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Triandria Monogynia.
Flowers in May and June.
Our drawing was made from a plant which flowered with Mr. Fairbairn, at the Apothecaries Garden, Chelsea, May 2, 1798.
Genista Linifolia. Flax-Leaved Broom.
Diadelphia Decandria.
The bright yellow flowers, which are abundantly produced on this plant during May and June, joined to the silky appearance of its foliage, has rendered it worthy the notice of most lovers of plants, in whose collections it is now generally found.
It is most successfully propagated by seeds, which usually ripen in this country; it may also be raised from cuttings, but not readily, agreeing in this respect with leguminous plants in general.
It is usually kept in the greenhouse; being a native of Spain, it may probably be more hardy than we imagine.
Erica Physodes. Sticky-Flowered Heath.
Octandria Monogynia.
It is principally distinguished by the form, and delicate whiteness of its blossoms, which are so extremely viscid as to retain flies and other insects which settle on them.
Is scarcely to be increased by cuttings, more readily by seeds, which sometimes ripen here.
Canarina Campanula. Canary Bell-Flower.
Hexandria Monogynia.
The flowers of this plant so strongly resemble those of the Campanula, that it is no wonder the older Botanists regarded it as such, Linnaeus himself did so at first, and Miller also; and even now it may perhaps be doubted whether it ought to be made a distinct genus of, since it is found to differ principally in the number of its parts of fructification.
It is a native of the Canary Islands, whence its name, was cultivated in the royal garden, Hampton-Court, as long since as the year 1696, and is a tender herbaceous plant, to be found in most of our greenhouses; its stem rises to the height of six or more feet, its flowers produced singly from the fork of the stalk are large and shewy, they begin to open at the commencement of winter, and continue to blow till March.
"Is propagated by parting of its roots, which must be done with caution; for, as the root is fleshy, if they are broken or wounded, the milky juice will flow out plentifully; so that if these are planted before the wounds are skinned over, it occasions their rotting: the best time for transplanting and parting of their roots is in July, soon after the stalks are decayed; the soil should he a light sandy loam, mixed with a fourth part of screened lime rubbish." Miller.
FOOTNOTE:
Ait. Kew.
Coronilla Emerus. Scorpion Senna.
Diadelphia Decandria.
Authors have given to this plant the name of Scorpion Senna, its seed-vessels, from their slender and jointed appearance, bearing some resemblance to the tail of a scorpion.
It is a native of France and Germany, and a very old inhabitant of our gardens, having been cultivated by Gerard in 1596; it is of low and slow growth: there is a shrub of it in the Apothecaries Garden, Chelsea, which grew there in the time of Miller, and which now is not more than five feet high.
In the nurseries we have observed two varieties of it, one in which the flowers have been tinged with bright red inclining to orange and which is by far the most common, the other with flowers wholly yellow, scarcely worth cultivating.
Its blossoms are produced in May and June, and sometimes again in autumn; neatly trained to a wall or paling, it makes a beautiful appearance when in flower, the shortness of its shoots renders it a very proper object for this purpose.
Is propagated by seeds, layers, and cuttings; the first are not produced in any great plenty with us.
The leaves by a proper fermentation are said to produce a dye like that of Indigo.
Psoralea Bracteata. Oval-Spiked Psoralea.
Diadelphia Decandria.
As a green-house plant, this small and delicate species has long been cultivated, and still continues to hold a place in all collections of note.
It is a native of the Cape, flowers in June and July, and is usually propagated by cuttings.
FOOTNOTE:
Erica Empetrifolia. Crowberry-Leaved Heath.
Octandria Monogynia.
It is a most pleasing circumstance, when plants afford characters by which they may with certainty be distinguished; most of the Heaths are of this kind, and the present one in particular: exclusive of its great peculiarity of growth, so obviously expressed in our representation of it, its flowers diffuse a strong honey-like fragrance, which, if other characters were wanting, would at once discriminate it.
Is usually propagated by cuttings.
Mesembryanthemum Micans. Glittering Fig-Marygold.
Icosandria Pentagynia.
It is a native of the Cape, and readily propagated by cuttings.
Varies with flowers of a paler hue.
Dillenia Speciosa. Shewy Dillenia.
Polyandria Polygynia.
This species is increased without difficulty by cuttings, which quickly produce flowering plants.
Gladiolus Watsonius. Watson's Corn-Flag.
Triandria Monogynia.
Professors Jacquin and Thunberg have both described this rare bulbous plant, a native of the Cape, and newly introduced to this country from Holland among a great variety of others: it seems highly probable that the descriptions of both these authors were taken from dried specimens, since they accord so little with the living plant as it flowers with us.
Descr. Stalk from twelve to eighteen inches high, upright, smooth; Leaves about three or four, the lowermost a sheath merely, the second leaf springs from a long sheath, is puckered at its base, three inches in length, upright, rigid, flat, linear-lanceolate, having three strong ribs, one in the middle, two at the margin, which, projecting on each side, give to the edge of the leaf a thick appearance, the leaves as they ascend, gradually differ from this, and finally become hollow bracteae, which at first envelope the flowers, and afterwards contribute to support them; Flowers from two to three, each standing on a peduncle-like tube, enclosed by a bifid spatha, contained within and about half the length of the bracteae; Corolla bright red, funnel-shaped, tube bent somewhat downwards, nearly cylindrical, a little flattened, and glossy, limb divided into six ovato-lanceolate segments, spreading outwards, the uppermost segment incumbent, the three lowermost smaller than the others; Filaments three, whitish, nearly straight; Antherae oblong, straight, purple; Style red; Stigma trifid, each segment dividing into two villous lips.
Blakea Trinervia. Three-Ribbed Blakea.
Dodecandria Monogynia.
"It is chiefly found in cool, moist, and shady places, and grows generally to the height of ten or fourteen feet; but rises always higher when it remains a climber, in which state it continues sometimes. It thrives best on the sides of ponds or rivulets, and those that would choose to have it flourish in their gardens, where it must naturally make a very elegant appearance, ought to supply it with some support while it continues young and weakly.
It is usually kept in the stove with other Jamaica plants, and propagated by layers.
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