ADO 



ADO 



the stamina: the stigmas obtuse, and the folia- 

 tion involuted. It is found wild near the Cape 

 of Good Hope. 



The sixth is perfectly smooth, with hard firm 

 leaves. It is also a Cape plant. The Africans 

 use it for raising blisters. 



Culture. — The first two sorts may be readily 

 propagated by the seeds, which should be sown 

 in a light soil, in the borders or clumps where 

 they are to remain and flower (for they do not 

 bear transplanting well) in the autumn, about 

 September or the beginning" of October, as in 

 that way tbe plants will appear in the following 

 spring ; but where the sowing is deferred to the 

 spring, the plants seldom come to the state of 

 flowering the same year. The seed should be 

 covered to the depth of nearly half an inch ; and 

 when the plants are risen to the height of two or 

 three inches they should be thinned out, till only 

 two or three of the largest remain in each patch, 

 as bv that means they have a better effect when 

 in flower. Some seed should likewise be sown 

 in both warm and shaded situations, in order 

 that the period of their flowering may be pro- 

 tracted to a greater length. Where the method 

 of transplanting is practised, the plants should 

 be removed as soon as possible after they ap- 

 pear, and have a very slight watering given them 

 for a few days when the season is dry. 



The only culture that will afterwards he re- 

 quired, in either of the methods, is that of occa- 

 sionally weeding, so as to keep the plants per- 

 fectly clean, and watering them when neces- 

 sary. 



These two are annual plants both in root and 

 Stem, coming up, attaining their full growth, 

 perfecting their seed, and wholly decaying in 

 the same year ; they must of course be sown 

 annually. — See Annual Plants. 



In the third and fourth species the propagation 

 is also effected without difficulty, both by sow- 

 ing the seeds and parting the roots. When 

 the first method is practised, it should be done 

 as soon as possible after the seed has been 

 ripened, in August or the beginning of Septem- 

 ber, in the same kind of soil and situation as the 

 former, as they do not succeed well when put 

 in much later : after the plants are come up 

 they must be kept perfectly clean and free from 

 weeds ; and when the season is very dry occa- 

 sionally watered, in order to promote their 

 growth. The plants, after being thinned out, in 

 the manner directed above, where they stand too 

 thick, as they advance very slowly in their early 

 growth, should be suffered to stand where they 

 are sown until the second year. In afterwards 

 transplanting them out where they are to remain, 

 the most proper time is the autumn. They 

 should not after this be disturbed, as when that 



is the case the plants neither flower so well or 

 with such vigour as under other circumstances. 



In parting the roots, the business may be per- 

 formed either in the autumn or the spring; but 

 the former is to be preferred in general, as by. 

 that means the new plants are more fully esta- 

 blished before the hot season sets in. These 

 plants, being only perennial in root, require the 

 stems to be cut off and cleared away in the au- 

 tumnal months. 



The last species, being more tender, requires 

 the aid of the stove or greenhouse to protect 

 it in the winter season in this climate. It may 

 also be raised from seed, by sowing it in pots 

 of good earth in the autumn or spring months, 

 and placing it in the hot-bed or stove ; being 

 afterwards managed in the way of other tender 

 exotic plants. 



As the flowers of the first four species are 

 mostly large and ornamental, and in some of 

 them come out early in the season ; they may be 

 employed with good effect, in combination with 

 other herbaceous plants, in adorning the anterior 

 parts of the borders, clumps, and other compart- 

 ments of shrubberies and other pleasure grounds. 



The two Cape species are employed in affording 

 an agreeable variety in the stove and the green- 

 house. 



ADOXA, a genus comprehending the Tu- 

 berous Moschatet or Hollow Root, which is » 

 hardy herbaceous perennial of low growth. 



It belongs to the class and order Octandria 

 Tetragynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Succulent cb. 



The characters of which are: that the calyx is 

 an inferior, bifid, or tritid, flat and permanent 

 perianthium : the corolla is monopetalous, flat, 

 and divided into four or five segments, with 

 ovate, acute clefts, longer than the calyx : the 

 stamina are subulate filaments, of the length 

 of the calyx, and the antherae roundish: the 

 pistillum has a germ below the receptacle of the 

 corolla : the stiles are simple, erect, of the 

 length of the stamina, permanent, and equal in 

 number to the clefts of the corolla : the stigmas 

 are simple : the pericarpium is a globose berry, 

 between the calyx and corolla, the former being 

 united below with the berry, umbilicate, and four- 

 or five-celled : the seeds arc solitary and com- 

 pressed. 



There is only one species, which is the A. 

 Moschatcllina, Moschatel, or Musk-smelling 

 Adoxa. 



It has the root perennial, creeping, toothed, 

 and of a white colour ; the root-leaves three or 

 four, triternate, deeply cut, smooth and shining : 

 the segments or lobes are ovate, with a short 

 point : there arc two leaves on the stalk with 

 shorter petioles, and opposite; the stalk is some- 



