THE Botanica, Macazine; Flower-Garden Difplayed . The moft Ornamental Forrtcn Pranrs, cultivated in the | Open Ground, the Green-Houfe, and the’ Stove, are accurately reprefented in their natural Colours. s TO WHICH ARE ADDED, Their Names, Clafs, Order, Generic and Specific Charaéters, according to the celebrated LINN £us; their Places of Growth, - and Times of Flowering : = TOGETHER WITH _ a THE MOST APPROVED METHODS OF CULTURE, Se ee ee | Intended for the Ufe of fuch Lapzes, teaxtiuin, and GARDENERS, as with to become fcientifically acquainted with the Plants they cultivate. By WILLIAM CURTIS, Author of the Frora LonpiINENSIS. VOL. XI. /-7 sx All alone, amid her Garden fair, *¢ From morn to noon, from noon to dewy eve, “* She fpent her days, her pleafing tafk to tend “t The flowers ; to lave them from the water-fpring ; ‘¢ To ope the buds with her enamoured breath, * «« Rank the gay tribes, and rear them in the fun. ——- —— ‘© Thus plied affiduous her delightful tafk, : * Day after day, till every herb fhe named * That paints the robe of Spring.’”. Bruce. LON: DO. He Printed by SrrepHEN CoucuMAn, Throgmorton-Street, For W. CURTIS, ‘Ne 3, St. George’s-Crefcent, Black-Friars-Road ; And Sold by the principal Bookfellers in Great-Britain and Ireland. : - MDEC XCIX. 2 W433 ry we ATE, . > , ¥ a] : P 5 4 3 3 ‘Edwards de. Pub by Weurtis 3 Cee: Crojient Feb, 7, 1799. E Sayer seulp. _ * & [ 433 J CA. YELLOW AZALEA. ific Character and Synonyms. pontica foltis nitidis lanceolatis, racemis terminalibus. Linn. Sp. Pl.-. oe Pall. Fl. Rofs. t. 69: p- 51. CHAM ERHODENDROS Pontica maxima flore luteo. “Tourn, C * Paris 1704. p. 348. AZALE Descr. Shrub from two tot thickeft part of the: ften finger, covered witha ff 0 Flowers appearing before produc bels at tl nches, from urfe eithoude « cokliderable ‘fhort peduncles; Calyx very nd divided, moft commonly into _ five oyato-lanceolate fegments ; Corolla, tube cylindrical, vif- cous, graoved, brim divided into five fegments, undulated and _ fomewhat wrinkled, ovate, pointed, three turning upwards, _ two downwards, of the three uppermoft fegments the middle one more intenfely yellow than the others and inclining to orange, with which it is fometimes {potted ; Stamina ufually five, yellow, proje€ting beyond the corolla, and turning up- _ wards near their extremities ; Anthere orange-coloured ; Pol- __ ken whitifh and thready ; Germen fomewhat conical, evidently hairy, and fomewhat angular; Style yellowifh, filiform, pro- ecting beyond. the ftamina, and turning upwards; Stigma ming a round green head. The figure and defcription here given were taken from a plant which. flowered by means of artificial heat, in the {pring of 1798, at Mr. Warson’s, Nurferyman, Iflington, and which had been introduced the fame year, by Mr. AnrHony Hove, of Warfaw. Asan hardy ornamental fhrub, it bids fair to prove an acquifition truly valuable, its flowers, produced in the months of June and July, being highly ornamental as well as fragrant. ae We have the beft authority for regarding this plant as the Chame- rhodendras Pontica of TOURNEFORT, it agrees with his own fpecimens in Sir JoszepH Banks's Herbarium, it accords alfo with his defcrip- tion, and figures, more efpecially of thofe flowers which are of their _ natural fize ; nor have we any: doubts of its. being the Azalea Pontica of Prof. PALLAS, figured in the Flor. Rofficay {ince it correfponds generally with his defeription, though not in all points with his figure, which. bears evident marks of inaccuracy, the ftigma, for inftance, is repre- fented as trifid. os Tournerort found this plant on the eaftern fide of the Black Sea, Mr. Hove on the north fide near Oczakow, and elfewhere ; Profeffor a PAtLas om Mount Caucafus. | _ As yet. there has been, no,opportunity of eee beft means of propagating this new denizen, but there is every reafon, to fuppofe that it will fueceed with, the treatment beftowed on the other, Aza/lea’s, - Prof. PALLAS, relates that the honey of bees frequenting the flowers of this plant is fuppofed to be narcotic, and that goats, kine, and fheep on eating its leaves have been poifoned thereby. By permiffion and with the approbation of Mr. Antuony Hove, the following extracts from his journal are here inferted. «« June g, 1796, found a few of this fpecies of Azalea on. the river “< Dnuieper in {wampy ground, four feet high, beginning to blow,, “* called here the, ftupifying fhrub, and confidered, by fome as highly — ** efficacious in curing the venereal difeafe: estas og d «© June 20, found this fpecies on the river Dniefter, on the eftate of © “; Count Stanisnaus Sczesny Porockxt, about fixteen Enelifh | “« miles from the town of Mohilow, in peat earth, from four to. twenty- ‘« feet high; regarded. by the common. people as intoxicating, and *¢ ufed in the cure of various difeafes. 3 : “ July, 4, near Oczakow, found thoufands of thefe plants fully — *« blown, in a marfh, every fpring-tide overflown by the. fea; found, “¢ there alfo, a Fartarian tiers who lived entirely by the profits — “© arifing. from the honey. which the bees extracted from the flowers — “© of this plant, fold: to Coitfianidiople and: other: parts of Turkey for “« medicinal ufes. | . *€ July_15,, arrived at Trebizond, found. a, valley about. ten, Englify, — “« miles from the fea covered with thefe plants,” ‘ On cultivation, Mr. Hove relates that he found the 4zalea’s from — Trebizond much ‘more tender than thofe from the borders of the Dnieper and: the Dniefter, and was therefore inclined to regardthem’ as {trong varicties. if not diftinc fpecies, oe wistine 6 se - Fhe leaves, when, fully. expanded, are in. fize: and; figure like: thofe. — on the plate, hairy on both fides, and terminating in ajvery remarkable blunt mucro,or. point, which has. not been noticed, either by, thofe. wha have defcribed or figured the plant as it deferves, for it appears form: a very ftrong character. we CURE, OCS OS Taare go gage: apt. oe gg — oa | OxypapHus Viscosus. Viscip UMBRELLA- Worv. Clafs and Order. & TRIANDRIA MoNnoGyYNIA. 1 Generic Charaéer. Cal. 5-fidus campanulatus. Cor. infundibuliformis. Nux 1-{perma calyce explanato perfiftenti circumdata. Specific Characer and Synonyms, OXYBAPHUS vifcofus. _ L’Herit. Monograph. MIRABILIS vi#/co/a floribus racemofis; foliis cordatis orbicu- _ lato-acutis tomentofis. Cav. Icon, I. n.17. t. 19. §-gona - ~ The prefent is one of thofe plants which is entitled to our admiration, for its curious and fingular ftru€ture, rather than for any extraordinary figure it makes in a colle€tion; not that its flowers are without a certain fhare of beauty. It is an annual, growing to about the height of two feet; the whole plant is vifcous, and, if bruifed, fmells fomewhat dif- agreeably ; the flowers do not open at any particular time as ~ thofe of the Mirabilis do, and each contains only three ftamina ; when they fall off, which they do foon after expanding, the _ ealyx clofes on the germen, enlarges, droops, and becomes deeply plaited; on the ripening of the feed it turns brown, expands, and is fufpended like a little umbrella over the feed, which when perfeétly ripe drops out on the ground; the ex- _ panded calyx in this ftate appears fomewhat like the flower of a Phyfalis. = | ‘This plant flowers from June to O&ober, and ripens its feeds in the open air; it is not difficult of culture, requires the _ - fame treatment as other tender annuals from Peru. oe Our figure was drawn from a plant which flowered 1796, in the colleétion of the Marchionefs of Burs, and was railed from Peruvian feeds, fent her by Prof. Oxteca of Madrid, under the name of Mirabilis triandra ; Monf. CavANILLE : has figured and defcribed it as the Mirabilis vifcofa ; Mont. L’Heririzr, from a confideration of all its charaéters, bh. been induced to make a new genus of it, which he has calle< d ~ aaa ‘ * EF Ja MLCT? SCULP) Z Eg = = cs ‘Bdwards dat. Pub by Weur ter SCC repeeret FEA. 7. 7 799 [ 435 J GnaApPHALIUM Ericoipes. HErEaTH-LEAVED GNAPHALIUM, or EVERLASTING. _— JendeReeanics Clafs and Order. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. —— Generic Charatier. Recept. nudum. Pappus plumofus. Cal. imbricatus: oes : marginalibus rotundatis {cariofis coloratis. = | Be Charaller and ‘ais | CNAPHALIUM ericotdes fruticohin foliis feffilibus fiseari: 7 bus, calycibus exterioribus rudibus, interi- _oribus incarnatis. Lian. Am. Acad. v. 6. p. gg. Syft. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p.746. Ail. | Hort. ee 174. In he 6th vol. of he amas Academica, Linnaus defcribes this fpecies of Gnaphalium, moft probably from dried fpecimens colleéted at the Cape, where it is a native; fo in- fignificant did the plant appear to him, that in his defcription, he calls it mifera; compared with the more magnificent fpecies, fuch a term might not perhaps be inapplicable: but, though — fmall, the plant poffeffes much beauty when cultivated, and hence i is generally kept in our green-houfes. It flowers from March to Augutft. ; Its branches, naturally weak and cradling, require to be carefully tied up; if this bufinefs be executed with tafte and _ judgment, the natural beauty of the plant may be confiderably heightened. a ‘It is readily increafed by cuttings. Was introduced to the royal garden at — by Me Manet, in 1774. 2 ee SPdward, * del. Lub. by WCurtic. dS" Cap Crocernt Feb. 7. qq F Sanfom sedp iin ee a t * £ 436 J -Hipiscus Pramorsus. BitTTen-LEAVED> HIBIscus. eee Selle aa e stare and Order. DELPHIA Poivan DRIA. Cal. duplex {perma. | Soctifie Charaéer and = HIBISCUS premorfus foliis fibrotundis. dentato- sea re- tufis pubefcentibus. dit. Kew. v. 2. 454. HIBISCUS premor/us hirfutus, foliis ovatis bafi anguftato- : cordatis apice pramorfis crenatis, calycibus to-_ - mentofis, feminibus tuberculatis. Linn. Suppl. Pl. P. 309: 3 -PAVONIA cuneifolia. Cavan. Dif. 9. P- 190. Fi dge Soke URENA premorfa. L’Herit. sie nov. t 5t. Though not fo fhewy a plant a as many of the genus, we find” this fpecies of Hibi/eus in moft colleftions of green-houfe plants about London, flowering from June to September. Its foliage is fingular, its bloffoms fulpbur coloured with a tint of orange on the under fide and without fcent ; if fuffered to grow, this fhrub will acquire a confiderable height ; it feeds freely, by which the plant is readily increafed, and by thefe it © requires to be renewed once in two or three years. Is a native of the Cape, from whence it was introduced, by : Mr. Masson, in 1774. Ait. Kew. It will be feen by the fynonyms, that authors have been divided in their opinions as to the genus of this plant; Lin- naus the younger, in his Supp/. makes it an Hibifcus ; Ca- VANILLE, a Pavonia; L’Heritier, an Urena; Mr. AITON, an Hibifcus ; not partial to the multiplying of genera, unlefs. _ there be an obvious neceffity for it, we have in the cS — inflance: followed the firft and laft of thefe writers. = MG36 > ee Pk by W. Curtis SI Ceo:Crefcent Mar. 1.1799 isler teaees. "Edwarde del a “ ‘ rae . a é RAY Soo ce by Lub by Yh Crir les. fe Ceo: F Fala, certt Mar 7 G4. L rife rt St fe { ] HypDRANGEA ARBORESCENS. SHRUBBY HYDRANGEA. ee ee Cla/s and Order. Decanpria Dicynia. Generic Charafer. Cap/. 2-locularis, 2-roftris, infera, foramine inter ftylos dehifcens, Specific Charaffer and Synonyms, HYDRANGEA arbore/cens caule arboreo. Linn. Sy/f. Nat. ed. 13. Gmel. Syft. Veget. ed. 14. Murr. p. — “810. Anthea ANONYMOS floribus albis parvis, in umbella lata’ magna difpofitis odoratis, foliis amplis acuminatis ferratis pediculis infidentibus ex. adverfo binis, caule fruticofo prealto non. ramofo, ~vafculo parvo, bicapfulari, feminibus mi- nutiflimis repleto, duobus parvis filamentis feu corniculis recurvis coronato. Clayt. mi 79- Mill. Icon. t. 251. Dubam. Arb. 1. t. 3, As a fhrub commonly cultivated for ornament in our gardens and plantations, the Hydrangea arborefcens has a right to appear in this work, neverthelefs it is more with a view to illuftrate a peculiar charaéter of the genus that it is here figured. __ This fhrub is a native of Virginia, and was introduced in 1736, by P. Cottinson, Efg.. it is of low growth, rarely . exceeding four feet in height; its flowers are produced on the -fummits of the branches, fomewhat in the manner of the Laz- ‘viflinus ; they are {mall, crowded, nearly white, with a tinge of red in them which is not very brilliant, and fome fragrance ; _ they are produced in July and Augutt, and fometimes followed S itis [esis hire. i tos a Mie ge “ _ +) Is eahly propagated by parting its roots the latter end of — O€ober, prefers mitt fe, but will grow in a dry one; if | n fevere frofts the ftalks, which are rather. fofi, thould be L 438 J -HypRANGEA HortTeEnsis. GARDEN HYDRANGEA. dese tists dedesedesp seap HYDRANGEA bortenfis foliis ellipticis ferratis glaberrimis ftaminibus aqualibus. Smith icon. rar. i. 12+ HORTENSIA. Commerf. Fuffien Gen. 214. PRIMULA mutadbiis caule fuffruticofo multiplici, foliis ovatis ferratis, floribus nudis. Loureir Coch. Chin. V. 1. Pp. 104. a VIBURNUM fomenic/um foliis ovatis acuminatis ferratis. ve- Y nofis fubtus tomentofis, umbellis lateralibus. Thunb. Fap. p. 123.2 . SAMBUCUS aquatica -furculis pinguibus pun@latis, &c. Sijo - . . vulgo Adfai et Anfai et Adfiki. Kempf. Am. Exot. p. 854. var. fl. albo, pila florida major, It appears to be a point not yet fully determined, whether the prefent plant exhibits the appearances belonging to it ina ftate of nature, or thofe which are in a certain degree the effect of accident, or of art; in its fruétification it certainly is not fo completely barren as the Guilder Rofe, Viburnum Opulus, cul- tivated in our gardens, fince it-has moft of its parts perfe& ; yet as none of the authors who have feen it in China or Japan (where it is faid not only to be much cultivated but indigenous*) defcribe its fruit, we are inclined on that account to regard it, n-a-certain degree, as monftrous, ——---—~ —~ =~ It will appear by the fynonyms, that authors have entertained very different opinions as to what this plant really is; Jussreu _ following Commerson makes it-an Horlenfias Tuuxperc a Viburnum, Loureiro, ridiculoufly enough, a Primu/a, and Dr. Smits an Hydrangea. , Se : — «In the original defcription of the chara@ers of the ¢. ‘Hydrangea by Ltnnxus, there is-no mention made of two _ different kinds of florets,‘as in the Viburnum, nor has any au- ‘thor that I am acquainted with deferibed the Hydrangea arbor. as producing fuch; yet, to my great furprife, in a plant of ; : ae Sates Steg Boe a: ae te eet, - * Habitat et ob pulchritudinem colitur Cantone Sinarum, Loxreir. Coch. C bike wv. 14 ps 104. Crefcit in fylvis variis, inter Miaco et Jedo, etiam ciltaum, Thunb. ‘Fil. Fap. p. 123, who refers to Kmper, whofe plant is certainly ours; yet it muft be acknowledged that Ts un zeRc’s defcription does not well accord with it. S Edward: det Pub. by W Curtis 8 Geo Crefcent Mar 1.7799 ¢ fi Sanfem seule. ay z Z a this fort which flowered in my garden at Brompton in July 1797, three of the Cyme, and three only, threw out each of them from their circumference a very different flower from thofe in the centre, fmaller indeed, but very fimilar to the flowers of the Hydrang. hort. fee P|. 