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at the bast, terminatirtg in acute points, deeply 

 crenate on their edges : the flowers of a pale 

 purple colour and hairy : they appear in June 

 and July, and the seeds ripen in September ; 

 soon after which the stalks decay; but the roots 

 abide many years. It is a native of Siberia. 



The seventh species has the stem of the same 

 stature with the ninth, two feet high, upright, 

 herbaceous, four-cornered, blunt : the leaves 

 sub-tomentose, marked with lines, petioled, re- 

 motely subserrate, longer than the internodes : 

 the whorls sub-terminating with an awl-shaped 

 involucre. 



It is biennial, and a native of the East Indies, 

 flowering from June to October. 



The eighth has the stem simple, upright, 

 quadrangular, blunt: the leaves deeply and 

 somewhat bluntly serrate, green: the petioles 

 the length of the leaves: the whorls few towards 

 the top, globular, many-flowered : the calyx ' 

 somewhat hairy, cylindrical, with a spiny and 

 very sharp border, the upper tooth twice as 

 large as the rest, and from four to six small 

 teeth : the corolla villose, of the same appear- 

 ance and colour with that of the ninth sort, but 

 only one-third of the size ; upper lip roundish, 

 long, emarginate; lower short, trifid, even: in- 

 volucre awl-shaped, reflex : filaments cohering 

 in pairs: stigmas two, filiform, the upper shorter 

 by half than the under. It is annual, and a na- 

 tiveof the East Indies, floweringherein September 

 and October. v 



The ninth species is a very handsome plant 

 when it is in flower. It rises with a shrubby 

 stalk seven or eight feet high, sending out seve- 

 ral branches, which are four-cornered: the 

 leaves are about three inches long, and half an 

 inch broad, hairy on their upper side, and vein- 

 ed on their under : the branches have each two 

 or three sessile whorls of flowers towards the 

 ends : the corolla is of a tawny or golden co- 

 lour, and shining like silk ; upper lip long, to- 

 mentose, ciliate, quite entire; lower lip short, 

 naked, membranaceous; the lateral segments 

 reflex, dry, the intermediate one trifid, emargi- 

 nate in the middle: the filaments snow-white: 

 the anthers two-lobed, yellow, having globular 

 meal sprinkled over them only at the base. Tt 

 is a native of the Cape, flowering from October 

 to December. 



There is a variety of it with variegated leaves. 

 The tenth has the stalk shrubby, square, three 

 feet high': branches four-cornered, in pairs: 

 leaves rough on their upper side, veined, and 

 pale green on their under : the corolla neither 

 so long nor so deep coloured as in the ninth sort, 

 to which it bears much resemblance, and is near- 

 ly allied ; but the leaves are ovate, not lanceo- 

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late, and more tomentose : it differs materially 

 from it by its awned calyxes : it agrees more 

 with the eighth, but differs from it in having a 

 shrubby stalk ; small, blunt, more compact 

 leaves ; and the neck of the calyx rough-haired. 

 It is a native of the Cape, flowering in June 

 and July. 



Culture. — All these plants may be increased 

 by layers and cuttings. 



The two first hardy sorts in particular grow 

 freely by the first method : the young branches 

 should be chosen, and laid in the common way, 

 any time in autumn, spring, or summer ; when 

 they readily strike root, and commence proper 

 plants by the autumn following, when they 

 should be planted where they are to grow. 



The cuttings should be made from the younc 

 shoots in spring and summer, being planted in 

 a shady border, giving plenty of water in dry 

 weather; when many of them will lake root,, 

 and make good plants by the autumn following. 

 The cuttings of the green-house kinds should,, 

 when made in the spring, be planted in pots, in 

 order to be continued in shelter until May ; or 

 if the pots be plunged in a. hot-bed, it will 

 greatly forward their rooting ; though, when 

 the young shoots are planted in June or July, 

 in a bed or border of rich earth, many of them 

 take root, but may be much forwarded if cover- 

 ed down close with hand glasses, removing the 

 glasses when the cuttings begin to shoot. 



The fifth may likewise be increased by slips 

 planted at the same time; and the sixth by off- 

 sets. The seventh should be preserved in the 

 bark stove. 



They are all very ornamental plants in the 

 borders, green-house, and stove collections, ac- 

 cording to the kinds. 



PHLOX, a genus comprising plants of the 

 herbaceous, fibrous-rooted, flowery, perennial 

 kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Pentandria 

 Monogy/iia; and ranks in the natural order of. 

 RolucecB. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed perianthium, cylindrical, ten-cornered, 

 five-toothed, acute, permanent : the corolla 

 one-petalled, Salver-shaped : tube cylindrical, 

 longer than the calyx, narrower below, curved 

 in : border flat, five-parted : segments equal,, 

 blunt, shorter than the tube : the stamina have 

 five filaments, within the tube of the corolla, 

 two longer, one shorter : anthers in the throat 

 of the corolla : the pistillum is a conical 

 germ : style filiform, the length of the stamens : 

 stigma trifid, acute: the pericarpium is an ovate 

 capsule, three-cornered, three-celled, three-valv- 

 ed : the seeds solitary, ovate. 



