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a ZICHYA. 5 0 ZYGOPHYLLUM. 
Zr\as.—Graminee.—The Indian! Zi'ncmwEer. — Scitaminee. — The 
Corn. An annual plant, a native | Ginger. Stove plants, with small 
“of America. The plant is very or- | flowers, which are produced in a 
namental, and the male blossoms | very curious spathe, and a fleshy 
are particularly elegant. It should | rhizoma, or underground root. One 
be grown in rich mould, and it of the species is the common ginger. 
should be sown very early inspring;| Zi’nn1a.—Composite.—Beautiful 
or it may be sown ona hotbed, and annual flowers, natives of Mexico, 
transplanted into the open ground | which should be raised on a hotbed, 7 
in May. and planted outin May. See Haxr- 
Zesra Prant.—Caldthea Zebri- | warpy ANnuALs, p. 117. 
na.—Cane-like plants, with red and|  Z1'zypuus.—Rhamndcee.— Half- 
yellow, purple and yellow, or white | hardy shrubs, some of gsr e 
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flowers; natives of Brazil, which | frequently grown in British gardens. 
require a stove in England, and | See JususE Tree, and Pans'‘rus. 
which should be grown in sandy| Zoste\ra. — Fluviales.— Wrack 
peat. 
Zepoary.—Curcima Zedoaria. 
grass, or Grass wrack. A marine 
| plant, common in salt-water ditches. 
 Yrno‘nia.—Ericadcee.—The new | 
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The leaves, when dry, are tough 
name given by Professor Don to a | and flexible ; and they have been 
genus of Andromeda. \lately used for filling beds and 
Zepuyra'NtHEes. — Amaryllida- | cushions. 
cee.—Cape bulbs, with very elegant| Zycore’ratum. — Orchidaceae. — 
flowers. Nearly all of the species | Showy orchideous plants, which in 
are quite hardy, and only require | their native state are found grow- 
planting like the Crocus, in a warm | ing on the branches of trees, and 
border, in a somewhat sandy soil; | which should be grown on wood in 
without wanting any further care,|the stove. For their culture, see 
except occasionally taking them} Orcnipeous Erirnyress. 
up, every third or fourth year, to| Zycorny’tuum. — Rutdcee, or 
remove the offsets. Zygophy'llee—The Bean Caper. 
Zi'CHYA. — Leguminose. — Mr.| Greenhouse and hardy perennials, 
Bentham’s new name for some of| which will grow in any common 
the kinds of Kenne‘pya. See page | garden soil, that is somewhat loamy 
264. They are propagated by cuttings. 
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