437. In 1788, Mr. Warrer publifhed his #1. Carolin. in which he defcribes a fecond {pe- cies of Hydrangea, which he calls radiata,* having very: dif- tinétly, as in. the Vidurnum, two different kinds of florets in the fame Cyma, this variation in the florets is. added by him to the generic chara€ter: the fimilarity which exifts between the flowers of Mr, Watter’s Hydrangea radiata, and thofe of the prefent plant fufficiently juftify. Dr. SMirm in making it an Hydrangea ; the appearances obferved by Lourgrirot on dif. fe€ting the germen, aud our difcovery of the exiftence of two different kinds of flowers in the Hydrangea arbore/cens, tend ftill more to confirm its propriety ; we may add, that in the very habit of thefe feveral plants. there exifts aconfiderable fimilarity ; ftill, however, it is only by ripe feed-veffels of the prefent plant, that this doubtful matter can be fatisfatiorily cleared up y but it will not follow, that if it be not an Hydrangea it muft be a Viburnum... Ee yehogebeds styea il Silt Site 4 This magnificent and highly ornamental plant, according to Dr. Smita, was introduced from China to the royal garden at. Kew, by Sir Jossru Banks, Bart. in 17903; it was imported by Mr. Srater about the fame time, with whom it is faid to have firft flowered in this country. Cage If room were allowed us, it would be {uperfluous to de- {cribe minutely a plant now fo very common; fuffice it to fay, that from a ftrong perennial root, rife a number of half- fhrubby, irregular, fomewhat fpongy flalks, ftrongly {potted when young with purple, from one to three feet high, termi- nated by large bunches of flowers, at firft green, then rofe- coloured, and finally green a fecond time; thefe are the moft common changes to which they are liable: but it will fome- times happen that a plant which has produced red flowers: one year, fhall produce blue another, though growing in the fame pot; this we faw happen in the year 1796 toa plant in the poffeffion of the Countefs of Upper Ossory, whole re- fined tafte and fuperior judgment have in feveral inftances contributed to render our works more acceptable to the * ‘This plant, or one extremely fimilar to it, was introduced by Mr. Wit. ~Ltams, Nurferyman at Paris, a few years fince; we faw it in full bloom, at _ Mr. Corvitt’s, King’s-Road, in the Summer of 1796. or + Pericarpium abortit, quod ex diffeéto germine et per microfcopium vife _ — Apparet eee z . publ ies public s| the -colotired changeable part of the flower is re- garded-as the calyx, in the centre of which is the corolla, containing the ftamina, &c. all varying greatly in point of number; befides: thefe, there are other flowers without any calyx, but the parts which they contain do not feem to be more perfeé&t than thofe of the others, nor more produétive of ripe fruit.» ~ RN aH Since the introduétion of this plant, trials have been made in regard to its hardinefs, and itis found to furvive mild winters if planted in very warm fheltered fituations; but in others, both ftalks and: leaves are liable to be killed by flight frofts, though the roots are not; if perfons are anxious to have it in the open border, the beft mode’ will be to cut down the ftems at the approach of winter, and cover over the root with rotten tan, or fome light fubftance; in the fpring frefh ftalks will fhoot forth, but it is more common to keep this plant during winter in a green-houfe or well fecured frame ; by artificial heat it may be brought to flower in April or May, without fuch, it begins to bloffom about June, and con- tinues in: bloom till O&ober; when fuccefsfully treated, it will acquire the height of three feet, and produce bunches of flowers fupremély magnificent: fuch plants in pots are ad- mirably. adapted for decorating court-yards, balconies, &c. unlefs carefully cut in, it is apt to grow too large for the green-houle, therefore it is proper to have a fucceffion of young plants from cuttings, which ftrike very freely; this plant loves water, is indeed almoft an aquatic, a rich foil, and plenty of potrroom. ~~ OP TA a : [ 439 J ILLIcIuM FLORIDANUM. RED-FLOWERED InLicium, or ANISEED-TREE. JP RH ieiiedeicie deat aia Clafs and Order. PoLyANDRIA PoLyGyNIA. Generic Charaer. Cal. 6-phyllus. Petala 27. Cap/. plures, in orbem digefte, bi- valves, monofperme. Specific Charaéler and Synonyms. ILLICIUM floridanum floribus rubris. Linn. Syf. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 507. Ellis A. Angl. 1770, (v. 60.) p. 524. t. 12. Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 250. Of the genus J//icium there are at prefent only two known ~ fpecies, viz. the axifatum and floridanum, the former a native of China and Japan, the latter of Florida; both of them are cultivated in this country, but the latter more generally, on account of the fuperior beauty of its flowers, which are of a fine deep red colour, and have the appearance of being double, though the petals are not preternaturally multiplied; when the ~ plan: is in bloom the peduncles hang down, when the petals | drop they become ereét; the bloffoms are not diftinguifhed by their fragrance, though the feed-veffels, and feeds (which do not come to perfeétion with us) are faid to be ftrongly odoriferous ; the foliage of this plant is alfo much admired: taking it indeed altogether, there are few fhrubs held in higher eftimation. SS] es According to Mr. Arron, this fpecies was introduced by © Joun Exxis, Efg. in 1776; but Isaac Watxer, Efq. of Southgate, was the firft who poffeffed it in this country, he informs me by letter, that he received plants of it from Pen- facola in 1771, by the hands of Mr. Joun Braptey, and that he communicated fome of themto Dr. Foruearciut, Dr. Pit- catrN, and Mr. Extts. It flowers from April to July. Cultivators differ widely as to their treatment of this plant, _ fome keeping it in the ftove, others in the green-houfe, while. fome have ventured to plant it in the open ground in warm ‘fituations; it probably is more hardy than we imagine; all agree in propagating it by layers, or by feeds if they can be procured. Linnzus, contrary to his ufual praétice, dif- _tinguifhes the two {pecies by their colour only, and THunBERG is difpofed to regard them as mere varieties, BE ag ae e = ; SEdwards dd Pub by WCurtisSGeo:Croftent Apt! 1799. PS arfem scudp { 440 ] Erica ALBENS. PaLitip HEATH, JHE HHH beebibe Clafs and Order. OcTanpDRIA Monoeynia. Generic Character. + Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. 4-fida. Filamenta receptaculo inferta, — Anthera apice bifida, pertufe. Capf 4-locularis, 4-valvis, poly {perma, | — pecific Charafer and Synonyms. ERICA albens antheris muticis inclufis, corollis ovatis ob- longis acutis, foliis ternis, racemis fecundis. Linn. Sy, Vegetab, Murr, ed. 14. p. 367. Mant. 233. ERICA albens mutica, foliis ternis trigonis pilofis, floribus lateralibus, calyce villofo. Thunb. Prodr. p. 70. This fpecies, a native of the Cape, has been introduced fince the publication of the Hort. Kew. and is now to be found in moft green-houfe colle@ions near town, — In its habit, its foliage, and its flowers, it is very diftiné&t from all our other heaths; flowers from April to June, is readily increafed by cuttings, and eafily kept with the common treatment, oe ee M440 ardsdee. Pub by W Curtis SGeo:CroftentApr. 1.1799. FSanfim sup. [ 441 ] ANTHOLYZA MERIANELLA. DWARF _ ANTHOLYZA. absubleiniduokbinvi Clafs and Order. © “TrranprRiA MonocyYNia. Generic Charafer. Cor. tubulofa, irregularis, recurvata. Cap/. infera. é abi ar Charaé&er and § ree: : ANTHOLYZA Merianella corollis infaundibuliformibus, fo. ; liis linearibus. Linn. Sy/f. Vegetab. ed. 14. eee oe AU. Kew. v. 3. p 07> WATSONIA humilis foliis lineari-enfiformibus, tubo floris _ longifimo. Mill. ic. 198. t. ag7: 7. 9.°° — =e This very rare {pecies is perfeGtly diftin& from the Meriana, of more humble growth, the flowering ftem feldom rifing to — more than a foot in height, and producing from four to fix flowers, which are proportionably longer, more clofed, and of a deeper red colour than thofe of Meriana. © - : Was introduced from the Cape by Capt. Hurentysoxy in 1754. Ait. Kew. Is readily increafed by offsets, and requires the fame treat- ment as the Anthol. Meriana already figured. Flowers in May and June. Our drawing was made from a plant. which flowered with _ Mr. Fatrsarirn, at min senses eke ee Mee 2, 790. NGGf “Fawards dad, Pub b Wlurtis F Cee: l) -fcentApr. t,t . Sanyo scudg S4 x ‘es EM SWI 3 ( 442 J ~ Genista Linirotra. Fiax-Leavep Broom. effilibus linearibus fubtus etab. ed 14. Murr. p. 645- CYTISUS arge olius infularum flechadum. Tourn, cis Drake, in the The Genifta linifolia is a nat’ to the royal garden at Kew, year 1786. Ait. Kew. a: ae * es The bright yellow flowers, » are abundantly produced _ on this plant during May and joined to the filky appear- ance of its foliage, has render the notice of moft — — of plants, in whofe | it is now generally — ound. , es ___ It is moft fuccefsfully propagated by feeds, which ufually -‘Tipen in this country ; it may alfo be but not readily, agreeing in in general. _ We do not find in Linnavus’s works any figure of this _ plant referred to; but there is a minute defcription of it in — his Sp. Pl. os = SS 2 | It is ufually kept in the greenhoufe; being a native of | Spain, it may probably be more hardy than-we imagine. us refpeét with leguminous plants raifed from cuttings, M442 / SEdward: de PJ, by Bi fccriter Sti eaae Crefcent May? 9799 = Sasyfom safp C 443 ] Erica PHYSODES. STICKY-FLOWERED HEATH. iedbdebibee Clafs and Order. OcTANDRIA Monocynta. Generic Charaéfer. Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. 4-fida. Filamenta receptaculo inferta. Anthere apice bifide pertufe. Cap/ 4-locularis, 4-valvis, polyfperma. Ree ee | ERICA phy/odes antheris criftatis, corollis ovatis inflatis, ftylo inclufo, foliis quaternis, floribus fubfolitariis. 2 Linn. Syft. Vegetab r. p» 366. Berg. Cap. 108. ERICA phy/odes criftata, foliis qua -umbellatis vifcofis, calyce: P+ 74- Be Se rnis linearibus, floribus s sa 4 q ato brevi. Thunb. Prodr. 2 The Erica phyfodes is a native of the Cape, and another of thofe fpecies which have been introduced fince the publi- cation of the Hort. Kew. of Mr. Arron. — It is principally diftinguithed | y the form, and delicate white- nefs of its bloffoms, which are fo extremely vifcid as to retain - flies and other infeéts which fettle on the Is fearcely to be increafed by cuttings, more readily by : feeds, which fometimes ripen here, | NA43 SK Siteeeanl SBdward: de Pub byWCurks SCeo (re cents huly 47799. chit ae ribsaper Frost GiapioLus Warsonius. - Watson’s-> CORNER LACH ds «tact ods tc. LE ee : ale sond Orders. : _ Trianpria MonoGyNia. Generic Charader.> Cor. 6-partita, tubulofa, ringens. Samia adfcendentia. — Specific Character and. Synonyns “ey GLADIOLUS Wat/onius corollis infundibuliformibus, limbi laciniis fubzqualibus, foliis linearibus ad oras revolutis. Facq. Icon. rar. 2. t. 233. Colle. 3. p- 257. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Wilden. p. 214. GLADIOLUS Wat/onius monoftachyus corollis cernuis, tubo duplici, limbi laciniis oblongis, foliis linearibus glabris. Thund. Prod. p. 8. Profeffors Jacguin and Tuunzerc have both defcribed this rare bulbous plant, a native of the Cape, and newly intro- duced to this country from Holland among a great variety © of others: it feems highly probable that the defcriptions of both thefe authors were taken from dried fpecimens, fince they accord fo little with the living plant as it flowers with us. At firft fight, one would be led to regard this plant as an Antholyza rather than a Gladiolus, its flowers bearing a great af- finity to thofe of the Antholyza Meriana, which differs widely from thofe of the Gladiolus commuzis: Prof. Tuunsene having thought fit to make a Gladiolus of that plant, he could do no lefs =e regard this as a G/adiolus alfo ; we regret that the in- finite variety to which all the produ€tions of nature are fub- — je& fhould give occafion to verfatile minds perpetually to alter genera, often without due confideration. This {pecies flowers in February and March, requires the fame treatment as other Cape bulbs, and is propagated in the fame manner. _ _ Descr. Stalk from twelve to eighteen inches high, up-— right, fmooth; Leaves about three or four, the lowermoft a 7 fheath merely, the fecond leaf fprings from a long fheath, is puckered at its bafe, three inches in length, upright, rigid, flat, linear-lanceolate, having three ftrong ribs, one in the middle, two at the margin, which, projeéting on each fide, give to the edge of the leat a thick appearance, the leaves as they afcend, gradually differ from this, and finally become hollow braétez, which at firft envelope the flowers, and afterwards contribute to fupport them; Flowers from two to three, each flanding on a peduncle-like tube, enclofed by a bifid fpatha, contained ‘within and about half the length of the bra€tez; Corolla bright red, funnel-fhaped, tube bent fomewhat downwards, nearly cylindrical, a little flattened, and gloffy, limb divided into fix ovato-lanceolate fegments, fpreading outwards, the upper- moft fegment incumbent, the three lowermoft {maller than the others; Filaments three, whitifh, nearly ftraight; Anthere oblong, ftraight, purple; Style red; Stigma trifid, each feg- ment dividing into two villous lips, 2 SS fp tt anfpor &€0; Crefceit Aug. 7. 1799. gre be WoCuras ts gs oO} BLAKEA TRINERVIA. THREE-RIBBED _ Brake, Jiebeeiueiiebieh: ee Clafs and Order. ~ DovEcANDRIA MoNnocyYNIA. Generic Charaéer. Cal. inferus, 6- phyllag, fuperus, integer. Petala 6. Coe 6-locularis, polyfperma. Specific Charatter and Synonyms. BLAKEA ¢rinervia bicalyculata, foliis enerviis tranfverfi m. fubtiliffime ftriatis. Linn. Suppl. p. 246. Sy/l. Veg. ed. 14. Murr. p- 442. BLAKEA foliis ellipticis trinerviis nitidis, floribus lateralibus, Brown. 7 323. 7.35. The wild Rofe. ~ “ This vegetable is certainly one of the moft beautifal. pro- * duétions of America: It is but a weakly plant at firft, and “ fupports itfelf for a time by the help of fome neighbouring © fhrub or tree; but it grows gradually more robuft, and at “ length acquires a pretty moderate ftem, which divides. into a © thoufand weakly declining branches, well fupplied with “ beautiful rofy bloffoms on all fides that give it a moft “ pleafing appearance in the feafon. “ It is chiefly found in cool, moift, and fhady places, and “ grows generally to the height of ten or fourteen feet; but * rifes always higher when it remains a climber, in which ftate * it continues fometimes. It thrives beft on the fides” “4 a or rivulets, and thofe that would choofe to have “ flourifh in their gardens, where it muft naturally make - = ~ Very elegant appearance, ought to fupply it with fome fu \p- “ port while it continues young and weakly. e * It is called Blakea, after Mr. Martin. Buakr, of oe “ tigua, a great promoter of every fort of ufeful knowledge, “ and a gentleman to whofe friendfhip the Natural Hiftory * of Jamaica mend owes its early —. Brown's Famaic, : Our Our figure was drawn from, a very fine healthy plant which flowered in the colle@ion of Lady Downs, at her villa of Bookham-Grove, near Leatherhead, in April 1799;. though not enumerated in the Hortus Kewenjis, it had produced blof- foms in feveral other colle€tions near town long before this period; thofe when they once expand are of fhort duration, but the foliage when healthy is always handfome. It is ufually kept in the ftove with other Jamaica plants, and propagated by layers. | ; We cannot fee the propriety of applying felis enerviis to the defcription of this fpecies, fince Linn us himfelf, in his Sp. Pl. defcribes the leaves as irinervia; three ftrong ribs they always have, and ufually two others near the margin which-are finer. ~ 22 g5t5= ee | BT ie de at 3 CarpAMINE Trirotia. Turee-LEAvED : Cucxow-FLower. Clafs and Order. -TetTRapYNAMIA SILIQuosa. Generic Chara&er. Siliqua elaftice diffiliens valvulis revolutis. Stigma integrum. - Cal, fubhians. _ Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. : CARDAMINE trifolia foliis ternatis obtufis, caule fubnudo. Linn, Syft. Vegetab, ed. 14. Murr. p. 593. Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 387. | NASTURTIUM alpinum'trifolium. Baxb. Pin, 104. 3 CARDAMINE trifolia. Trefoile Ladies {mockes. Parkin/. | Parad. p. 389. ee ‘Such as are attached to the fmaller alpine plants, will re- gard this fpecies of Cardamine as worthy a place in their col- le€tions; one would fearcely have expetted to find it in- Parkinson's Parad. yet there it is defcribed, and the fol- lowing account given of its introduction: “ It was fent me by * my efpecial good friend Joun Trapescante, who brought * it among other dainty plants from beyond the feas, and im- “parted thereof aroottome.” | This f{pecies is perennial, hardy, and of very humble — growth ; the leaves grow. thickly together, forming a kind of tuft; the flowering ftems rarely rife above the height of fix inches, and produce on their’ fummits ‘numerous - flowers, - waved on their edges ; all thofe which we have had an oppor-— tunity of feeing have been perfeétly white, ParKINson and Hacer defcribe them as being fometimes tinged with red or purple; they begin to appear towards the end of March and Continue through April, the fhelter of a hand-glafs open at — top is often neceffary to prote@ and improve the flowering of this and other fuch early-blowing plants. —~ 2 It grows readily either in a pot or in the open border, fuc- ceeds beft when planted in bog earth in a fituation moderately moift and fhady, and is readily increafed by parting its roots, which are fomewhat of the creeping kind. | dhs Grows fpontaneoufly in moft of the northern parts of © Europe, efpecially Lapland, Switzerland, and Auftria, — * - IF dwaridr del sat Lub by We “Urtis SSC COCKY CEnL Aug. z; 799. jes oe é s , E Sanfom ctl { 453 J | AMARYLLIS Regina. Mexican Lity. (HMR RG ie leleiinietesiabeseieas } —_ Clafs aud Order. HexanprRiaA MonocGyNia. ; Generie CharaGer. See - Cor, hexapetaloidea irregularis. Filamenta fauci tubi inferta, declinata, ineequalia proportione vel direétione. Linn. fil, — - Se Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. _ AMARYLLIS regine fpatha fubbiflora, pedicellis divaricatis, | — _ corollis campanulatis breve tubulofis nutantibus, = fauce tubi hirfuta, foliis lanceolatis patulis. Ss Linn, fil. Ait. Kew. 416. Mill. ic. p. 16. t. 24. LILIUM americanum puniceo flore Belladonna diétum, Herm. “nea aot: Pets 204, Bfgd. oh eee ; bs t pws Descr. “Bulb green, {cape round, fomewhat flattened : “ Corolla fcarlet, with a bottom of a whitifh green, the three “outer petals round at the tip, the three inner fringed at _ _ “ the bafe; the ftyle red, the flower ftems feldom rife “more than one foot high; each ftem fupports two,’ three, “or four flowers, rarely more; they are large, and of a _“ bright copper colour, inclining to red; the {pathe which — “ cover the buds before they open, divides into two partsto “ the bottom, ftanding on each fide the umbel of flowers | “joined to the peduncles. ~ 4 See * It flowered in Mr. Farrcutip’s garden at Hoxton, in “ 1728, when the late Dr. Jam | gu . of into be drawn, and wrote “ gave it the title of Lilium or April. : ae ee “ Not being fo hardy as fome others, it muft be pl a 3 ** will be {trong. “ Ivis increafed by offsets.” Mill. Didi. ed Mart, ATO AK + MA53 ° SE dwards ded Pub, by W Curtis Seo: Crefcent ; fig 71700 VS anlorm aut a? ‘ / ‘ e Pad ER Pn eee a ; - : YE CUPAS, 0. GeO. Cir fcent SCG 1.190. ESanjom sedi [ 454 J Canna Inpica. Common InpIAN REED or SHoT. : a : eb Bigs 4 _ =» 9 ..Generit Charaéter. a Corolla 6-partita ereGta: labio bipartito, r Stylus lan- ceolatus, co olle adnatus. Calyx 3-p cs = Specific Character and Sym ; ms. CANNA Indica foliis. ovatis utrinque acuminatis nervolis. Sp. Pl. 1. Ait. Kew. vol. 1. p. 1. CANNACORUS. Rumpbh. amb. §. p. 177. t. 71. fi 2. - ARUNDO indica latifolia. Banh. Pin. 19. CANNA Indica flore rubro. Red flowred Indian Reede. Park. Parad. p. 376. ~~ The Canna izdica, a native of both the Indies, is a plant greatly admired for the beauty of its foliage and flowers, and on that account generally cultivated; it has been called by wae Indian Shot, from the roundnefs and hardnefs of its feeds. PPE ILE “ We find it to have exifted in our gardens in the time of Gerarp, 1596. Parkinson was acquainted with that va- riety of it which has yellow fpotted flowers: Prof. Martyn, in his edition of Miller's Dif. has quoted the chief of what thefe authors fay of it, which as a matter of curiofity we fhall here tranfcribe: “ Grrarp informs us, that in his time it “was in the garden at Padua, that he had planted it in his “ garden divers times, but it never came to flowering; and * that it muft be fet or fown in a pot, with fine earth, or in “ a bed made of horfe-dung, in fuch manner as Cucumbers “ and Mufk-Melons are: Parkinson fays, in fome kindly “years this beautiful plant has borne its brave flowers, but “ never any ripe feed, and that it will not abide the extremi- “ ties of our winters, unlefs it meet with a ftove, or hot-houfe, “ fuch as are ufed in Germany; for neither houfe nor cellar “ will preferve it: Crusius faw it flowering by houfe-fides “in Spain and Portugal, and fays, that the inhabitants there _“ ufe the feeds for making their rofaries.” Mr. its enumerates four varieties of it, viz. rubra, lutea, coccinea, and patens. “ Being a native of the warmeft parts of America, it re- quires to be placed in a moderate ftove in winter, where they always flower in that feafon, at which time they — make a fine appearance, and in the fummer place them > abroad in a fheltered fituation with other tender exotic plants, where they generally flower again, and produce ripe feeds annually.” A4¢i//.. Did. “ Thefe plants will continue many years with proper ma- | nagement, but as young plants always flower better than the old root, fo it is fcarce. worth while to continue them after they have borne good feeds, which fhould be low ont a nated | in the Spring.” Mill. Did. [ 455 J ALOE ReTusa. CusHion ALOE. seid eebneebiee daa Clafs and Order. HEXANDRIA MONOGH¥NIA. Generic Charaé&er. / _ Cor. ere€ta, ore patulo fundo nef€tarifero. Filam. receptaculo— —ainierta, | = . Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. ALOE retufa acaulis foliis quinquefariis deltoideis. Thunb. Aloe, n. 15. Ait. Kew. 471. ALOE retu/fa floribus feffilibus triquetris bilabiatis labio feriore revoluto. Lina. Sp. Pl. 459. @ ; ALOE africana breviffimo crafliffimoque folio, flore viridi. Comm. hort. 2. p. 11. t. 6. Till. pif. 6. t. 5. Though the flowers of this Aloe have little to recommend them, there is much to admire in the form and ftru@ture of its leaves; and this pleafing circumftance attends it, it is per: fe€tly diftin& from all the other {pecies : when firft introduced, it was no doubt an obje& of great admiration; FarrcHILD, the celebrated Gardener of Hoxton, who preceded MiLLER had it engraved, with feveral other fucculents, on a pl _ which is prefixed to Dr. Biarr’s Botanic Effays, and whic infcribed to the Doftor, betwixt whom and Mr. FarrcuILD there appears to have fubfifted a great degree of intimac the Effays were printed'in tyao. 3 a This {pecies is a native of the Cape, but not regularly fo, increafes very faft by o makes it as he does all the Aloes indifcrimi _ Plants, but it may be kept ina to place it in the drieft and moft all times from much wet, but m Se ee ee W355 S Rdwards aed. Pub. by Wlvr tis Seo Crefeerd Sep. t 799. s F Sager weve, ; = gi os NMI5O Skdwards ded Pub. by. W Curtis, 8° Geo: € TEE CTLL, Sep. 4. 199G. F Sanjem ace [ 456 J DiosMA SERRATIFOLIA. SERRATED or Saw-LeaveD DIOSMA. TETRIS TE EE ae eee ae ak seal af _Clafs and Order. PENTANDRIA MoNnocyYNIA. Generic Charafer. Cor. 5-petala. Nearia 5 fupra germen. Caf/. 3. /. 5. coalite. Sem. calyptrata. ee : Specific Characer. DIOSMA /erratifolia follis lanceolatis glandulofo-ferrulatis, — pedunculis axillaribus oppofitis fubunifloris. It was in the green-houfe of Mr. Wurt.iey, Nurferyman at Old Brompton, that we firft faw this plant in flower, on the 25th of March 1799; previous to this period it had flowered in the Royal Garden at Kew, and fpecimens of it had been depofited in the Herbarium of Sir Joszeru Banks, under the name of Dio/ma /erratifolia. It forms a neat pretty fhrub, which is rendered more de- firable by its early flowering; its bloffoms are pure white, fet off by Anthere of a lively purple colour; the whole plant has a ftrong fcent very like that of Pennyroyal, but more powerful, This fhrub is one of the many which have been raifed within thefe few years from Botany-Bay feeds, is a green- houfe plant, of eafy culture, blows freely, and is readily in« creafed by cuttings. : Descr. Twigs fomewhat angular, reddifh purple ; Leaves oppofite, narrow, on very fhort footftalks, fpreading, flightly truncated at the extremity, finely toothed, a tranfparent gland in the angle of each tooth, befet on both fides with numerous glands, which projeét and give to the upper furface a manifeft roughnefs; Flowers from the ale of the leaves, oppofite, on = peduncles about one-third of aminch long, ufually fupporting one, fometimes two flowers; Calyx compofed of five leaves, _ which are tinged with red and;permanent; Cofolla five petals, white, ovato-lanceolate ; Stamina filaments five, white, hairy, at firft upright, afterwards. bending. back betwixt the petals; Anthere before they open purple; Pollen yellow; Neétaries of two kinds,-five. white, {pringing up between each filament, and which may perhaps be confidered as fo many imperfeé ftamina, they are broader, much fmoother, and about one- third of the length of the filaments, terminating in atran{parent gland inftead of an anthera; five green, forming a kind of calyx to the germen, from the top of which they {pring, they confift of five roundifh, flefhy, fpreading, green leaves, edged with hairs ; befides thefe, there is a glandular ring at the bafe of the germen; Style white, tapering, very hairy; Stigma. ahaa Flowers ufually dropping off without ripening their™ eeds. Severe EAS eixgeet vole 28 a i ey het bee ookas Ne he Cok. eek cP A en ane ° eae acer | ro ae “Ea ALOE PiicaTiuis. FAN ALOE, Clafs and Order, ‘HEXANDRIA MOoONOGYNIA, Generic Charader. Cor. erefta, ore patulo, fundo neétarifero. Filam. receptacula inferta. Specific Charager and Synonyms. ALOE piicatilis fubacaulis, — foliis linguzformibus levibus diftichis, floribus racemofis pendulis cylindricis. Ait, Kew. v. 1. p. 470. igo ALOE difticha var. «. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 9. P- 459- ALOE plicatilis foliis enfiformibus inermis ancipitibus, flo- ribus laxe f{picatis, caule fruticofo. Mill. Di. ed. 6. 410. ALOE africana arborefcens montana non fpinofa, folio lon- giffimo plicatili, flore rubro. Comm. Hort. 2. Pp. 54s Ge “ The Fan Aloe grows to the height of fix or feven feet, with a ftrong ftem, towards the upper part of which are produced two, three, or four heads, compofed of long, com- “ preffed, pliable leaves, of a fea-green colour, and ending obtufely ; thefe are placed in a double row, lying overeach | * other, with their edges the fame way ; the flowers are pro- “ duced in fhort loofe {pikes, are of a red colour, and appear “at different times of the year.” Mill. Did. ee _Linw £vs originally made this plant a variety of his Alse diflicha, the leaves in their mode of growth are indeed truly diftichous, few plants afford a better example of fuch, but they — differ materially from thofe of the real. diflicha both in form and colour: Mr. Mitier, with great propriety, made a diftin& fpecies of it, by the name of Plicatilis, or Fan Aloe, — which Mr. Arron has continued; and by the name of Fan Aloe it is very generally known: we may remark, however, that though this term may be juftified by the form into which | the leaves expand, the Solium plicatile of Linnavs is a very different kind of a leaf. | oe eo _ Both the foliage and flowers of this plant are very handfome, in the courfe of many years it grows to a great fize; in the Chelfea Garden there are fome fine plants of it; which grew there in the time of M1 LLER, by whom it was cultivated in 1 731. __Itisa native (of Africa, requires the fame treatment as_ one Aloes, and is propagated by dividing and plant a a | e & > B by. : iS 179 Z / SCeaCrecent Oe Wolurtes Edwards del. Pub by, SS. SEdwards del Pub. by WCurbs, SCe0:0) recent Ct. 7 7799. ESanform — = 3 L 458 J # word ald AristeA Cyanga. GRrass-Leavep - ARISTEA,. et Bl Add Hdebees 0 Cine Lie re ee Trranpria Monocynia. ~ Generic CharaGer, Z Petala 6. Stylus declinatus. Stigma infandibuliforme hians; - Capf. infera polyfperma. <4 ee ee Specific Charailer and Synonyms. ARISTEA cyanea. Ait. Kew. v, 1. p. 67. IXIA africana floribus capitatis, {pathis laceris. Linu. Sp. PL. ed.§. Penis ss | | MORAA jue focibus capitatis fpathis laceris. Murr. - -Syft. Vegetab. ed. 14. P. 93. IXIA foliis ad radicem nervofis gramineis, floribus ac fru@u convolutis. Burm, Afric. 191. t. 70. f. 2. BERMUDIANA capenfis, capitulis lanuginofis. Pet. fice. 242. GRAMEN eriophorum africanum flore lanato. Pluk. Mant. — 98. incetiina __It will be feen, on confulting the fynonyms, that this native of the Cape, though introduced to the Kew Garden by Mr. _ Masson in 1774, was long before known to a confiderable number of Botanifts, and it is curious to fee the different opinions which they entertained of it; we abide by that of Mr. Arron, who has called it Arifea, from the bearded ap-. pearance, we apprehend, of the Spathe, er, Z ‘Itis a {mall fibrous-rooted plant, rarely exceeding when in bloom the height of fix or eight inches, and would be too infignificant for a green-houfe colleétion, were not its flowers of a very brilliant blue colour; indeed Mitier, who appears _ evidently to have cultivated it, fays, the flowers make litle _ appearance, and fo the plant is only kept for the fake of va- _mety. Di, ato. ed. 6. Ixia africana, aa eg Mr. Arron tells us, that it flowers from April to June, yet Mr. Anprews, intent on giving to Meflrs. Ler and -Kennepy the credit of flowering it firft, difregards this in- formation, and is pleafed to conjeture that the plant never flowered at Kew, becaufe Mr. Arron, as he alleges, has not given to it any fpecific charaéter ; not aware that, as a new genus, its parts of fruétification are defcribed at the end of the Hort. Kew. and that no fpecific chara€ter is ever given to a plant, where there is only one of a genus, and that for the moft obvious reafon. The Arifea is a plant eafily propagated by parting its roots, as well as by feeds, will fucceed in a fmall pot, and though a green-houfe plant, will not be hurt by the moderate heat of the ftove, but flower the better for it. | The bloffoms do not expand fully unlefs the fun fhines hot on them. = | £4594 : ConvonivuLus CNroruM. SILVERY-~ LEAVED BIND-WEED. aS HSHbbbbbbeiibie icici Clafs and Order, ~ PeEnTANDRIA MonocGyNIA. Generic Charaéer. Cor. campanulata, plicata. ° Stigmata 2. Capf. 2-locularis lo-- culis difpermis. ee S; pecific Charaéer and Synonyms. ses earn pee Cneorum foliis lanceolatis tomentofis, flo- ribus umbellatis, calycibus hirfutis, caule erecto. Linn. Sy. Veg. 203. Ait. Kew. Vol. 45M GIGS CONVOLVULUS argenteus umbellatus ‘ereélus. Te ournef, 3 Inft. 84. ~ CONVOLVULUS — ereétus creticus argenteus. Mori/. | Sede $6. f 2.1.95 1. e CONVOLVULUS fav ere€tus villofus perennis. Barr. — rar. 4. t. 470. Boece. Muf. 2. p. 79. te 70. CNEORUM — folio apace? molli, Baub. Pin. 463. The Convoloulus Cneorum is a native oa Spain and the PA vant, was cultivated in the Botanic Garden at Chelfea in 1739) and flowers from May to September. Ait. Kew. a In fize, habit, &c. this fpecies has fome affinity to ‘the Convolvulis linearis, igured p\. 