C H R 



C II R 



from the tip of tlic tube: anthers ohlong, erect, 

 large, converging, and (al't«r liavintr shed the 

 pollen) spirally twisted : the pistillum is an ovate 

 germ: style (ilitorni, a little longer than the sta- 

 mens, declinate: stigma headed, a-seending: the 

 pericarpium is ovate and biloeular: llie seeds 

 ninncroiis and small. 



'I"hc species cultivated for ornament are: 1. C. 

 inccijira. Berry-bearing Chironia, or Cen- 

 taury; '2. C. J'rulescciis, Shrubby African Chi- 

 ronia. 



The first grow s to the heiiiiit of a foot and 

 half, or two feet, with a quadrangular stem, 

 and becomes very bushy, having beautiful red 

 flowers at the ends of the branch; s. 



It produces both flowers and fruit durin<i n:o-;t 

 of the summer months, and sometimes rijeni 

 seeds, which are of a dark chesiuit colour, h 

 is a native of Africa. 



The second species has the stent dividing 

 above into round branches, tomentose, ash- 

 coloured, mostly allcrnate, subdividing a little at 

 lop: the leaves arc opposite, obtuse, tleshv, 

 about two inches in length, sessile, frequently 

 twice as long as the iniernodes: the peiluneles 

 two or three together, terminalinsr, each having 

 two or three bright piupic flowers arising from 

 the axils, with a pair of linear folioks in the 

 middle: the pedicels one-flowered. It is a na- 

 tive of Africa. 



Cullure. — The plants in these different species 

 mav be raised from seeds, which should be sown 

 in small pots of light sandy earth, ]ilunging 

 them in a moderate hot-bed : w hen they have 

 attained some growth, air should be admitted 

 pretty freely, it is the practice with some to re- 

 move them into other pots ; but when they are 

 suffered to remain in those in which they were 

 «own, till tliey become larce, thcv make the 

 stronger plants. They should be afterwards gra- 

 dually exposed to the open air, to be hardened, 

 being placed in sunny situations with other 

 plants that require little moisture. In the win- 

 ter they should have the protection of a dry and 

 airy green-hoiise, and be very sparingly wa- 

 tered. 



They mav likewise be increased by cuttiinjs 

 planted in pots of the same sort of earth in the 

 spring, aided by the assistance of a hot-bed, and 

 the same kind of management as in the former 

 inode. 



In these methods of management thcv mostly 

 -flower the second year, and atlbrtl much orna- 

 ment and variety among other curious plants of 

 he exotic kind. 



CHRISTMAS ROSE. See Hkllkbohiis. 



CHRIST'S THOKN. Sec Hiiamni s. 

 • CHBYSANTIIEMUJSJ, a emus eoniaiuintr 



plants of the flowering herbaceous annual and 



perennial, as well a* the shnd)by kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Syii^rne.iia 

 Pulyganiid Siiperjhta, and r.inks in the natural 

 order of Composilcv Disxo'ulcef. 



The characters are: that the ealyx is com- 

 mon hemispherical, imbricate: scales close in- 

 cumbent; the interior ones larger by degrees; 

 the innermost terminaird by a parched scale : the 

 corolla compound radiated: corolU-ls herma- 

 phrodiie tubular, numerous, in the disk: females 

 more than twelve in the ray : projier of the her- 

 maphrodites funnel-form, lue-cleft, patulous, 

 length of the calyx: of the females strap-shaped, 

 oblong, three-toothed: the stamina, in (he her- 

 maphrodites, filaments live, capillary, very 

 short: the anthers cylindnc, tul)ular, shorter 

 than the corolla: the pislilUim, in the her- 

 ma]ihrodiles, an ovate germ: style tilifonn, 

 longer than the stamens : stigmas two, rcvo- 

 lute: in the females, an ovate germ : style fili- 

 form, equal with the hermaphrodites: stignias 

 two, obtuse, revolute: there is no perieaiplum: 

 the ealyx unchanged: the seed lolitary, oblong, 

 u ilhout any pappus : the receptacle naked, di.uted 

 and convex. 



The species cuUivalcd for ornament arc, chieflv, 

 1. C. coronal ium, Annual Garden Chrysanthe- 

 nunn ; 2. C. serot'mum. Late-flowering Creep- 

 ing Chrysanthemum ; 3. C. Monspclittise, Moiit- 

 pelier Chrysanthemum, or Ox Eve; 4. C co- 

 ri/mios/nn, Corymbed Chrysanthemum ; 5. (■'. 

 Jhitescois, Shrubby Canary Chrysanthenmm, or 

 Ox Eye ; (5. C. Jiosculosum, Bastard Shrubby 

 Chrysanthemum. 



The first has a furrowed stem, leafy, branch- 

 ing, three feet high : the leaves are smooth, 

 stem-clasping; pinnas either pinnate or pinna- 

 tilid, the end one very large, bifid, with the jiin- 

 nules sharply gashed : the juduni les terniinat- 

 iiig, one-flowered: tlie flowers ofdiirerenl co- 

 lours. It is a native of Sicily, &c. 



The second species has a perennial creeping 

 root : the stem strong, branched, erect, somewhat 

 villose, three or four feet high : the leaves arc 

 sessile, smooth; on some plants with many acu- 

 minate serratures beyond the nruldic, on other* 

 very few towards the end only, ollurs again 

 (juite entire : the flowers on the ends of the 

 branches of a w bite colour, appearing in Sep- 

 tember. 



'i'he third is an eleaant perennial plant, with- 

 out scent, and is very smooth and slightly \il- 

 lose, with erect, branching stems, three or four 

 feet in height : the lower leaves bipiimatilid, 

 ii|>^3er pinnatilid,one or two at top <|uite entire; 

 the floweri* large, while, and ridiuted, like lho»e 

 of the above. 



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