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the seed in : it afterwards only requires to be 

 kept clean from weeds. 



The leaves are used in their young state while 

 green and tender.. 

 ° SCARLET JBEANi . See Piiaskolus. 



SCARLET CARDINAL FLOWER. See 

 Lobelia. 



SCARLET CONVOLVULUS. Sec Ipo- 



M/T. \. 



SCARLET HORSE CHESTNUT. See 

 P,\ vi a. 



SCARLET JASMIN. *See Bignonia. 



SCARLET LUPIN. Sec Lathyrus. 



SCARLET LYCHNIS. See Lychnis. 



SCARLET OAK. See Quf.rcus. 



SCHINUS, a genus affording plants of the 

 shrubby evergreen exotic kinds for the green- 

 house and stove. 



It belongs to the class and order Dioccia De- 

 Bandria, and ranks in the natural order of Du- 



7)1 Of (P. 



The characters are : that in the male the ca- 

 lyx is a one-leafed, five-parted perianth, spread- 

 ing, acute: the corolla has live oval petals, 

 spreading, petioled : the stamina have ten filiform 

 filaments, length of the corolla, spreading : an- 

 thers roundish; the pistillum a rudiment with- 

 out a stigma. Female —the calyx is a one- 

 leafed, five-parted perianth, acute, permanent : 

 the corolla has five oblong petals, spreading, 

 petioled : the pistillum is a roundish germ : 

 style none : stigmas three, ovate : the pericar- 

 pium is a globular three celled berry : the seeds 

 solitary, globular. 



The species are: 1. S. molle, Peruvian 

 Mastick Tree; 2. S. Arena, Brasilian Mastick 

 Tree. 



The first rises with a woody stem eight or 

 ten feet high, dividing into many branches, co- 

 vered with a brown rough bark : the leaves are 

 alternate on the branches, composed of several 

 pairs of leaflets from ten to fifteen, each about 

 an inch and half long, and a quarter of an inch 

 broad at the base, lessening gradually to the 

 point, and having a few serratures on their 

 edges; they arc of a lucid green, and emit a 

 turpentine odour when bruised. The flowers 

 are produced in loose bunches at the end of the 

 branches; are vt ry small, white, and have no 

 odour. It is a native of Peru. 



The second species differs from the first only 

 in having the leaflets entire and all equal in size. 

 It is a native of Brazil and Peru. 



Oultwe. — The first is increased by sowing 

 seeds obtained from its native situation in pots 

 filled with fresh mould, plunging them in a mo- 

 derate hot -bed ; fresh air and water should be 

 frequently given, when in five or six weeks the 



plants will he fit in plant out in separate small 

 pots filled with soft loamv mould, re-plunginc 

 them in the hot-bed, and giving proper shade 

 till they are fresh rooted. They should after- 

 wards be gradually inured to the open air during 

 the summer season, being taken under shelter 

 before the frosts commence. 



They are tender while young, requiring a little 

 warmth in winter, but the protection of the green- 

 house will be sufficient afterwards. 



It is also capable of being increased bv layers 

 and cuttings ; the former may be laid down in 

 the spring, and the later planted out in the early 

 spring; the plants when well rooted being treated 

 as tile seedlings. 



The second sort may be increased in the same 

 method ; but the plants require to be continued 

 in the stove for several winters, when they may 

 be preserved in a moderate green-house. 



They afford variety among other exotic plants 

 in green-house collections. 



SCILLA, a genus containing plants of the 

 hardy, bulbous-rooted, perennial kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Hexandria 

 Moriogi//iia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 CorouarinB, 



The characters are : that there is no calyx : 

 the corolla has six ovate petals, spreading very 

 much, deciduous : the stamina have six awl- 

 shaped filaments, shorter by half thjn the co- 

 rolla : anthers oblong, incumbent : the pistil- 

 lum is a roundish germ : style simple, length of 

 the stamens, deciduous : stigma simple : the pen- 

 carpium is a subovate capsule, smooth, three- 

 grooved, three-celled, threc-valved ; the seeds 

 many, roundish. 



The species are: 1. S. marltlma, Officinal 

 Squill ; 2. S. Ulio-Hyaciiitkus, Lily-rooted 

 Squill ; 3. .S'. Jtalica, Italian Squill ; 4. S. 

 Peruviana, Peruvian Squill; 5. S. amtena, 

 Nodding Squill ; 6. S. campanulata, Spanish 

 Squill ; 7. S. aiilumnalis, Autumnal Squill. 



The first has a very large root, Somewhat 

 pear-shaped, composed of many coats as in the 

 Onion, and having several fibres coming out at 

 the bottom, and striking deep in the ground. 

 From the middle of the root arise several shining 

 leaves, a foot long, and two inches broad at 

 their base, lessening all the way to the top, 

 where they end in points ; they continue green 

 all the winter, and decay in the spring: then 

 the flower-stalk comes out, rising two feet 

 high, naked about half way, and terminated by 

 a pyramidal thvrsc of flowers, which are white. 

 It is a native of Spain, Portugal, &c. flowering 

 here in April and May. 



There are varieties with a red, and with a 

 white root. 