289, but differs from it, and other — {pecies ufually cultivated with us, in the filky appearance of | its foliage, which it.is not in the artift’s power to imitate, and for the beauty of which, more than that of its flowers, itis very generally kept in colleétions of, green-houfe plants; its blof- foms are nearly white and rarely or never produdtive of feeds in this country, hence it is increafed by cuttings. It is a hardy green-houfe plant, requiring a dry enter than e a moult regimen, 3 . NA. 3 Og Boake “4 cy 42 | a 0% z z urlas | é is S00 Ore - pre iG | ee 03 ' : : : rep E e ‘ wet nce | Oct I, 799: se “Sang ‘argc i + hake N 460 - SD deardedel Pik: by. WCurts, 3Cee: Crefcen’ Wor. 41799. Ebaiforn seule. weg ab MavranpYa’SEMPERFLORENS. ~ Crumpine Mavuranpya, or Bastard FoxcLova ~: Ieee ee iikabieaeaeae |) -sClafs and Orders DipyNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIAs Generic Charafer. ~ Caf. bilocularis, truncata, bifulea, apice inequaliter dehifcens.- Cor, ringers, tubulofa campanulata, ventricofa, . bifulcato- plicata. See oi sn adegesd ais ia eae” , Specific Charafier and Synonyms. "= MAURANDYA /emperflorens caule fruticofo fcandente, fo- cos) His haftatis nervofis. C. G. Orteg. Nov. Pole, — See Dies PR S eo USTERIA. Cavauill. Icon. vol. 2. p. 5. num. 126. t. 116. — = Rien: . The plant whofe elegant form is here fo happily delineated by the mafterly pencil of Mr. Epwarps, according to ‘Dr Orreca, is an inhabitant of Mexico, where its feeds ori- ginally were colle€ted by Dr. MarTIN SESSE, and fent to the — ' royal garden at Madrid, in which the plant produced flowers _ and feeds in abundance; from thence fecds were obtained by _ the Marchionefs of Burs, about the year 1786, who moft at _ kindly communicated them to different perfons in the neigh- — bourhood of London, and among others to my moft generous — benefa&tor, James VERE, Efq. in whofe’ colleétion at his villa, Kenfington-Gore, by the careful management of his Gardener, Wiri1am ANpDeRSON, it V ft brought to — flower in this country, anno 1797. ee Ee. Monf. Cavaniuite, who refides at Madrid, visti he feizes — every opportunity of publifhing whatever new plants appear — | here, sek gure fe defcribed the prefent one, under the — ee Crue name of Ufferia, not aware that WitpzNou had previou beltow beftowed that name on a different plant; for this and other reafons*, Dr. Orteca, ina new work of his above referred to, has changed the term Uferia to that of Maurandya; and, though we cannot cordially coincide with the Doétor in the propriety either of his generic or trivial name, we have adopted them. ae J : This climber rifes with a fhrubby ftalk to the height of many feet, is very prolific in branches, and produces flowers abundantly from July to September, which are fucceeded by ripe feed-veflels and feeds.—As the plant is eafily propagated by cuttings, as well as by feeds, it will foon become common to our greenhoufes, though it is rather better fuited to the confervatory; if its blofloms, which have a great affinity to thofe of the Foxglove, had more colour in them, the plant would be more defirable: at fome future period fuch may probably be obtained from feeds. x 5 ‘ * OsseRv. Quandoquidem Usrerti & nomen huic Generi aclar. CAVANILLES, _ ‘qui primus id defcripfit, impofitum permanere nun poteft ut pote antea ab illuft. Witpenov alii Generi inditum ; proptereaillud D. CaTHaRinaz PancRaTI£ Mauvranpy, lettifime femine, D, Aucustini Juan, Reg. Botanic. Horti Carthaginenfis Profefforis uxori, et Botanicorum laborum focie, nuncupandum duxi; oblataque opportunitate ufus plantam denuo recognovi, et tum Chara¢terem genericum, tum etiam defcriptionem fpecificam ad incudem revocans reformavi. NE 401 S Edvard: del. Lub. by WeCurtrs, S600: Crefeene Nov.s 1799, & Sanfom sup} 4 ‘ atau se a [ 461 ] JASMINUM FRUTICANS, YELLOW JASMINE. SRE ea ae sesh ak see seseskeakeak a Clafs and Order. ~Dianpria Monoeynta. Generic Chara@er. Cor. 5-fida, Bacca dicocca. Sem. arillata. Authere intratubum. _ Specific CharaGer and Synonyms. Susy JASMINUM /fruticans foliis alternis ternatis fimplicibufque ramis angulatis. Linn. Swi. Vegetab. ed. 14. - Murr. p. 56. = 2 Si? ge J&SMINUM fruticans foliis alternis ternatis foliolis obovatis : cuneiformibufque obtufis ramis angulatis laciniis _calycinis fubulatis: Ait. Kew. v.1. p. io ee ae JASMINUM luteum, vulgo di&um bacciferum, Baubh. Pin. 298. | : He POLEMONIUM ficu Trifolium fruticans.. Shrubby Trefoil. | Ger. Herb. p. 1129. I Me es GE te _ The Yellow Jafmine is often planted again{t walls, pales, &c. as the branches are weak and flender and it will grow to be ten or twelve feet high if thus fupported ; it may how- ever be planted in fhrubbery quarters, to which it is better fuited than the White Jafmine. The young fhoots are of a — ne ftrong green colour, angular, and a little hairy. The | leaves are trifoliate, though fometimes they grow fingly. They are placed alternately on the branches, are of a thick con- : fiftence, {mooth, and of a fine deep green colour. Thefe leaves in well-fheltered places remain until the {pring before they fall off, fo that this plant may not improperly be planted __ among the Evergreens, efpecially as the young fhoots are al- _ Ways of a ftrong green. ‘The flowers are yellow, and do not _ poffefs the fragrance of the common Jafmine. They are pro-. — duced chiefly in June, and the blow is foon over, They are ~ Ficreeded by berries, which when ripe are black, whence its name of Berry-bearing | Jafmine. Although this fhrub poffeffes a certain ftiffnefs, which gives it- fomewhat the ap- pearance of an artificial flower, yet the fine yellow colour of | its bloffoms contrafts fo well with the rich green of the foliage, | that in the flower-pot or bouquet’ it never fails to have a confpicuous and pleafing effett. Is a native of the South of Europe and the Levant, was > cultivated by Mr. Joun Gsrarp, in 1597, and flowers from : May to Oftober. Ait. Kew. Is eafily propagated by fuckers or layers; as the flowers have no fcent, is not fo much cultivated as formerly. Miller's Dias nae : S Edwards ded. Lub, by Wluras, SGee: Cre cert Noy. 7. 1799: & Sanjem sotlp Fe ANTHEMIS PYRETHRUM. PELLITORY OF ~ SPAIN, os \ ee . ) Clafs and Order. cca ya ; 5 ESIA Poiye AMIA SureReiua, “Cinge Charaéler. i Recept. paleaceum. Pappus nullus. Cal. hemipharicus, ee zqualis. Flo/culs radil plurés quam 65. Specific Charaéter and Synonymsy a : ANTHEMIS Pyrethrum caulibus fi mnplicibus nifloris de- | Sy. Veget. ed. 14. Murr, Medical Botany, p. 286. ge = AT. 1982 PY RETHRUM flare bellidis. Banh. Pin, 148, “The Pellitory of Soaia is pores tolebeaiel os a an ulefu. an ornamental plant, the root which is of a very h biting nature being a common application for the cure o ‘the é tooth-ach; but, divefted of its utility as a medicinal plant, gee it merits a place in colleétions on account of the gn G é both of its foliage and flowers, the latter are more hand- — fide of the florets being of a fine purple colour, the upper — as 1570: ParKINson evidently grew it, as he obferves that endure our winters: to the latter caufe, as well as to the ‘difficulty of propagating it, for it does not ripen its feeds in Mitcer raifed this plant in 1732, in a very curious way, from feeds is picked out fie. Behe. ecg | cumbentibus foliis pinnato multifidis. Linn. ie z: ede 776. Woodville's ah ers CH AMAMELUM —— flore, race longa fervida, op ad ay z Z : fome when in bud than ‘when fully expanded, the under- abe ae pure white; it is moreover a very rare plant in this country, notwithftanding it was cultivated here fo long fince the roots of the cultivated plant, were much larger than thofe __ of the wild one ; he tells us alfo, that it was too tenderto this country, we may. attribute its prefent fearcity: Mr, In its place of growth it is not confined to Spain, but is found in ithe Levant, Syria, Arabia, and elfewhere; flowers” with us from May to July, and may be increafed by cutttiags of the roots, a mode of propagating by which we fometimes | happily fucceed with rare and valuable plants when all others fail. = eS : It is a plant not very nice as to the quality of the foil in _ which it grows, but muft have a warm dry fituation, will fuc- ceed very well in a pot, or it may be planted in the open border; but efpecial care muft be taken to fecure it againft froft in the winter. : : (abgopes EPIDENDRUM CILIARE. FRINGED : EpripENDRUM. estes eae ab ab ease ae a ah sea a ae : Clafs and Order. GYNANDRIA DtanpRiAs Generic Charaier. Cor. 6-petala. Ne@arium .turbinatum, obliquim reflexum. Cap/. infera 1-locularis, g-valvis, feneftrata. Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. -EPIDENDRUM ciliare foliis oblongis aveniis, ne€tarii labic tripartito ciliato : intermedia lineari, cauli bifolio. Linn. Syft. Vegetab: ed. 14. Murr. p- 818. Facq. Amer. pitt. p. 110. t. 209. Of this parafitical tribe the number of fpecies defcribed in _ the third edition of the Sp. P/. Linn. 1764, amounts to thirty; in Gmetin’s thirteenth edition of the Sy. Nat. Linn. 1791, no lefs than feventy-five are enumerated, which is a vaft ac- ceffion in fo fhort a period; moft of thefe are natives of hot climates, and on that account require a ftove heat in this — country ; from their nature alfo they require a fituation not — to be exa€tly imitated, they are therefore to be regarded as_ plants very difficult of culture, and we are not to be furprifed that three fpecies only are enumerated in the Hort. Kew— but, fince the publication of that work, many othershave been added to the royal colle€tion, and this among the reft, er The rare and fingular fpecies here reprefented, a native of _-the warmer parts of America, and the Weft-Indies, flowered with Mr. Wuitxtey, Nurferyman, Old-Brompton, in Feb. 1799, and at irregular periods before that time; he informs me that it is not conftant as to the time of its blowing, and that though the plant flowers with him, it never aflumes a fine _ healthy green appearance, he propagates it by dividing its limbs or branches, which often put forth fmall roots; | the plant grows in a pot, in a mixture of loam and peat or bog- eta and is kept conftantly plunged im the tan-pit of the , eed iS Edward: 7 : : ile : ardndel | Pub. by WCur tis S!Gea Crofcent Dee.1.1799.- F Sanjom saup: [ 464 ] SIsyRINCHIUM GRAMINEUM. Grass-LEAVED | _» SISYRINCHIUM. = Clafs aud Order. GYNANDRIA TRIANDRIA. Generic Charaéer. _Spatha 2-phylla. Petala 6-plana. Cap/. 3-locularis infera 3-valvis. —— Specific Charaéer and Synonyms. SISYRINCHIUM See ate caule ancipiti lato, germinibus © abris. SISYRINCHIUM anguftifolium foliis lineari-gladiolatis, pe | dunculis longioribus. Mill, Dig. SISYRINCHIUM ceruleum parvum, gladiato caule, | virgt | nianum. Pluk. alm. 348. t.61.f-1. BERMUDIANA graminea, flore minore ceruleo. Dill. Elth. : | 49. t. 41. f. 49. EE: GLADIOLUS ceruleus hexapetalus caule etiam gladiato. eos - Banifl. virg. 1926. : _ Ina former Number of this Work, we gave a figure of the _Targe variety of Sifyrinch. Bermud. of Linn. regarding it as a diftinét fpecies, and naming it iridzoides, conformably to DiiLentus’s fpecific defcription; we regret now that we did not continue to it the name of Bermudiana (it being the true Bermudas plant) and which cannot with propriety be applied — to the prefent f{pecies, a native of Virginia, far more diminu- tive, with flowers much fmalter, of a paler blue colour, a much hardier plant alfo, and of more ready growth; it is in- deed a truly hardy perennial, adapted to the open border, in which it will grow readily, and produce abundance of flower- ing ftems in June and July; the flowers expand to the fun, — ae _ and are followed by numerous feed-veffels which ripen their _ feeds, by which the plant may be increafed, or by parting its roots in the autumn. Its ftalk affords an excellent example of the caulis anceps. We readily embrace the opportunity here — e afforded us of corre€ting an error in regard to the hardinefs of the Sifyrinch. iridioides, which we were led into partly by Mir- LER's account, and partly from obferving the plant to furvive a mild winter in the open ground ; we have fincé found that itisa tender plant, and to be ranked with thofe of the greenhoufes — j an additional proof of its being a diftin& f{pecies from the one ‘here figured, which has long* been cultivated in our gardens. _ ® By Mr, Jacos Bonar, in 1693. Ait. Kean N64 Edwards del.» Pub, by W. Curtis, 5 Geo: Crofeert.Deact.t799, - ESagimeup — -— Me ™ a | [ 465 J InpicorerA ANGUSTIFOLIA. NarRow- LEAVED INDIGO. HSH Sub bbebbeiinit Clafs and Order. DiADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Generic Charaéer. Cal. patens. Cor: carina, utrinque calcari fubulato patulo. Legumen \ineare. | Specific Charaéfer and Synonyms. INDIGOFERA angu/ifolia foliis pinnatis linearibus, racemis ss elongatis, caule fruticofo. Linn. Sy/fl. Veget. . ed. 14. Murr. p. 678. Mant. 272. Ait. Kew. U2. p. 69. _— nideania’ This fmall, delicate, and rather elegant fpecies of Indigo, Za to be found in moft colleétions of greenhoufe plants near town, rifes with an upright, fhrubby ftem, to the height of feveral feet ; its leaves, of a lively green colour, are furnifhed — with pinne, which are numerous and unufually narrow, whence its name; its flowers, produced on long racemi fpringing from the fides of the ftem or branches, are of a fingular dull red colour, and rarely followed by feeds with us. oe It is a native of the Cape*, from whence it was introduced _ by Mr. Masson, in 1774; flowers from June to Oétober, — and is ufually increafed by cuttings. : 3 ee There is a defcription of this fpecies in the Mantiff. Fis Linn. but we know of no figure of it that has yet been — publifhed, 7 ; Beene —- ® Ait, Keane NYO5 SL dweards del. Lub. by Wlurks, 5 Geo: Crete til Lee 1.1799 # Sanjem seule SLidwards let. Lub. by WCurts 5. “Geo. Crofeent San.7. 1800. F Sanjom ep ee ‘ 1 466 J CaLycanTuus Pracox. Japan ALL-Spice. FEE EAR RE IEAER IE Se ee decease dee Clafs and Order. IcosanpRIA PoLycyYNIA. Generic Charaéer. Ca/. 