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SALPIGLOSSIS. 



liant shining bro-vvn, and very hand- 

 some ; but the plant has never yet 

 produced seeds in this country. 



Saint Agnes's Flower. — The 

 Snow-Flake. — See LeucoVum. 



Saint Baknaby's Thistle. — 

 Centaurea solstitialis. 



Saintfoin. — See Onobry^chis. 



Saint John's Bread. — See Ce- 

 ratoVia. 



Saint John's "VYort. — See Hy- 

 pe 'Ricuii. 



Saint Martin's Flower.— ^Z- 

 strceraeria Flos Martini. 



Saint Peter's Wort. — The 

 Snow Berry. — See Sympho'ria. 



Salica'ria. — See Ly'thkum. 



Salico'rnia. — ChenopodiaceCB. 

 Glasswort. -Succulent British plants, 

 which grow naturally by the sea- 

 shore. When cultivated, they should 

 be grown in silver- sand, and a little 

 salt laid occasionally on the sur- 

 face of the soil, so as to be washed 

 in by watering or rain. One of the 

 kinds is sometimes eaten as a culi- 

 nary vegetable, under the name of 

 Marsh Samphire. 



Salisbu^ria. — AvientacecB, or 

 Taxdcece. — This very remarkable 

 plant was originally called Ginkgo 

 biloha, Ginkgo being its name in 

 Japan. Its name has, however, 

 now been altered to the more eu- 

 phonious one of Salisburia adian- 

 tifblia, the leaves resembling in 

 form those of the Maiden-hair Fern, 

 the generic name of which is A didn- 

 tum. As the Salisburia grows to a 

 very large size, and as there are 

 specimens in the neighbourhood of 

 London above sixty feet high, it 

 would not have been mentioned 

 here, had it not been very orna- 

 mental when young. The tree has 

 flowered at Kew and at other places ; 

 but it has never borne fi-uit in Eng- 

 land, though it has in France. 



Sa^lix. — AmentdcecE or Salica- 

 cece. — The Willow. — A very exten- 



sive genus of ligneous plants, varying 

 in size from the tree Willow, of 

 seventy or eighty feet high, to 

 the creeping half-herbaceous kinds 

 called S. herbdcea, S. vaccmiifblia, 

 &c. Of these S. herbdcea creeps 

 so close to the ground that it forms 

 on the Swiss mountains a kind of 

 turf, not rising more than an inch 

 above the surface of the ground, 

 and yet forming, when closely ex- 

 amined, a complete miniature tree. 

 All the kinds of Willow grow best 

 in moist soil, or near water ; and 

 they aU grow in such situations 

 very rapidly. The Weeping Willow 

 (Salix bahjlonica) has been known 

 to grow twenty feet high in ten 

 j-ears, and the other species to in- 

 crease in a similar proportion. 

 All the common Weeping Willows 

 grown in England are female plants, 

 and it is supposed that the kind 

 imported from St. Helena, and 

 called Napoleon's Weeping Willow, 

 is the male plant. Of the tall 

 shrubby kinds of Willow Sdlix 

 cdprea, the great round-leaved Sal- 

 low, or Grey Withy, is perhaps the 

 handsomest ; and it is the flowering 

 branches of this species that are 

 called Palms in the neighbourhood 

 of London, and are gathered by 

 children on Easter Sunday, The 

 Willow will grow in any soil which 

 is not too dry ; and it is propagated 

 by cuttings, which strike root when 

 merely put into the ground, without 

 any other trouble being taken with 

 them. 



Sallow. — A kind of Willow, -nith 

 roundish shaggy leaves. 

 '" Salpiglo'ssis. — Solandcece or 

 ScJ'ophiddrince.-Verj beautiful half- 

 hardy annual plants, natives of Chili. 

 The seeds should be sown in February 

 on a slight hotbed ; and the young 

 plants should be planted out in May. 

 The soil should be loam mixed with 

 one-third of peat or sand ; and the 



