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PAS 



sowing the see^s on a hot-bed early in the 

 spiiiig ; and when the plants come up, trans- 

 planting them upon another hot-bed, about five 

 or six inches distant, giving them water and 

 shade until they have taken new root ; after 

 which, they must have a pretty large share of 

 fresh air in warm weather, by rai^^ing the glasses 

 of the hot-bed every day, and be duly watered 

 every other day at least. When the plants have 

 grown so as to meet each other, they should be 

 carefully taken up, preserving a ball of earth to 

 their roots, and each planted into a separate pot 

 filled with light rich earth; and be plunged into a 

 .moderate liol-bed till fresh rooted ; after which 

 they may be exposed, with other hardy annual 

 plants, in a warm situation^ where they will 

 flower in July : but if the season should prove 

 cokl and wet, it will be proper to have a plant 

 or two in shelter, either in the stove, or under 

 tall frames, in order to have good seeds, if those 

 plants which are exposed should fail. 



The second sort may be increased by parting 

 the roots in autumn, and be planted in the full 

 ground, where it will abide the cold of our or- 

 dinary winters. 



They afford ornament in the borders and 

 among potted plants. 



PASQUE-FLOWER. See Anemone. 



PASSEKINA, a genus containing plants of 

 the shrubby exotic evergreen kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Octandria 

 Monogynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 VepreculcB. 



The characters are : that there is no calyx : 

 the corolla is one-petalled, shrivelling: tube cy- 

 lindrical, slender, ventricosc below the middle : 

 border four-cleft, spreading : segments concave, 

 ovate, blunt : the stamina have eight filaments, 

 bristle-shaped, the length of the border, placed 

 upon the point of the tube : anthers subovale, 

 erect : the pistillum is an ovate germ, within 

 the tube of the corolla : style filiform, spring- 

 ing from the side of the very point of the germ, 

 the same length with the lube of the corolla : 

 stigma capitate, hispid all over with villose 

 hairs : the pericarpium is coriaceous, ovate, 

 one-celled : the seed jingle, ovate, acuminate 

 at both ends, with the points oblique. 



The species cultivated are : 1 . P. Jiliformis, 

 Filiform Sparrow-wort ; 2. P. hirsuta. Shaggy 

 Sparrow-wort; 3. P. capiiata. Headed Spar- 

 row-wort; 4. P. ciliata, Ciliated Sparrow- 

 wort; 5. P. luiiflora. One-flowered Sparrow- 

 wort. 



The first rises with a shrubby stalk five or six 

 feet high, sending out branches the whole 

 length, which, when young, grow erect, but 

 »(» they advance in length, they incline towards 



a horizontal position ; but more so, when the 

 small shoots at the end arc full of flowers and 

 seed-vessels: the branches are covered with a 

 while down like meal, and are closely beset 

 with very narrow leaves in four rows, so that the 

 young branches seem as if they viere four-cor- 

 nered : the flowers come out at the extremity of 

 the young branches, from between the leaves, 

 on every side, are small and white, so that they 

 make no great appearance. It is a native of the 

 Cape, flowering from the month of June to 

 August. 



The second species has shrubby stalks, which 

 rise to a greater height than the former : the 

 branches grow more diffused, and are covered 

 with a mealy down : the leaves imbricate, short, 

 thick, succulent, smooth and green on the 

 outside, but downy on the inner: the flowers 

 small and white, like those of the former, ap- 

 pearing about the same time. It is a native of 

 Spain and Portugal. 



The third has the leaves scattered : the heads 

 terminating, globular : the peduncles tomen- 

 tose, thickened : the flowers many, while, sessile 

 without a tube : the stamens above the throat 

 sixteen, the eight inner of which are castrated : 

 stems shrubby, compound, with rod-like red 

 branches: the leaves erect, acuminate: the com- 

 mon peduncles from the end of the branches, 

 turbinate, tomentose. It is a native of the 

 Cape. 



The fourth species has a shrubby stalk, rising 

 five or six feet high, sending out many branches 

 which are naked to their ends, where they have 

 oblong leaves, standing erect, and having hairy 

 points : the flowers are small, white, and come 

 out among the leaves at the end of the branches: 

 but according to Linnaeus purple, witli the throat 

 villose. It is a native of the Cape, flowering 

 here in June. 



The fifth has a shrubby stalk, seldom rising 

 more than a foot high, dividing into many 

 branches, which are slender, smooth, and spread 

 out on every side ; the leaves dark-green, having 

 the appearance of those of the fir-tree, but 

 narrow cr : the flowers are larger than those of 

 the former, and the upper part of the petals is 

 spread open flat : they are of a purple colour, and 

 appear about the same time as the former. It is 

 a native of the Cape. 



Culture. — All the sorts may be increased by 

 cuttings planted in a bed of loamy earth, during 

 the summer months, and closely covered with 

 a bell or hand glass to exclude the air, shading 

 them from the sun, and refreshing them now 

 and then with water. When well rooted they 

 may be planted out, each into a small pot filled 

 with loamy earth ; placing them in the shade 