1-phyllus, urceolatus, fquarrofus: foliolis coloratis. Cor. calycina. S¢y/¢ plurimi, ftigmati glandulofo. Sem. plurima, caudata, intra calycem fucculentum. _ Specific CharaGer and Synonyms. . CALYCANTHUS precox. petalis interioribus minutis. Lim. er 220. tab, x. 3 Bis OBAI /. Robai. Jafminum flore pleno fuavi feetido, fru€tu * turbinato, femine phafcoli. Kempf. Amen. exot. p. 878. | ~The learned and inftru@ive Kamprer in his Amen, Exot. — _ that vaft fund of moft ufeful information, gives a figure of this) plant, in which it is reprefented both with flowers and feed-- _ veffels, accompanied with a defcription and fhort account of - it; from which we learn that it is cultivated in Japan as an — _ ornamental plant, that the flowers are produced in February, before the leaves, that they have the fcent of the violet, but become unpleafant on being long fmelt to. : Hearing that Lord Coventry was the firft who poffeffed this plant in England, I took the liberty of writing to his Lord- dhip in January 1799, to requeft fome information on this point, as well as fome others relative to its culture, &c. On the 13th of the fame month, his Lordfhip had the goodnefs to fend me a beautiful fpecimen of the plant in bloom, 2 feedling plant one year old, together with a feed-veffel of the year 1798, and fome feeds; in the Earl’s letter is the follow- ing paffage:—* the beauty of the Calycanthus precox at this * moment furpaffes all defcription, it is covered with bloffoms _ Sp. Pl. ed. 3. p. 718, Ait. Kew. v.02. p. > “ from top to bottom, and the fragrance of it may be per- _ “ ceived at the diftance of fifty yards from the conicrysiey : - By his Lordfhip’s diretion, I received at the fame time from his Gardener, Mr. Wixizttam Dean, the following ins ~ formation, in anfwer to my queries :—“ My Lord received the” plant from China in 1766 :—it was planted in a confervatory, - is now fixteen feet high, and expands ten feet wide :—bears — a fucceflion of flowers. from September to March :—the time of its firft blowing I cannot precilely afcertain, but believe it to be nearly twenty years. back :—it is propagated by layers, cuttings, and feeds, the latter it produces moft years at~ Croome, but I believe atno other plate in England:—there _ are plants of it at Croome fix feet high, in a warm fituation © inthe open border, which have ftcod out feveral years by being covered with a fingle mat in fevere weather.” Not expefting to receive'a plant from Lord Coventry in bloom, our drawing was made from one which flowered with Mr. Wuir ey, Nurferyman, Old-Brompton, December 22, 1798, and which .came originally from Croome, his Lord{hip having prefented moft of the Nurferymen about town with — plants of it; the bloffoms of that from Croome were fome- what larger. than thofe here reprefented, and the petals were lefs ftriped, indeed almoft wholly tinged with purple, the leaves alfo proceeded more from the fummit of the ftalks and were of a much greener hue; owing no doubt to. its being kept in the confervatory, while Mr. Wurriey’s plant was tacked to the outfide of the bottom of the greenhoule. -In the. number. ‘of - its. ftamina, which is rarely more -_ than five, it does not accord with the charaéter of the clals _ icofandria, nor do the feeds agree with the generic character — as defcribed by Linnauss oe . a * ZF Sanfom seule . ard del Pub by Wlurts 8600: Crefcent.JSanA.t GO. WEP hahind Tab VEE | a ae . DRACOCEPHALUM VIRGINIANUM. Virci« < : _NIAN Dracon’s-HEap, PERE TET ae Se aE eae ae aoe clea ska a ae a Cla/s and Order, DipyNamMia GyMNoSPERMIA, Generic CharaZer. Cor, faux inflata: labium fuperius fornicatum, Specific Charaéer and Synonyms. ee DRACOCEPHALUM virginianum foliis lineari-lanceolatis = ferratis, floribus confertis. Linz, Syf, 3 Nat. ed. 13. Gmel. p. 915. -DRACOCEPHALUM virginianum floribus {picatis, foliis : : lanceolatis ferratis. Ling, Syt, Vege = 2 ed. 14. Murr. p. 543. =r _ DRACOCEPHALUM virginianum floribus {picatis confertis, Le ae ? foliis lineari-lanceolatis ferratis, Ait, Kew. v. 2. p. 317+ ner ete : This elegant fpecies of Dracocephalum, a native of Virginia, _, and other parts of North-America, is a hardy herbaceous — Plant, rifing to the height of about two feet, and producing _ numerous flowers in long {pikes, ufually arranged on each fide of the ftalk. ea 2 peed (ie It comes near to the denticulafum already figured, but dif- — __ fers in its fuperior height, the form of its leaves, the number — ___ Of its flowers, and many other particulars, == —™*” It flowers from July to September, and with me bas gene- rally ripened much of its feed, from which it may be eafily _ faifed, as alfo by parting of its roots in - ing or autumn ; it _ fucceeds beft in a moift fituation, and its fta - Carefully ltimely fticked. Cee ; vated as long fince as 1683, by Mr, nee at aes i : i Ng ok require tobe C 468 J - CENoTHERA TETRAPTERA. WHITE- FLOWERED QCENOTHERA. eines desede Cla/s and Order. OctTanpria MonocyNta. Generic Charaéfer. Gal. 4-fidus. Petala 4. Capf. cylindrica infera. Sem. nuda. Specific Charafler and Synonyms. CENOTHERA ¢etraprera foliis lanceolatis, bafi_pinnatifido- _ dentatis, capfulis pedicellatis obovatis quadri- oo _ alatis. Linn. Sp, Pl. edit. Wildenou. _ CENOTHERA foliis alternis fubpinnatis crifpis, flore’ mu- aoe tabili fru@a tetraptero. Cavanill. Icon. t. 3. p- 40. tab. 279, OF this genus we have already figured fix different {pecies ; this is another newly difcovered one, which, like moft of its kind, difplays its beauties chiefly in the night. It is the only one, as far as we yet know, that has white bloffoms ;_ thefe, when firft expanded, are beautifully fo, but in the morning they change to a purple colour, fade, and their place is fupplied by — a frefh fucceffion. In this remarkable change of colour, it | bears fome affinity to the Gixothera anomala, which may be confidered as ftrengthening our opinion that the latter plant belongs to this genus rather than to that of Gaura. The _ GQnotbera tetraptera is a native of Mexico, its duration as yet not certainly afcertained, but may be treated as a tender annual; and fuch plants as do not flower the firft year, may be preferved under glaffes through the winter. It was raifed from feeds fent by Mr. Donn, from Cambridge; but was pro- bably firft introduced into this country from feeds fent to the Marchionefs of Bure, by Prof. Orteca, of Madrid. — SE dared ded Pub. by WCurts. §¢ Geol relied Jan g 7 7¥F tif f BS tanfom sou ta : tie HG 8 HG 2 le ie ke NE BE we He INDEX) ¢ INDEX - In which the Latin Names of * In which the Englifh Names the Plants contained in the & of the Plants contained in _ Thirteenth Volume are alpha- % the Thirteenth Volume are betically arranged. - é alphabetically arranged. Pi. 4 jE eee : 457 Alée plicatilis. é& 466 Allfpice, Japan. 455 Aloe retufa. & 455 Aloe, cufhion. 453 Amaryllis Regine. & 457 Aloe, fan. : 462 Anthemis Pyrethrum. $ 441 Antholyza, dwarf. 44t Antholyza Merianella.. * 458 Ariftea, grafs-leaved. 458 Ariftea cyanea. * 433 Azalea, yellow. 433 Azalea pontica x 444 Bell-flower, canary. : 451 Biakea trinervia. * 459 Bindweed, filvery-leaved. 406 Calycanthus pracox. — # 451 Blakea, three-ribbed. _ 444 Canarina Campanula. é 442 Broom, flax-leaved. 454 Canna indica. & 450. Corn-Flag, Watfon’s. 452 Cardamine trifolia. #& 452 Cuckow-Flower, three- leav'd 459 Convolvulus Cneorum, # 449 Dillenia, fhewy. 445 Coronilla Emerus. % 456 Diofma, ferrated or faw- - leaved. bors 449 Dillenia fpeciofa. 456 Diofma ferratifolia. % 467 Dragon’s Head, virginian. 467 Dracocephalum virginianum. ¥ 463 Epidendrum, fringed. 463 Epidendrum ciliare. “4 448 Fig-Marygold, glittering. Z 440 Krica albens. * 435 Gnaphalium or Everlatting, © 447 Erica empetrifolia. a heath-leaved. 443 Erica phyfodes. # 447 Heath, crowberry-leaved. _ 442 Genifta linifolia. _ € 443 Heath, porn Seer Ze 450 Gladiolus Watfonius. & 440 Heath, pallid. ; 435 Gnaphalium ericoides. & 496 Hibifens, bitten-leaved. 436 Hibifcus premorfus. $438 Hydrangea, garden. 437 Hydrangea Arborefcens. % 437 Hydrangea, rubby. ° 438 Hydrangea Hortenfis. % 461 Jalmine, yellow. 461 Jafminum fruticans. mn . 439 Allicium, red-ilowered or 439 Illicium floridanum. oo = Anifeed tree. aes Indigofera anguftifolia, — 454 Undian Reed or Shot, common 3 460 Maurandya femperflorens. , 405 Indigo, narrow-leaved. _ 448 Mefembryanthemum micans. % 453 Lily, Mexican. 468 QEnothera tetraptera. «460 Maurandya or ‘Baftard Fox- 434 Oxybaphus vifcofus. ¢ glove, climbing. re, Pforalea bracteata. # 468 C¬hera, white-flowered. ? = ace Sifyrinchium gramineum. % 462 Pellitory of Spain. © 446 Pforalea, oval-fpiked. é 445 Senna,-fcorpion. | 2, 404 Sifyrinchium, grafs-leaved. é 434 Umbrella Wort, vifcid. =. London: Printed by STEPHEN COUCHMAN, Throgmorton-Street. 2 Me THE Bovanicat Macazine; OR, F lower-Garden Difplayed : The moft Ornamental Forr1cn Pranrs, cultivated in the | Open Ground, the Green-Houfe, and the Stove, are accurately reprefented in their natural Colours. TO WHICH ARE ADDED; hee os Their } Names, Clafs, Order, Generic and Specific Chara&ters, acabading to the celebrated LINN £Us; their Places of Growth, and Times of Flowering : TOGETHER WITH THE MOST APPROVED METHODS OF CULTURE. . A WOR Intended for the Ufe of fuch Laprrs, GenTLEMEN, and GARDENERS, 48 ae wifh to become {cientifically acquainted with the Plants they cultivate. By WIitLiam CURPis Author of the Frora LonpiINeNsis. V OL. Ras © No tree that is of count in greenewood growes, ‘* From loweft Juniper to Cedar tall; «© No flowre in field, that daintie odour throwes, «© And dcckes his branch with bloffomes over all, © But there was planted or grew naturall :”’ . SPENSER. ‘ . 0-8 DUNS Printed by SrepHEN CoucHMAN, Throgmorton-Street, For W. CURTIS, N° 9, St. George’s-Crefcent, Black-Friars-Road : And Sold Bad the principal Bookfellers in Great-Britain and Ireland. aon ~MDCCC. { 469 J PLatyLosium Formosum. LarceE- FLOWERED FLAT-PEA. JHB HERES dere ~ Clafs and Order. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIAe Generic Charaéfer. a Cal. ‘campanulatus, quinquefidus, laciniis duabus fupremis maximis, obtufis. Legumen pedicellatum compreffum, dorfo alatum, polyfpermum. eS = SN Bee . Specific Charaéer and Synonyms, PLATYLOBIUM formofum foliis cordato-ovatis, germine > pilofo. Smith Linn. Tranf. v. 2. 350. Bot. New Holl. tab. 6. Cheilococca apocynt- : folia. Salifo. Prod. 412. ses The feeds of this plant having been among the firft of thofe © imported from Botany-Bay, feedlings have been raifed, and the plants have grown up and flowered in moft colle&ions of green- houfe plants about town ; an opportunity has been thus afforded _ of afcertaining its beauty, and it muft be confeffed there are few. papilionaceous flowers more handfome, the buds in particular are inexpreflibly rich in colour, thefe are produced from June to Auguft, but are rarely fucceeded by ripe feeds in this — country. : In raifing this fpecies, recourfe is generally had to foreign feeds, for cuttings are not eafily ftruck ; great difficulty alfo attends the rearing the feedlings, as they are very apt to go off © when young, when they advance in fize they generally grow more freely ; we have obferved the plant to fucceed very well wah J while others fcarcely have been able to keep it -— ING) “ Se ae i i i scotia vak Sef “a ; : fie : Pdwards del. Pub. by WiCurts S¢Ge-brofeent Feb. 1.1800. Sanfom sale [ 470 J] _ TriILLiuM Erectum. UpricuT TRILLIUM. Jedi eb eb ik _ Clafs and Order. HEXANDRIA TRIGYNIA, Generic Chara@er. Cal. 3-phyllus. Cor, -3-petala. Bacea tiloculati, Specific Charaéler and. — 3 ed. 14. Murr. p. 349. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. p. 484. — : - SOLANUM triphyllon brafilianum. Baub. Pin. se ~ SOLANUM triphyllum canadenfe. Corz, Can. 166. t. 167. - See congener triphyllum cangdenie. Mor, yf ae 3: ?- 632+ fe 13. 4. a J 73 Of this genus only Secs fpecies have as act ten intros duced into our gardens, viz. /effile, cernuum, and ere@um, all — natives of North-America, all colle€ted by Mr. Mitrer, and - defcribed in his diétionary : they are rare plants in this country, and will continue to be fo, as they require much at- tention to their culture, and admit of but little increafe from — their roots; the Tr. fefile, already figured in the Magazine, 18 the moft common, the cermuum next, and the prefent fpecies the moft rare, which, though not mentioned in the Hort, Kew. we have feen in the colleGtion at Kew. Cornutus gives a good figure of it, which is copied in Mortson. It is a hardy, perennial, herbaceous plant, growing to the height of about nine inches, producing its flowers in May 3 it requires to be planted in a fhady and fomewhat moift fitua- tion, either in peat earth, bere light loam, or a mixture of The roots of thefe plants, ghich are of the tuberous kind, might no doubt be raifed with care from foreign feeds, but the procefs would be tedious, and the plants have pecs t fuf- ficient beauty to compenfate for the trouble. # TRILLIUM crelum flore peiiinculato erefto. Dat Sy Vege : , el Seay ee ee ii ea SBdward, ‘ ; Se ht ai yr) Se ec a ae Pee - 4 i ae J ny 7 ae dd. Pub, by W Curtis SGeo: Crovent Feb.11800. # Sanjom soudp . . ferved. ~. es [ 471 ] 3 Erica MEDITERRANEA. MepirgRRANEAN : HEATH. | 3 (eee ssid testa aa Clafs and Order. OcTaNvDrRia Monocynia.- Generic Charaéer. Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. 4-fida. Filamenta receptaculo inferta. Anthere apice 2-fide pertufe. Cup/. 4-locularis, 4-valvis, polyfperma, _ : Specific CharaGer and Synonyms. ERICA mediterranea antheris muticis exfertis, corollis ovatis, ftylo exferto, foliis quaternis patentibus, floribus © fparfis. Linn. Syft. Veg. ed. 14. Murr. p. 370. Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 24. Linn, Mant. p. 229. ERICA maxima purpurafcenslongioribusfoliis. Baub. Pin. 485.5 ERICA /foliis corios quaternis, flore purpurafcente. Baub, bil. Ep: BEG. ; ERICA corios folio. 11. Cluf. biff. 1. p. 42. __ Though a native of the more fouthern parts of Europe, this fpecies of Heath was unknown in our gardens till intro- duced by Mr. Brooxs*, fo lately as about 1765; now it _ 1s one of the moft common, and will long continue to be one of the moft defirable ; in a few years it acquires the height of four or fix feet, is very upright and handfome in its growth, and from March to May its branches are loaded with a profu- fion of lively bloffoms. =< | In our account of Erica herbacea, page 11, we exprefled fome doubts whether it and the mediterranea might not be one and the fame fpecies, as they accorded in many refpeéts; from examining them more attentively, we are fatisfied that they are perfettly diftin@: the berbacea, if left to itfelf, is low and {fpreading, the mediterranea tall and upright; the flowers in the — mediterranea are fhorter and more ovate, and have a degree of fragrance wanting in thofe of the herbacea ; the filamentsdo not projeét fo far, but the ftyle farther ; the berbacea blooms _ at leaft a month earlier than the. mediterranea ; tothefe dif- ferences we may add, that the berbacea is perfeétly hardy, while the mediterranea is liable to be killed in fevere feafons, and is therefore ufually kept in the greenhoufe. Sees _ This fpecies is eafily ftruck from cuttings and eafily pre- * Hort. Kew. V49f oldies el Pub by. WCurlas S*Geo:Crofcert Feb. 11800. F Sanfomn sap [ 472 J] | ALog PERFOLIATA, var; SUCCOTRINA. ‘Succorrine ALog. Se HHH eieeescakse - Clafs and Order. Hexanpria Monocynia. Generic CharaGer. Cor. ere@a, ore patulo, fundo ne€tarifero. Filam. receptaculo - Inferta. Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. ALOE perfoliata foliis caulinis dentatis amplexicaulibus vagi- nantibus, floribus corymbofis cernuis pedunculatis fubcylindricis, var. 3 Succotrina, Ait. Kew.v. 1. p. 466. ALOE vera foliis longiffimis et anguftiffimis marginibus {pi- _ nofis, floribus {picatis. Mill. Dif oy The figure here given was drawn in January 1799, from a plant in full bloom in the dry ftove of the Apothecaries Garden - at Chelfea; Mr. Fairsarrn informs me that it flowers re- gularly every year: the plant itfelf, fuppofed to be fifty years old, has a ftem the thicknefs of one’s arm, naked for the {pace of about four feet from the ground, then dividing into feveral large heads, formed of the leaves growing in clufters, from the centre of which arife the flowering-ftems, two feet or more in length, producing fpikes of flowers frequently much longer than thofe reprefented on the plate; thefe be- fore they open are upright, when fully blown they hang | down, and when out of bloom they turn upwards, This undoubtedly is the Aloé vera of Mitxier, and the perfoliata var. Juccotrina of Mr. Arron, that which produces the Succotrine Aloes of the fhops, and is faid to grow in the Hfland of Zocotra or Socotora, in the Straits of Babelmandel ; it Is therefore highly interefting as a medicinal plant, and very defirable as an ornamental one. : Is propagated by offsets, which it does not produce in any great plenty, and to have it in perfeGtion, it muft be treated as'a dry-Bove: plant 2° 2 ee }} a. : , © Stands del. Pub by Wlurtis 5" Geo: CoyfeentMar Flick BF “Pj Io 10777 Se ea psa ae a SL dwards ded. Pub by WCurtis 8° Geo CrocentMar! 