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THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL; 



LAU 



but few fibres, they do not succeed well if they are trans- 

 planted after they are grown large. If the seeds of these plants 

 be permitted to scatter on the ground, the plants will come 

 up in the following spring; and when they happen to fall into 

 dry rubbish, and are permitted to grow therein, they will 

 be short, strong, woody, and produce a greater number of 

 those flowers than plants which are more luxuriant. As these 

 plants continue a long time in flower, a few plants of each 

 sort may be allowed a place in all gardens where there is 

 room. Several of them will only last two years, except upon 

 dry ground, where they will endure three or four years, but 

 seldom longer. They mostly require some protection in winter. 



2. Lavatera Micans; Shining Tree Mallow. Stem arbo- 

 reous; leaves seven-angled, acute, crenate, plaited, tomen- 

 tose; racemes terminating. On the upper surface of the 

 leaves are brimstone-coloured micse, shining in the sun. 

 Native of Spain and Portugal. 



3. Lavatera Olbia ; Downy-leaved Lavatera. Stein shrub- 

 by ; leaves five-lobecl, hastate ; flowers solitary. Flowers on 

 a' short peduncle, axillary, very seldom two together; termi- 

 nating ones in a spike. It flowers from June to October. 

 Native of the south of France. 



4. Lavatera Triloba; Three-lobed Lavatera. Stem shrubby; 

 leaves subcordate, subtrilobate, rounded, crenate; stipules 

 cordate ; peduncles one-flowered, aggregate. Corolla large, 

 spreading, pale purple, with the claws white, hairy. It flow- 

 ers from June to September. Native of France and Spain. 



5. Lavatera Lusitanica; Portuguese Lavatera. Stem 

 shrubby; leaves seven-angled, tomentose, plaited ; recemes 

 terminating. Flowers in Aug. and Sept. Native of Portugal. 



6. Lavatera Maritima; Sea-side Tree Mallow. Stem 

 shrubby; leaves cordate, roundish-lobed, crenate, tomentose; 

 flowers solitary. Stem reddish, covered with bundles of 

 hairs so small as to seem dots of meal, branched, two feet 

 high ; corolla large, twice the size of the first species, spread- 

 ing very much, whitish, with very narrow purple claws. It 

 flowers from July to September. Native of Spain and the 

 south of France. 



7. Lavatera Thuringiaca ; Great-flowered Lavatera. Stem 

 herbaceous ; fruits naked ; calices gashed. Lower leaves heart- 

 shaped, crenate, roundish-lobed; upper hastate, on short 

 petioles ; corolla large, spreading, pale violet or purplish. 

 Native of Sweden, Germany, Hungary, and Tartary. It 

 flowers from July to September. 



8. Lavatera Cretica ; Cretan Lavatera. Stem upright ; 

 lower branches diffused; peduncles clustered, one-flowered; 

 leaves lobed, upper ones acute. Root annual, fibrous, of 

 thick fibres a foot in length, with innumerable other capillary 

 fibres ; corolla twice the length of the calix, pale blue, with 

 oblong emarginate petals. It flowers in July. Native of the 

 island of Candia. This and the other annuals are propagated 

 by seeds sown at the end of March or the beginning of April, 

 upon a bed of fresh light earth. When the plants are come 

 up, carefully clear them from weeds, and in very dry weather 

 now and then refresh them with water. When they are about 

 two inches high, transplant them into the places where they 

 are designed to remain, which should be in the middle of ihe 

 borders in the flower-garden ; for if the soil be good, they 

 will grow two or three feet high. Be careful, in transplanting 

 them, to preserve a ball of earth to their roots, otherwise they 

 are apt to miscarry ; and also water and shade them until they 

 have taken root, after which they will require no other care, 

 except to weed, and fasten them to stakes to prevent their 

 being injured by strong winds. The seeds may be sown also 

 in autumn. When the plants come up, transplant them into 

 small pots, which, toward the end of October, should be placed 



in a common hot-bed frame; where, being defended from 

 severe frosts, the plants will abide the winter very well. In 

 the spring, shake them out of the pots, and replant them into 

 larger, or else into the full ground, where they may remain to 

 flower. The plant thus managed will be larger, and flower 

 stronger and earlier, than those sown in the spring; and from 

 these you will constantly have good seeds, whereas those 

 sown in the spring sometimes miscarry. 



