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Culture. — These plants may be increased by hardy kind, must be raised by sowing the seeds in 

 sowing the seeds obtained from the places of cither the autumn or spring ; or at both periods, 

 their native growth, as soon as they are procured, where they are required to -flower for a great 

 in pots of light rich earth, plunging them in length of time, in patches, in the clumps, bor- 

 the bark-bed of the stove. When the plants ders, or other parts, where they are to remain, 

 have obtained about three inches growth, they six or seven in each, covering them in lightly, 

 should be removed into separate pots, a little When the plants have attained six or seven 

 water being given at the time, replunging them inches in growth, they should be thinned out to 

 in the hot-bed. They require to be kept constantly three or four in each patch, and be kept free 

 in this situation, and to have the management from weeds. 



of other plants of the tender woody exotic kind They succeed inmost soils and situations, 

 that are of similar growth. having a pleasing effect in their flowers, in the 



They may be made use of for the purpose of fronts and other parts of the borders and clumps 

 variety among other stove plants. of ornamented grounds. 



CREPIS, a genus comprising plants of the CRESCENTJA, a genus comprehending a 

 herbaceous ornamental annual kind. Bastard plant of the exotic tree kind. Calabash-Tree. 

 Hawk-weed. It belongs to the class and order Didynamia 



It belongs to the class and order Syngenesia Angiospermia, and rank3 in the natural order of 

 Polygamia JEqualk, and ranks in the natural Putaminece. 



order of Covipoutce Semijlusculosce. The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 



The characters are : that the calyx is common leafed perianth, two-parted, short, deciduous : 

 double : exterior, very short, spreading, decidu- divisions roundish, concave, obtuse, equal : the 

 ous: interior ovate, simple, furrowed, perma- corolla is one-petalled, unequal: tube gibbous, 

 nent : scales linear, converging: the corolla is crooked, torulose : border erect, five-cleft; di» 

 compound imbricate, uniform : corollets herma- visions unequal tooth-sinuated : the stamina con- 

 phrodite, very many, equal : proper one-petal- sist of four subulate filaments, length of the co- 

 led ; ligulate, linear, truncate, five-toothed: the rolla, spreading ; of which two are a little shorter : 

 stamina consist of five capillary filaments, very anthers incumbent, obtuse, twin : the pistillum 

 short: anther cylindric, tubular: the pistillum isapedicelIed,ovategerm: style filiform, length of 

 a somewhat ovate germ : style filiform, length of the corolla : stigma headed : the pericarpium is 

 the stamens : stigmas two, reflex : there is no an oval berry, hard, one-celled : the seeds very 

 pericarpium : calyx roundish : the seed solitary, many, sub-cordate, nestling, two-celled, 

 oblong, fusiform, sometimes columnar: down The species cultivated is : 1. C. Cujete, Nar- 

 hairy, generally stipitate : the receptacle naked, row-leaved Calabash-Tree, 

 with cells or pits. It is a tree that in its native situation 



The species cultivated are: \. C. larlata, grows to the height of about twenty feet. It 

 Spanish Bearded Crtpis, or Purple-eyed Succory divides at top into very long, thick, scarcely 

 Hawk-weed ; 2. C. rulra, Purple Crepis. subdivided branches, stretching out almost ho- 



The first is an annual plant, putting out leaves rizontally, adorned with leaves disposed in bun- 

 next the root, nine inches in length, and almost dies or tufts scatteringly at irregular distances, 

 two broad in the middle, of a light green colour : These are uncertain in their number from the 

 the stems are a foot and half high, dividing into same knot or tubercle ; oblong, attenuated at 

 many branches, having leaves of the same form the base, on very short petioles, bright green, 

 with the others, but smaller and sessile: the four or five inches long : the flower large, some- 

 flowers are produced at the ends of the branches, times entirely green, but often differently varie- 

 and of a yellow colour, with a purplish base, It gated with purple, red, and yellow, not wither- 

 flowers in June ; and is a native of the South of ing, but becoming putrid. The form of the fruit 

 Europe. 



There are varieties, with deep yellow flowers, 

 and with sulphur-coloured flowers inclining to 

 white, each having a dark purple base. 



The second species has also an annual root ; 

 the root-leave- many, lanceolate, and deeply jag- 

 From these the stalks arise, which are a 



varies on different trees, being spherical, sphe- 

 roidal, or shaped like a bottle ; and also in size 

 from two inches to a foot in diameter. It is a 

 native of Jamaica. 



The Broad-leaved species may likewise be 

 cultivated. 



Culture.- 



-This species and variety are ca- 



foot and half high, dividing into many slender pable of being increased by sowing the seeds, 



branches, each terminated by one large flower procured from the places of their native growth, 



of a red colour. It is a native, of Italy. as soon as they are obtained, in pots of light 



Culture. — These, like other annuals of the fresh rich earth, plunging them in a bark hot- 



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