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Tlie second species has also an annual root] ihc root-leaves man}', 

 lanceolate, and deeply jagged. From these the slalks arise, which 

 are a foot and half high, dividing into many slender branches, each 

 terminated by one large flower of a red colour. It is a native of 

 Italy. 



Culture. — These, like other annuals of the hardy kind, must be 

 raised by sowing the seeds in either the autumn or spring ; or at both 

 periods, where they are required to flower for a great length of time, 

 in patches, in the clumps, borders, or other parts, where they are 

 to remain, six or seven in each, covering them in lightly. When the 

 plants have attained six or seven inches in growth, they should be 

 thinned out to three or four in each patch, and be kept free from 

 weeds. 



They succeed in most soils and situations, having a pleasing effect 

 in their flowers, in the fronts and other parts of the borders and 

 clumps of ornamented grounds. 



3. CONVOLVULUS TRICOLOR. 



SMALL ELUE CONVOLVULUS. 



Tins genus contains several jilants of the herbaceous trailing 

 annual and perennial kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Pentandria Monogynia, and 

 ranks in the natural order of Campanacece. 



The characters are: that the calyx is a five-parted perianthiunij 

 converging, ovate, obtuse, very small, permanent: the corolla is 

 one-pctalled, bell-shaped, spreading, large, plaited, obscurely five- 

 lobed : the stamina have five subulate filaments, shorter by half than 

 the corolla: anthers ovate, compressed: the pistillum is a roundish 

 superior germ : style filiform, length of tlie stamens : stigmas two, 

 oblong, broadish: the pericarpium is a capsule enwrapped by the 