1800. FSanjom sad. i ithe, sciog off ayy 54 pres PLinta Pepuncutara. Frere ee iB Peers Puinta. a | so donseiohibc eek 5 Clafs and Order. ‘IcosanpRIa Monocynta: - Generic Charatin: Cale 4. {. 5-partitus. Potala 4- ~5s Drupa fapera, falcata. | Specific Character and Synonyms. PLINIA pedinculata floribus” Aegeapcialn’ pedanculatis : fta- minibus receptaculo infertis. Linn. Mant. p. 243. PLINIA pedunculata floribus a i sci ! é Suppl. 253. Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 166. | MYRTUS brafiliana. Sp. Pl. 674. , EUGENIA uniflora. Sp. Pl. 673. oe PHILADELPHUS? arlene foliis myrtinis, nae op- = _ pofitis, ramulis gracilibus, pedunculis bipartitis ala- ibus. Brown Fam. 240. The == Ae ee ys The Plinia Hissar, in its foliage oii owen; bears a great refemblance to fome varieties of the Myrile, ‘of which genus Linn «vs, following others, at firft made it a fpecies 3 _ on this account it may be deg in a certain degree, as an ornamental plant, it is moreover a very rare one: its flowers _ yield a confiderable fragrance, much, like that of the Orange — bloffom, Teo native of the Braaile; ‘aia alfo of Jamaica, ac- = cording to Dr. Brown, and others: was cultivated here by —— MILLER, in 1759. __ Our drawing was made January 18, 1799, from a plant in the tan ftove of the Apothecaries Garden at Chelfea, which ~ has been there a great number of years, and is now become a {mall tree, covered every year with a prbdfufion of bloffoms, | which in fome feafons have been followed by fruit. | The branches of this tree are flender, and covered with Pe 36 ; et bark: : the leaves ovate, oppofite, firm, ae C entire, fomewhat contra&ted mear the point, which is obtufe, — -ftanding on fhort foot-ftalks, and turning black: the flowers are placed on Jarge footftalks, which ufaally come “out in’ pairs : _ the Calyx is deeply divided into four fegments, which quickly turn back : Petals four, white, fearce perceptibly edged with hairs, turning back with the calyx, and quickly falling: S¢a- mina numerous, inferted into the ‘bafe of the calyx, which forms a kind of fquare receptacle; thefe alfo foon fall off, leaving the calyx and ‘ftyle ftanding: Germen fmall, ufually - ImperieGs = = as . Dr. Brown, in his Hiftory of Jamaica, fays, “ this little “ tree is frequent in the red hills, and remarkable for its “ flender branches and ‘myrtle leaves; it is now commonly “ called Red-wood by the negroes, and is looked upon as a “ good timber wood, but it feldom grows above four of five “inches in diameter.” = “of a Ryopora CANADENSIS. CANADIAN RHODORA. _ Clafs and Order. Decanpria Monoeynia, Generic Charaéer. | Cal. 5-dentatus, Cor. 3-petala. Stam. declinata. Capf. 5-locularis, Specific Charaéer and Synonyms. RHODORA canadenfis. Linn. Sp. Pl. 561. Ait. Kew. . 2. . p. 66. L’Herit. Stirp. nov. t. 68. Chamarbodo- dendros. Dubam. Sem. app. 10. t.27.f. 2. RHODODENDRUM Rbodora, corollis tripetalis. Linn, Syj Nat, ed. 13. Gmel. p. 694. The Canadian Rhodora is a hardy deciduous American fhrub, of low growth, and confiderable beauty, and the more | defirable from the earlinefs of its flowering, which occurs be- fore the foliage is fully expanded ; the bloffoms are very liable to be injured by the cutting eafterly winds which fometimes prevail in April, the ufual time of their appearance; it bears gentle forcing remarkably well, and thus may be had ta flower — in great perfeétion, | ee . It requires to be planted in light bog earth, in which itis freely propagated by layers, Ba = es “ Is a native of North-America, and was introduced in 1767s : e _ by Sir Joserpu Banks, Bart. ee WM 4ef Sk dwards del. Lub. by Wlurtir SCeaCrofcentMar 1.1800 P Sayer sep [ 475 J PULTENAA StTipuLaris. SCALY PULTENAA. and Order. : ECANDRIA MonoGynia. Generic Charaéer. : Cal, quinquedentatus, utrinque appendiculatus. Cor. papilio- nacea, alis vexillo brevioribus. Legumen uniloculare dif. permum, Stee Bex gee Specific CharaGer. PULTENZA fipularis foliis linearibus mucronulatis fubci- 7 jiatis, ftipulis folitariis binerviislaceris, Smith | ~ as Bot. New-Holland, t 35° — fee” - ™ The name of Pultenea has been given to this genus by > Dr. I. E. Smits, in honour of Wa. Puttenty, M. D. of Blandford in Dorfetfhire, whofe various writings have fo effen- tially contributed to the introdu€tion and eftablifhment of Linnean Botany in this country, and to the promotion of the ufeful arts conneéted with Botany, more efpecially Agriculture. It takes the name of /ipularis, from its ftalk being covered with fcale-like ftipula. = : oe Seeds of this {pecies having been introduced to this country with fome of the firft produétions of New-Holland, the plant has flowered in feveral colle@tions near town; we firft faw it at’ _ Mr. Barr’s, Nurferyman, Ball’s-Pond, near Newington-Green. _ It is but feldom, however, that this {pecies can be brought to bloffom, or even be kept alive here for any length of time, if treated in the way that greenhoufe plants ufually are ; poffibly it would fucceed better with a warmer regimen. ae It flowers in April and May, and is to be raifed only from — imported feed, | ee 8 § nah el Pye by W Curbs S* GeolrefeentApr 1.1800. F Sianyin seul [ 476 | zg _INDIGOFERA PsoRALOIDES. Lono-SpIKED | INDIGO. HHS HMeb ebb eas and Orr. : < : ~Draperenia DECANDRIA. Generic Charaéer. : e Gal. patens. Cor. carina utrinque calcari fubulato patulo. Le- _ gumen lineare. — S, pecific Charaier and Synonyms. INDIGOF ERA p/orajoides foliis ternatis lanceolatis, racemis. - J = longiffimis, leguminibus cernuis. Linn. Sy 2 _ Veg. ed. 14. Murr. p. 677. Ait. Kew. v. 3. Se ees eS CYTYSUS pjoraloides. Linn. Sp. Pl. 1043. CYTISUS africanus. Riv. Tetr. 71. f.135. gee TRIFOLIUM 7 ¥ ¥, ¥ ra - et er. . oe: ‘3 SAdwande ale Lubby W Curtis & Geo Crefeent May 11800. ¥ daryom, uP -e = bufhy as the pube/cens is by its twig y appe [480 J ge #rica Pupescens. Downy-FLowerep’ : HEATH. © ee RE Hee ees i i ae ee Clafs and Order. OcTANDRIA Monocynia. : Generic Charaéer. : Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. 4-fida. Filamenta receptaculo inferta. Anthere apice bifide ties Cap/. 4-locularis, 4-valvis, polyfperma. Specific Charaffer and Synonyms. ERICA pubefcens antheris bifidis inclufis, corollis fubovatis _ pubefcentibus, foliis quaternis linearibus — Linn. 2: Pl. ed. 2. ee oe ERICA ee iis folie ternis et atene linearibus - fcabris floribus berg. Giana Thunb. Prodr. p. 73. There are two Heaths very Reacrally. cultivated in the | nurferies about town, agreeing in many refpeéts, but differing in fize and hairinefs, which have been regarded as varieties of — each other and called by wrong ai nd inexpreffive names; to us _ they appear, on an accurate examination, to be diftin& fpecies : the better to elucidate them, we have figured and defcribed them both in the fame nuftaber? regarding the fmaller one as the pubefcens of Linn avs, its hai being of the flighter | kind, the other as a diftin& f{pecies, under the name of birti- fora, from, the fuperior roughnefs of the hairs on its bloffoms “g the Linnean defcription will indeed apply to either. __ The hirtiflora is much the largeft plant, growing ufually to twice the fize of the other, and 1s as much diftinguifhed by its yearance ; the birtifora is in all its parts more ftrongly haired, both in ftalks, leaves, ‘and flowers; the form of the leaves is fomewhat alike in both, convex above and concave beneath; but in the pube/cens the leaves are narrower, the edges being rolled further back, fo as to make the cavity or concave part almoft linear, and to _ = os form, a fort of ect ceeolisietees see is not ot much ees | ae ie [ 431). oe ERICA HirTIFLoRa. | RouGH-FLOWERED HEATH. JHE HRS H EH Epoe : | + Cafe and Order. 3 Octanpria Monocyrnta. Generic Charaffer. , Cal. 4-pbyllus. Cor. 4-fida. Filamenta receptaculo inferta, Anthere apice bifide pertufe. Cap/. 4-locularis, 4-valvis, poly{perma. os . Specific Charafer. : . ERICA hirtiflora antheris bifidis inclufis, corollis fubovatis. hirtis,- foliis quaternis linearibus hifpidis, marginibus Ciliatis, - Seo Nee in the general hairinefs of the leaves, excepting that the hairs in the birtifiora are ftronger and more numerous, while in the pubefcens they form more of a tuft at the extremity ; but there is a very curious and ftriking difference in the hairs on the. underfide of the leaves, in the birtiflora the edges are ciliated or fringed with a row of finer hairs, pointing inwards, which are _ _ altogether wanting or fcarcely vifible in pudbefcens ; there isnot _. much difference in the ructification, the flowers of hirtiforaare at leaft one-fourth larger than in thofe of pubefcens, and the horns of the antherz are more ftrongly haired: the glands at the bafe of the ftamina, of a reddifh colour, are very vifible in the pubefcens, | : ee Both thefe fpecies, natives of the Cape and recently intro- duced, flower from the autumnal to the fpring months, and contribute more than almoft any two other Heaths to enliven the greenhoufe during the winter half-year. eo ae The pubefcens in particular is eafily propagated by cuttings, and may be kept in a well-fecured frame; the more air is admitted to it in fuitable weather, the healthier will be the plant, and the more vivid the colour of its flowers, = VG re x Bhowrade dol. ~ Pak by We urhse SOx a Crefcent Sure f: 1 Va Pie f reepcne a 4 NV LS2 ce Pb & Weurtes See: Crofcent Tune 1 1800. ei P Sin 7 Skdwardy ded fh nadia bo [482] CroracariA TrirLora. THREE-FLOWER’D © So CROTALARIA. fe RAR SRR aR dessa esis ak steak ae ae Clafs and Order. __ DiapELPHIA DECANDRIAs "Generic Charafer. = = Legumen turgidum inflatum pedicellatum. - Filamenta connata cum fiffura dorfali, + Sait ge edaay | Specific Charafer. we CROTALARIA frifora foliis fimplicibe sibus ovatis feffilibus gla- bris, ramis angulatis, pedunculis ternis la- teralibus unifloris, Lean. Sp. Pl. p. 1004. Mant. 440. Berg. Cap. 193. Ait. Kew. v. 3. 19. Syft. Veg. ed. 14. Murr. p. 649. This very cleguat fpecies of Crotalavio fa a nativ Cape, defcribed by Bercius in his Pl. Capen/ ) __N&us in the fecond edition of the Sp. Pi. and _ the third volume of the Hort. Kew. to which gar Mr, Anprews has lately Boblifhed this plant, ander the name of Borbonia cordata, referring to the Species Plantar. of — Linwaus for defcription and fynonyms, with none /of which — does it in the leaft accord (fee below); had Mr, ANpREws made it a new fpecies of Borbonia, ‘he might perhaps have been juttified from the ftru€ture of the feed-veffel, which it does — not appear“he had feen when the plant was “dedenn, - BORBONIA cordata folits cordatis multinervits integerrimis. . Linn, Sp. Pl. ~ .GENISTA africana frutefcens ru/ci foliis nervo/is fl. Inteo. $ Seb. Thef. 1. p. 38. t. 24. fu». : PLANTA legaminets ethiopica foliis reg ‘Breyn.¢ cent. ca 28. NYSE S. Edwards del, Pub bv UW lurtes S“Calr¢ cent June Lt. 1800. Sansa seu HEBENSTRETIA DENnTATA. ‘TOOTHED — | _ SHEBENSTRETIA. 2 cae F Pe ae ‘ one “a Clafs and Order. ' DipyYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, Generic Chara@fer.° ~ Cal. 2-emarginatus, fubtus fiffus. Cor. 1-labiata lab. adfcendente, - g-fido. Cap/. 2-fperma. Stam, margini limbi corolle inferta. Specific Charafer and Synonyms. HEBENSTRETIA dentata foliis linearibus_ dentatis, fpicis woo levibus. Linn. Syft. Veg. 570. Ait. Kew. = UV. 2. p. 356. - VALERIANELLA: africana, foliis angultis, flore macula ru- _ bicante notato. » Comm. Hort. 2. p. 247+ : ~#£, 109. soe VALERIANOIDES flore monopetalo, femine unico ob- : : longo. Rati Suppl. 245- PEDICULARIS foliis anguftiffimis dentatis, floribus fpicatis. 7 = Burm, afvic. 114. t. 42. fi 2o To this genus Linnaus gave the name of Hebenftretia, in honour of Jon. Ernst HeBENSTREIT, Profeffor of Medicine at Leipfic, who travelled into Africa, and publifhed Defini- tiones Plantarum in 1731. The prefent fpecies, a native of the Cape, and introduced in 1770 by Monf. Ricwarp, is now very generally met with in our greenhoufe colle€tions ; it accords but indifferently with the name of dentata, the leaves being for the moft part fo -flightly toothed, that the indentations are {carcely difcernible 5. it appears to vary in this refpeét, and perhaps runs into the integrifolia. ar It is fingular and pretty, but not fhewy ; produces its {pikes of flowers from February to November, fo that it is in boot ; the greateft part of the year: it is ufually increafed by cuttings, and is very liable to be loft, hence it becomes neceffary to have feveral pots of it in different fituations.. - : Linnaeus tells us, that the flowers in the morning are without fcent, at noon they are ftinking and naufeous, in the © evening ambrofial like the oriental hyacinth : having negle&ted ~ to pay due attention to this circumftance, we can neither con- firm nor contradi& it, but we fufpe@ that the different odours it is faid thus to diffufe are not very powerful. We take this opportunity of mentioning a fa&. relative to the Manulea tomentofa, which we had not difcovered when we figured that lant; its flowers, which in the day-time have very little fcent, ate in the evening give forth a moft penetrating and unpleafant one, fo as to make a {mall greenhoufe- highly difagreeable. [ 484. 4° Erica Cirtaris. Cit1aTep. HEATH. steal de-aeafe ae dtesle-se sie ae shake skate se see se ake Clafs and Order. OctTanpria Monocynia. Generic Charaffer. - Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. 4-fida. Filamenta receptaculo inferta. An- there apice 2-fide, pertufe. Cap/. 