1 GARDEN BOTANY. 



Order LYTHRACEiE. Loose-strife Family. 



1. Lagerstroemia Indiea, Crape Myrtle, a handsome greenhouso 

 shrub, which stands the winter farther south, is known not to be a real Myrtle 

 by its dotless leaves, and the calyx free from the ovary. Flowers showy, in 

 panicles, purple ; petals 6, on long claws, crisped. 



2. Cuptiea ignea (wrongly called plattjcentra) is a very handsome low 

 undershrub, with oval bright-green leaves, and vermilion-red flowers, with 

 their dark-colored tips bordered with white The showy part is the calyx, 

 which is spurred, the petals minute or none : it flowers all winter in the green- 

 house, and all summer in the garden. 



3. Lythrum Salicaria, Man. p. 128, is not uncommon in old gardens. 



Order ONAGEACE^]. Evening Primrose Family. 



Manual, p. 130. — Besides some of our wild Evening Primroses, the following 

 are cultivated for their showy flowers. 



Shrubs (of the greenhouse, &c.) with hanging flowers, a calyx re- 

 sembling a corolla (red, or white in some varieties), and blue petals 

 convolute around the lower part of the 8 stamens : fruit a berry. 1. FUCHSIA. 

 Herbs : fruit a 4-celled pod. 

 Stamens 8 : scarlet flowers like those of Fuchsia, but with a pod 



like that of Epilobium, having hairy-tufted seeds. . . 2. ZATJSCHNERIA. 

 Stamens only 4 : calyx prolonged above the ovary into a slender 



tube : petals short-clawed and 3-lobed. ..... 3. EUCHARIDIUM. 



Stamens 4 good ones, and 4 sterile with abortive anthers or none : 



petals with long claws. . 4. CLARKIA. 



Stamens 8 with anthers : petals with hardly any claws, entire or 



notched at the end : seeds not tufted 5. (ENOTHERA. 



1. Fuchsia, Fuchsia or Ladies' Ear-drop. The cultivated kinds, now 

 so common, arc from the following, but much crossed and varied. They came 

 from Mexico, Chili, &c. 



F. microphylla has 'small leaves as well as flowers, the latter globular 

 in the bud, and the stamens not protruded. 



F. CC-ccmea is the parent of all the common Fuchsias with short flow- 

 ers, the lobes of the calyx longer than its tube, and the stamens long-exserted. 



F. fulgens is the parent of the commonest long-flowered sorts (2^-3 

 inches long), the short lobes of the calyx often greenish-tipped, the stamens 

 little exserted. 



2. Zauschneria Califoriliea, a very choice ornamental perennial, from 

 California, low, pubescent, with lanceolate or oblong leaves. 



3. Eueharidium eoneinnum : a low, California annual, like a Claikia, 

 except in the particulars mentioned above ; flowers pink-purple. 



4. Clarkia pulchella, from Oregon, a handsome garden annual, with 

 lanceolate leaves, large 3-lobcd petals (rose-purple, and a white variety), with 

 a pair of tectli on the claw, and 4 dilated stigmas. 



C. elegans, from Oregon and California, is taller, with ovate and serrate 

 leaves, the rhomboid rose-purple petals not lobed. 



5. CEnothera, Evening Primrose. Nos. 1, 4, 5, of the Manual, p. 130, 

 occur in gardens. 



