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OR, BOTANICAL DICTIONARY 



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Corolla: bell-shaped, expanding; petals six, ovate, flat, con 

 joined at the base; \vitli the tips thickisli and stiffish. Sta 

 mina: filamenta six, setaceous, very short ; antherae oblong 

 obtuse, quadrangular, upright, distant. Pistil: germen 

 roundish, inferior; style clavate, obtuse; stigma setaceous 

 upright, sharp, longer than the stamina. Pericarp: capsuh 

 top-shaped, three-celled, three-valved. Seeds: several, round 

 ish. Observe. The third species has a filiform style. Es 

 SENTIAL CHARACTER. Corolla: bell-shaped, six-parted, 

 thickened at the tips ; stigma simple. These bulbs are 

 increased by offsets, which the two first sorts put out pretty 

 plentifully in a favourable situation, where they are not too 

 often removed. They should have a soft loamy soil, and an 

 exposure to the east. Plant the roots six inches asunder 

 and four or five inches deep. They should not be trans- 

 planted ofteiier than every third year. A north or east border 

 is best for them ; and the proper soil a mixture of loam and 

 bog-earth. In different aspects, however, their flowering 

 may be forwarded or protracted, and thus a longer succession 

 of ihese and other (lowers produced.- The species are, 



1. Leucoium Vernum ; Great Spring Snowdrop. Spathe 

 one-flowered; style club-shaped; leaves flat; bulb oblong, 

 shaped like that of Daffodil, but smaller; scape angular, 

 near a foot high, hollow, and channelled ; corolla much larger 

 than that of the Common Snowdrop; and the ends of the 

 petals are green. The flowers, which at first sight resemble 

 those of the Common Snowdrop, are easily distinguished by 

 the absence of the three-leaved nectary. They do not come 

 out so soon by a month. This plant being of a different 

 genus from the true Snowdrop, ought certainly to have 

 another English name; Mr Curtis therefore calls it Spring 

 Snow/lake. Parkinson had already called it Great Early 

 Bulbous Violet ; and Gerarde, Lale-Jlowering Bulbous Violet. 



Native of Italy, the south of France, Germany, Austria, 

 and Switzerland. 



2. Leucoium .Estivum ; Summer Snowdrop. Spalhe 

 many-flowered ; styles club-shaped ; leaves flat ; bulb the 

 size of a chesriut, somewhat ovate, outwardly pale brown, 

 inwardly white ; coats numerous, thin, and closely com- 

 pacted ; flowers pendulous, growing all one way, having little 

 scent ; petals while, finely grooved within, not at all uniting 

 at bottom, the tips, thickisli, a little puckered, and marked 

 with a green spot; seeds large, black, and glossy. The 

 flowers appear at the end of April or the beginning of May, 

 and there is a succession of them during three weeks, or 

 longer in cool weather. Mr. Curtis, to distinguish it from 

 Galanthus, names it Summer Snowjlake: in the gardens it 

 is known by the name of Great Summer Snowdrop; Late or 

 Tall Snowdrop : Parkinson calls it Great Late flowering Bui- 

 bom Violet ; and Gerarde, Great Many -flowering Bulbous 

 Violet. Native of Hungary, Austria, Caruiola, Tuscany, and 

 Silesia. Mr. Curtis first 'observed it in England between 

 Greenwich and Woolwich, about half a mile below the for- 

 mer place, close by the Thames side, just about high water 

 mark, along with Ueed, Marsh Marigold, and other common 

 water-plants, and in a similar situation to that in which it is 

 found wild iii Austria. It has also been found wild in the 

 Isle of Dogs, which is the opposite shore, and grows more 

 luxuriantly in those places than in gardens, where it seldom 

 has a soil or situation sufficiently moist. Mr. Gough found 

 it on a small island about three miles south of Kemtal, upon 

 the dam of a gunpowder mill. 



