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rooted in the autumn, thev should be removed 

 into separate small pots, tilled with i'rc<.h un- 

 dungi'd nio\dd, and placed in the shade till well 

 rooted, and afterwards in a sheltered situation 

 till the autunm, when they should be taken 

 under a garden tVamc, having free air when the 

 season is tine, but be well protected from frost. 



As these plants seldom continue iTiore than a 

 few \enrs, some should be frequently raised as a 

 supply against they decline. 



The two first sorts are useful pot-herbs, and 

 the other kinds afibrd variety among collections 

 of green-house plants. 



SATYKIUM, a genus containing plants of the 

 bulbous-rooted, hardy-flowering perennial kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Gi/iiandria 

 Diandriu, and ranks in the natural order of Or- 

 chldecs. 



The characters are : that the calyx is, as the 

 spathes, wandering : spadix simple : the perianth 

 none : the corolla has five ovate-oblong petals : 

 three exterior; two interior converging upwards 

 into a helmet: nectary one-leafed, annexed to 

 the receptacle by its lower side between the di- 

 vision of the petals ; upper lip erect, very short ; 

 lower flat, pendulous, prominent behind at the 

 base in a serotiform bag : the stamina have two 

 filaments, very slender and very short, placed on 

 the pistil : anthers obovate, covered by the two- 

 celled fold of the upper lip of the nectary: the 

 pistillum is an oblong germ, twisted, inferior : 

 st\le fastened to the upper lip of the nectary, 

 very short: stigma compressed, obtuse: the 

 pericarpium is an obloilg capsule, one-celled, 

 three-keeled, three-valved, opening in three 

 parts under the keels, cohering at the top and 

 bottom : the seeds numerous, very small, irre- 

 gular like saw-dust. 



The species are: 1. S. hirchmm, Lizard Sa- 

 tvrion, or Lizard-flower; 2. S. viride. Frog Sa- 

 tyrion ; 3. S. alh'idum, White Satyrion. 



The first frequently attains the height of three 

 feet, and produces from twenty to sixty or 

 more flowers, reinarkable for their fetid goat- 

 like smell : the upper part of the lip is downy, 

 and marked with elegant purple spots on a 

 white ground ; otherwise the flowers are more 

 singular than beautiful : the leaves are near five 

 inches long and half an inch broad ; the spike of 

 flowers is six inches in length: the corolla of a 

 dirty white, with some linear stripes and spots 

 of a brown colour; the middle segment of the 

 Jip of the nectary is two inches long. It is a 

 native of Germany, &c. 



It is often called Goat Orchis : " It has been 

 occasionally met with in the neighbourhood 

 about Dartford ; but the greediness of the col- 

 lectors has frequently endangered its total de- 



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struction, and in some seasons none can be 

 found in flow er." 



" The circumstance of its varying in size and 

 the breadth of the leaves, has given occasion to 

 old authors to make two species of it ; the fiovi^ers 

 are sometimes quite while." 



2. " It was found at the Cape of Good fiope, 

 on the top of the Table mountain; whence its 

 trivial name." 



3. " It is large and panicled : found at the 

 Cape." 



4. " This is a fathom in height, with larcc 

 orange coloured flowers." 



5. " In this the lip is muricate with white and 

 purple prickles. Both these were also found at 

 the Cape." 



The second species has a stem from five to 

 eleven inches high, and solid, with unequ d sharp 

 angles, formed from the edges of the leaves and 

 bractes : the spike lanceolate, from one to three 

 inches long, loose with few flowers : the bractes 

 subulate-lanceolate, keeled, somewhat bowed- 

 in. It is a native of many parts of fc^urope, 

 flowering from May to August. 



The third has the stem from nine to fifteen 

 inches high : the lower leaves oval, sheathing 

 the stem ; upper lanceolate, acute : the flowers 

 very numerous, in a long (an inch and half, 

 cylindrical,) close spike : the bractes lanceolate, 

 very acute, longer than the germ : the petals 

 white, oval-lanceolate, all converging: lip of 

 the nectary short, green, divided into three acute 

 segments, the middle one longest and more 

 blunt, the spur blunt, about half^as long as the 

 germ. It is a native of Scania, Denmark, &c. 

 flowering in June and July. 



Culture. — These plants are not raised without 

 some difliculty : the best mode of increasing 

 them is by taking up the roots with a good ball 

 about them from their natural situations, and 

 planting them m a soil as similar as possible, 

 where they are to grow, letting the ground 

 around them afterwards remain wholly undis- 

 turbed. 



They sometimes also succeed by seed and oflT- 

 sets from the roots planted out after the stems 

 decay. 



They afford variety in borders among other 

 similar plants. 



SAVIN. See Juniperus. 



SAVORY. See Satureia. 



SAVOY CABBAGE. See Brassica. 



SAXIFRAGA, a genus containing plants of 

 the low hardy herbaceous perennial kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Decaiidria 

 Digi/nia, and ranks in the natural order of Suc- 

 cidentfe. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 



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