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The second sort was formerly thought difficult to raise by seeds; 

 but at present it is readily increased by parting its creeping roots, 

 and planting them in bog earth, on a shady border, where it thrives 

 very well, and spawns much. 



The first affords variety when set out among other potted plants 

 of the green-house kind ; and the latter, in the borders, &c. 



3. PHYSALIS ALKEKENGI. 



WINTER CHERRY. 



THIS genus comprises plants of the herbaceous and shrubby 

 ornamental kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Pentandria Monogynia, and ranks 

 in the natural order of Lurida. 



The characters are: that the calyx is a one-leafed perianthium, 

 ventricose, half-five-cleft, small, five-cornered, with acuminate seg- 

 ments, permanent: the corolla one-petalled, wheel-shaped: tube 

 very short: border half-five-cleft, large, plaited: segments wide, 

 acute: the stamina have five filaments, awl-shaped, very small, con- 

 verging: anthers erect, converging: the pistillum is a roundish germ: 

 style filiform, generally longer than the stamens: stigma bl mil: the 

 pericarpium is a subglobular berry, two-celled, small, within a 

 very large, inflated, closed, five-cornered, coloured calyx: the re- 

 ceptacle kidney-form, doubled: the seeds very many, kidney-form, 

 compressed. 



The species are: 1. P. angulata, Tooth-leaved Winter Cherry; 

 2. P. pubescens, "Woolly Winter Cherry; 3. P. Alkehengi, Common 

 Winter Cherry; 4. P. Pemylvanica, Pennsylvanian Winter Cherry; 

 5. P. viscosa, Clammy Winter Cherry; 6. P. somnifera, Clustered 

 Winter Cherry; 7- P. fiexuosa, Fexuous Italian Winter Cherry; 8. P. 



