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The fifth has lonj slender fibrous roots, tbri)w- 

 ■»ng- out many procumbent leafy shoots, which 

 grow mnlted together, Foniiini;- tliick tufts: from 

 the emiuiion origin of these arises a solitary erect 

 round stem, bearing two or three strag<>liHg 

 linear undivided leaves, and terminating in an 

 upright panicle of a few large white flowers : the 

 leaves are alternate, linear, acute, pale green, 

 smooth, their edges only often hairy with soft 

 white woolly threads : the leaves on the shoots 

 simple and mulivided ; those at the i)oltoin of 

 the stem all deeply tiiree-cleft, with the segments 

 divaricate. Aceordma; to Withering, the stem, 

 fruitstalks, and calvx are thickly set with short 

 tiairs teiTiiinaled by red globules, and the rest of 

 the plant thinly set with fine white hairs. It is 

 11 native of Britain, flowering in May, and often 

 again sparingly in July and August. 



The sixth species has the root-leaves petioled, 

 t:ordate-suborbici)!ar, hairv, erenate, with blunt 

 Johuies, ofcraceo\is, having white veins on the 

 upper surface, beneath liver-coloured : the pe- 

 tioles roundish, longer than the leaf: the stem 

 herbaceous, round, a foot and half high, almost 

 leafless, pubescent, as the whole herb is, with 

 hairs standing out; the whole raceme compound, 

 the partial racemes drooping at the end before 

 thev flower. Branched runners proceed in 

 abundance from the axils of the root-leaves, ter- 

 minating in rooting off-sets : three of the petals 

 are smaller, whitish stained with red ; two 

 larger, white. It is observed, that " its round 

 variegated leaves, and strawberrv-like runners, 

 with the uncommon magnitude of the two lower 

 pendent petals, joined to the very conspicuous 

 glandular nectary, in the centre of the flower, 

 half surrounding the germ, render it strikingly 

 distinct." It is a native of China and Japan, 

 flowering in June and .Tuly. 



The seventh has the lower leaves almost 

 round, on long footstalks, deeply divided, hairy 

 and green above, pale beneath : the stems erect, 

 about a foot high, channelled and hairy, with 

 kidney-shaped leaves : the stem puts out a few 

 slender footstalks from the upper part, which, 

 together with the stem itself, are terminated by 

 small clusters of flowers, white spotted with red. 

 It is a beautiful plant, and a native of Switzer- 

 land, Sec. 



Culture. — The first sort inay be readily in- 

 creased by planting off-sets taken from the 

 sides of the old plants in small pots filled with 

 fresh light earth, placing 'them in the shade 

 during the sunmier, but letting them be exposed 

 to the influence of the sun in winter: all the 

 off-sets should be taken off", as by that means 

 thev will flower much stronger : the young 

 plants afibrd flowers the second year. 



The second sort may likewise be increased in 

 the same wav, which should be planted out 

 where they are to remain in July, when the 

 stems decay, in fresh undungcd earth, giving 

 them a shaily situation till winter: they should 

 be set out in large tufts, and when in the open 

 ground have a shady place assigned them. 



The third sort may be increased with little 

 trouble by parting the roots, and planting them 

 out in the spiing or autunm in the open ground, 

 or in pots in the former situation, being pro- 

 tected in severe weather, and In the latter re- 

 moved to the green-house or a garden frarne. 



'I he fourth may also be raised by offsets in 

 the same way, a shady situation being chosen.!*" 



The fifth sort is easily increased by planting 

 its trailing rooted branches in thcaulunui where 

 they are to remain : it should have a moist soil 

 and shaded situation. 



The sixth may be readily raised by the run- 

 ners, vihich may be planted in pots to be placed 

 in the green-house, though it will bear the open 

 air in mild winters in a warm sheltered situa- 

 tion. 



The last may be Increased by parting the 

 roots and planting them out in the earlv au- 

 tunm : it should have a moist shady situation, 

 with a rather stift" loamy soil. 



They all aft'ord ornament and variety in the 

 clumps, borders, and other parts of pleasure- 

 grounds; except the sixth, which must have a 

 place in the green-house collection. 



SCABIOSA, a genus containing plants of the 

 herbaceous, annual, biennial, perennial, and 

 shrubby kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Tctranhia 

 Mojwgij/na, and ranks in the natural order of 

 yiggregatfc. 



The characters are : that the calvx is a co:n- 

 mon perianth, many-flowered, spreading, many- 

 leaved : leaflets in various rows surrounding the 

 receptacle and placed upon it, the inner ones 

 grailually less: projur perianth double, both 

 superior ; outer shorter, membranaceous, plaited, 

 permanent; inner five-parted, with the &e^ 

 ments subulate-capillaceous : the corolla uni* 

 versal equal, often from unequal ones : proper 

 one-petalled, tubular, four- or five-cleft, equal 

 or unequal : the stamina have four iilaments, 

 subulate-eajiillary, weak : anthers oblong, in- 

 cumbeiit : the pistilUun is an inferior germ, in- 

 volved in its proper sheath as in a calycle : stvle 

 filiform, length of the corolla : stigma obtuse, 

 obliquely emarginate: there is no pericarpium : 

 the seeds solitary, ovate-oblong, itivolute, 

 crowned variously with proper calyxes : the re- 

 ceptacles common convex, chaffy, or naked. 



The species mostly cultivated are : 1. S. al- 

 3 D 2 



