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PAS 



till they have taken new root ; then he removed 

 into a sheltered situation] to remain till the be- 

 ginning of autumn, when they must be placed 



in the green-house, and treated as the myrtles* 

 Tbey may likewise be increased by lasers. 



The second sort may also be raised by sowing 

 the seeds in autumn, soon after they are ripe, in 

 small pots tilled with light earth, plunging them 

 into an old bark-bed under a common Frame in 

 winter : the plants rise in the spring, and must 

 be treated like the cuttings. The seedling plant! 

 grow the most erect, and make the handsomest 

 appearance. 



This sort is capable of living abroad in com- 

 mon winters, in a dry soil and warm situation; 

 but in hard Imsts the plants are frequently de- 

 stroyed : one or two should therefore be kept in 

 pots, and sheltered during that season. 



They- afford variety among other potted green- 

 house plants. 



PASS1FLORA, a genus containing plants of 

 the herbaceous and shrubby flowering kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Gynandria 

 Pentandria' [Pentandria Trigynia,) (Monadel- 

 phia Pentandria,) and ranks in the natural order 

 of Cuatrbitaceae. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a five- 

 parttd perianthium, flat, coloured : the corolla 

 has live petals, semilanceolate, flat, blunt, of the 

 same size and form with the calyx: nectary a 

 triple crown ; the outer longer, encircling the 

 style within the petals, more contracted above : 

 the stamina have five awl-shaped filaments, fast- 

 ened to a column at the base of the germ, and 

 united at bottom, spreading : anthers incum- 

 bent, oblong, blunt : the pistillum is a roundish 

 germ, placed on the apex of a straight, cylin- 

 drical column : styles three, thicker above, 

 spreading: stigmas capitate : the pcricarpium is 

 a fleshy berrv, subovate, one-celled, pedtcellcd : 

 the seeds very many, ovate, arilled : receptacle 

 of the seeds triple, growing longitudinally to 

 the rind of the pericarp. 



The species cultivated are: 1. P. ccerulca, 

 Commou or Blue Passion-flower ; ?. P. incar- 

 nata, Rose-coloured Passion-flower; 3. P. lutea, 

 Yellow Fas-ion-flower ; 4. P. strrntijolia, 

 Notch-leaved Passion-flower; 5. I', malijormis, 

 Apple-fruited Passion-flower ; 6. P. quadran- 

 gular is, Square-stalked Passion-flower; 7- -P. 

 uluti, Wing-stalked Passion-flower; s. P. Uucri- 

 fo/ia, Laurel-leaved Passion-flower, or Water 

 Lemon; 9. P. multiflora, Many-flowered Pas- 

 sion-flower: 10. P. rubra, Red-fruited Passion- 

 flower: 11. P. Murucuja, Moon-shaped -leaved 

 Passion-flower; 12. P. Vesper liUo, Fat-winged 

 Pa-sion-flowcr; 13. P. rotundifolia, Round- 

 leaved Passion-flower ; 14. P. ciliatu, Ciliated 



Passion-flower; 15. P. sulerosa, Cork-barked 

 Passion-flower; 16. P. i , Si'ky-leaved 



Passion-flower ; 1 7. /'. glauca, Glaucous-leaved 

 Passion-flower; is. /'. minima, Dwarl Pas 



flower. 



The first rises in a few years to a great height, 

 with proper support: it mav be trained up more 

 than forty feet high: the stalks will grow almost 

 as large as a man's arm, and are covered with a 

 purplish bark, but do not become very woody : 

 the shoots often grow to the length of twel 

 fifteen feet in one summer, and being very 

 slender, must be supported, otherwise they will 

 hang to the ground, intermix with each other, and 

 appear very unsightly : at each joint is one leaf 

 composed of live smooth entire lobes; the middle 

 one, which is longest, almost four inches i 

 and one inch broad in the middle; the others 

 are gradually shorter, and the two outer lobes 

 are frequently divided on their outer side into 

 two smaller ones : their foot-stalks are near two 

 inches long, and have two embracing stipules at 

 their ba>e ; and from the same point is- 

 long clasper or tendril : the flowers come out at 

 the same joint with the leaves, on peduncles 

 almost three inches long ; they are blue, have 

 a faint scent, and continue onlv one day : 

 the fruit is egg-shaped, the size and shape of 

 the Mogul-plum, and when ripe of the same 

 yellow colour. It grows naturally in Brazil. 



There is a variety with much narrower lobes, 

 divided almost to the bottom: the flowers come 

 later in the summer : the petals are narrower, 

 and of a purer white colour. 



The second species has a perennial root : the 

 stalks are annual, slender, rising four or five Fi el 

 high : at each joint one leaf, on a short foot- 

 stalk, having mostly three oblong lobes, but the 

 two side ones are sometimes divided part of then 

 length into two narrow segments, and thus be- 

 coming five-lobed ; they are thin, of a light 

 green, and slightly serrate: the flowers are pro- 

 duced from the joints of the stalk, at the loot- 

 stalks of the leaves, on long slender pedum lis 



in succession as the stalks advance in hi 



during the summer month- : they have an aj 

 able scent, but are of short duration, opening, 

 in the morning, and fading away in the even- 

 ing : the fruit is as large a- a middling apple, 

 changing to a pale orange colour when ripe. 

 It gro t a naturally in Virginia. 



The third has a creeping root, sending up 

 many weak stalks, three or four feet high : the 

 leaves are shape 1 like those of ivy, and almost 

 as lar L -c, but of a pale green and very thin 

 • •: the peduncle is slender, an inch 

 and half long: the flowers dirty yellow, n t 

 larger than a sixpence when expanded. It id 