4-locularis, 4-valvis, po- ly{perma. cae : : . Specific Character and Synonyms, . - ERICA ciliaris antheris muticis inclufis, corollis ovatis groflis, flylo exferto, foliis ternis, racemis fecundis. _ Linn. Syfl. Veg. ed. 14. Murr. p. 368. Ait. Hort. Kew. U. 2. p. 20. ERICA ciliaris foliis ovatis ciliatis, floribus axillaribus cam- panulatis: calicibus ciliatis, Linn, Sy. Nat. ed. 1 iG Gmel. p. 623. : : ERICA foliis ovatis ciliatis ternis, corollis ovatis apice tubu- lofis irregularibus verticillato-racemofis, Lefl. it. 138. ERICA hirfuta anglica. Baub. Pin.602. : ERICA xii. Clu/. biff. 1. p. 46. — a The name of céliaris has been given to this fpecies of Erica, . from the leaves being ftrongly edged with hairs ; this circum. ftance, undoubtedly, gives a ftriking charaGter to the plants there are other fpecies, however, to which the fame term would apply with equal propriety; but we muft not be too nice on fuch points, provided the name be not bad in itfelf: the irregularity of the flower, as noticed by Loeruine, vid, Synon. forms a more remarkable trait. os eee This {pecies, a native of Spain and Portugal, and therefore . hardy enough to bear the open air of this country in mild winters, was introduced, according to Mr. Arron, about the _ year 17733 it grows to the height of feveral feet, and, if judi- cioufly treated, produces abundance of large purple flowers from July to September, | : “i Though it is ufual to plant this fpecies in bog earth in the open border, to guard againft accidents, it will be proper to keep a few of them in pots, and fet them in the greenhoufe | during winter. ere mae It is a plant of ready growth, and ftrikes readily from cuttings. — C. Bauunin, miftakenly, calls it anglica, which has given rife to the idea of its being an Englith plant, but it is not. NSA S.Bdwards el. Lud. by W Curtis SC. Crefeent Tuly: i. 1800 ; E Saxfom 6 le Se ah NAS “a " rd try = i + a s O/, B” ssa hgimee SCH. S Eilward: del. Pid bg Wlverlas S Ceol refcent Srl L4ECO PB Sanfom sculp- 5 us ee Lay") Bicnonia Rapicans, ASH-LEAVED - ‘TRUMPET-FLOWER. JHE SSS HHHHBHHoH _ Clafs and Grace, : DipyNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Canes Charaéer. Cal, 5-fidus, cparhitdanik: Cor. fauce campanulata, fda; fabs tus ventricofa, die 2-locularis. Sem. ee = "Mere. pe ne nah, "ee U. 26 2. B. 348. a PSEUDO. GELSEMINUM filiq uofum. Riv. ee 101. PSEUDO-APOCYNUM eaeaceuer americanum tubulofo flore pheeniceo, fraxini folio. Mon/. Hift. 3. ef Rae As lhe % 3: dude, « ‘Mendiedivabes : ie is difficult to GS icecitin precifely when this ‘beautiful : climber was introduced to this country from North-America, its native place of growth ; ; it was evidently cultivated here by Parxinson in 1640, as in his 7h, Botan. he delcribes it ‘Minutely, and adds, ae this never bore flower with mee, nor * any other that hath it in our country that I could heare oa” we may from hence infer, that at this period it could 1 not have been Jong or generally cultivated, as the plant blows freely enough at a certain age + MiLier fays, in feven or eight years from feed. The authors who fisligdlele ribet this plant, called it by va- rious names ; Parkinson, in criticifing on fome of thele, is betrayed into an illiberality altogether inconfiftent with his ufual candour and gravity: “neither yet,” fays he, “doe I _“ entitle it ee Metninnts ee Indicum, as that good _® French goofe doth, whofe horned name is prefixed to his ~ pores of g judgement, no doubt to make it bear an , see kash fo little refemblance thereto ;” alluding to Hi Bepetioent who calls it by that name, and who moft pro- _ ‘Bab EPO Fa Pr betiracees, pee ees a ~ the plant bore to Ivy in its manner of attaching itfelf to trees, buildings, &c. and in which he was perfedtly juftified. This deciduous climber is very hardy, and will mowht to the fummit of the higheft tree, or fpread over the loftieft wall; “hence it is recommended by Mrurer for covering buildings which are unfightly: inthe months of Auguft and September it puts forth “its rich magnificent trumpet-like flowers, in bunches at the extremities of its pendent branches, which pro- duce the moft charming effe& imaginable; one of the finelt as a fpecies; there is an old plant of it andthe’ major, growing : [ 486]. Syrinca Persica. Persian LiLac. meee Clafs and Order. as DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Charafer. Cor. 4-fida. Cap/. bilocularis 3-valvis fupera. oe | Spetific Charaéfer and Synonyms. SYRINGA perfica foliis lanceolatis integris. Linn, Sy/t. Veg. : oa nfo ma [ 487 J GLaApio.Lus Lingatus. PENCILLED Corn-Frac. _ Jeldieiebibiedeaeiede Clafs and Order. Taian DRIA Monoeynia. Generic CharaGer. Cor. 6-partita, ringens. Stamina ad{cendentia. Specific Charaéler and Synonym. fe GLADIOLUS /ineatus corolle limbo tubo quadruplo longiore, _ incurvo patente ; laciniis ellipticis, extus lineis 3 parallelis, fuprema majore, exterioribus re- tufis, Salifb. Prod. pag. 40. IXIA /qualida B Variet. frida, foliis ftriis, laminis ovato- oblongis integerrimis bafi concoloribus. Hort. Kew. v1. p. 61. _ The flowers of this Corn-flag are of a delicate ftraw colour, — _ More or lefs tinged with orange, finely and curioufly pencilled ~ with dark lines, which render it as much an obje& of admiration as brilliancy of colour does fome of the others. - it appears to be a very diftinét fpecies, and is one of thofe — Jately introduced from the Cape by way of Holland; flowers in May, produces offsets in abundance, and requires the fame _ — as the reft of the genus, grows readily, and blows — reely. ss ee s ze: _ Defcr.—Stalk about two feet bi gh, leafy below, above round, — fmooth 3 Leaves about half an inch wide, fi mooth, marked with one principal midrib; Flowers, five or fix in a fpike, which | nods remarkably before they open, flraw-coloured, tinged with Orange mm a greater or lefs degree, ftrongly and curioufly — marked with fine lines, three running parallel to each other down the middle of each fegment, from whence thofe of the — fide branch off ; on, the infide of each of the three lowermoft — fegments near the bafe, asa yellow fpot, uppermoft fegment — broader than the reft. Spatha two-leaved, leaves membranous, _ ribb’d, length of the tube of the corolla, ribs terminating in . fhort awns; Stamens much fhorter than the flower; Anthers _ linear, nearly parallel, bent a little upward, yellowifh, fides — dark-coloured ; Style length of the flamens, trifid, fegmen bowed back, dilated at the extremity ahd villous, A LE7 < *refeent Aug. 41800 PF Sagfom say Py ‘n . SEdvarde del Pub. by UW Curtas 5 Geo: Crofcent Aug.1.1500. F Sanjim seulp ev - +> 488 A RHODODENDRON Cuamacistus, THYME-— LEAVED RHODODENDRON. Tetleae siesta akealeeale sheakeeale ak shesleealeak aleake ste akeaake ale Clafs and Order. DeEcANDRIA MonoGyYNIA, Generic Charaéer. Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. fubinfundibuliformis. Svam. declinata, Cap/. 5-locularis. oil 3 Specific Characer and Synonyms, =~ _. RHODODENDRON foliis ciliatis, corollis rotatis:: Linz. ; Spec. Pl. ed. 2. p. 562. Facq. Fi. Aufir. t. 217. Scop. Fl, Carniol. ed. 2. : , n. 481. es LEDUM foliis ferpylli ad margines cilii inftar pilofis, flore ae purpureo. Mich. Gen. p. 225. tab. 106. CHAM CISTUS VIII. Clu/. Hif. 1. p. 76.) | - CHAMAECISTUS IV. Cluf. Pan. 64. CHAMACISTUS hirfata. C. B. Pin. 466. | CHAMZRHODODENDRON berberis folio flore amplo | —rofeo. Gmel. Sibir, 4. p.126. CISTUS chamzrhododendros foliis confertis ferrea rubigine ; - nitentibus, margine pilofis. Pluk. Alm. 106. tab, 23. f. 4.? For this very rare and beautiful little plant we are indebted to Mr. Loppipces, Nurferyman, at Hackney, who raifed feveral of them from feeds fent him ten or twelve years ago,- from Laubach, in Auftria, by a friend who gathered them on the extreme tops of the Crain mountains. ~ It is a plant of very flow growth and difficult culture, which _ tuft always make ita great rarity. It flowers in April, is kept — in bog-earth in a fheltered fituation and Northern afpeét. The Ciftus Chamerhododendros of PLuxener is, perhaps, intended for fome other plant, as the leaves of this are per- fe&ly free from any ferruginous appearance. ___ As, perhaps, few Englifh Botanifts have feen the Rhodo- dendron Chameciftus in flower, the following defcription may not be unacceptable. — It rifes with feveral diffufe branched ftalks, fearcely a fpan high, thickly clothed with fmall ovate flefhy leaves, fmooth on each fide, ciliated at the edge ; when young, they appear ferrated with a gland-bearing hair to cach tooth; but as they grow older they become more flefhy, the notches difappear, and the glands at thé extremity of the hairs _ perifh. The Flower-Stalks about an inch long, hairy with glands, grow three or four together from the extremity of the branch, having two fmall concave braétez at the bafe, and bearing each one flower. The Calyx is five-cleft, the fegments conniving, lanceolate-oval. The Corolla of one petal, deeply divided into ~ - five fegments, which are ovate, entire, and rotate, of a lively. purple colour, fpotted at the bafe., Filaments ten, equal, longer than the corolla, incurved towards the tip, white; Anthers black, attached at the fide; Pollen white. The Germ is hemi- fpherical, of a green colour; the Style white, of an equal — length or fomewhat exceeding the ftamens; the Stigma fimple | and green. The Seed-Veffel we have not feen. [ 489 J Sprr&A TRIFOLIATA. ‘THREE-LEAVED «*SPIREA. peo : Clafs and Order. ~Tcosanprta PEenTracyNtia. Generic Chara@er. : Cal. g-fidus. Petala 5. Capf. poly fpermz. Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. SPIR AA irifoliata foliis ternatis ferratis fubequalibus, floribus _ fubpaniculatis. Sp. Plant. 702. : ieiee ULMARIA major, trifolia, flore amplo pentapetalo, virgini- ana. Pluk. alm. 393. t. 236. f.5. Raii Suppl. 330-. ULMARIA virginiana trifolia, floribus candidis amplis longis — etacutis, Mori/. Hi. 3. p. 323. abies” To this genus both the flower-garden and fhrubbery are indebted for fome of their chief ornaments. Of the hardy herbaceous fpecies the trifoliata is confidered as one of the moft elegant ; when it grows in perfeétion it certainly is a moft deleétable plant. = = It is a native of North America, flowers in June and Jaly, and was cultivated by Mr. Mitter, in1758. Ait. Kew. _ Being a plant much coveted, increafing but little, propagated with difficulty, and liable to be loft unlefs planted ina foil and — fituation highly favourable to it, it is fearce in the gardens about London. = =. : It is ufually increafed by parting its roots; poffibly thefe might grow when made cuttings of. Muvzer fays it is propa- gated by feeds, which fhould be fown on a fhady border, foon — after they are ripe; for if they are fown in the fpring, the plants will not come up till the year after, and many times fails they will require to be very carefully weeded and attended to. The beft fituation for this plant is a North border; it loves — moilture, and fhould be planted in light bog or peat-earth, or 2 _ mixture of itanda‘purehazelloam. i vy : : ee oe ‘ S Edwards del. Prids by WeCurlas Seo: l refi ‘el Alig 11800 FSanjom sup . , z ‘ [ 490 ] CROTALARIA JUNCEA. CHANNEL’D-STALK’D -CROTALARIA. | (HPS Hbbnidsnbniciibics Se Clafs and Order. Drapertpura DecanpRIA. Gearriz Charafer,. Legumen turgidum, inflatum, pedicellatum. Filant. connata cum fiffura dorfali, Specific Charagter and § Synonyms. CROTALARIA juncea foliis fimplicibus lanceolatis petiolato- Ce feffilibus, caule ftriato. Spec. Pl. 1004. oe a it. Kew. 9- >. 38. CROTALARIA foliis folitariis lanceolatis lanuginofis, petiolis Mes _ feffilibus, caule ramofo ftriato, flore magno _ aureo. Trew. Ebret. tab. 47. p. 15. Katou Tandala Cotti. Hort. Malabar. U. 9. DP. 47> 36, - es ae ee This annual is a native of the Eaft-Indies; the feeds were brought to Mr. Mixer, at Chelfea-Garden, from the coaft of Malabar before 1768, Ait. Kew. It rifes with an angular, rufhy, ftiff ftem, from three to four. feet in height, dividing into branches. The leaves are oblong-lanceolate, alternate, covered with foft filvery hairs, which are much diminifhed in ~ i number by culture, as we found on comparing a native fpecimen from the coaft of Coromandel, in the poffeflion of Sir JoserpH Banks, Bart. The flowers are terminal, and difpofed in ra- ~ cemes, each flower being furnifhed with a fhort peduncle, they — are large, of a deep yellow, and refemble thofe of the Spanifh Broom. : re Thefe are fucceeded by large turgid pods, containing reni- — * form or kidney-fhaped fonds, : yeas requires the treatment of the tan-ftove. : | a HA MO F. : ‘anjom ecude. ze del. =e ao J Cte S00: 0) :Crefeert Si ep. 7 1800. C 49 J 1 GENTIANA VERNA. VERNAL GENTIAN. JHE HSER Hii ibibiei aie ise Clafs and Order. PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Generic Charafer. Cor. 1-petala. Cup/. 2-valvis, 1-locularis: Receptaculis 2, lon- gitudinalibus. 3 Specific Charagter and Synonyms. GENTIANA verna, corolla quinquefida infundibuliformi cau- _ lem excedente, foliis radicalibus confertis majo- ribus. Linn. Spec. Pl. p. 331. ; : GENTIANA VI. Clu. Rar. Plant. Hif. Lib. U1. p. 315. GENTIANA verna. Smith. Flor. Brit. v. 1. p. 285. «Ene - glifo Botany, p. 493. coat This elegant hardy perennial, a native of the Alps of Switzer- land, Auftria, and the Pyrennees, hath, as we are informed by Dr. Smita, in his Flora Britannica, been difcovered by Mr. Heaton, on the mountains between Gort and Gallway, in Ireland; and in Teefdale-Foreft, Durham, by the Rev. Mr. Harriman, and Mr. Otiver. _Its flowers have a very agreeable fcent, and will decorate either the open border or rock-work ; they appear in April or May, and may be brought forward at leaft fix weeks earlier, by being placed in the greenhoufe. : = It fucceeds well in a mixture of peat-earth and loam. a The plant from which this figure was.made, flowered this — {pring at the Botanic-Garden, at Brompton, ea f fg yt See 2 vs Bes dead Y ss 8 , . oy , ey te 4 S Edwards del. Lub Wyerlis, S Gee: Ud anl Oca. EA’. LOS teypoene. Staed t/ / 2 : ra ete -POLYGALA oppofitifolia, foribis: tae racemofis, caule . 3 flalks, which rife to a confiderable -heigt ts PotycaLa OppositiroLia. OpposiTE- Leav’p Mitx-Wort. — Sats Saban PERE TS EIE SE . te ‘Clafands Oren A : oa ee : : <<.” + : Cae DIAapeLPHia OcTANDRIAs eS mr = ae ae - Generie: ureter: , é Cal. 5- -phyllus : foliolis duiobes aleformibus coloratis. Legumen obcordatum, biloculare. — : Specific Charaéer and Synonym. fruticofo pubefcente, foliis oppofitis | cordatis acutis feffilibus. . ‘POLYGALA oppofitifolia florist ca ftatis, caule frvicelae - foliis oppofitis atc s. Linn. Mant. 759 fpecies with fhidbby ; fuch is the prefent plant, which has within thefe few years made its appeatance | in the greenhoufes about town, and is to be admired for its rarity and fingularity, rather than for its fuperior beauty ; in that refpeét it is far eclipfed by the brafeolata, The Stalk rifes to the height of feveral feet, branching t wards the top in a very irregular manner ; is round, down and of a purple colour ; the Leaves are oppofite, feffile, heart-— fhaped, pointed, more or lefs hairy, on the old ftems- turned downwards ; the Flowers grow in racemes for the moft part, from the fork of the ftalk, are about the fize of thofe of the brad - lata, but lefs brilliant : each Peduncle is furnifhed at its bafe _ with a triphyllous braétea; the Stamens are eight i in numbe and the Stigma is remarkably hooked. It is a native of the Cape, and ulually | increafed by Of this numerous genus there are Fe Many | NWG2 — S Fibwards de Pub. by Works 8 Cee Creofcent Sept tii’ Sanfem seule = C 493 J se PeLarconium RenirorMe. Kipney- - . Leav’p Crane’s-Bitt. - edesesessesesletk shakeskeslesk ahi aiseaiae Cla/s and Order. — ~Monaverexia HEepranpDRia, 2 Generic Charaéer. Cal. 5-partitus: Jacinia fuprema definente in tubulum capil- larem, neclariferum fecus pedunculum decurrentem. Cor, B-petala irregularis. Fél. 10 inequalia’: quorum g (rdro 5) caftrata. Frué/us 5-coccus, roftratus: roftra fpiralia, intror- _ fum barbata. oe Specific Charader. ee PELARGONIUM vreniforme caule fruticofo: ramis fuperne — incraffatis, foliis reniformibus, umbellis — fubquadrifloris. ‘ This is one of the rareft of the Geranium tribe with fo ‘many fpecies of which our greenhoufes, and even our halls and windows, are now decorated. It has appeared in feveral gar- dens about the metropolis for thefe two years paft, and was, — probably, firft raifed from feeds fent from the Cape to the Royal Garden, at Kew, a fource from whence the beauties of — Flora are fpread with a bountiful hand through the nation. : It is known in moft of the nurferies by the name which we © have adopted, but has not, we believe, been hitherto defcribed orfigured, _ oa. _ The beft mode of cultivating this plant is by fowing its feeds, _ either in the {pring or autumn, in a mixture of peat-earth and — loam, as it is not eafily increafed either by cuttings or by parting its roots. Seibold see deeds 5 . ‘Clafs and Order. = ’ ~Hexanpria Monocynia, Generic CharaGer. Cor. 6 partita patens, fpatha multiflora, Umbella congefta, Capf. fupera. mo Ss ‘pecific Character and Synonyms. ALLIUM Moly fcapo nudo fubcylindrico, foliis lanceolatis feffilibus, umbella faftigiata. Sp. Pl. 492. Ait. oe Ae 468s ALLIUM Moly latifolium luteum odore allii. Bauh. Pin. 75. ALLIUM Moly montanum lIatifolium, flavo flore. Clu, | 3 App. Alt. Se ee MOLY montanum lJatifolium luteo flore. The yellow Moly. Park. Parad. p. 144. pl. 143. fig. 7. es Of this very numerous genus there are but few fpecies with yellow flowers; this plant was therefore, no doubt, cultivated. at firft as much for its fingularity as its beauty: Parkinson figures and defcribes it in his Parad. terr. as he does many _ others of the fame tribe, in which he appears to have been very rich; he obferves that when the plant comes up witha — fingle leaf, it produces no flowers, but when it has two it does. | Mitver fays the Yellow Moly has fome beauty in the flowers, — and deferves a place in borders where few betier things — will thrive. — a : 3 Grows wild in Hungary, on Mount Baldo, about Montpellier, and in the Pyrenees; is a hardy perennial, growing to the height of ten or twelve inches, producing its flowers in umbels in the month of June; according to Losex was cultivated here by Epwarp Lorp Zoucn ini604. . _ For the moft part it increafes plentifully, both by roots and feeds ; but in fome fituations its bulbs are liable to be greatly injured by the wire-worm, the larva or maggot of an elate We V4qg SEidwards ded Lub. by Welurts S Geo: CefcetDee 11000. F Sarfom soup r C2 A, eee A ot ye ef pee OCs Pape as y Fe “ry ae "3 yo me: SBdward del. Pub. by Wourts, 8! Geo: Crefeent Dec. 11800. ESanfom sup © fo Rowid} ea? Yo foclmy Acapantuus Umpe.iatus.: AFRICAN AGAPANTHUs, or Biur Liny. _ Se Ak Ae dae ok & Seder « - Cla/s and Order. “1h seoromest domly 4: j Hexanpria Monocynia. 