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lilluni is a four-cleft germ : style filiform, usually 

 longer than the Stamens: stigmas two: upper 

 cylindrical, concave, truncate; lower membi 

 ceous, short* . hing the upper : tberei 



pencarpium : calvx cherishing the seeds in its 

 Boson : the sei ds four. 



The are: 1. S Ctmaru 



Canary Iron-wort : 9 S Oretica, Cretan Iron- 

 won ; 3 S. Si/riacn, Sage-leaved lron-wi it. 



The first has the stem five or six feet high, 

 sending out several woody branches covered 

 with a sc ft down: the leaves on long footstalks; 

 in young plants often live or six inches long, 

 ami two and a halt' broad near their base ; but 

 in older plants not more than half that size; 

 they are very woolly, especially on their under 

 side, which is white, but their upper surface is 

 of a dirk yellowish green: the Mowers, which 

 grow in thick whorled spikes at the end of the 

 branches, are of a dirty white, and appear early 

 in June : the plants frequently produce flowers 

 again in autumn. It is a native of the Canaries 

 and of Madeira. 



The second species is a shrub with divaricating 

 branches, very thickly tomentose and snow- 

 white : the leaves cordate, crenate, tomentose 

 on both sides, obtuse, very thickly tomentose 

 and snow-white beneath, green above: the 

 spike from the division of the branches, pe- 

 duncled, pendulous, tomentose, snow-while to- 

 gether with the calyxes, which are blunt : the 

 flowers about eight in each whorl. It is a na- 

 tive of the island of Crete or Candia. 



The third has a short woody stem, with a few- 

 branches about a toot long: the leaves thick, 

 wedge-shaped, very downy and white : the 

 flowers in whorls towards the end of the 

 branches, yellow with smooth downy calyxes. 

 It has the appearance of a Sage, but is longer. 

 The whole plant is covered with a very close 

 white cotton. It is a native of the Levant, 

 flowering from June to September. 



There are other species that may be cultivated. 



Culture. — These plants may be increased by 

 -, cuttings and layers. 



The seeds should be sown in pots in the 

 spring, plunging them in a moderate hot-bed : 

 when the plants have had some growth thev 

 should be removed into separate small pots 

 filled with light mellow mould, being afterwards 

 treated as other shrubbv green- house plants. 



The cuttings and layers may be planted out or 

 laid down in the subwh r season, and w hen suffi- 

 ciently rooted managed as the other sorts. 



The third sort may be increased by planting 

 the slipped heads either in pots or a shady bor- 

 der, to be afterwards removed into pots lor pro- 

 tection in the winter in a frame. 



They afford variety in ereen-hou?c colic 

 among otl • d plant*. 



SIDEROXYJLON, a genu Lints 



of the shrub! . \ , exotic Iti 



It belongs to the class and order 1'intc 



::iu, and iani-> in the nail r of 



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The characters are : that the calvx is a Ir-e-clcft 

 perianth, small, erect, permanent: the corolla one - 

 Detailed, wheel -shaped : scj ve, roundi 



concave,erect: loothlci ite,atlheb 



of each division of the petal, tending inwan 



-tamina have fiveawUshaped filaments, length 

 of the corolla, alternate with the toothlcU : an- 

 thers oblong, incumbent : the pistillum is a 

 roundish germ : style awi^shaped, length of the 

 stamens: stigma simple, obtuse: the pencarpium 

 is a roundish berry, one-celled: the seeds five. 



The species cultivated are: l. S. iiierme, 

 Smooth Ironwood; 2. S. lycioidis, Willow*- 

 leaved Ironwood. 



The first in its native situation rises to the 

 height of an apple-tree ; but in this climate it 

 is rarely more than eight or ten feet high : the 

 wood is so heavy as to sink in water, and being 

 very close and hard, the name of Iron- wood 

 has been given it: it divides into many branches, 

 which are covered with a russet bark : the lea. 

 about three inches long, and an inch and half 

 broad in the middle, ending in points at both 

 extremities, placed w ithout order on the branches, 

 having footstalks an inch long: they are smooth, 

 of a lucid green, and continue all the year : the 

 flowers come out iu clusters from the side of the 

 branches upon short footstalks, which branch 

 out into several smaller, each sustaining a single 

 flower, which is small and white. It flowers 

 in July, and is a native of the Cape. 



The second species is a tree with axillary so- 

 litary spines and alternate leaves : the peduncle? 

 axillary, one-flowered, very many, a little longer 

 than the petioles : the calyx live-cleft, obtu- 

 the corolla funnel-form, five-cleft, obtuse; with 

 the - - concave, scarcely unfolded : nec- 



tary five-leaved, serrate, short, each lobe to each 

 lent of the corolla: the stamens ten, av. I- 

 shaped, length of the nectary ; anthers sagittate : 

 germ globular, style filiform; stigma very small: 

 the berry black, globular, from three- to tive- 

 celled, commonly abortive. It is a native of 

 South America. 



Culture. — These plants may be increased by 

 procured from abroad, which should be 

 sown in the spring in pots filled with fresh 

 mould, and plunged in the tan-bed ol the stove: 

 when the plants have some growth, thev should 

 be removed into separate pots and be reptnnged 

 in the bark-bed. 



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