BOTANY. 



ORDER LYTHRACEJ3. LOOSE-STRIFE FAMILY. 



1. Lager Strcemia Indica, CHAPE MYRTLE, a handsome greenhouse 

 shrub, which stands the winter farther south, is known not to he a real Myrtle 

 by its dotless leaves, and the calyx free from the ovary. Flowers showy, in 

 panicles, purple ; petals 6, on long claws, crisped. 



2. Cuphea ignea (wrongly called pktt i/centra) is a very handsome low 

 undcrshrub, with oval bright-green leaves, and vermilion-red Mowers, with 

 th"ir dark-colored tips bordered with white. The showy part is the calyx, 

 which is spurred, the petals minute or none : it flowers all winter in the green- 

 house, and all summer in the garden. 



3. Lythrum Salicaria, Man. p. 128, is not uncommon in old gardens. 



ORDER ONAGRACE.33. EVENING PRIMROSE FAMILY. 



Manual, p. 130. Besides some of our wild Evening Primroses, the following 

 are cultivated for their showy flowers. 



Shrubs (of the greenhouse, &c.) with hanging flowers, a calyx re- 

 sembling a corolla (red, or white in some varieties), and blue petals 

 convolute around the lower part of the 8 stamens : fruit a berry. 1. FUCHSIA. 

 Herbs : fruit a 4-celled pod. 

 Stamens 8 : scarlet flowers like those of Fuchsia, but with a pod 



like that of Epilobium, having hairy-tufted seeds. . . 2. ZAUSCHNT3RIA. 

 Stamens only 4 : calyx prolonged above the ovary into a slender 



tube : petals short-clawed and 3-lobed 3. EUCHAtUDIUM. 



Stamens 4 good ones, and 4 sterile with abortive anthers or none : 



petals with long claws 4. CLARKIA. 



Stamens 8 with anthers : petals with hardly any claws, entire or 



notched at the end : seeds not tufted 5. (ENOTHFJIA. 



1. Fuchsia, FUCHSIA or LADIES' EAR-DROP. The cultivated kinds, now 

 so common, are from the following, but much crossed and varied. They came 

 from Mexico, Chili, &c. 



F. microphylla has small leaves as well as flowers, the latter globular 

 in the bud, and the stamens not protruded. 



F. COCCinea is the parent of all the common Fuchsias with short flow- 

 ers, the lobes of the calyx longer than its tube, and the stamens long-exserted. 



F. fulgens is the parent of the commonest long-flowered sorts (2^-3 

 inches long), the short lobes of the calyx often greenish-tipped, the stamens 

 little exserted. 



2. Zauschneria Californica, a very choice ornamental perennial, from 

 California, low, pubescent, with lanceolate or oblong leaves. 



3. Eucharidilim COncinnum : a low, California annual, like a Clarkia, 

 except in the particulars mentioned above ; flowers pink-purple. 



4. Clarkia pulchella, from Oregon, a handsome garden annual, with 

 lanceolate leaves, large 3-lobed petals (rose-purple, and a white variety), with 

 a pair of teetli on the claw, and 4 dilated stigmas. 



C. elegans, from Oregon and California, is taller, with ovate and serrate 

 leaves, the rhomboid rose-purple petals not lobed. 



5. CEnothera, EVENING PRIMROSE. Nos. 1, 4, 5, of the Manual, p. 130, 

 occur in gardens. 



