V F. R 



V F. R 



difficulty and attention. They may he increased 

 bv seeds, which should be sown in pot>, or on a 

 hot-bed, in the early spring, plunging the pots in 

 the bed. When they are ia a stare oi growth 

 to remove, thev should be planted in separate pots 

 and replunged in a fresh hot-bed, shade being 

 given till thev have taken new root, when they 

 BMttt have the management of tender plants of 

 the exotic kind. The annual sorts should be 

 kept in the stove, or a glass case, where there is 

 a bark-bed to plunge them in when too large to 

 be continued under the frames ; and the peren- 

 nial sorts mav be placed simply in such cases, 

 atr being admitted in a cautious manner. 



Of these kinds, such as do not afford good 

 seeds in this climate, may be increased by plant- 

 ing cuttings in the summer months in pots of 

 good mould, placing them in the bark-bed of 

 the stove, where they may be preserved many 

 years. 



The eighth sort mav be raised from seeds by 

 sowing them in the autumn, and by parting the 

 roots and planting them out at the same time. 

 Thev succeed best on a soft loamy soil, and are 

 so hardy as to thrive in the open air. 



The ninth sort mav be readily increased by 

 planting cuttings in the spring or autumn in pots 

 of goocT mould. It should have the protection 

 of the green-house or a glass case. 



Thev afford variety among other potted plants 

 in the green-house and stove, and some of the 

 hardv sorts occasionally in the open ground. 



VERBESINA, a genus affording plants of the 

 herbaceous and woody flowering exotic kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Sy agenesia 

 PvlySfimin Suprrftua, and ranks in the natural 

 order of Compos'iler OppositiJ'olice. 



The characters of which are: that the calyx 

 is common concave : leatlets oblong, chan- 

 nelled-concave, erect, commonly equal, in a 

 double row : the corolla compound radiate : 

 corollets hermaphrodi'e, many, in the disk : 

 females about live in the ray : proper of the her- 

 maphrodite funnel-form, five-toothed, erect : — 

 female lisiulate. tnlid and wide or simple and 

 very narrow : the stamina in the hermaphrodites: 

 filaments live, capillary, very short : anthers cy- 

 lindrical, tubular : — the pistil I um of the herma- 

 phrodite : germ somewhat oblong: style fili- 

 form, length of the stamens : stigmas two, re- 

 Hexed : — in the females, germ somewhat oblong: 

 style filiform, length of the beraiaphrodiu : 

 stigmas two, refkxed : there ia no peiicarpinm: 

 calyx unchanged : the seeds in the herinapliio- 

 •iiies solitary, ihukish, angular : pappus of two 

 awl-shaped unequal awns: in the females wry 

 hke the others : the receptacle chaffy. 



The species cultivated are: I. /'. alatu. Wing- 

 staJked Verbesina ; 2. V. CJrimeutif, Chinese 



Verbesina; 3. V. nnJiflora, Se-sile-ri ! 



Varbesioa; ». F.JtuUcmo, Shrubbj \. 

 5. /'. gigantte, Tree Verbesina. 



The lirst is ua herbaceoua plant, with an on- 

 right stem about two feet high, subdivided, 

 miaul, winged, rough-haired i the branch 

 ternate, erect, axillary: the leaves oblong, acu- 

 minate, angular-toothed, nerved, somewhat rug- 

 ged, rough-haired : the Btem has four • 

 formed by the leaves running down ii ; the pe- 

 duncles elongated, terminating, pubescent, with 

 Bowen in single heads, oi a deep orange-colour. 

 It is perennial, and a native of South America, 

 flowering most part of the summer. 



The second species is a shrub with a single, 

 round, subiomentosestem and undivided branches 

 from the upper axils of the leaves ; which are 

 somewhat tomentose, bluutish, pctioled: the 

 flowers terminating, solitary, peduncled, and 

 yellow. 



The third has an annual root : the stem her- 

 baceous, branched, a foot high, round, even : 

 the leaves sessile, mostly terminating, cuneate- 

 o\ ate, acuminate, nerved, hi-pid: the flower- m-<- 

 sile in the axils of the terminating leaves, two '>r 

 three together, yellow, appearing in July. It ia 

 a native of the West Indie-. 



The fourth species rises with a shrubby stalk 

 seven or eight feet high : the leaves deeply ser- 

 rate and cut somewhat like those of the ever- 

 green oak : the flowers are yellow, prod 

 from the side of the stalks, and appear in July. 

 It is a native of the West Indies. 



The fifth has the stem fifteen feet high, and 

 the thickness of a thumb at the lower part, 

 smooth, green, and viscid; it is tilled without 

 interruption by a white inodorous pith, as in a 

 rush ; is simple, or at least but verv slightly di- 

 vided at top: and the whole stem is aphyllous, 

 the leaves occupying only the upper part 

 branchlets: they are alternate, foot-stalked, and 

 the largest are about a foot and a halt long; thev 

 are villose and pinnatilid, with distant oblong 

 lobes : from the boaoms of the upper leaves 

 spring round whitisb-villose peduncles, bearing 

 at their tips the flowers, which are slightly * 

 stalked, and closely heaped together, forming a 

 kind of panicle : trie corollets are while, a. id the 

 anthers black. It is a native of the V. - 

 Indii -. 



Culture. — These plants may be increased b\ 

 sowing the seeds upon a moderate hot-bed, 01 it 

 pots plunged into it. m the earl) spring m ••■ 

 and when the plants are of sufficient growth 

 should be removed into separate pots, or 

 into a new hot-bed, giving shade till th<\ be- 

 come new-rooted ; afterwards managing them 

 as tender annual plant-, being careful not 10 

 draw them up weak: about the middle ol .-um 



