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TIAL CHARACTER. Calix: five-parted. Corolla: five-parted, 

 equal. Stamina: in remote pairs. Capsule: compressed, 



orbicular, two-celled, with the partition transverse. The 



only known species is, 



1. Sibthorpia Europtea ; Cornish Moneywort. Root fibrous, 

 perennial ; stems prostrate, creeping, branched, very long, 

 slender and delicate, interwoven, leafy, hairy ; leaves alter- 

 nate, stalked, horizontal, kidney-form, crenate, hairy, some- 

 what fleshy, half an inch broad, paler and veiny beneath ; 

 flowers axillary, solitary. It flowers in July and August, or 

 from June to September. Native of Portugal and England, 

 in shady places and about springs : plentiful in Devonshire 

 and Cornwall, and about Longsledale in Westmoreland. If 

 planted or sown in pots, placed in the shade and kept moist, 

 it will thrive very well in gardens. 



Sicyos; a genus of the class Moncecia, order Syngenesia. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. Male Flowers. Calix : perianth 

 one-leafed, bell-shaped, five-toothed ; toothlets awl-shaped. 

 Corolla: five-parted, bell-shaped, fastened to the calix; seg- 

 ments ovate. Stamina : filamenta three, united ; antheraa as 

 many, separate. Female Flowers, on the same plant. Calix : 

 perianth as in the male, superior, deciduous. Corolla : as 

 in the male. Pistil: germen ovate, inferior; style cylindri- 

 cal; stigma thickish, trifid. Pericarp: berry ovate, set with 

 spines, one-celled. Seed: single, subovate. ESSENTIAL 

 CHARACTER. Male. Calix: five-toothed. Corolla: five- 

 parted. Filamenta : three. Female. Caltx : superior, five- 

 toothed. Corolla: five-parted. Style: trifid. Berry: one- 

 seeded. The species are, 



1. Sicyos Angulata; Angular-leaved Sicyos, or Single- 

 seeded Cucumber. Leaves angular. This is an annual plant, 

 which rises with two large seed-leases like those of the Cu- 

 cumber. The stalk is trailing, and has tendrils by which it 

 fastens itself to neighbouring plants, and will rise fifteen or 

 sixteen feet high, dividing into many branches, with angular 

 leaves upon them like those of the Cucumber. The flowers 

 come out upon long peduncles from the side of the branches 

 in clusters ; the females are small, of a pale sulphur colour, 

 and appear in June and July ; they are succeeded by prickly 

 oval fruit, ripening in autumn. Native of North America. 

 If the seeds be permitted to scatter, the plants will come up 

 in the spring better than when sown by hand, and only 

 require weeding. They ramble, and take up too much room 

 in small gardens, and should therefore be placed near hedges, 

 upon which they will climb. They do not bear transplanting 

 well, except when they first come up. 



2. Sicyos Laciniata; Jagged-leaved Sicyos. Leaves jagged. 

 This is annual plant like the former, with trailing stalks. 

 The flowers are larger, and of a deeper colour. The fruit is 

 not quite so large, nor so closely armed with prickly hairs. 

 Native of the West Indies. Sow the seeds, and treat them 

 as Cucumbers and Melons. 



3. Sicyos Garcini ; Garcin's Sicyos. Leaves five-parted, 

 erose, toothed ; fruits ciliate. Native of Ceylon. 



4. Sicyos Parviflora. Leaves five-angled, minutely toothed, 

 smooth, heart-shaped. Annual. Native of Mexico. 



Sida; a genus of the class Monadelphia, order Polyandria. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth one-leafed, 

 angular, half five-cleft, permanent. Corolla: petals five, 

 wider above, emarginate, fastened below to the tube of the 

 stamina. Stamina: filamenta very many, united below into 

 a tube, in the apex of the tube divided ; antherse roundish. 

