S A X 



S C A 



The fifth has long slender fibroiU roots, throw- 

 ing out many procumbent leafy shoots, which 

 prow matted together, forming thick tufts: from 

 the common origin of these arises a solitary erect 

 mund stem, bearing two or three straggling 

 linear undivided leaves, and terminating id an 

 ight panicle of-a few large white flowers: the 

 leaves are alternate, linear, acute) pale green, 

 oth, their edges only often hairy with soft 

 white woolly threads: the leaves on the shoots 

 simple and undivided ; those at the bottom <>t 

 the stem all deeply three-cleft, with the segments 

 divaricate. According to Withering, the sum, 

 fruit-talks, and calyx are thickly set with short 

 hairs terminated bv red globules, and the rest of 

 the plant thinly set with fine white hairs. It is 

 a native of Britain, flowering in May, and often 

 again sparingly in July and August. 



The >ixth species has the root-leaves pclioled, 

 conJate-suborbicular. hairy, crenate, with blunt 

 lobules, olcraceous, having white veins on the 

 upper surface, beneath liver-coloured : the pe- 

 tioles roundish, longer than the leaf: the stem 

 herbaceous, round, a foot and hall high, almost 

 leafless, pubescent, as the whole herb is, with 

 hairs standing out; the whole raceme compound, 

 the partial racemes drooping at the end before 

 they flower. Branclud runners proceed ia 

 abundance front the axils of the root-leave?, ter- 

 minating in rootinsr off-sets : three of the petals 

 are smaller, whitish stained with red ; two 

 larger, white. It is observed, that " its round 

 variegated leaves, and str.iwberrv-like runners, 

 with die uncommon magnitude of the two lower 

 pendent petals, joined to the very conspicuous 

 glandular nectary, in the centre of the flower, 

 half surrounding the germ, render it strikingly 

 distinct." It is a native of China and Japan, 

 flowering in June and July. 



The seventh has the lower leaves almost 

 round, on Ions footstalks, deeply divided, hairy 

 and green above, pale beneath : the stems erect, 

 about a foot high, channelled and hairy, with 

 kidney-shaped leaves: the stem puts out a tew 

 slender footstalks from the upper part, which, 

 together with the stem itself, are terminated by 

 small clusters of flowers, white spottul with red. 

 It is a beautiful plant, and a native of Switzer- 

 land, kc. 



Culture. — The first sort may be readily in- 

 creased by planting off-sets taken from the 

 sides of the old plants in small pots filled with 

 fresh light earth, placing them in the shade 

 during the summer, but letting them be exposed 

 to the influence of the sun m winter: all the 

 off-sets should be taken off, as by that means 

 they will flower much stronger: the young 

 plants afford flowers the second year. 



The second sort may likewise be increasi i 

 the same way, which should be planted out 

 where they are to remain in Julv, when (he 

 stuns decay, in fresh undunged earth, giving 

 them a shady situation till winter: the) should 

 be set out in large lulls, and when in tin 

 ground have a shady place assigned them. 



The third sort may be increased with little 

 trouble by parting the roots, and planting them 

 out in tlu siiiing or autumn in the open ground, 

 or in pots in the former situation, being pro- 

 tected in severe weather, and in the latter re- 

 moved to the green-house or a garden frame. 



'I he fourth may also be raised by offsets in 

 the same way, a shade situation being chosen. 



The fifth sort is easily increased bv planting 

 its trailing rooted branches in the autumn where 

 they are to remain: it should have a moist soil 

 and shaded situation. 



The sixth may be readily raised bv the run- 

 ners, which may be planted in pots to be placed 

 in the green-house, though it will bear the open 

 air in mild winters in a warm sheltered situa- 

 tion. 



The last mav be increased bv parting the 

 roots and planting them out in the early au- 

 tumn : it should have a moist shady situation, 

 with a rather stiff loamy soil. 



They all afford ornament and variety in the 

 clumps, borders, and other parts of pleasure- 

 grounds; except the sixth, which must have a 

 place in the green-house collection. 



SCABIOSA, aacnus containing plants of the 

 herbaceous, annual, biennial, perennial, and 

 shrubby kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Tdronlria 

 Monogynidy and ranks in the natural order of 

 Aggreguttt. 



The characters are : that the calvx is a com- 

 mon perianth, many-flowered, spreading, many- 

 leaved : leaflets in various rows surrounding toe 

 receptacle and placed upon it, the inner ones 

 gradually less: proper perianth double, both 

 superior : outer shorter, membranaceous, p!aitcd, 

 permanent; inner five-parted, with the seg- 

 ments subulate-capillaceous : the corolla uni- 

 versal equal, often from unequal ones : proper 

 one-petalled, tubular, four- or live-cleft, equal 

 or unequal : the stamina have four filament-,, 

 subulate-capillarv, weak : anthers oblong, in- 

 cumbent : the pistillum is an inferior genu, in- 

 volved in its proper sheath as in a calvcle : Style 

 filiform, length of the corolla : stigma obtuse, 

 obliquely etriarginate; there is no pericarpium : 

 the seeds solitary, ovalc-oblong, involute, 

 crowned variously with proper calyxes : the re- 

 ceptacles common convex, chaffy, or naked. 



The species uio»llv cultivated are: I. if. cl- 

 ' 3 D •; 



