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The second species has the stem slender, up- 

 richt, con red with leaves, from an inch and 

 hall to six inches in height, and sometimes 

 more, somewhat angular, very simple, smooth, 

 one-flowered. The root-leaves are numerous, 

 like those of the daisy, but thicker, petioled, 

 placed in a ring, ovate, obtuse, quite entire, 

 einarginate, the "nerve produced into a small 

 awnor point : the stem-leaves alternate, nearer to 

 sessile, smaller, three-toothed, lour lines broad, 

 from an inch to an inch and a half in length, 

 all smooth, and of a bright green. The flowers 

 are in a globular head, and of a blue colour. It 

 is a native of many parts of Europe, flowering 

 in May and June. 



It varies with a white flower, and with a leaf- 

 less stalk or stem. 



Culture. — The first species may be increased 

 by planting cuttings of the young branches in 

 April, just" before "they begin to shoot, in pots 

 of light fresh mould, plunging them in a very 

 moderate hot-bed, giving them due water and 

 shade till they have stricken root. After this they 

 should be removed from the bed, and gradually 

 hardened to the open air. The plants should 

 afterwards be protected during the winter. 



The second sort is readily increased by parting 

 the roots as in the Common Daisy, planting 

 them out in the early part of the autumn in 

 moist shady situations. They succeed best in 

 such loamy soils as are rather moist. 



These plants are ornamental, the first sort 

 among potted plants, the latter in the fronts of 

 the more moist and shady borders or clumps of 

 pleasure-grounds. 



GLOlilOSA, a genus containing a plant of 

 the herbaceous flowering perennial kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Hexandria 

 Monogyiua, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Sdrmeniacece. 



The characters are : that there is no calyx : 

 the corolla has six petals, oblong-lanceolate, 

 waved, very long, wholly reflex : the stamina 

 have six subulate filaments, shorter than the co- 

 rolla, from straight patulous: anthers incum- 

 bent : the pistillum is a globular germ : style 

 filiform, longer than the stamens, inclined: 

 stigma triple, "obtuse : the pericarpium is a su- 

 perior capsule, oval, three- lobed, three- celled, 

 three-valvcd: the seeds several, globular, berried, 

 in n\o rows. 



The species is G. superla, Superb Lily. 



It has a long fleshy root of a whitish colour, 

 and a nauseous bitter taste, from the middle of 

 which arises a round weak stem, requiring sup- 

 port, and with that growing to the height of 

 ?ight or t nfeet. The leaves are smooth, about 

 eight inches long, and one inch and a half 



broad at the base, growing narrower till within 

 two inches of the end, which runs out in a nar- 

 row point, and ends in a tendril : the flowers 

 are at the upper part of the stem, from the side, 

 on slender peduncles, hanging down, at first of 

 a herbaceous colour, but changing to a beau- 

 tiful flame-colour. It is a native of Guinea, 

 flowering in June and July. The roots and 

 other parts are poisonous. 



Culture. — This plant is capable of being in- 

 creased by planting the offsets from the old roots, 

 either in the autumn after the stems decay, or 

 in the early spring before they shoot, in pots 

 filled with light earth, plunging them in the 

 bark-bed of the stove. The old roots, when 

 taken out of the ground, should be preserved in 

 dry sand during the winter in the stove, or in a 

 dry warm room. It is the practice of some to 

 let the roots remain during the winter in the 

 mould, keeping the pots in the tan-bed ; plant- 

 ing out the offsets early in the spring. In either 

 way they should have very little water. 



When the stems appear, they should be sup- 

 ported by sticks, and in hot dry weather a little 

 water be sparingly given, as there may be occa- 

 sion. 



The pots in which they are planted should be 

 small, that they may be confined and put forth 

 stronger stems. Twopenny pots will be large 

 enough for roots of the greatest size. 



These plants are highly ornamental on account 

 of their beautiful flowers among others of the 

 stove kind. 



GLOXINIA, a genus comprising a plant of 

 the herbaceous flowery perennial kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Didyrmmia 

 yjngiospermia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Personalce. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a supe- 

 rior perianthium, five-leaved: leaflets equal, 

 lanceolate, serrulate at the tip, the three upper 

 ones nerved, the two lower bent down with the 

 nectary, permanent : the corolla is monopeta- 

 lous, irregularly campanulate: tube scarcely any: 

 herder oblique, five-cleft, segments roundish, 

 the four upper spreading and entire, the lowest 

 straight, concave, toothed : the stamina have 

 four filaments, with the rudiment of a fifth, two 

 scarcely shorter, inserted into the receptacle, 

 fastened to the lower margin of the corolla, 

 sickled, pubescent, converging laterally above ; 

 anthers ovate, two-celled, peltate, united with- 

 in the opening of the corolla: the pistillum is 

 an inferior germ, turbinate, striated: style fili- 

 form, the length of the stamens : stigma capi- 

 tate, the length of the anthers : the pericarpium 

 is a one-celled capsule (or half-celled) : recep- 

 tacles two, opposite, two- parted, fastened to 



