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W O R 



WHIN. See Ulex. 



WHIN, PETTY. See Genista. 



WHITE BEAM. See Crat^gus. 



WHITE LEAF. Sec Crat^gus. 



WHITE THORN. See Crat^gus. 



WIDOW-WAIL. SeeCuEORUM. 



WILD OLIVE. See El.eag.nus. 



WILLOW. See Salix. 



WILLOW, SWEET. See Myrica. 



WINTERA, a genus containing a plant of 

 the e.xolic tree kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Dodecandria 

 Monogt/nia, and ranks in the natural order of 



The characters are : that the calyx is bell- 

 shaped, tri-lobed, with the lobes roundish and 

 concave : the corolla has five oblong, sessile 

 petals, longer than the calyx, and a conical, 

 pitcher-shaped nectarium: the stamina have no 

 filaments; but twelve or sixteen linear, distant 

 antlKrae, affixed to the outside of the nectarium : 

 the pisi ilium is an oval germ, cylindric style, 

 with three obtuse stigmas ; the pericarpium is a 

 roundish, trilocular berry, with two heart-shaped 

 seeds. 



The species is fV, Canella, Wintera, or Bas- 

 tard Cinnamon. 



It rises with a thick woody stem, branching 

 on every side, almost the whole length, growing 

 near twenty feet in height, having a lighiish- 

 coioured aromatic bark : the leaves are oblong, 

 obtuse, light-green : the flowers red, in umbel- 

 late clusters, at the ends of the branches, suc- 

 ceeded by roundish berries. It is a native of 

 South America. 



Culture. — This may be increased by planting 

 cuttings of the shoots in pots filled with mellow 

 loamy mould, plunging them in the bark-bed of 

 the stove. When the plants have attained a 

 good root, they may be removed into separate 

 pots, replunging them in the bark-bed, giving 

 shade and a little water till fresh rooted; being 

 afterwards managed as other woody stove plants. 

 It nmst always be kept in the stove. 



This plant affords variety in the stove among 

 other aromatics. 



W INTER-BERRY. See Prinos. 



WOODBINE. SeeLoNiCERA. 



WOOD, WAXEN. See Genista. 



WORMWOOD TREE. See Artemisia. 



X E R 



XERANTHEMUM, a genus containing 

 plants of the herbaceous, flowering, annual 

 and shrubby kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Syngenesia 

 Tolysramia Superflua. 



The characters are: that the calyx is a com- 

 pound fiower, having the general calyx composed 

 of many long spear-shaped scales : the corolla is 

 composed of many herniaphrodite florets m the 

 disk, each consisting of one funnel-shaped petal, 

 five-parted at top ; and tubular female florets in 

 the radius, more slightly cut at the brim : the 

 stamina five very short filaments, and long 

 cylindric anlherce : the pistillum is a short 

 germcn, filiform stvle, having a bifid stigma in 

 the hermaphrodites'; and in the females iwo re- 

 flexed stigmas : there is no pericarpimn ; each 

 floret succeedtd by an oblong, coronated seed, 

 placed on a chaff'y receptacle. 



The species cultivated are: 1. X. anmium. 

 Annual Xeranthemum, or Common Eternal 

 FIo'\er; 1. X.ndortiim, Reflexed leaved Eternal 

 Flower; 3. X. specio^is-'imum, Golden Eternal 

 Flower; 4. X. Sesamoides, Silvery Eternal 

 Flower ; 5. A", prnli/mim, IVoliferoiis Eternal 

 Flower; 6. X. vcstitum, Leafy- flowered Eternal 



X E R 



Flower; 7 . X. imlricalum. Imbricated Eternal 

 Flower. 



The first rises with an herbaceous, angular, 

 downy, branching stalk, to the height of two or 

 three feet : the leaves are spear-shaped, spread- 

 ing, hoary, close-sitting; and all the stalks and 

 branches terminated by large flowers singly, of 

 difl'erent colours in the varieties, appearing from 

 July to September, and succeeded by ripe seeds 

 in autumn. It is a native of the Cape. 



There are varieties with large white flowers, 

 with purp!e flowers, with double white flowers, 

 with double purple flowers, and with double 

 violet-coloured flowers. 



The second species has under-shrubby trailing 

 stalks, set with recurved, reflexed, hoarv-silverv 

 leaves: the flowers come out at tiie axillas of the 

 branches, having white rays and yellow diaks. 

 It is a native of Africa. 



The third has an upright shrubby stem, 

 branching three or four feet in heighi, being set 

 with spear-shaped, trinervous, sessile leaves; 

 and at the termination of the branches large 

 bright golden-yellow flowers. It is a native of 

 the Capj. 



The fourth species has also an upright shrubby 



