106 ON THE PROPAGATION AND CULTIVATION OF PLANTS. 



ARTICLE VII. — On the Propagation and Cultivation of 

 Plants. No. IV. By Mr. F. F. Ashford. 



(continued from page 84.) 

 Tribe 2. Lote.k. 



Genera 32. Achyronia. CI. 17, or. 4, sp. 1. This is a 

 pretty New Holland genus, and thrives best in equal proportions 

 of sandy loam and peat ; and Sweet observes, that young cuttings 

 planted in pots of sand, covered with a bell glass, and placed in 

 a shady part of the propagating house will soon take root, the 

 •dasses must be occasionally wiped out, for the dew settling on the 

 cuttings will cause them to damp off. Named by YVilldenow 

 from archyron, chaff; branches and leaves being very chaffy. 



Genera 33. Adenocarpus. CI. 17, or. 4, sp. 6. This genus is 

 furnished with glandular seed-pods, and to it belongs Cytisus folio- 

 losus, and several other nearly related species ; the greater part of 

 which thrive well in the open borders, but are apt to be killed in 

 very severe frost ; they succeed well in a rich loamy soil, mixed 

 with a little peat, and are readily increased by seeds ; and young 

 cuttings, planted in pots of sand under a bell-glass, are not diffi- 

 cult to root. Named by Decanpolle, from mien, a gland, and 

 karpos, fruit. 



Genera 34. Anthyllis, or Kidney Vetch. CI. 17, or. 4, sp. 19. 

 L'anthyllide, Fr. ; Die wollblume, Ger. ; Wundknrid, Dutch. 

 This is a very pretty genus, containing plants for the greenhouse, 

 and also for the flower-garden, the former being propagated by 

 seeds or young cuttings planted under a bell-glass in sand, (the 

 classes must occasionally be wiped, or else the damp is apt to 

 make them mouldy, which destroys them,) and grown in a mix- 

 ture of peat and loam : the latter grows best in a light soil in a 

 dryish situation, and are rapidly increased by seeds. A. vulneraria 

 is recommended as a herbage plant by some writers, while others 

 confound it with Birdsfoot Trefoil (Lotus major and corniculatus), 

 and with the Liquorish Vetch { Astray alas glycyphillos), to which, 

 to a cursory observer, it bears considerable resemblance. Lix- 

 N.raus informs us, that in Oeland, where the soil is a red calcareous 

 clay, the flowers are red, while in Gothland, where the soil is white, 

 the flowers also are white ; ours are yellow. A. Barba Jovis is a 

 silvery looking bush, with white and hairy leaves, pale yellow 



