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sometimes by seeds. The suckers should be taken off in the autumn 

 or spring, with root-fibres to them, and be planted out either in 

 nursery-rows, to remain a year or two, or where they are to remain. 

 The layers may be made from the young pliant shoots, and be laid 

 down in the autumn, in the usual way, when in the autumn following 

 they may be taken off and planted out, as in the suckers. The first 

 sort may likewise be raised from seeds sown in a bed of common 

 earth, in the autumn or spring, keeping the plants clean when they 

 come up. They afford variety in the large borders and other parts 

 of shrubberies. 



2. SARRACENA FLAVA. 



YELLOW SARRACENA. 



THIS genus contains plants of the herbaceous perennial kind. 



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

 in the natural order of Succulenta. 



The characters are: that the calyx is a double perianth; lower 

 three-leaved : leaflets ovate, very small, deciduous ; upper five- 

 leaved; leaflets subovate, very large, coloured, deciduous: the corolla 

 has five ovate petals, bent in, covering the stamens: claws ovate- 

 oblong, straight: the stamina have numerous small filaments: anthers 

 simple: the pistillum is a roundish germ : style cylindrical, very 

 short : stigma clypeate, peltate, five-cornered, covering the stamens, 

 permanent: the pericarpium is a roundish five-celled capsule: the 

 seeds numerous, roundish, acuminate, small. 



The species are: 1. S. Jiava, Yellow Side-saddle Flower; 2. S. 

 purpurea, Purple Side-saddle Flower. 



The first has the leaves near three feet high, small at the boltom, 

 but widening gradually to the top; they are hollow, and arched over 



