Jesuit, whose name has been Latinized into Camellus; au- 

 thor of Syllabus Stirpium, &.c., annexed to the third volume 

 of Ray's Historia Plantarum. 



Camellia Japonica a lofty, large, evergreen tree: 

 leaves alternate, egg-shaped, acute, shining on both sides, 

 thick and stiff, paler green beneath, on short leaf-stalks. 

 Flowers large and beautiful, in the form of the rose: those 

 raised in Europe, of a lively red; but in their native country, 

 they exhibit a variety of colours. Its flowers readily become 

 double, in which state they often occur in Chinese paintings. 

 A native of China and Japan introduced into England, be- 

 fore 1742, by Robert James, Lord Petre. 



As Venus wander'd 'midst the Italian bower, 

 And mark'd the loves and graces round her play; 

 She pluck'd a musk-rose from its dew-bent spray, 

 "And this," she cried, "shall be my favourite flower; 

 For o'er its crimson leaflets I will shower 

 Dissolving sweets to steal the soul away; 

 That Dian's self shall own their sov'reign sway, 

 And feel the influence of my mightier power." 



Then spoke fair Cynthia, as severe she smiled, 

 "Be others by thy amorous arts beguiled; 

 Ne'er shall thy dang'rous gifts these brows adorn; 

 To me more dear than all their rich perfume 

 The chaste Camellia's pure and spotless bloom, 

 That boasts no fragrance, and conceals no thorn." 



Wm. Roscoe, Esq. 



CANTERBURY BELL. 



Campanula. Medium. 



Campanula, Latin, For a.' little bell. 



Root biennial. The plant decays after having matured 

 its seeds. The seeds should be sown in the spring and trans- 

 planted in the autumn, preparatory to its flowering the fol- 

 lowing year. 



Stem two feet high. Root-leaves narrowed at the base 

 into long leaf-stalks, slightly scolloped, hairy, harsh to the 

 touch. Stem-leaves oblong, scolloped. Flowers blue, pur- 

 ple, or white, large Monopetalous. 



Native of woods on the continent of Europe. 



CAPE JASMINE. 

 Gardenia. Florida. 



Gardenia, so named by Ellis, in honour of his able friend 

 and correspondent, Dr. Alexander Garden an eminent 

 botanist and zoologist a Scotchman, who settled at Charles- 

 ton, S. C., in 1752: a correspondent, also, of Linnaeus. Dur- 

 ing the political disturbances in America, he, being a loyalist, 

 took refuge in Europe; and, in 1761, he was elected a mem- 

 ber of the Royal Academy of Upsal. 



The original idea and character of this genus are taken 

 from the G. Florida, first carried to England by Captain 

 Hutchinson, in full bloom, from the Cape of Good Hope. 

 Gordon, the nursery-man, having obtained layers, propagated 

 it so successfully, as to have gained more than Jive hundred 

 pounds by the produce. The flowers are always double, like 

 those of the original shrub; with only imperfect traces of an- 

 thers: but many specimens, with sii gle flowers, have been 



brought from the East Indies, where it grows wild, as well as 

 in China and Japan. 



St em shrubby, three or four feet high: leaves opposite, 

 on short stalks, elliptical, bluntly pointed, entire, smooth, 

 veiny, evergreen. Flowers solitary, of the size and aspect 

 of a double Narcissus Poeticus, (which is the largest of the 

 white kinds, with a crimson border on the cup of the necta- 

 ry,) with a sweet and very powerful scent, resembling the fla- 

 vour of ginger. 



CARDINAL'S FLOWER. 



Lobelia. Cardinalis. 



Lobelia, so called in honour of Matthias de Lobel, or 

 1} Obel, a botanist, contemporary with Chisius, whose wood- 

 en cuts, for the most part, re-appeared in his works. He 

 was, at one time, physician to the illustrious Prince of Orange, 

 and to the States of Holland. Born at Lisle, in Flanders, in 

 1538. He removed to England before the year 1750, and 

 was appointed botanist and physician to James the First, of 

 England. He had, at one time, the superintendence of Lord 

 Zouch's garden, at Hackney, during the latter part of the 

 reign of Queen Elizabeth. He was one of the contributors 

 to a work entitled the Adversaria, dedicated to Queen Eliza- 

 beth. The aim of the authors of this work, was to investi- 

 gate the botany and ma.te.via medica of the ancients; and 

 especially of Dioscorides. In the decline of life, he lived at 

 Highgate; and died in 1616 aged 78. 



The Cardinal's flower, Lobelia Cardinalis, was intro- 

 duced into Great Britain in the reign of the First Charles; 

 whose herbalist, Parkinson, mentions it as a " brave plant." 

 We presume it was called CardinaPs flower on account of 

 the bright red colour of the corollas. It is a native of North 

 America, growing by the sides of rivers and ditches. Its 

 roots perennial; stems three feet high, leafy : flowers rich, 

 and vivid scarlet. 



The L. Fulgens, Refulgent Lobelia; and the L. Splen- 

 dous, Shining Lobelia, are still more brilliant: they are 

 Mexican plants; and when cultivated with care, the crimson 

 flowers assume a degree of magnificence scarcely surpassed 

 by any other plant. 



The foliage of the Splendid, or Shining Lobelia, is mark- 

 ed with dashes of a rich puce colour; which, together with 

 the claret coloured flower-stalks, adds greatly to the beauty of 

 the plant. The stems from five to six feet high. 



The Blue Lobelia, much used in medicine, grows 

 abundantly in the middle and southern states of North Ame- 

 rica, in moist grounds. The stem erect, (not branched, 

 like the L. Inflata,) rather hairy, from one to three or four 

 feet high; leaves ovate, lanceolate, unequally serrate; raceme 

 leafy; calyx, hairy, with sinuses reflexed; flowers, large, 

 bright blue, on short peduncles. Every part of the plant 

 abounds with a milky juice, and has a strong, disagreeable 

 odour. The root, which is the part used in medicine, resem- 

 bles tobacco in taste, and is apt to excite nausea. It flowers 

 all the summer. 



CATCH FLY. 



Silene. 

 Silene, a name given to this genus by Linnaeus, in allu- 



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