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The five stamens and style arc much longer than 

 the petals, and stand erect. It is a native of 

 Virginia. 



There arc varieties of this plant with scarlet 

 flowers; with pale red flowers; with curly white 

 flowers ; with red and white flowers ; and with 

 variegated flowers. 



The second is a low shrub, rising with se- 

 veral slender stems near Sour feet high : the 

 leaves come out in clusters at the ends of the 

 shoots without order : they arc spear-shaped, 

 and narrow at their base ; their edges are set 

 with very short teeth, which are rough : the 

 flowers come forth in clusters between the leaves 

 at the extremities of the branches ; they are 

 white, with a mixture of dirty yellow on the 

 outside : the tube is an inch long, and at the 

 top they arc prettv deeply cut into five segments ; 

 the two upper are reflex, the two side ones bent 

 inward, and the lower one is turned downward : 

 the stamens are a little longer than the petals, and 

 support oblong saffron-coloured anthers. The 

 style is much longer than the stamens, and is 

 crowned by an obtuse stigma. These flowers 

 have much the appearance of those of Honev- 

 s.uckle, and are as agreeably scented ; more so 



than the foregoing sort. They appear the mid- 

 dle of Julv, but are not succeeded by seeds in 

 this climate. It is a native of North America. 



This plant has varieties, with white striped 

 flowers; with narrow petalled flowers; and with 

 clustered flowers. 



Culture. — These plants may be raised without 

 much difficulty, in rather moist soils where the 

 situation is shady. As they never produce seeds 

 in this climate, thevmust be increased by layers 

 from the young shoots, or by offsets from the 

 roots. The best season for either of these me* 

 thods is the earlvpart of the autumn, when they 

 should be set out where they are to grow, or be 

 planted in rows in the nursery manner. It is 

 useful to protect the roots during the winter, by 

 covering the ground about them with old tan, 

 or other similar substance-,. 



Where the seeds can be procured, plants may 

 be raised bv sowing them either in pots or on 

 warm borders ; in the former method, forcing 

 their growth bv plunging them in mild hot-beds. 



These shrubby plants are suited for affording 

 variety in shrubberies and other places, both on 

 account of their fragrant smell and the beauty of 

 their flowers. 



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BACCHARIS, a genus containing plants of 

 the shrubby exotic kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Sj/rigeuesia 

 Polygaviia Superflua, and ranks in the natural 

 order of Composilce. 



The characters are: that the calyx is common 

 cylindric, imbricate : scales linear, acute : the 

 corolla is compound eo^ial ; corollules herma- 

 phrodite and female mixed. Proper, to the her- 

 maphrodite funnelform, five-cleft, to the females 

 scarcely apparent, almost none : the stamina 

 consist of five capillary filaments, very small : 

 the anthers are cylindric and tubular : the pis- 

 tillum is an ovate germ : the style filiform, the 

 length of the flower: the stigma bifid. There 

 is no pericarpium : the calyx unchanged : the 

 seeds solitary, very short and oblong : down 

 simple : the receptacle naked. 



'I he species chieflv cultivated in thegarden are ; 



1 . B. iveefolia, Peruvian Ivy-leaved Baccharis, or 



Ploughman's Spikenard ; 2. JB. ncrvfolia, Ole- 



-nnder-leaved Baccharis ; 3. B. halimifolia, Sea 



Purslane-leaved Baccharis, or Groundsel-tree. 



The first grows to the height of five or six 



feet : the female florets with a trifid corolla are 

 very abundant ; but the hermaphrodites of the 

 disk are few and five-cleft : the scales of the 

 calyx spread very much in a state of maturity : 

 the florets of the disk are barren ; of the ray 

 subulate, scarcely toothed, and fertile: the recep- 

 tacle obtusely conical, alveolate at top, the cells 

 toothleted, but at the sides simply and ob- 

 scurely scrobiculate : the seeds are small, ovate- 

 oblong, flatted a little, obscurely margined and 

 pale: the pappus or down sparing, twice as long 

 as the seed, scarcely toothed. It is a native of 

 America, and flowers in July and August. 



The second species has a soft shrubby stalk, 

 which rises to the height of eight or ten feet, 

 putting out side branches toward the top : the 

 leaves are stiff, having a few indentures toward 

 their top, and placed without order : the flowers 

 are produced at the extremities of the branches 

 in a close spike : they make little appearance, 

 being of an herbaceous colour, and are not suc- 

 ceeded by seeds in this climate. 



The third is a herbaceous kind of shrub, six, 

 seven or eight feet in height : the leaves are 

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