis vel

etiam recurvatis ; exque habitu, hic enim educitur Masson1 umbella vel

corymbus in racemum {picatum coma varia magnitudinis terminatum. Gra-

viffime fallimur quando ad N°*- 840 hujus generis radicem dicimus ** Bulbum

Squamsfo-tunicatum ut in Lii10;” ¢t enim * Bulbus tunicatus, tunicis

crafficribus,” parum quidem ab illo MASSON12 recedens. G.

Specific Charaéter and Synonyms.

EUCOMIS puséata foliis pluribus, oblongo-lanceolatis, ca-

-_ naliculato-depreffis; racemo elongato-cylindraceo ;

coma brevi microphylla; braéteis inclufis pedi-

cellos fubaquantibus; corolla rotata ; ftaminibus

__—_ divergenter patentibus. G.

EUCOMIS pundata. Hort. Kew.1. 433- L’ Herit, Sert. Angl.

48. 2.18 Mart. Mill. Did. 4. Wild. Sp. Pl.

ORNITHOGALUM panélatum. Thunb, Prod. 62.

ASPHODELUS comofus. Houtt. Linn, Pf. Sy, 11. p. 381.

= " oe Te 83. : ee te

“The trivial name is taken from the curious dotting of the ftem

and leaves, —Introduced by Mr. Joun Grarer, 04 783, from

the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers in July. Its {cent feems

to us not unpleafant. The leaves do not lie flat on the ground

as thofe of many of the fpecies do; but are upright and diva-

ricately patent ; pedicles little longer than the corolla, about

equal to the braétes, which are fomewhat coloured and concave;

corolla ftellately patent and parted almoft to the bafe ; filaments

fhorter than corolla, connate, but only for a very little diftance,

divergent, fomewhat incurved; both filaments and corolla

are at firft white, but turn green in time. Germen ovate-

faftigiate; ftyle curved. A common greenhoufe plant, of .

moft eafy culture.

Our drawing was made from a fpecimen fent by Mr. Bucua-

nan, Nurferyman, at Camberwell, G. ,

d “Qld

Syd Edwards del Pub by Thurs. S€Cee Crefeent Mar 1 18?6 FSanfem

[ 914 ]

PHALANGIUM Lix1aco (@). Lesser Grass-

LEAVED PHALANGIUM.

sees se dee siesta se ae ale sate se ae ale a le

Clafs and Order.

Hexanpria Monocynia.

Generic Charafer.

Cor. infera, hexapetalo-partita, tota patens vel a bafi connivens,

perfiftens, Filam. filiformia, nuda. Stylus affurgens, fur- .

_fum incrafcefcens, Stigm. hianter obtufum. G. ~

Ons. Radix perennis, fibrofa; fibris fimplicibus, carnofis, craffiufeulis,

| Fafciculatis. Folia radicalia, ex linearibus longe attenuata, canaliculata,

q Flores albi, fepius cum virore. Caulis annuus, ereétus, fimpliclfimus vel

ramofus ; pedunculi bracteati, uniflori, obfcurius uniarticulati, fpicatim

digefit.* Differt ASPHODELO filamentis bafi haud fornicatim dilatatis atque

germini coaptatis ; capfule quoque fubftantia, que tenuior et abfque omni

4 parenchymate; ANTHERICO filamentis nudis; fed praeprimis habitu.—Ifue

Jubjicienda ANTHERICUM Liliaftrum fupra N°" 318 et ANTHERICUM

ramofum. G. a

Specific Charaéter and Synonyms, :

PHALANGIUM Liliago caule fimpliciffimo ; foliis gramineo-

: anguftis, fubulato-linearibus; racemo mul-

‘ tifloro rariufculo, fpicato ; corolla ftellato-

2 patente, laciniis oblongo-lanceolatis, G.

2 PHALANGIUM Liliago. Schreb. Spicil. 36.

ANTHERICUM Liliago. Linn. Sp. Pl. 445. Suec. n. 290.

Facq. Hort. 1. t. 82. Pollich. Pal. n. 335.

Krock, Siles. 528. Vill. Dauph. 2. 267.

Hort. Kew. 1. 449. Flor. Dan. t. 616.

Hoffm. Germ. 121. Gaertn, Sem. et Fr. 55.

t.16. f.1. Flor. Arragon. 44. Willd. Sp.

Pl. 2. 141. Desf. Flor. Atl. 1. 304.

PHALANGIUM, &c. Hall. Helv. n. 1207.

ANTHERICUM caulibus non ramofis, Guett. Stamp. 1,

: 128,

PHALANGIUM

PHALANGIUM parvo flore non ramofum. Banh. Pin. 29.

Mor. Hift. f. 4. t. 1. f. 10. Park. Parad.

150. 3. t. 151. f- 2. Ger. Herb. 44. fem

- F. Baub. Hiff. 2. 635. cum Ic.

LILIAGO Cordi. Lod. Ic. p. 48. R.

LILIAGO. Cordi Hift. 2. ¢. 106. p. 190 4.

(a) major. G,

(8) minor, G. —

The prefent plant, with the two others mentioned in our

obfervation above, are too diftin& from thofe plants with which _

they have been ufually arranged, under the generic title of

“ANTHERICUM, to be any longer permitted to remain in the

fame feétion; we have accordingly feparated them under the

“name already adopted by Jussieu, as well as fome of the ~

older Botanifts. — E =e se

The reafons alleged by Jacquin for fuppofing HAaLier’s.

plant to be a different fpecies from this, we think ill founded;

he appears to us to have miftaken differences of terms for dif-

ferences of things; “ the petiolated petals” of Hatizr being

no other than the claws or narrowed bafe of the fegments of

the corolla; nor are “ the petals of two orders” of the fame

any thing more than the inner and outer fegments of the

flower. : 4

A hardy common plant; native of Algiers, Spain, France, —

Switzerland, Italy, and Denmark. The variety (a) is hand-

fomer than the prefent. Differs from P. Liliaffrum by its

ftellately patent corolla, and from ramo/um by its fimple

item. Gs is ray

Syd Edvard: del. Pub. by T Curtis Seo: Crefeent Marrsscb FSoneom

os eee Na

AMARYLLIS REVOLUTA. REVOLUTE |

AMARYLLIS.

Se ee eae ae ae at

3 Clafs and Order.

Hexanpria Monocynia..

Generic CharaGer. Vide N*™ 661+

Specific Charaéer and Synonyms.

AMARYLLIS revoluta foliis anguftis, lorato-linearibus, cana-

liculatis ; umbella pluriflora; corolla anguftius

infundibuliformi, extrorfum curvata; laciniis

longinque recurvato-patentibus; tubo obfolete

angulato iftis 2-3-plo breviore Ee 2—3-

plo longiore; ftigmate hiante. =

AMARYLLIS revoluta. Hort. Kew. 1. 419. L’Herit. Sert.

Angl.14. Mart. Mill. Did. 14. Willd. Sp.

Pl. 2: °§7.

This handfome plant is a native of the Cape of Good Hope;

and was originally introduced into the Kew-Gardens by

Mr. Masson, in 17743 but the fpecimen, from which our

drawing has been made, was imported by Mr. H1sBert, with

whom it flowered five or fix years ago; the leaves were de-

cayed when feen by our draughtfman, and we fear the bulb has

fince fhared their fate, as we have fought for it in vain in the

fame colleétion. 7 :

Leaves narrow, quite linear; ftalk purple-brown ; um-

bel (in thofe plants which have bloomed in this country) four

to fix flowered; corolla narrow-turbinate, recurvedly patent

full as far as the middle, white fuffufed with different seat

of rofe-colour; pedicles round, black-purple, bent outwards,

feveral times longer than the elliptic green-germen, which is

unufually {mall in proportion to the corolla; the fegments are

- without the undulate edge that we fee in the vé///ata ; organs

affurgently declinate ; ftyle rofe-coloured. © Sweet-fcented 5

blooms in September; needs nothing more than proteétion

from froft, and, perhaps, will do at the foot of a fouthern wall,

as well as moft of its Cape congeners. A very rare f{pecies,

and if Mr. Hisserv’s plant is really loft, we fufpeét it is not

now to be found in any European colle€tion. We have reafon

to think the bulb fufficiently diftin@ from both Belladonna and

vittata; but trufting to the feeing of it another year, we loft the

opportunity of taking fo complete a defcription of the whole

plant as we now wifh we had done. The leaves come very

near to thofe of Amaryutis Belladonna, as the flowers do to

thofe of AMARYLLIs villata. G, .

bal Edvard: wi Pub bv 7 ¢ li rits, S'G a f far HE 1 1806 fF anfom

Pee aig epi |

[ 916 ]

UvucariA CHINENSIS. BROWN-FLOWERED

Uvu.arIia.

SHE oie iek cates

Clafs and Order.

HexXANDRIA Monoeynia.

Generic Charaéer.

Cor. infera, fexpartita, campanulata, laciniis reétis; unguibus

fovea neftarifera oblonga excavatis. Stam. (fepius) brevif-

fima. Stigmata 3, reflexa. Cap/. trigona; /emina fubrotunda

comprefla. Convatiari# habitu, Friti,taria charac- —

tere confinis. ae

Specific CharaGer and Synonyms.

UVULARIA chinenfis (/impliciter atque Subcorymbofe ramofa)

foliis ovato-lanceolatis, acuminatis, racemis faf-

ciculatim 2—4 floris, fingulis fafciculis folio con-

formi bra@teatis; corolla cyathiformi-campanu-

lata, angulofa, bafi calcarato-nodofa; filamentis

antheris aliquoties longioribus. G.

This fingular as well as new fpecies is (as we learn from the

Bankfian Herbarium) a native of China, and flowered two

years ago in the Kew Gardens. Our drawing was made in

September laft from a plant that bloomed in Mr. Hissert’s

confervatory at Clapham. |

The following defcription is taken from a_ recently dried

{pecimen, in which however the flowers were fo far deftroy:

by preffure that we could not make out either the form or even

{cite of the ne@ary, nor difcover whether all or only the alter-

“a ee terminated in the fame kind of blunt fpur-like

nob.

Stem herbaceous, about a foot and half high, angular, fub-

geniculately flexuofe, diftantly leafy, branched upwards,

branches fimple, corymbofely arranged, patent ; leaves ovate-

lanceolate, acuminate, fhortly petioled, nerved; thofe of the

ftem

fem broader, elliptic, diftant; thofe of the branches nar-

rower, farther acuminate, and more clofely fet together ; ra-

cemes one to four-flowered, rameous, axillary to the leaves,

pedicles fafciculate; peduncle fhorter than the fafcicle, which

laft has a leafy braéte at their bafe of the fame form as the upper

leaves, fo that where there is a raceme it appears as if there

were two oppofite leaves; corollas cernuous, longer than

pedicles, cupped-campanulate, brown without, knottedly an-

gular at the bafe as if fhortly and bluntly fpurred ; ftamens equal

to corolla and piftil; filaments fubulate-linear, two to three

times longer than the anthers; germen turbinately triquetral,

feveral times fhorter than the ftyle, ftigmas patent, revolutely

recurved. ‘This fpecies differs from all its congeners yet

known in the length of the filaments, G.

JvdEdwarde det. Pub. by T Curtis, StGeo, Croland Spr 13608.

F. Sanfom seudp.

ries ee ee

og Se Le ee, te ee Oe

except in fize, colour, and obfoletenefs of the bra

agli oe

Hypoxis SERRATA (6). Larce-FLOwERED

SERRATE-LEAVED Hypoxis. ie

Clafs and Order.

HEXANDRIA SMonocynis.

Generie Charaéter. Vide Ne 709.

Specific Charaéler and Synonyms.

HYPOXIS Jerrata. Vid. fupra in N° 709.

(8) flore majore, miniato-aurantiaco ; braéteis atque foliorum

ferratura fere obfoletis. G.

HHYPOXIS linearis. Bot. Rep. t.171. fig. parum bona.

"This very handfome variety was imported by Mr, Hiabex

fome years ago, from the Cape of Good-Hope, and agrees in.

every refpeét with the variety before defcribed in this we rk,

denticulated ferrature of the leaves. G.

AMARYLLIS REVOLUTA.

Since the publication of our account of this plant (N © 915)

we are accidentally enabled to add the defcription of the bulb,

and corre@t that of the leaves there given.—The fpecific cha-

raéter fhould be thus amended. —

AMARYLLIS revoluta foliis fcapum fubeequantibus ambienter

fa{ciculatis, recumibenter effufis, @ principio —

acuminato -attenuatis, canaliculato- deprelfis,

fubundatis; feapo eccentrico s umbella pluri-

flora; corolJis angufte et longe infundibuli-

formibus, curvato-nutantubus, laminis recurvo-

ftigmate

patentibus, tubo 2-3-plo longioribus ;

{ubtrilobo hiante. G.

AMARYLLIS variabilis. Yacq. Hort. Schenb. v. 4. icon,

-cujus adhucdum deett defcriptio. “ Baver’s

« Sxercues, Fig. abfque dato womine, in

Muf. Banks.

2 Bulb

Bulb largith, ovate-oblong, upwards lengthened, attenuate

{quarrofe, partly above ground.—Leaves many, fpringing from

the crown of the bulb in a recumbently patent fafcicle, nar:

row, long (one to two feet?), attenuated from their bafe,

acuminate, cufpidate, deeply channelled, fubtriquetral ; central

very narrow, more ereét; {cape iffuing on the outfide of the

fafcicle. We were miftaken in ftating the foliage to be lik

that of A. Belladonna, it comes nearer, in fact, to that of A,

longifolia. Pedicles often fhorter than in our figure, and, as

well as the {cape, not always coloured. Segments of the coroll

lanceolate, tube obfoletely trigonal ; the reft as in the defcrip-

tion and fpecific charaéter given in N® 915.

Differs from Jongifolia, to which it comes the neareft, in the

corolla being more narrowly funnel-form, in a proportionall

fhorter tube, and in having the laminz further recurved. G.

A ONS

i 7 a © ip ‘: A

lub by rt urdts, S*Geo ¢ refcent Apr LiS00 :

SS [918 J

OrniTHOCALUM SQuiLLa (a). Common Rep-

~ Rootep Sea-Onion, or OFFICINAL SQUILL. |

Jeep

- Clafs and Order. — a

HeExANDRIA MonocyNia.

Generic Charafler.

Cor. infera, hexapetaloideo-partita, radiato-paffa, femel (in

nutante nempe) connivens, bafi ftaminigera, perfiftens. Fil.

Jatitudine varia, nuda, divergentia, alterna communiter latiora. _

- Siylus {fetiformis ftigmate inconfpicuo, vel brevis aut etiam

fubnullus eodem capitato-trilobo. Semina fubglobofa, nunc

angulatim vel feme! paleaceo-preffa. G. ;

Ors. Bulbus tunicatus, Folia radicalia, feriatim de angu/tis et lineart-

loratis lato-lancealata, fucculenta, craffiufcula, teneriora. Flores nunquam

caerulefcentes neve purpurafeentes, qua fala fufpicor figno ORNITHOGALUM ©

dignofcendum aSciuia. Scapus fimpliciffimus, teres, multiflorus, _fpicatim

vel corymbofe aut etiam ‘gue bose ; braGiee membranacee. Capf.

membranacea, oblongo- vel ovato- trigana, Semel molendinacea (trialaig- —

triloba) complanatis. Confer Ors. in SC1LLAM, ad Num, po gant eee

Specific Charaézer and Synonyms. : os

ORNITHOGALUM ‘Squilla bulbo maximo, globofo-ovato ;~

: | -jmo rhizomate, umbonatim extante ;_

- fummis tunicis {quarrofo-emicantibus 5

inflorefcentia folia lanceolata canalicu-

lata diu praveniente ;_ braéteis cal- —

caratis ?. racemo cylindraceo, graci- —

liori, confertiufculo, faftigiante; fila~

' mentis plano-fubulatis, corolla fatis

| brevioribus. G. re

ORNITHOGALUM wmaritinum. Tourncf. Inf. 381. Brotero —

| ‘Flor. Lufit. 1. §83- Lamarck Flor. —

Fran. 3. 276. i EE, PS

SCILLA maritima. Sy/ft. Veg. 328. Mat. Med. 94. Hort. Kew.

1.449. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 120. Deafo

Fi. Atl. 1. 297. Lil. @ Redoute, t. 116.

Lam. &8 Decand. Flor. Fram. 3. 214. —

Link 2 Hoffm. de Sciuta. Ann, Bot. —

| 1. 101. Woodv. Med. Bot. 322. t.118.

SQUILLA, Plante officinales, Amen. Acad. 4. 14+ ee

Pee oe Pl SCILLA

SCILLA rufa magna vulgaris. «3 Baub. Hip. ¥ 615. ke.

(x) radice rubra.

SCILLA hifpanica. Cluf: Hifp. 290, 291. Hif. 171. cum

~ for inftance, at the foot of the Eftrella mountains ; fo that,

Link obferves, maritimum is rather a fallacious appellation.

diuretic, and adminiftered chiefly in dropfical and afthmatice

us it has been preferved for thefe three years in vigour, planted

ina large garden pot and fheltered during winter in a common

_, garden frame; nor do we yet difcover the leaft fymptom of

decay. The root is frequently as big as a child’s head, and often,

when frefh imported, throws out the flowering ftem while lymg

in the fhop windows; the fpike is fometimes a foot or more

_ veffel alately three-lobed, »a fhape that Gartner terms molen-

apart by the prefent barrier, which we think the only one there

is, we can have no doubt under which to range this {pecies.

Brorero obferves, that when Laruinc and, after him,

Blooms in J aly and Auguft, the leaves appearing in O@tober

_-and November. Mriver fays the plant foon decays in our

gardens, and attributes the decline to want of fea-water, which

gucfe origin, they have moft probably miftaken maritimum for

iM, as pyramidale 1s certainly not a native of Portugal. G.

SCILLA vulgaris radice rubra. Baub. Pin. 73.

cee

PANCRATIUM. Clu/: Hifp. 293. Hif. 171. cum herbe

et bulbi icone abfque inflorefcentia. ie

(@) radice alba. :

iconibus.

This well known vegetable is a native of all the countries

bordering on the Mediterranean, as alfo of Brittany and Nor-

mandy ; it has been found growing in the very {and of the fea-

fhore, and again, at the diftance of a hundred miles inland,

By the Spaniards it is called Cedolla albarrana. The bulbs ar

annually imported by our druggifts, for whofe purpofes both

Varieties are ufed indifferently : they are efteemed powerfully

cafes. -

cannot, however, well be the caufe, as its natural fituation is

often at a great diftance from the fea, as we ftated above; with

in length ; pedicles rather fhort, filaments nearly equal ; feed-

dinaceus ; feeds black, flat, chaff-like. | ae

While Scrtta and OrnitHocaztum continue to be kept

Linnaus, {late OrniTHOGALUM pyramidale to be of Portu-

NGG

Sd Evdeands def Pub, by * 8 urls S% bre

Cretcent A prisseeb. F Sanfem seudp

| “hee SCILLA autumnalis foliis pluribus, angutfto-loratis, “ob

L 919 J

Scinta AuTuMNaLis (a). PurPLe-FLowreep

| AUTUMNAL Soul.

THR nleleieiiuieie teat abg

Cla/s and Order.

