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OR, BOTANICAL DICTIONARY. 



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smooth it, and sift on some fine rich mould. At the end of 

 April, or the beginning of May, plants will appear in abun- 

 dance ; when they must be frequently, but gently, watered. 

 Till the beginning of August, they must be screened from a 

 mid-day sun by part of an old reed-fence, or by nailing some 

 thin boards together, high enough to shade the bed : after 

 this, it will only be necessary to give them frequent moderate 

 waterings, and to throw a mat over the frame during any 

 severe winter storm. At the beginning of April, in the next 

 season, take up the plants with a trowel, without bruising 

 the roots; and if they cannot be planted immediately, mix a 

 pailful of sifted mould and water to the consistence of pap; 

 draw the plants through it, till as much adhere as will cover 

 their roots and fibres: in this condition they may be kept 

 several days out of the ground. Cut only a little of the tap- 

 roots smoothly off, but let all the fibres remain ; and then 

 plant them in drills cut out with the spade, at a foot distance 

 row from row, and six inches in the row : plant five of these 

 lines, and then leave an alley three feet wide; water them 

 frequently and plentifully during the summer months; throw 

 mats over them, in case of very severe frost in the first winter, 

 and let them remain two years. Then remove them to another 

 nursery, in rows three feet and a half distant, and eighteen 

 inches in the row, and let them continue three years ; at the 

 end of which, they will be of a good size for planting where 

 they are to remain. No tree bears pruning its roots and 

 branches worse than this ; none however surpasses it in beauty 

 and statelincss : so that it deserves a place in all noble and 

 elegant plantations. 



2. Liriodendron Liliifera. Leaves lanceolate. This is a 

 middle-sized tree, with spreading branches; flowers pale, 

 large, scentless, heaped at the ends of the branches, one oil a 

 peduncle. Native of China near Canton, and of Amboyna. 



Lisianlhus ; a genus of the class Pentandria, order Mo- 

 nogynia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth five- 

 parted ; leaflets lanceolate, keeled, membranaceous on the 

 margin, very short, permanent. Corolla: one-petalled, fun- 

 nel-form ; tube long, somewhat ventricose, straitened at the 

 base within the calix ; border five-parted ; divisions lanceolate, 

 shorter than the tube, recurved. Stamina: filaraenta five, 

 filiform, longer than the tube; antherae ovate, incumbent. 

 Pistil: germen oblong, sharp-pointed ; style filiform, length 

 of the stamina, permanent; stigma headed, two-plated. 

 Pericarp : capsule oblong, acuminate, two-celled ; the mar- 

 gins of the valves intorted. Seeds: numerous. ESSENTIAL 

 CHARACTER. Calix: keeled. Corolla: with a ventricose 

 tube, and recurved divisions. Stigma: two-plated; capsule 

 two-celled, two-valved ; the margins of the valves intorted. 



The species are, 



1. Lisianthus Longifolius. Leaves lanceolate ; segments of 

 the corolla lanceolate, acute. This elegant little plant rises 

 generally to the height of fourteen or sixteen inches, or more : 

 the flowers are large, and appear at the ends of the branches. 

 Native of Jamaica, iu a dry, sandy, but cool soil. All the 

 plants of this genus require to be kept in the bark-stove. 



2. Lisianthus Cordifolius. Leaves cordate ; segments of 

 the corolla lanceolate, acute. This is said to be a variety of 

 the preceding. Native of Jamaica. See the preceding. 



3. Lisianthus Exsertus. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, pedun- 

 cles trichotomous ; genitals very long. Native of Jamaica. 

 See the first species. 



4. Lisianthus Latifolius. Leaves lanceolate-elliptic, acumi- 

 nate; peduncles trichotomous; segments of the corolla erect, 

 genitals included. Native of Jamaica. See the first species. 



6. Lisianthus Umbellatus. Leaves elongated, obovate ; 

 flowers terminating, peduncled, umbelled; segments of the 

 70. 



corolla very short, blunt, upright. Native of Jamaica. See 

 the first species. 



