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fl«wer. It is a native of the mountains of 

 ibine, lowering in July. 



The eleventh h Ik, which 



divides into . Bond rises about 



Ave feet high : the loaves aw ovate-lanceolate^ 

 three inches long, and an inch anil hull broad, 

 deeply creuate, of alight greenyuod a littU hairy: 

 peduncle terminating, sustaining one 

 i-coloured tlower. It is a native of Africa, 

 flowering from Jtdy to October: it vanes in tho 

 leaves. The variety with lha leaves finely cut, 

 fu-. according- to Milter, rf» stalks li.un, 

 dividing into several branched : tlw bottom 

 ire lanceolate crenate and entire; hut 

 (hose on the upper part of the s-'.aik are bipin- 

 nate : the flowers- are produced on long Baked 

 footstalks From the end of the branches ; are 

 or" a pale fiesh-colour and large, but have iu 

 scent. 



twelfth rises with a shrubby stalk three 

 feet high, and divides into several woody knotty 

 branches: the leaves are narrow , silvery, entire, 

 r inches long, :ul a quarter of an inch 

 broad : the flow., rs a od upon very loBg naked 

 peduncles at the end of the branches, and are of 

 a line blue colour. It is a naiive of Candia and 

 Sicilv. According to Miller, the plant from 

 Candia has shorter and much broader leaves, 

 and not so white as those of the Sicilian ; the 

 flowers aro not so large, and are of a pale purple 

 colour. 



Culture. — All the annual and biennial sorts 

 mav be increased by seed, which should be 

 sown in a bed or border of common mould, or 

 in pots to be forwarded iu the hot-bed in the 

 earlv spring months ; but the biennial sort is 

 better sown in the Litter end of the summer, as 

 about August, as they flower stronger and more 

 fully the following summer. Some mav how- 

 ever be sown at both seasons. 



When the plants have attained some growth, 

 in the spring-sow n last, they should be pr.cked 

 out into the places where they are to grow, on 

 beds, to be afterwards removed : and in the au- 

 tumn-sown sorts into nursery-vows, -ix or eight 

 inches apart, to be removed into the places 

 where thev are to remain, with balls about their 

 roots, in the following spring, being duly wa- 

 tered and kept free from weeds. 



The starry sort is best sown in patches in 

 the borders or clumps where the plants are to 

 lower. 



The herbaceous perennial kinds may be readily 

 increased bv sowing the seeds in a Led or border 

 of good light earth, in tiie spring season, the 

 plants being planted out when iney have at- 

 tained a little gro.vth where liK-v are to grow : 

 they are also capable of bcir.g raised* by parting 



the roots and planting them out where they aru 

 to grow in the autumn. 



The shrubby kinds may be readily rai-. 

 planting slips or cuttings of the young branches 

 in the spnng or stun ->>n, in tne former 



and plunged in a/ moderate hot- 

 bed, or under a glass frame ; but in the latter, 

 in tiie open ground, being well .-haded an . 



ion become t )lerably well rooted; 

 and in the autumn may be potted off intr 

 rate pits filled with light loamy earth, ami 

 managed in the sam« manner as other exotic 

 green -house plant * during the winter. 



The annual and perennial sons alford orna- 

 ment and variety among other plants of the 

 flower kind m the bonders, ixc, and the shrubby 

 kinds produce variety in green-house collec- 

 tions. 



VLUOX. See Ali.h-u. 



LNDiX, a genus containing plants of the 

 hardy herbaceous annual and perennial kinds. 

 It belongs to the class and order Bmttaniria 



hi, and ranks in the natural order ol 

 beilatce or Umbeliyvncb. 



1 he characters are : that the calyx is an uni- 

 i umbel, loner, with lew rays.: partial more 



abundant: involucre universal none: partial 

 live-leaved, length of the umbdlct : perianth 

 proper obsolete: the corolla universal difTorm, 

 radiate : florets of the disk abortive : proper 

 petals five, inllcx-emarginate : the inner ones 

 smaller; outmost larger: the stamina have live 

 capillary filaments : anthers roundish: the pis- 

 tillum is an oblong inferior germ : styles two, 

 awl-shaped, length of the least petal, distant, 

 permanent: stigmas in the radiant florets ob- 

 tuse: there is no pericarpium : fruit very long 

 a\\ l-shaped, bipartite: the seeds two, awl-shaped, 

 convex and grooved on one side, ilat on the 

 other. 



The species is S. cert folium, Garden Cher- 

 vil. 



It has an annual root : the leaves are of an 

 exceedingly delicate texture, smooth, shining, 

 tppinnale, with the seirnieit-decplysemipiunaie, 

 and the lobules lanceolate, shortly two-toothed, 

 or three-toothed : the stem smooth, from afoot to 

 two feet in height, hairy only under the origin of 

 the branches, whence alwavs are produced two 

 branches and a single leaf: the Cowers white. 

 It i- a native of many parts of Kurope, 

 in May. It was formerly much more cultivated 



' [.resent. It is us' d as a culinary plant in 

 winter and ipring, and i.- ■ Mauve ot the Levant. 

 Culture. — This plant mav be raised from teed 

 bv sowing at different times in the early sprint), 

 as from February to M.e.h. and also in August 

 for winter use, in txd 5 of common earth, raking 



