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W O R 



WHIN. See Ulf.x. 



WHIN, PETTY. See Genista. 



WHITE BEAM. See Crat^gus. 



WHITE LEAF. See Crataegus. 



WHITETHORN. See Crataegus. 



WIDOW-WAIL. SeeCNioRUM. 



WILD OLIVE. See El/eagnus. 



WILLOW. See Salix. 



WILLOW, SWEET. See Myrica. 



WINTERA, a genus containing a plant of 

 the exotic tree kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Dodecandria 

 Monogynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 dlasniolice. 



The characters are : that the calyx is bell- 

 shaped, tri-lobed, with the lobes roundish and 

 concave : the corolla has five oblong, sessile 

 petals, longer than the calyx, and a conical, 

 pitcher-shaped nectariurri: the stamina have no 

 filaments ; but twelve or sixteen linear, distant 

 anthera, affixed to the outside of the nectarium : 

 the pistillum is an oval germ, cylindric style, 

 with three obtuse stigmas : the pericarpium is a 

 roundish, trilocular berry, with two heart-shaped 

 3eeds. 



The species is IF. Canella, Winters, or Bas- 

 tard Cinnamon. 



It rises with a thick woody stem, branching 

 on every side, almost the whole length, growing 

 near twenty feet in height, having a lightish- 

 coioured aromatic bark : the leaves are oblong, 

 obtuse, light-green: the flowers red, in umbel- 

 late clusters, at the ends of the branches, suc- 

 ceeded by roundish berries. It is a native of 

 South America. 



Culture. — This may be increased bv planting 

 cuttings of the shoots in pots filled with mellow 

 loamy mould, plunging them in the bark-bed of 

 the stove. When the plants have attained .*. 

 good root, they may be removed into separate 

 pots, replunging- them in the bark-bed, giving 

 shade and a little water till fresh rooted; being 

 afterwards managed as other woody stove plants. 

 It must always be kept in the stove. 



This plant afFords variety in the stove among 

 other aromatics. 



WINTER-BERRY. See Prinos. 



WOODBINE. SeeLoxicERA. 



WOOD, WAXEN. See Genista. 



WORMWOOD TREE. See Artemisia. 



X E R 



XERANTHEMUM, a genus containing 

 plants of the herbaceous, flowering, annual 

 and shrubby kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Syngenesia 

 Polygamia Superftua. 



The characters are: that the calyx is a com- 

 pound flower, having the general calyx composed 

 of many long spear-shaped scales : the corolla is 

 composed of many hermaphrodite florets in the 

 disk, each consisting of one funnel-shaped petal, 

 five-parted at top; and tubular female florets in 

 the radius, more slightly cut at the brim : the 

 stamina five very short filaments, and long 

 cylindric antherse : the pistillum is a short 

 .germen, filiform style, having a bifid stigma in 

 the hermaphrodites ; and in the females iwo re- 

 flexed stigmas: there is no pericarpium; each 

 floret succeeded by an oblong, coronated seed, 

 placed on a < haffy receptacle. 



The species cultivated are: 1. X. annuum, 

 Annual Xeranthemum, or Common Eiernal 

 Flower; 2. X. ret or turn, Reflexed- leaved Eternal 

 Flower; 3. X. speciosis^imum, Golden Eternal 

 Flower; 4. X. Sesamoides, Silvery Eternal 

 Fl iwer ; 5. X. proliferum, Proliferous Eternal 

 Flower; 6. X, vest it urn, Leafy -flowered Eternal 



X E R 



Flower; 7 • X. imlricatum, Imbricated Eternal 

 Flower. 



The first rises with an herbaceous, angular, 

 downy, branching stalk, to the height of two or 

 three feet : the leaves are spear-shaped, spread- 

 ing, hoary, close-sitting ; and all the stalks and 

 branches terminated by large flowers singly, of 

 different colours in. the varieties, appearing from 

 July to September, and succeeded by ripe seeds 

 in autumn. It is a native of the Cape. 



There are varieties with large white flowers, 

 with purple flowers, with double while flowers, 

 with double purple flowers, and with double 

 violet-coloured flowers. 



' The second species has under-shrubbv trailing 

 stalks, set with recurved, reflexed, hoary-silvery 

 leaves^ ihe flowers come out at the axillas of the 

 branches, having white rays and yellow disks. 

 It is a native of Africa. 



I he third has an upright shrubby stem, 

 branching ttiree or four feet in height, being set 

 v ith spear-shaped, trinervous, sessile leaves ; 



id at the termination of the branches large 

 bright golden-yellow flowers. It is a native of 

 the Cape. 



The fourth species has also an upright shrubby 



