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Cuttings may likewise be made In the autumn readily effected either by seeds, slips from the 



or spring, and planted out in a rather moist rooting branches, or parting the roots, each of 



shady situation, care being taken to keep them which may be performed cither in the autumn 



free from weeds. When they have become well or spring season, placing them in proper situa- 



rooted, they may be removed into the places tions in the open ground. The trailing branches 



where they are to remain. root as they extend themselves, at each joint, 



This shrub affords an agreeable variety when by which they easily multiply, 



in assemblage with other's, either in the open ' Being of spreading growth, they are highly 



ground or other collections. useful for covering naked banks, and running 



CERASTIUM, a genus containing plants over artificial rock-works, ruins, grottos, and 



of the low herbaceous kind. Mouse-ear Chick- other similar parts of pleasure-grounds. 



weed. CERASUS, the Cherry-tree. See Phunps. 



It belongs to the class and order Decandria CERATONIA, a genus containing a plant of 



Ventaaynla, and ranks in the natural order of the evergreen exotic shrubby kind. The Carob- 



Caryophillei. tree, or St. John's Bread. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a five- It belongs to the class and order Polygamia 



leaved perianthium; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, Trioecia and ranks in. the natural order of Lo- 



acute, spreading and permanent: the corolla has mentacece. 



five petals, bifid, obtuse, erect-expanding, length The characters are: that in the male the 



of the calyx: the stamina consist of ten fila- calyx is a five-parted perianthium, very large: 



ments, filiform, shorter than the corolla ; the there is no corolla: the stamina consist of five 



alternate ones shorter: anthers roundish: the subulate filaments, very long, spreading: the 



pistillum is an ovate germ: styles five, capillary, anthers large, twin: in the female the calyx is 



erect, length of the stamens: stigmas obtuse: a one-leafed perianthium, divided by five tuber- 



the pericarpium is an ovate-cylindric or glo- cles : there is no corolla : the pistillum is a 



bular capsule, obtuse, unilocular, gaping with germ lying concealed within a fleshy receptacle : 



a five-toothed tip: the seeds are very many and style long, filiform: stigma headed: the pe- 



roundish. ricarpium is a legume, very large, obtuse, com- 



The species cultivated are; 1. C. perfollatum, pressed, coriaceous, with a great many trans- 



Perfoliate Mouse-ear; 2. C. repens, Creeping verse partitions, the interstices filled with pulp: 



Mouse-ear or Sea Pink. the seed solitary, roundish, compressed, hard, 



There are other species that may be culti- glossy: hermaphrodite flowers on a distinct 



tree. 



The species cultivated is C. siliqua, the Carob- 

 tree. 



It rises with an upright thick woody stem to 

 the height of fifteen or twenty feet in its native 



vated. 



The first is an annual plant, which rises with 

 an upright stalk a foot high; the lower leaves 

 have much resemblance to those of Lobel's 

 Catchfly : the stem-leaves are of the same shape, 



but smaller, placed by pairs, and embracing the situation : the head divided into many branches 

 stalks: the flowers come out at the top of the the leaves are pinnate, leaflets roundish entire, 

 stalks, and also from the wings of the leaves thick, rigid, of a darkish green colour, three 

 on the upper part of the stalks; they are white, inches in breadth, and rather more in length, 

 and shaped like those of chickweed; appearing the flowers are small, of a dark purple: these 

 in May and June, and succeeded by beaked are succeeded by large fleshy compressed seed- 

 capsules, containing many seeds of a roundish pods, containing many seeds in a soft pulp, 

 form. It is a native of Greece. It is a native of Syria, &c. 



The second species sends out many weak Culture. — It is propagated by sowing the 



stalks which trail upon the ground, and put out 

 roots at their joints : the leaves are about two 

 inches long, and little more than half an inch 

 broad, very hoary; those next the root are 



seeds procured from its native situation, in pots 

 of light earth in the spring, plunging them in 

 a moderate hot-bed, and, after the plants have 

 attained sufficient growth, removing them into 



much smaller than the upper ones : the flowers separate pots, shade, water, and fresh air being 

 come out from the side of the stalks upon ocsasionally given, and the pots continued in 



slender peduncles, which branch out into se- 

 veral smaller, each supporting a white flower. 

 It was formerly cultivated in gardens, under the 

 title of Sea Pink, as an edging. It is a native 

 of France, &c. 



Culture. — The propagation in these plants is 



the hot-bed. When the weather becomes fine 

 in the summer, they should be gradually hard- 

 ened by exposure to the free air, and placed 

 out till the .approach of autumn, when the 

 protection of the greenhouse will be neces- 

 sary. 



