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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Paths— continued. 
from 1}ft. to 3ft., but are subordinate to all main 
walks in a large garden, and frequently are not 
made with anything beyond the ordinary soil. Where 
Paths are intended to be permanent, they may be much 
improved if a shallow bed of clinkers, or rough gravel, 
is laid down, and covered with finer gravel, or ashes. 
The term Paths, or alleys, further denotes the divisions 
allowed between seed-beds. 
PATIENCE, or HERB PATIENCE (Rumer 
Patientia). A hardy perennial, native of Europe, &c., 
the leaves of which were formerly much used in the place 
of Spinach, and, in the early part of the season, as a 
substitute also for Sorrel. It may readily be raised from 
seed, sown about March, in drills 14ft. asunder, the plants 
being eventually thinned to 1ft. apart in the rows; or seeds 
may be sown broadcast, and the seedlings afterwards trans- 
planted at similar distances. Division of an established 
stock may also be practised. To maintain a supply of 
young leaves, which alone are of any use, the stems 
should be ent over. This will also prevent 
the ripening and distribution of seed by the wind. A 
soil, and a rather moist situation, are most suitable, 
but the plants grow well under almost ‘any circumstances, 
PATRINIA (named in honour of E. L. Patrin, 1742- 
1814, French traveller in Siberia, &.). Syns. Fedia (of 
Adanson), Mouffetta. ORD. Valerianeo. A genus of 
erect, glabrous or loosely villous, hardy, perennial herbs. 
About nine or ten species have been proposed, but several 
authors reduce these as varieties of two only; they 
are natives of Central and extra-tropical Eastern Asia. 
Flowers disposed in corymbose-paniculate cymes; calyx 
limb small, obtusely sub-dentate ; corolla yellow, with a 
very short tube, and a limb of five spreading lobes. Leaves 
once or twice pinnatifid or pinnatisect ; radical ones rarely 
entire. The plants described below are those best known 
to gardeners. They will succeed in any light, rich soil; 
and may be increased by seeds. 
P. rock-lo 1 5 
— ihe, tes i 
Sioa maaa ofa Sowa Teh iba d TE 
714, under name of Valeriana sibirica.) N 
. scabiosesefolia bious-leaved 
F E, O a ke 
deeply pilose; stem ones pinnatifid, with lanceolate- 
linear, acute segments, the 
— h Ift. N 25 5. C. 
n 
Asia, 1817. (L. B. G. 1340; S. B. F. G. 
with a fragrance somewhat like that 
May and June. l rather fleshy; radical ones 
spathulate, entire, toothed or serrated, but sometimes pin- 
natifid at the apex; cauline ones pinnate, with entire, usually 
obtuse, A aparo Stem glabrous, A. lft. 
(B. M. „ under name of Valeriana ruthenica.) 
PATRISIA. A synonym of Ryania (which see). 
PATTONIA. A synonym of Grammatophyllum 
(which see). 
PATULOUS. Moderately spreading. 
PAUCIFLORUS. Fow-flowered. 
PAUCIPOLIUS. Few-leaved. 
PAULLINIA (named after Ch, Fr. Paulli, 1643-1742, 
a Danish botanist). Orp. Sapindacee. This genus com- 
Siberia, &c., 1761. | 
prises about eighty species of climbing and twining, ever- | 
green, stove shrubs, confined, with one or two exceptions, 
to the tropical regions of the Western hemisphere. Flowers | 
pale, small, in axillary racemes; 
J sepals five, concave, 
imbricate; petals four, 
bearing scales inside near the base; 
stamens eight. Fruit a pear-shaped, three-sided, one to l 
three-celled capsule, with thin partitions. Leaves alter- 
nate, stipulate, compound, one to three, ternate or pinnate, 
or decompound ; leaflets often toothed, dotted, or lined ; 
petioles often winged. Paullinias thrive in a soil con- 
sisting of loam and leaf mould. Propagation is effected 
by cuttings, made of ripe shoots, and inserted under a 
Paullinia—continued. 
bell glass, in bottom heat. The majority of the species 
are not worth cultivating, but the two here described 
will be found desirable subjects for the stove. 
P. oceanica (Oceanian). J. slender, linear, equally or unequally 
innate ; pinnæ sometimes simple, ovate, inciso-dentate, some- 
imes ternate, with a larger terminal and two smaller lateral 
leaflets; sometimes there is a slight wing developed upon the 
rachis near the insertion of the ppor inne, Stems dark- 
coloured. South Sea Islands, 1875. — 28 name. 
P. thalictrifolia (Thalictrum-leaved). fl. 2 pale pink, zin. in 
diameter, in small clusters. October. J. Ain. to 10in. long, 
deltoid-ovate in outline, three-ternately-pinnate, pubescent, the 
main rachis angular, partially flattened or obscurely winged ; 
pinnæ in six to eight rs, narrow-ovate, the upper ones linear ; 
pinnules four to eigh airs, tin. to zin. long. Stem terete, 
slender; branches velve! ae h. probably many feet. 
Rio de Janeiro, 1871. A utiful climber. (B. M. 5879.) 
, but suffused 
P. t. argentea (silvery), l. like those of the t 
with a 
silvery white. A splendid variety. (B. H. 1880, p. 343.) 
PAULOWNIA (named in honour of Anna Paulowna, 
Princess of the Netherlands, daughter of Paul I. 
Emperor of Russia). ORD. Scrophularinew. A mono- 
typie genus, the species being a very handsome, hardy, 
deciduous tree, with the habit of Catalpa. It does well 
in any good soil, and may be increased by cuttings, or 
by imported seeds, sown in a cold frame; the seedlings 
should be planted in the open ground when sufficiently 
large. On account of the dull colour of its downy 
leaves, and the flowers appearing too early for our 
climate, the tree is not so much grown as formerly. 
FIG. 38. FLOWERING BRANCH OF PAULOWNIA IMPERIALIS. 
P. im 
Perialis (Imperial).* showy ; corolla violet, with 
dark apota on fhe insida, Lin. to Au. long, with an elongated 
tube, and a five-lobed, spreading limb; panicles terminal, wi 
opposite, many-flowered branches. June. Ca e usually lin. 
long, ovoid, acuminate. l opposi , entire or lobed, broad, 
soft, villous or pubescent, 6in. to 12in. long. Branches hori- 
zontal, tortuous. h.30ft. Japan, 1840. See Fig. 38. (B. M. 466.) 
PAVETTA (the vernacular name of P. indica in 
Malabar). Syns. Baconia, Crinita, Verulamia. ORD. 
Rubiacew. A genus comprising about sixty species of 
glabrous, pubescent, or tomentose, stove or greenhouse, 
shrubs or small trees, indigenous in the tropics, and 
also found in South Africa. They are closely allied to 
Jrora, but the lobes of the corolla are twisted in the 
bud; the style projects for some distance from the 
corolla, and is terminated by a club-shaped stigma. 
Flowers white or greenish, di in trichotomously- 
branched corymbs, rarely capitate, often bundle-flowered, 
