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pie : the filaments and pistils are w hite. Found 

 in the Levant. 



Culture. — These plants maybe easily increas- 

 ed by seeds, which, when permitted to scatter 

 in the autumn, produce good plants. They may 

 afterwards be taken up, and planted in the bor- 

 ders of pleasure-grounds, among low shrubs 

 near the walks. The plants in this way live 



through the winter, and flower in June. There 

 is no culture required but to keep tlie plants 

 clean from weeds. The seeds fall as soon as 

 they are ripe. 



They afford varictvamonc other hardy fiower- 

 intr plants of similar growths. 



'KNEF:-H0LLY. See Ruscus. 



KNOT-GRASS. See Illecebrum. 



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LAC 



ABRADOR TEA. See Ledum. 

 4 LABURNUM. See Cytisus. 



LABYRINTH, a sort of maze or wilderness 

 plantation, abounding with hedges and walks, 

 dislribulccl into many windings and intricate 

 turnings, leading to one connnon centre, ex- 

 tremely difficult to be found out, designed by way 

 of amusement. 



It is commonly formed with hedges, in double 

 rows, leading in various twistings and turnings, 

 backward and forward, with intervening planta- 

 tions and gravel - walks alternately between 

 hedge and hedge. The great object is to have 

 the walk contrived in so many mazy intricate 

 windings, as to cause much labour and difficulty 

 to find out the centre, by meeting with frequent 

 stops and disappointments, as tiie hedges 

 must not be crossed or broken through. In a 

 well-contrived Labyrinth a stranger often en- 

 tirely loses himself, so as neither to find his way 

 to the centre, or out again the way he came in. 



They are now, however, rarely introduced in 

 modern garden designs; and scarce to be seen, 

 except in some old gardens. 



The hedges for this use are usually of horn- 

 beam, but may be of beech, elm, or any other 

 sort that can be kept in neat order by clipping. 

 The walks should be five feet v\ide at least, laid 

 witha;ravel, and neatly rolled; and the trees and 

 slirubs to form the thicket of wood between the 

 hedges of any of the hardy kinds of the de- 

 ciduous tribe, interspersed with some evergreens. 

 In the middle, a space should be left open as the 

 centre. 



Sinall Labyrinths are occasionally formed 

 with box edgings, and borders for plants, and 

 alleys for walking in, in imitation of the large 

 ones, and which have a good elfect in small 

 garden -grounds 



LAC, or GUN'l LAC. See Croton. 



LACE-BARK. See Daphne. 



LAC 



LACHENALIA, a genus containing plants 

 of the bulbous-rooted kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Hexandria 

 MonogynJa, and ranks in the natural order of 

 CoronaricB. 



The characters are : that there is no calyx : 

 the corolla has six petals, erected into a tube, 

 oblong, connate at the base, unequal : the three 

 exterior ones shorter, often callous at the tip : 

 the stamina have six awl-shaped, upricjht fila- 

 ments, growing to the base of the petals, and of 

 the same length with thern : anthers oblona: : 

 the pistillum is a superior subovate germ : style 

 awl-shaped, length of the stamens: stigma 

 simple: the pericarpium is a subovate capsule, 

 three-winged, three-celled : the seeds several, 

 globose, alfixed to the receptacle. 



The species cultivated are: 1. L. orckioides, 

 Spotted-leaved Lachenalia ; 2. L. pallida, Pale- 

 flowered Lachenalia ; 3. L. tricolor, Three-co- 

 loured Lachenalia. 



The first has a roundish, whitish bulb : the 

 whole of the plant is smooth: the leaves usually 

 two from the bulb, from six inches to a foot in 

 length, one always much narrower than the 

 other, sharpish, thick, spreading at top, flattish, 

 sheathing and channelled at bottom, rough and 

 cartilaginous at the edge, dirty green, marked 

 with lines on the inside, and having dusky spots 

 scattered over them : the scape round, upright, 

 pale green with dusky spots, commonly longer 

 than the leaves : the bractes lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, concave at the base, spreading very 

 much, while: the flowers are almost upright; 

 the upper ones in the spike abortive. It is a 

 native of the Cape. 



Li the second species the bulb is roundish, 

 flatted a little, the size ol" .i liazel nut: the root- 

 leaves two, a foot long and more, acute, chan- 

 nelled, and sheathing at bottom, flat at top, li- 

 near-lanceolate, almost equal in length, one 



