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alternate, of a dark green colour: stems many, 

 very simple, a hand high, round, pubescent, 

 upright ; the side-ones barren and decumbent : 

 flowers alternate, of a purple colour, sepa- 

 rated by leaves like those on the stem, but small- 

 er, and forming an upright, simple raceme. 

 They appear in May, or earlier. It is a native of 

 Germany. 



The second species has a simple stem : leaves 

 alternate, from the axils ; spike long with the 

 flowers remote; corollas tomentose on the out- 

 side, of a dark colour, fragrant at night. It is 

 a native of the Cape. 



Culture. — The lirst sort may be increased by 

 parting the roots, and planting them where they 

 are to remain in the early autumn. They succeed 

 the most perfectly in situations where the soil is 

 a loamy sand and not enriched by the application 

 of manure, as under other circumstances they are 

 apt to rot, and be de.-troyed. 



The second kind may be increased by planting 

 cuttings of the voung shoots early in the spring 

 or summer months, in pots of frosh light earth, 

 plunging them in the hot-bed of the stove. 

 When they are well rooted, they should be re- 

 moved into separate pots and placed in the green- 

 house, where they must be constantly kept, 

 and have a pretty free admission of air as well as 

 frequent slight waterings. 



They are plants that afford variety in the dif- 

 ferent situations where they grow. The first is 

 a very desirable little plant for the decoration of 

 rock-work, as it grows in close tufts, and pro- 

 duces numerous lively purple flowers during most 

 ©f the summer season. 



ERIOCEPHALUS, a genus containing a 

 plant of the shrubby evergreen kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Syngenesia 

 Polygamia Necessaria, and ranks in the natural 

 order of Compositce Niiumuntacetz. 



The characters are : that the calyx is common 

 upright : scales ten, ovate, equal, converging, of 

 which the five exterior are keeeled, the interior 

 flat: thecorolla compound rayed: corollules her- 

 maphrodite twice as many as in the disk : fe- 

 males five in the ray : proper of the hermaphro- 

 dite funnel-form; border five-cleft, patulous: 

 of the ray ligulate, obcordatc, with three-lobed, 

 equal tips : the stamina in the hermaphrodites 

 consist of five filaments, capillary, very short: 

 anthers cylindric, tubular: the pistillum in the 

 hermaphrodite is a very small germ, naked : stvle 

 simple; stigma two-cleft, sharp : in the females, 

 germ ovate, naked: st\Ie simple, stigma acu- 

 minate, inflex : there is no pericarp! inn : calyx 

 scarce changed: there is no seed to the herma- 

 phrodites: females solitary, obovatc, naked: 

 the receptaculum naked, flat: or else a down of 



the calyx in a double row is interspersed both 

 between the hermaphrodite and female floscules. 



The species are : 1 . E. Jfr'navits, Cluster- 

 leaved Eriocephalus j 2. E.racemosus, Silvery - 

 leaved Eriocephalus. 



The first has a shrubby stalk, from four to six 

 feet high, putting out many side branches the 

 whole length: the leaves are woolly, coming out 

 in clusters, some taper and entire, others divided 

 into three or five parts, which spread open like a 

 hand; they have a strong smell when bruised 

 approaching to that of Lavender Cotton: the 

 flowers are produced in small clusters at the ends 

 of the branches, and stand erect : the female 

 florets composing the ray form a hollow, in the 

 middle of which the hermaphrodite florets form- 

 ing the disk are situated : the border is white, 

 with a little reddish cast on the inside, and the 

 disk is of a purplish colour. It flowers from 

 January to March. 



The second species has the stature and appear- 

 ance of the first, but all the leaves are undivided : 

 the flowers are on pedicles shorter than the calyx : 

 outer scales of the calyx four, ovate, subtomen- 

 tose, with a very soft wool from the bosom of them. 

 It flowers in March and the following month. 



Culture. — These plants may be raised by lay- 

 ers or cuttings of the young shoots. The for- 

 mer should tie laid down in the early autumn 

 or spring, and the latter planted during the 

 summer, in pots filled with light earth, and 

 plunged in a moderate hot-bed, being shaded till 

 they become well rooted, and frequency refresh- 

 ed by small waterings. When the layers or cut- 

 tings have stricken root perfectly, they should be 

 taken oft", or removed into separate pots, and 

 placed in an airy situation in the green-house to 

 prevent theirbeingdrawn up loo much; afterwards 

 they may be set out in the open air in a warm 

 aspect till the approach of autumn, when they 

 must be removed into the green-house again, and. 

 placed so as to have much sun and free air when 

 the weather is mild, carefully guarding them 

 against frost and moist air. 



Thcv should be very sparingly watered in win- 

 ter, but when in the open air in summer it will 

 be frequently necessary. 



Prom their retaining their leaves all the year, 

 they have a very ornamental effect in winter. 



ERYNGIUM, a genus containing plants of 

 the hardy (lowering biennial and perennial kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Pentandrig, 

 Digynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Umuellatce . 



The characters are : that the calyx is a common 

 conic receptacle, chaffs separating the sessile 

 floscules : involucreofthereeeptaclemany-leaved^ 

 flat, exceeding the floscules ; perianthium proper 



