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aTtern.ite, of a dark wrecn colour: stem'; many, 

 vcrv- simple, a hand liigli, round, pul>csccnt, 

 tipright; the side-ones barren and diciiiubent: 

 flowers alternate, of a purple colour, sepa- 

 rated bv Uavcs like those on the stem, but small- 

 er, and fi)rniing an upiiglit, simple raceme. 

 Thi y appear in May, or carrier. It is a native of 

 Gennanv . 



The second species has a simple stem : leaves 

 alternate, from the axils ; spike long with the 

 flowers remote; corollas tomentose on the out- 

 side, of a dark colour, fragrant at night. It is 

 a native of t!u Cape. 



Cvllttre. — The lirst sort may be increased by 

 prting the root.-, and planting thcni where they 

 arc Id remain in tlic early autumn. Tliey succeed 

 the most perfectly in situations where the soil is 

 a loamy sand and not enriched by the application 

 of nuaiure, as under other circumstances they are 

 apt to rot, and be destroyed. 



The second kind may oe increased by planting 

 cuttings of the youne shoots early in the spring 

 or surnmer months, ni pots of fresh light earth, 

 plunu^ing them in the hot-bed of the stove. 

 When they are well rooted, they should be re- 

 moved into separate pots and placed in the green- 

 house, where they must be constantly kept, 

 and have a pretty free admission of air as well as 

 frequent slight waterings. 



Thev are'^plants that afford variety in the dif- 

 ferent situations where they grow. ITie lirst is 

 a ver\' desirable little plant for the decoration of 

 rock-work, as it grows in close tufts, and pro- 

 duces numerous lively purple flowers during most 

 of the summer season. 



ERIOCEPHALUS, a genus containing a 

 plant of the shrubby evergreen kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Si/ngenesia 

 Polygamia Necessaria, and rank? in the natural 

 order of Compos'Ucf Nucamentaceie. 



The characters arc : that the caly.x is common 

 upright : scales ten, ovate, equal, converging, of 

 which the five exterior are keeeled, the interior 

 flat: thccorolla compound rayed: corollules her- 

 maphrodite twice as many as in the disk : fe- 

 males five in the ray : proper of the hermaphro- 

 dite funnel-fomi; border five-cleft, patulous: 

 of the ray ligulate, obcordate, with ihree-lobed, 

 equal tijif : the stamina in the hermaphrodites 

 consist of five filaments, capillary, verj- short; 

 anthers cvlindric, tubular: the pistillum in the 

 hermaphrodite is a very small germ, naked : style 

 simple; stigma two-cleft, sharp ; in the females, 

 germ ovate, naked : stvle simple, stigma acu- 

 minate, inflex : there is no pericarpium : calyx 

 scarce changed: there is no seed to the herma- 

 phrodites : females solitary, obovate, naked : 

 ihe recepiaculum naked, flat; or else a down of 



tlie calyx in a double row is interspersed botK 

 between the hermaphrodite and Female floscnles. 

 The species are : 1 . E. AJncniiiif, Cluster- 

 leaved Eriocephalus; i. E. rud-mosus, Silvery- 

 leaved Eriocephalus. 



The first lias a shrubby stalk, from four to six 

 feet high, putting out many side branches the 

 w hole length : the leaves are \v oolly, coming out 

 in clusters, some taper and entire, others divided 

 into three or five parts, which spread open like a 

 hand ; they have a strong smell when brui-*td 

 approaching to that of l>avcnder Cotton: the 

 flo.vers are produced in small clusters at the ends 

 of the liraiK-hcs, and stand erect : the female 

 florets composing the ray I'onn a hollow, in the 

 middle of which the hermaphrodite fiords form- 

 ing the disk are situated ; the border is white, 

 w i~ih a little reddish cast on the inside, and the 

 disk is of a purplish colour. It flowers from 

 January to March. 



The second species has the .stature and appear- 

 ance of the first, hut all the leaves are undivided: 

 the flowers are on pedicles shorter than the calyx : 

 outer scales of the calyx four, ovate, subtoinen- 

 tose, with a very soft wool from the bosom of them. 

 It flowers in March and the following month. 



Culture. — These plants may be raised by lay- 

 ers or cuttincs of the young shoots. The for- 

 mer should be laid down in the early autumn 

 or spring, and the latter planted during the 

 summer" in pots filled with light earth, and 

 plunged in a moderate hot-bed, being shaded till 

 ihey become well rooted, and frequenrly refresh- 

 ed by small waterings. When the layers or cut- 

 tings have stricken root perfectly, they should be 

 tak'en off, or removed into separate pots, and 

 placed in an air\' situation in the green-house to 

 prevent theirbeingdiawn up loo much: afterwards 

 thev may be set out in the open air in a warm 

 aspect till the approach of autumn, w htn they 

 must be removed into the green-house again, and 

 placed so as to have much sun and free air when 

 the weather is mild, carefully guarding them 

 against frost and moist air. 



Thev should be very sparingly watered in win- 

 ter, but when in the o])en air in summer it w ill 

 be frequently necessary. 



From their retaining their leaves all the year, 

 they have a very ornamental effect in winter. 



ERVNGIUM, a genus coiitaining plants of 

 thehardv flowering biennial and perennial kind. 



It belongs to the class and order FentanJria 

 Disyniu, and ranks in the natural order of 

 UmMUittp. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a common 

 conic receptacle, chaffs separatins the sessile 

 floscules: involucre ofthe receptacle man; -leaved, 

 flat, exceeding the floscules : perianthium proper 



