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autumn, orbv planting cuttings in an cast bor- 

 der, which will takeioot in a snort time, il 

 are supplied with water in the- spring, b 

 they begin to shoot in dry weathei ; but tiiey 



should not be removed until the following au- 

 tumn, at which tunc they iikiv he either p 

 in a nursery to be trained up two or threi 

 OF where they arc designed to remain, mul 

 their roots, and watering them accord i 



ason requires, until they have taken root ; 

 after which, the only culture they will require, 

 is to prune oft" the atraggling shoots, and keep 

 the ground clean about them. 



The layer method is not only tedious but un- 

 necessary, as the cuttings grow readily, and 

 the layers often will not strike at all. The 

 cuttings should be of the last summer's shoots, 

 and a moist border is most proper for them. In 

 two years they will be good plants for the shrub- 

 bery, and may be planted out in almost any 

 soil, though they like a light moist earth best, 

 especially the latter sort, which grows naturally 

 in low watery situations. 



They are very ornamental in the shrubbery 

 borders, clumps, and other parts of grounds. 



TAMUS, a genus furnishing plants of the 

 hardy herbaceous climbing perennial kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Dioecia Hex- 

 andria, and ranks in the natural order of S'ur- 

 mentaceee. 



The characters are: that in the male, the calyx 

 is a six-parted perianth: leaflets ovate-lanceo- 

 late, spreading more at top : there is no corolla : 

 the stamina have six simple filaments, shorter 

 than the calyx: anthers erect: female — calyx 

 a one-leafed perianth, six-parted, bell-shaped, 

 spreading: segments lanceolate, superior, de- 

 ciduous : the corolla petals none : nectaries an 

 oblong point, fastened internallv to each calveine 

 segment at the base : the pistillum is an i 

 oblong germ, large, smooth, inferior: stvlc 

 cylindrical, length of the calyx : stigmas three, 

 reflexcd, emarginate, acute : the pertcanmim is 

 an ovate berry, three-celled: the seeds two, 

 globular. 



The species are : 1. T. Communis, Common 

 Black Bryony; 2. T. cretica, Cretan Black 

 Bryony. 



The first has a verv large tuberous root, 

 blackish externally, whence its old Latin and 

 English names: the stems smooth, twining 

 about every thing in their wav, and thi 



. ithout the aid of 1 ht of 



ten or twelve feet in hedges or among bi 

 which their festoons of tawny Laves ail 



s decorate in autumn : the leaves alternate, 

 pctioled, smooth and shining, quite entire ; the 

 nerves raued beneath, varying from kidney- to 



henrt -shaped, heart-spear-shaped, triangular 

 d, and even ha!hert-sh; 

 greenish, in p hunches 



from the side of the stalls, . 



the barren and fertile ones on sep h 



is a nati\ e of E 



The second specie- h is a rounder root than 

 the other : the stalks tw me m the s ime manner; 

 but the principal difference consists in the leaves 



divided into three lobes. It was disco 

 in the island of Crete or Candia. 



Culture — These plants are readily incr i 

 by sowing the seeds soon after the) are ripe under 

 the shelter of bushes, where, in the spring, the 

 plants will come up, and require no further 

 or in beds to be afterwards planted out. The 

 roots will abide many years, and somelimi I 

 up suckers, from which plants may be raised In- 

 setting them out in the autumn or spring where 

 they are to remain. 



They are useful in thickets and wilderness parts. 



TAX. See Bark,. 



TANACETUM, a genus furnishing plants of 

 the herbaceous and shrubby perennial Kin 



It belongs to the class and order Syngt 

 Polygamia Superflua, and ranks in the natural 

 order of Composites Discoidece. 



The characters are : that the calyx is common 

 hemispherical, imbricate: scales acute, com- 

 pact: the corolla compound tuh;dar, con 

 corollets hermaphrodite numerous, tubular, in 

 the disk; females some in the ray: proper of 

 tin: hermaphrodite funnel-form ; with a five-cleft 

 d border: female triiid, more deeply di- 

 vided inwardly: the stamina in the hermapbro- 

 filaments five, capillary verv short : an- 

 ther cylindric, tubular: the pistillum in the 

 hermaphrodites germ ob'ong, small: -t\l 

 form, length of the stamens: stigma bifid, rc- 

 volute; in the females germ oblong : sivl< 

 pic: stigmas two, refiexed : there is no pericar- 

 pium: calyx unchanged: the - 'tare, 



oblong: down slightly margined : the i 

 convex, n< 



The species cultivated an-: ] . T. I . 

 Common Tansy j 8. T. amimtm, Annual Ti ; 

 3. T. Balsamta, i ■ 



.ii Tansy; 5. 7' TuffrtUicosum, Shrubby 

 Tansy; d.T.jlabelliforme, Fan-IeavcdTs 



The first has a fibrous creeping root, which 

 will spread to a great distance: the bitter, 



and has a strong aromatic smell : - up- 



n from two t<» 

 . 

 : the leai . UK Iv 



i, or somewhat hairy 

 at the base, cmbra .n .- pinnules lam 

 and acu the flowi 