 Pistil: germen orbicular; styles five or more, or else one 

 many-cleft; stigmas headed. Pericarp: capsule roundish, 

 angular, composed of five or more cells, (corresponding with 

 the number of styles or stigmas,) two-valved, awnless, acu- 



minate or homed, opening above, or close, and finally sepa- 

 rating. Seeds : solitary, two, three, or five, roundish, mostly 

 acuminate, convex on one side, angular on the other, fastened 

 to the interior suture. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Calix: 

 simple, angular. Style : in numerous divisions. Capsule : of 

 several bivalve cells, spreading from a centre. The habit of 

 this genus of plants is more or less shrubby, though several 

 have annual roots : the leaves are alternate, stalked, and 

 simple ; inflorescence mostly axillary ; flowers yellow, reddish, 

 or white. Some of the species will not flower the first year, 

 and must be placed in a warm stove in autumn, and treated 

 during the winter as other tender plants from the East and 

 West Indies. The following summer they will flower and 

 produce ripe seeds ; but being not of long duration in general, 

 there should be a succession of young plants raised from 

 seed. They are many of them annual in England ; but some 

 are of a longer duration in their native country, and might 

 be so here if they were placed in a warm stove in winter. 

 They are propagated by seeds, which should be sown upon 

 a moderate hot-bed in the beginning of April ; and when the 

 plants are fit to remove, they must be placed in another hot- 

 bed, planting them four inches distant every way : they must 

 be shaded from the sun till they have taken new root, and 

 have a large share of free air admitted to them in mild wea- 

 ther, to prevent them from drawing up weak ; they will also 

 often require watering. If the plants thrive well, they will 

 have strength enough to be fit to transplant in the open air ; 

 for which purpose they should be gradually hardened, and at 

 the beginning of June may be taken up with balls of earth 

 to their roots, and planted in a warm sheltered part of the 

 garden, at about three feet distance, observing to shade and 

 water them until they have taken new root, after which they 

 will only require weeding. In July the plants will begin to 

 flower, and there will be a succession of flowers till the frost 

 comes on. In warm seasons they will ripen their seeds very 

 well in autumn; but lest they should miscarry by the unfa- 

 vourableness of the season, it may be proper to put one plant 

 of each sort in pots filled with light kitchen-garden earth, 

 placing them in the shade till they are again rooted, and 

 the-n they may be removed to a warm situation, where they 

 will thrive very well in a good season ; but if the summer 

 proves cold, they should be placed in a dry airy glass-case, 

 where they may be kept warm, to facilitate the ripening of 



their seeds. The species are, 



* With long, narrow, lanceolate, oblong, and ovate Leaves. 



1. Sida Linifolia ; Flax-leaved Sida. Leaves linear, quite 

 entire ; racemes terminating ; capsules almost awnless. 

 Native of Peru and the island of Cayenne. 



2. Sida Angustifolia ; Narrow-leaved Sida. Leaves linear- 

 lanceolate, toothed ; peduncles subsolitary, axillary; capsules 

 with beaked valves. This rises with a slender woody stalk, 

 about two feet high, sending out many erect branches. 

 Native of Brazil and the island of Bourbon. Perennial. 



3. SidaAcuta; Sharp-leaved Sida. Leaves linear-lance- 

 olate, toothed ; peduncles solitary, axillary ; capsules two- 

 cusped ; stipules lanceolate. Native of Java. 



4. Sida Canariensis; Canary Sida. Leaves lanceolate, 

 sublinear, toothed, smooth ; peduncles solitary, axillary, 

 length of the leaves ; capsules two-beaked. Native of the 

 Canary Islands. 



5. Sida Lanceolata ; Lance-leaved Sida. Leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, toothed, smoothish ; peduncles axillary, solitary ; 

 capsules two-beaked ; stipules linear, nerved, longer than the 

 peduncle. Native of Ceylon and the Mauritius. 



6. SidaSpinosa; Prickly Sida. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 obsoletely cordate-toothed ; peduncles subsolitary, axillary ; 