9. Lavatera Trimestris ; Common Annual Lavatera. Stem 

 herbaceous, rugged; leaves smooth; peduncles one-flowered; 

 fruits covered with a ring. Root annual, white, with spread- 

 ing beards ; flowers (solitary, axillary, on peduncles shorter 

 than the petioles ; corolla large, spreading, bell-shaped, pale 

 flesh-colour, with whitish lines ; seeds ferruginous. This 

 species varies very much, and the varieties are constant. 

 It fl*wers from July to September. Native of the south of 

 Europe and the Levant. 



Lavender. See Lavandula. 



Lavender Cotton. See Santolina. 



Lavender Sea. See Statice Limonium. 



Lavenia ; a genus of the class Syngenesia, order Poly- 

 gamia ^Equalis. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: com- 

 mon ovate, subimbricate ; scales ten to fourteen, lanceolate, 

 equal, permanent. Corolla: compound uniform; corollets 

 hermaphrodite equal, (fifteen to twenty;) proper funnel-form, 

 dilated at the base; border five-cleft, patulous.' Stamina: 

 filamenta five, filiform, shorter than the tube ; anthera,- 

 oblong, flattish, twin, slightly connate. Pistil: germen 

 oblong; style filiform, longer than the corollet, two-parted; 

 stigmas flattish, clubbed. Pericarp : none ; calix perma- 

 nent, spreading. Seeds: subclavate, a little wrinkled, viscid 

 with glandules ; down with three awl-shaped awns, glandu- 

 lose at the base. Receptacle: naked. ESSENTIAL CHA- 

 RACTER. Calix: nearly regular. Style : bifid. Down : 



three-awned, glandular at the tip. Receptacle: naked. 



The species are, 



1. Lavenia Decumbens. Stems simple, decumbent; leaves 

 subcordate, bluntly serrate ; pistil longer than the corollet. 

 Annual. Native of Jamaica. 



2. Lavenia Erecta. Stem branched, erect; leaves elliptic, 

 sharply serrate. Root annual, fibrous, whitish ; heads of 

 flowers flat, consisting of numerous pale blue florets. Native 

 of the East Indies, and of the Society Isles. 



Laugeria; a genus of the class Pentandria, order Mono- 

 gynia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth one- 

 leafed, tubular, superior, with unequal mouth, small, deci- 

 duous. Corolla : one-petalled, salver-form ; tube very long ; 

 border five-cleft; divisions obovate. Stamina: filamenta 

 five, very short; antheree linear, long, beneath the throat. 

 Pistil : germen subovate, inferior ; style filiform, rather longer 

 than the tube; stigma headed. Pericarp: drupe roundish, 

 umbilicated with a point. Seed: nut two or five celled, 

 according to Swartz : furrowed, according to Jacquin. ESSEN- 

 TIAL CHARACTER. Corolla: five-cleft. Drupe: with a 

 five-celled nut. -The species are, 



1 . Laugeria Odorata. Leaves subovate, acute, smooth ; 

 stem somewhat spiny ; racemes panicled ; drupes with five- 

 celled nuts. An upright branching shrub, ten feet high ; 

 flowers of a dirty red, very sweet during the night ; fruits 

 black, larger than peas, soft, very numerous, falling when 

 ripe with every slight motion of the bush. Native of America, 

 Carthagena, Havannah, &c. 



2. Laugeria Lucida. Leaves oblong, blunt, entire, mem- 

 branaceous, shining; racemes dichotomous ; drupes with two- 

 celled nuts. Flowers on short pedicels, distant.- Native of 

 the West Indies, Jamaica, and Santa Cruz. 