6. Lisianthus Frigidus. Leaves ovate, acuminate, cori- 

 aceous; panicle terminating, trichotomous; corollas ventri- 

 cose, with rounding segments. Native of the mountains of 

 Guadeloupe. See the first species. 



7. Lisianthus Sempervirens. Leaves lanceolate-elliptic; 

 segments of the corolla ovate, blunt. See Bignonia Sem~ 

 pervirens: it is the same plant. 



8. Lisianthus Glaber. Smooth : leaves ovate, petioled ; 

 corymbs terminating; stem upright, branched, round, leafy; 

 flowers on few-flowered simple umbels; corolla yellow. 

 Found by Mutis in South America. See the first species. 



9. Lisianthus Chelonoides. Smooth: leaver opposite, sub- 

 connate, oblong; panicle terminating, dichotomous, racemose; 

 stem herbaceous, simple, round, smooth, from two to three 

 feet high ; flowers alternate, remote, directed one way, pen- 

 dulous, yellow. The herb is very bitter, and strongly pur- 

 gative. Native of Surinam. See the first species. 



Lit a ; a genus of the class Pentandria, order Monogynia. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth one-leafed, 

 tubular, erect, coloured, five-cleft, sharp, permanent. Co- 

 rolla: one-petalled, salver-shaped; tube cyliudric, very long, 

 enlarged at the base and tip; border five-cleft; divisions 

 ovate, spreading. Stamina: filamenta none; antherae five, 

 twin, in the throat of the corolla. Pistil: germen oblong; 

 style filiform, length of the tube ; stigma headed, truncated. 

 Pericarp: oblong, one-celled, two-valved. Stetfs: numerous, 

 sawdust-like, affixed to the margins of the valves. Observe. 

 This genus is allied to to Gentiana, but differs in the corolla, 

 pistil, and fruit. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Calix: five- 

 cleft, with two or three scales at the base. Corolla: salver- 

 shaped, with a very long tube, dilated at the base and throat; 

 border five-cleft ; anther* twin, inserted in the throat ; cap- 

 sule one-celled, two-valved. Seeds: numerous. The spe- 

 cies are, 



1 . Lita Rosea. Flowers in pairs ; segments of the corolla 

 acute; root tuberous, fibrous, about a foot deep in the 

 ground ; stem knobbed, quadrangular ; corolla rose-coloured. 

 It grows wild in Guiana, where the root, which much 

 resembles potatoes, is eaten by the inhabitants. It flowers 

 in May. 



2. Lita Coerulea. Flowers in pairs ; segments of I he corolla 

 rounded; colour of the corolla blue. It flowers in May. 

 Native of Guiana. 



Lithophila ; a genus of the class Diandria, order Mono- 

 gynia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth three- 

 leaved; leaflets lanceolate, sharp. Corolla: petals t^hree, 

 ovate-lanceolate, upright, converging, length of the leaflets 

 of the calix ; nectary two-leaved ; leaflets opposite, smaller 

 than the corolla, keeled, acute, upright, compressed. Sta~ 

 mina: filamenta two, awl-shaped, upright from the base of 

 the germen, of the length of the nectary; antherce roundish. 

 Pistil: germen roundish, superior; style upright, length of 

 the stamina; stigma obtuse, emarginate. Pericarp: two- 

 celled. Seed: undivided. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Ca- 

 lix: three-leaved. Corolla: three-petalled. Nectary: two- 

 leaved. The only species known is, 



1. Lithophila Muscoides.- Native of Navaza. 



Litfiospermum ; a genus of the class Pentandria, order 

 Monogynia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth 

 five-parted, oblong, straight, sharp, permanent ; divisions 

 awl-shaped, keeled. Corolla: one-petalled, funnel-form, 

 length of the calix; tube cylindric; border half five-cleft, 

 obtuse, upright; throat perforated, naked. Stamina: fila- 

 menta five, very short ; autherse. oblong, incumbent, covered. 