Hexanpria Monocyyra.

| Generic Charafter. a

Cor. hexapetalo-partita _laciniis radiato-paffis, aut fexfida

ufdem campanulato-conniventibus, hinc, filamentis Magis aut

minus corolla concretis, Hyacintuum contingens, inde, ipfis

ufque ad bafin liberis, Ogn ITHOGALO confluens, cujus equi-

dem cetera preter colorem qui hic nunquam exalbefcit pits

Per varietatem. Confer que diximus Supra, ut et ad Ne 746, G,

Specific Charatter and Synonyms,

canaliculatis ; racemo corymbole {picato ; pedicellis —

affurgentibus ;_bra@eis minutis, modo obfoletis;

corolla nondum expanfa turbinata vertice fubtrun- —

catim atque umbilicatim depreffa, aperta toto radiato-

patente ; germine tritorofo-globofo ftylo fetaceo

2-3-plo breviore. G. z;

SCILLA autumnalis. Sp. Pl. 443. Cavan Ic. 3. p. 38. t. 274.

Wild. Sp. Pl. 2. 130. Eng. Bot. t.78. Curt. Flor.

Lond. 301. Hort. Kew. 1. 145. Link & Hoff. de

Scilla apud Ann, of Bot. 1. 106. Desf. Fl. Atl. 1. ee

P- 301. Brotero Flor. Lufit. 1. 527. Lam & Decand. ee

Flor. Fran. 3. 212. fe ee

radice folida, foliis fetaceis, floribus faftigiatis pedun-

culatis arcuatis ex ala tuberculi mamillaris. Gueft.

Stamp. 1. p. 131. Dalib. Paris. 102.

HYACINTHUS autumnalis minor. Rait Syn, 373-

HYACINTHUS ftellaris autumnalie minor. Baub, Pin, 47.

ACINTHUS autumnaljs major et minor (cum Iconibus

_ bonis), Cluf, THR. 2855 2

(4) Major; floribus purpurafcentibus vel czrulefcentibus.

minor ; floribus prediétis variantibus coloribus,

SCILLA

We fufpeé& our prefent variety to be of continental extrae-

tion, although the {pecies is a native of our ifland; growing in

feveral of the weftern diftriéts, and has even been found in

the neighbourhood of London. The Braéles (which are ge-

nerally obfolete or fo inconfpicuous that they have been

overlooked and ftated not to exift by moft authors) were very

evident, though minute, in the prefent {pecimen, which

flowered in Mr. Hissert’s garden at Clapham; Guretrarp,

in his account of the plants growing about Efampes, is the only

author we remember who mentions their prefence ; he terms.

them zubercili mamillares. Desrontatnes found this fpecies

on the coaft of Africa with blue flowers; as did Linx and ~

Horrmansece in Portugal, where, as they ftate, its inflo-;

refcence precedes foliation ; a circumftance alfo obferved by

Dr. Sims in this country, who fuppofes that when the leaves

accompany the flowers, it is the lefs natural mode, occafioned

by a particular wet feafon; blooms from Auguft to September.

_ The Portuguefe Profeffor of Botany, Brorero, obferves

that the variety which he found in the province of Eftrema-

dura was twice the fize of that which grew in the province of

Beira; he does not notice the peculiarity in the flowering.

mentioned by Linx and his fellow traveller. :

The leaves grow on through the winter, dying away 1m

. the fpring, after the manner of thofe of OrniTHOGALUM —

Squilla, G, , a

Syd Fetwards det. Pub. bv D Curtis, S* Geo: Crofient Apr11606. PSanjom seule

me aoe jl

Kamprerta Rotunpa. Rounp-Roorep

GALANGALE. ee |

FESR EE IE RTE IEE TE EEE ESE BEE SEE

Clafs and Order. = ,

Monanpbria Monocynia.

Generic Charafer.

Cal. obfoletus. Cor. 6-partita: laciniis tribus majoribus pa-

tulis, unica bipartita. Stigma 2-lamellatum.

: “Specific Charaéier and Synonyms. - ¢

KEMPFERIA rotunda ; foliis lanceolatis petiolatis. Flor.

Zeyl. 9. Mat. Med. p. 35. Sp. Pl. 3. Willd.

15. Reich. 5. Woodville Med. Bot. 361. ¢.

133. Roxb. Corom. Pl. ie

KA:MPFERIA longa. Facq. Hort. Schoenb. 317. Redouté

Lil. 49. 3 .

ZEDOARIA bE a Bauh. Pin. 36. Raii Hift. 1340.

Blackwell, t. 399.

MALANKUA. Rbeed. Mal. 11. p. 17. t. 9.

— oes

We have no doubt but that this plant is the Kamprerta

rotunda of Linnxus, and as little that it is the fame as is

figured by Jaceuin_ in his magnificent work the Hortus

Schoenbrunnenfis, and fince by Repvours in bis Liliacées under

the name of Kxmprerta longa. Upon what grounds Jacquin |

confidered it as a different fpecies we can form no conjeéture.

he flowers appear early in the fpring, fome time before

the leaves, and have a very pleafing fcent, efpecially as they

dry. They grow immediately from the root, feveral in fuc-

ceffion, but feldom more than one or two are open at the fame

‘me. The organs of fruétification are very fimilar to thofe

of £

of Amomum ea/capum, as figured in the Annals of Botany,

VoR'1. pl. 13.

The college of phyficians, both of London and Edinburgh,

upon the authority of Linnzus, have referred the Zedoary

of the fhops to this plant; but the form of the roots as they

occur at our druggifts correfponds much better with thofe of

Amomum Zeruméet. But the roots of the larger Galangale,

which Louretrro fuppofes to be fold indifcriminately for Ze-

doary or Galangale, are, at leaft as they occur in our fhops,

totally different. Dr. Roxsurcn thinks that his Curcuma |

_ Zédoaria yields the Zedoary ; and we have obferved, that the

ufual fophiftication of this drug is by mixing Turmeric

(Curcuma Jonga) with it.

Being a native of the Eaft-Indies, it requires the warmth of

a ftove. Propagated by cuttings. :

From the Bankfian Herbarium we léarn that it flowered at

Spring-Grove in 1793, a year or two before which time, as

we are informed by Mr. Dryanper, it was introduced to

this country by Sir Georce Yonce, Bart.

Our drawing was taken from a plant, at the Botanic Garden,

Browpton.

NGY

f fantom sculp

Syd Edwards del PF

. S ub. hy j Sina ka

IY LLU Lt J Gée é rdcent Apr 118006.

fon 7

StyRax LAVIGCATUM. SMOOTH SToRAX.

FER EG eae ae se eae se ae te te

Cla/s and Order.

DECANDRIA Monoeynia.

Generic Charafer.

Cal, inferus. Cor, infundibuliformis, Drupa 2-{fperma,

Specific Charafter and § Synonyms.

STYRAX levigatum ; foliis oblongis utrinque glabris, pedun-

Culis axillaribus unifloris folitariis binifve. Hort.

Kew. v. 2. p. 75. Willd, Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 624.

STYRAX ofandrum. L’erit, Stirp. nov. 2. t, 17.

STYRAX glabrum., Cavan. Diff. 6. p. 340. t. 188. fE 1.

Michaux Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2. p- 41.

SEYRAX anericond: Lamarck Enc. 1. p. 82.

SEVRAX fevé. Walt. Car. 140.

Baa et

_Neither the form of the leaves nor the number of ftamens

will, in this genus, afford permanent diftinguifhing charaéers ;

but the flowers of this {pecies growing either folitary or in

th from the axils of the leaves and at the extremity of the

ranches, feems to be conftant, It is a native of the bogs of

rolina and Georgia in North-America, and fufficiently hardy

to bear the cold of our ordinary winters. Propagated by

Sony and by feeds procured from America. Introduced in

The ftamens are conneéted in a ring at the bafe; on which

account, fome Botanifts have referred this genus to the clafs

Monadelphia.

ur drawing was taken at Mr. Lopoices, Hackney,

Pub by Turis StGeo refeent Anrl

sAVAT aS

Pe oe)

| eis Ee ed, |

Eryncium ALPINUM. ALPINE ERYNGO.

SERA ERE

: Clafs and Order.

PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA.

Generic Charaéer.

- Flores capitati, Recept. paleaceum.

S, ‘pecific Charaéter and Synonyms.

ERYNGIUM alpinum ; foliis radicalibus cordatis indivifis,

caulinis digitato-laciniatis, capitulis fubcylindri-

cis, involucro pinnatifido frondofo, paleis . tri-

fidis.. Hort. Kew. 1. p- 327+ ;

ERYNGIUM alpinum ; foliis_radicalibus cordatis, caulinis

ternatis incifis, involucris fpinofo-pinnatis ci-

liatis. Vabl. Symb, 2. p. 46. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1.

. 1359-

ERYNGIUM Sita Sp. Pl. 337- Scop. Carn. 1. 300+

Facq. Ic. Rar. 1. t. 55+ Villars. Dauph. 2. p-

2 3 659. Allion. Ped. 1. 1284. ¥. F. Mill. Icon. oi

ERYNGIUM foliis radicalibus petiolatis cordatis, involucro

pinnato ciliato. Hall. Helv. . 736+ oe

ERYNGIUM aliud montanum. Dalech. Hif. 1460. Ed. Gall.

2. DP» 339: : 3

ERYNGIUM Milton: capitulis dipfaci. Baub, Pin. 386. —

ERYNGIUM alpinum latis foliis, magno capite oblongo c®-

ruleo. Bauh. Hifi. 3. par. 1- P» 88. Rat Hi.

ERYNGIUM cesrudeiii genevenfe. Lob. Lec 3s DH ge ee

ERYNGIUM planum Matthioli. Dod. Pempt. 732+ Sf. 2

Camer. Herb. Ed. Germ. 229. Epitome 449-0

niente

In one refpe&, the above fynonymy +s remarkable; it has

fallen to the lot of few plants, that have been fo frequently

mentioned by botanical authors, to have undergone fo little we

change of name. ie

Joun

Joun Bavutn, in his hiftory, informs us, that he fent this

plant to Gesnir, whofe figure of it publifhed by Cameranius, |

though never quoted, is the only one before thofe of Jacquin

and F. Miuer, except Darecuamp’s, which is at all charac-

teriftic of the fpecies.. Loset’s figure, fo often copied, was

originally but a very indifferent one, and, as mutilated by our

Morrison, in his too ufual manner, is no longer applicable

to this plant or any other.

This hardy perennial, a native of the Alps in moft of the

fouthern parts of Europe, is worthy of a place in every curious

garden, where its uncommon form and beautiful colour cannot

fail to attra& the notice of every beholder. It does not owe

its charms to the fplendour of its bloffoms, but to the floral

leaves, or involucre furrounding the head of flowers, admired

for their feather-like appearance and delicate blue colour; all

the upper parts of the plant partake of the: fame tint, which

becomes in defcending more and more dilute.

Propagated by feeds, or by cuttings of its root, Requires

a dry foil, or is apt to perifh from the humidity of our win-

ters. Cultivated by Partie Mitier in 1752. |

Our drawing was taken at the Botanic Garden, Brompton.

‘

A923

rn > a a. oy wee ? 1h, FF fantom poulp.

Syd Edwards del. Pub by T’ Curtis, S'Geo. 6 refcent Apr 115¢ O. B San,

Aco: )

Nepreta Loncirrora. Lone-Tusep

| Cat-MintT.

ccc e ese

—

Cla/s and Order.

DipyNAMIA GyMNOSPERMIA.

Generic Charaéer.

Corolle \abium inferius lacinula intermedia crenata: faux

margine reflexo, Stamina approximata.

| Specific Charaer and Synonyms.

NEPETA longiflora; cymis fubquinquefloris, corolle labio

fuperiore bifido : tubo filiformi, foliis cordato-ovatis

crenatis rugofis petiolatis.

NEPETA Jongiflora ; cymis remotis, pedunculatis unilaterali-—

bus, paucifloris ; foliis fubfeffilibus, cordato-ovatis,

rugofis ; corollarum tubo longiffimo. Vent. Hort. 2

Celf. t. 66. .

_NEPETA Willdenowiana. Adams.

CATARIA orientalis, folio fubrotundo, flore intenfe ceruleo.

Tourn, Cor. 13. el oe

pres ~

Descr. Suffruticofe. Stem divided at the bafe: branches

long, weak, generally undivided, fquare with obtufe angles.

aves cordate, oblong-oval, or in young plants fuborbicular, | ee

Crenate, rugofe, hoary underneath, lower ones on longifh |

tioles, upper ones fubfeffile. Braces like the leaves, but fe

and more deeply indented. Flowers verticillate, peduncles

three to five-flowered : lower ones frequently folitary : upper

Ones oppofite, but for the moft part turned to one fide.

Calyx cylindrical, ftriate, hairy, teeth nearly equal, the two

fuperior a little longer, minutely ciliated. Tuée of corolla

longer than calyx, filiform, curved: faux compreffed, funnel-

thaped, fides refle@ed: upper lip divided almoft to the bafe,

lobes divaricate : /ower lip large, crenate, hollow, {potted pa

white

white towards the faux. Stamens four : filaments twifted :

anthers purple, two-lobed, approximate : pollen white. Style _

longer than corolla: ligma bifid, acute. eee

In young plants the leaves are rounder and lefs hoary: in

the native fpecimens indeed the whole plant is more hoary than ~

when cultivated.

Raifed by Mr. Lonnices from feeds fent from Caucafus

under the name of Nepeta Willdenowiana, by which title

{fpecimens were fent to Sir JosrrH Banxs from the fame

country by Count Moussin PousuKIN; but VENTENATS

‘name having the right of priority, we have adopted it. ;

The plants in the garden of M. Cers were raifed from

feeds gathered on Mount Albours in Perfia, by Meffrs. Bru-

GuIERE and OLIVIER. | Be

Flowered in the Royal Garden at Kew in 1803. s

Propagated by feeds and by cuttings. May be confidered

as hardy, but it is fafeft to give the proteétion of a frame

during the winter. jess

Flowers from May through the whole fummer.

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TERS 2 AE Me he ee ee we ee

INDEX.

INDE XxX,

In which the Latin Names of § In which the Englifth Names of —

the Plants contained in the

Twenty-Third Volume are alpha-

betically arranged,

Pl.

892 Althza flexuofa,

915 Amaryllis revoluta.

905 Andromeda arborea.

go2 Antirrhinum Afarina,

87 Atragene americana.

884 After reflexus. _

gi2 Campanula Alliariefolia.

gi: Cypripedium parviflorum.

899 Convallaria racemofa,

907 Coronilla coronata.

896 Dolichos Lablab,

8 Spidessirom finenfe,

1g Eucomis punétata. es

B83 Euphorbia petiolaris,

22 Eryngium alpinum.

B00 ‘Goodenia grandiflora,

10 Halefia tetraptera.

Bos Hemerocallis cerulea.

882 Hibifcus paluftris.

917 Hypoxis ferrata (8),

"920 Kempferia rotunda,

893 Lilium Martagon,

go1 Lobelia Erinus.

909 Medicago carttienfis.

904 Melaftoma corymbofa.

903 Nelumbium fpeciofum,

923 Nepcta longiflora.

889 Onofma taurica.

Pe Ornithogalum Squilla.

898 Orontium japonicum.

914 Phalangium Liliago (8).

891 Pimelea linifolia.

881 Protea ftellaris.

897 Pyrola maculata.

886 Scabiofa caucafea.

919 Scilla autumnalis.

908 Silene fimbriata.

921 Styrax levigatum.

916 Uvularia chinenfis.

885 Verbafcum phoeniceum.

895 Witfenia corymbofa,

goo Yucca filamentofa.

g06 Ziziphora ferpyllacea,

the Plants contained in the

Twenty-Third Volume are alpha-

betically arranged,

Pl,

goo Adam’s Needle, thready.

915 Amaryllis, revolute.

905 Andromeda, Tree, or Sorrel-Tree,

887 Atragene, American,

903 Bean, facred of India.

$355 Campion, fringed-flowered.

923 Cat-Mint, Jon se

g Hibifcus, m

é 892 Hollyhock, Seringapatam.

# 917 Hypoxis, ferrate-leaved.

*# 914 Ladies-Slipper, yellow.

% 893 Lily, Turk’s-cap.

got Lobelia, afcending.

§ 909 Medick, creeping-rooted.

904 Melattoma, corymbous.

; 85 Mallein, purple-flowered.

@ 918 me pom fea, or officinal

quill.

se Onofma, golden-flowered.

898 Orontium, Japan.

914 Phalangium, leffer grafs-leaved,

891 Pimelea, flax-leaved, _-

881 Protea, ftarry.

886 Scabious, Caucafean,

go2 Snap-Dragon, heart-leaved,

910 Snow-Drop-Tree, four-winged.

899 Solomon’s-Seal, clufter-fowered.

883 Spurge, long-ftalked,

919 Squil, purple-flowered autumnal,

884 Star-Wort, reflexed-leaved,

g21 Storax, fmooth.

916 Uvularia, brown-flowered.

$ 897 Winter-Green, fpotted-leaved.

895 Witfenia, corymbofe,

g g06 Ziziphora, fweet-fcented.

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Clafs and Order.

HEXxANDRIA MoNOGYNIA.

Generic Charager.

Spatha 1-bivalvis. Cor. fupera taubulofa infundibuliformis

fexdivifa, vel hexapetalo-partita fubrotata; bilabiatim irregu-

laris; vel regularis ; laminz fubeequales fimiles recurvate, vel »

re€tiores concave incurvule. Séam. imis laciniis infita aut per

omnem tubum adnata, declinato-affurgentia fubfafciculata,

taro ex ereéto-divergentibus furfum conflexula. Szy/us tenuis, »

elongatus. Stigm. 1 hians vel 3 recurva. Cap/, membramacea,

ex oblonga atque trigona ad depreflo-fphericam et pulvinato-

torofam. Sem. plura globofa vel varie preffa, feepius numerofa

plana paleacea, modo folitaria carnofo-baccata, uno fingulum

loculum vel omnem capfulam (cujus refpondet cavitati) oc-

Cupante. G, eyy

__ Bulbus tunicatus plexibus ferices-filamentofis membranaceis obvolutus.

Folia craffiufcula ab angufto-linearibus ad lato-lanceolata ; ab uno paucifve

et bifariis ad plurima pers ambientia fafciculatim divergentia. Scapus

Jubteres, glaber, foliis intermedius vel lateralis. Inflor. 1-mulliflora et

umbellata. Hic fepe accidit quod a germine indice polyfpermi fructus pro-

Veniat is tantum cum femine folitario, quands ex ovults: unum (absrtivis

reliquis, vel ifto farfan validiore precociufve feecundats illifis) in molem in-

Srandefcat cavitati capfula vel loculi egualem. Eft ifle mos plerifque plane

adventitius, in nonnullis ufitatior, in alits verifimiliter confians et naturalur.

Germinant ha maffie carnofe, et fepius virefeentes, mada a Jolita haud aliena ;

vifum enim eff ejus in ornata falium primarium altius Jurgere lobo cum tefia

gravatum magnitudine ovi columbini vel mapore.

Per prafentem foeciem confluit Genus cum Cring diferepante duntaxal per

corollam ob laminas ad tubum radiantes reguiariter hypocrateriferment. ;

AmaRryYLLIs orientalis, marginata, {triata ef Radula, dant altert

divifioni facile principium, pro qua tituius ad manum habemus ob orientalem

Jampridem Heiftero in genus cum nomine BRUNSVIGIA evicaiam, licet

alits pofea fuerit minus reéte ad AMARYLLIDEM redadla ; qua diferepat

capfula turbinata, trialatim trileba (molendinacea J), feariafr-rigente, Jub-

diaphana, Jubjplendente ; feminibus paucis et fere aciniformiter proaugls 5

habitu preterea haud parum, per eum enn plurimum. affonilatur Masso-

NIAM, a ee rurfus diflat germine infera, natura fua bivaivi necnon longius

Scapsfa, ee

ce Specific

Specific Charaéler and Synonyms. 33

AMARYLLIS ornata (fcapo extrafoliaceo) foliis oblongo-lan-

ceolatis, undatis, lineatis, minute ciliato-{cabri-

dis, fafciculatim ambientibus, extimis recum-

bentibus ; floribus feffilibus; corolla fubhypo-

crateriformi; limbo campanulato-bilabiato ;

tubo longiore craffe pedunculoideo in laminas

elliptico-lanceolatas abrupte ampliato; fruétu

monofpermo et fubfolido-farfto. G.

