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STYLIDIUM. 385 SUCCULENT PLANTS. 
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Srranva'sia. —— Rosdcee. — 
new name for Crate‘gus giatca, an 
evergreen tree, a native of Nepal, 
with glaucous leaves, woolly be- 
neath, and white flowers. It appears | 
to be hardy, or very nearly so, and 
it is very handsome. It is generally 
propagated by grafting on the com- 
mon Hawthorn. 
Srrawserry Burire—See Burr- 
TUM. 
STRAWBERRY TREE.—See A’RBu- 
TUS. . 
Srrewi'tz1a. — Musdcee.—Mag- 
nificent plants with large long leaves, 
and very large and singular orange 
and purple flowers. They are gene- 
rally kept in a stove, but they will 
flower im a greenhouse or room, if | 
kept sufficiently moist. They should 
be grown in light sandy loam. They 
are very difficult to propagate, but 
they sometimes send up suckers, and 
sometimes ripen seeds. 
Srrepta’NTHERA. — Iridee. — 
Cape bulbs with very showy flow- 
ers; which may either be grown in 
pots, or in beds in the open air.— 
See [’x1a. 
Streproca’rrus. — Bignonidcee. 
-A very handsome perennial plant 
om South Africa, which requires a 
stove in England ; but which when 
properly treated produces its beau- 
iful and elegant pale purple flowers 
in great abundance. It is nearly 
allied to Gloxinia, but it has twisted | 
seed-pods. It should be grown in 
equal parts ob at, loam, and sand; 
and it is increased by seeds, which 
it ripens freely. 
Sruar?r1a.— Ternstremidcee.— 
(A North American shrub or low tree, 
“ ‘with large white flowers, nearly al- 
ied to Malachodendron. It will 
grow in any common garden soil 
‘that is tolerably light, and it flowers 
‘freely. It is propagated by layers, or 
‘cuttings.—See ieidiie oe 
Sryxiprum.— Stylidee.— Austra- 
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sept in a greethouse, with small 
{pinkish or purple flowers, the sta- 
i'mens of which are irritable, and 
move when touched. All the spe- 
| cies should be grown in sandy peat, 
or heath-mould ; and the perennials 
| are propagated by seeds or division 
| of the root, and the shrubby species 
by cuttings. 
y’RAX. — Styracinee—Storax. 
Ornamental shrabs, with white flow- 
ers, natives of Europe and North 
America ; which grow best in sandy 
peat, or heath-mould, and flower 
freely. They are propagated by 
layers. 
Succory.— Cichorium I'ntybus 
is a British plaat, with brilliant 
| blue flowers, which grows freely in 
sandy soils, and which be 
grown with the greatestitelis in 
gardens. aes 
SuccuLENT PLANTS are those 
| which have both their stems and 
leaves provided with so few stomata 
or breathing-pores, as to be able to 
retain a great portion of the moist- 
|ure which is evaporated by other 
plants. These plants are generally 
natives of sandy deserts, where for 
| half the year they are entirely des- 
'titute of water, and where their 
capability of retaining moisture is 
‘necessary to keep them alive. 
When grown in Europe, they are 
well adapted for sitting-rooms, as 
they are capable of bearing a 
er degree of dryness in the air than 
most other planis; but they are 
'very liable to be mjured by too 
much water, as in the cloudy at- 
mosphere of England their stomata 
|are not sufficiently numerous to 
enable them to throw it off, and it 
rots them, or, as gardeners express 
|it, they damp off. All succulent 
plants when grown in pots should 
have abundant drainage, and should 
never be suffered to stand with wa- 
ter in the saucer; and the soil in 
which | they are, grown, should be 
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