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flower. It is a native of the mountains of 

 Dauphinc, Howcring in July. 



The eleventh has .i weak shrubby stalk, which 

 divides into several branches, and rises about 

 five feet high : the leaves are ovate-lanceolate,* 

 three inches long, and an inch and half broad, 

 deeply crenatc, of alighl green, and a little hairy : 

 the peduncle terminating, sustaining one pale 

 flesh-coloured flower. It is a native of Africa, 

 flowering from Jidy to October: it varies in the 

 leaves. The variety whh the leaves finely cut, 

 has, according to Miller, the stalks hairy, and 

 dividing into several branches : the bottom 

 leaves are lanceolate crenate and entire; but 

 those on the upper part of the stalk are bipin- 

 nate : the flowers are produced on long naked 

 footstalks from the end of the branches ; are 

 of a pale flesh-colour and large, but have no 

 ^scent. 



The twelfth rises with a shrubby stalk three 

 feet high, and divides into several woody knotty 

 branches : the leaves are narrow, silvery, entire, 

 four inches long, and a quarter of an inch 

 broad : the flowers stand upon very long naked 

 peduncles at the end of the branches, and are of 

 a fine blue colour. It is a native of Candia and 

 Sicily. According to Miller, the plant from 

 Candia has shorter and much broader leaves, 

 and not so white as those of the Sicilian ; the 

 flowers are iiot so large, and are of a pale purple 

 colour. 



Culture. — All the annual and biennial sorts 

 may be increased by seed, which should be 

 sown in a bed or border of common moidd, or 

 in pots to be forwarded in the hot-bed in the 

 early spring months ; but the biennial sort is 

 better sown in the latter end of the summer, as 

 about August, as they flower stronger and more 

 fully the following summer. Some may how- 

 ever be sown at both seasons. 



When the plants have attained some growth, 

 in the spring-sown sort, they should be pricked 

 out into the places where they are to grow, on 

 beds, to be afterwards removed : and in the au- 

 tumn-sown sorts into nursery-rows, six or eight 

 inches apart, to be removed into the places 

 where they are to remain, with balls about their 

 roots, in the following spring, being duly wa- 

 tered and kept free from weeds. 



The starry sort is best sown in patches in 

 the borders or clumps where the plants are to 

 flower. 



The herbaceous perennial kinds maybe readily 

 increased by sowing the seeds in a bed or border 

 of good light earth, in the spring season, the 

 plants being planted out when they have at- 

 tained a little growth where they are to grow : 

 they are also capable of being raised by parting 



the roots and planting them out where they are 

 to grow in the autunni. 



The shrubby kinds may be readily raised by 

 planting slips or cuttings of the young branches 

 in the spring or sunnner season, in the former 

 season in pots and plunged in a moderate hot- 

 bed, or under a glass frame ; but in the latter, 

 in the open ground, beiiig ivell shaded and wa- 

 tered. They soon become tolerably well rooted, 

 and in the autumn may be pottid off into sepa- 

 rate pots, filled with light loamy earth, and 

 managed in the same manner as other exotic 

 green -house plants during the winter. 



The annual and perennial sorts afford orna- 

 ment and variety among other plants of the 

 flower kind in the borders, &c., and the shrubby 

 kmds produce variety in green-house collec- 

 tions. 



SCALLION. See Allium. 



SCANDIX, a genus containing plants of the 

 hardy herbaceous annual and perennial kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Pcntandrla 

 Digij7iia, and ranks in the natural order of Um- 

 lellatce or UinleUiferce. 



The characters are : that the calyx is an uni- 

 versal umbel, long, with few rays : partial more 

 abundant: involucre universal none: partial 

 five-leaved, length of the umbellet : perianth 

 proper obsolete: the corolla universal difform, 

 radiate : florets of the disk abortive : proper 

 petals five, inflex-emarginate : the inner ones 

 smaller; outmost larger: the stamina have five 

 capillary filaments : anthers roundish : the pis- 

 tillum is an oblong inferior germ : styles two, 

 awl-shaped, length of the least petal, distant, 

 permanent : stigmas in the radiant florets ob- 

 tuse : there is no pericarpium : fruit very long 

 awl-shaped, bipartite : the seeds two, awl-shaped, 

 convex and grooved on one side, flat on the 

 other. 



The species is S. cerefoUum, Garden Cher- 

 vil. 



It has an annual root : the leaves are of an 

 exceedingly delicate texture, smooth, shining, 

 tripinnate; with the segments deeply semipinnate, 

 and the lobules lanceolate, shortly two-toothed, 

 or three-toothed : the stem smooth, from afoot to 

 two feet in height, hairy only under the origin of 

 the branches, whence always are produced two 

 branches and a single leaf: the flowers white. 

 It is a native of many parts of Europe, flowering 

 in May. It was formerly much more cultivated 

 than at present. It is used as a culinary plant in 

 winter and spring, and is a native of the Levant. 



CuUure. — This plant may be raised from seed 

 by sownig at different times in the early spring, 

 as from f'ebruary to March, and also in August 

 for winter use, \n beds of common earth, raking 