(«) laminis albis cum difco purpurafcente. G.

_ AMARYLLIS ornata. Hort. Kew. 1. 418. Mart. Mill. Di,

Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 55.

AMARYLLIS zeylanica. Sp. Pl. 421. L'Herit. Sert. Angl.

: 13. Mart. Mill. DiG. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 56.

Roxburgh. Pl. Coromand. tab. ined. optima.

AMARYLLIS Brouffoneti. Lil. a Redoute, t. 62.

AMARYLLIS yuccoides. Thompfon’s Bot. Difp!, No. 4. Pl. 1

AMARYLLIS /peGabilis. Bot. Rep. tab. 390.

AMARYLLUIS bulbi/perma. Burm. Prod. 1 9:

CRINUM eylanicum. Reich. 2.24. Linn. Sy. Veg. 2636

| | td. a Murr. 318. Lour. Flor. Cochin. p. 198

(a, @).

LILIO-NARCISSUS africanus, &c. Ebret. Pid. Bai Foe

| Trew. Ebret. t. 4 :

LILIO-NARCISSUS zeylanicus. Comm. Hort.-Amfl. 16 73¢

, 1.73, Rudb, Elyf. 2, 191. fi 2.

TULIPA Javana. Rumpb. Amboin, 5s P- 306. ¢. 8. t. 105.

optime. Re rok

(3) laminis albis extus cum aliquo virore fuffufis. G. 4

AMARYLLIS Fagus. Thompfon’s Bot. Difpl. No. 2. Pl. 6. -

CRINUM giganteum, Bot. Rep. t. 169-

St? meseeeeeee cee Sassi

Afier a diligent refearch (fully impreffed with a contrary

fulpicion arifing from their far difiant, yet in faé not unanala-

gous, abodes) we are now fatistied of the {pecific identity of the

Indian zeylanica of Linnaeus and the African ornata of the

— ffirt, Kez. of which the prefent plant is an obvious variety

Linn EUS moft probably took up, as well as named, his fpecies

from the plates and defcriptions of Comme tin and RupBECK+

{) is faid to have been. in

trom whole plant Ena er defen

fufpeet the exaQnels of his iff,

@ Nafive of the Cape of Good

ed his plate; but we more than

formation, when he ftates it to be -

Hope. Among the Gardeners it |

troduced in 1740 by Lord PEtREy | |

is 4

is known by the appellation of “ the Cape-Coaft. Lily,” and was.

certainly fent to us fome years back by:Dr. Arzexrus from

Sierra Leone ; from which colony it was alfo introduced into,

France by the Botanift whofe name it has received in one of the

works above cited. Dr, RoxBuRGH found {pontaneous {peci-

mens on the Coromandel-Coaft; Rumen. mentions it as being an

inhabitant of the gardens of Amboyna; where it had been re-

. ceived from Batavia, and there known by the name of the

Java-Tulip, $64; : :

- Lourerro met with two. varieties in China and Cochin-

China, and fays, that he found the bulbs anfwer the fame

medical purpofes as thofe of the Officinal Squill: from Com-

_MELIN we learn, that in Holland it was fuppofed to be a native.

of Ceylon: (@) was received by us alfo, through the means of

Dr. Arzexius, from the colony of Sierra Leone; where it is

faid to grow in the water (moft probably in {pots that are only

periodically inundated) and to be with great difficulty obtained,

owing to the jealoufy of the natives, by whom it is held in

fuperftitious veneration, being ufed as an amulet or charm to ~

preferve them in war, as well as almoft every other {pecies of

danger. Both varieties agree in a decided predileétion for

low fandy fituations, as well as of water, and we accordingly

perceive in our ftoves, that the fize and number of flowers

depend much upon the greater or lefs proportion of the latter —

element that has been fupplied during the time of their vege-

tation.

In the adoption of the fpecific title of ornata in preference to

the older one of zeylanica, we were influenced firlt by its being

now as univerfally eftablifhed as the other, and then by its

being lefs liable to miflead,

Bulb large (fometimes weighing between three and four

pounds) oval-oblong, fa{tigiate and frequently partly above

ground. Leaves from one to three feet in length, feveral,

{pringing in a {parfe fafcicle from the crown of the bulb; ob-

long-lanceolate, channelled-deprefled, fcored, waved, edged

with a filiform minutely and {cabroully ciliate cartilaginous rim,

traverfed longitudinally by a broad thick bluntly keeled midrib,

Narrowed, thickened, and convolute at their bafe, outermoft

recumbent, inner narrow, upright. Scape (fometimes two)

plano-convex, ftraight, extrafoliaceous, one to three feet or

more high, Spathe rather fhorter than tube, bivalved. Umbel

two to thirteen-flowered. Flowers large, fragrant, feffile ;

fubhypocrateriform ; limb fubringently campanulate ; claws

roncrete into a tube Jonger than this, being from four to

fix inches or more in length, pedunclelike, thick, fubcylin-

drically trigonal, flri@t, facculent, cuniculate, very flightly-

oe . curved,

curved, fwelling a little towards the germen; mouth naked,

abruptly (that: is without the ufual gradually enlarged faux)

expanding into elliptically-lanceolate broad lamine, which are

recurved; inner rather the wideft. Stamens filiform, declined-.

affurgent, fhorter than limb, decurfively adnate to the bore of

the tube, from the mouth of which they iffue unattached ; an-

thers linear-oblong, firft yellow, then brownifh, lanceolate,

incumbent, balancing. Germen feffile, oval-oblong, even,

{mooth, green, confluent with the tube ; Style fomewhat flen-

derer than the filaments; Stigma fubtrilobately depreffed, hiant,

fimbriate. .

Thefe plants are now common in our ftoves; flower freely 5

are eafily propagated and very ornamental. G, 4

(Edvard det Pub by T Curtis, S* Geo: C; refcentM ayt1806 F Sanjom reulp -

a ee. gt 2

_ Narcissus Moscuatus (2). Wuité

Lonc-FLowereEp DarropiL,

eS eae alate sie ska ae eae sek deo

— Clafs and Orders

Hexanprta MOoNOGYNIA.

: Generic Charaéfer. :

. Spatha follicularislatere dehifcens. Cor. fupera tubo in limbiirtt

€xternum fexpartitum calycinum et in interiorem fubintegram

corollaceum (coronam fi yelis) abeunte, hinc infundibuliformis

inde hypocrateriformis. Stam. tubo varie adnata intra coz

ronam qua breviora. Stigm. unum trilobum aut 3 brevia,

Sem, plura globofa aut varie preffa. G.—=Vid: Obf, Ne 925.

Specific Charatter and Synonyms.

NARCISSUS mofchatus (/taminibus equalibus a fundo tubi

biberis porreco-conniventibus) foliis loratis con- -

cavis cefiis; flore folitario fubcernuo; tubo

turbinato brevi longitudine pedunculi cum ger-

~ mine; laciniis Janceolato-oblongis obliquis ; co-

rona reéto-cylindrica, verticaliter fubplicato-

rugofa, iifdem longiore, furfum parum am-

— - epee, 4 ibaa

NARCISSUS mofchatus. Sp. Pl. 415. Mart. Mill. Did

~ Willd. Sp. Pl2.37. Nareisse mufque. Lam.

: Encyts 4. 423. eae sos

NARCISSUS cernuus. Roth, Cat. Bot. fafc. 1.§ 43, Id. in

at ihe DA 8. SKS RK oaes

PSEUDO-NARCISSUS albo flore. —Cluf. Append. alt. auf.

cum Ic, : |

NARCISSUS fylveftris totus albicans minor. Barrel. Tes Says

945, 946. = eget

NARCISSUS il. exalbido calyce pralongo fimbriato. Rudé.

8 ft: Say Re tee 8 ee,

PSEUDO-NARCI SSUS pyrenaus variformis. Park. Parad.

roi. f. g. ae -

PSEUDO-NARCISSUS pallidus pracox. Id. J. ¢. p. 99¢ ab/-

que Ics e 4 |

; : PSEUDO-

PSEUDO-NARCISSUS totus albus. Hort. Ey/?. Vern. Ord. 2.

fal. 2. fige 2.

a) corone margine crifpula erofo-dentata. G.

(8) PSEUDO-NARCISSUS tubo hexangulari. Park. Par.

t..101. f. 5- |

(y) PSEUDO-NARCISSUS tubo quafi ab{ciffo. Id. /. 107.

eis a

Sf.

In fpecies evidently taken up from figures, often defe€tive,

in which diftin&t ones have been confounded together as

fynonymous to each other, then trufted to the mercy of a _

fhort phrafe by way of defcription, it is not a very eafy thing to

fay for certain which were the precife plants intended by. the

author as his ftandards. Such feems to be the cafe in the pre-

fent inftance ; for this is certainly one of the plants called in by

Linneus to his mofchatus; but whether fome other of his

_fynonyms may not be the plant intended we are at a lofs to fay.

Is this fpecies really diftin& from 4zcolor ? Are the fynonyms

* . added as varieties really plants of the fame fpecies? we have

not yet met with more than this one of them in any of our col-

leGtions. Mo/chatus has efcaped the Hortus Kewenjis, nor have

we ever feen a figure of it in any recent work. Differs from

bicolor in having a crown more truly cylindric, lefs cleft and

not fo widely or far patent; from both that and P/eudo- NarcifJus,

by its drooping flower, and from the latter by its longer crown

and ftamens reaching only to about the middle of that; from

both again in colour and fcent. The pedicle is curved and en-

veloped by the fpathe. We fuppofe it has received its name

from fome of the varieties having been defcribed by the old _

Botanifts as poffeffing flowers * cum mofcari odore.” 5

This has little fcent of. any fort; but what it has is

pleafant, fomewhat like ginger, and not in the leaft refembling

that of mufk. Blooms early in April. Hardy. :

Our drawing was taken at the Botanic-Garden, Brompton. G.

ERRATA.

No. 918, 1. 19, ante ** complanatis” infere * bis extenuatin,”

No. 919, 1. 18, pro * toto” lege ** tota,””

” id Eebwards del. Pub, by. TCurtes, S*Geo: Crefeent May1w0ob FSanfim scalp

ae ee

Narcissus TAZETTA» PoOLYANTHUS

~— Clafs and Order.

HexAnpriA MonoGynta.

Generic Chara&er.—Vid. fupra Ne 924.

Ozs. Bulbus tunicatus tegminibus membranaceis. Folia plura, bifaria,

lineari-lorata, fubfucculenta, craffiufeula, plana, fupra parum depreffa infra

carinato-coftata, per exceptionem canaliculato-femiteretia, juncea. Scapus nudus

centralis, Japius compreffus vel anceps. Flores flavefcentes aut albicantes

vel ex utroque more bicolares. Stylus triqueter, quafi tres conglutinati. Capf.

membranacea. Differt PANCRATIO ftaminibus intra coronam (hic haud

ftaminilegam) dilapfis. Gs

Specific Chara&er and Synonyms.

NARCISSUS Tazetta(ftaminibusin equalibus, 3 inclufis adnatis,

is 3 fubadnatis tubo emicantibus) foliis depreffo-

planis, loratis, obtufe attenuatis ; fpatha multi- = __ Ss

flora; corona cupulata integriori laciniis

ovato-lanceolatis explanatis triplo breviore;

tubo trigono his fubequali pedicellis ereétis

breviore. G. . :

NARCISSUS Tazetta. Sp. Pl. 416. Syft. Veg. Murr. 317.

Hort. Kew. v. 1. p. 410. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p.

39. Quer. Flor. Efpan. v. §. p- 477. Haworth

in Linn. Tranf. v. 5 245. Desfont. Flor. Atl.

1.282. SBrotero Flor. Lujis. pe a oe a ee

Redouie t. 17-

NARCISSUS africanus aureus major. Park. Par, Si.Jx i re

-Floril. Aud, : z Bi

NARCISSUS africanus luteus minor. Id. cod. 81. f.2.°

NARCISSUS luteus polyanthos africanus. Bauh. Pin. 50.

NARCISSUS latifolius flore prorfus flavo. Cluf, Hift, 156.

—_—

Native of Spain, Portugal and moft probably of the coaft of

arbary ; now one of the commoneft ornaments of our gardens,

| having

having been cultivated here from the time of Parkinson

and Gerarv. The beft roots are annually imported. by the —

Seedfmen from Holland, where two or three hundred va-

rieties are enumerated ; but we fhall defer to a future number

our obfervations on the fpecies, and on fuch plants as we

confider really varieties of it or not. ‘Thofe that wifh to be

informed minutely of the mode of cultivating: and raifing it

from feed, have only to refer to Mitier’s Dictionary.

Tazzelta means a {mall cup, and is the name given to thefe

flowers in Italy from the fhape of their crown. Linn us has

{pelt it with one z inftead of two. . saat

The roots of this {pecies are fometimes the fize of both the

fils put together... The ftem and leaves fometimes two feet

or more high. The {cent is pleafant, but very ftrong, even

pungent. Blooms in the open ground about April, Forces

well in water, fand, or common loam. We have not added

the fynonym from Tuunsere’s Flora Faponica, as we cannot

always rely on his accuracy in this department. His may be

the fame plant as ours. G. oe

[ 926 J

PAONIA TENUIFOLIA. FInE-LEAVED

PEONY.

Je HEE Rnb

te Clafs and Order.

ees = PoLyANDRIA TRIGYNIA,

Generic Charaffer.

Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5, regularia. Germina 2—5, Stylio. -

Specific Charaéier and Synonyms.

- PAONIA fennifolia ; foliis biternatis, foliolis multipartitis

< -nudis, laciniis lineari fubulatis, capfulis tomen-

: tofis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 1223.

PLONIA tennifolia ; foliolis linearibus multipartitis. Linn.

<< Sp. Pl. 748. Syff. 502. Reich. 2. 610. Del. g-

t. 5. Gmel. Sib. 4. p. 185. t..73. Pall. Raff. 2-

p. 95- t. 87. Zinn. Goett. 127. Gert. Fruéd. 1-

309. 1. 65. fo 1. Mart. Mill. Dif, 2. 5. Hort.

_ Kew. 2. p.241. Meerd. ic. 25. :

atilie

As moft Botanifts agree that the. more ufual number of ae

germens in this genus is three, we have ventured to remove It

from the fecond order, where it has hitherto been arranged,

to the third, and this we have done for the fake of affociating =

jt with Deteurnium and Aconitum, to which it is nearly *24

allied by nature. : a

This very ornamenial flower is perfeétly hardy, thriving al-

moft in any foil or fituation. Grows naturally in the Ukraine

and about the precipices on the borders of the Tanais, the

Volga, and the Terek. The flowers of the wild plant are far

lefs fpecious than when cultivated.

Our drawing was taken at the Botanic-Garden, Brompton.

Flowers in Maygand June. Is eafily propagated by parting

its roots or by feeds,

Syd Beward: del Pub by TCurtis, SGe0 Crefeent May 11506. FP Sanfom saudp

[ 927 J

CAMPANULA COLLINA. SAGE-LEAVED

BELL-FLoWER.

Heese ete teste eae eae se ae

Clafs and Order.

PENTANDRIA MonocyNia.

Generic Charaéier.

Cor. campanulata, fundo claufo valvis ftaminiferis, Stigma

g-fidum. Cap/. infera, poris lateralibus dehifcens.

“Specific Character and Synonynis, —

CAMPANULA oollina ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis crenulatis in

| __._ petiolum decurrentibus; panicula laxa fub- -

fecunda, corollis cyathiformibus; laciniis —

revolutis pilofis, foliolis calycinis ereétis gla-

bris corollis multo brevioribus. 2

_- Descr. Root perennial ? Staik ereé, angular, hairy at the

lower part: branches few, ereét, generally three-flowered.

Flowers looking one way, nodding, peduncled, fhewy, bright

: blue. Calycine leaflets fimple, fmooth, diftant, not reflexed: -

__ the part adhering to the germen three-grooved, angles clothed

_ with a few white hairs looking downwards. Tube of corolla

cup-fhaped nearly hemifpherical: /acinie pointed, rolled back,

hairy round the margin on the innerfide, Valves ovate, acute,

conniving: filaments very fhort : Anibers long, linear, fpeedily

_ wafting. Germen top-fhaped: Style ereét, fomewhat longer

_ than tube: Stigma trifid, revolute. Capfule three-celled.

__ Seeds of this new fpecies of Campanula were received from

Caucafus by Mr. Lovpices, of Hackney, uader the name

which we have adopted ; we find fpecimens of the fame plant

and under the fame name, but mixed with a different {pecies,

in the colle@ion fent from that country to Sir Josrrn Banks,

fronrCount Moussin Pousuxin. It flowers with us in July

_ and Auguft. Is probably hardy enough to bear the cold of

our winters, but will be more certainly preferyed, by being kept

under a frame with other alpine plants,

le Pe 5 Tt * . > 7 ee

yd. Edvant ded Pub by 7 Lurthts. JS? Geo ra recent May 11801

bt oe yo oe

‘ VACCINIUM Buxirotium. Box-Leavep —

W HoRTLE-BERRY.

TR a aeseak cea akake ale le ale ate ae ae ak ae

Cla/s and Order.

OcTANDRIA MonocyNIA.

Generic CharaZer.

Cor. 1-petala. Stamina receptaculo inferta. Anthere apice

poris 2. Bacca infera, 4-locularis, poly fperma.

Specific Charaéer and Synonyms. B

VACCINIUM buxifolium ; floribus decandris fafciculatis a=

: cemoilifve axillaribus, pedunculis bra€teatis,

{tigmatibus capitatis, foliis ovalibas crenulatis

_ planis impunétatis.

VACCINIUM buxifolinm ; foliis obovatis, dentatis, glabris,

3 fubtus zquatis: fpicis e fuperioribus axillis,

denfe multifloris: figmatibus hemifphecricis. :

Ses Salifb. in Parad. Lond. 4. :

~VACCINIUM brachycerum ; pumilum: foliis Bux7, obovali-

| bus, rariter manifefteque crenatis: fafciculis

fub/effilifloris: corolla brevi: filamentis gian-

dulofis; antheris breviffime corniculatis.

Michaux Flor. Bor. Am. v. 1. p- 234.

_ To this beautiful dwarf fpecies of Vaccinium we apply the —

‘Dame, given it in the Paradifus Londinenfis, in preference to —

that of Micuau x, though the latter has the right of priority; not -

merely bécaufe when accompanied with a good figure a name

is likely to be more generally adopted; but alfo becaufe we

are not without fome doubts of the identity of our plant and

that of Micnaux. In habit it approaches to VacciINruM.

Vitis Idea, but the corolla is urceolate, with a minute five-

cleft border, the anthers included, ahd have their opening not)

at the extremity but on one fide ; fligma capitate; leaves cre-

—nulated, not dotted underneath, nor with the edges rolled

back. ae

Our drawing of this very rare fhrub was taken at Mr.

