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the branches, on short slender peduncles, and being duly watered; and when. thcv have taken 

 are of a pale colour with short tubes; the brims root, be treated in the same way as the stedhu^ 

 are spread open, broader than either of the former plants. This is the usual mode of increasin"- 

 sorts, and the style is considerably longer than them, as some sorts never produce seeds ni this 

 the tube of the corolla. Tt ilouers in August, climate. 



September, and October, retaining its leaves fn the third sort the cuttings should be plant- 

 till November, and is a native of China. ed in the spring, in an eastern border; and the 

 The third is able to stand upright without plants should not be removed till the autunm 

 support; differing from the above in having the when they maybe planted to cover walls, as the 

 Jeaves, though lanceolate, not fiat but oblique branches are too weak to support themselves, 

 or flexuose: the branehlets flexuose, not render- The third variety may also be increased by 

 cd angular by aline running down from the pe- dividing and planting its creepmg roots, 

 tiole; the surface not smooth, but subtomentose; The layers must be made from the younn- 

 and finally, spines from every bud. It difiers branches, and be laid down in the sprini"- ; and 

 from the first in having lanceolate leaves, and when rooted in the autunm, taken oti, and ma- 

 round flexuose branehlets. It is a native of the naoei] as in the other methods. 

 South of Europe. 'J"he hardy sorts afford variety in warm situa- 

 The fourth species is an elegant shrub, on tions in the open ground, and the other sort* 

 account of the whiteness ofthe branches, rods, or amiiiig green-house collections, 

 twigs, which are many, afoot or eighteen inches LYSIMACH[A, a genus containing plant* 

 long or more, branched, ascending: the spines of the hardy herbaceous biennial and perennial 

 alternate, awl-shaped, rigid, spreading, white or kinds. 



yellowish, surrounded with leaves and flowers It belongs to the .class and order Pentandria. 

 at the base : the leaves are sessile, fleshy, blunt : Moiingynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 flowers from the upper part of the twigs amoncr Rofncta-. 



the leaves, two or three to each spine, on 'I'he characters are : that the calyx is a five- 

 short peduncles : the berries the size of a cur- parted perianthiuni, acute, erect, permanent : 

 rant, black and succulent. It is a native of the corolla one-petalled, wheel-shaped : tube 

 Tartary. It differs from the third sort in size, none: border five-parted, flat: divisions ovatc- 

 and the colour and form of the flower. oblong: the stamina have five awl-shaped fila- 



Culture. — These plants may all be increased ments, opposite to the divisions of the corolla : 

 by seeds, cuttings, or layers. anthers acuminate : the pistlllum is a roundish 



The seeds should be sown in the autumn soon germ : style filiform, the length of the stamens : 

 after they are ripe, in pots, being plunged into an stigma obtuse : the pericarplum is a globular 

 old tan-bed in winter, and covered with the glasses capsule, mucronate, one -celled, ten-valved 

 in frosty weather; but in mild weather be open (five-valved) : the seeds very many, and anau- 

 to receive moisture ; in the following spring the lar : the recL*plaele globular, very lar"-e, dotted, 

 pots should be plunged into a moderate hot-bed, (free.) 



to bring up the plants, which must be inured to The species cultivated are : 1. L. Ephemenim, 

 bear the open air as soon as the danger of frost Willow-leaved Loose strife; •2. L. dubia, i'ur- 

 is over, and when they are three inches high, pie-flowered Loose-strife; 3. L. strkta, Up- 

 be shaken out of the pots, and each planted in right Loose-strife. 



a small separate pot filled with loamy earth, The first has a perennial root : the stems se- 

 being placed in the shade till they have taken veral, ujjright, more than three feet high : the 

 new root, when they may be removed to a shel- leaves narrow, smooth, and at the base of these 

 tered situation, to remain till the autunm, when come out short side branches, with smaller 

 they should be cither removed into the green- leaves of the same shape: the flowers are pro- 

 house, or placed under a hot-bed frame, to duced in a long close upright spike, at the top 

 shelter them from hard frost. They must at of the stalk : the corolla is white; the stamens 

 first be kept in pots, and treated in the same longer than the corolla. It is very distinct from 

 way as myrtles, and other hardy green-house the second sort by its size, five-valved cap^uks, 

 plants; but when tliev are grown strong, a few white flowers, and leaves without dots. Il is a 

 of them may be planted out in the open eround native of Spain, flowering from .luly to Sep- 

 in warm situations, where thcv stand moderate teinber. 



winters, but are commonly destroyed by hard The second species is an annual (biennial) 

 frosts. plant, too tender for the open air of this cli- 



The cuttings should be made from the young mate : it agrees with the first sort in habit, - 

 uliouts, and be planted in a shady border in Julv, structure, and alaucous colour : it has no dots 

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