PAN 



PAN 



taken up, when the stalks decay, in autumn, 

 divided, and replanted in their allotted places in 

 the manner directed above. 



All the sorts arc hardy plants, that are capable 

 of flourishing in any common soil in almost any 

 situation, either in open exposures or under 

 the sliadc of trees. 



The Portugal variety, however, should have a 

 warmer situation and lighter soil than the others. 



Thev arc proper ornamental flowery plants for 

 large borders, and may be had at all the public nur- 

 series, [n planting, one should be put here and 

 there in different parts, placing them with tne 

 crownsof the roots a lit tie within the surface of the 

 earth, and at a yard at least distant from otner 

 plants, as they extend themselves widely every way, 

 essuming a large bushy growth ; and, togteher 

 with their conspicuous large fiov^ers, exhibt a 

 fine appearance, and are olten planted at the 

 terminating corners of large borders adjoining 

 principal walls, displaying a bushy growth in 

 their foliage and flowers. When the Howers are 

 gone, the capsules opening lengthways discover 

 their coloured seeds very ornamentally, especially 

 in that called the Male Peony and varieties. And 

 to forward this, the capsules may be slit open on 

 the inside at the proper valve ; whereby they will 

 expand much sooner, and display their beautiful 

 red Seed more conspicuously. 



PAINTED LADY PEA. See Lathyrus. 



PALM TREE. See Cham^rops and Cocos. 



PALMA CHRISTL See Ricinus, 



PALMETTO. See Cham^rops. 



PANAX, a genus containing plants of the 

 herbaceous and shrubby perennial kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Polijgamia 

 Dioecia {Pentmidria D/gi/nia), and ranks in the 

 natural order of Hederaceee. 



The characters are : that in the hermaphrodite 

 flowers the calyxisasinipleunibel, equal, cluster- 

 ed: involucre many-leaved, awl-shaped, small, 

 permanent : perianthium proper, very small, five- 

 toothed, permanent : the corolla universal uni- 

 form: proper, of five oblong equal recurved petals: 

 the stamina have five filaments, very short, cadu- 

 cous : anthers simple : pistiUuni a roundish germ, 

 inferior: styles two, small, upright : stigmas sim- 

 ple: thepericarpium isacordate berry, umbilicate, 

 two-celled: the seeds solitary, cordate, acute, pla- 

 no-convex : malefiowers on a distinct plant : the 

 calyx is a simple umbel, globular; with very many 

 equal coloured ravs : involucre composed of lan- 

 ceolate sessile leaflets, the same number with the 

 external rays: perianthium turbinate, quite entire, 

 coioqred : the corolla has five petals, oblong, 

 blunt, narrow, redex, placed on the nerianthium : 

 the stamina have five filaments, filiform, longer, 

 inserted into the perianthium: anthers simple. 

 1 



The species cultivated are : 1 . P. qninquefoUa, 

 Ginseng; 2. P. trifolia, Thre;-lcaved Panax ; 

 3. P. andeata. Prickly Panax. 



The first has a fleshy taper root as large as a 

 man's finger, jointed, and frequently divided 

 into two branches, sending oft" many short slen- 

 der fibres : the stalk rises near a foot and half iia 

 height, and is naked at the top, where it gene- 

 rally divides into three smaller foot-stalks, each 

 sustaining a leaf composed of five spear-shaped 

 leaflets, serrate, pale green and a little hairy: the 

 stalk is erect,' smooth) round, simple, tinged of 

 a deep purple colour : the leaves arise with the 

 flower-stem fn)m a thick joint at the extremity 

 of the stalk; are generally three, but sometimes 

 more : the five leaves into which each of these is di- 

 vided are of an irregularoval shape, veined, point- 

 ed, smooth, deep green above, on short foot- 

 stalks, from a common petiole, which is long, 

 round, and almost erect : the flowers grow on a 

 slender peduncle, just at the divisions of the pe- 

 tioles, and are formed into a small umbel at the 

 top; they are of an herbaceous yellow colour, 

 and appear at the beginning of June : the berries 

 are first green, but afterwards turn red ; and in- 

 close two hard seeds, which ripen in the begin-' 

 ning of August, or soon afterwards. It is a na- 

 tive of Chinese Tartary. 



The second species has the stem single, not 

 more than five inches high, dividing mto three 

 foot-stalks, each sustaining a trifoliate leaf, with 

 the leaflets longer, narrower, and more deeply- 

 indented on their edges than in the first species : 

 the flower-stalk rises, as in that, from the divi- 

 sions of the petiole. It is a native of North 

 America. 



It is so nearly allied to the first sort, that Lin- 

 naeus doubts whether it be any thing more 

 than a variety of that, only much smaller. 



The third is a shrub with a recurved prickle at 

 the base and at the tip of the petioles : the leaves 

 are solitary, ternate, tern at the flowers; with 

 ovate, blunt leaflets : the umbels are petluncled,- 

 hemispherical, and simple : the flowers with three 

 styles. It is a native of China. 



Culture. — ^The first an^ second sorts are in- 

 creased by sowing the seeds procured from 

 abroad upon a moderate hot-bed, or in pots 

 plunged into it, in the early spring season; and 

 when the plants have acquired a few inches in 

 growth, removing them into beds or borders where 

 the mould is good, and the situations sheltered. 



The third sort is increased by layers or cut- 

 tings, laid down or planted out in the summer 

 mouths in pots, and plunged in the bark-bed of 

 tlie stove. When they have stricken root, they 

 may be removed into separate pots, and be coi;- 

 stautly kept iu the stove. 