Wooprorp’s, late of Vauxhall, who purchafed it from the

colle€tion of the Jate Mr. Sykes, of Hackney. A native of

North-America. -Flowers-in April or early in May. — Requires

the fame treatment as the hardy heaths, and may be propagated —

by layers. : ;

NG 2S

lreflcent Mavi taco. FSanfom sculp

S*Gea

Pl urhis

Pub by

yd. Kdwant, ded

SymMpHYTUM ASPERRIMUM. PRICKLY

- CoMFREY.

SSMS Rae toieseseoh spake

Clafs and Order.

-PENTANDRIA MoNoGYNIA.

Generic Charafer.

Corolle limbus tubulato-ventricofus; fauce claufa radiis

- fubulatis. | : |

Specific Charafer and Synonyms.

~ SYMPHYTUM afperrimum ; caulibus aculeatis foliis ovalibus

= | acutis pedunculatis: floralibus oppofitis, ra+

: = Ceniis geminis, ="

SYMPHYTUM a/perrimum. Donn. Hort. Cantab. |

SYMPHYTUM orientale, folio fubrotundo afpero, flore cz#-

tuleo, Tournef. Cor. 7.

This fpecies of Symphytum, a native of Caucafus, is by fat

the largett of the genus, growing to the height of five feet,

_ and is really an ornamental, hardy perennial, which will thrive

in any foil or fituation. . It differs from Sympuytum orientale

_ hot only in ftature and in the greater roughnefs of the leaves,

but in the ftems being not merely hifpid, but covered with {mall

curved prickles; the floral leaves are conflantly oppolite,

which is feldom the cafe in orientale. The ne@aries in both

are flat, not fiftulous.

According to Mr. Donn, it was introduced. in 4801, we

believe, by Mr. Loppices, of Hackney.

Our drawing was taken at the Botanic Garden at Brompton,

where we have oblerved it fome years in the greateft vigour.

Propagated by parting its roots or by feeds,

siannescnaittatt aia

}

| DL 930 J

LimoporuM ALTuM. TALL Limoporum.

Clafs and Order.

_GyYNANDRIA DIANDRIAs

Generic Charaer.

NeGarium monophyllum, concavum, pedicellatum intra pe-

talum infimum, 3 Suga AE ni ee

Specific Chara&er and Synonyms.

LIMODORUM altum; floribusimberbibus, {picis fubpanicu-

latis.. Hort. Kew. 3. p. 301. Mart. Mill.

Did. 1. 2. :

LIMODORUM altum. L'Herit. Sert. Ang. 28,

HELLEBORINE americana, radice tuberofa, foliis longis

anguftis, caule nudo, floribus ex rubro pal-

lide purpurafcentibus. Mart. Cent. 50. t. 50+

Mill. Je. 1185 gt

LIMODORUM lium. Sy/t. Veg. Murr. 816 ? Sp. Pl. Reich.

4i p92? Swartz, Obf 3937 - <u s

HELLEBORINE radice arundinacea, foliis ampliflimis ly-

ratis. Plum. Ic. 189 ? ‘

SATYRIUM 10, foliis liratis longiffimis, feapo florifero par-

tiali, fubfquamofo, Brown fam. p. 325°

Sainte

here figured, is the

It is not altogether certain that the plant, ; is the

he fpecimen in the

real Limoporum altum of Linnaeus. T

_ Bankfian Herbarium, marked as correfponding with that in

the Linnean, has a fimple, ereét {cape, anfwering very well to

PLumrer’s figure above referred to: whereas the flowering

ftem in this is, for the moft part, branched a confiderable part

ofits length. As it is however undoubtedly the fpecies meant

to be charafterized in the Hortus Kewenfis and in Martyn s —

Mitter’s Di€ionary, in a cafe of uncertainty, we think it

fafeft to retain the name by which it has long been known in

our gardens ; expreffing our doubt of the fynonyms, which,

agreeing —

agreeing better with the fpecimen in the Linnean Herbarium,

may perhaps belong to another fpecies. This doubt attaches

in fome degree to the defcription by Swarrz, according to

which the {cape is fimple, or only a little divided at the upper

end. This author alfo defcribes the ne€arium, as being fur-

rowed or grooved, whereas, in our plant, it is ‘marked with

about feven yellow, raifed ridges. The leaves vary fo much |

from linear-lanceolate, to broad-lanceolate, that nothing certain

can be determined by them. In other refpe&ts Swarrtz’s de-

{cription accords with this fpecies. The fruit might perhaps

decide the queftion, but unfortunately with us the flowers drop

off without producing any: from the above-mentioned fpecimen-

it appears, that, as foon as the flower fades, the peduncle 1s

réfletted and the fruit becomes depending, which is well re-

prefented in Prumizr’s drawing, though nearly omitted im

the publifhed engraving.

Miter evidently confounds the éaderofum with this fpecies,

when he fays that he had received roots of it from Philadelphia

atid the Bahama Iflands; and L’Heririer certainly mifap:

plied the fynonyms of this author and of Marryn, above

quoted, in which error he has been followed by Swartz; but

_ the bearded ne@tarium of fuderofum will always diftinguifh it!

indeed the very different form of its refupinate corolla and the

preater length of the anther-bearing column (fee No. 116 of

this work) may even lead to a doubt if it really belong to the

fame genus as a/ium.

“~The Limoporum alfum-fometimes varies with white, and

pale rofe-coloured flowers; as the latter variety generally

prows toa larger fize, it has by fome been fufpeéted to be 4

diftint {pecies, but for this we fee no good grounds. :

~- Anative of Jamaica, but found only in the cooler parts of

the mountains, in dry ftony and fandy fituations. It is not

therefore very impatient of moderate cold, but frequently

fuffers from the moift heated atmofphere of the bark ftove:

Flowers in May, June, and July. Is eafily propagated by

offsets from tuberous roots. ~

_ The plant from which our drawing was taken was received

from Mr, Loppices of Hackney,

F. lanfom veulp

Edvard: det. Puj by Plurts, S*Gee-t recent Tune 11806.

;

Jd.

[> 931-4 |

PuyToLacca DECANDRA, VIRGINIAN Poke.

pod

Ae EOP RTO TET

SHSM eee eieedieiee

Cla/s and Order.

“DECANDRIA DeEcAGYNIA.

Generic. Charafer.

Cal. 6. Petala 5 calycina. Bacca fupera 1o-locularis, to.

{pérma.° tee Ri Pease ee

wes = «Specific Characier and Synonyms.

PHYTOLACCA décandra; flotibus decandris decagynis. Sp.

} Pl. 631. Willd. 2. p. 822. Reich. 2. p. 406.

Blackw, Ed. Germ. t. 515. Mill. Ill. Zora.

tes. Mart. Mill. Did. n. 3. Gron. Virg. 161.

Desf. Ail. 369. Hall. Helv. ». 1007. Abbot. -

ba Georg. 1.97. Michaux Fl. Bor-Am. 1; p. 278.

“PHYTOLACCA vulgaris. Dill. Elth. 918. 4. 239-.f. gC

_ SOLANUM magnum virginianum rubrum. Park. Th

: 8. f. 3. Mort. Hifi. 3. p-§22

. FS - 4. : DE a

SOLANUM Cea americanum. Rafi Hift. 662

Phyt. t. 225. fi 3 bie el

SOLANUM racemofum tinétorium americanum, foliis et fe-

minibus Amaranthi. Herm, Hort. Lug. 574..

Weinm. Phyt. t. 936. ge re z

BLITUM americanum. Muzting. Icom. 112. Oe

In large gardens, where the room it neceflarily takes up can

fpared, this, in feveral refpeéts, fingular plant may be al-

lowed a place; for, bearing flowers and fruit at the fame time,

it is by’ no means void of beauty. Being of the natural order

of Arriprices of Jussteu, the Hororaceé of Linnavs, .

one is not furprifed to find that it is fometimes eaten boiled as

fpinach, at the fame time it may be obferved that it has rather |

a fufpicious afpe&t, and we are told that in America the root

is in common ufe as a domeftic purge, and that two fpoon-

-fuls of white wine, in which an ounce of the dried root has z

been infufed, will operate as a mild emetic, the more commend-

able, as the wine is faid to be very little changed in tafte by it.

Another fpecies of the fame genus, called Spanifh Calalee, and

cultivated in kitchen gardens in Jamaica, as a palatable, whole-

fome green, is faid by Taunserc to be in Japan extremely

poifonous, though, according to Kamprsr, cultivated there

for the fake of its very nutritious root.

It is remarkable for the different countries in which it is

indigenous; Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Barbary, Virginia,

New-England, and Jamaica; perhaps, however, it has been

originally imported to Europe from America.

The berries afford a beautiful colour, if it could be rendered

durable.. They are faid to have been at one time much ufed

in Portugal, to give a deep colour to the- Red Port; but the

tafte being complained of by the merchants, the government

_ordered the plant to be every where cut down before the

berries were ripened.

~ The number of ftamens, of which we find twelve more ge-

nerally than ten, will hardly fuffice to diftinguith. this fpecies :

the number of ftyles is {till more indefinite.

.A hardy perennial, but faid to be fometimes deftroyed by

fevere froft. _Propagated by parting its roots or by feeds.

Flowers in July and through the latter part of the Summer and

Autumn. Cultivated by Parkinson in 1640, by Ray, inhis”

garden at Cambridge, and by Morison, the latter of whom

has given a-better figure of it than he frequently does. Our

drawing was taken at Mr. Sarisgury’s Botanic Garden, at

Brompton.

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Ecuinors Ritro. .Smatt Girone-Tuistiz, —

| Clafs and Order.

SYNGENESIA PoLYGAMIA SEGREGATA,

Generic Charafer.

Cal. 76. 1-florus. Corll. tubulofe, hermaphrodite.. Recept.

fetofum, Pappus obfoletus.

Specific Charaéer and Synonyms.

ECHINOPS Ritro; capitulo globofo, foliis pinnatifidis fupra

glabris. Sy/. Veg. 797. Reich. 3. p. 946. Hort.

Kew. 3. p. 281. Mart. Mill. Di. Icon, t. 130.

ECHINOPS Ritro. Sp. Pl. 1314. Hort. Up/. 248. Villars

Dauph. 3. p. 265. Scop. Carn, (Ecu1nopvs)

= 4s

ECHINOPS folits fupra glaberrimis, fubtus tomentofis caule

-_ multifloro corymbofo. Gouan Illuftr. 74.

ECHINOPS caule fubunifloro, foliis duplicato-pinnatifidis,

foliolis latiufculis vicinis. Gmel. Si, 2. p. 100.

ECHINOPUS minor. Baub, Hi/t. 3. p. 72. Tourn. Inft. 463.

CARDUUS {fpherocephalus ceruleus minor. Baub. Pin. 381.

Park. Parad. p.332. t. 331. f. 5. Rait Hift. 383.

RITRO floribus ceruleis. Lod. Icon. 2. p. 8.

CROCODYLIUM monfpelienfium. Dalech, Hift. 1476.

Two fpecies of this genus are frequently to be met with

cultivated in our gardens, viz. /pherocephalus and Ritro. Both

Temarkable for the exa€& globular form of the flowering

eads, ee

Our plant, though leaft common, is the moft ornamental, —

©n account of its blue flowers, and better fitted for the flower-

garden frem its more moderate fize. ale

It deferves a place in every Botanift’s garden on another

account, as affording an obvious example of the order po/y-

gamia fegregata in the clais /yngenefia, of which order very few

examples occur.

A hardy perennial, eafily propagated by parting its roots,

which creep under ground, or by feeds. ee

A native of Siberia and Southern Europe.’ Cultivated by

PARKINSON in 1629, who gives rude figures both of this and

JSphero-cephalus in his Garden of Pleafant Flowers,

pee ae & , + "* a . ‘ :

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ProTea Mucronirotia. Daccer-Leavep

PROTEA.

Cla/s and Order.

TETRANDRIA MonocyNIA.

Generic Charaffer..

: Cor. 4-fida five 4-petala. Anthere lineares, infertee petalis

infra apicem. Ca/, proprius 0. Nux.1-fperma, fupera,

Specific Charafter and Synonyms.

PROTEA mucronifolia; foliis lineari-lanceolatis mucronatis

epun@latis planiufculis, bra@teis involucri angutte

cuneatis integerrimis. Salo. in Parad. Lond.

No. 24.

Tn the delicate velvety white involucrum, with which the

head of flowers is furrounded, together with the ftrong con-

traft_of the red anthers upon the feather-tipped {nowy petals, —

confifts the chief beauty of this fpecies: of which we do not —

d any account previous to that of Mr. Sarissury in the

Paradifus Londinenfis. eo : :

This author has very properly remarked the near affinity

that exifts between this and Protea rofacea, his acuifolia. f

Our drawing was made in O@ober laft from a fine plant in

Mr. Higsert’s collefion at Clapham. It is a native of the

Cape of Good Hope; requires the protection of a greenhoule, —

and a treatment fimilar to the reft of the genus. :

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Narcissus CaLaruinus (a). Great

-YELLow Jonguit.

JH UP Soi lobe

vat Clafs and Order.

HEXANDRIA Monoeynta.

Generic Charafter.—Vid. Ne. 924 & o2 5e

Specific Charaer and Synonyms.

NARCISSUS calathinus (famina equalia, tubi medio tenus

adnata) 1—4 flora; feapo tereti, levi; foliis

canaliculato-femiteretibus, fenfim attenuatis,

craffis ; laciniis tubo turbinato-tereti longioribus;

corona cyathiformi, leviori, fexlobo-fiffa,integra,

ee . his fub una tertia parte breviore; ftylo hanc

| fubzequante. G.

NARCISSUS calathinus. Sp. Pl. 415. Sif. Veg. 336. Willd.

Sp. Pl. 2.39. Brotero Flor. Lufit. 1. 551. ?

NARCISSUS cdorus. Sp. Pl. 416. Reich. 2. 19. Hort. Kew.

1. p. 410. Haw, in Linn. Tranj. 5. 244. Curt.

Mag. fupra 78. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 38. rejettis

paflim fynonymis dm. Acad. 4. 311 et Gowan

Lilufir. 23. ad NarcissuM incomparabilem {pec-

3 tantibus.

- NARCISsus Fonquilla (major). Quer Flor. Efpan. 5. 477.

NARCISSUS juncifolius max. amplo calyce. Park, Par. 89.

Fak. luteus magno calyce. Id. /. c. 93. f. 4+

NARCIssus anguftifolius flavus magno calyce. Bak. Pin. .

$i. Radb. Elif. a. G0-F. Ge, = a

_NARCIssus IX. f. angultifolius I. Clu/: Hif. 1. 158.

NARCISSUS juncifolius praecox major. Hort. Ey. Vern. Ord. —

mk 3. fol. 7. f. 2. a

(y) NARCISSUS polyanthos flore minore ftellato toto luteo.

: Rudb. 1. c. 6. f. 5. ? a Linn. citatus,

Denti ci

- Whoever will be at the trouble of turning to the defcrip-— |

and odorus firft taken up in

: pocermy of Narcissus baci

Amanitates Academica, will foon perceive that the prefent fpe- _

cies was not. the one there intended, but that it was the Nar-

cissus incomparabilis of this work, which is alfo the odorus of ©

Govan. Linnaeus, in the fecond edition of his Species

Plantarum, while he cites the odorus of Aman. Acad. evi-

dently lofes fight of that plant, and changes his {pecific phrafe

arid defcription, as well as fynonymy, to fuit the {pecies we

have now before us; not aware that it is diftinét from the

one he is incorporating’it with, nor that he has already taken

the fame up under the name of ca/athinus in this very work,

moft probably from figures: only, as he defcribes the leaves

flat. Reicuarp afterwards added the fynonyms of Govan

and Harrer;-the latter had himfelf cited ca/athinus to his

plant, with a mark of doubt to the words “ foliis planis.”

Since one of the three fpecific names fhould now merge, we

have fuppreffed that of odorus, incomparabilis being better efta-

- blifhed for the one fpecies, and calathinus having been applied

to this only, and being befides more.conformable to Linn £USS

rules for fele@ing trivial names.

In weak, young, or even many-flowered plants, the crown is”

proportionately fhorter, and the lobes often gnawn or crenulate,

both which charaéters are loft when the fame plants grow ftronger -

or blow with a fingle flower. Called calathinus by LinN2£US,

' from the crown refembling a chalice. z. ata

A native of the South of Europe. Hardy. Sweet-fcented;

_ but not fo much fo as others. of: the genus. Varies with very |

double flowers, and is then called by fome Gardeners “ Queen —

Anne’s Jonquil.” Blooms in April, have never feen it with

more than four flowers, and bui rarely with fo many. G.

ee a

—————

CORRIGENDA & ADDENDA. Z

No. 78. For “* Narcrssus Oporus” read “* Narcissus CALATHINUS a”

and refer to this Number.

No. 121. Narcissus Incomparaiirs.—Add the following Synonyms. zs

NARCISSUS odorus, Am. Acad. 4.911. Gouan Til. 29. 7 seb

NARCISSUS’ Coiienis Roib it Has of Boks. x60 8 = ee

NARCISSUS Pfeudo- Narciffus. ye Mart. Mill. Di&. - .

NARCISSUS albic. cal. aureo, &c. Barrel. Ic. 927, 928. ue

NARCISSUS incomparabilis fl. pl. partim flavo partim-croceo. R. Pars

NARCISSUS montanns albus apophyfibus preditus. Park. Par. 41. f- 5» Nat

“gO: cissus mattenfe. Id.4¢.71. fi 20 N, montanus five nonpareille

totus albus, Id. bite f. Bit 4 * im oe iad

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ORNITHOGALUM UniroLium. One-LEAVED.

| STAR OF BETHLEHEM.

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Clafs and Order.

Hexanpria MonoGynta;

Generic Charailer.—Vid. Ne™ 918. —

Specific Chara&er and Synonyms.

ORNITHOGALUM unifolium folio folitario feapum exce-

: dente, altius vaginante, cufpide longa

compreffo-tereti ftriata caudatim termi-

nato; floribus paucis {picatim feffilibus ;

braéteis membranaceis lato-naviculari-

bus; filamentis equalibus planis fub-

ulato-linearibus; germine fubftipitato

3 obconico-trigono, angulis fulcatis. G,

ORNITHOGALUM nanum. Brotero Flor. Lufit. 1. 529.

SCILLA unjifolia. Sp. Pl. 443. Link et Hoffm. de Scilla in

Aun, Bot.1.106. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 191.

ORNITHOGALUM fpicatum unifolium et trifolium flore

= niveo odorato. Gri/l. Lufit. V. L.n. 1596.

BULBUS peovoguaros. Cluf. App. Alt. cum Ic.

BULBUS monophyllus. Bab. Hif. 2. 622.

nt ae tas

This fingular little vegetable grows in the greateft abundance

on the barren hills and wilds of Portugal, whence it was re-

celved by Crusius, who defcribed and canfed it to be en-

Sraved in his great work ; but fince his time we do not know

of any book in which there is an original figure of it; nor is

it €numerated among the plants of the Hortus Kewen/is. t

Our drawing was taken from a fpecimen that flowered in

March laft with Mr. Rupce author of Planta GUIANENSES,

4 work containing delineations of many rare or tll now un-

nown vegetables, the plates of which are engraved from defigns

*xecuted by his lady with great fkill and accuracy. 7 ‘

Bulb about the fize of a nutmeg, ovate. Leaf folitary, from

\ eight inches to a foot in length, narrow-lorate, concave, ftriated_

without, far-fheathing, caudately terminated by a long com-

: poten yound ftri& cufpis, recurved. Scape fhorter than

eaf, roundifh, thickened upwards; flowers white, three to five,

feffile, fpiked; braf&tes membranous, broad-cymbiform, pointed,

reaching half-way up the flower or further, keel green; corolla

patent, fegments oblong, fomewhat tranfparently ftreaked, inner

ones rather the broadeft and lefs expanded; organs about one-

third fhorter than the fegments which are nearly equal; fila-

ments flat, fubulate-linear, equal; ftyle fetaceous, longer than

germen; ftigma fimple, pubefcent ; germen fubllipitate, obovate-

oblong, three-lobedly angular, angles furrowed. By Ciustus

and others it is defcribed as {weet-{cented, by BroteRo as

{centlefs, and fo it feemed to us. Should be kept in a garden-

frame during winter.

