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deep green colour ; those on the lower part of 

 the stalk shorter and broader than on the upper, 

 on which they are entire; at these joints the 

 dowers come out singly on each bide the stalky 

 silting close to it, are nearly an inch long, and of 

 a deep purple colour 5 appearing in July, it is 

 a native of the East; but rarely produces seeds 

 here. 



Culture. — These plants are readily increased 

 by planting pieces of their creeping roots, either 

 in the autumn, at the time when the stems 

 decay, or in the spring before they shoot up ; 

 they succeed best in light dry soils. 



It serves for ornamenting the borders and other 

 parts of the garden or pleasure-ground. 



DODKCATHEON, a genus furnishing a 

 plant of the low flowering perennial kind. 



ft belongs to the class and order Pentandria 

 MonOgynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Precice. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a many- 

 leaved, many-flowered involucre, very small : pe- 

 rianthium one-leafed, half five-cleft, permanent: 

 divisions reflex, finally longer, permanent: the 

 corolla one-petalled, five-parted: tube shorter 

 than the calyx : (naked at the throat) border 

 reflex : divisions very long, lanceolate : the sta- 

 mina consist of five filaments, very short, ob- 

 tuse, seated on the tube : anthers sagittate, con- 

 verging into a beak : the pistillum is a conic 

 germ : style filiform, longer than the sta- 

 mens : stigma obtuse: the pericarpium is an 

 oblong, one-celled capsule, gaping at the tip : 

 (subcylindric, opening into five parts) : the 

 seeds very many, and small: receptacle free, 

 small. 



The only species is D. Meadia, Virginian 

 Cowslip, or Meadia. 



It has a yellow perennial root, from which come 

 out in the spring several long smooth leaves, 

 near six inches long, and two and a half broad ; 

 at first standing erect, but afterwards spreading 

 on the ground, especially when much exposed 

 to the sun : from among these leaves arise two, 

 three, or four flower- stalks, in proportion to the 

 Strength of the roots, which rise eight or nine 

 inches high, smooth, naked, and terminated by 

 an umbel of flowers, which are purple, incli- 

 ning to a peach-blossom colour. It is native of 

 Virginia, flowering about the end of April or 

 beginning of the following month. 



Culture. — The methods of propagation in this 

 plant are either by seeds, or off-sets from the 

 roots ; but the last is the best. 



In the first, the seeds should be sown either in 

 the autumn, soon after they are fully ripened, or 

 in the spring, in a moist shady spot, or in pots 

 to be placed in such situations." When the plants 



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appear, they should be kept free from weeds, 

 and have occasional water when the weather is 

 dry, being shaded from the heat of the sun. 

 When the stems decay, they may be carefully 

 removed and planted in moist shady places, at 

 the distance of twelve or eighteen inches, to 

 remain till the following autumn, when they 

 should be finally planted in the borders and other 

 places where there are due shade and moisture. 



The roots may be removed, and the off-sets 

 carefully taken off from them about the latter 

 end of August or the following month, and im- 

 mediately planted in such situations as the above, 

 when they will be fully established before the 

 frosts set in. 



These plants are found to be hardy, but inca- 

 pable of succeeding in drv soils or sunny situ- 

 ations. They afford ornament in the beds, bor- 

 ders, or other parts of pleasure-grounds. 



DODON^EA, a genus comprehending plants 

 of the shrubby exotic kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Octandria 

 Monogynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Dumosce. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a four-leav- 

 ed, flat perianthium ; leaflets ovate, obtuse, con- 

 cave, deciduous: there is no corolla: the stamina 

 consist of eight very short filaments : anthers 

 oblong, bowed, converging, length of the calyx : 

 the pistillum is a three-sided germ, length of 

 the calyx : style cylindric, three-furrowed, up- 

 right : stigma slightly three-cleft, a little acute : 

 the pericarpium a three-furrowed capsule, in- 

 flated, three-celled, with large membranaceous 

 corners : the seed in couples, and roundish. 



The species are : l.D.viscosa, Broad-leaved 

 Dodonsa ; 2. D. angustifblia, Narrow-leaved 

 Dodonaea. 



The first sends up several stalks from the root, 

 about the size of a man's arm, with several up- 

 right branches, covered with a light brown bark, 

 which frequently separates from the wood, and 

 hangs loose : the leaves are stiff", varying greatly 

 in shape and size, some being four inches long, 

 and an inch and a half broad ; others not three 

 inches long, and a quarter of an inch broad ; 

 they are spear-shaped, entire, and of a light 

 green, growing with their points upward, and 

 have very short foot-stalks. The flowers are 

 produced at the end of the brandies in a sort of 

 raceme, each standing upon a slender foot-stalk 

 about an inch long. It is a native of the coun- 

 tries between the tropics. 



The second species resembles the first, but the 

 leaves are lanceolate-linear, and the fructifica- 

 tion polygamous. It is a native of the Cape, 

 flowering from May till the latter end of sum- 



