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stiff, like the stem. The leaves are remote, 

 acuminate, loosely serrate, but entire at the 

 base and the point, decurrent, veined and 

 wrinkled : the nerves and veins prominent be- 

 neath, scored above, almost naked or scarcely 

 apparently villose, beneath without hairs anil 

 paler, they are Hat, reclining, tour inches long, 

 and two and a half broad. The petioles spread- 

 ing, embracing the stalk by the ring which 

 connects them with it, round on one side, 

 channelled on the other, edged at the top by 

 the leaf' running along it, one-fourth of the 

 leaf in length. The flowers terminating on 

 every side, yellow, from two to three inches in 

 width. The peduncles Commonly three from 

 the last leaves, stiff, one-flowered, very long, 

 obscurely angular or streaked, thickened at the 

 top, and tistulose. It is a native of North 

 America, and flowers from July to October. 



In the second species the root is perennial ; the 

 stem annual, upright, round, a foot or eighteen 

 inches in height, with upright, one-flowered 

 branches. The root-leaves arc petioled and ovate ; 

 the stem-leaves embracing, oblong, or lanceolate, 

 .slightly toothed, and hairy or villose. The 

 flowers naked, large, with the ray of a deep 

 yellow, but the disk rather brown. It is sup- 

 posed the yellow Aster of the Italians, and to 

 be a native of Italy and the South of France, 

 flowering from June to October. 



The third has likewise a perennial root with 

 an annual stalk, that rises nearly two feet high, 

 having slender branching stalks, and oblong- 

 smooth leaves ending in a point : the flowers 

 are produced at the extremity of the branches, 

 ana are of a bright yellow colour. It is a native 

 of Italy, and flowers in June and July. 



The fourth species is a low perennial plant, with 

 a shrubbv stalk, rarely rising a foot high, with 

 many spreading branches. The leaves are hairy, 

 narrow at their base, but broad and roundish 

 at the extremity. The flowers are produced at 

 the ends of the branches, are yellow, and shaped 

 like those of the following sorts, but the leaves 

 of the calyx are soft and blunt. It is a native 

 of Sicily, and flowers from July to September. 

 The fifth rises with several woody stems 

 from the root, and grows to the height of 

 eight or ten feet, furnished with leaves very 

 xinequal in size, some of which are narrow and 

 long, others broad and obtuse ; these are inter- 

 mixed, sometimes coming out at the same joint, 

 and often at the intermediate one ; they are soft, 

 hoary, and placed opposite. The foot-stalks of 

 the larger leaves have, on their upper side, near 

 their base, two sharp teeth standing upward, 

 and a little higher there are generally two or 

 three more, growing on the edge of the leaves. 



The flowers are produced at the ends of the 

 branches single; these are of a pale yellow co- 

 lour, and have scaly calyxes. It grows natu- 

 rally in America, also in Jamaica, near the sea- 

 side, in a bushy tufted form, seldom rising 

 above two or three feet in height. 



The sixth species seldom grows much more 

 than three feet high, sending out many stalks 

 from the root, which are. succulent, except near 

 the root, where they are ligneous, garnished 

 w ith thick, succulent, spear-shaped leaves placed 

 opposite : the flowers are produced at the end of 

 the branches upon toot-stalks which are two 

 inches long. I hese flowers are larger than 

 (hose of the above sort, and of a bright yellow* 

 colour. They appear in July, August, and 

 September, but often continue till the end of 

 October. It is a native of Bermudas. 



Culture. — The herbaceous kinds arc capable 

 of being easily multiplied by their roots, which 

 should be effected in the autumn or spring, 

 either by taking off slips from them, or taking 

 them up, and dividing the roots into several 

 parts, planting the slips or divided parts in the 

 places where they are to remain. 



They are also propagated plentifully by 

 sowing the seeds in a bed of common earth, in 

 spring or autumn. 



The shrubby maritime kinds are easily in- 

 creased by planting thecuttings of their branches, 

 in the spring and summer seasons, in pots of 

 light earth, and plunging them in a moderate 

 hot-bed, to facilitate their rooting, though 

 those planted in summer will frequently strike 

 root tolerably without such assistance, occa- 

 sional shade and waterings being given. When 

 they are advanced a little ingrowth, they should 

 be planted out in separate pots, and remain in 

 the full air till the end of autumn, when they 

 must be removed to the shelter of a green- 

 house or glass case. 



The herbaceous sorts, from their hardy na- 

 ture, are proper for being planted out in the 

 fronts of large borders, clumps, or other parts 

 of pleasure-grounds, where they have an orna- 

 mental effect for a great length of time in the 

 summer season. 



The shrubby, tree, and maritime kinds afford 

 variety in the green-house, in assemblage with 

 other exotics that require to be raised in pots. 



BUPLEURUM, a genus comprising plants 

 of the evergreen shrubby kind. Hare's Ear, or 

 /Ethiopian Hartwort. 



It belongs to the class and order Pentandria 

 Digynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Urrwellatee.. 



The characters are : that the calyx is an uni- 

 versal umbel, with fewer than ten rays ; par- 



