RUT 



RUT 



corolla, widish at the base : anthers erect, veiy 

 short : the pistillum is a gibbous germ, inscribed 

 with a cross, surrounded at the base by ten ho- 

 ney-dols, raised on a receptacle punctured wiiii 

 ten honey-pores : style erect, awl-shaped: stig- 

 ma simple : the pericarpium is a gibbous cap- 

 sule, five-lobed, half-five-cleft, five-celled, open- 

 ing into five parts between the tips : the seeds 

 very many, rugged reniforni-anguiar. 



The species cultivated are : 1. JR. grarenlens, 

 Common Rue; 2. R. montaiia, Mountain Rue ; 

 3. R. chalepensis, African Rue; 4. R.paiavma, 

 Three-Jeavtd Rue. 



I'he first has the root woody, branched: the 

 stems frutescent, covered with a rugged, gray, 

 striated bark, eighteen inches high and more : 

 the branches, especially the young ones, smooth 

 and pale green : the leaves glaucous, pulpy, 

 dotted, divided like the umbellate plants, doubly 

 pinnate, or more properly superdecompound : 

 the leaflets obovate, sessile ; the lower ones 

 smallest ; the end one commonly trifid, with the 

 middle lobe much larger than the rest : the 

 flowers in a branching corymb on subdivided pe- 

 duncles. It is a native of the South of Europe; 

 flowering from June to September. 



The varieties are: the Common Broad-leaved 

 Rue, the Narrow-leaved Rue, and the Varie- 

 gated-leaved Rue. 



The second species has the lower leaves com- 

 posed of several parts, which are joined to the 

 niidrib in the same manner as other branching 

 winged leaves, and have linear leaflets standing 

 without order : the stalks are from two to three 

 feet high, branching out from the bottom, and 

 garnished with leaves divided into five parts, and 

 those at the top into three, which are as small 

 and narrow as the bottom leaves ; are of a gray 

 colour, but not so fetid as those of the preceding : 

 the flowers grow at the end of the branches in 

 loose spikes, which are generally reflexed. It is 

 a native of the South of Europe, and Barbary, 

 flowering in August and September. 



The third is very like the first, and is its ofT- 



spring : the first flowers are five-cleft, and llie' 

 others tbur-ckft, as in that : the stem is three 

 feet high, upriglit, round, very much branched: 

 the leaves superdecompound, oblong-ovate, 

 smallish, cinereous, smooth, strong-smelling: 

 the flowers in a terminating panicle. It is a na- 

 tive of Africa. 



There are varieties with broad leaves and with 

 narrow leaves. 



In the fourth species the stalk rises singly 

 from the root, is about a foot high, and herba'- 

 ceous : the leaves alternate, narrow : the stalk 

 branches at the top in form of an umbel, sus- 

 taining many yellow flowers, composed of five 

 entire plane petals, having no hairs on their bor- 

 ders : it seems to be a plant of short duration. 

 It was found in Italy. 



Culture. — All the species and varieties mayb^ 

 readily increased by seed, slips, and cuttings. 

 The seed should be sown in the open ground, in 

 March or April, on a bed of light earth, raking 

 it in : the plants soon come up, which when 

 two or three inches high should be planted out 

 in nursery-rows, and watered till fresh rooted. 

 And from the scattered or self-sown seeds of the 

 common sort, many young plants often rise in 

 autumn and spring, which form good plants ; 

 but by slips or cuttings is the most expeditious 

 method of raising all the sorts, as every slip or 

 cutting of the young wood will readily grow. 

 It is the only method by which the different va- 

 rieties can be continued distinct. The slips or 

 cuttings should be made from the young shoots 

 six or eight inches long, and planted in a shady 

 border, in rows half a foot asunder, giving a 

 good watering, and repeating it occasionally ; 

 by which they will soon emit roots below and 

 shoots at top, so as to form little bushy plants 

 by the autumn following. 



They all afford variety in the borders and other 

 parts, and the first sort and varieties are useful 

 medicinal plants. The third sort should have % 

 dry soil and sheltered situation. 



SAC 



^1 ABINA. See Juniperus. 



^!j SACC HARUM, a genus containing a plant 



or the lender perennial reed kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Triandria 

 Digynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Gramina. 



Vol. II. 



SAC 



The characters are : that the calyx is a two- 

 valved glume, one-flowered ; valves oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, erect, concave, equal, awn- 

 less, surrounded with along lanugo at the base: 

 the corolla two-valved, shorter, sharpish, very 

 tender: nectary two-leaved, very small : the sta- 

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