4 ae 3 s: . Generic Charaéfer. Cor. infera, infundibuliformis, hexapetaloidea regularis, Specific Chara&cr and Synonyms. AGAPANTHUS umbellatns. “Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 414s 09. L'Herit. Serto. 17. : CRINUM africanum. Lina. Sp. p. 419. POLYANTHES floribus umbellatis. “ Linn. Vir. Cliff. 29. . Hort. 126. Mil. fig. 8. 10. eee TULBAGHIA Heif. Brunfv. 10. 1.6. | MAUHLIA africana. Dahl. Ob/. Bot. 26. HYACINTHUS africanus tuberofus, fl, ceruleo umbella __—-Breym. prod. 1.°25. Seta Agapanthus is a name firft given to this genus of plants, of - which there is only one fpecies, in the Hort. Kew. of Mr. Aiton. Linnzus and Gartner have confidered it as a’ Crinum, and it will be feen by the fynonyms that it has had a " variety of names impofed on it by other authors, ere It is a native of the Cape, and no novelty in this country, having been cultivated in the Royal Garden at Hampton-Court in 1692: it-is now found in moft colle&tions of green-houfe _ plants: the nurferymen make two varieties of it, a major and 8 piers Xe : Its root is not bulbous, but compofed of many thick flefhy fibres; the leaves are thick, about a foot long, and near an inch broad; the flowering ftem, which is naked, rifes to the height of two or three feet, and produces on its fummit a ‘< ite oo, magnificent — Oi bs a magnificent umbel of fine blue flowers, which come forth irregularly during the whole of the year, but more frequently from Auguft-to January. This plant only requires prote@tion from froft and moifture, it fhould not, therefore, have any artificial warmth in winter, at leaft no more than is neceffary to fecure it from froft (unlefs our objeét. be to force it, which it bears admirably well) and muft be fet in the open air in fummer: at the clofe* of the year, when coming into bloom, it will require the fhelter of the green-houfe, fe Is propagated by offsets, which come out from the fide of the old plant, and may be taken off the latter end of June. It will not grow and flower in perfeétion unlefs it have plenty of pot room, and the fpace that it thus occupies is often more than a fmall green-houfe can afford. : Grind ome § 5 eh = * as 3 = Near os x Mais mes oh 9: s -( enbury yp : ae ‘ “8 é. Gales 3c A | s senebineitiiaanenal alae OF Soe ee ALeTRis Capensis, Wavep-LEAVED ALETRIS. Clafs and Order. Hexanpria Monoceynia. *- Generic Charaéter. - Cor. infundibuliformis. Stamina inferta laciniarum bafi. Cap/. 3-locularis. = Specific Charaéter and § Synonyms. ALETRIS capenjis, acaulis, foliis lanceolatis undulatis, {pica ovata, floribus nutantibus. Linn. Spec. Plant. p. 456. 3 Syft. Veget. Murray, p. 336. Burm. Prod. 10. _ VELTHEIMIA viridifolia, foliis lanceolatis plicato-undulatis _obtufis, dentibus limbi rotundatis reétis. Lzuz. Spec. Plant. edit. Willdenow. tom. 2. p. 181. Facq. Hort, Sthoend, 1. p. 41 t. 78. _. The genus Aletris, nas eftablifhed by Lt vikex. has, by _ Gtepirtsca, in the Berlin TranfaGions for 1771, been divided, : : and a new genus conftruéted under the name of Veltheimia, to which this plant belongs.. But although this alteration has been adopted by WittpeNow, in his edition of the Spec. Plant. of Linn xus, we neverthelefs adhere to the old name, by which it has been long known in our gardens, efpecially as we have had no opportunity of examining with care the capfules of the different fpecies, from fome difference in which the diftin€tion is chiefly drawn. It is a native of the Cape of _ Good Hope; flowers from November to April. So ornamental _ aplant would probably be more common, were it more eafily propagated; but it neither readily perfeéts its feeds, nor is it ealily increafed by its roots, Muixter direéts the bulbs to be. planted in pots filled with light earth, that they may be fheltered In O€ober and through the winter, and in a dry, airy glafs cafe, and fparingly watered, till May, when they may be placed __ abroad in a fheltered fituation, and may be frequently Watered e in warm weather. Introduced in 1768. Ait. Kew. ee M302 ‘Edwards del. Lub, by WCurts, 8¢ Geo: Crefeent Jan. 1801, TSayfom scp : ie tae ee ~-Heticonia PsirracoruM. PARROT-BEAKED HELICONIA. | epbdedeinesieae Clafs and Order. *. PENTANDRIA MonocyNIA. Generic Charaffer. Spathe. Cal. 0. — Cor. tripetala. Nefarium diphyllum. Pericarp. tricoccon. Sem. folitaria. ; _ Specific Charafer and Synonyms. -HELICONIA Pfittacorum glabra, foliis lanceolatis. ellipticis “eee _. acuminatis, {pathis ere€tis lanceolatis.. Bank's Spee eae iM fio ee : : ~ “HELICONIA Pfittacorum foliis caulinis bafi rotundatis, fpadice terminali flexuofo, fpathis lanceolatis, ne€lario lanceolato concavo integro. Swariz. Ob/f. 98. : é This beautiful ftove plant is a native of Jamaica, growing in the mountains, in places cleared of wood, and in this fituation acquires the ftature of eight feet, with leaves propor- tionally large. With us it rifes about three feet, with a -ftraight round polifhed ftem, naked at the upper part and clothed below with {mooth fhining leaves, alternate lanceolate. elliptic acuminated many-nerved, with membranaceous foot- ‘ftalks fheathing the ftem. At a more advanced ftage than that ‘at which our drawing was taken, the top of the ftem becomes “flexuous or zig-zag, and from each bend there grows an ereét lanceolate concave fpatha, within which the flowers grow in “clufters upon fliort peduncles, thefe remain clofed during the fun@tion of flowering, opening only juft before they fall. The Corolla, properly fpeaking, is monopetalous, the whole falling off in one piece; if carefully examined it divides into five fegments, the three outermoft of which are ufually defcribed — as the three petals of the corolla; the two ifnermoft form Whaly what, in this family of plants, Linn us calls the netlary, ° The two fuperior fegments of the corolla are nearly linear, _ and.are firmly attached abave half way along the. back of the ne€tary ; the lower one is like the upper, but more deeply . grooved, embracing the edges of the neétary, from which it feparates nearly to the bafe. The Neétary confffts chiefly of one boat-fhaped fharp-pointed fegment, the edges of which are folded together, eftclofing the ftamens and ftyle, and _ opening only a little way below the point to allow of the exit of the anthers and fligma: within this is likewife included, guite concealed from tke eye, the fecond fegment of the neftary, which is very finall, fpatulate, fomewhat concave, and is attached at its back«o the Jower part of the inferior fegment of the corolla; this fmal] part is common to the genus -and alfo to Strelitzia, and is fuppofed by JWss1zu to be the rudiment of a fixth flamen. The Stamens are five. The Filaments, which are the length of the ne@ary, are inferted at its extreme bafe, and are curved at their lower end. The Anthers are formed in a fingular manner: the filament is ex- panded into a membrane at the upper part, and the edges being _ doubled in, contain within this fold a white pollen of a large fize. The Germen is obtufely three-cornered, contains three cells, and one feed in each cell. The Style is the length of the ftamens. The Stigma fmall, downy, and hooked, _ Our plant appears to be the fame as that defcribed by Swartz, but perhaps differs from the Heliconia Pfittacorum ° of the Supplementum Plantarum. Could it be fatisfa€torily determined that the two fpecies are diftin@, this name, by right of priority, belongs to the other, and our’s ought to have a new one; but from the many errors in the work of the ‘younger Linngus, we are led to miftruft his defcription : until, therefore, the whole genus fhall be better underftood, we think it right to retain the name, as adopted by Swartz, rather than to run the rifk of increafing the confufion by changing it. . | : Eee _. Our drawing was made from a plant which flowered in Auguft 1809, amidft a great variety of beautiful and rare exotics, in the fuperb colle@ion of E. D. Wooprorp, Efq. at Vauxhall *. S : PIS eee _ It is increafed by offsets from the roots, and requires a treatment fimilar to the Strelitzia.—S. » 9 Tt flowered ikewife atthe fame time at Janes Rosixsaw's, Ely. atStockwelle 7 M503 wef 3 y SI 1p a oo 9 ey ae . "4 : Fad oy : , / A 7 VA awards de, Lith. OY. W. Curls libro, | recent Sanat IPOl. £ vt | bugog paw veseized a CaLycantuus Froripus. CAROLINA 2 lS deh SPICES, Clafs and Order. | IcOSANDRIA PoLtyeyYNta. ~ Generic Charaéer, Cul. 1-phyllus, urceolatus, {quarrofus: foliolis coloratis. Cor. | calycina. . Sty plurimi ftigmate glandulofo, Sem, plurima, caudata intra calycem fucculentum. — Ales Gh Specific Charaéter and § ynonyms. ~CALYCANTHUS foridus petalis interioribus longioribus. ee 7 _ Linn, Sp. Pl. ed. 3. p. 718. Ait. Kew. De Be Di EaGs BUTNERIA anemones flore. Duhain. arb. 1. p. 114. t. 45- BASTERIA foliis ovatis acuminatis, caule fruticofo. Mili. Did. t. 60. BEURERIA petalis coriaceis oblongis, calycis foliolis reflexis. Ehret. Die PoA96 = = : FRUTEX corni foliis, floribus inftar anemones ftillatx, | talis craffis rigidis colore fordide ru- Fae cortice aromatico. Cate/b. Carol. 1. p. 46. t. 46. __ The Calycanthus floridus is a {preading, deciduous, hardy fhrub of low growth, feldom rifing above the height of four or five feet, producing numerous flowers from May to Auguft, fingular in their form, colour, and fcent, the latter Mr. MILLER defcribes as difagreeable, contrary to the general opinion; the bark has a very ftrong aromatic odour, whence the inha- bitants of Carolina gave it the title of Allfpice ; it varies in the form of its leaves, hence two varieties of it are enumerated in the Hort. Kew. of Mr, Aiton, 1 foliis oblongts, 2 foliis Subrotundo-ovatis, gn ; 3 : ; e Mr, ae « Mr. Catrssy, who firf introduced it into the Englifh | “ gardens in 1726, procured it from the country, fome hundred « miles on the back of Charles:Town in Carolina. It was very fcarce here till about the year 1757, when many plants | “ were brought from Carolina, having been greatly increafed * jn the gardens near Charles-Town.” Mill. Di. Mt. Mitie® gave it the name of Bafferia, in honour of _his very worthy friend Dr. Jos Basrer, under which name it is to be found in his own editions of his Di@ionary. “ It is ufually propagated by laying down the young branches “ ¢n Autumn, which will take root in one year, before which “ time they fhould pot be tranfplanted; when taken from the “ mother plant they fhould be fet where they are intended to / “ remain, for they do not bear tranfplanting well after they — ‘are grown to. any fize; when the branches are laid they ‘* fhould be covered yearly with rotten tan to keep out. the “ froft; when the layers are tranfplanted the ground fhauld * be covered with mulch, to prevent its becoming too dry, “ and watered in dry weather, but not too abundantly." Mill. Dif. “s : * SEdwands de Pub, by WCurtis, S*Ge0: Croféent Jan. 1, 101. ey C 504 J : GERANIUM ARGENTEUM. SILVER-LEAV’D ee CRANE’s-BILL. Sdlsbbbideiacibae i Clafs and Order. MoNnaApDELPHIA DEcANDRIA, Generic Charaéer. Cal. 5-phyllus. Cor. 5-petala, regularis. Ned. glandule 5- a melfifere, bafi longiorum filamentorum adnate. Frudus §-coccus roftratus; roftra fimplicia nuda (nec fpiralia nec barbata). ; Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. GERANIUM argenteum pedunculis bifloris, foliis fubpeltatis feptempartitis trifidis tomentofo fericeis, petalis , _ emarginatis. Linn. Syft. Veget. ed.14. Murr. Fo PO Ge ape PL td. 5. D. G64. GERANIUM argenteum alpinum. Banh. Pin. 318. ee GERANIUM argenteumi montis baldi. Baub. Hy. 3 p. 474. This extremely rare, beautiful, and hardy. fpecies of Gera- nium, we obtained a few years fince of Mr. Lovpicgs, Nurfery-_ ‘man, of Hackney, who we believe was the firft that introduced it from Germany. It is one of the many curious plants found — Botany for its choice vegetable produ@tions. os _ It is diftinguifhed from all our other hardy Geraniums by its filvery foliage; its flowers are large, and extremely delicate ; taken altogether, when it grows and bloffoms in perfeétion, it may be regarded as one of the moft defirable of the alpine tribes, -_ It blofloms in June and July, and with us at Brompton has Tipened its feeds; though in no great number; from thefe the plant may be raifed, as alfo by parting its roots, but the former is the preferable mode. It fucceeds beft kept in a pot of light fandy bog earth, taking care that it does not fuffer through want of water in fummer, nor from having too much in the winter; we need {carcely add, that fo rare a plant, growing naturally in fo pure an atmofphere, requires, as it deferves, more than ordinary __ “fare to preferve it, ie. ae on the fummit of Mount Baldus, celebrated in the annals of | MAAS Re Ab Rs He ee eH ; INDEX. = fi which the Latin of the Plants contained in the Fourteenth Volume are alpha- beticall y arranged, ri. 498 Achillea tomentofa, 500 Agapanthus umbellatus. 501 Aletris capenfis. | 499 Allium Moly.., §& 472 Alée perfoliata, var, Succot. 485 Bignonia radicans. 503 Calycanthus floridus. 494 Centaurea ragufina, 495 Craflula coccinea, 490 Crotalaria juncea. 482 Crotalaria triflora.. | 484 Erica ciliaris. | 481 Erica hirtiflora. | 471 Erica mediterranea, _- Erica pe: >: 09 Srepos chrome : 477 Pelargonium crafficat ile. 493 Pelargonium reniforme. 4609 Platylobiam formofun 473 Plinia pedunculata. - - 478 Phlomis Leonurus., 492 Polygala oppolitifol a+ 475 Pultenaa itipularis.: 497 Quaffia amara. | oe: Ti emAS ot 488 Rhododendron Chamaciftus. 4 Rhodora canadenfis.- fs Spirza trifoliata. 486 Syringa perlica. 4 70 Trillium erectum. OODeO INDEX. > ; In which the Englifh Names 6 of the Plants contained in ° > the Fourteenth Volume are alphabetically arranged. Pe: $ 500 Agapanthus, african. 501 Aletris, waved-leaved. 503 Allfpice, carolina. 472 Aloe, fuccotrine. 9 494 Centaury, cretan. _ 487 Corn-Flag, pencilled. 4 493 Crane’s-Bill, kidney-leaved. § 504 Crane’s-Bill, filver-leaved. 477 Crane’s-Bill, thick-ftalked. 495 Craffula, fcarlet-flowered. % 490 Crotalaria, channel-ftalked. 482 Crotalaria, three-flowered. § 469 Flat Pea, large-flowered. 0 499 Garlic, yellow, or moly. 491 Gentian, vernal. % 479 Geropogon, {mooth. 3h Heath, ciliated. 480 Heath, downy-flowered. 471 Heath, mediterranean. aoe Heath, rough-flowered. 483 3 Hebenttretia toothed. — 502 Heliconia, parrot-beaked. 496 Heliophila, club-pointed. — | 476 Indigo, long-fpiked. — af > 186 Lilac, perfian. st ke ee 492 Milk-Wort, enpotite-eve as Milfoil, woolly. — ae 473 Plinia, ‘pedunctlated. Be i x. 478 Phiomis, lion'staite”° 475 Pultenza, fealy, oy ee | 497 ee bitter. 488 Rhododendron, thyme-leaved, 0 474 —— canadian. - 489 S game three-leaved. 470 Trillium, - upright. 4 485 T rumpet- Flower, afh-leaved. * London? Printed by STEPHEN COUCHMAN, Throgmorton-Street.