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There are varieties, with bright blue flowers, 

 with white flowers, and with pale purple flowers. 



The ninth species has an annual root ; the 

 stem and germs smooth; the leaves acuminate; 

 the flowers three or more from each axil or 

 bracte; the corollas small ; the style longer than 

 the corolla. It is a native of Pennsylvania, 

 flowering in July. 



There are varieties, with single white, with 

 single blue, and with double blue flowers. 



The tenth is a shrubby ornamental plant, a 

 native of the Cape of Good Hope, flowering 

 here in August. 



In the eleventh species the whole plant is full 

 of a milky juice: the root is biennial, spindle- 

 shaped, sometimes branching : the stem upright, 

 angular, two feet high, hairy towards the 

 base, smooth above: branches alternate, short, 

 upright: the leaves towards the base of the 

 stem hairy above or on both sides, blunt; the 

 upper ones smooth, and becoming gradually 

 more pointed; obscurely notched : teeth glan- 

 dular, whitish, not projecting beyond the edge 

 of the leaf: there is an awl-shaped bracte at 

 the base of each peduncle : the segments of 

 the calyx are awl-shaped, or setaceous, twice 

 as long as the germ, with a small tooth on each 

 side of the base: the flowers arc upright: the 

 corolla blueish purple, sometimes very pale 

 purple or whitish; each segment marked with 

 three lines: the nectary fringed. It grows wild 

 in France, &c, flowering in June, July, and 

 August. 



The fleshy roots are eatable, and arc much 

 cultivated in France for sallads. 



Culture. — The plants in this extensive genus 

 are mostly hardy, and increased with little diffi- 

 culty. The six first sorts, and their varieties, 

 are all capable of being raised by dividing the 

 roots in the autumn or early spring, and plant- 

 ing them out on the beds, borders, or other parts. 

 The former is, however, the better season for 

 the purpose, as the roots become better esta- 

 blished before they begin to shoot up into stem. 

 They thrive in almost any soil or situation. 

 As the plants of the steeple bell-flower, trained 

 for adorning halls and chimneys, are seldom 

 proper for the purpose the following season after 

 being planted out, a supply of young plants 

 should be annually raised. And though this is 

 mostly done by offsets, as being the quickest 

 mode, the plants raised from seeds are always 

 stronger; the stalks rise higher, and produce a 

 greater number of flowers, especially where 

 good seeds can be procured. 



In the fifth sort, especially with the double 

 varieties, the parting their roots should be an- 



nually performed in the autumn, otherwise the 

 plants are apt to degenerate to single, and the 

 soil should not be too light or rich in which 

 tliey are planted, as in either of these cases they 

 degenerate. In a strong fresh loam their flowers 

 are in the greatest perfection. 



The broad-leaved sort is also easily propagated 

 by seeds, which it furnishes i-n great plenty. 



In all these sorts, when not sown in the 

 places where they are to remain, the plants 

 should be transplanted into such situations, in 

 the beginning of the autumn, as by that means 

 they flower much better. 



The seventh and eighth kinds are increa?cd 

 by seeds, which should be sown in the sprinsr, 

 on beds of common earth, keeping them clean 

 from weeds till the following autumn; when 

 they may be transplanted into the borders or 

 other parts. And as the plants in the first of these 

 sorts perish the second year, young ones should 

 be annually raised. 



The latter of these kinds are mostly sown in 

 patches in the borders or clumps, among other 

 hardy annuals, at the above period ; but if sown 

 in autumn the plants grow much taller, and 

 flower much earlier.- 



The ninth sort is propagated by planting the 

 offsets from the roots in the beginning of the 

 autumn, in beds, or other places, where they 

 are to remain. And the tenth species may be in- 

 creased by planting the cuttings of the shoots 

 in pots of light earth, and plunging them in the 

 hotbed of the stove. 



The eleventh kind is raised from seed, which 

 should be sown in April in a moist shady situa- 

 tion, the plants being thinned out to five or six 

 inches distance. The roots are ready for use 

 about the beginning of autumn. It requires to 

 be sown annually. 



All the hardy flowering sorts are highly orna- 

 mental in the borders of pleasure-grounds and 

 other parts, as they continue long in flower. 

 And the tender kinds afford variety in the 

 greenhouse. 



CAMPION. See Aguostemma. 



CANARlNA,agenuscontainingapIantof the 

 exotic greenhouse kind. The Canary Bell-flower. 



It belongs to the class and order Hexandria 

 Monugynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Campanaceee. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a supe- 

 rior perianthium: leaflets six, lanceolate, re- 

 curvedt.and permanent : the corolla is monope- 

 talous, trell-form, six-cleft, nerved : the nectary 

 of six valves, equal, distant, covering the re- 

 ceptacle: the stamina have six subulate filaments, 

 spreading outwards, originating from the valves-; 



