ADO 



ADO 



the stamina : tlic stigmas obtuse, and tlic folia- 

 tion involutid. It is t'i)iincl wild near the Cape 

 of Good llopc. 



The sixth is perfectly smooth, with hard firm 

 leaves. It is also a Cape plant. The Africans 

 use it for raisins: blisters. 



Cii/ttne. — ^"ihc first two sorts may be readily 

 propagated by the seeds, which should be sown 

 in a light soil, in the borders or clumps where 

 they are to remain and flower (for they do not 

 bear transplanting well) in the autumn, about 

 September or the beginning of October, as in 

 that way the plants will appear in the following 

 spring ; but where the sowinsr is deferred to the 

 spring, the plants seldom come to the state of 

 flowering the same year. The seed should be 

 covered to the depth of nearly half an inch ; and 

 when the plants are risen to the height of two or 

 three inches they should be thinned out, till only 

 two or three of the largest remain in each patch, 

 as by that means they ha'-e a better effect when 

 in flower. Some seed should likewise be sown 

 in both warm and shaded situations, in order 

 that the period of their flowerimj; may be pro- 

 tracted to a greater length. Where the method 

 of transplantuig is practised, the plants should 

 be removed as soon as possible after they ap- 

 pear, and have a yery sliglit watering given them 

 for a few days when the season is dn,'. 



The only culture that w ill afterwards be re- 

 quired, in either of the methods, is that of occa- 

 sionally weeding, so as to keep the plants per- 

 fectly clean, and watering them when neces- 

 sary. 



These two arc annual plants both in root and 

 stem, coming up, attaining their full trrowth, 

 perfecting their seed, and wholly decavin<r in 

 the same year ; they must of course be sown 

 annually. — See Axxlal Plants. 



In the third and fourth species the propacation 

 is also effected without difKcully, both by sow- 

 ing the seeds and parting the roots. When 

 the first method is practised, it should be done 

 as soon as possible after the seed has bei-n 

 ripened, in August or the beginning of Septem- 

 ber, in the same kind of soil and situation as the 

 former, as they do not succeed well when put 

 in much later : after the plants are come up 

 they must be kept perfectly clean and free from 

 weeds ; and w hen the season is yerv dry occa- 

 sionally watered, in order to promote their 

 growth. The plants, after being thinned out, in 

 the manner directed above, where they stand too 

 thick, as they advance yerv slowly in their early 

 grow th, should be suffered to stand where they 

 are sown until the second year. In alterwards 

 transplanting them out where they are to remain, 

 the most proper time is the autunm. 'I'hey 

 should not after this be disturbed, as when that 



is the case the plants neither flower so well or 

 w ith such vigour as under other circumstances. 



In parting the roots, the business may be per- 

 formed either in the autumn or the spring; but 

 the former is to be preferred in general, as by 

 that means the new plants are more fully esta- 

 blished before the hot season sets in. These 

 plants, beins; only perennial in root, require the 

 stems to be cut off" and cleared away in the au- 

 tunmal months. 



The last species, being more tender, requires 

 the aid of the stove or greenhouse to protect 

 it in the w inter season in this climate. It may 

 also be raised from seed, by sowing it in pots 

 of good earth in the autunm or spring months, 

 and placinsr it in the hot-bed or stove ; being 

 afterwards managed in the way of other tender 

 exotic plants. 



As the flowers of the first four species are 

 mostly large and ornamental, and in some of 

 them come out early in the season : they may be 

 employed w ith go(jd effect, in combination w ith 

 other herbaceous plants, in adorning the anteriur 

 parts of the borders, clumps, and other compart- 

 ments of shrubberies and other pleasure trrounds. 



The two Cape species are employed in affording 

 an agreeable variety in the stove and the green- 

 house. 



ADOXA, a iienus comprehendinir the Ti/- 

 hvroHS ]\]oickafel or Ilolhiw Roof, which is a 

 hardy herbaceous perennial of low- srowth. 



It belongs to the class and order Octatidr'ui 

 Tftragynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 tiiicculfiitte. 



The characters of which are: that the calyx is 

 an inferior, b fid, or trifid, flat and permanent 

 periaiuhium : the corolla is uionopetalous, flat, 

 and divided into four or i]\c segments, with 

 ovate, acute clefts, longer than the calvx : the 

 stamina are subulate filaments, of the lemrth 

 of the calyx, and the anthers roundish : the 

 pistillum has a germ below the receptacle f)f the 

 corolla : the stiles are simple, erect, of the 

 length of the stamina, permanent, and equal in 

 number to the clefts of the corolla : the stiomas 

 are simple : the periearpium is a globose berry, 

 between the calyx and corolla, the former beiu"' 

 united below with tlie berry, umbilicate, and four- 

 or five-celled : the seeds arc- solitary and com- 

 pressed. 



The.-e is only one species, which is the A. 

 MostlialcUiha, Moschatel, or JMusk-snielling 

 Adoxa. 



It has the root perennial, creeping, toothed, 

 and of a w bile colour : the root-leaves three or 

 f(!ur, triternate, deeply cut, smooth and shinin"': 

 the segments or lobes arc ovate, with a short 

 point : there are two leaves on the stalk w ith 

 shorter petioles, and opposite: the stalk is some- 

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