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ends of very slender trailing stalks, produced in plenly on every side 

 the parent plant, as on the Childing Marigold. The flower-stalks 

 arise from the centre of these heads; are naked, about four inches 

 long, and terminated by close clusters of herbaceous flowers: tire 

 leaves are radical, forming roses, ovate, fleshy, gibbous, even, sharp- 

 ish, ciliate backwards, with cartilaginous; very slender hairs: the root 

 puts forth lateral threads, which are filiform and decumbent, forming 

 runners at the end. It flowers sometimes in May, but usually in 

 July and August. 



Culture. The first three sorts may be easily increased, by plant- 

 ing the cuttings of the stems and branches in the later spring and 

 summer months, after having been exposed in a dry situation for a 

 few days, to heal over the cut parts, in pots filled with sandy earth, 

 plunging them in the bark-bed of- the stove, or in a frame shaded 

 from the sun. When well rooted, they should he removed into sepa- 

 rate pots, and replaced in the same situations till fully established, 

 when they may be removed into the greenhouse, where they should 

 have a sunny situation in winter, and but little water. 



The other species may be increased by planting the off-sets from 

 the roots in the same manner as above. 



As these are plants of a succulent nature, both in their stems, 

 branches, and leaves, as well as of curious growth, they afford variety 

 among collections of other plants' of similar kinds. They are capable 

 of bearing the open air in summer, in dry warm situations. 

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2. CYTISUS LABURNUM. 



LABURNUM. 



Tins genus contains plants of the hardy evergreen and deciduous 

 flowering shrubby kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Diadelphia Dicandria, and ranks 

 in the natural order 



