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New England, and the Alleghany Mountains, in high cold 

 situations. Leaves solitary, flat, imperfectly two-ranked. 

 Cones cylindrical, erect, with short pointed scales, when full 

 grown, of a beautiful violet hue, and exuding a plenty of can- 

 died turpentine, or balsam, as does the trunk when wounded 

 Its fragrant exudation is the well known Canada balsam, 

 which some quacks celebrate as Balm of Gilead. 



The stamens and pistils of all cone-bearing plants are in 

 separate flowers, either on the same, or on different plants; 

 they produce resins, and many of them are supposed to supply 

 the most durable timber, as the Cypress and Cedar. 



Venice-Turpentine is obtained from the larch. San- 

 darach from the common Juniper; and Incense from a ju- 

 niper with yellow fruit. 



[See Darwin's Notes to Loves of the Plants.] 



FOX GLOVE. 

 Digitalis. 



Digitalis, from Digitale, the finger of a glove. The name 

 given first by Fuchsius, and hence the plant is called Digita- 

 lis Fuchsii. 



The D. purpurea, or Purple British Fox-glove, is the 

 species best known. It grows in various parts of Europe. 

 The Root is biennial. Stem erect, about three or four feet 

 high. Leaves large, ovate, crenate, downy. Flowers nu- 

 merous, in a long simple spike, large, crimson, sometimes 

 white, elegantly sprinkled with eye-like spots within. It is a 

 dangerous plant, from its strongly narcotic power yet a 

 valuable medicine in careful hands. 



The Fox-glove on fair Flora's hand is worn, 



Lest while she gathers flowers she meet a thorn. 



Cowley. 

 FUCHSIA. 



Fuchsia, so named by Plumier, in honour of Leonard 

 Fuchsius, a distinguished German Physician and Botanist, 

 particularly celebrated for his figures of plates. Born, at 

 Wembding in Bavaria, in 1501. 



The species chiefly cultivated, are the F. Coccinea, a 

 native of Chili, S. A. It is a shrub of from three to six feet 

 high, smooth in all its parts, and much branched. Leaves, 

 two or three, rarely four, together; an inch or more in length, 

 rather distantly toothed; pale and shining beneath. Calyx 

 scarlet. Petals violet, obovate, and blunt. Stamens, and 

 style scarlet, hanging far out of the flower. Berries dark 

 purple. The young branches and leaves have the veins 

 tinged with a fine crimson colour. Although a gree"' '-house 

 plant, it will bear the open garden in a well sheltered si- 

 tuation. 



The F. Triphylla, or three-leaved Fuchsia, is a native 

 of the West Indies: an herbaceous plant of more diminutive 

 growth. Leaves three together in a whorl. The Calyx 

 about an inch and a half long, scarlet, as well as the petals. 

 Berries almost globular, and rather larger than a common 

 black Currant. 



GERANIUM. 

 Pelargonium. 



Pelargonium, L. from the Greek n-sx^yo;, a stork, in 

 allusion to the beak of the fruit, resembling the bill of that 



bird, as well as to preserve an analogy with the Geranium, 

 or Crane's Bill; the Greek word r^xvoj, signifying a Crane. 



Pelargonium, embraces what are commonly known by 

 the appellation of Jlfrican Geraniums, and which, doubt- 

 less, constitute a genus clearly distinguished from the Eu- 

 ropean and American Geranium, by the irregularity of the 

 flower, and its tubular nectary, to say nothing of the number 

 of stamens. 



It is the African Geranium, that is most generally cul- 

 tivated in our green-houses, for the beauty of its flowers, 

 and fragrance of its foliage. 



The Crane's Bill Geranium, is of the same Class and 

 Order as Pelargonium, except that it has 10 stamens, De- 

 candria, instead of 7, Heptandria. 



The only Crane's Bill Geranium, introduced into this 

 collection, is the Geranium Maculatum, or Spotted Crane's 

 Bill. An American plant of such highly medicinal virtues, 

 as to recommend it to our attention, and which ought to be 

 in every garden, being esteemed the best known styptic in 

 the whole JYIateria JWedica; having produced wonderful 

 cures when applied to wounded or ruptured blood-vessels. 

 It has not much beauty to recommend it, yet its retiring 

 and modest worth, so generally overlooked in the gay sa- 

 loon, may well be supposed to excite something like envy of 

 its more favoured rivals. 



The G. JVLaculatum may be found abundantly in our 

 meadows and woods. The one with purple flowers, has 

 downy leaves, with five lobes or scollops, and these divided 

 into small indentures. The leaves of the blue, are wrinkled 

 and divided deeply into many parts or fingers. The stalks 

 supporting the delicate blue flowers, are long and slender, 

 from six inches to a foot high. They, both, have a flower 

 with a single cup, or Calyx, of five leaves. Corolla of five 

 petals ; ten stamens alternately longer and shorter; one pointal, 

 terminated by five stigmas. Fruit, five dry berries furnished 

 with a bill, each, containing a single seed, crowned with a 

 tail or awn, which rolls up in a spiral form, when the seed 

 becomes ripe. The root, which is the part used medicinally, 

 is generally crooked and knotty, blackish or reddish on the 

 outside, with a roughish taste, and aromatic flavour. 



Hemlock-leaved, and Musk Crane's BUI, of this ge- 

 nus, have but five stamens. 



The general character of the Pelargonium, is a Peri- 

 anth, inferior, in five deep, oblong, permanent segments, the 

 uppermost elongated at the base into a nectariferous tube, 

 running down the flower-stalk. Petals five, irregular, ob- 

 long, spreading, longer than the calyx. Filaments ten, un- 

 equal, three of them, rarely five, abortive. Fruit beaked, of 

 five aggregate capsules, each tipped with a long spiral awn, 

 bearded on the inside. The foliage of the different species 

 is too varied and multifarious for description, and too well 

 known to require it. We will therefore take our leave of 



Genteel Geranium, 

 With a leaf for all that come. 



Hunt. 



GILLY FLOWER. 

 Cheiranthus. Incanus. 

 Cheiranthus, from the Arabic fceirt, altered by Linnaeus 



