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leaves are lanceolate, entire, pale green, a little 

 firm or coriaceous, sessile, disposed in tliices: 

 peduncles onc-fioweicd, scattered, and t'orming 

 a siraigiit ttiminating raceme: the towers !arc;e, 

 ver)' fine, of a very Bright scarlet, having eiglit 

 stamens, not projecting bevond the iiower ; and 

 the berry is a little largei than an olive, (leshv, 

 soft, reddish black, somewhat pubescent, ol a 

 very pleasant taste : the seeds small and brown. 

 It is a native of St. Domingo. 



The Second species is a shrub, growing to t!ie 

 height of six or seven feet: the leaves are com- 

 monly opposite, on short petioles, of a fine 

 ^reen, having the veins tinged wlili red, with a 

 fane down on them: the peduncles axillary, one- 

 flowered, longer than ne leaves : the flowers 

 are pendulous, and of a bright scarlet colour. It 

 is a plant of peculiar beautv, producins; its rich 

 pendent blossoms through most part of the 

 summer : the petals in the centre of the flower 

 are particularly deserving of notice, as thev some- 

 what resemble a small roll of the richest purple- 

 coloured ribband. It is a native of Chili. 



Culture. — These plants arc capable of being 

 increased by seeds, layers, cuttings, and some- 

 times even by suckers. The seeds should be 

 sown in pots of good light mould, plungitig 

 them into a bark hot-bed. When the |)lants 

 appear, they should be kept clean, and be often 

 retreshed with a little water. After they have 

 attained a few inches growth, they should be 

 shaken out of the former pots, and after being 

 carefully separated and planted in separate small 

 pots with the same sort of mould, be leplunged 

 in the hot-bed, and well shaded till they become 

 fresh rooted, when air should be admited pretty 

 freely. They must be kept warm during the 

 winter season. 



The layers, cuttings, or suckers may be laid 

 down or planted out m the latter end of summer 

 or beginning of autun»a. 



They must all be kept in the stove during the 

 winter season, but in the siunmer may be set 

 out in the grctn-house. 



They afford much ornament by their beautiful 

 scarlet flowers. 



FUMARl A, a genus containing plants of the 

 tuberoui-rooled low flowery perennial kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Diadi'lphia 

 Hexandria, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Cor 1/ dales. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a 

 two-lcavcd perianlhium : leaflets opposite, equal, 

 lateral, erect, acute, sn)all, deciduous : the corolla 

 oblong, tubular, ringcnt, palate prominent, clos- 

 ing the throat: upper lip flat, obtuse, emargi- 

 iiate, reflex : tlie nectary the base of the upper lip 

 prominent backward, obtuse : the lower lip en- 



tirely similar to the upper, keeled towards the 

 base : nectary the keeled base, but in this less 

 prominent: the throat four-cornered, obtuse, 

 perpeiidicuhrly bifid : the stamina consift of 

 two equal filaments, broad, one within c.tch lip, 

 inclosed, acuminate : anthers three at the end of 

 each filament : the pisiillum is an oblnnc, com- 

 pressed germ, acuminate : style short : stigma 

 orbiculate, creci, compressed : the pericarf.ium 

 is a one-celled silicle : the seeds are roundish. 



The .species are: 1. F. cucuUaria, Naked- 

 stalked Fumitory ; 2. F. semperiirens. Glaucous 

 Fumitory ; 3. K /«/efl, Yellow Fumitory; 4. F. 

 capnoides. White-flowered Fumitory. 



The first has a scaly root, the size of a larae 

 hazel-nut: the flower-stalk is eight or nine inches 

 high : the root-leaves are in pairs, triternatc, 

 gashed, smooth, slender ; with red petioles : the 

 scape simple, round, length of the leaf, rufous: 

 the raceme terminating, simple; the flowers 

 (four or five) pendulous ; of a dull white colour. 

 It is a native of Virginia. Perennial, llowering 

 in June and July. 



The second species is annual : the stem up- 

 right, a foot and half high, round, and very 

 smooth, sending out several branches at lop : 

 the leaves smooth, branching, pale, divided like 

 the common sort, but the leaflets larger and more 

 obtuse : the flowers in loose panicles from 

 the sides of the stem and at the extremi- 

 ties of the branches, of a pale purple colour, 

 with yellow chaps or lips : the pods are taper, 

 narrow, an inch and half long, containing 

 man-y small black shining seeds. It flowers 

 during summer, and is a native of North 

 America. 



In the third, the root strikes deep into 

 the ground : the stems are many, succulent, dif- 

 fused, about six inches high : the leaves on 

 long branching petioles, composed of many ir- 

 regular leaflets, trifid at the top : peduncles axil- 

 lary, naked, longer than the leaves, supporting 

 eight or nine flowers, of a bright yellow colour, 

 in a loose sp:ke: the leaves continue trreeii all 

 the year, and the flowers in succession from- 

 April to October. It is very like the fourth 

 species, but is perennial ; and according to Mil- 

 ler, the stalks have blunt angles, are of a 

 purplish colour ; and the flowers grow in a looser 

 panicle, on longer pedicles. It is a native of 

 Barbary. 



The fourth is annual : the stem four-cor- 

 nered at the base : the leaves superdecompoundj 

 the terminating leaflets larger, and semirri- 

 fid ; the middle segment lobed j petioles three- 

 cornered ; the racemes naked : pedicles shorter 

 by half than the corollas, blackish at the tip. 

 There is a succession of the flowers from May 



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