The root was brought from Portugal by Sir Tuomas

Gace, who has kindly propofed to affift us in procuring the

rarer plants of this order and the Enfate indigenous of that.

country, all which are now nearly loft to our gardens. G.

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ABE SEE IER aba

Cla/s and Order.

HeEXxANDRIA Monoeynia.

Generic Chara€fer.

Cor. infera, hexapetalo-partita ; laciniz deorfum turbinatim

-convergentes, intus fulco longitudinali mido aut ciliato exa-

rate; lamin varie lanceolate, campanulato-digeftz, de erettis

ufque revoluto-reflexas. Szy/us in Stigma capitato-trigonum

clavato-finiens. Cap/ oblonga aut turbinato-trigona, cartila-

ginea. Sem. numerofa, plana. G. pa sa) 5

Radix bulbus Squamofus. Caulis falisfus, fimplex. Folia modo tam caulina

quam radicalia modo caulina fola, hac fparfa confertiora aut verticillata

remotiora. Inflor. terminalis de uniflora ufque corymbofe thyrfoidee vel um-

bellatim racemofo-multifloram ; pedunculi longiores, nunc ramiformes ; braciee

folisformes ; flores majufculi Speciofi de ereéiis ufque cernuos. Sem. in quoque

loculo ardine gemino per frata in columnas congefta. Differt FRITILLARIA,~

cui proximum vicinum, bulbs verius {quamofo ; peste feo nequaquam ultra

fiores comofo- vel fubcomofo-protenfis, corolla laciniis baud bafi extus torofis,

tum neclarii figura diverfa. G. :

Specific Charatfer aad Synony n

LILIUM /uperbum bulbo candidiffimo 5

lineari-lanceolatis, trinerviis

_ ribus verticillatis atque interno

- fuperioribus fubfparfis. ,

thyrfoideo-racemofis, |

luto-reflexis. G. ; Mt os

LILIUM fuperbum. Sp. Pl. 434. Hort. Kew.

Encye. 3. 536. . 8. Thornton's Liufir

Sp. Pl. 2. 88. Redoute Lil. t. 10

fynonymo Mill, Did. 2. 8 ad pla

fpe€tante.

LILIUM carolinianum. Michaux Flor. Bor-Amer. 1. 197.

LILIUM foliis fparfis multiflorum &c. &c. Trew. Ehret, 2.

re 2

LILIUM five Martagon canadenfe &c. Cate/b. carol, 2. 56.

: ‘ 56. re

MARTAGON canadenfe majus. Trew. Seligm. v.1. t. a

This fplendid native of North-America was introduced by

Mr. Peter Coxitinson, from Pennlylvania, about the year

1738. Micuaux found it growing in moift grafly {pots in

Carolina. Spontaneous fpecimens have feldom more than

three flowers in a kind of umbel; but cultivated carefully, and

kept in a moift fhady border of bog-earth, it will rife to the

height of five feet and produce a thyrfe of from twelve to fifteen’

flowers, Differs from L. Martagon in having a bulb as white

as ivory, not of a reddifh-yellow ; in having narrower, linear-

lanceolate, tender, not obovate-lanceolate fubcorrugately vein-

ed harfh leaves; has alfo much fhorter internodes. The plant

adduced by Linnzvs and all his fucceffors from MiLver’s ©

work, by way of a fynonym to this, is quite a diftin& f{pecies,

moft probably the large yellow-fpotted many-flowered variety

of the European L. Pomponium ; of this any one that attends

to its defcription may eafily convince himfelf. Blooms in July

and Auguit; fcentlefs; feeds freely and is eafily propagated

by the numerous offsets it produces ; tolerably hardy ; at leaft

we never loft any in the fevereft winters by cold merely ; the

bulbs fometimes rot in very wet feafons. G,

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HyYAcINTHUS ORIENTALIS. GARDEN

HyacintH.

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Clafs and Order.

Hexanpria MonocyntdAs

Generic Charafer.

_ Cor, infera, tubulofa, fexfida, laciniis patentibus. Stam. tubo.

inclufa; filamenta fere tota adnata. Stylus triqueter ; fligma

depreffum. Cap/. ovato-trigona. Sem, plura, fubrotunda. G.

Oss. Radix bulbus tunicatus tettus indufiis feariofo-membranaceis.

Folia radicalia, Jubfucculenta, concava, varie lorata. Scapus teres, car-

_ nofus. In orientali ¢ fummo germine per trinos haud manifeftos poros tres

melee exfudantur guttule ; hinc optime dignofcenda eff fpectes.

_ Specific Charadter and Synonyms.

HYACINTHUS orientalis racemo fparfim multifloro; brac-

teis minutis; corolla deorfum cylindrica

bafi ventricofa, laciniis recurvo patentibus ;

fummo germine tribus cryftallinis gemmato

guttulis. G.

HYACINTHUS orientalis. Linn. Sp. Pl. 454. Cluf. Hift. 1.

174, 175. Hort. Eyft. Vern. ord. 2. fol. 4, 5,

6, 7, 14, 15- Mill. Ic. t. 148. Did. n. 6.

Witld. Sp. Pl. 2. 167. Desf. Flor. Atl. 1.

_ 807.

AYACINTHUS corollis, &c. Gronov. Orient. m. 115. 44.

ZUMBUL Indi. Park. Par. t. 121. f. 2. HyAcINTHUs ori-

entalis vulg. Jd. /. c.f. 3, 5s 6.

Wtiemcanenn ee ee

This common ornament of our gardens is a native of the

vant, growing abundantly about Aleppo and Bagdad; Des-

"ONTAINES met with it alfo on the coaft of Barbary. It was

| cultivated

cultivated here by Gerarpe in 1596. Such as wifh to be

informed minutely of the hiftory of this old favourite of the

Florift, have but to confult a treatife entitled * Des Jacin-

tues, publifhed by the late Marquis de St. Simon at Am-

fterdam ; but perhaps Mappockx’s Florift’s Dire€tory, or

Mi ter’s Di€tionary, may anfwer all ufeful purpofes as well.

Amidft the rage for Tulips in Holland, this flower alfo came

in for no fmall fhare of eftimation, from one to two hundred

pounds fterling having been given for a fingle root of fome

certain favourite variety.

Varies with double and femidouble, with white, red, blue,

and yellow flowers; in {cent without end. The Harlem

Gardeners diftinguifh two thoufand varieties by name; and

acres are employed in the environs of that city for the culti-

vation of thefe flowers; from thence we receive annually the

beft bulbs, G, —

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aad Clafs and, Order.

HexAnprRIA MonocyNIAa.

Generic Charaiter:—Vid. Nov 845 & 860.

nod

Specific Character and Synonyms, "~

CROCUS /ulphureus bulbo-tubere tunicis membranaceis

brunneis tenuibus fibrofo-ftriatulis te&to; corolla

equaliter patente; antheris parvis, fagittatis, pal-

lidis ; ftigmatibus inequalibus has longius fuper-

antibus. G.

() corolla extus tribus lineis fufcis plumofis longitudinaliter

Pereira, G. ;

CROCUS vernus flavus ftriatus. Park. Par. 163. f.10. |

CROCUS vernus latifolius flavo-vario flore. Rat Hift. p.

1174. 2. 8. defcr. optima.

(8) corolla concolor; fulphurea abf{que omni ftria aut ma-

cula. G,

CROCUS vernus latifolius flavo flore minore et pallidiore.

Bauh. Pin. 66. Tournef. Inft. 952.

Narrow-leaved Spring Crocus with {maller Brimftone-

coloured flowers. Mill, Did. ed. 7.

We believe this to be really a diftin& fpecies ; at the fame

time that we have no doubt that the ferility and fmallnefs

of the anthers is not natural, but a mere degeneration pro-

duced by long culture in a climate differing from the native

one. This appearance however they have retained at leaft

fince the time of Ray, as his excellent defcription plainly

fhews. We cannot believe it to be a variety of ma/iacus, from

which it differs in the texture of the tunics and fize of the

bulb-tubers, as alfo in fize and colour of corolla and pro-

portionate-

portionate elevation of the fligmas ; nor of fufianus, which has

a very diftin€& bulb-tuber and the outer fegments of the co-

rolla revolutely patent. It appears to us to come neareft to

Zifforus, but has ftill very different kind of tunics to the bulb-

tuber, which are much thinner ftriated and pliant, not even

imbricated and fubputamineous as in that; it differs alfo

fomething in the organs, and entirely in colour, Varies with.

ftriped and plain flowers ; both varieties being true to their

fpecific charaéteriftics. Never feeds, which /ufianus, O1-

florus and vernus do abundantly, but mefiacus more fparingly. —

Propagates moft profufely by offsets; has no fcent; blooms

one of the earlieft; is the leaft ornamental of any.

Both varieties were communicated by Mr. Wixtttiams, of

Turnham-Green, than whom there is no more curious culti-

vator of this genus, as well as of almoft the whole bulbous tribe

of plants. G.

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Sci.LA Romana. Roman Sguit.

MRE AE RE RE ae eae eae ae ae

Hexanpria Monoeynta.

Generic CharaGer. Vide Nem 91g.

Specific Charaéer and Synonyms.

SCILLA romana foliis {capo longioribus attenuatis conyoluto-

concavis ; racemo confertiore cylindrico-conico ;

braéteis minimis, fubcalcaratis, craffis; pedicellis

corollz zqualibus; hacce cyathiformi-campanulata

ultra medium partita; filamentis ufque bafin lacini-

arum liberis, planis, corolla fubzqualibus. G.

HYACINTHUS romanus. Linn. Syft. 335.° Mant. 224. Hort.

Kew. 1. p. 458. Mart. Mill. Di@. Willd. Sp. Pl.

2.169. Desf. Fl. Atl. 1. 308.

HYACINTHUS comofus albus belgicus. Baub. 42.

HYACINTHUS comofus albo flore. C/uf. Hift. 1. 180. —

HYACINTHUS comofus byzantinus. ‘Hort. Eyf. Vern. ord.

2. fol. 11. f. 2. ;

HYACINTHUS comofus albus: cum ceruleis ftaminibus.

Baub, Hift. 2. 584.

HYACINTHUS comofus. Park. Par. t..117. f. 1+

While we adhere to the three very artificial, yet convenient, —

ettions of Scitita, Hyactntuus, and Muscari, this mult

¢ referred to the former, on account of the far-parted

Corolla and free ftamens ; although from appearance we fhould

rather have ranked it under the latter, Linnavs tells us

§tows in and about the city of Rome; DesronTaines

found it on the coaft of Barbary; Mr. Lampert has a {peci-

men brought from T angiers, Said in Hortus Kewenfisto have —

€n introduced by Mr. Grarer about 1786; it is however

Tecorded both by Parkinson and GeRARDE. Hardy.

. mee Sart

- Our drawing was made at Mr, Matcotm’s Nurfery at

Kenfington.

Bulb ovate, about the fize of a hen’s egg, covered with

brown {cariofely membranous tunics. Leaves 4—5, far longer

than fcape, from a broader bafe attenuated, convolute-concave,

ftreaked, antbient. Scape round upright. Raceme clofifh,

cylindro-conical. Pedicles about the length of the corolla.

Braftes minute, glandularly thickened, fpurred, becoming

gradually obfolete towards the top of the raceme. Corolla

blue-white, fubcyathiformly campanulate, parted three-fourths

of the length, corrugate outwards, patulous upwards, nodofely

angular at the bafe, outer fegments thickened at the top and

protuberant outwards. Filaments white, nearly equal to the

corolla, linear, flat, contiguous, equal, adhering to corolla at

bafe of the fegments; anthers {mall, blue, fagittate. Germen

oval, obtufely. alate, -fubtrilobate, fix-ftreaked; ftyle tri-

gonally briftleform; Stigma depreffed, fimple, blueifh; Capfule

trilobately alate, lobes attenuately compreffed nearly as in

Muscart. Flowers without fcent. Blooms in May. Seeds

freely. Rather a fcarce plant in our gardens, G,

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Narcissus ORIENTALIS (a), | NARcIssus

OF THE LEVANT.

(OTHE PB HdH Hiei

Cla/s and Order

Hexanprra Monocynia.

Generic Charaéter.—Vid, NM 924 & 25.

_ Specific Charaiter and Synonyms.

NARCISSUS

BASELMAN

orientalis (ftamina inequalia alterna breviora

tubo inclufa adnata) 2-multiflorus ; foliis latiori-

bus, loratis, parum concavis ; fcapo fubtereti ;

corollz laciniis deflexo-patentibus, elliptico-

lanceolatis; corona his triplo breviore, fubro-

tato-cupellata, fubplicato-rugofa, trilobo-fiflla,

erofo-crenulata; tubo limbum fubaquante. G..

orientalis, Mant. 62. Hort. Kew. 1. p. 409

Mart. Mill. Di&. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 58.

Gron, orient. 2. 99. p. 38. :

latifolius byzantinus medio luteus II. Clu/. Hif.

1. 154. fe Bis

narbonenfis major amplo flore—medio croceo

polyanthos—narbonenfis medio luteo ferotinus

major. Park. Par. 82._ :

polyanthos orientalis calyce medio luteo odo-

ratus maximus. Hort. Ey/t. Vern. ord. 3. fol.

15- f. 15 5: : ae ;

orientalis medio croceo major—conftantino-

politanus minor calyce fimbriato medio croceo.

Eod. 1, ¢. fo 12. fa 25 3»

major. Trew. Seligm. 1. t. 23.

(«) 2—4 florus ; corona crocea; laciniis albidis. G.

(8) 2—4 florus; laciniis pallide luteis; corona lutea pro-

fundius trilobatim fifla. G.

(y) 6—multiflorus ; laciniis niveis, corona fulphurea aut ci-

‘We have omitted all the figures from Rupsecx cited by

Linnzus for fynonyms, as they appear to us to belong ex-

clufively to diflorus, from which our plant may be diftinguifhed

by its proportionately longer. and trilobately: cleft crown, as

well as by not having the edges of the outer leaves turned up.

Are they however really diftin& fpecies ? (y) is the variety of

Hort. Kew. Differs from Tazesta, to which it is alfo but too

clofely akin, by a crown more manifeftly trilobate, more cre-

nulate and patent. All the varieties of our prefent fpecies are

very fragrant and bloom earlier than either pacticus or diflorus,

but later than Tazetfa. In the enfuing fafciculus we mean

to give (@) and (y).. The beft bulbs of this fpecies are im-

ported from Holland. Hardy.

According to the appellation beftowed on it by the older

Botanifts;.a native of the Levant; probably fome of the va-

rieties are alfo found in Spain and the South of France. Not

figured as a Linnean fpecies in any work known tous. G,

[ 94: J] |

CLAYTONIA VIRGINICA. VIRGINIAN

CLAYTONIA.

JHE eee ei

Clafs and Order.

PEenTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA.

~ Generic Chara@er.

Cal. bivalvis. Cor. 5-petala. Stigma 3-fidum. Cap/- 3-valvis,

t-locularis, 3-fperma. __ | :

Specific Charadler and Synonyms.

CLAYTONIA virginica ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis, petalis in-

tegris, Hort. Kew. 1. p. 284. Willd. Sp. Ph

1. 7.1185. Mart. Mill. Did. a. 1. 2

CLAYTONIA virginica. Sp. Pl. 294. Reich. 1. p- 57%

: _ Decand. plant. gr. 131. Michaux Flor. Bor. —

io. Aide Dh Ie Oe SF

- ORNITHOGALO affinis -virginiana, flore purpureo penta-

Sac petaloide. Pluk. Alm.272, t. 102. f. 3. Rudb.

Elf. 2. p.139.f- 6.

The variety with broader lanceolate leaves mentioned in

Hortus Kewenfis, is probably the caroliniana of MicHAUX+ —

It occurs alfo with flowers of a deeper rofe colour: in our —

plant the petals are white ftreaked with red veins. JussIEU

has placed Crayronta in his natural order of Portulacee to- —

gether with Montia, to which it has certainly a very near

affinity. If CLrayton’s obfervation be corre, that the feed

is monocotyledonous, perhaps it fhould be brought nearer to —

the afphodeli, to which family it approaches in general habit,

in having a tuberous root, a fcape in part embraced by the _

leaves, which are not always exaétly oppofite, a two-valved

perfiftent calyx in fome refpeéts refembling a fpathe, a corolla _

decaying before it falls off, a trifid ftigma, and a three-valved _

capfule. This is however one-celled, and contains three kid-

ney-fhaped feeds, or rather lentiform, with a notch at the part

from whence the umbilical cord iffues, by means of which it is

conneéted with the bottom of the capfule. The embryo of the

feed is rolled round a farinaceéous perifperm.

A native of moift woods in Virginia and New-England. Com-

municated by Mr. Wittrtams of Turnham-Gseen, and Mr.

Samuet Curtis of Walworth. A hardy perennial. Flowers —

in May. Propagated by feeds or by the tuberous roots. Re-

quires a moift foilin a fhady fituation, Se

Introduced by Mr. J. Crayton before 1759.

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Primuca InrecriroLia. Entire-LEavep

PRIMROSE.

Sekai skies aks ae ak ea eae °

Cla/s and Order. ;

PENTANDRIA MoNoGYNIA.

Generic Charader. |

\. Involucr. umbellule. Corsi/e tubus cylindricus: ore patulo. —

eS Specific Charaézer and Synonyms.

-PRIMULA integrifolia ; foliis integerrimis ellipticis, ad oras

fubcrenato-cartilagineis, umbella ereéta, calycibus

Jonge tubulofis obtufiffimis. Facg. Mi/c. 1. p. 160.

Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 805. Mart. Mill. Did. a. 16.

PRIMULA intcgrifolia. Sp. Pl. 205. Facq. Vind. 209. Obf..

= 4. p.26. 4.15. Fl. Auf. t. 327. Scop. Carn. m

: 208. Allion. Ped. 1. p. 93 ? =

_ PRIMULA _ ellipticis carnofis integerrimis. Hall. Helv. ?

— Me O15. ;

_ PRIMULA incifa. Lamarck Fl. France. 2. p. 250? :

_SANICULA alpina rubefcens folio non ferrato. Banh. Pit.

a 243. | :

AURICULA urfi carnei coloris foliis minime ferratis. Banh.

‘Ail. 3. p. 868. :

AURICULA urfiquarta. Cluf. Hif.1.904. Ejufd. Pann. 349 _

-. Descr. Root perennial. Leaves growing thick together,

oblong-elliptic, dilated at the bafe, flefhy, rigid, quite entire,

_ with a very narrow white cartilaginous margin, fhining on the

upper furface, whitifh on the under.’ Scape fhorter than the

. leaves, bearing about three purple flowers with a white centre

| in an umbel. BraGes one to each flower, linear and longet

than the pedicle. Calyx cylindrical, longer than the pedicle,

— coloured at the upper part, five-toothed ; teeth ere&t, obtule, —

frequently emarginate. Corol/a funnel-fhaped: tube longer

than the calyx, {wollen in the middle and expanded upwards:

limb patent, five-cleft: lacinie obcordate, veined. Filaments —

red, fhort, inferted into the tube: anthers ere@-incumbent :

pollen deep yellow. Ovary globofe, ftyle half the length of

the tube of the corolla; ftigma capitate. — ee

We doubt whether the fynonyms from Harrier, LaMaRcKks —

and Attion1, belong to our plant, which was raifed by Mr-

Lopprices from feeds fent him from Auftria feveral years 2%

and is certainly the one defcribed by Jacqutn and long before —

~ by Ciusius. A hardy perennial, increafing rapidly by offsets” 4

from the roots, but very rarely flowering with us. gee

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Clafs and der.

