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the seed in : it afterwards only rcquiies to be plants will Ijc fit to plant out in separate small 

 kept clean from weeds. pots filled with soft loamy rnoiiid, re-piuiiging 



The leaves are used in their young state while them in the hot-bed, and giving proper sliade 



green and tender 



SCARLET BEAN. See Phaseolus. 



SCARLET CARDINAL FLOWER. See 

 Lobelia. 



SCARLET CONVOLVULUS. Sec Ipe- 



M^.A. 



SCARLET HORSE CHESTNUT. See 

 Pavia. 



SCARLET JASMIN 



SCARLET LUPIN. 



SCARLET LYCHNIS. See LychiNIS. 



SCARLET OAK. See Ouercus. 



SCHINIJS, a genus atTording plants of the 

 shrubby -evergreen exotic kinds for the green- 

 house and stove. 



It belontis to the class and order Dioecia De- 

 candria, and ranks in the natural order of Du- 

 moscp. 



The characters are : that in the male the ca- 



See BiGNONiA. 

 Sec Lathyrus, 



tdl they are fresh rooted. They should after 

 •wards be gradually inured to the open air during 

 the summer season, being taken under shelter 

 before the frosts commence. 



They are tender while young, requiringa little 

 warmth in winter, but the protection of ibegreen- 

 house will be sufiicient afterwards. 



It is also capable of being increased bv layers^ 

 and cuttings ; the former may be laid down in 

 the spring, and the later plante<l out in the early 

 spring; the plants when well rooted being treated 

 as the seedUngs. 



The second sort may be increased in the same 

 method ; but the plants require to be continued 

 in the stove for several winters, when tliey may 

 be preserved in a moderate green-house. 



They afl'ord variety among other exotic plants 

 in green-house collections. 



SCILLA, a genus containing plants of the 



lyx is a one-leafed, five-parted perianth, spread- hardy, bulbous-rooted, perennial kmd 



in<i, acute: the corolla has five oval petals. It belongs to the class and aider Hexaiidiia 



spreadins, petioled: the stamina have ten filiform ]\Io?iogi///ia, and ranks in the natural order of 



filaments, length of the corolla, spreading : an- Coronarice . 



thers roundish : the pistilluin a rudiment with- The characters are : that there is no calyx : 



out a stioina. Female —the calyx is a one- the corolla has six ovate petals, spreading very 



leafed, five-parted perianth, acute, permanent : much, deciduous: the stamina have six awl 



the corolla has five oblong petals, spreading, shaped filaments, shorter by half than the co 



petioled : the pistillum is a roundish germ : rolla : anthers oblong, incumbent : the pistil 



lum is a roundish germ : style simple, length of 

 the stamens, deciduous: stigma simple; the peri- 

 carpium is a subovate capsule, smooth, three- 

 grooved, three-celled, three-valved.; the seeds 

 many, roundish. 



The species are: 1. S. tnur ttima, O^^icmsX 

 Squill ; 2. S. LiUo-Hyacinlkus, Lily-rooted 

 Squill ; 3. .S'. Itulica, Italiaji Squill ; 4. S, 

 Peruviana, Peruvian .Squill; 5, S. ximcena. 



style none : stigmas three, ovate : the jiericar- 

 pium is a globular three celled berry : the seeds 

 solitary, globular. 



The species are: 1. S. molle, Peruvian 

 Mastiek Tree; 2. S. ^)-«>ff,- Brasilian Mastick 

 Tree. 



The first rises with a woody stem eight or 

 ten feet hiah, dividing into many branches, co- 

 vered with a brown rough bark : the leaves are 

 alternate on the branches, composed of several Nodding Squill ; 6. -S. campanulata, Spanish 

 pairs of leaflets from ten to fifteen, each about Squill ; 7- S. aidiim/ialis, Aivtiimnal Squill, 

 an inch and half long, and a quarter of an inch The first Iws a very large root, somewhat 

 broad at the base, lessening gradually to the -pear-shajjed-, composed of many coats as in the 

 point, and having a few serratures on their Onion, and having several fibres coming out at 

 edges ; they are of a lucid green, and enrit a the bottom, and striking deep in the ground, 

 tui^penline odour when bruised. The flowers From the middle of the root arise several shining 

 are produced in loose bunches at the end of the leaves, a -foot long, and two inches broad at 

 branches; are very small, while, and havens their base, lessening all the way to the lop, 

 odour. It is a native of Peru. where they end in points ; they continue green 



The second species differs from the first only all the w inter, and decay in the spring : then 

 in having the leaflets entire and all equal in size, the flower-stalk comes out, rising two feet 

 It is a native of Brazil and Peru. high, naked about half way, and terminated by 



Culliire. The first is increased by sowing a pyramidal thyrse of flowers, which are white. 



seeds obtained from its native situation in pots 

 filled with fresh mould, plunging them in a mo- 

 derate hot -bed ; fresh air and water should be 

 frequently given, when in five or six weeks the 



It is a native of Spain, Portugal, 8cc. flowering 

 here in April and May. 



There aie vari<;ties with a red, and with a 

 white root. 



