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t'llum is a four- cleft germ : style filiform, usually 

 •ionccr than the stamens : stiginas two : upper 

 cylindrical, concave, truncate; lower membrana- 

 ceous, shorter, sheathing the upper: there is no 

 ])ericarpiun) : calyx cherishina; the seeds in its 

 bosom : the seeds four. 



The species cultivated are: 1. S Canarlcnxis, 

 C^anary' Iron-wort : i2 S Creiica, Cretan Iron- 

 wort ; 3 iS'. S'/riaca, Sage-leaved Iron- wort. 



The first has the stem five or six feet high, 

 sending out several woody branches covered 

 with a soft down : the Ieavx;s on long footstalks; 

 in young plants often five or six niches long, 

 and two and a half broad near their base ; but 

 in older plants not more than half that size ; 

 thev are very woolly, especially on their under 

 -side, which is white, but their upper surface Lj 

 i)f a dark yellowish green : the fiowers, which 

 grow in thick whorled spikes at the end of the 

 branches, are of a dirty white, and appear early 

 in June: the plants frequentlv produce flowers 

 4igain in autumn. It is a native of the Canaries 

 and of Madeira. 



The second species is a shrub with divaricating 

 branches, very thickly toirientosc and snow- 

 white : the leaves cordate, crenate, tonientose 

 on both sides, obtuse, very thickly tomentose 

 and snow-white beneath, green above : the 

 spike from the division of the branches, pe- 

 uuncled, pendulous, toir.entosc, snow-white to- 

 ■gethcr with the calyxes, vi hich are blunt : the 

 •flov.cTS about eight in each whorl. It is a na- 

 tive of the island of Crete or Candia. 



The third has a short woody stem, with a few 

 branches about a foot long: the leaves thick, 

 wedge-shaped, very downy and while : the 

 flowers in whorls towards the end of the 

 branches, yellow with smooth downy calyxes. 

 It has the appearance of a Sage, but is longer. 

 The whole plant is covered with a very close 

 white cotton. It is a native of the Levant, 

 flowering from June to September. 



There are other species that may be cultivated. 



Culture. — These plants may be increased by 

 seeds, cutting* and layers. 



The seeds should be sown in pots in the 

 spring, plunging them in a moderate hot-bed : 

 when the plants have had some growth they 

 should be renjoved into separate small pots 

 filled with light mellow mould, being afterwards 

 treated as other shrubby grccn-house plants. 



The cuttings and layers may be planted out or 

 l.Tid down m the summer season, and when suffi- 

 ciently rooted managed as the other sorts. 



The third sort may be increased by planting 

 the slipped heads either in pots or a shady bor- 

 der, to be afterwards removed into pots for pro- 

 tection in the winter in a frame. 



They afford variety in green-house collections 

 anionir other evergiecn potted plants. 



SIDEUOXYLON, a genus containing plant.s 

 of the shrubby, evergreen, exotic kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Penlandrin 

 J\Ioiiogi/iiia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 D/tnioscc. 



The characters :)re : that the calvx is a five-cleft 

 perianth, small, erect, permanent: the corolla one- 

 pctalled, wheel-sliaiied : segments live, roundish, 

 concave, erect : toothlet cusped, serrate, atthebasc 

 of each division of the petal, tending inwards : 

 the stamina have fiveawl-sliaped filaments, length 

 of the corolla, alternate with the tootiilets : an- 

 thers oblong, incumbent : the pisliilum is a 

 roundish oerm : style awl-sh,iped, length of the 

 stamens: stigma simple, obtuse : the pericarpium 

 is a roundish berry, one-celled: the seeds five. 



The species cultivated are: 1. S. inerme. 

 Smooth Ironwood ; 'J. S. lycioides. Willow- 

 leaved Iron wood. 



The first in its native situation rises to the 

 height of an apple-tree ; but in this climate it 

 is rarely more than eight or ten feet high : the 

 wood is so heavy as to sink in water, and being 

 very close and hard, the name of Iron-wood 

 has been given it: it divides into many branches, 

 which are covered with a russet bark : the leaves 

 about three inches long, and an inch and half 

 broad in the middle, ending in points at both 

 extremities, placed without order oh the branches, 

 having ibotstalks an inch long: they are smooth, 

 of a lucid green, and continue all the year : the 

 flowers come out in clusters from the side of the 

 branches upon short footstalks, which branch 

 out into several smaller, each sustainins: a single 

 ilower, which is small and white. It flov^ers 

 in July, rnd is a native of the Cape. 



The second species is a tree with axillary so- 

 litary spines and alternate leaves : the peduncles 

 axillary, one-flowered, very many, a little longer 

 than the petioles : the calyx five-cleft, obtuse : 

 the corolla funnel-form, five-cleft, obtuse; with 

 the segments concave, scarcely unfolded : nec- 

 tary fivc-leavcd, serrate, short, each lobe to each 

 segment of the corolla : the stamens ten, av. 1- 

 shapcd, length of the nectary ; anthers sagittate: 

 germ globular, style filiform; stigma very small : 

 the berry black, globular, from three- to five- 

 celled, cominonly abortive. It is a native ot 

 South America. 



Cullure. — These plants may be increased bv 

 seed procured from abroad, which should he 

 sown in the spring in pots filhd with fresh 

 mould, and plunged in the tan-bed of the stove: 

 when the plants have some growth, they should 

 be removed into separate pots and be replunged 

 in the bark-bed. 



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