L A G 



L A N 



basei^. The fully cabbaged Lettuces arc al.;o llic spring following, they may be taken up and 



exteilent ior slf.wing and for soups, as well as 

 jnunv other purposes. 



LADANUiM. See CiSTus. 



LADIES' BOWER. Sec Clematis. 



LADIES' MANTLE. 



LADIES' SLIPPEL^ 



LAGERSTROEMIA, 

 plant of the e.xotic tree kind, for the green- 

 iiouse. 



See Alchemili.a. 

 See CvPRiPEDiuM. 

 a jrenus containinir a 



planted in separate puts, filled with light mould, 

 beiuii; afterwards managed as other green-house 

 phials. 



Tliey afford variety in collections of potted 

 plants. 



LAGOECIA, a genus containing a plant of 

 the herbaceous kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Penlandria 

 Mmwgijina, and ranks in the natural order of 



It belono-s to the class and order Icosnndr'm Umiellatce or UmleUlferce. 



JMonogyriia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Salicarite. 



The characters arc: that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed, si.x-cleft, bell -shaped perianthium, rather 

 acute, smooth, permanent : the corolla has six 

 ovate, obtuse petals, crisped, undulated, con- 

 torted : claws filiform, lonoer than the calyx, 



The ehar.icters are : that the calyx is an uni- 

 versal involucre, eight-leaved : leaflets feather- 

 toothed, ciliated, reflex, containing the unibel- 

 lu!e: involucre proper four-leaved : leaflets hair- 

 feathered, involving a single footstalk shorter 

 than the leaflet itself: perianthium proper five- 

 leaved, hair many-cleft, superior : the corolla 



inserted into the receptaclel the stanuna have has five two-horned petals, shorter than the ca- 

 verv many filiform filaments, longer than the lyx : the stamina have five capillary filaments. 



calvx, inserted into the calyx below the germ : 

 the six exterior ones are twice the thickness of 

 the rest, and are longer than the petals : anthers 

 oval, incumbent : the pislillum is a subglobose 

 germ : style liliform, length of the longer sta- 

 mens : stigma simple : the pericarpium is a sub- 

 globose capsule, crowned with the style on its 

 bluntish top, six-funovved, six-celled, six-valv- 

 ed, the dissepiments coalescing with the su- 



length of the corolla : anthers roundish : the 

 pistillam is a roundish germ, below the recep- 

 tacle of the perianthium : style length of sta- 

 mens : stigmas two, the one truncated : there is 

 no pericarpium : the seeds solitary, ovate-ob- 

 long, crowned bv the perianthium. 



The species is L. cuminoides. Wild or Bastard 

 Cumin. 



It is an annual plant, about a foot high : the 



tures : the seed several, ovate, awl-shaped at leaves resemble those of Honey wort : the flowers 



the base, compressed, adhering to a central 

 hexagonal pillar. 



The species cultivated is L. Indica. 



It has the trunk about a fathom high, or 

 somewhat more, smooth all over : the branches 

 alternate, somewhat angular, flexuose, rigid, 

 spreading: the branchleis four-cornered: the 

 leaves allernate, subsessile, on the twigs ovate, 



are collected into spherical heads at the extre- 

 mity of the stalks, and are of a greenish yellow 

 colour: the fruit is small, pedicelled, ovaie- 

 acuminate, crowned with a ciha'e calyx, villose, 

 one seed only ripening, the other abortive, and 

 fixed laterally to the apex of the other, like a 

 withered scalelet : the fertile seed is of a dusky 

 black colour, sprinkled all over with hoary vil- 



on the branches oblong, obtuse, entire, nerved, lose hairs, convex on one side, with five capil- 

 stiffish, from half an inch to an inch in length : lary raised whitish streaks, flattish on the other, 

 the flowers in a decompound, trichotomous, with three very slender streaks, marking out 

 naked, spreading panicle at the ends of the the place of the abortive seed, which is con- 

 twigs, it is a native of the East Indies, £>cc. stantly and easily found when the fruit is well 



'flowering from August to October. 



Culture. — ^This plant is capable of being in- 

 rreased either by layers or cuttings of the young 

 branches. 



softened in water. It is a native of the Levant, 

 flowering in June and July. 



Culture. — ^These plants may be increased by 

 sowing the seeds in autumn, on a warm border, 



The layers should be made from the young soon after they are ripe, or where they are to re- 

 shoots of the preceding summer, and be laid main; or \\hen permitted to scatter, they come 

 down in the autumn. When they are well up and form good plants. They afterwards re- 

 rooted in the succeeding autumn, they should quire only to be kept clean from weeds, and in 

 be taken off' and planted out in separate pots. the Ibrmer cases planted out, when of sufficient 



The slips or cuttings should be made from growth, where they are to grow, 

 shoots of the same year's growth, and be plant- They afford ornament and variety in the bor- 

 ed out early in the sunmicr, in pots of light ders and other parts of shrubberies, 

 earth, beine plunced in a bark hot-bed, and co- LAMB'S LETTUCE. See Valeriana. 

 vered with "small bell hand-glasses, due shade LANTANA, a genus containing plants of the 

 and water being given. When well rooted in shrubby, exotic, green-house, and stove kinds. 



