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terminating corymbs, of a golden colour and 

 riatiish. ]t is a native of Europe and Siberia, 

 flowering from June to August. 



There arc varieties with curled leaves, called 

 Double Tansy; with variegated leaves; and with 

 larger leaves, which have little scent. 



The second species is an annual plant, rising 

 about two feet high : the stem stiff", but herba- 

 ceous, sending out many side branches their 

 whole length ; the lower ones four or five inches 

 long, gradually shorter to the top: the leaves 

 come out in small clusters from the joints ; they 

 are very narrow and short; some end in three 

 points, others are single : the branches are ter- 

 minated by clusters of flowers of a bright yellow ; 

 each corymb on a short peduncle. They appear 

 in July or August, and continue till the frost 

 destroys them. It has a fine aromatic scent, and 

 is a native of Spain and Italy. 



The third has a hardy root, fleshy and creep- 

 ing: the lower leaves near three inches long, 

 and an inch and half broad, of a gravish colour, 

 and on long footstalks: the stems rise from two 

 to three feet high, and send out branches from 

 the side: the leaves on these are like the lower 

 ones, but smaller and sessile: the flowers are 

 produced at the top of the stems in a loose co- 

 vvmb; they are naked, and of a deep yellow 

 colour, appearing in August. The whole plant 

 has a soft pleasant odour. It is a native of the 

 South of Fiance, Spain, and Italy. 

 i The fourth species has the leaves linear, pin- 

 nate: pinnas linear, filiform, often hind or 

 trifid, quite entire : the corymb terminating and 

 others axillary, few-flowered; flowers yellow : 

 the root is fibrous perennial: the stalks more 

 than two feet high. It flowers in June and July, 

 and is a native oi Siberia. 



The fifth species rises with a branching shrubby 

 stalk, three or four feet high: the segments of 

 the leaves are very narrow, and frequently cut 

 into acute segments : the flowers are produced in 

 small roundish bunches, at the ends of the 

 branches, of a bright yellow, and appear in 

 August. It is a native of the Cape. 



The sixth species has all the florets herma- 

 phrodite and five-cleft: the receptacle naked, 

 not chaffy. It is a native of the Cape, flowering 

 from May to August. 



Culture. — The different herbaceous species are 

 increased by parting the roots, and by seed. 



In the first mode the business is effected by 

 nlipping or dividing the roots in autumn or 

 winter, when the stalks are decayed ; or early in 

 pring, before new stalks shoot forth, planting 

 the slips at once where they are to remain ; those 

 for the kitchen-garden, a« the Common Tansy, 

 . ;. in any bed or border a foot and a half 



asunder ; and those intended for variety in the 

 pleasure-ground, singly here and there, at suit- 

 able distances, to cflect a proper diversity. 



The seed saved in autumn should be sown in 

 the spring following, in beds of light earth, 

 broad-cast and raked in, when the. plants will 

 soon come up, and in July be fit to prick out ia 

 beds, in rows a foot asunder ; some to remain, 

 and others to be planted out in autumn where 

 thev are to grow. 



The shrubby sorts are easily increased by cut- 

 tings of the branches, which should he planted 

 any time in spring and summer, choosing ths 

 young and most robust shoots, which should be 

 cut off in proper lengths ; and if early in spring, 

 &c. be planted in pots of good ea th, several in 

 each, plunging them in a hot-bed, v. here they 

 will be rooted, and fit for potting off separately 

 in six weeks; or, if in summer, the young 

 shoots may be planted in the full ground, in a 

 shady border, or where they mav be shaded with 

 mats from the sun ; or in pots, and placed in 

 the shade, or under a garden frame, &c; in all 

 of which methods, giving plenty of water, they 

 will readily take root; but those in the hot-bed 

 will he forwardest : they however will all be 

 well rooted the same season, and should then be 

 transplanted in separate pots, and managed as 

 other shrubby green-house plants. See Gm:en- 

 hodse Plants. 



The former sorts require to be afterwards 

 kept free from weeds, cutting down the decayed 

 stalks annually in autumn ; and as the roots in- 

 crease fast into large bunches, spreading widely 

 round, they should be cut in, or be slipped oc- 

 casionally, otherwise they are apt to overrun 

 the ground ; and to have the ground dug between 

 the plants annually. 



The latter sorts are somewhat tender, but only 

 require shelter from frost, being kept in pots, 

 and deposiu-d among the green-house plants, 

 and treated as other shrubby exotics of that col- 

 lection. They effect a very agreeable variety at 

 all times of the year, but particularly in summer 

 and autumn, when in flower. 



TARCHONANTHUS, a genus containing a 

 plant of the shrubby evergreen exotic kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Sij agenesia 

 Fotygamia JEqiialis, and ranks in the natural 

 order of Nucamtntaecce. 



The characters are: that the calyx is com- 

 mon turbinate, one-leafed, commonly half* 

 seven-cleit, coloured internally, shorter than 

 the corolla, sharpish, permanent: the corolla 

 compound uniform : florets about twenty : co- 

 rollcts hermaphrodite, numerous, equal: proper 

 one-petalled, funnel-form, five-toothed: the 

 stamina have five filaments, capillary, very 



