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duncles, each sustaining one pretty large flower, 

 of a deep yellow colour. These arc in beauty 

 in July, but seldom ripen seeds in this climate. 

 It is a native of Germany, &c. 



The third has a perennial root, aromatic, sub- 

 astringent, smelling like cinnamon : the stem 



spring the ground should be kept clean from 

 weeds, and be slightly dug over in the autumn 

 following. The roots will be fit for use after 

 two years growth, but will abide many years if 

 permitted to stand. 



The two following sorts may be increased by 



from a foot to two, and even three feet in height, parting the roots, and planting them in the 



upright, smooth, hard, firm, tinged with red, autumn, in the borders or other places where 



grooved or angular towards the top, where it is they are to remain. They should not be remov- 



iisually branched : the leaves alternate, sessile, ed oftener than every three years, 

 or half embracing, stiff, smooth, of a dark The fourth and fifth sorts may be raised by 



shining green, very slightly cut, and somewhat planting cuttings of the branches, in the summer 



Tugged" about the edge : the flowers terminating, season, in pots of light earth, in shady borders. 



on alternate, one-flowered, grooved, reddish pe- They must be removed into shelter in autumn, 



duncles, forming altogether a eorymb : the ca- but should have as much free air as possible at 



Jycine scales in two rows, smooth, brown, Ian- all times, when the weather is mild. In cold 



ceolate, curved back a little at the end : the weather the first should have but very little wa- 



flower an inch in diameter. It is a native of ter, as, the stalks and leaves being succulent, 



Germany, &c. they are very apt to rot. In summer they 



The fourth rises with several shrubby stalks should be placed abroad with other hardy exotic 



near four feet high, which divide into smaller plants, in a sheltered situation, 

 branches: the leaves in clusters, narrow, fleshy, The last sort is propagated by seeds procured 



divided into three -segments at their points : the from where it grows naturally. These must 



flowers come out on the side of the branches at be sown in pots, or upon a hot-bed, and when 



the top of the stalks; they are small, and of a the plants are fit to remove, be each put into a 



pale yellow colour, appearing in August. It is small pot filled with light earth, and plunged 



a native of the Canarv islands. into a fresh hot-bed ; treating them in the same 



The fifth rises with' a shrubby stalk about two manner as other similar tender plants. It re- 

 feet high, dividing into many smaller branches, quires to be kept constantly in the stove. 



which are hairy : the leaves narrow, stiff, sessile: 

 from the edges of these arise long hairs, which 

 are stiff, and come out by pairs; at the end of 

 the branches arise naked peduncles, four or five 

 inches long, sustaining one small, yellow, radi- 

 ated flower. It is a native of Vera Cruz. 



The first sort may be cultivated for the me- 

 dicinal use of the roots, or for ornament, in large 

 borders. 



The two following sorts may have places in 

 the same way. 



The fourth and fifth kinds afford variety 



The sixth has a stem ten or twelve feet high, among other potted green-house plants, and the 



divided into several woody branches : the leaves last among stove plants. 



five inches long, and one'inch and a half broad IPOMCEA, a genus containing plants of the 



In the middle, smooth on the upper side, but on herbaceous flowery kind. 



their under having three longitudinal veins: the It belongs to the class and order Pentandria 



flowers are produced at the end of the branches, Monogi/niu, and ranks in the natural order of 



having very large scaly calyxes ; they are as large Campanacece 



as a small Sim-flower, of a pale yellow colour. 

 It is a native of Carthagena in New Spain. 



Other species may be cultivated. 



Culture. — The first sort may be propagated 

 by seeds sown in autumn toon after they are 

 npe, on a warm, loamy, rather moist border 



The characters are: that the calyx is a five- 

 toothed perianthium, oblong, very small, per- 

 manent: the corolla one-pctalled, funnel-form : 

 tube subevhndric, very long: border five-cleft, 

 spreading: divisions oblong, flat: the stamina 

 have five awl-shaped filaments, almost the length 



The plants should be transplanted to the places of the corolla : anthers roundish : the pistillum 

 where thev are to grow in the following au- is a roundish germ : style filiform, length of the 



turau. 



But the common practice is to increase il by 

 onsets, which, when taken from the old roots 

 carefully, with a bud or eye to each, take root 

 easily : the best season is the autumn, as soon 

 as the leaves begin to decay ; planting them in 

 rows about a foot asunder, and nine or ten 

 inches distance in the ro\ 



corolla: stigma headed- globose : the pericar- 



pi em 1 is a roundish capsule, three-celled : the 

 seeds some, sub-obovate. 



The species cultivated are: 1. /. Quamoclit, 



Winged-leaved Ipomsea ; 'J. I. cocci/iea, Scar- 

 let-flowered Ipomeea. 



The first is an annual plant, rising with two 

 The following oblong pretty broad seed-leaves, winch remain 



