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The characters are : that there is no calyx : come up in the following spring, and these will 



the corolla is six-pai-ted, bcll-tunnel-form : tube flower in two years. . 



short : border equal, spreading, more reflex at A moist soil and shady situation are the best 



top- the namlna have six subulate filaments, suited to their growth ; their size, and the great 



theicno-ihofthe corolla, declining; upper ones increase of their roots, especially m the second 



shorter"^ anthers oblong, incumbent, rising : the sort, render them most proper tor large gardens 



pistillum is a roundish germ, furrowed, superior: and plantations, where they produce much va- 



style filiform, tiic length and situation of the riety and eflTect. 



stamens: stioma obtusely-three-cornered, rising: HEPATICA. See Anemone. 



the pericarpuim is an ovate-three-lobed capsule, HERB, such a plant as rises with leaves and 



three-cornered, three-celled, three-valved : the stalks annually from the root, the stalks not be- 



secds very many, and roundish. coming woody or durable. 



The species are: 1. H.Jiava, Yellow Day- Many of the kitchen-garden esculents, and a 



Lily ; 2. H.fidva, Copper-coloured Day Lily. 

 The first has strong fibrous roots, to which 

 hang knobs, or tubers, like those of the Aspho- 

 del, from which come out leaves, two feet long, 

 with a rigid midrib, the two sides drawing in- 



great variety of ornamental or flowery plants, 

 are of this kind. See Herbaceous Plants. 



Many under-shrubby esculent and other plants 

 are also sometimes considered as Herbs ; such as 

 sage, thyme, rue, hyssop, winter-savory, laven- 



ward, so as to form a sort of gutter on the up- der, &e. : but these having ligneous, durable 



l)er side : the flower-stalks rise two feet and a stalks and branches, more properly belong to 



half hloh, having two or three longitudinal the shrubby tribe. 



furrows! these are naked, and at the top divide HERBACEOUS PLANTS, such as have the 



into three or four short peduncles, each sustain- properties of herbs. 



iiii'- one pretty lara;e yellow flower shaped like a All such as produce leaves and stalks annually 



LiTv, havino- but^oiie petal, v.ith a short tube, from the root, and whose stalks or stems remain 



spreading open at the brim, where it is divided green and succulent, or soh, and do not become 



into six°parts ; these have an agreeable scent, woody, or durable, but die down to the root 



from which some have given them the title of every year, soon after they have produced flowers. 



Yellow Tuberose. It is a native of Siberia, &c. &c. are properly of this sort, and of which there 



flowering in June. 



There is a variety with smaller roots; theleaves 

 are not near so lono;, have not more than half the 

 breadth, and are ofa dark green colour: the flower- 

 stalk is a foot and half high, naked and compres- 

 sed, without furrows ; at the top are two or three 

 yellow flowers, which are nearer the bell-shape 

 than the others, and stand on shorter peduncles 



are annuals, biennials, and perennials. 



They are thus very distinguishable from the 

 woody kinds, such as trees, shrubs, and under- 

 shrubs, whose stems and branches are woody or 

 ligneous, and durable. 



Of this class are most of the esculents of the 

 kitchen-garden, except those of the under-shrub- 

 by kinds, such as sage, thyme, hyssop. Sec. vast 



The second species is a much larger plant than numbers of the flowery kinds for the pleasure- 



the first, and the roots spread and increase much garden, almost all the annuals and biennials ; as 



more; the roots have very strong fleshy fibres, also all the perennials, both the fibrous, bulbous, 



to which hang large oblong tubJi-s : the leaves and tuberous-rooted kinds, whose stalks decay 



are near three feet long, hollowed like those of annually. 



the former, turning back toward the top: the HEIRMANNIA, a genus containing plants 



flower-stalks are as thick as a man's finger, and of the shrubby exotic kind, 

 rise near four feet high ; they are naked, with- It belongs to the class and order Monadel- 



out joints, and branching at the top, where are phia Pentandria, and ranks in the natural order 



seveial large co]i|)er-eoloured flowers, shaped of ColumniJ'erce. 



like those of the Red Lily, and as large.. These The characters are: that the calyx is a one- 

 flowers never continue longer than one day, but leafed perianthium, five-cleft, roundish, infla- 

 there is a succession of flowers on the same ted : the little clefts bent in, permanent : the 

 plants for a fortnight or three weeks. It flowers corolla pcnlapetalous, spiral against the sun: 

 in Julv and August. claws the length of the calyx, with a little mem- 



Cvlturc. — Tlicse plants are easily increased by brane on each side converging into a cowled nec- 



planting the off-sets taken from the roots in an- tareoustube: border spreading, broadish, blunt: 



tumii in any situation, as they are extremely the stamina have five filaintnts, broadish, very 



hardy. The\ afurwards recpiire no other culture, slightly coalescing at bottom into one body : an- 



biit to keep them clean from weeds, and to allow thers upright, acuminate, converging: the pis- 



them room, that their roots may spread. tillum is a roundish germ, five-sided, five corner- 



Tlie first sort may also be increased by seeds, ed: styles five, filiform, approximating, subulate, 



which should be sown in av-tumn. The plants longer than the stamens : stigma simple : the 



