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Tt belongs to the class and order Syngenena 

 Polygamia Superflua, and ranks in the natural 

 order of Composite? Dkcohhrr. 



The characters are : that the calyx is common 

 simple, many-leaved : leaflets equal : the corolla 

 compound radiated : the corollets hermaphro- 

 dite, equal, numerous in the disk : female ligu- 

 late, the same number with the leaves of the 

 calyx, in the ray : proper of the hermaphro- 

 dite funnel-shaped, with an erect, five-cleft 

 border: female ligulate, lanceolate, toothletted 

 at top: the stamina in the hermaphrodite, fila- 

 ments five, filiform, short: anther cylindric, tu- 

 bulous, five-cleft at top : the pistillum in the 

 hermaphrodite is an oblong germ : style fili- 

 form, the length of the stamens: stigmas two, 

 almost erect : females, germ oblong ; style fili- 

 form, short : stigmas two, oblong, bluntish, re- 

 volute: there is no pericarpium : calyx un- 

 changed : the seeds solitary, linear, and qua- 

 drangular: pappus hairy, copious : the receptacle 

 naked, and fkttish. 



The species are : 1 . C. maritime), Sea Cineraria, 

 or Ragwort ; 2. C. ame/loides, Blue-flow ered Ci- 

 neraria, or Cape Aster ; 3. C. lanata, Woolly 

 Cineraria. 



The first has many woody stems, two or three 

 feet high, divided into many branches, which 

 have a'white downy bark. The leaves are very 

 woolly, six or eight inches long, deeply sinuated, 

 and jasrged on their borders. The stems which 

 support the flowers are a foot or more in length, 

 having two or three small leaves on each, shaped 

 like those below, and terminated by many yel- 

 low flowers growing in panicles, or rather 

 corymbs, shaped like those of common Ragwort; 

 appearing from June to August. It is a native 

 of the Mediterranean. 



There is a variety with higher and more 

 woody stems, broader leaves, and smaller flow- 

 ers ; but it is not so hardy. 



The second species has the stem of a purplish 

 colour, rough, dividing into many branches near 

 the root, so as to form a low bushy plant, sel- 

 dom rising more than two feet high ; but the 

 branches extending more than a foot on every 

 side : the leaves about an inch long, and a 

 third part of an inch broad, thick, succu- 

 lent, rough, sessile, generally two, but some- 

 times three at a joint, or even four, two being 

 larger and two smaller. Towards the upper part 

 of "the branches arise the peduncles, from four 

 to six inches long, naked, each supporting one 

 flower, the ray of which is of a fine sky blue, 

 and, after it has been some time expanded, turns 

 back towards the calyx. Martyn says, " it is 

 never without flowers the whole year 1" 



The third is a plant of moderate growth, but 



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which, Martyn observes, 1. in the beauty of it? 

 blossoms far eclipses all the others cultivated in 

 gardens : its petals, exteriorly, are of a most vivid 

 purple, interiorly white. It flowers early in the 

 spring, and, by proper management, may be 

 made to flower the whole year through. It is a 

 native of the Canary Islands. 



Culture. — The plants in these different specieg 

 are all capable of being increased either by seeds 

 or cuttings, but the latter is the more ready me- 

 thod. The seeds should be sown in the earlv 

 spring season in pots of light earth, plunged into 

 a very gentle hot-bed ; and when the plants are 

 of sufficient growth, they should be removed 

 singly into other pots, a little water being given. 



The cuttings may be planted in pots of the 

 same sort of earth during the summer season, or 

 in the borders in warm shaded situations : when 

 they have stricken good roots they may be re- 

 moved into pots, in order to be protected in the 

 winter months. When treated too tenderly, 

 these plants are apt to become weak. 



These plants afford variety when set out in 

 assemblage with other sorts in pots, or the two 

 first may be planted out in warm sheltered situa- 

 tions in the open ground during the summer; 

 but they must be protected from frosts in the 

 winter season in some way or other. 



The third is valuable for the green-house, as 

 being hardy, flowering readily, and easily pro- 

 pagated by cuttings. 



CISTUS, a genus affording plants of the 

 shrubby evergreen kind. Rock Rose. 



It belongs to the class and order Polyandria 

 Monogynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Rotacece. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a five- 

 leaved permanent perianthium : leaflets roundish, 

 concave ; of which two alternate ones are lower 

 and smaller: the corolla has five petals, roundish, 

 flat, spreading, very large: the stamina consist 

 of numerous capillary filaments, shorter than 

 the corolla: anthers roundish, small : the pistil- 

 lum is a roundish germ : style simple, the length 

 of the stamens : stigma flat, orbiculate : the pe- 

 ricarpium is a roundish capsule, covered with 

 the calyx : the seeds numerous, roundish, and 

 small. 



The species are : 1 . C. popiiUfolius, Poplar- 

 leaved Cistus, or Rock Rose; 2. C. laurifolius, 

 Bay-leaved Gum Cistus; 3. C. ladanifcrus, Spa- 

 nish Gum Cistus; 4. C. incanus, Hoary Rock 

 Rose, or Rose Cistus; 5. C halimifolhis, Sea 

 Purslain-leaved Cistus ; 6. C. Monspeliensb, 

 Montpelier Gum Cistus ; 7. C. Crethus, Cretan 

 Ladaniferous Cistus ; 8. C. albidus, White-leaved 

 Cistus ; o. C. crispus, Curled-leaved Cistus ; 

 10. C. salvifolius, Sage-leaved Cistus. 



