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rooted in the autumn, they should be removed 

 into separate small pot?, tilled with fre>h un- 

 dumrcd mould, and placed in the shade till well 

 rooted) and afterwards in a sheltered situation 

 till tiie autumn, when tkev should he taken 

 under a garden frame, haviug tree air when the 

 season is line, but be well pr >s «ted (rum frost. 



As these plants seldom continue more than a 

 few years, some should be frequently raised a* a 

 supply aeam:-t thev decline. 



The two lirst sorts are useful pot-herbs, and 

 the other kinds afford variety among collections 

 of green-house plants. 



SATYRIL'M, a genus containing plants of the 

 -bulbous-rooted, hardy-flowering perennial kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Gynandria 

 Diandr'uiy and ranks in the natural order of Or- 

 ■ch'uiete. 



The characters are : that the calyx is, as the 

 spathes, wandering : spadix simple : the perianth 

 none: the corolla has fire ovate-oblong petals : 

 three exterior; two interior converging upwards 

 into a helmet: nectary one-leafed, annexed to 

 the receptacle bv its lower side between the di- 

 \ istoa ot the petals ; upper lip erect, very short ; 

 lower flat, pendulous, prominent behind at the 

 base in a scrotiform bag : the stamina have two 



intents, very slender and very short, placed on 

 the pistil : anthers obovate, covered by the two- 

 cclled fold of the upper lip of the nectary: the 

 pistillum is an oblong germ, twisted, inferior: 

 style fastened to the upper lip of the nectary, 

 very short: stigma compressed, obtuse: the 

 pencarpium is an oblong capsule, one-celled, 

 three-keeled, three-valved, opening in three 

 parts under the keels, cohering at the top and 



torn: the seeds numerous, very small, irre- 

 gular like saw-dust. 



The species are: I. S. hird/utm, Lizard Sa- 

 tvrion, or Lizard-flower; 2. S. riride, Frog Sa- 

 tvrion ; 3. S. allidum, White Satvrion. 



The first frequently attains the height of three 

 feet, and produces from twenty to sixty or 

 more flowers, remarkable lor their fetid goat- 

 like smell : the upper part of the lip is downv, 

 ar.d marked with elegant purple spots on a 

 white ground; otherwise the flowers are more- 

 singular than beautiful : the leaves are near 

 inches long and half an inch broad ; the spike of 

 '.ers is six inches in length: the corolla of a 

 dirty white, with some linear stripes and spots 

 of a brown colour ; the middle. segment ot the 

 lip ot the nectaiv is two inches long. It is a 



..-. e ot Germany, &c. 



It is often called Goat Orchis : " It has been 

 occasionally met with in the neighbourhood 

 about Darttord ; but the greediness of the col- 

 Lectors has frequently endangered its total de- 



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struction, and in some seasons none can be 

 found in flower." 



" The circumstance of its varying in size aiyl 

 the breadth of the leaves, has given occasion to 

 old authors to make two species of it : the flower:, 

 are sometimes quite while." 



•2. " It was found at the Cape of Good Hope, 

 on the top of the Table mountain; whence it-, 

 trivial name." 



3. " It is large and panicled : found at the 

 Cape." 



4. " Tbis is a fathom in height, with large 

 orange coloured flowers." 



5. " In this the lip is muricate with white and 

 purple prickles. Both these were also found at 

 the Cape." 



The second species has a stem from five to 

 eleven inches high, and solid, w ith unequal sharp 

 angles, formed from the edges of the leaves and 

 bractes : the spike lanceolate, from one to three 

 inches long, loose with few flowers : the bractes 

 subulate-lanceolate, keeled, somewhat bowed - 

 in. It is a native of many parts of Europe, 

 flowering from May to August. 



The tbird has the stem from nine to fifteen 

 inches high : the lower leaves oval, sheathing 

 the stem ; upper lanceolate, acute : the flower* 

 very numerous, in a long (an inch and half, 

 cylindrical,) close spike : the bractes lanceolate, 

 very acute, longer than the germ : the petals 

 white, oval-lanceolate, all converging: lip of 

 the nectary short, green, divided into three acute 

 segments, the middle one longest and more 

 blunt, the spur blunt, about half as long as the 

 germ* It is a native of Scania, Denmark, &c. 

 flowering in June and July. 



Culture. — These plants are not raised without 

 some difficulty : the best mode of increasing 

 them is by taking up the roots with a good ball 

 about them from their natural situations, and 

 planting them 'in a soil as similar as possible, 

 where they are to grow, let ting the ground 

 around them afterward* remain wholly undis- 

 turbed. 



They sometimes also succeed bv seed and off- 

 sets fioui the roots planted out after the stems 

 decay . 



They afford variety in borders among other 

 similar plants. 



SAVIN'. See Jdmpb&hs. 



SAVORY. Sec Satl'KEIA. 



SAVOY CABBAGX See Brassica. 



SAXIFRAGA, a genus containing plants of 

 the low hardy herbaceous perennial kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Dccandria 

 Hi^i/nia, and ranks in the natural order of Suc- 

 culent (C. 



The characters arc : that the calyx is a one- 



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