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There is a variety which is procumbent, with smaller flowers. 



The third has a shrubby stalk a foot high, sending out several 

 branches: the leaves very narrow, coming out in clusters, but on the 

 flowerino- branches broader and longer: the flowers at the ends of 

 the branches, erect, on long slender peduncles: the calyxes acute- 

 pointed: the petals large, entire, wiiite, but before the flowers open 

 pale yellow: ihey appear in July, but the seeds seldom ripen in this 

 climate: the flowering stalks decav in the autunm, but the lower 

 Shrubby part continues with the other branches all the year. It is a 

 native of Spain, &c. 



The fourth species forms, if not a tree, as its name implies, 

 a shrub of the lieight of several feet: it begins to flower in Marcii, 

 and continues flowering to the close of summ-r; but has not yet 

 produced seeds in this climate. It is a native of the island of 

 Candia. 



The i'ifih has a suflVuticose stiff stem, a foot high, round, v,ilh 

 simple branches: the leaves are sessile, upright, ..ven, generally 

 shorter than the internodes: the flowers in a terminating umbel, 

 which is four or five deft, with dichotomous rays: the petals arc yel- 

 low with villose claws, and lurning tawny: the calyx acuminate and 

 nifvo-ed at the edoe. It is a native of Africa, flowering in June 

 and July. 



C;///«?e.— These plants may be increased by seeds and layers, or 



cuttings. 



The two first sorts are raised by sowing the seeds in the early 

 spring months, as March or the following month, the former in fields 

 or plantation-grounds, where the soil is fresh, good, and well reduced 

 into order by frequent digging over, or ploughing and harrowing, in 

 narrow drills, or broadcast, and raked or harrowed in with a light 

 harrow ; the plants being afterwards kept perfectly clean from weeds 

 by repeated hoeings. 



Towards the end of August, when the plauls have attained their 

 full growth, and begin to turn yellow at bottom, and brown at top, 

 and their seeds to ripen, it is proper time to pull them ; though, if it 



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