E R Y 



E R Y 



five-leaved, upright, sharp, exceeding the co- a foot high, branched, smooth, having at each 



rolla, seated on the cerm : the corolla uiii- joint leaves ol the same form with the lower 



vcrsa'l, uniform, romidPsh : flosculcs all icrtile: ones, but smaller. The flowers come out at 



proper live-petalled : petals oblons, the tips bent the ends of the branches m roundish prickly 



inwards to the ba>e,stiaighlcnLdlon2;iludlnally by heads, and are of a whitish bhie colour; under 



aline: the stamina cousin of live ^capillary fila- each head is a range of narrow, sti3, prickly 



ments, slraioht, exceeding the floscules : an- leaves, spreading like the rays of a star. The 



thers oblona°: the pistilluin is a hispid inferior flowers appear lu July. It is a native oi Britain, 



eerm: styles two, filiform, straight, length of he. The young flowennii-shoots when eaten 



the stamens : stigmas simple: the pencarpium 

 is an ovate fruit, divisible in two directions: the 

 seeds oblong, and colunmai'. 



The species cultivated arc: 1. E.foct'idum, 



as asparagus are very grateful, and ofa nourish- 

 ing quality. 



The fourth species has the lower leaves divided 

 like the finders of a hand, into five or six seg- 



Stinkin<-- Eiyno-o ; 2. E. planum, Flat-leaved ments, which are very much cut at their extrc- 

 Jlryngo'; 3. 'E/'maiitimum, SeaEryngo, or Sea- J^^i'ties into many parts, and have small spines. 

 Holly; 4. E.amellnjstimim, Amethystine Eryn ""' 



The stem is about two feet high, with smaller 

 and more divided leaves. The upper part of the 

 stem, and also the heads of flowers, are of the 

 linest amethystine colour, making a fine appear- 

 ance. Ii is a native of Styria, lowering in 

 July. 



The fifth species has a perennial root. The 

 leaves are cordate and toothed, the lower on 



The 



go; 5. E. Alpiimm, Alpine Eryngo 



The first has an annualor biennial root. The 

 root-leaves bluntish ; the serratures terminating 

 in harmless spines. The stem a foot high or 

 more, green, somewhat angular, dichotomous, 

 spreading; with the extreme branches fit xuose. 

 The leaves on the branches opposite, stem- 

 clasping, wedge-shaped, sabconnate, with the long petioles, the upper stem-elaspmg 

 edo-e toothed and semitrifid ; the divisions Ian- lower leaves resemble those ot Cacalia, but are 

 ceolate, all the angles terminating m a purplish more acute, and the teeth end m a soft spine. 

 £pine. The peduncle springs from the ansiles of Amethystine leaves surround the oblong head 

 the stein; it is straight, sluirter than the uiter- of flowers; some <f them bristle-form and re- 

 node, triangular, streaked on the sides. The in- flex, others pinnatifid and lanceolate. It is cu- 

 volucres are composed of six leaflets or there- nous, according to Villars, on account of the 

 abouts; are horizontal, and longer than the beauty of the luvolucixs, which are of a vinous 

 flower; the leailets are lanceolate^ nerved, and azure blue, mixed with green and white. It is 

 have a spine at the tip and at one or two of the a native of Switzerland. &c. 

 -erratures. The common receptacle is cyiindric, CwZ/M/e.— Some of these plants may be in- 

 whence the flower is cylmdnc. It is of a dull creased by seed, and the others by planting 

 white colour, appearing'at the divisions and ex- their creeping roots. 



tremities of the branches. The whole plant has The first, second, fifth, and sixth ?orts are 

 a very penetratiuo-, strong, but not unsavoury raised by sowing the seeds, in the first on a hot- 

 smell. It is a native of Virginia, flowering in bed or in pots plunged into it, but in the others 

 June and July. ^" ^'^'^ autumn, in the places where the plants 



The second species has a perennial root. The are to grow. 

 stem upright, round, furiowed or streaked. When the plants have attained some growth, 

 ^vhitish, aboia a foot and half in height, blueish in the first kind, thev should be removed into se- 

 at top, where it divides into three pa'fts, each of parate small pots, filled with light, fresh, fine 

 which is terminated by a pcduncled axillary mould, and leplunged into the bark hot-bed, 

 flower. Tower leaves cordate ovate, obtuse, on being afterwards managed as other exotic plants 

 lonn- petioles, with unequal, mucronate notches of the tender kind. The plants usually flower 

 about the edge ; stem-leaves sessile; the upper- the second year, and then die. In the other 

 most lobed, ga-hed, smaller serrate, the notches species all the culture that is required alter the 

 spinulose. The flowers in terminating heads, plants appear is that of thinning them properly, 

 fenced with a six-leaved involucre, s])rf admg keeping them free from weeds, and diggmg the 

 and reflex. It is anative of Austria, &c. flower- ground about them in the early spring season. 



The third species must be increased by plant- 

 ing portions of the creeping roots of the young 

 plants in a dry gravelly soil m the autumn, as 



jng in Jidy. 



There is a variety with white stalks and 

 flowers. 



The third has a creeping root, running deep 

 into the ground. The leaves roundish, stiff, gray, 

 set with sharp spines on the edges. The stems 



soon as the steiiis ileeay. They grow the largest 

 and most fleshy in the root in such situations as 

 are occasionally overflowed by the sea-water. 

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