Pentranpria MonoeGynlia.

Generic Charaffer. o

Cor. campanulata, plicata. Stig. 2: Cap/. 2-locularis: lo-

culis difpermis. = — = ae oe

; : Specific Charader and S YHONYMS. ee

CONVOLVULUS éryonie-folius ; foliis feptemlobo-palmatis

. hifpidis: lobo medio finuato produtto, —

pedunculis axillaribus folitariis longifimis

articulatis. — a

—————e

Descr. Stem twining, herbaceous, hifpid.. Leaves hifpid Z

rior, ovate, fmooth, two-celled. Style ere&t, equal to the

filaments. Sligmastwo. a

It is too nearly allied to Convotvutus altheoides (No. 359) ‘

coloured. . : ;

Introduced by Isaac Swatnson, Efg. who raifed it from

feeds received from China in 1809 ; the young plants were

preferved in the flove through the firft winter, and planted 10 —

__ the open border in the fpring. Mr. Swatnson confidérs it a8

_ abardy perennial, thriving beft ina fouth border. Flowers from

_ June to Auguft, and perfeéts its feeds in the autumn, Our

drawing was made at the Botanic Garden in Brompton. }

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~Dittwynia G és SMOOTH-

= LEAVE NIA. = =

: Cla/s and Order.

~ DecanpriaA MonocyYnNia.

. Generic Charadler,

Cal. fimplex 5-fidus, 2-labiatus. Cor, papilionacea. Stylus

reflexus. Séigma obtufum, pubefcens. Leg. ventricofum, 1-

loculare, 2-{permum. SMITH,

Specific Chava&ler and Synonyms. :

DILLWYNIA glaterrima ; foliis levibus, floribus terminalibus

-fubcapitatis. Smith in Ann. of Bot. v. 1. p. 510

Descr. Stem fhrubby, ere&t, branched, hairy, rough, and —

as it were fluted with the permanent woody part of the old

petioles. Leave: fimple, linear, rigid, {mooth, terminated in

an oblique fubpungent mucro, thick-fet, patent, on fhort ad-

prefied petioles inferted by a joint into a permanent woody

theca, extending alittle down the ftem. Inflorefcence a terminal |

-capitulum of about fix flowers on very fhort peduncles with one

: minute braéte. Calyx fomewhat eoloured, perfiftent, nearly

_bell-thaped, five-cleft: fegments nearly equal, fubbilabiately

arranged, the two upper ones being fomewhat largeft and.

hearer together, the three lower more diftant. Corolla papi-

lionaceous, bright yellow with a red ftarry fpot in the centre:

_vexillum two-lobed, with a claw narrow, channelled, and con-

_trafled at the upper part. Ale flraight, half the length of the

_vexillum, and twice as long as the carina which is very fmall,

adhering at the point, where it is of a red colour, diftin& to-

wards the claws. Stamens ten: filaments conneéted at the bale,

but for the moft part free: anthers yellow, fimple. Ovary ob-

long, villous : ityle bent back: ftigma truncated, appearing to

us moiftened with a fine dew, but not villous.

: This genus, of which two other fpecies have been figured —

~ eS See was named by Dr. Smitu in honour of

- Lewis Weston Di , :

eck ate Sete —— — of a very accurate

Our drawing was made from a plant communicated by Mr.

Loppices of Hackney. Isa native of New-Holland. Re-

quires to be proteéted from froft by a greenhoufe and a treat«_

ment fimilar to that fuitable to Pultenza, Platylobium, &e.

- Propagated b bi ‘ :

duced wah < y feeds, which we have not as yet feen PIG

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BUS. | Narrow-Leavep

ARCISSUS. |

- FHSS SHER eeHee

Clafs and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynta.

Generic Charaiter-—Vid. No: 924 & 925.

= Specific Charaéfer and Synonyms.

NARCISSUS ivilobus (fiamina alterna longiora de tubi ore emi-

cantia) fubtriflorus ; foliis anguftioribus cana-

liculato-femiteretibus ; {capo tereti; corolla

- geniculato-nutante ; laciniis ftellatis tubo fub-

equalibus ; corona grandiufcula fubcylindrico-

cupulata, levius trifida, integriore, his fubduplo

Se eee breviore; ftylo ultra hanc exferto. G.

NARCISSUS jrilobus. Sp. Pl. 415. Sy. Veg. Murr. 317.

“gees Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 38. Mart. Mill. Did. :

NARCISSUS nutans. Haworth Mifc. Nat. 179. — gat!

NARCISSUS juncifolius latiore calyce. Hort. Ey/t. Vern. —

: < (OFds 8. Jol 1d J. B48 : ae

ARCISSUS anguftifolius wae) i he flavo. Baub, Pin.

Bh Rech, Bf. BE La

_, For the fpecimen from which our drawing was made we

_ jave to thank Mr. Haworts, who fent it us’ under the

_ Rame of Narcissus nutans. We do not know of any publi-

_ “tion in which this has been figured as a Linnean {pecies ;

_ ROris it enumerated among thofe of Hortus Kewrvfis. Said.

_ to bea native of the South of Europe. ‘The fingle fpecimen,

= of which a figure is here publifhed, is the only one we have

_ “ver feen. It feems to be intermediate between jonqui'/a and

= Iriandrus, having the crown longer than the firft and fhorter

than the other, The germen is oblong oval, ee and

: aige.,

‘

Jarge. Blooms in May. Yrilodus is rather an unlucky name

for it, as others of the genus are more confpicuoufly trilo-

bate.

Since publifhing the Narcissus mo/chatus (No. 924) we

have feen the above-quoted work of Mr. Haworvru, and find

that his Narcissus fortuofus may be added as a fynonym to

that Linnean fpecies; the flower of which, in an earlier flage,

is far more cernuous than in our drawing of it. G,

[ -.g46. 4 |

Narcissus OrtenTAtis(y). Many-FLowERep

Narcissus OF THE LEVANT.

| Clafs and Order,

HEXANDRIA Monocynta,

Generic Charafter.—Vid. N 924 & 925.

= See Specific Character and Synonyms.

NARCISSUS orientalis (Via, N* 940).

(y) 6-multiflorus; laciniis niveis corona fulphurea, G.

NARCISSUS Taxeta (bicolor). Lil. a Redoute, p. 17. ab/-

QUE fc,

NARCISSUS medio luteus copiofo flore odore gravi. Rudo.

dbf, 2. p. 57. fa 11.

wie me our papyracens s were, we have no doubt, included

yY LINNAUS In his Tazefa, but t ‘antl

diftin€t, and this an un ey =ppear fuficiemy

doubted variety of orientalis ; in fome

of the Dutch catalogues it is known by the name of the Grande

_ Primo Citroniere, G, =

Sid E mands ded . Pub by L[lurtis, See l refeent Ang. LICE ESanfom veulp.

A Elwands dt Pub by Tlurts S*Gee:Crefeent Ang 1.1806. PS anfom sendp

, b Majd |

: NARCISSUS PAPYRACEUS (a). ITALIAN OR

s Paper-Wuite Narcissus. —

Cla/s and Order.

Ss ma Hexanpria Monocynta. eae

Generic Charobir=Via, Ne. 924 & 925. :

Se ‘Specific Charafter and Synonyms.

ON ARCISSUS papyraceus (flamina adnata tria breviora intra

> tubum inclufa) multiflorus ; foliislorato-concavis;

{capo ancipiti, fubplano compreffo, ftriato; la-

ciniis ftellatis tubo fubzqualibus; corona cu-

; pulata, his 3~4plo breviore, crenulato-erofa;

| : {tylo intra coronam. G. |

NARCISSUS Tazeta (albus), Redoute Lil. p.17. abfque ic. —

NARCISSUS Tazeta. Linn. Sp. Pl. 416. Hort. Kew. 1. pe

q 410. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 39. ne aes

NARCISSUS pifanus vel totus albus. Park. Parad. 81. f.4.

NARCISSUS latifolius flore prorfus albo. Flori. dud

NARCISSUS Jatifolius fimplici flore prorfus albo. 1, 2. Clu/.”

= Hiff. 1.' 155+ ie

_ {a) multiflorus; corolla tota alba; ftylo parum ultra tubum

Porretto; foliis glaucis. G. 3 a ge

(8) 4—6-florus; Jaciniis ochroleucis, corona pallide ful-

urea; ftylo coronam fubequante ; foliis haud ita glaucis. G.

- Roman Narcissus. = |

ee a Rese git ete ae eRe nee eens Fae Sele ema Soe Camm erage ace” car’, Set Tne tee ee

Very probably this, or the variety y of Narcissus orientalis,

may have been the plant defigned by Linn avs for the type

his Taxeta, as likely indeed as the one we have given under

that title ; but, as he has evidently combined more than one

ecles in his fynonymy, we have thought it moft ufeful. to

*pply his name to the one which had been already figured —

_- under

under it in Repovre’s work, and to adopt another for this

plant, which we think diftintt. Our fpecies is poffibly the

crennlatus of Mr. Haworru, but his charaéer is too fhort —

and indefinite to enable us to determine this fa& with cer-—

tainty. .

Differs from Tazeta in having a fhallower crown, with an

-erofely crenulate margin, a very much flattened ancipital {cape, —

a fmalter bulb, and an entirely white or a cream-coloured

corolla. — = . |

The bulbs of this plant are ufually imported by the owners

of Italian waiehoufes immediately from Italy. Very orna-

mental and fragrant, efpecially (@) called in the fhops the

Roman Narcissus, which is. often imported in a double

ftate. G,

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[ 948)

Narcissus OrrenTAuts (8). Cream-CoLourep’

Narcissus oF THE Levant. ia

a i

| Clafs and Order.

| Wakgoine te Micceciaen suid

‘Gractic Gareted Vide Now g24 & 9266 “pee

Specific Charaéier and Syno MS. fle

NARCISSUS: orientalis. Vid. Nem 940, dys e

(@) 2—4-florus ; laciniis pallide luteis a lutea pro-~

fundius trilobatim fifla. G.

In plants that have been long cultivated in gardens, it will

often be a queftion-not readily decided, whether'certain indi-

viduals are mere varieties, arifing from the adventitious’ cir-

cumftances of culture, or originally diftin® {pecies, or hybrids

deriving their origin from intermixture. It may throw fome

light upon thefe queftions to obferve, Seiki ;

“4. That whilft the induftry of Florifts, by means of long

culture in appropriate foil and under nice management, (in

fome cafes offering a too profufe nutriment, in others fub-—

tracing the due proportion), can produce an almoft endlefs

variety of appearances in the individuals of the fame fpecies, —

_ efpecially in Mature, colour, and multiplication of parts, yet:

- amidft this numerous hoft, the f{crutinifing eye of the Botanift —

_ wall find little or no change made in the effential charaéters ;__

thefe moftly remain the fame in all. For although, by a multi-

plication of the petals or other parts, the {maller and more

@ffential organs are fuffocatéd ; yet thefe changes affeét the

generic more than the fpecific diftin€tion. And notwithftanding

the immenfe number of thefe artificial varieties, fuch is the

tendency of nature to maintain a uniformity in the individuals

of the fame fpecies, that a few years negleé is fufficient to

reduce the thoufand gaudy. inhabitants of the Florift’s border

to the ftate of their original parent. — |

2. The fame induftrious fpirit, when any particular flower

happens to be in fafhion, will feek far and near for ——_

: related.

related fpecies of the fame genus, and by fubmitting thefe to a

fuitable culture will occafion fimilar changes, in the endlefs.

variety of which the fpecies may eafily be confounded with the

one before in cultivation. |

3. This blending of different fpecies will be ftill farther

_ promoted by the accidental or purpofely-contrived admixture

of them, by. fecundating one with the pollen of another. .

An offspring partaking of both parents is the confequence,

and in fome cafes perhaps a permanent intermediate va-

riety, fcarcely to be diftinguifhed from. a really diftiné

{pecies, may be thus produced. For we cannot go fo far, in

either the vegetable or animal kingdom, as to affert with fome

authors, that hybrids or mules are in every cafe fteril. Mule

birds, as we are affured by breeders, will frequently procreate,

and the offspring of the wolf and the dog has been proved to be

prolific; but we are not thence to conclude, as fome have

done, that the canary and gold-finch, the wolf and the dog

are in reality the fame fpecies. We can fee however that the

confounding of different {pecies by thefe mixed produétions is

very limited, in many cafes confined to the individuals firft

produced, in others terminating perhaps with the next or

third generation, and if a longer exiftence be allowed, we

may infer a very great proximity between the parent plants.

An vegetables indeed the duration may be longer from their

power of propagation by other means than by feeds, but

the increafe obtained by offsets from ‘the roots, cuttings, OF

layers, when the foftering care of man ceafes, will fhortly

perifh, Hence a very long-continued exiftence without

change will often afford a ftrong prefumption of a_plant’s

being a real fpecies. |

Armed with fuch refle@tions, the Botanift may boldly enter

.the Florift’s parterre, undifmayed by the barbarous hoft of a

Dutch catalogue. Here he will certainly find, that if the older

botanical writers frequently raifed varieties to the rank of |

{pecies, the modern have fometimes confounded fuch as are

really, and everhave been, diftin&.

To enable us to decide in difficult cafes, it becomes necef-

fary to ftudy varieties as well as fpecies; and this muft be our

apology for admitting feveral of the former into a work, in

the general plan of which they are excluded. Faithful re-

prefentations and accurate defcriptions, when recorded,” can-

not fail to eftablifh the truth inthe end, 8S. :

~£ 949 J

Aotus ViLLosa. ViLLous Aotus.

AEE EEE EEE EEE

Clafs and Order.

DrecanpriA Monoeynta.

Generic Charaéier.

Cal. 5-fidus, fimplex. Cor. papilionacea: alis vexillo bre- —

vioribus. Stylus filiformis. Stigma obtufum. Leg. 1-loculare,

a-fpermum, SMITH.

4 Specific Charaéer and Synonyms.

. ibid. vol. 2. p. 519.

PULTEN AA villofa. Bot. Repof. 309. . ss

PULTEN A ericoides. Vent. Malmaif.35. Poiret in Encye

Meth, p. 738. 7

_ AOTUS villofa. Smitb in Ann. of Bot. v. 1. p. 504. Dryander

Dr. Smitu has, in our opinion, very properly feparated this

from the genus Puttena#a; from his PuLTreENzA villo/a,

with which it has been confounded in the Botanift’s Repofitory,

it is in every refpe& different. — | =

To what is faid by the Do&or in the Annals of Botany, W¢

have nothing to add, except that the calyx, befides wanting

_the appendages, is bilabiate, and has the two teeth of the upper

lip fhorter and more divaricate than the reft. ee

Tt is a pretty little greenhoufe fhrub; native of New:

Holland ; flowers in May ; communicated by Mr. Loppic#

of Hackney.

Syd. Edwards dol Pub by Thurkhs S Cre ae veleent Ang J Lith Santom wvnlp

‘wands dal. Pub. by L-Gurbis, 5° Geo: Crofeent 4ug.t.18th —_ELanfem seulp.

| [ 950 J |

Arum TripHyLLuM (x2) ZEBRINUM. ZEBRA-

| FLOWERED ARUM.

BRR ae alee ah ae eae ae te aeaeak a

Clafs and Order.

Monacta Poryanoprta, olim ad G¥NANDRIAM Poty-

ANDRIAM relatum.

Generic Charafer. — ”

Spatha monophylla, cucullata. ‘Spadix fupra nudus, inferne

_femineus, medio ftamineus. 3

Specific Charaffer and Synonyms.

_ARUM triphyllum ; acaule ; foliis trifoliolatis pedatis: foliolis

| ovalibus acuminatis, floribus dioicis.

_ARUM triphyllum. Sp. Pl.1368. Willd. v. 4. p. 480. Grow.

| Virg..142. Michaux Fl. Bor. Amer. 2. p. 188.

_ | m xebrinum ; {padice atro-purpureo fpatha vittata. ep ES

-DRACUNCULUS {feu Serpentaria triphylla Brafiliana. Dodart,

| Mem. 81. cum fig. Robert. Ic. Rati Hifl.1212. certiffime.

Baub. Pin. 195? Prod. 101 ? :

8. viride ; {padice {pathaque uniformiter viridefcentibus.

ARUM minus triphyllum feu Arifarum, pene viridi virginia- —

: num. Mori/. Hit. 3. p. 547+ ,

_ & pallefcens ; sae fi oe ome. fpatha pallide vittata.

-ARUM feu Arifarum minus marianum flore et pene ex pallido

& virefcente. Pluk. Alm. 39. t. 376. f. 3+. :

__ % atropurpureum ; fpadice fpathaque uniformiter atropur- —

rels, a

-ARUM atro-rubens, Hort, Kew. v.3. p. 315. Mart. Mill. Dif.

| Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p- 481, exclufo fynonymo Pluk.

ARUM five ARISARUM triphyllum minus, pene atro-

E rubente virginianum. P/wk. Alm. 52. t. 77-S. 5

__ This variety, which is by far the moft beautiful, is alfo of

z largeft growth, on which account we have placed it ae

The Arum ¢ripbyllum is faid by Linn aus, who confidered

the genus as gynandrous, to be moneecious, bearing male and

female flowers from the fame root on different ftalks; we ap-

prehend however that this is a miftake, and that it is really

dicecious, the male and female flowers rifing from different

roots ; as has certainly been the cafe in fuch as we have feen.

Our plant is female, bearing a number of germens, each fur-

‘mounted by a white ftigma, crowded together at the bafe of

the fpadix. Above thefe are a few {cattered, irregular, anther-

like mafles, but which do not appear to contain pollen, and as

the fame are found above the ftamens in the male plant, they —

may perhaps be confidered as ne€taries. ia

The footltalk of the leaf and {cape are involved in two or

three truncated fheaths of a pale colour {potted with purple,

the former exceeding the latter in length, fo that the leaf ftands

over the flower, like an umbrella. In our plant the leaflets

were not quite entire; the margins being fomewhat undulated

and repand, which gives them the appearance of being flightly

toothed, but they are not really fo. - Native of North-America

from Canada to Carolina. Probably the Brafilian plant may

not be the fame fpecies. The roots are apt to perifh from the

heat of the fun in dry weather unlefs planted in the fhade and

a moift foil, and in fuch fituations they are liable to be de-

ftroyed in the winter ; -it will be therefore fafeft to take them

up after the leaves decay, and keep them in fand till the fol-

lowing fpring. Flowers in May. Communicated by Mefirs.

Napier and Cuanprer, Vauxhall,

Pub by Tlrts = dug 22806 ~ Eduants det. Saalem

ste 951...)

RHODODENDRON Maximum. LaureE--

LEAVED RHODODENDRON.

BSR RIBS aR ae ae aha ae ae

Clafs and Order.

-. Decanpria Monocynia.

_ Generic CharaZer.

Cal. 5s natrifus, Cor, fubinfundibuliformis. Stam. declinata.

Cap/. 5-locularis.