3. Leiicoiiini Autumnale; Autumnal Snowdrop. Spathe 



two-leaved, many-flowered; styles and leaves filiform ; bulb 



thick for the size of the plant, composed of many glutinous 



coats, bitter, covered with a whitish membrane. It is dis- 



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tinguished by its four or five capillary leaves, which begin 

 to spring up after the flower is past, when the seeds are 

 ripening, and sometimes after the heads are ripe. They 

 abide all the winter and spring following, and wither away 

 in the beginning of summer, leaving the scape to appear 

 naked. The flowers are a little reddish at the bottom next 

 the stalk. It flowers in September, and is a native of Por- 

 tugal and Spain. 



4. Leucoium Strumosum. Spathe two-leaved, many-flow- 

 ered ; flowers erect; style inflated at the base, globular; 

 bulb roundish, white, less than a hazel-nut; scape flexuose, 

 erect, slender, about half a foot high, roundish, terminated 

 by a spreading umbel of from three to seven flowers; flowers 

 without scent, coming out successively ; petals white within, 

 purplish without. It flowers in November, and is a native 

 of the Cape of Good Hope, and must be housed and treated 

 in the same way as other Cape bulbs. 



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

 gynia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth common 

 hemispheric, imbricated, many-flowered ; leaflets linear ; peri- 

 anth proper, one-leafed, superior, five-toothed, sharp, upright, 

 permanent. Corolla: petals five; claws slender; borders 

 oblong, shorter. Stamina: filamenta five, capillary, inserted 

 into the bottom of the perianth; antherx oblong. Pistil: 

 gernien top-shaped, inferior; styles two, conjoined into one, 

 or else distinct and approximated, capillary ; stigma simple. 

 Pericarp : berry corticated, ovate, incrusted by the calix, 

 with the tip free, two-celled. Seeds : five or six, oblong, 

 compressed. Receptacle of the seeds: fungous, large in the 

 middle of the partition. Receptacle: common, globose, vil- 

 lose, chaffy. Observe. The fruit of all the species is not 

 yet known. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Flowers aggregate, 

 Calix: one-leafed, superior, five-cleft. Corolla: five-petalled. 

 uperior. Filamenta: superior; filamenta inserted into the 

 base of the perianth ; styles two, conjoined ; berry two-celled. 

 Seeds: five or six, compressed. The species are, 



1. Levisanus Nodiflorus. Leaves imbricate, three-sided, 

 acute ; calix five-parted ; petals five, linear, having a chink 

 on each side of the claw, with a converging margin ; recep- 



acle double. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



2. Levisanus Paleaceus. Leaves in five rows, imbricate, 

 >ressed close ; corymb terminating ; chaffs of tUe heads 

 landing out; flowers many, panicled; styles two; recepta- 

 cle hairy. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



;5. Levisanus Abrotanoides. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 

 preadiug, three-sided, callous at the tip ; beads of flowers 

 globular, terminating, subumbelled, on round peduncles; 

 orolla white. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



4. Levisanus Radiatus. Leaves linear, three-sided ; calix 

 ayed ; the inner leaflets coloured ; stem from a foot to two 

 eet in height, the size of a swan's quill, upright, round, leafy, 

 carred, determinately branched, dichotomous or trichoto- 

 nous ; the branches rod-like, hairy; common corolla dusky, 

 ot at all glutinous. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



5. Levisanus Glutinosns. Leaves linear, three-sided ; calix 

 ayed, all the leaflets coloured ; stem from a foot to two feet 

 n height, the^size of a swan's quill, upright, round, grooved, 

 carred, very much branched ; branches proliferous, hairy ; 

 oininon corolla dusky, very glutinous ; receptacle chaffy. 

 Vative of the Cape of Good Hope. 



Lewisia ; a genus of the class Polyandria, order Monogy- 

 ia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: coloured, scario.se, 

 rom seven to nine-leaved, patent. Corolla: containing from 

 ourteen to eighteen petals, white, lanceolate, patent. Stu- 

 inia : filamenta from fourteen to eighteen, inserted on the 

 eceptacle, opposite to the petals, filiform, shorter than the 

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