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pubescent: the leaves as in ttie first, but wilh 

 the lower surface very softly tomcutose : the 

 flowers axillary, solitary, <C:-siie towards the tops 

 of the branches : the leaflets of the outer calyx 

 subovate, acuminate at the lip, toiiientose, and 

 of a white colour ; aUo tho.-e of the inner. It 

 is a native of South Carohna, flowering in Sep- 

 tember. 



The third is a beautiful ircc-likc shrub, which 

 rises with an erect trunk to the height of about 

 twcntv feet, with alternate branches : the leaves 

 are oblong, narrowed towards the base, serrate, 

 alternate, sessile or subsessile : flowers towards 

 the extremity of the branches, solitary, sitting 

 close in thebosoin of the leaves, often five inches 

 indianieterwhen fully expanded : the petals snow- 

 white, the lower one hollow, formed like a cap 

 or helmet, entirely including the other four, until 

 the moment of expansion ; its exterior surface 

 is covered with a short silky hair : the borders of 

 the petals are curled or plaited. It is a native of 

 South Carolina. 



The flowers have the fragrance of the China 

 Orance. 



Citlturc. — ^Thesc plants, from their being aqua- 

 tics, are not raised or preserved without great dif- 

 Jiculty. It is effected by planting cuttings of the 

 voung shoots, or laving them down in the spring 

 season in pots of moist earth, plunging them in 

 the hot-bed, and supplying them freely with wa- 

 ter. They are vary ornamental stove plants. 



GORTERIA, a genus containing plants of 

 the herbaceous shrubby sort for the green- house. 



It belongs to the class and order Syngenes'ia 

 Poli/gamia Frustranea, and ranks in the natural 

 order of Compositce Capitntce. 



The characters are : that the calyx is common 

 one-leafed, imbricate with spiny scales, the in- 

 ner ones gradually longer, straight, bristle-shaped, 

 ridged : the corolla compound radiate : corollcts 

 hermaphrodite, several in the disk : female fewer 

 in the ray : proper of the hermaphrodite funnel- 

 form, five-cleft ; of the female liirulate, lanceo- 

 late : the stamina in the hermaphrodites have five 

 short filaments : anther cvlindric, tubular : the 

 pistilhmiof the hermaphrodite is a villose germ: 

 style filif(jrm, the length of the corollel ; stigma 

 bifid : of the females, germ obsolete : style none : 

 stigma none : the pericaipium an unchansed, 

 deciduous calyx : the sicds in the hermaphro- 

 dites, solitary, roundish; down simple (woolly) : 

 in the females, none : receptacle nuked (not 

 so in all the species). 



The species cultivated are : ^ . G. ripens. 

 Great-flowered Gortcria; 2. G. J'riitico^a, 

 Shrubby Gorteria. . 



The first is a low spreading plant, with woody 

 stalks six or eight inches long, trailing on the 



groimd, having two or three side-branches, each 

 terminating in a close head of leaves, which are 

 narrow, green on their upper, but silvery on 

 their under surface, and cut into thri-e or five 

 segments at the end. The pedunries which arise 

 from these heads are si^ ineiu-s Urns, naked, an.l 

 support one large orange-coloured flower: each 

 floret in the ray bar; a dark mark towards the 

 base, with while intermixed. 



Martyn observes, that the greenhouse can 

 scarcely boast a more showy plant: the flower;, 

 when expanded by the heat of the sun (and it 

 is only when the sun shines on tliem ihat they 

 are fully expanded), exhibit an uitrivalled Ijrilli- 

 ;nicy of appearance. It flowers in May and 

 June. 



The second species has a slender stem, three 

 feet high, sending out a few weak branches, 

 which are tomentose and white: the leaves are, 

 like thoseof Privet, alternate, sharp, petioUd, hav- 

 ing six or seven scrratures bristlvai the end : the 

 flowers terminating, subsolitarv, peduncled, the 

 peduncle longer than the flower, of a goldeii 

 yellow colour. It flowers in August and Sep- 

 tember. 



Citlturc. — The first sort may be increased bv 

 planting cuttings of the young shoots in the 

 sunnner months, in pots filled with light earth, 

 placing them in the hot-bed under bell- or hand- 

 glasses. When thev are become well rooted, 

 llity must be carefully removed, and placed in 

 other separate pots, and have the management 

 of other tender plants. 



The second sort is raised by planting the small 

 heads from the ends of the branches, in the 

 same manner and at the same season, screening 

 them well from the sun. When perfectly rooted, 

 they should be removed with care into separate 

 pots, and be afterwards well secured against the 

 cold and damp of the winter season, by being 

 placed in a dry green-house, as much air as pos- 

 sible being adinitted in mild dry weather. 



These are all plants that aft'orti variety and efl'ect 

 among other flowering plants in green-house 

 collections. 



GOSSYFIUM, a genus consisting of herba- 

 ceous animal and shrubby perennial plains. 



It belongs to the class and order Mwiudtlphtu 

 Polyundiia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Columnifercc. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a double 

 perianthiuni: outer one-leafed, tritid, flat, larger: 

 tuner one-leafed, l>luntly emarginate in five rows, 

 cup-form : the corolla h.as five petals, obcordate, 

 flat, spreading, fastened by their base to the 

 tube of the stamens : the stamina have nume- 

 rous filaments, uniting at bottom into a tube, 

 separate at and below the tip, lax, inserted into 

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