Specific Charafer and Synonyms.

REODGpEy DRON maximum ; foliis oblongis glabris fubtus’

difcoloribus margine acuto reflexo;

umbellis terminalibus congeftis, coe

roll laciniis concavis. :

RHODODENDRON maximum. Sp. Pl. 563. Willd. Arb.

286.. Ejufd. Sp. 2. p. 607. Trew.

Ebret. p. 32.1.66. Wangenh. Amer. p.

63. ¢. 23. f. 49. Mart. Mill. Di.

#,.g. Michaux Fl, Am. Bor. 1. p. 259.

Gaertn. Frud. v. 1. p. 304. t. 63.

KALMIA foliis lanceolato-ovatis nitidis fubtus ferrugineis, —

corymbis terminalibus. Mill. Ic, t.

3 229.

CHAMARHODODENDROS, lauri folio fempervirens, flo-

ribus bullatis corymbofis. Cate/b, Car.

3. Pp. 17- 1.17. f. 2.

LEDUM Jauso-cerah folio. Amen. Acad. 2. p. 201.

« * This elegant | tree, according to Carrssy, adorns the

weftern and remote parts of Pennfylvania, always growing in

the moft fteril foil, or on the rocky declivities of hills and

Tiver banks, in fhady and moift places. Micuavux fays it is

: found

’

found from New-England to North-Carolina, In its native

foil it attains the height of fixteen feet.

There is much affinity between this tree and the Ruopo-

DENDRON ponticum, nor do the diflinguifhing charaéters

adopted by WittpeNow feem fufficient ; for the leaves of the

Jatter are not of the fame colour on the under furface as the

upper, and both are very fubjeé to vary in this refpeét, as well

as in fize and form. The flowers of the maximum are paler

coloured and grow in a much more compaét umbel upon

fhorter pedicles; the corolla is more deeply divided and the

fegments are rounder, more concave, and not undulated as in

ponticum. The difficulty has of late been increafed by the

_ raifing of hybrid varieties from an intermixture of the two.

The upper fegment of the corolla, not the lower as is faid by

Wi.ipeENnow, is rather larger than the reft, and beautifully

fpotted towards the bafe with green and yellow.

~ Requires a moift foil with an admixture of bog-earth and a

fhady fituation. Bears forcing as well as the ponticum, but is

not fo well adapted to this purpofe from the palenefs of the

flowers, which, in this ftate, become white, except the upper

Jacinia. Is rather more apt to be disfigured by the cold eafterly

winds occurring late in the feafon. |

- Our drawing was made in the fpring of 1785, at Meffrs.

Waurrtey and Brame’s, Old-Brompton, when every fhrub

both of this and ponticum produced abundance of flowers in

the greateft perfeftion. This year nota complete umbel was

to be feen in the whole colle&ion!

Introduced in 1736, by Petra Cottinson, Efq.

}

id Edvard dell Pub by T Curk:s, StGee:

Crefeent Seprisob FE. Santom sculp

[ o52 J

FRITILLARIA Racemosa. Buncu-

FLOWERING FRITILLARIA.

BEER Th ET RE ER aah ae

Cla/s and Order.

Hexanpria Monocynia.

Generic Chara&er.—Vid. Ne": 664.

Specific Charaéer and Synonyms.

_ FRITILLARIA

FRITILLARIA

racemofa ; racemo ereéto 4—9-floro, foliofo,

fubfecundo ; foliis deorfum numerofis, fub-

confertis, lineari-acuminatis, planis, glaucis ;

Cetera Fritttuari&z Meleagridis. G.

pyrenaica. Sp. Pl. 436. Sy/h. Vegetab. Murr.

325. Hort. Up/. 81. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 91.

exclufis femper fynonymis C/uf. app. Lob.

adv. Park. Par. 43. f-11. atque Bauh. Pin.

64. © : ;

pyrenaica (8) fupra No. 664. rejeétis fyno-

nimis Park, Parad. 43. f. 12. Swert, Flor.

7.f. 2. cum eo Bauh. Pin. 64.

e foliorum alis florens (é.) /erotina atropur-

purea. Hort. Cliff. 119. ae

nigra floribus ad{cendentibus. Mill. Dii?. 3.

rejeéto fynonymo. |

Ae RR .

__ This is evidently the plant from which Linn us charac.

_tenzed his pyrenaica, a name he adopted under the perfuafion

that it was a variety of the true Pyrenean vegetable he found

-defcribed and figured in the works of Ciusius and Lozex;

4m this error we followed him in the 664th number of this

Work ; fince then we have obtained a living fpecimen, and can

‘ave no doubt of the fpecies being as diftinét from each other

_ *Sany other two of the fame genus. In faét, if a variety of

any Known fpecies, it muft be of Meleagris ; from which how-

ever

ever it differs in the chara€ters given above in our fpecific |

phrafe. The corolla of pyrenaica is of a thick, coriaceous,

flefhy fubftance, has a patulous margin, with the alternate feg-

ments twice as broad as the others and obovate; charaéters

not to be found in our prefent fubjeét, the leaves of which

are alfo much more numerous, narrower, fharper, and more

fparfe. Its fegments are rather lefs acute than thole of me-

leagris, and its ne€tary is rather nearer the bafe of the fegments

than in that, but yet not fo near as ih pyrenaica ; all three differ

from /atifolia, in having green, flenderer, and more patent

fligmas. As Linnzus applied his fpecific title to this plant,

under the idea of-ats being a variety of the one we have be-

fore publifhed under that name, and which is really of Py-

renean origin, we have thought better to leave that appellation

with it (elpecially as it was alfo included by Linn us in his

{pecies) and adopt another for the prefent plant.

We are ignorant of its real habitat, poflibly a mere variety

of Meleagris. Blooms fomewhat later than that or pyrenaica ;

quite fcentlefs.

_ ~ Our drawing was made from Mr. Wiixitams’s colle@tion at

-Turnham-Green. Cultivated here in the time of Mitter.

Probably Frirri,artra bifpanica umbellifera of BAUHIN,

Parkinson and Swertivs, is really a variety of the Pe

naica; but this we = not-yet met with. iG.

a C 953 J

OrnitHocaLum Uniro.ium (3). GIBRALTAR

STrar oF BETHLEHEM.

dea ieaaaeag ae ae ae ae atae

Cla/s and Order.

* &

HEXANDRIA MonocyniA.

Generic Charaéter.—Vid. N 653 & 746. Ob/.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

~ORNITHOGALUM unifolium. Vid. fupra Ne”: 935.

(8) {pica fubcylindraceo, multifloro, conferto, floribus ereétis,

odoratis; foliis 2—g, breviter cufpidatis. G. 3

~ ORNITHOGALUM concinnum. Salifb. Prod. Hort. 240.

~ ORNITHOGALUM nanum. Var. 2. foliis tribus, {capo

<— unico in eodem bulbo. Brot. Flor.

Lufit. 1. 250. ? ; .

We cannot bring ourfelves to think this any other thana —

variety of the above fpecies. This variety is faid to have been

found in the country near Gibraltar, whence it was received

in 1780, by the late Dr. Fornerciry. Flowers fweet-fcented.

Should be fheltered in a pit or garden frame.

Our drawing was made from a plant in the very feleét

Sota Mr. Witttams, Nurferyman, at Turnham-

teen, G, .

Sid Eawarde ded. Pub. by Llurtis, SGc0-Crefeent Sepiscob EF Sanfim op

Spb Lebwands del. Pub. by Tlurkis. S620 Creleent Sep 11806. PLanlem veal

{ 954 J

RILLIUM CERNUUM. NopbING-FLOWEREL

| TRILLIUM.

: Clafs and Order.

HEXANDRIA TRYGYNIA,

Generic Charatter.—Vid. N™ 470.

Specific Chara&er and Synonyms.

TRILLIUM cernunm flore pedunculato, cernuo. Linn, Sp.

' Pl. 484. Hort. Kew. 1. 490. Mill. Dict. 1.

Smith Spicil. t. 4. Michaux Flor. Bor- Amer. 1.

| 216.

SOLANUM triphyllum, flore hexapetalo carneo. Cat. Car. 1,

45+ f. 45.

PARIS foliis ternis, flore pedunculato nutante. Cold. Noved,

ts 45:

After the detailed defcription in Dr. Smrra’s Spicties

1uM, we need not make any addition in this place, except

‘De to remark, that a perfeét trilocular fruit, fuch as repre-

Rented in his figure, is in this genus at leaft dubious, The

-Tceptacle of the feeds is in this {pecies formed by a projeétion

§0lng off from the middle of three of the fides, but terminating

Withathickened extremity before it reaches the centre of the fruit.

{nfuch aconftruétion, of courfe, the fhrinking of the receptacles -

the feeds may occafion what appears to be a three-celled

‘vary to become one-celled in the ripe fruit. ° Moreover a

‘difference in the length of the receptacle of the feeds in the

: ferent {fpecies of the fame genus, extending in one nearly or

‘ite to the centre ofthe fruit, in another lefs than veer!

: | : towards

towards the centre, though evidently making no effential dif.

ference, will give in the former cafe the appearance of a three-

celled, in the latter that of a one-celled fruit. This obferva-

tion-will probably explain the feeming contradiction in the

formation of the fruit in this genus. Whether the three

feminal receptacles in any cafe perfeétly unite in the centre,

as defcribed by Mr. Satispury in Paradifus Londinenfis,

No. 35, deferves to be further examined ; in this fpecies they

are certainly free towards the centre and attached to the fides

of the fruit only.

A hardy plant, requiring fhade, and to be planted in bog-

earth. Found by Michaux in mountainous places in Upper

Carolina, by Katm in Canada, and by Mr. Menziezs in

Nova-Scotia. Cultivated here by MitLer.

Our. drawing was taken from a plant communicated by

Meffrs. Napier and CuanDuer, Vauxhall,

Uvu aria PerFoLiaTa (a). PERFOLIATE

Uvu aria,

SRR ER EE EE

Cla/s and Order.

HexANpDrRiA MonoGyYNlia,.

Generic Chara&er.—Vid. N*™ 916.

Specific Character and Synonyms,

UVULARIA perfoliata ; foliis perfoliatis, ellipticis, obtufiss

corolla campanulata, intus fcabrata; antheris

= culpidatis. Lxot, Bot. v. 1. p. 97-

UVULARIA perfoliata. Linn. Sp. Pl. 437. Mill. Did. 2.

Hort. Kew. 1. 434. Willd. Sp. Plant. 2. 94-

Michaux Flor. Bor-Amer. 1. 199.

(a) major; calyce luteo. Mich. lL. c. ,

POLYGONUM ramofum flore luteo major. Corn. Canad.

38. f. 39.

(3) minor ; calyce Sullice-cxal ido: Mich. 1. c.

UVULARIA perfoliata. Exot. Bot. t. 49.

seule

Since we have not feen the living fpecimen of this fpecies, —

we do not pretend to add to or alter what has been faid of the —

plant in the Exotic Botany. According to the figures, our

plant feems to us to partake equally of Dr. Smrru’s fava and —

perfoliata. Micuaux has two varieties, poffibly his (a) 8 —

the fava of Dr. Smiru. We ftrongly fufpeé all thefe plants —

will be found to be mere varieties of each other: (a) was found —

by Micwaux in Canada and on the very high mountains —

of Carolina; (2) in the mountains of middling height in Ca- —

rolina and Virginia. Mrtter fays the fpecies is perfeétly

hardy, and fhould be planted in a hazel loam not too fit

nor wet; may be propagated by parting the roots about

Michaelmas, but not oftener than every third year. Blooms —

in April and May.

Our drawing was made from a plant fent us by Mr. Wtt- |

LiAms, Of Turnham-Green. G, a"

Pevand det. Pubs by Llurtis, Stbeo:Crofeent Sepr1s0b BE Sanfom sl

[ 956 ]

SCALIA JACEOIDES. Knap-WEED SCALIA.

JHE

Cla/s and Order.

SynGenesta PonycaMia SUPERFLUA.

- Generic Charaéer.

Receptaculum nudum, Pappus pilofus, fcaber, feffilis. Corolle

radii infundibuliformes, irregulares.

Sxarias, nomen a Theophraffo cuidam hujus ordinis planta

adbtbitum.

SCALIA jaceoides.

Descr. Root flefhy, tap-fhaped? perennial. Stem ereft, —

round, fomewhat woolly, a little branched at the upper part. —

Leaves alternate, feflile, fpatulate-lanceolate, with rough mat- —

gins, obfcurely three-ribbed; the midrib much ftouter than

the lateral ones. Flowers uniformly yellow, folitary, on long,

more or lefs fcaly peduncles. Calyx fubglobofe, imbricate,

fcales linear, terminated with a broader, ovate-acuminale, —

feariofe appendix. Corolle of the radius female, funnel-fhaped :

tube filiform : limb fomewhat irregularly cut into from three |

‘to five narrow laciniz. Corolle of the difk many, hermaphrodite, _

funnel-fhaped: tube filiform below. Receptacle naked, dotted,

flat. Seeds oblong, rough, crowned with a feffile. hair

feabrous pappus, thofe of the difk and of the radius fimilar.

In habit, but not colour, this plant much refembles Ce’

TAUREA nigra, and has the fame rigid rough afpeét ; but bi

longing to a different order in the Linnean fyftem, and havi

_ anaked receptacle, it will not unite in the fame genus W!

It. A native of New South-Wales, and boafts no

beauty, but as few fyngenefious plants have as yet found theif

- way from that country into our gardens, it may be adinitte

for its rarity. May be treated as a hardy greenhoufe plant.

Propagated by feéds, which however are not always Pe

fected with us. Flowers in May and continues a long time ®

bloom. Introduced by Mr. Loppices of Hackney.

NG56

Sd FE dnande det Pub by DGurbis, Slee Crefient Nop sb FE’ Sandom ‘wulp

N'957

‘

Spd £ duand tof L. fa iy ; :

: twands del Lub oy T Curtis, Se Geo- Crefeent : by 3s ODS Fea udp

| Laer 7

CAMPANULA ALPINA, ALPINE BELL-

FLOWER,

Be SESE SIE ai ae aie peal ak ak steak ae se

Cla/s and Order.

| PENTANDRIA Monocynia.

Generic Charafer.

Cor. campanulata, fundo claufo valvis Raminiferis, Stigma

3-fidum.. Cap/. infera, poris lateralibus dehifcens.

Specific Charader and Synonyms.

CAMPANULA alpina; caulo fimplici pedunculis unifloris

axillaribus diphyllis. Facg. Vind. 210. Facg.

Aufir. 2. t. 118. Sp. Pl. 1669. Willd. Sp.

Pl. 1. 909. Reich. 463. Mart. Mill. Dif.

| 16 39s oe.

_ CAMPANULA folits ellipticie hirfutis, petiolis alaribus uni-

= : floris, floribus glabris. Hal/. Helv. m. 695.

~ CAMPANULA alpina pumila lanuginofa. Bauh. Pin. 94.

_ TRACHELIUM pumilum alpinum. Clef Aif.171. “jaf.

| Pann. 687. Park. Herb.645.9. Raii Hif.

736. 21.

_ __ Anative of the Alps of Switzerland and Schneberg in Auftria.

_ The reflexed angles between the ere&t fegments of the calyx

are fo very fhort, that it may admit of doubt whether it

_ fhould have been arranged in the third or in the firft fe€tion of

this extenfive genus. The capfule is trilocular. It varies

with pale afh-coloured flowers, and bright blue, inclined to

violet. Is a hardy perennial, but requires the fame careful _

treatment as other alpine plants. Introduced from Auftria

by Mr. Loppicss, by whom it was communicated to us in —

flower at the latter-end of April. It continued for fome weeks —

in high beauty, and is indeed a very ornamental little

plant. - | Pi af tag

[ 958 J

Goopia Lortirotia. Lorus-LEAvepD

Goopia.

_ Clafs and Order.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Generic CharaGer.

Cal. Lab. fuperius abbreviatum, 2-dentatum ; inferius tri-

dentatum, produ@tius. Carinacorolle truncata. Legum. pedicel- —

Jatam, complanatum, dorfo gibbum, 2-fpermum. Stigma ca-

pitatum,

GOODIA lbotifolia. Salifb. in Parad. Lond. 41.

aioli

Our drawing of this plant was taken at the Botanic Garden, —

Brompton, more than two years ago. We had before feen —

and defcribed it in Mr. Hissert’s colleétion at Clapham- —

Common, but-were not able to fatisfy ourfelves perfeétly re- -

{pefting its native country ; fufpeéting from its habit, fo very —

different from that of moft of the -Leguminofe from New- —

Holland, that it was in reality a produétion of the Cape of

Good Hope. We are informed however in the Paradifus

Londinenfis, that it was found in New South-Wales, by PETER

ee and feeds of it tranfmitted by him to the Royal Garden

at Kew. : :

This induftrious Gardener was induced by his love of plants

to leave a lucrative employment and repair to fo diftant 4 —

country to colle& feeds for his Majefty ; in which fervice he

died. By naming this plant after him, Mr. Sarrssury has

endeavoured to perpetuate his memory, a duty which, we

underftand, Mr. Brown, fince his return from New South-

Wales, had intimated his intention of fulfilling. — f

_ Itisa hardy greenhoufe fhrub of han ifome growth. Flowers

in May, June, and July, Propagaied by cuttings and feeds.

NY. iy

Syd Bdmants del. Pub. by Tonrhis, SGee: Crefcent Sep. 1180b — ESanfom xalp

C 959 J

— Crematis Catycina. Minorca

VirGin’s-BOWER.

JHE HE

Cla/s and Order.

PoLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA.

Generic Charafer.

= Cal. o. Petala 4—6. Sewina caudata.

Specific Charaéer and Synonyms.

CLEMATIS calycina ; involucro calycino approximato, foliis

- ternatis, intermedio — Hort. Kew. 2

p- 259. Vabl. Symb. 3. p..75. L’Herit. Stirpe ~

Nov. 2. t. 26. ined. Willa. Sp. Pl. a. p- 1

Mart. Mill. Did. a. 16. .

CLEMATIS balearica ; {candens, foliis ingot temuiter a

5 ~ laciniatis, floribus calyculatis lateralibus, peta j

Interne guttatis. Lamarck Encycl. 2. p. 44-

Our drawing of this rare fpecies of Cremaris, a native of

the Ifland of Minorca, was taken at Mr. Marcoxm’s nurfery

at Kenfington. It Tequires the proteétion of a good me

houfe. Produces its flowers in the winter. Propagated by.

layers with difficulty. Introduced to the Royal meee a

Kew, in 1783, by M, Peet is.

vy,

7 i : so Te , sed. F cha fom weedp.

Sud Fedmands del, Pub by FCurtes, St Geo: Crefient Sept. 100. F Sanh udp

Syd Edwardedel Pub by TGertes, StGeo Crfeent Oct 1i80b. F Sanfem veulp

'E =966%9 =

Leucojum AuTUMNALE. AUTUMNAL»

SNOW-FLAKE,

Cla/s and Order,

Hexanpria Monocynia.

_ Generic Charafer.

_. Cor, campaniformis, 6-partita, apicibus, incraffata, Stigma

fimplex, 7 | j

Specific Charagfer and Synonyms.

LEUCOJUM autumnale ; fpatha fub-biflora : laciniis triden

tatis, ftylis foliifque filiformibus.

LEUCOJUM antumnale. Spec. Pl. 414. Willd. 2 p- 30.

Reich. 2.p.16. Lefl. It.136. Hort. Kew. 1.

p:. 406. Brot. Fl. Luf.v. 1. p. 552. Desfont.

