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from the same root, and growing ten or twelve 

 feet high, covered with a smooth bark, and 

 dividing into several branches, which are soft 

 and pithv : the leaves are composed of two pairs 

 of ovate leaflets terminated bv an odd one ; these 

 differ greatly in size, according to the strength 

 and vigour of the shrub ; some being more than 

 two inches long, and an inch and half broad; 

 but on old weak shrubs they are much smaller, 

 are smooth, entire, and of a light-green colour, 

 standing upon prettv long footstalks: the flowers 

 come out upon long slender pendulous pedun- 

 cles, front the axils of the stalks near their ex- 

 tremity, in oblong bunches : the petals are 

 white, and expand in form of a rose : the 

 flowers appear in May. It is a native of the 

 South of Europe. 



The second species has a more substantial 

 stem than the first, the bark of the old branches 

 and stalks is smooth and of a gray colour; that 

 of the voung ones of a light green and very 

 smooth : the ica^ets are ovate, ending in a 

 point, and serrate on the edges ; the la: _ 

 three inches long and two broad : but in old 

 plants they are not much more than half the 

 size : the flowers are produced from the side of 

 the branches in longer bunches than those of the 

 former sort, but their peduncles are much 

 shorter ; the flowers are of a clearer white, and 

 their petals are somewhat larger ; as are also the 

 bladder capsules. It is a native of North America. 

 Culture. — These plants may be increased bv 

 seeds, suckers, layers, and cuttings. The seeds 

 should be sown as soon as they become ripe, in 

 the autumn, in a bed of common earth, to the 

 depth of an inch ; they should be kept clear 

 from weeds, and refreshed in dry weather with 

 water frequently : in the following autumn or 

 spring the large plants should be removed into 

 nursery-rows, at two feet apart and one foot di- 

 stant in the rows, to remain till of sufficient 

 growth for the shrubbery; the suckers may be 

 taken up in autumn or earlv in the spring, with 

 root fibres to thein, and planted in nursery lines 

 in the above manner : the layers may be put 

 down from the voung branches being cither slit 

 or twisted, and when properly rooted in the 

 following autumn be planted out in the nursery 

 as above : the cuttings should be made from the 

 lower parts of the voung shoots of the preceding 

 year, planting them in a shady border in the 

 autumn, and watering them frequently during 

 the spring and summer when the weather is dry ; 

 and when well rooted, in the autumn following, 

 planting them out in nurserv-rows as above, or 

 where thev are to remain : they afford ornament 

 and variety iu the shrubbery parts of pleasure- 

 grounds. 



STAR APPLE. See CmtTsoraruuM . 

 STAR FLOWER. See Ounithoum. 

 STAR 11V VCINTH. SeeScn.1 

 STAR OF BETHLEHEM. SeeOmrrnio- 



G \i.r\t 



S I AR THISTLE. See Centaurea. 



S I A I ICE, a genus comprehending plants of 



the hardy, herbaceous and under-shrubby kinds. 



It belongs to the clan and order Pentandria 



!'■■ wtagyntOj and ranks in the natural order of 



Aggregates 



The characters are : thai the calyx is a com- 

 mon perianth, of a different structure in the »■- 

 veral species : the perianth proper one-leafed, 

 funnel-form : tube narrowed : border entire, 

 plaited, scariose : the corolla funnel-form: 

 petals live, united at the base, narrowed below, 

 above wider, obtuse, spreading: the stamina 

 have five awl-shaped filaments, "shorter than the 

 corolla, inserted into the corolla by their claw- i 

 anthers incumbent: the pistillum is a very 

 minute germ : styles five, filiform, distant : 

 stigmas acute : the pericarpium is an oblom' 

 capsule, somewhat cylindrical, membranaceous^ 

 five-cusped, one-celled, valueless: propercaKx 

 contracted at the neck, expanded in the border, 

 cherishing the capsule when the corolla withers: 

 seed single, oblong, hanging from a long cord . 

 The species cultivated are : 1. S. Armeria, 

 Thrift, or Sea Gilliflower : 2. S. Limonlum, Sea 

 Thrift, or Sea Lavender: 3. 5. cordata, Htart- 

 leaved Sea Lavender: 4. S. reticulata, Mat- 

 ted Sea Lavender : 5. S. ecliioides, Rou°di- 

 leaved Sea Lavender: 6. S. speciosa, Plan- 

 tain-leaved Sea Lavender : 7.5. talarica, Tar- 

 tarianSea Lavender: 8. S.pectinata, Triangular- 

 stalked Sea Lavender: 9. 5. stiff- ;u//coi(7, Narrow- 

 leaved Shrubby Sea Lavender : 10. S. monopetala, 

 Broad-leaved Shrubby Sea Lavender : 11. S.fe- 

 rulacea, Cut-leaved Sea Lavender: 18. S. mm- 

 ata, Scallop-leaved Sea Lavender. 



The fir?t has a perennial woody root, bearing 

 many thick tufts of lax, linear, channelled, 

 smooth, entire leaves : the scapes erect, simple, 

 pubescent, varying much in height (from Mo 

 to eight inches or even a foot), terminated by a 

 globular head of many flowers, encompassed by 

 a many-leaved involucre, the base of which is 

 attached to a singular cylindrical membranous 

 sheath, about an inch long, and investing the 

 top of the scape, its lower end being loose and 

 lacerated, so that it seems to have been torn off 

 from the root, and carried up with the voung 

 growing Stem : the calyx small, erect : the co- 

 rolla rose-coloured or pink (varying to deep 

 red, scarlet and white). It is a native of Europe 

 atul North America: it flowers from June to 



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