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corolla has five petals, spreading very miicli, 

 curdate : claws flat, shorter than the calyx : 

 nectaries exterior rive, three-parted, oblonix, 

 spreading, length of the clat\s of the petals, 

 placed in a circle within the petals : nectaries 

 interior five, glandiforni, small, melliferous at 

 the tip : the sltaniina have the filaments placed 

 on the middle of the style, remote from the co- 

 rolla, spreading horizontally : anthers roundish, 

 versatile : pistillum haj no germ : style cylindric, 

 truncate, very Ions, hearing the stamens on its 

 middle. In the female the calyx has the pe- 

 rianth as in the male, permanent : the corolla 

 has alsothepetals asin the male, permanent : nec- 

 taries exterior five, twin, roundish, of the same 

 size and situation as in the male : nectaries in- 

 terior none : the pistillum is a roundish germ : 

 styles three, bifid, reflex, length of the corolla : 

 stisimas obtuse : the pericarpium is a globular 

 capsule, six-furrowed, rough, three-celled: the 

 seeds are solitary, roundish, even, appendlculated 

 at the tip. 



The species cultivated are : 1 . C. alterimides. 

 Narrow-leaved Cluytia; 2. C. pulcheUa, Firoad- 

 leaved Cluytia ; 3. C. Eluteria, Maritime 

 Cluytia. 



The first has a shrubby stem, six or eight feet 

 high, putting out many side branches, which 

 grow erect : the leaves are of a grayish colour, 

 and entire : the flowers come out from the 

 ioints, at the setting on of the leaves, towards 

 the upper part of the branches ; they are small, 

 and of a greenish white, appearing from June 

 to August. 



The second species rises about the same height 

 with the first, but has a stronger steiti : the 

 Jeaves are much larger, sea-green, and on pe- 

 tioles an inch long : the flowers are like those 

 of the first sort in shape and colour, but those 

 (in the male plants are smaller, and grow closer 

 together than those of the female, but both are 

 sustained upon short footstalks. These flowers 

 appear at the same time as those of the first sort, 

 and the seeds ripen in autunni. 



The third, according to Miller, rises with an 

 upright shrubby stalk, not more than three or 

 tour'fcet high ii\ this climate; but in places 

 where it erows naturally, to upwards of twenty, 

 with the branches forming a large spreailing 

 head : the leaves are shaped like those of the black 

 poplar; and the flowers in spikes at the ends of 

 the branches. It is a native of both the Indies. 

 Culture. — These plants are capable of being 

 increased by planting cuttiuus of the voung 

 branches in pots of light fresh earth, either in 

 the spring or sununer months, giving them a 



little water at the time, and plan.ging them in 

 the bark-bed. When they have formed good 

 roots they should be carefully removed mto se- 

 parate ptjts. 



The two first sorts afford variety in the green- 

 house, and the last in the stove ; but they are all 

 capable of being exposed in the open air durinc 

 the summer months. 



They are very ornamental in their cverorreeii 

 leaves. 



CNEORUM, a genus furnishing a plant of 

 the low evergreen shrubby kind. Widow-wail. 



It belongs to the class and order Triandria 

 Moiiogijnia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Tricoccte. 



The characters arc : that the caU x is a very 

 small, three-toothed, permanent perianthium': 

 the corolla has three petals, oblong, lanceolate- 

 linear, concave, erect, equal, deciduous : the 

 stamina have three subulate filaments, shorter 

 than the corolla : anthers small : the pistillum 

 is an obtuse, triangular germ : style erect, firm, 

 length of the stamens : stigma trifid, spreading: 

 the pericarpium is a dry, globose berry, three- 

 lobed, three-celled (three-berried drupe) : the 

 seed solitary, round (eonduplicate, in a two- 

 celled shell). 



The only species is C. trkoccum, Widow- 

 wail, or Spurge-Olive. 



It is a humble shrub, which seldom rises 

 more than two feet and a half high in this cli^ 

 mate, but spreads out on every side with many 

 lateral branches, so as to form a thick bush : 

 the stems are ligneous, and almost as hard as 

 those of the box-tree, and the wood of a pale 

 yellow colour under the bark: the branches beinc 

 garnished with thick stiff leaves, of an oblong 

 oval shape, about an inch and a half long, and 

 a quarter of an inch broad, of a dark green co- 

 lour, having a stroiig vein or rib through the 

 middle : the flowers are produced single, from 

 the wings of the leaves, toward the extremity of 

 the branches, are of a pale yellow colour, be- 

 ginning to appear in May, being succeeded by 

 others during the summer months, and, when the 

 autunni proves favourable, continue in flower 

 till the end of October. It is a native of the 

 South of France, &c. 



Cullure. — These plants may be raised either 

 from seeds or cuttings. 



In the first mode the seed should be sown in 

 the early autumn, on a spot of light common 

 earth, to the depth of about a quarter of an inch. 

 The plants mostly appear in the following spring, 

 when they should be kept clear from weeds ; and 

 in the second spring the strongest be thinned 



