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T A M 



in drv weather. They are increased by ofT-siMs 

 from the roots, which should be planted out in 

 tbc autumn. 



The first two sort? afford variety in the stove, 

 and the latter sorts in this a< well as the border*. 



TACAMAHACA. See Populus. 



TAGEXES, a -icnus furnishing plants of the 

 herbaceous annual kind. 



It belongs to the class and order S 

 Poh/gamia SuperJIua, and ranks in the natural 

 order of Compo\it<P OppOSlttfol 



The characters are : that the calyx is com- 

 mon, quite simple, one-leafed, tubular, oblong, 

 five-cornered, five-toothed : the corolla com- 



f)ound radiate : corolle'.s hermaphrodite, tubu- 

 ar, many, on an elevated disk : females ligular, 

 five, in the ray : — proper in the hermaphrodites, 

 tubular, half-five-clctt, erect, longer than the 

 calyx, segments linear, inwardly villi se: — in 

 the females ligular, longer than in the her- 

 maphrodjes, almost cqua! in length and breadth, 

 •very blunt, narrower towards the tube, tomen- 

 tose, permanent: — the stamina in the hermaphro- 

 dites : filaments five, capillary, very short : an- 

 ther cylindrical, tubular: the pislillum in the 

 hermaphrodites: germ oblong: style filiform, 

 length of the stamens : stigma bifid, slender, 

 reflexed : — in the females germ oblong : style 

 filiform, length of the hermaphrodite: stigma 

 bifid, slender, reflexed: there is no pcricarpium: 

 calyx unchanged : the seeds in the hermaphro- 

 dites solitary, linear, compressed, a little shorter 

 than the calyx : down with live, erect, acumi- 

 nate, unequal chaffs. — In the females like the 

 others : the receptacle naked, small, flat. 



The species cultivated are: 1. T. patula, 

 French Marygold : 2. T. erecta, African Alary- 

 go hi. 



The first has the stem a foot and half high, 

 almost upright, smooth, diffused : the leaves 

 deeply piuoatifid, (pinnate with a winged rachis) 

 the segments lanceolate, serrate s,mooth, dark- 

 green, paler at the hack, and punched : the 

 flowers solitary, tern, mating, gold- coloured, on 

 a long upright peduncle. It is probably a na- 

 tive of Mexico, flow ering from July to autumn. 



There are several varieties : as the pale yellow- 

 flowered, deep vellovv-flowered, golden yellow- 

 flowered, crimson-coloured, velvety, variegated 

 crimson and yellow, striped crimson and yellow ; 

 each of which has both single and double flowers. 



The second species has the stem three or four 

 feethi»h, straight, round, green, dividingfrom 

 the middle into many branches, each bearing 

 one large flower : the leaves long, pinnate ; leaf- 

 lets dark-green : the flowers yellow, from brim- 

 stone to orange colour. It is a native ot Mexico. 



There are varieties : as with pa!e-ycllow or 



brimstone-coloured t deep ; 



l o wer s, with orange-coloured : 



with single, double, and fistulow 



middling African, with orange-coloured Cowers, 



and the sweet-scented Afrie 



Culture. — These plants are in- reased 

 which should be sown in the beginning of 

 April upon a hot-bed, and when (he , i . 

 pear, they should have plenty of fresh air, and 

 after they have attained some growth be trans- 

 planted on to another hot-bed, which is arched 

 over by hoops, at the distance ches, 



watering ami shading them well till fresh ro< 

 being afterward gradually im.rcd to the open 

 air ; and about the beginning of May they mav 

 be taken up with balls of earth about their re>ot-, 

 anel planted in pots, to be set out in the courts, 

 yards, &c, about the house, shading them till 

 fresh rooted, and giving them water occa- 

 sionally : but the first sort divides ami spreads 

 out widely near the ground, in a rambling man- 

 ner, anel requires to be trimmed up at bot- 

 tom to a single stem, and its branches occa- 

 sionally, to preserve the head somewhat regular, 

 ami within due bounds. 



The stcond species in particular, and the va- 

 rieties, as thev always grow firmly erect, both 

 in stem and branches, require but very little 

 trouble after their final planting out: they afford 

 ornament and variety among other plant;, in 

 the borders, clumps, and other parts of pleasure- 

 grounds, as well as in pots for particular places 

 about the house, among other potted annual 

 plants. The seeds of each species, and their 

 varieties, should be annually saved from the 

 best plants. 



TALLOW TREE. See Croton. 



TAMARINDUS, a genus containing a | 

 of the exotic tree kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Monadelphia 

 Triundr'ui, (Tr'mndiia ^lonosi/nia,) and ranks 

 in the natural order of Lomentacai'. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a rne- 

 leafcd perianth; tube turbinate, compressed, 

 attenuated below, permanent ; mouth oblique ; 

 border four-parted, deciduous; segments ovate, 

 acute, flattish, reflexed, coloured ; the upper 

 and lower a little wider: the corolla has three 

 petals, ovate, concave, acute, crenste, waved, 

 reflexed, length of the calyx, inserted into tin- 

 mouth of the" tube, the two lateral ones a little- 

 larger : the stamina have three filaments, in- 

 serted into the orifice of the calyx at the 

 sinus, length of the corolla, awl-shaped, untied 

 below up to the middle, bowed towards the co- 

 rolla: anthers ovate, incumbent, large : threads 

 five (rudiments ot stamens), alternate with the 

 filaments, and uniteil below, but separate above, 



