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"17-A'LMIA.— £'}'/cace^.--Tlie Cal- 

 -"- ico Laurel. — Low shrubs with 

 beautiful flowers ; natives of North 

 America. They may be grown with 

 perfect safety in the open aii-, or 

 they may be kepi in a greenhouse 

 and forced, so as to flower in Febru- 

 ary. They are generally grown in 

 peat earth, on account of their 

 numerous hair-like fibrous roots ; 

 and they may be removed even when 

 in flower, without injury, if sufficient 

 care be taken. They are propagated 

 by layers, or by seeds, which are 

 received every year in large quan- 

 tities, from America. The seeds 

 should be sown in pots, in sandy 

 peat, or heath-mould, as it is 

 called ; and they should be veiy 

 thinly covered. When the plants 

 come up they should be trans- 

 planted into other pots, putting 

 three in each, and they should not 

 be removed to the open ground, till 

 they are five or six inches high. 

 They should be planted out in 

 spring, 



Kalosa'nthes. — Crassuldcece. — 

 Mr. Haworth's name for Crdssula 

 coccinea, and some of the allied 

 species. — See Cra'ssula. 



K AULFu'ssiA. — Composite. — A 

 beautiful little annual resembling an 

 Aster, the ray florets of which curl 

 curiously back after they have been 

 expanded a short time. This plant 

 was formerly considered half-hardy; 

 but it is found only to requii-e 

 sowing in the open border in April, 

 to flower in May or early in June. 

 Its beauty is, however, very short- 

 lived, as its flowers have generally 

 all faded, and its seeds ripened 

 before the end of July. It was 

 named Chareis by Professor De 

 Candolle, but the name has not been 

 generally adopted. 



Keel. — The lower part of the 

 flower of a pea-flowered plant, con- 



sisting of two petals, so closed 

 together as to resemble a little boat. 



Kenne'dta. — Legiimindsce. — A 

 genus of well-known plants, with 

 showy flowers, which has been 

 lately divided by Baron Hiigel into 

 four new genera, viz. : — the Harden- 

 bergias, comprising those with small 

 bluish or lilac flowers on slender 

 branches, the tj'pe of which is K, 

 monophy'lla; the Zichyas, having 

 bunches of broad reddish flowers, 

 with very short keels, as for ex 

 ample, K, coccinea; the Kennedyas, 

 with large scarlet or crimson flowers, 

 having long keels ; and the Physo 

 lobiums, having flowers a good deal 

 like those of the Zichyas, biit with 

 bladdery capsules. All the Ken- 

 nedyas are Australian climbing or 

 trailing shrubs, which require a 

 greenhouse in England, and should 

 be grown in heath-mould, or very 

 sandy loam, mixed with peat. They 

 are propagated by cuttings, which 

 strike readily in sand, under a bell- 

 glass. 



Ke'rria. • — Rosdcece. — By some 

 mistake, Kerria japonica was at 

 first supposed to belong to Corchorus, 

 a genus of Tiliacese, and of course 

 nearly allied to the Lime-tree, to 

 which it bears no resemblance, 

 though it is still called Corchorus 

 japonicus in the nurseries. It is 

 also singular that though the double- 

 flowered variety was introduced into 

 England in 1700, the species was 

 not introduced till 1835. It is a 

 delicate little shrub, too slender to 

 support itself in the open air ; but 

 when trained against a wall, flower- 

 ing in great profusion. It should 

 be grown in a light rich soil, and it 

 is propagated by cuttings. 



Kidney VETCH.-SeeANTHY'LLis. 



Knapweed. — Centaurea Sca- 

 hi6sa. 



Knau'tia. — DipsacecB. — One 

 species is a very pretty little flower, 



