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axillary, solitary, branched, pendulous, and from two to six-flow^ 

 cred. The flowers of a greenish wliite colour. The berries violet or 

 deep red. It flowers in June; and is a nalivc of the North of Eu- 

 rope, &c. 



The fifth species has the stems two feet high, unbranched, with 

 many oblong leaves embracing ihem at the base, resembling the 

 leaves of Plantain. The flowers are small and white, and are pro- 

 duced in single spikes at the top, and are succeeded by small red 

 berries, about the same size as in llie first sort. It flowers the begin- 

 ning of June, and is a native of Virginia, cScc. 



Culture. — In all these sorts of plants their culture may be eftected 

 by parting then- roots, either in the autumn or spring months, but 

 the former is the better season, planting them out where they are to 

 remain. They afterwards only require to be kept free from weeds 

 and removed every three or four years, according as their roots may 

 be increased. - 



As they succeed best in rather shady situations, they are well 

 suited for affording variety and ornament in shady places, such as 

 the borders or the sides of walks in woods and wilderness parts of 

 pleasure-grounds, producing considerable variety by the singularity 

 of their growth and the beauty of their foliage and flowers. They 

 also grow well in many other situations that are more open. 



2. CERINTHE MAJOR. 



GREAT HONEY-WORT. 



This genus furnishes plants of the hardy, ornamental, flower- 

 ing, annual kind. The Honey wort. 



It belongs to the class and order Fentandria Monogijnia, and ranks 

 in the natural order of AsperifoUa. 



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

 divisions oblong, equal, permanent: the corolla is monopetalous ahd 



