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leaves are lanceolate, entire, pale green, a little 

 firm or coriaceous, sessile, disposed in threes: 

 peduncles one-flowered, scattered, and Conning 

 a straight terminating raceme: the flowers large, 

 very line, of a very bright scarlet, having eight 

 stamens, not projecting bevond the flower ; and 

 the berry is a little larger than an olive, fleshy, 

 soft, reddish black, somewhat pubescent, of a 

 very pleasant taste : the seeds small and brown. 

 It is a native of St. Domingo. 



The second species is a shrub, growing to the 

 height of six or seven feet : the leaves are com- 

 monly opposite, on short petioles, of a fine 

 green, having the veins tinged with red, with a 

 fine down on them: the peduncles axillary, one- 

 flowered, longer than the leaves : the flowers 

 are pendulous, and of a bright scarlet colour. It 

 is a plant of peculiar beauty, producing its rich 

 pendent blossoms through most part of the 

 summer : the petals in the centre of the flower 

 are particularly deserving of notice, as they some- 

 what resemble a small roll of the richest purple- 

 coloured ribband. It is a native of Chili. 



Culture. — These plants are capable of being 

 increased by seeds, layers, cuttings, and some- 

 times even by suckers. The seeds should be 

 sown in pots of good light mould, plunging 

 them into a bark hot-bed. When the plants 

 appear, they should be kept clean, and be often 

 refreshed with a little water. After they have 

 attained a few inches growth, they should be 

 shaken out of the former pots, and after being 

 carefully separated and planted in separate small 

 pots with the same sort of mould, be ieplunged 

 in the hot-bed, and well shaded till they become 

 fresh rooted, when air should be admited pretty 

 freely. They must be kept warm during the 

 winter season. 



The layers, cuttings, or suckers may be laid 

 down or planted out in the latter end of summer 

 or beginning of autumn. 



They must all be kept in the stove during the 

 winter season, but in the summer may be set 

 out in the green -house. 



They afford much ornament by their beautiful 

 scarlet flowtrs. 



FUMARIA, a genus containing plants of the 

 tuberous-rooted low flowery perennial kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Diadelphia 

 Hexandria, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Cur y dales. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a 

 two-leaved perianthium : leaflets opposite, equal, 

 lateral, erect, acute, small, deciduous: the corolla 

 oblong, tubular, ringent, palate prominent, clos- 

 ing the throat: upper lip flat, obtuse, emargi- 

 nate, reflex : the nectary the base of the upper lip 

 prominent backward, obtuse : the lower lip en- 



tirely similar to the upper, keeled towards the 

 base: nectary the keeled base, but in this less 

 prominent: the throat four-cornered, obtuse, 

 perpendicularly bifid : the stamina consist of 

 two equal filaments, broad, one within each lip, 

 inclosed, acuminate : anthers three at the end of 

 each filament : the pistillum is an oblong, com- 

 pressed germ, acuminate: style short : stigma 

 orbiculaie, erecr, compressed': the pcriearpium 

 is a one-celled sihele : the seeds are roundish. 



The species are: 1. F. cucul/aria, Naked- 

 stalked Fumitory ; 2. F. sempervirens, Glaucous 

 Fumitory ; 3. F. lutea, Yellow Fumitory; 4. F. 

 capnoides, White-flowered Fumitory. 



The first has a scaly root, the size of a larg? 

 hazel-nut: the flower- stalk is eight ornine inches 

 high : the root-leaves are in pairs, triternate, 

 gashed, smooth, slender ; with red petioles : the 

 scape simple, round, length of the leaf, rufous : 

 the raceme terminating, simple ; the flower* 

 (four or five) pendulous ; of a dull white colour. 

 It is a native of Virginia. Perennial, flowering 

 in June and July. 



The second species is annual : the stem up- 

 right, a foot and half high, round, and very 

 smooth, sending out several branches at top: 

 the leaves smooth, branching, pale, divided like 

 the common sort, but the leaflets larger and more 

 obtuse : the flowers in loose panicles from 

 the sides of the stem and at the extremi- 

 ties of the branches, of a pale purple colour, 

 with yellow chaps or lips : the pods are taper; 

 narrow, an inch and half long, containing 

 many small black shining seeds. It flowers 

 during summer, and is a native of North 

 America. 



In the third, the root strikes deep into 

 the ground : the stems are many, succulent, dif- 

 fused, about six inches high : the leaves on 

 long branching petioles, composed of many ir- 

 regular leaflets, tnfid at the top : peduncles axiU 

 lary, naked, longer than the leaves, supporting 

 eight or nine flowers, of a bright yellow colour, 

 in a loose sp : ke : the leaves continue green all 

 the year, and the flowers in succession from 

 April to October. It is very like the fourth 

 species, but is perennial ; and according to Mil- 

 ler, the stalks have blunt angles, are of a 

 purplish colour ; and the flowersgrow in a looser 

 panicle, on longer pedicles. It is a native of 

 Barbary. 



The fourth is annual: the stem four-cor- 

 nered at the base : the leaves supei decompound, • 

 the terminating leaflets larger, and semitri- 

 fid ; the middle segment lobed ; petioles three- 

 cornered : the racemes naked : pedicles shorter 

 by half than the corollas, blackish at the tip. 

 There is a succession of the flowers from May 

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