All. 1. p. 281. Porret Voy. v.2. p.144. Parad,

= Lond. 21. Ic. Opt.

: LEUCOJUM bulbofum autumnale. Bauh. Pin. 56. Cluf:

Hifp. 271. f. 272. Dod. Purg. 410. Pempt.

230. f. 4. Park. Parad. 110. 2. t. 107. f. 10.

Raitt Hift. 1145. Ger. Emac. 148. f. 5: Baub,

Hit. p. 593- fig. 1. Befl. Hort, Eyft, Ord.

= _ pal, ie

3 LEUCOJUM bulbofum tenuifolium minus flore_ rubello.

| Grift. Virid. Luf. n. 1573.

TRICOPHYLLUM. Renealm, Spec. 101. t. 100.

eres

__ This modeft little plant is a native of Spain, Portugal, and

the neighbourhood of Algiers, growing on the dry fandy bills

we have received fpecimens alfo from the rock of Gibraltar,

gathered by our friend Mr. Wezer, Surgeon to a German

tegiment in his Majefty’s fervice. soe eee fimil

Brorero has another Species or rather variety very 4mllar

to Leucojum autumnale, which he calls trichophyllum, in this

the petals are acute, not tridentate.

Every author who has defcribed this plant agrees that it has ~

ufually two, fometimes one, but very rarely three flowers from

the fame fpathe, yet all continue to fay fpatha multiffora ; it

appears to be much more conftant to the charatter of wo-

flowered than L. vernum does to that of one-flowered.

Our drawing was taken from a {fpecimen communicated by

' Meffrs. Napier and Cuanp.er, Vauxhall. It flowers, as

the name denotes, in the autumn, coming up without leaves,

which with us feldom appear till the flowering is entirely over,

fometimes not till the {pring ; but in moft of the fpecimens we

received from Gibraltar the leaves appear with the flower,

fame as in Ciustus’s figure, from which all the other figures

of the older authors were copied except our ParKINsoON,

“who however coarfe, is ufually original.

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HAMANTHUuS MuULTIFLORUS. MANg¢-

FLOWERED BLoop-FLOWER.

AEH Pdibiebibiiett

-Clafs and Order.

Hexanpria Monocynia. °

- Generic Charafier.

Lnvolucrum polyphyllum, multiflorum, Cor. 6-partita fupera.

Bacca g-locularis,

Specific Charaffer and Synonyms.

H/EMANTHUS multiflorus ; foliis tribus ovato-Ianceolatis —

acuminatis Carinatis undulatis ereétis, um-

bella congefta globofa, .petalis patentibus.

Martyn & Nodder, Monog. Ic. opt. Willd.

Sp. Pl, 2. p. 25. Bot. Repof. 318. Mart.

Mill, Dié. a. 8.

SATYRIUM e Guinea. Vallet Hort. t.33. De Bry Floril.

t. 44. Swert. Floril. 1. p. 63. f. 3. Mori.

Hift. 3. p. 491. § 12. 1.12, fiit. Rudd.

Elyf. 2. p. 110. fi 3. 3

HYACINTHO affinis Sion, caule maculato, Seb. Mu/. 1.

: | Pe 90. 14% fir, 2, Be

the bulbs of this beautiful flower have frequently been imported

from thence, and is rather common in our ftoves.

The fpathe generally divides into three parts and is patent or

refleéted, not ere@t, as in Hamantuus coccineus, from which |

fpecies it differs alfo in radication and foliation, the fibres

growing from the fummit of the bulb and the leaves, embracing

one

one another at their bafes, fo as to form a fpotted ftalk, rifing

feveral inches above the ground ; in all which circumftances it

agrees with H aMaNTUHUS puniceus.

_ Being a native of fo warm a climate as the Coaft of Guinea,

the bark-ftove is neceflary to its prefervation ; and even there

few have been fo fuccefstul as to flower the fame plant repeat-

edly ; though imported bulbs will blow without the aid of

artificial heat. : :

- Introduced into the Paris garden more than two hundred

years ago by M. Rosin, Jun. and figured at the time by

Vattet in his Jardindu Roy Henry IV. Of this inaccurate

figure, thofe of De Bry, Swreertius, Rupspecx, and Mo-

RISON, are more or lefs mutilated copies; Sepa’s is different

and better; Nopper’s is excellent, and was drawn in 1795

from a plant which flowered at Mr. Parxer’s, at South-

Lambeth, among the firft received from Sierra-Leone ; ours was

taken about the fame time, from a bulb which flowered very

weakly, but on account of its fize appeared better fuited to

our work, The umbel frequently contains from forty to fixty

bloffoms. :

~ Wi ivenow, without having feen the plant, has defcribed

the peduncles to be jointed, as they are reprefented in Vat-

'LeT’s figure, and this would undoubtedly be an excellent

eC charaéter, but unfortunately nothing of the kind

exifts.

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FRITILLARIA Persica (6). Lesser Persian

| FRITILLARY, ee

THEA Gee eed ak ae

_ Clafs and Order.

HexanpDria Monoeynta.

Generic Charafer.—Vid. Nm. 664.

Specific Charaéer and Synonyms. _

FRITILLARIA perfica; racemo nudiufculo, foliis obliquis.

Hort. Upf. 82. Sp. Pl. 436. Reich. 2. 47.

Willd. 2. 90. Mart. Mill. Dif. a. 2.

FRITILLARIA racemo nudo terminali. Hort. Cliff. 119.

LILIUM Perficum. Baub. Pin. 79. Rudb. Elyf. 2. p. 183.

~ Sf. 1. De Bry Floril. 63. Swert. Floril, 44,

f.1. Dod. Pempt. 220. Morif, Hift. 2. f. 4.

t. 19. f.1. Park. Parad. 29. f. 2. Ger.-Em.

201. Rati Hift. 1106. BauhHift. 2. p.

: 699. fi 2. ee |

LILIUM fuafianum. Cluf Hif. 1. p. 130. Hi/p.1 S07 131.

(@) FRITILLARIA racemofa. Mill, Did. Le

FRITILLARIA minima. Swert, Floril. 7. foo.

_FRITILLARIA ramofa, five Lilium Perficum minus. Mori/.

2 ——«Blef. 266. ee 5 |

pe,

_ Varies in ftature from fix inches to three feet, bearing from

twelve to fifty flowers, growing in a pyramidal form. ee

__ Probably ‘of Perfian origin; but, as we are told by

Parkinson, was introduced to this country from Turkey, |

by merchants trading to that country, and “ in Bega foe g

procurement of Mr. Nicworas Lerz, a lover of all fair

“ flowers.” pee Py oe

_ The root is obferved to be free from the offenfive fmell of

its congener the Crown-Imperial ; but to make up for this,

the tafte of it is, according to Joun Bavuin, horribly binet

(peramarus horribilis). It appears to be perfeétly hardy, and

eafily propagated by its bulbs ; yet is lefs common than it

deferves, being a very defirable flower. Bloffoms in April

and May.

Our drawing was taken at Mr, WiLtiams’s, Turnham-

Green.

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VERATRUM Nicrum. Darxk-FLowERED

VERATRUM.

Seats seatap diseases ses

Cla/s and Order.

Potycamita Monacta, few Hexanpria Monocynta,.

Generic Charaéer.

Hermarurop. Cal.o. Cor, 6-petala. Stam. 6. Pift. 3.

Cap/. 3. poly{perme. .

Masc. Ca/.o. Cor. 6-petala. Stam.6. Pif. rudimentum.

Specific Chara&er and Synonyms.

VERATRUM nigrum ; racemo compofito, corollis patentif-

fimis. Sp. Pl. 1479. Reich. 4. 297. Hort.

Kew. 3. p. 422. Scop. Carn. m. 12394. . Facq.

Aufir. 4. p. 18. 1.336. Mart. Mill. Did. a. 3.

Kniph,. Cent. 4. 1. 91. ;

VERATRUM flore atrorubente. Tourn. Inf. 273. —

HELLEBORUS albus flore atrorubente. Baub. Pin. 186.

Morif. Hift. 3. p. 485. fr 12. t. 4. fia. Bef. —

Hort. Eyft. Pl. Aéft. Ord. 8at.g. fay,

HELLEBORUS albus precox atrorubente flore. Park. Theat.

: 216. 2. 2. t. 217. 2.2. Ger. Emac. 440./f. 2.

_ This ftately herbaceous plant is a native of Auftria

and perfeétly hardy. Mrxtrer obferves, that it fhould

be planted in an open fituation, as, when near to walls or

hedges, it is apt to be disfigured by f{nails; from whence he

infers that it muft be lefs acrid than the White Hellebore,

which is rarely touched by them. Flowers in June and July,

Is an old inhabitant of our gardens, being cultivated by

Joun Gerarp, in1596. We received our fpecimen from

Mr. Spon, Nurferyman, at Egham, 3 . |

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Clafs and Onder,

DipyNAMIA Reserv eae

Generic Charadler. -

S Cal 5-partitus. Cor. rotata, Filament barbata._ Canls 2s

- locularis, . . ere ‘3

Speci he Charatter and Sy y S

CELSIA’ cretica” ALi es finuatis ae 3, fur

__ oribus cordatis amplexicaulibus, filame itis inferiori-

eae -Bus levibus, Solanter MSE. 2 Re HG

CELSIA cretica, Linn. Suppl. 281. Sy, Fig4

Symb. 3. p. 80. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 28

, 151. Hort. Kew. pee 344-- esugh Ab

"Mart. Mill. Dif,

The figure in Mrccscy Feauee (Pl. ae

as a fynonym, does not appear to belong to th

we do not know that fas ee of

of amas Here and ae

of which we intend foon to give a figure, OE. upper Raniths :

exaétly refemble. thefe of Cetrsia crelica, but are three in

correfponding, both inhabit and fru€tification, excepting that _

one of them has only four ftamens the other five, from which

Sireumftance one is joined to Gelb: and arranged in the _

: os . fourteenth

fourteenth clafs, the other is a Verbafcum and belongs to the

fifth! Gartner, whoexamined Cexsta orientalis, diftinguifh-

ed this genus from Verbafcum by the different ftruéture of the

capfule, obferving that in the former the diffepiment between

the cells is fingle and contrary to the valves, in the latter

double, formed by the infle€ted margins of the valves. In

this refpeét too Cexsia cretica belongs to the genus Verbaf-

cum; and this circumftance would have overcome our un-

willingnefs to make any change in eftablifhed names, fatisfied

that in uniting this plant with Verbafcum we fhould have

been clofely treading in the footfteps of nature; but the

examination of Cers1a Ardéurus, which differs from the other

{pecies, and from Verbafcum, in having oppofite leaves, makes

us again hefitate, for in this too we find the capfule of Ver-

bafcum. On this account we have thought it fafeft to retain

this plant in its former fituation, till both genera fhall have

_ been more accurately examined.

The Cevsta cretica is a fhewy biennial, readily propagated

by feeds, requiring to be prote&ted from froft. Flowers in

June, July, and Auguft. Is a native of Crete, the fields

about Algiers and Tunis, and faid in Hortus Kewenfis to have

been introduced into this country from the Eaft-Indies by

M. Tuouin in 1776.

Our drawing was taken at Mr. Sarispury’s Botanic

Garden, Brompton,

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Loppicesia OxaLipiFOLia. Oxat_ts-

LEAVED LoppicEsia.

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Clafs and Order.

DiapDELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Generic Charafer.

Vexillum alis carinaque pluries minus!

Specific Name and Synonym.

_ LODDIGESIA oxalidifolia.

_ CROTALARIA oxalidifolia, Hortulanis.

a ©

_ Desc. Alow branched fhrub. Leaves alternate, trifoliate, |

_ on long filiform petioles, in the axils of which is a pair of —

ing but little beyond the calyx, white: Wings about three —

times longer, oblong, widening upwards, obtule, {preading,

white. eel nearly equal in length to the wings, fomewhat

-fubulate, minute, falling ftipules: /eafets obcordate, mucro-

nulate, quite entire, fmooth. Flowers terminal, from three

to eight, in an umbel, on fhort peduncles, drooping, Brafes

_ two, minute, fubulate. Calyx coloured, hollowed at the bafe,

fomewhat inflated, 5-toothed: teeth acute, three lowermoft _

rather longeft. Vexil/um, or ftandard, very minute, projett-

wider, rather fquare-pointed, gaping underneath, dark purple.

_ Filaments all conne€ted in a {heath which fplits at the upper

part. Ovary oblong, compreffed, containing from two to four ie

-—ovula; Style going off at a right angle: Séigma pointed. The

_ genus may be placed in the fyftem between Genilta and Cyuitus,

which ought to ftand near together.

_ We believe that this delicate little fhrub was firit intro- = |

duced into this country by Georce Higsert, Efg. of Clap-

-ham-Common, in whofe confervatory our drawing was taken.

A ee

We likewife received it from Mr. Loppices, Nurferyman, at

Hackney, who raifed it {ome years ago from feeds he received

from the Cape of Good Hope; This excellent cultivator,

_ from his extenfive correfpondence with feveral far-diftant

countries, has been the means of introducing many rare

exotics into our gardens, and to his experience and {kill in

horticulture, the prefervation and propagation of more, that

would have been otherwife loft, is to be entirely attributed.

Of his liberality in communicating his poffeffions, for the pro-

motion of fcience, the numbers of our magazine bear ample

teftimony, and in return, we confider it as a duty impofed

upon us, thus to record his merits, by naming a genus after

him. That the one we have chofen is very diftiné, we ap-

prehend the fingular form of the corolla will fufficiently decide,

although we have not yet been fo fortunate as to meet with a

feed-veffel. ——

It is a tolerably hardy greenhoufe fhrub, flowers freely, and

is readily propagated by cuttings. Blofloms in May and

June. -

Linneus fometimes amufed himfelf with fancying a

refemblance between the genus and the perfon to whofe

honour it is dedicated; and fuch conceits may at leaft ferve to

_affift the memory. So in Loddigefia, the minute white

ftandard may be confidered as the emblem of the modeft pre-

tenfions of this venerable cultivator; the broad keel, of his

real ufefulnefs to {cience ; and the far-extended wings, as that

of his two fons, : oe ieee

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Cla/s and Order.

Octanpria Monocynia.

Generic Oharadfer.

Cal..4-phyllus. Cor. 4-fida. Filam. receptaculo infertel «Ants

there 2-fide. Capf. 4-locularis, Diffepimenta valvulis

contraria. “ >

Ors. Foliola calycis, lacinie corolle, loculamenta, valvubdeeues bi

mero interdum duplicantur.

Specific Charafter and Synonyit. —

ERICA elegans; antheris criftatis inclufis, foliis f{exfariis

+ glaucis, umbellis congeftis terminalibus involucrato-

Pom raéteatis, corollis urceolatis, |

ERICA elegans. And. Heaths.

Descr. A low fhrub, with fhort branches growing in every

—direétion. Leaves ternate, but by thofe of one whorl being

placed dire&tly between thofe of the next, the whole is neatly

_ arranged in fix di€tin@ rows, glaucous, flefhy, acerofe, chan-—

nelled underneath. Flowers terminal in a compaét umbel,

_ Involucre of fix ovate, acuminate, leaves. Peduncles fearcely

_as long as the involucre, with three or four large braétes fimilar

to the involucre, deciduous, Calyx four-leaved, leailets orbi-

cular, acuminate, fomewhat fpreading, nearly equalling the

Corolla, which is globular at the bottom, contra€ied upwards ;

mouth 4-fid, fmall. Nedary a glandular beaded circle within

the ftamens. Stamens included; filaments dilated, at both

ends incurved: Anthers oblong, acute, criftate : crifte ,

nearly orbicular minutely notched, and in this fpecies

(perhaps in others) are evidently proceffes of the filaments,

and no part of the anthers. Germen globofely four-lobed :

fyle ere&t: fligma capitate, included, -

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leh ee sid cet 8 Sl

The involucre, braétes, calyx, and corolla are all of a rofe-

colour, deepeft where moft expofed to the light, the firft and

laft tipped with green. A faccharine juice is fecreted in fo

large quantities as to drop from the flowers.

We conclude that this fpecies is not contained in Mr. Satis-

BURY’s Monograph on this genus, in the Tranfactions of the

Linnean Society, as it is certainly not to be found in the neigh-

bourhood of g/auca, its near affinity with which could not have

paffed unnoticed. But without this clue, even if prefent, we

might perhaps have overlooked it; for in fo extenfive a genus,

in which the fpecies are, for the moft part, given under new

names, and not arranged under different feétions, it is not

always eafy to determine, whether a required fpecies be there

or not.

Is more eafily propagated and a much freer blower than glauca.

Our drawing was taken from a fine fhrub at Mr. Bucnanan’s,

Nurferyman, at Camberwell, who appears to be very induf-

_trious in colleéting rare plants, and obligingly communicative

to {cientific inquirers,

WY AEG JE NE Is ie He Ne 5%6 ste sone ys

INDEX

In which the Latin Names of

the Plants contained in the #

Twenty- Fourth Volume are alpha- >

betically arranged.

Pi.

923*Amaryllis ornata (@),

949 Aotus villofa.

95° Arum triphyllum (a) Zebrinum.

957 Campanula alpina.

927 — collina,

964 Celfia cretica.

941 Claytonia virginica.

959 Clematis calycina, —

943 Convolvulus bryonizfolius.

938 Crocus fulphureus (a).

944 Dillwynia glaberrima.

932 Echinops Ritro.

966 Erica elegans.

962 Fritillaria perfica (@),

952 ————— racemola.

958 Goodia lotifolia.

g61 Hemanthus multiflorus.

937 Hyacinthus orientalis.

g6o Leucojum autumnale.

936 Lilium fuperbum. ~

930 Limodorum altum. —

965 Loddigefia oxalidifolia.

934 Narciffus calathinus (a).

mofchatus {a}.

974 a a

940 orientalis (y).

948 -= ———— ae

947 papyraceus (a).

925 Tazetia, —

945 trilobus. |

935 Ornithogalumi unifglium.

(6).

53 ——--—

pa Peonia tenuvifolia, —

931 Phytolacca decandra, _

g42 Primula integrifolia,

933 Protea mucronifolia. |

951 Rhododendron maximum,

956 Scalia Jaceoides.

939 Scilla Romana.

929 Symphytum afperrimum.

954 Trillium cernuum. |

955 Uvularia perfoliata (2).

928 Vaccinium buxifoligm.

. INDEX

. In which the Englith Names of

the Plants contained in the

Twenty~Fourth Volume are alpha-

betically arranged, -

$ Pl.

$ 949 Aotus, villous,

# 95° Arum, zebra-flowered.

927 — fage-leaved.

943 Bindweed, bryony-leaved.

961 Blood-Flower, many-flowered.

941 Claytonia, Virginian.

964 Celfia, great-flowered.

929 Comfrey, prickly.

# 938 Crocus, worft yellow, or old cloth

* 924 Daffodil, white long-flowered.

o 944 Dillwynia, fmooth-leaved,

952 Fritillary, bunch-flowering,

% 962 leffer Perfian.

$ 932 Globe-thiftle, fmall.

$558 ‘Goodis, lotus-leaved.

} 966 Heath, elegant.

> 937 Hyacinth, garden.

# 934 Jonquil, great-yellow.

@ 936 Lily, fuperb. '

923*—— white Cape-Coaft.

930 Limodorum, tall.

965 — oxalis-leaved.

948 Narciffus, cream-coloured.

Italian, or paperwhite.

> aah many-flowered.

# 945 narrow-leaved.

} 940 ————— of the Levant.

* 925 - Polyanthus.

9 920 Peony, ‘fine-leaved.

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